RE: What is Primary NBNS Server Address

Jason Aarons (jaarons@microsoft.com)
Wed, 13 Aug 1997 03:33:59 -0700

A Netbios Name Server would be NT's WINS. WINS is used for netbios name
resolution across a routed network.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Fisher [SMTP:lithium@cia-g.com]
Sent: Monday, August 11, 1997 2:33 PM
To: John Storms
Cc: Krzysztof Adamski; portmaster-users@livingston.com
Subject: Re: What is Primary NBNS Server Address

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