[ On Tuesday, May 8, 2001 at 23:42:28 (-0400), Andrew Brown wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: bin/12876: NetBSD's INET6 patches to Postfix break non-INET6 features!
>
> >> 	then, you at least need to check if the machine is running NIS or not,
> >> 	and suppress getdomainname() case if NIS is running.  IMHO.
> >
> >No, not really.  Half the time the NIS domain is the same as the DNS
> >domain, and the rest of the time you have to set $mydomain anyway so
> >it's never a loss (the $mydomain setting overrides in all cases).
> 
> the nis domain name is stored, for nis purposes, by setdomainname().

RTFM man.  Setdomainname() has nothing specific to do with NIS or DNS or
anything else.  It's simply a convenient way to store a string in the
kernel.  Same as "hostname" which can be either for NIS, DNS, UUCP, or
whatever.  There's no inherent meaning attached to these other than
their given "names".

> fwiw - i have no idea why nis gets kernel help for its dirty work.

It doesn't, and that's the point.  Those kernel storage places are for
generic use -- use them for whatever purpose you need them for.

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