When a hunt call is performed for the name of a remote endpoint, the request is passed on by RLNH to the peer as a RLNH_QUERY_NAME message. If the hunter has not used the link before, an RLNH_PUBLISH message is sent first.

Upon receiving a RLNH_QUERY_NAME message, RLNH resolves the requested endpoint name locally and returns an RLNH_PUBLISH message when it has been found and assigned a link address. As described above, this triggers the creation of a representation at the remote node. This in turn resolves the hunt call - the hunter is provided with the OS ID of the representation.