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The Network Information Service (NIS), formerly Yellow Pages, is Sun Microsystems' client-server protocol for distributing system configuration data such as user and host names between computers on a network. Sun licensed the technology to other Unix vendors.[1]

History

Since the name "Yellow Pages" was a registered trademark of AT&T in the United States, and of British Telecommunications in the United Kingdom, for their respective commercial telephone directories, Sun changed the name of their system to NIS, though all the commands and functions still start with "yp", such as ypcat, ypmatch, and ypwhich.[1] NIS was eventually superseded by NIS+ and then LDAP.[2]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Yellow Pages at the Free On-Line Dictionary Of Computing. 1995-04-08.
  2. ↑ Lightweight Directory Access Protocol at the Free On-Line Dictionary Of Computing. 1995-04-08.

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