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Guidelines for using NIS slaves

When using an NIS slave, you should follow certain guidelines, such as the available space in the storage system, conditions for enabling DNS, and supported configurations.

The following guidelines apply when using the NIS slave:

If you have your NIS server configured to perform host name lookups using DNS, or if you use DNS to resolve names that cannot be first resolved using the hosts.by* maps, using the NIS slave causes those lookups to fail. This is because when the NIS slave is used, all lookups are performed locally using the downloaded maps. However, if you configure DNS on your storage system, the lookups succeed.

You can use the NIS slave for the following: