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From: jbvb@FTP.COM (James B. Van Bokkelen)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: NETBIOS/RFCs 1001/1002 Question
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Date: 18 Dec 90 04:35:03 GMT
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    If a node on the network initiates a call to a NETBIOS
    name which happens to be a group name being used by
    several other nodes on the network, how is the call to
    the group name resolved into a single session with a
    specific member of the group?

The most likely result is "open a TCP connection to the IP address in
the first reply received".  I can't promise you'd get this behaviour
from all available implementations, but it seems to be the easiest to
implement...

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