Oracle Net8 Configuration and Troubleshooting By Jonathan Gennick, Hugo Toledo
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Chapter 2. Name Resolution
External name resolution is another approach to centralized control over name resolution. Instead of using Oracle Names , you can use any of the following directory services:
Network Information Service (NIS)
Novell Directory Service (NDS)
Cell Directory Services (CDS)
Net8 communicates with the supported external naming services through the use of Oracle-supplied interface software. For example, Figure 2.7 shows how Net8 uses NIS external naming, supplied by Oracle, to make remote procedure calls (RPC calls) to NIS.
Figure 2.7. NIS is one of the external naming services supported by Oracle
If you already have one of the supported external naming services in place, you can leverage it to centrally manage Oracle net service names. This gives you the advantage of central administration without the additional overhead of configuring and managing Oracle Names.
