Re: Kernel / ldirectord interaction

["Patrick LeBoutillier" <patl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
>> Also, would it be possible for an external application (i.e. a CGI
>> script) to interrogate the ldirectord/kernel and ask:
>>
>> "If someone were to connect to the virtual IP at this moment, which real
>> address would be used to serve him"?
>>
>
> If your CGI script just wants to query the kernel which server is used to
> serve requests from an IP address, it is do-able.
>

What is the API to do this? Is it a set of system calls that one can
invoke to communicate with the kernel?

Thanks,

Patrick