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From: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Appletalk Confirm
Message-ID: <422@taniwha.UUCP>
Date: 11 Oct 89 15:37:08 GMT
References: <6724@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Reply-To: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
Organization: Taniwha Systems Design, Oakland
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In article <6724@hubcap.clemson.edu> mikeoro@hubcap.clemson.edu (Michael K O'Rourke) writes:
>Does anyone know if a NBPConfirm in Appletalk generates network
>traffic and in which cases?  For instance, i assume it would have to
>talk to a bridge to get to another zone, but what about confirming someone
>on my own zone?  If they are on my zone will the names table in my machine
>be able to confirm them without causing network traffic?

The names table in your machine is ONLY a list of the names registered by
your machine. To do a confirm NBP does exactly the same thing as a lookup
except that instead of doing a zone wide broadcast it directs the request
packet(s) to the NBP socket on the machine that had registered the name.
If the remote node is on another cable it these packets will go through the
bridge etc etc

	Paul


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