VIRGILD(8) System Manager's Manual VIRGILD(8)

virgild - connection service for remote clients

ndb/cs
ip/virgild

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 connection server (see cs (8)), and sends a response of the following 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.

/appl/cmd/ip/virgild.b

rcmd (1), cs (8)

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.