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Working With Naming and Directory Services in Oracle Solaris 11.1     Oracle Solaris 11.1 Information Library
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Preface

Part I About Naming and Directory Services

1.  Naming and Directory Services (Overview)

What Is a Naming Service?

Oracle Solaris Naming Services

Description of the DNS Naming Service

Description of Multicast DNS and Service Discovery

Description of the /etc Files Naming Service

Description of the NIS Naming Service

Description of the LDAP Naming Services

Description of the Name Service Switch

Naming Services: A Quick Comparison

2.  Name Service Switch (Overview)

3.  Managing DNS (Tasks)

4.  Setting Up Oracle Solaris Active Directory Clients (Tasks)

Part II NIS Setup and Administration

5.  Network Information Service (Overview)

6.  Setting Up and Configuring NIS (Tasks)

7.  Administering NIS (Tasks)

8.  NIS Troubleshooting

Part III LDAP Naming Services

9.  Introduction to LDAP Naming Services (Overview)

10.  Planning Requirements for LDAP Naming Services (Tasks)

11.  Setting Up Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition With LDAP Clients (Tasks)

12.  Setting Up LDAP Clients (Tasks)

13.  LDAP Troubleshooting (Reference)

14.  LDAP Naming Service (Reference)

15.  Transitioning From NIS to LDAP (Tasks)

Glossary

Index

Naming Services: A Quick Comparison

DNS
NIS
LDAP
Files
Namespace
Hierarchical
Flat
Hierarchical
Files
Data Storage
Files/resource records
Two column maps
Directories (varied)

Indexed database

Text-based files
Servers
Master/slave
Master/slave
Master/replica

Multi master replica

None
Security
DNSSEC, varied
None (root or nothing)
Kerberos, TLS, SSL, varied
None
Transport
TCP/IP
RPC
TCP/IP
File I/O
Scale
Global
LAN
Global
Local host only
Data
Host
All
All
All

Note - DNS is the recommended service for host or network address lookups for LDAP and files-based naming.