Re: Will TCP/IP name resolution understand NetBIOS names

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From: Eugene Gershnik (gershnik_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/07/04 

Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 12:12:24 -0800

Dean Roddey wrote:
>> Are you saying that your customers don't have _any_ DNS? This sounds
>> weird nowadays (they cannot even Google then).
>> If they have _any_ kind of DNS this is all you need.
>>
>
> Not true. Their ISP's DNS isn't going to resolve local names within
> their LAN. It wouldn't know anything about them. Most of them would
> be behind a NAT firewall and using purely local addresses.

My wrong. You can google with somebody else's DNS server. Still this is
weird. They have NAT firewall and DHCP but no local DNS. This sounds like
$30 consumer DSL package :-) 

--
Eugene

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