The Name Service Interface

This topic contains information to help you use commands that call the name service interface (NSI) to access name service entries.

The DCE RPC name service interface (NSI) is independent of any particular name service. CDS, however, is the only name service available for DCE RPC Version 1.0 applications. For more details on the name service interface, see the OSF DCE Application Development Guide - Core Components. For a description of the DCE Cell Directory Service, see the OSF DCE Administration Guide - Core Components .

Name Service Entries
To store information about RPC servers, interfaces, and objects, NSI defines the following name service entries:

server entry
Stores binding information, interface identifiers, and object UUIDs for an RPC server

group
Corresponds to one or more RPC servers that offer a common RPC interface, type of RPC object, or both

profile
Defines search paths for looking in a name service database for a server that offers a particular RPC interface and object

Note that when the NSI is used with the Cell Directory Service, the name service entries are CDS object entries.

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Structure of Entry Names