What Is Windows Internet Name Service (WINS)? How Does It Work?

What Is Windows Internet Name Service

What is Windows Internet Name Service (WINS)?

If WINS is not already deployed on your connection, do not deploy WINS.

Instead, deploy DNS.

Each WINS server should be in push/pull replication.

This ensures that replication convergence is optimal so that all WINS servers maintain the same set of databases.

Each WINS server holds all other related

A complete copy of the WINS system record.

There is no hierarchy in WNS like in DNS.

all WINS

Both clients should be configured to use a primary WINS server and a different secondary WINS server.

wins client to pass DHCP scope options (044-WINS/NENS server and O4G-WINS/NBT point jot down) for dynamic configuration.

Here are the details about Windows Internet Name Service.

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