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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference
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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference

by Janice Winsor
September 2000
Beginner content levelBeginner
1312 pages
33h 47m
English
Pearson
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rpcbind — Universal Addresses to RPC Program Number Mapper

Synopsis

/usr/sbin/rpcbind [-d][-w]

Description

The rpcbind daemon is a server that converts RPC program numbers into universal addresses. It must be running on the host to be able to make RPC calls on a server on that machine.

When an RPC service is started, it tells rpcbind the address at which it is listening and the RPC program numbers it is prepared to serve. When a client wants to make an RPC call to a given program number, it first contacts rpcbind on the server machine to determine the address to which RPC requests should be sent.

rpcbind should be started before any other RPC service. Normally, standard RPC servers are started by port monitors, so rpcbind must be started before ...

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