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Thomas Gellekum 1997-02-05 07:36:51 +00:00
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@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ server speeds up the transfer process by allowing NIS slave servers to
simply copy the master server's map files rather than building their
own from scratch. Simply put,
.Nm rpc.ypxfrd
impliments an RPC-based file transfer protocol. Transfering even
implements an RPC-based file transfer protocol. Transfering even
a multi-megabyte file in this fashion takes only a few seconds compared
to the several minutes it would take even a reasonably fast slave server
to build a new map from scratch.
@ -129,9 +129,9 @@ The FreeBSD
.Nm ypxfrd
protocol is not compatible with that used by SunOS. This is unfortunate
but unavoidable: Sun's protocol is not freely available, and even if it
were it would probably not be useful since the SunOS NIS v2 implimentation
were it would probably not be useful since the SunOS NIS v2 implementation
uses the original ndbm package for its map databases whereas the FreeBSD
implimentation uses Berkeley DB. These two packages use vastly different
implementation uses Berkeley DB. These two packages use vastly different
file formats. Furthermore, ndbm is byte-order sensitive and not very
smart about it, meaning that am ndbm database created on a big endian
system can't be read on a little endian system.