> > > Why not patch/micro? > > > > It's conceivable (though unlikely) that there are customer scripts that > > parse the contents of the ypservers file and would choke on IP addresses. > > But the obvious answer to that is "don't use IP addresses then" -- as > long as the default behavioud of ypinit doesn't change then all should > be fine.
Using IP addresses is easy to do by accident (in fact, everyone I've talked to has tried to do this the first time when setting up NIS), so I wanted to err on the side of caution. But if everyone wants this to be patch, that's fine too. -- meem
