Re: What is Primary NBNS Server Address

Stephen Fisher (lithium@cia-g.com)
Mon, 11 Aug 1997 12:32:50 -0600 (MDT)

On Mon, 11 Aug 1997, John Storms wrote:

> At 09:08 PM 8/9/97 -0400, Krzysztof Adamski wrote:
> >While looking at the output of debug 0x51 I saw the request for
> >Primary NBNS Server Address
> >What is a NBNS Server?
>
> NBNS is NetBios Nameserver. It can be set with the following command.
>
> set nbns [1 | 2] <IP Address>
>
> set nbns 192.168.10.1 # Sets primary NBNS
> set nbns 2 192.168.10.2 # Sets secondary NBNS
>
> After configuring this option you can view the configuration with 'show
> global'
> Specifying an IP address of 0.0.0.0 disables the setting.
>
> NOTE: I have never seen anyone use this feature.

It's not documented at all that I've ever seen.

- Steve
- Systems Manager
- Community Internet Access, Inc.
- Gallup and Grants, New Mexico