virgild - connection service for remote clients ndb/cs

ip/virgild

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.

/appl/cmd/ip/virgild.b rcmd (1), cs (8) 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.