Each transport has an associated set of routines that translate between universal network addresses (string representations of transport addresses) and the local address representation. These universal addresses are passed around within the RPC system (for example, between rpcbind and a client). A runtime linkable library that contains the name-to-address translation routines is associated with each transport. Table 2–7 shows the main translation routines.
For more details on these routines, see the netdir(3NSL) man page. Note that the netconfig structure in each case provides the context for name-to-address translations.
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