You can have multiple redundant dns servers and /etc/resolv.conf can (and is by default) be managed by the dhcp client.
So true :-) DHCP is not used on our server network...
NIS hosts table is obsoleted as well as the whole NIS concept.
And what's the best alternative for Access Control then? groupdn ?
Moreover DNS is a well defined standard. Just compare it with Windows and NetBIOS, same thing, they got rid of it in favour of DNS.
Ondrej
I wish I had some hooks into DNS in our environment. Would make provisioning a lot easier...