| Description | Defines the Lookup Results Table for providing
the capability of determining the results of a
operation at a remote host.
One or more entries are added to the
lookupResultsTable when a lookup operation,
as reflected by an lookupCtlEntry, is completed
successfully. All entries related to a
successful lookup operation MUST be added
to the lookupResultsTable at the same time
that the associating lookupCtlOperStatus
object is transitioned to completed(2).
The number of entries added depends on the
results determined for a particular lookup
operation. All entries associated with an
lookupCtlEntry are removed when the
lookupCtlEntry is deleted.
A remote host can be multi-homed and have more than one IP
address associated with it (returned by lookup function),
or it can have more than one symbolic name (returned
by lookup function).
A function such as, for example, getnameinfo() or
gethostbyaddr() is called with a host address as its
parameter and is used primarily to determine a symbolic
name to associate with the host address. Entries in the
lookupResultsTable MUST be made for each host name
returned. If the function identifies an 'official host
name,' then this symbolic name MUST be assigned a
lookupResultsIndex of 1.
A function such as, for example, getaddrinfo() or
gethostbyname() is called with a symbolic host name and is
used primarily to retrieve a host address. The entries
MUST be stored in the order that they are retrieved from
the lookup function. lookupResultsIndex 1 MUST be
assigned to the first entry. |