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

Peter Memishian Peter.Memishian at sun.com
Wed Dec 5 10:37:59 PST 2007


 > >  > 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.

Using IP addresses is easy to do by accident (in fact, everyone I've
talked to has tried to do this the first time when setting up NIS),
so I wanted to err on the side of caution.

But if everyone wants this to be patch, that's fine too.

-- 
meem



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