Lectures

Question 1

Naming Services

Answer 1

In a distributed system, a Naming Service is a specific service whose aim is to provide consistent and uniform naming of resources, thus allowing other programs or services to localise them and obtain the required metadata for interacting with them.

Benefits

1. Resource localization
2. Uniform naming
3. Device-independent address (e.g., you can move domain name/website from one server to another server seamlessly)