Siemens V4.0 manual Configuration option Description

Implementing WINS Using WINS Manager

Use WINS Manager to configure WINS server management of WINS client mappings by using the configuration options in the WINS Server Configuration dialog box. The configuration options allow you to specify time intervals that govern WINS client behavior as described in the following table.

Configuration option	Description
Renewal Interval	Specifies the length of time that a registered name is valid
	without a refresh. A WINS client will try to refresh a registered
	name already after half of the interval is expired. If there is no
	successful refresh within the Renewal Interval; the name is
	marked as released. The default is six days.
Extinction Interval	Specifies the interval between when an entry is marked as
	released and when it is marked as extinct. The default is
	dependent on the renewal interval and, if the WINS server has
	replication partners, on the maximum replication time interval.
	The default is six days.
Extinction Timeout	Specifies the interval between when an entry is marked extinct
	and when the entry is finally scavenged from the database.
	The default is dependent on the renewal interval and, if the
	WINS server has replication partners, on the maximum repli-
	cation time interval. The default is six days.
Verify Interval	Specifies the interval after which the WINS server must verify
	that old names it does not own are still active. The default is
	dependent on the extinction interval. The minimum allowable
	value is 24 days.

The extinction interval, extinction timeout, and verify interval are derived from the renewal interval and the partner replication interval. The WINS server adjusts the values specified by the administrator to keep the inconsistency between a WINS server and its partners as small as possible. The defaults for the four configurable timer values have been chosen with care and in general they should not be modified.

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