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From: fks@ftp.COM (Frances Selkirk)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: RFC1001/1002 Questions
Summary: Netbios and the NBNS
Keywords: RFC1001 RFC1002 NetBIOS
Message-ID: <911@ftp.COM>
Date: 20 Mar 90 15:04:57 GMT
References: <69066@aerospace.AERO.ORG>
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Organization: FTP Software Inc., Cambridge, MA
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FTP Software, Excelan, Ungermann-Bass, 3Com, Syntax, CMC, and Interlan
all have Netbios implementations for their TCP/IP packages. Syntax and
NCR sell Unix-based servers which also conform to RFCs 1001 and 1002. 
There are probably at least a few others.

Our NetBIOS, compliant with RFCs 1001 and RFC 1002, is a b-node
implementation for use across a single LAN, so it does not implement
NBNS or NDDS. We have heard of only one m-node Netbios that does so.

RFC 1001 describes the additions necessary to make the domain name
system usable as an NBNS, but we have heard of no plans to implement
it Internet-wide. Currently, such name service administration is
carried out by the administrators of the Netbios LAN or LANs, each
cable of which may have one or more Scopes.



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