Name Services

Two name services are available from the Solaris implementation of TCP/IP: NIS+ and DNS.

• NIS+ - NIS+ provides centralized control over network administration services, such as mapping host names to IP and Ethernet addresses, verifying passwords, and so on. See Solaris Naming Administration Guide for complete details.

• Domain Name System - The Domain Name System (DNS) provides host names to the IP address service. It also serves as a database for mail administration. For a complete description of this service, see Solaris Naming Administration Guide. See also the in.named(1M) man page.