I remember that Sun's internal IT guys refused to run NIS+ for years and years, stable or otherwise. I converted a site from NIS to NIS+ in early 1994; approximately 25,000 users. I had guys from Sun external tech support calling me for a few years asking for tips on how to make it run faster and how to recover it when it went belly up (which it did from time to time). Having said that if you ignored the manuals and reached into its innards you could get it to restart in the space of a few seconds; even on a lowly sun4c workstation.
In my experience it was far more flexible than NIS which was both a good thing and a bad thing. The one big advantage it had for me was its support for SecureRPC. In time it was killed by LDAP.
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I remember that Sun's internal IT guys refused to run NIS+ for years and years, stable or otherwise. I converted a site from NIS to NIS+ in early 1994; approximately 25,000 users. I had guys from Sun external tech support calling me for a few years asking for tips on how to make it run faster and how to recover it when it went belly up (which it did from time to time). Having said that if you ignored the manuals and reached into its innards you could get it to restart in the space of a few seconds; even on a lowly sun4c workstation.
In my experience it was far more flexible than NIS which was both a good thing and a bad thing. The one big advantage it had for me was its support for SecureRPC. In time it was killed by LDAP.