Quoting karl@??? (karl@???):

> Sun's Yellow Pages is called NIS since a long time ago.

And NIS is lately spelled 'LDAP'. ;->

NFSv4 is better and less gratuitously firewall-hostile than versions in
days of yore.

I still would carefully avoid exposing any NFS (what we traditionally
called Nightmare File System, No Friggin' Security) to public networks.