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chorusNS is a target utility.
The chorusNS utility is a family of ChorusOS Name Server daemons that answer local and remote site naming requests issued using getsitebyname (3STDC) or getsitebyaddr (3STDC). It inserts a ChorusOS 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 ChorusOS site database until a matching site name or site address is found, or until the end of the file is reached. If the optional user-sites-file parameter is omitted, the /etc/sites database is used.
The chorusNSinet uses the gethostbyaddr (3STDC) and gethostbyname (3STDC) functions to retrieve information from an Internet Name Server. It is assumed that a mapping exists between the IP address set and the ChorusOS site address set. In this case, the ChorusOS 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.
/etc/sites
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
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Interface Stability | Evolving |
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