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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