If someone was trying to set up a *completely new installation of NIS*, that would certainly be misguided. Pointing new devices at an existing NIS infrastructure is another matter though: most of the people in this situation don't really have a choice in the matter, usually for reasons of budget or management restriction.

Even though it's *less than ideal* to point new devices at old infrastructure such as this (it adds to the [technical debt](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt) of the larger problem), the questions are reasonable ones and there is no reason to turn them aside.

(In hindsight, I apologize for my misguided question.)