VIRGILD(8)VIRGILD(8)NAMEvirgild - 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 request‐
ing 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 ALSOrcmd(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.
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