Resolving server names to network addresses in NRPC
Communications between Notes® and Domino® occur through the NRPC protocol running on the supported LAN protocol. When a Notes workstation or Domino server attempts to connect to a Domino server on the LAN, it uses a combination of the built-in Notes Name Service and the network protocol's name-resolver service to convert the name of the Domino server to a physical address on the network.
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The Notes Name Service resolves Domino common names to their respective protocol-specific names. Because the Notes Name Service resolves common names by making calls to the Domino Directory, the service becomes available to the Notes workstation only after the workstation has successfully connected to its home (messaging) server for the first time. (The protocol name-resolver service normally makes the first connection possible.) When the Notes workstation makes a subsequent attempt to connect to a Domino server, the Notes Name Service supplies it with the Domino server's protocol-specific name -- that is, the name that the server is known by in the protocol's name service -- which is stored in the protocol's Net Address field in the Server document. The protocol's name-resolver service then resolves the protocol-specific name to its protocol-specific address, and the workstation is able to connect to the server.
How name resolution works in NRPC
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A Notes workstation or Domino server follows these steps to resolve the name of the Domino server to which it is trying to connect over NRPC.