System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (FNS and NIS+)

Choosing an Enterprise-Level Name Service

When you initially set up and configure your FNS namespace with the fncreate command., See Preparing the Namespace for FNS for information on how to set up the namespace. the correct default name service is automatically selected for each machine.

If you later change a machine's primary enterprise-level name service, you should run the fnselect command on that machine. See Selecting a Naming Service for details.