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

Prerequisites to Running nisserver

Check to see that the /etc/passwd file on the machine you want to be root master server contains an entry for root.

Information You Need

You need the following:

Table 4–3 Internet Organizational Domains

Domain 

Purpose 

com 

Commercial organizations 

edu 

Educational institutions 

gov 

Government institutions 

mil 

Military groups 

net 

Major network support centers 

org 

Nonprofit organizations and others 

int 

International organizations 

In the following example, the machine that is designated as the root master server is called master1, and doc.com. becomes the new root domain.


Note –

Domains and hosts should not have the same name. For example, if you have doc.com. as a root domain, you should not have a machine named doc in any of your domains. Similarly, if you have a machine named home, you do not want to create a domain named home. This caution also applies to subdomains; for example, if you have a machine named west, you do not want to create a sales.west.myco.com subdomain.