chorusNSsite(1M)

NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | FILES | ATTRIBUTES | SEE ALSO

NAME

chorusNS, chorusNSsite, chorusNSinet- ChorusOS name servers

SYNOPSIS

chorusNSsite [user-sites-file] chorusNSinet

DESCRIPTION

chorusNS is a target utility.

The chorusNS utility is a family of ChorusOS Name Server daemons which answer local and remote site naming requests issued using getsitebyname (3CSAFE) or getsitebyaddr (3CSAFE). It inserts a CHORUS port into a static user group (see grpAllocate (2K)), continuously waits for messages on that port, and then replies to clients. The daemons can be started and killed using the arun and akill C_INIT (1M) commands.

The chorusNSsite searches sequentially from the beginning of the local CHORUS site data base until a matching site name or site address is found, or until end-of-file is reached. If the optional user-sites-file parameter is omitted, the /etc/sites data base is used.

The chorusNSinet uses the gethostbyaddr (3CSAFE) and gethostbyname (3CSAFE) functions to retrieve information from an Internet Name Server. It is assumed that a mapping exists between the IP address set and the CHORUS site address set. In this case, the CHORUS symbolic site name is equal to the IP symbolic name. An inetNS daemon must be running somewhere on the network.

The CHORUSNS environment parameter may be used to reference the site where a chorusNS server is located if it is not local.

No more than one name server can be run on a given site.

FILES

/etc/sites

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Interface Stability	Evolving

SEE ALSO

inetNS(1M) , sites(4CC)

NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | FILES | ATTRIBUTES | SEE ALSO