t for the Naming service to act like an agent: to understand
IIOP request messages from clients and respond with reply messages with
a <tt>LOCATION_FORWARD/OBJECT_NOT_EXIST</tt> status. The Naming Service
can be configured through ORB options to register arbitrary services given
the URL-format IOR for the service. The <tt>resolve_initial_references
()</tt> resolves a service in the following order :</li>

<ol>
<li>
<tt>-ORBInitRef</tt></li>

<li>
<tt>-ORBDefaultInitRef</tt></li>

<li>
Multicast discovery</l