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Chapter 3 - Name-Binding Protocol (NBP) / NBP Reference

Routines

Handling Name and Address Requests

This section describes

• the NBPSetEntity procedure, which you can use to put an existing NBP entity name into the structure that NBP requires for you to look up, confirm, or remove an existing registered entity name
• the PLookupName function, which you can use to look up the network address of an entity, based on the NBP registered name for that entity, or using wildcards
• the NBPExtract function, which you can use to read a name and address pair from the buffer containing the list of tuples that PLookupName returns
• the PConfirmName function, which you can use to confirm that a name whose address you know is still associated with that address, and that the pair is still registered with the NBP names directory
• the PRemoveName function, which you can use to remove a name and address pair from the NBP names directory when you no longer want to make the service associated with the tuple available throughout the network
• the PKillNBP function, which you can use to cancel requests to NBP

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Subtopics

NBPSetEntity

PLookupName

NBPExtract

PConfirmName

PRemoveName

PKillNBP