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echo: os2lan
to: Peter Knapper
from: Roy J. Tellason
date: 1999-09-08 12:40:05
subject: OS/2 networking & Linux

Peter Knapper wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 PK> Hi Roy,

 RJT> I'm also running 'named' on that box,  a name server of some 
 RJT> sort.  And I'm pursuing a bit of DNS stuff there...

 PK> "named" is an OS/2 port of the unix Domain Name Server and a 
 PK> DNS normally has no relationship to a NETBIOS environment (but 
 PK> it is actually posible to use a DNS to help NETBIOS clients to 
 PK> find resources). I havent' had to do that myself though...

Point of confusion,  there (possibly poor phrasing on my part?) -- "that box"
and "there" in the quoted stuff refers to the Linux box,  not the OS/2 box...

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