[avahi] bonjour ie plugin & avahi (netbios)

[Chris McHarg]

On 25/05/06, Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
>
> I thought NetBIOS queries are obsolete these days, even on
> Windows. Didn't they replace their own name lookup protocol with
> classic DNS?

After a quick google, it seems that it was reimplemented over TCP/IP,
and is in win2000/xp to talk to win9x machines and SMB servers
(although no longer completely necessary).