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Date:      Sun, 11 Feb 2007 01:19:32 +1100 (EST)
From:      Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>
To:        Michael Nottebrock <lofi@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, JoaoBR <joao@matik.com.br>
Subject:   Re: Desired behaviour of "ifconfig -alias"
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.1070211005326.16487A-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au>
In-Reply-To: <200702101315.26888.lofi@freebsd.org>

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On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
 > On Saturday, 10. February 2007 12:17, JoaoBR wrote:
 > > On Saturday 10 February 2007 01:54, Ian Smith wrote:
 > > > Secondly, pardon my ignorance, but what does 'NS' refer to here?  That
 > > > string / term occurs nowhere else in ifconfig(8).
 > >
 > > nameserver
 > 
 > I think this actually refers to XNS. You can tell that manpage has quite a 
 > history.

If that's right, indeed it does.  Google took me to the Early Adopter's
Guide to FreeBSD 5.1 where XNS was reported dropped, and to a Cisco XNS
introductory page, as my punishment for asking more than one question!

Thanks, Ian




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