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.TH VIRGILD 8
.SH NAME
virgild \- connection service for remote clients
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B ndb/cs
.br
.B ip/virgild
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Virgild
receives requests for name service on UDP/IP
port
.BR virgil ,
defined as
2202 by
.IR services (6),
and hard-coded in
.IR virgil (2).
Each request has the form:
.IP
.IB userid ? machine-name
.PP
.I Virgild
translates the
.I machine-name
using the local connection server
(see
.IR cs (8)),
and sends a response of the following form to the requesting client:
.IP
.IB userid ? machine-name = network-address
.PP
If the
.I machine-name
cannot be translated,
.I virgild
makes no response;
unless another server replies, the client's request will time out.
.PP
.I Virgild
requires that
.IR cs (8)
be running before it is started.
.SH SOURCE
.B /appl/cmd/ip/virgild.b
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IR rcmd (1),
.IR cs (8)
.SH BUGS
The
.I userid
part is currently unused but must still be included.
.br
.I Virgild
is single threaded: a delay in translating a name for one client will delay response
to any subsequent clients.