Yes. However, thinking of it some more, it may be that NetBIOS s/b 6 and IP
5...
MAC is the layer 2 address
Both NetBIOS and DNS names are the end results of different naming schemes,
with the added 'benefit' of using DNS for NetBIOS as Stanley indicates.
Thus there are these three chains
MAC -> IP -> DNS
MAC -> NetBIOS
MAC -> NetBIOS -> DNS
As long as the NetBIOS -> DNS link is delayed like the IP -> DNS link it
should be safe to have:
MAC ----> (5)IP ------------------------> (7)DNS
\ /
\-> (6)NetBIOS --/--><end>
But I need to go back to the books and refresh my memory of the internals of
NetBIOS.
-----Burton
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
> Stanley Hopcroft
> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 5:25 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Ntop] New sorting routines in cvs - these are post 3.0pre1
> - TEST NOW OR HOLD YOUR WATER
>
>
> Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
>
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 04:57:06PM -0600, Burton M. Strauss III wrote:
> > I'm please it worked - was it the code change or purging
> dnsCache.db that
> > did it?
> >
> >
> > If you have specialized needs you can change the values in the
> > globals-defines.h constants. Highest value wins. The block
> where a value
> > is chosen if hostResolvedName isn't set is a little more difficult to
> > change, but could be done - it's in webInterface.c
> >
> > As to why favor IP over NetBIOS, that's a simple piece of reality - most
> > networks where people are using ntop have TCP/IP and most of
> them have some
> > form of DNS.
> >
>
> A good choice since with 'Active' Directory (and even before that with
> eg ISC DHCP v3.x), most sites will be using Dynamic DNS into which all
> hosts will register their NetBIOS names when they boot and release them
> when they power down.
>
> WINS is on the way out, but NetBIOS names will remain.
>
> The only difference, if I understand correctly, is that NetBIOS name
> resolution will no longer have the option of broadcast and that key
> names (domain names for example) will be registered with SRV resource
> records (which the microsoft version of nslookup can already handle).
>
> Client names (eg the NetBIOS name of the requestor) will be registered
> with A records.
>
> Yours sincerely.
>
> --
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Stanley Hopcroft
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
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> continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea,
> Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a
> manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes
> me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know
> for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee...'
>
> from Meditation 17, J Donne.
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