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From: cremer@Apple.COM (Mike Cremer)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Determining the System name and Zone??
Keywords: NBP
Message-ID: <12332@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 28 Feb 91 20:52:40 GMT
References: <2418@perot.com>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <2418@perot.com> ferriby@perot.com (John Ferriby) writes:
>Is anyone aware of a method to determine the system [responder] name, type and
>zone in a reverse-NBP fashion?  (e.g., The network and node numbers are known.)
>John Ferriby
>Perot Systems Corporation

Send an NBP LkUp directly to the node in question, targeted at DDP socket
2 (NIS socket).  The format of an NBP LkUp request is in Inside AppleTalk
(2/e) p. 7-14.  Note that you must write a socket listener to handle
the LkUp-Reply packets yourself (the NBP code assumes it will be sending a BrRq 
to a router which will convert it to the appropriate LkUp packets for
broadcast on the target network, which of course you do not want to do).

$mike cremer
apple network systems development
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