Enabling an NIS slave on your storage system
You can enable an NIS slave on your storage system to reduce traffic over your network.
Considerations
If you enable IPv6 on your storage system, your storage system can have multiple addresses configured for it in the host-name database. These addresses appear in the host-name lookup depending on the following conditions:
- If you disable the NIS slave, you can obtain all the addresses from either the hosts database or the ipnodes database in the NIS server.
- If you enable the NIS slave, only the last address from the list of addresses available in the /etc/hosts file is stored for a host name in the host database downloaded to your system.
- If you enable the NIS slave, a maximum of three addresses are stored for a host name in the ipnodes database downloaded to your system. At least one address from each address family is stored.
Step
- To enable or disable an NIS slave on your storage system, enter the following command: options nis.slave.enable {on|off}
If you disable the NIS slave, your storage system reverts to the original configuration, in which it contacts an NIS server to resolve host names.
