Desired behaviour of "ifconfig -alias"

Ian Smith smithi at nimnet.asn.au
Sat Feb 10 14:19:44 UTC 2007


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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