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Mastering Kali Linux Wireless Pentesting
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Mastering Kali Linux Wireless Pentesting

by Brian Sak, Jilumudi Raghu Ram
February 2016
Intermediate to advanced
310 pages
6h 45m
English
Packt Publishing
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NBNS spoofing

NetBIOS Name Service (NBNS) is a protocol that exists to resolve names on the network without the requirement for using local hosts files or DNS. It is part of the NetBIOS-over-TCP protocol suite enabling to run on top of an IP network; however, NetBIOS itself is not restricted to only IP. It was developed to essentially serve the same purpose of DNS in that it allows users to access resources using a name and it will in turn resolve that name to an IPv4 IP address. It varies from DNS in that NBNS is a flat name service whereas DNS is hierarchical, meaning that it can have a TLD (Top Level Domain), sub-domains, and hostnames while NBNS is similar to a hosts file where a single name resolves to an IP address. NBNS also varies from ...

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ISBN: 9781785285561