NAME

virgild - connection service for remote clients

SYNOPSIS

ndb/cs
ip/virgild

DESCRIPTION

Virgild receives requests for name service on UDP/IP port virgil, defined as 2202 by services(6), and hard-coded in virgil(2). Each request has the form:

userid?machine-name

Virgild translates the machine-name using the local connection server (see cs(8)), and sends a response of the following form to the requesting client:

userid?machine-name=network-address

If the machine-name cannot be translated, virgild makes no response; unless another server replies, the client's request will time out.

Virgild requires that cs(8) be running before it is started.

SOURCE

/appl/cmd/ip/virgild.b

SEE ALSO

rcmd(1), cs(8)

BUGS

The userid part is currently unused but must still be included.
Virgild is single threaded: a delay in translating a name for one client will delay response to any subsequent clients.

VIRGILD(8 )

Rev:  Tue Mar 31 02:42:38 GMT 2015