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  <refentryinfo>
    <productname>ISC Kea</productname>
    <date>Dec 14, 2018</date>
    <edition>1.5.0</edition>
    <author>
      <contrib>The Kea software has been written by a number of
        engineers working for ISC: Tomek Mrugalski, Stephen Morris, Marcin
        Siodelski, Thomas Markwalder, Francis Dupont, Jeremy C. Reed,
        Wlodek Wencel and Shawn Routhier.  That list is roughly in the
        chronological order in which the authors made their first
        contribution. For a complete list of authors and
        contributors, see AUTHORS file.</contrib>
      <orgname>Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.</orgname>
    </author>
  </refentryinfo>

  <info>
    <date>2018-06-14</date>
  </info>

  <refmeta>
    <refentrytitle>kea-sockcreator</refentrytitle>
    <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
    <refmiscinfo>Kea</refmiscinfo>
  </refmeta>

  <refnamediv>
    <refname>kea-sockcreator</refname>
    <refpurpose>socket creation daemon</refpurpose>
  </refnamediv>

  <docinfo>
    <copyright>
      <year>2014-2018</year>
      <holder>Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")</holder>
    </copyright>
  </docinfo>

  <refsynopsisdiv>
    <cmdsynopsis sepchar=" ">
      <command>kea-sockcreator</command>
    </cmdsynopsis>
  </refsynopsisdiv>

  <refsect1>
    <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
    <para>
      The <command>kea-sockcreator</command> daemon's entire job
      is to create sockets and assign names to them.
    </para>

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    <para>
      The <command>kea-sockcreator</command> daemon will exit
      if there is an unrecoverable error or unknown command.
    </para>

  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>SEE ALSO</title>
    <para>
      <citetitle>Kea Guide</citetitle>.
    </para>
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  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>HISTORY</title>
    <para>
      The <command>b10-sockcreator</command> daemon
      was initially designed by Michal Vaner of CZNIC.
    </para>
    <para>
      Kea became a standalone server and the BIND10 framework was
      removed. The socket creator server binary was renamed to
      kea-sockcreator in July 2014.
    </para>
  </refsect1>

</refentry>
