dsservd

The dsservd daemon receives and responds to NIS requests in the same way as the NIS daemon ypserv. It supports NIS natively. It does not convert NIS requests to LDAP requests, and LDAP responses to NIS responses.

The dsservd daemon also maintains an up-to-date copy of the NIS tables so that propagation requests can be handled rapidly. It converts directory information to NIS tables based on the mapping information provided in the /etc/opt/SUNWconn/ldap/current/mapping/nis.mapping file.

For details of how to configure the dsservd daemon, refer to the dsservd(8) man page.

The dsservd daemon is also the LDAP server.