dsypxfrd

The dsypxfrd daemon manages the propagation of NIS tables from master servers to slave servers in the legacy NIS environment. It does not manage LDAP replication of NIS information. This process runs only on master servers.

The dsypxfrd daemon operates in the same way as the ypxfrd daemon in the NIS environment. It waits for a request from the dsypxfr process running on the slave server, then pushes the tables requested. To speed up the process the dsservd daemon holds an up-to-date copy of all NIS tables. This means that the NIS tables do not need to be built from the information held in the LDAP directory before they can be transferred.

For details of how to configure dsypxfrd, refer to the dsypxfrd(1m) man page.