Re: Large Distributed Linux Networks

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 28 Jul 1997 22:00:10 +0100 (BST)

> I don't want to make a huge issue out of this, but I'm wondering
> how many people are building large distributed networks on top of Linux,
> and what luck/experiences they've had. By distributed, I mean using

We are distributing user data over a wide area network however we are not
using NIS (too insecure) or NFS (target practice ;)).

> FWIW, using libc-5.4.33 and ypclients-2.2-970318 seems to make a fairly
> decent NIS implementation. But I've never been able to keep even the
> latest AMD up with it for more than 47 days.

Alas on AMD I can't help