Windows Internet Naming Service

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What is WINS ?
Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) provides a distributed database for registering and querying dynamic mappings of Net BIOS names for computers and groups used on your network. WINS maps Net BIOS names to IP addresses and was designed to solve the problems arising from Net BIOS name resolution in routed environments.

WINS is the best choice for Net BIOS name resolution in routed networks that use Net BIOS over TCP/IP.

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What is WINS ?

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What is WINS ?
1. A WINS client, HOST-A, registers any of its local NetBIOS names with WINS-A, its configured WINS server. Another WINS client, HOST-B, queries WINS-A to locate the IP address for HOST-A on the network. WINS-A replies with the IP address for HOST-A, 192.168.1.20.

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Benefits of using WINS

WINS provides the following benefits for administering your TCP/IP-based network: A dynamic name-to-address database that maintains support for computer name registration and resolution. Centralized management of the name-to-address database, alleviating the need for managing Lmhosts files.

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Benefits of using WINS

Reduction of NetBIOS-based broadcast traffic on subnets, by permitting clients to query WINS servers to directly locate remote systems. Support for earlier Windows and NetBIOS-based clients on your network, permitting these types of clients to browse lists for remote Windows domains without requiring a local domain controller to be present on each subnet. Support for DNS-based clients by enabling those clients to locate NetBIOS resources when WINS lookup integration is implemented.

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When it is required ?
For networks with servers running Windows 2000 Server and all other computers running Windows 2000 Professional, NetBIOS is no longer required for TCP/IP-based networking.

Because of this change, WINS is needed for most networks but might not be required in some instances.

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How WINS works ?

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How WINS works ?

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How WINS works ?

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How WINS works ?

For NetBIOS name resolution, WINS client typically performs the following general sequence of steps to resolve a name: 1. Client checks to see if the name queried is its local NetBIOS computer name, which it owns. 2. Client checks its local NetBIOS name cache of remote names. Any name resolved for a remote client is placed in this cache where it remains for 10 minutes.

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How WINS works ?

4. Client forwards the NetBIOS query to its configured primary WINS server. If the primary WINS server fails to answer the query--either because it is not available or because it does not have an entry for the name--the client will try to contact other configured WINS servers in the order they are listed and configured for its use. Client broadcasts the NetBIOS query to the local subnet.

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How WINS works ?

6. Client checks the Lmhosts file for a match to the query, if it is configured to use the Lmhosts file. Client tries the Hosts file and then a DNS server, if it is configured for one.

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