Patent
1996-06-21
1999-01-19
Meky, Moustafa M.
G06F 1300
Patent
active
058623310
ABSTRACT:
A name service system in a computer network has a program on a master host which includes a name service map containing the names and corresponding network addresses of servers running in the network. The name service system also includes a proto-server residing on all hosts in which a server needing dynamic name service updates runs. The network address in the name service map corresponding to the server's name is the network address of a program called a "proto-server". The proto-server contains a name table having the name and the corresponding actual address of the server. The name table in the proto-server can be updated dynamically, and the proto-server enables multiple instances of similar servers to run on the same host. When a client requests the binding of a server from the name service, the client program determines whether the address returned from the name service map is the binding of the proto-server, and if so the binding in the proto-server's name table is fetched and returned to the client. The system allows the name service to operate as a dynamically updated system even though the name service program on the master host is a static system that must be updated manually.
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Meky Moustafa M.
Sun Microsystems Inc.
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