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 | | The Name Binding Protocol provides the facilities for registering a network-visible entity (net, node and socket, the internet address) by name, and for locating registered entities by name and getting their net address. |
 | | NBP provides a way to "confirm" the internet address of a named entity that may have been looked up in the past. |
 | | As soon as the byte containing the socket number arrives, the DDP protocol handler has to search the socket table to locate the socket listener's entry point, then call the socket listener, which is responsible for controlling the reception of the rest of the packet. |
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