[Beowulf] Fwd: NIS limitations question

[Greg Lindahl]

On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 07:34:26AM +0300, Walid wrote:

> I belive i have seen on this maling list*, and other internet fourms** some
> limitation of NIS, but i have failed to find a documented limiation from
> SUN, or from the various linux distrubutions, did any one try to research
> the scalability of NIS servers?

The standard answer, if you only rarely push, is to make every client
a slave.

-- greg