OSF DCE Administration Guide--Core Components

OSF DCE Administration Guide—Core Components
6. The clerk returns the information to the client application, which can now make a
remote call to the spell-checking server.
Long lookups, as illustrated in Figure 13-5, do not normally happen often after a clerk
establishes its cache and becomes more knowledgeable about clearinghouses and their
contents. However, the figure illustrates the resources and connections that could be
involved in an initial lookup. The figure also illustrates the importance of maintaining
connectivity between parent and child directories in the namespace. If somewhere the
directory path is broken or a clearinghouse is unreachable, a clerk may not be able to find
a name.
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