NAME

atservers − print AppleTalk services

SYNOPSIS

atservers [ number ]

DESCRIPTION

Atservers uses AppleTalk Name Binding Protocol to look up all AppleTalk services on the UNIX host’s AppleTalk zone.  If no number is specified on the command line, it will look for at most twenty services otherwise it will look  for up to "number" services.  The program then prints any services it found along with each service’s [net/node/socket] information.  Finally, a Name Binding Protocol confirmation is performed on the last service reported to validate the operation of the nbp_confirm(3) library call. 
 
When everything is configured and working correctly, you should see all services registered in your AppleTalk zone. In the absence of any network connection Atservers will show only locally registered services, that is, those registered by processes running directly on your machine.  If you are connected to a network, but there are no functioning bridge(s), then only services registered on the ethernet will be displayed.  If the name binding protocol daemon (/usr/appletalk/nbpd) is not running then only remotely registered services will be displayed.  If nbpd is killed and restarted, all local registrations are lost.  All the appletalk servers (including topsd) must be restarted to re-register their addresses. 
 
For each service, atservers displays name.type.zone.  An asterisk (∗), frequently found in the zone field, means the local zone.  TOPS  1 and 2 servers have AppleTalk types of TopsServer and Top2Server, respectively.  You should see one of each bearing your machine’s hostname when the TOPS server is running. 

DIAGNOSTICS

lookup for all servers fails No services were found by the lookup operation. 

nbp_confirm fails(error=%d) Confirmation fails with error(%d). 

SEE ALSO

nbp(3)
Inside AppleTalk

Sun Release 4.0  —  Last change: 5 November 1987