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[8]Soft administration includes everything that does not require onsite personnel. An example of something that is not soft administration would be replacing a disk drive.NIS lends itself to allowing you to give system administration groups for a given department within your organization responsibility for maintaining the department's NIS maps without the need for centralized control. However, the nature of hostnames, host addresses, and domain name management is that some central controls or rules are necessary in order to prevent mistakes in one department from affecting other departments and beyond. There are at least three basic approaches to consider for managing hosts and domains.
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5.3. Fully qualified and unqualified hostnames | ![]() | 5.5. Migrating from NIS to DNS for host naming |
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