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ONS Server
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## Overview:
ONS-server is meant to be a highly scalable server for [Open Name System](http://opennamesystem.org). It is meant to be blockchain-agnostic (currently uses the Namecoin blockchain) and is primarily meant for scaling read-only calls to the underlying blockchain. For achieving high throughput ons-server loads the entire namespace into memcached and then keeps the in-memory copy consistent with the blockchain.
## Setup Instructions:
ONS-server requires memcached:
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```
source tools/setup_env.sh
python -m tools.warmup_cache
mkdir log
python -m tools.sync_cache
```