Implementing WINS

Name Resolution Services

10.1.2.1WINS in a Routed Environment

WINS consists of the following two components:

The WINS server, which handles name queries and registrations.

Client software, which registers computer names and queries for computer name resolution.

Computers running

Window NT

Windows 95/98

Windows for Workgroups 3.11 (with Microsoft TCP/IP-32)

LAN Manager for DOS 2.2c

Siemens Advanced Server for UNIX V3.51 (V3.5B10)

Siemens Advanced Server for UNIX V4.0

can use WINS directly.

Non-WINS computers on the internetwork that are b-node compatible (as described in RFCs 1001 and 1002) can access WINS through proxies (WINS-enabled computers that listen to name-query broadcasts and then respond for names that are not on the local subnet or are p-node computers).

To allow browsing across routers without WINS, the network administrator must ensure that the users’ primary domain has Advanced Server, Windows NT Server, or Windows NT Workstation computers on both sides of the router to act as master browsers. These computers need correctly configured LMHOSTS / names.cfg files with entries for the domain controllers across the subnet.

With WINS, such strategies are not necessary because the WINS servers and proxies transparently provide the support necessary for browsing across routers where domains span the routers.

The following illustration shows a small internetwork, with three local area networks connected by a router. Two of the subnets include WINS name servers, which can be used by clients on both subnets. WINS-enabled computers, including proxies, access the WINS server directly, and the computers using broadcasts access the WINS server through proxies. Proxies intercept the broadcast messages and send them directly to the WINS server.

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