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From: dennis@peanuts.nosc.mil (Dennis Cottel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: NLS servers
Message-ID: <843@nosc.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 15 Dec 88 05:37:42 GMT
References: <4014e53a.1837d@apollo.COM> <1730@sol.oakhill.UUCP> <403bace5.12c4f@hi-csc.UUCP>
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In article <403bace5.12c4f@hi-csc.UUCP> giebelhaus@hi-csc.UUCP (Timothy R. Giebelhaus) writes:
>Who says you have to put you all you NLS servers on the server?
>You can place an NLS server on each node you use the software.
>This would approach a node locked piece of software.  It would
>provide a little more as other nodes could use the software when
>the node which had the NLS server on it was not using it.

But my understanding is that each application is aimed at a
particular license server; there isn't a way for the application to
query multiple servers trying to find one that has a license
available.  Is this correct?

  Dennis Cottel  Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA  92152
  (619) 553-1645      dennis@nosc.MIL      sdcsvax!noscvax!dennis