HP-UX 11i v3.0 non-critical impact:
Network Information Service (NIS)+ is obsoleted (NcWn392)
Problem description
The Network Information Service (NIS) provides a simple network lookup
service consisting of databases and processes.
NIS+ is obsoleted in HPUX 11iv3 and the following APIs can no longer obtain their protocol, service or network information from the NIS+ database.
gethostent
getnetbyname
getnetbyaddr
getprotobyname
getprotobynumber
getservbyname
Identifiers
 gethostent |
getnetbyname |
getprotobynumber |
getnetbyaddr |
getprotobyname |
getservbyname |
See also
Solution description
NIS protocol version 1 (NISv1) is deprecated in this release and will be obsoleted in a future HP-UX release. HP recommends that you move to the next protocol version of NIS.
Review your code and the applicable manpages to determine how to resolve this issue.
Problem summary
| classifications |
source types |
OS release |
severity |
type |
| LIB, NW |
C, C++ |
HP-UX 11i v3.0 |
non-critical |
warning |
|
