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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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slpd — Service Location Protocol Daemon

Synopsis

/usr/lib/inet/slpd [-f configuration-file]

Description

The slpd command is new in the Solaris 8 release. The slpd daemon provides common server functionality for the Service Location Protocol (SLP) versions 1 and 2, as defined by IETF in RFC 2165 and RFC 2608. SLP provides a scalable framework for the discovery and selection of network services.

slpd provides the following framework services.

Directory Agent
 This service automatically caches service advertisements from service agents to provide them to user agents and makes directory agent advertisements of its services. This service is optional. slpd does not provide directory agent service by default. Directory agents are not databases, and ...
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