VIRGILD(8) VIRGILD(8) NAME virgild - connection service for remote clients SYNOPSIS ndb/cs ip/virgild DESCRIPTION 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 connec- tion server (see cs(8)), and sends a response of the follow- ing 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. SOURCE /appl/cmd/ip/virgild.b SEE ALSO rcmd(1), cs(8) BUGS 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. Page 1 Plan 9 (printed 12/23/24)