PSARC/2007/677 Allow ypinit -c to use IP addresses

Nicolas Williams Nicolas.Williams at sun.com
Wed Dec 5 10:34:22 PST 2007


On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 01:27:47PM -0500, Peter Memishian wrote:
> 
>  > On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 01:22:58PM -0500, Peter Memishian wrote:
>  > >                                    Release binding is minor.
>  > 
>  > Why not patch/micro?
> 
> It's conceivable (though unlikely) that there are customer scripts that
> parse the contents of the ypservers file and would choke on IP addresses.

But the obvious answer to that is "don't use IP addresses then" -- as
long as the default behavioud of ypinit doesn't change then all should
be fine.



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