Reviewing the Windows Internet Naming Service
The Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS) has a long history in Microsoft networks. In the beginning, Microsoft networks were primarily broadcast based, using protocols such as NetBEUI to identify local computers. If a user on a Windows client wanted to find a system by name, the Windows client would send out a broadcast message by name, and if the system was on the same network, it would respond so the two systems could establish a connection and begin communication. The problem with this type of name resolution was that it did not scale beyond multiple subnets, and with today’s networks, broadcast messages can be blocked by local server and workstation firewalls and antimalware software. With ...
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