[1] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

network information service
     
         nis sun microsystems' yellow pages
        yp client-server protocol for distributing system
        configuration data such as user and host names between
        computers on a network.
     
        sun licenses the technology to virtually all other unix
        vendors.
     
        the name "yellow pages" is a registered trademark in the
        united kingdom of british telecommunications plc for their
        paper commercial telephone directory.  sun changed the name
        of their system to nis, though all the commands and functions
        still start with "yp", e.g. ypcat, ypmatch, ypwhich.
     
        unix manual pages: yp3, ypclnt3, ypcat1, ypmatch1.
     
        1995-04-08
     
     
see also:
sun microsystems client-server protocol unix ypcat ypmatch 
ypwhich unix manual pages 

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Service >> S Words
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Network Layer >> N Words
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Network Managem >> N Words
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Information Sys >> I Words
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