Federated Naming Service

Federated Naming Service

In computing, the Federated Naming Service (FNS) is a system for uniting various name services under a single interface for the basic naming operations. It is produced by Sun Microsystems and was included with the Solaris Operating Environment versions 2.5 to 9. It is an extended implementation of X/Open's 1994 XFN (X/Open Federated Naming) specification.

The purpose of XFN and FNS is to allow applications to use widely heterogeneous naming services (such as NIS, DNS and so on) via a single interface, to avoid duplication of programming effort.

Neither XFN nor FNS were ever popular nor widely used. FNS was last included in Solaris 9 and was not included with Solaris 10.

External links and references

* [http://iforce.sun.com/protected/solaris10/adoptionkit/general/fns.txt Overview of FNS] (Solaris 9 man page)
* [http://iforce.sun.com/protected/solaris10/adoptionkit/general/xfn.txt Overview of the XFN interface] (Solaris 9 man page)
* [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0HPJ/is_n6_v46/ai_17990730 X/Open Federated Naming - specification for uniform naming interfaces between multiple naming systems] (Elizabeth A. Martin, "Hewlett-Packard Journal", December 1995)
* [http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/802-1999/ Federated Naming Service Guide for Solaris 2.5] (Sun Microsystems)


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