Subj : Re: Network bindings ques To : Neil.Santos From : Chris Robinson Date : Thu Mar 29 2001 05:35 am From: Chris Robinson Neil.Santos@harborwebs.com wrote: > Reply to a message Chris wrote on 03-27-01 10:06, for Randall > > CR> AFAIK WINS is just like DNS. It stands for Windows Internal Naming > CR> System (probably?) and resolves computer's network id's in a domain or > CR> workgroup. > > actually, wins stands for "windows internet naming service". Fair enough - that's why i put "probably?" in brackets. > to quote from > "running microsoft windows nt server 4.0" from microsoft press, "wins was > designed to provide a flexible name-to-number mapping system that would allow > computers to communicate across ruoter boundaries and would easily map netbios > names to ip addresses. when winds is combined with bns This is a quote? winds and bns? > , it provides dynamic > name resolution ability." > > CR> I *think* they've done away with WINS in Win2k and it's now purely > CR> just DNS. Correct me if I'm wrong. > > have they? why? > I mean, wins and dns are two differrent services, if this book > i have is to be trusted. why would microsoft opt to take out nt's ability to > provide dynamic name resolution? I think Win2k uses something called dynamic DNS which is, AFAIK, WINS, DNS and DHCP all kinda bundled together (damn, I'm technical ). I believe this helps solves update problems that used to exist between DNS and WINS (i.e. they didn't update each other). Perhaps I worded "done away with" a bit wrong. > > > iirc, i've seen a wins service running on 2k, but i can't really be sure, since > the last time i've used w2k was when it was still in rc2 :o) Win2k is sweet - I've been using it for a while and have since had the most stable system I've ever had :o) Chris. > > -- > ==[:: n e 0 _ a k t ::]== > masochistic computer geek > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > :: ls user# 1725 | pls user# 7 :: icq / 33132073 :: irc / ne0_akt :: > :: http://ether.quadrent.net/ :: @ef.net [ #skinnerz / #ls_help ] :: > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ... USER: the word computer professionals use when they mean "idiot" > ___ Blue Wave/386 v2.30 > --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5 > * Origin: The File Bank BBS! Makati. Philippines +63-2-896-3116 (6:751/321) --- BBBS/NT v4.00 MP * Origin: Barktopia Gating Project http://HarborWebs.com:8081 (1:379/45) .