NINFOD(8)

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✨ NINFOD(8) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the ninfod page from iputils — yes, the manual section 8 one, the system-administration girlies 💅. Sit down, grab a boba, and lemme tell you about this little daemon that answers IPv6 Node Information Queries. It's giving network-services main character energy, fr fr 🌸

🎀 NAME 🎀

ninfod — Respond to IPv6 Node Information Queries

literally that's the whole job description and she ate 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

ninfod [-dhv] [-p pidfile] [-u user] [-v]

yes, -v shows up twice in there — once in the -dhv bundle and once standing on its own like the independent icon she is 👑 no cap, that's exactly how the page reads, so we're keeping it exactly like that.

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So here's the vibe: ninfod responds to IPv6 Node Information Queries (RFC4620) that come in from clients 🫶. That's it. That's the whole personality.

And who's sending these queries? Turns out ping — well, various implementations of the ping command, to be precise — can fire these things off. So yeah, your friendly neighborhood ping is out here asking nodes for their info, and ninfod is the one who picks up the phone 📞✨

💜 OPTIONS 💜

  • -d — Debug mode, bestie 🔍. Important part: it does not go background. She stays right there in the foreground where you can see her, periodt.
  • -h — Show help. The classic "help me help you" move 🙈
  • -v — Verbose mode. She talks more. We love a chatty queen 🗣️💬
  • -u user — Run as another user 🧚 user can either be a username or a user ID — whichever you got, she'll take it.
  • -p pidfile — File for process-id storage 📁. Heads up though: user is required to be able to create the file. So like, permissions check first, okay? Don't come crying to me when it can't write it 😭
  • -V — Print version and exit. Short and sweet, in and out, iconic ⭐

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

ping(8) — that's the one sending the queries, so go say hi 💖

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

ninfod was written by USAGI/WIDE Project. shoutout to the legends 🫡👑

⭐ COPYING ⭐

Copyright (C) 2012 YOSHIFUJI Hideaki. Copyright (C) 2002 USAGI/WIDE Project. All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

  1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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  3. Neither the name of the project nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
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like yes the legal text is long but bestie it's important — read it, don't skip it 💀🙏

and that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 this one's from iputils, dated 20210202, and it's the NINFOD(8) page — mwah, go forth and answer those queries 💖✨🦋

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