They are the same. WINS is for any pre 2K machine, DNS is W2k and after.
Glen A. Johnson
Johnson Computer Consulting
MCP W2K
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Comes with it that depending on what kind of WINS node your clients are, WINS can create a lot of broadcast traffic.
In the basis they do the same that is converting IP adresses to hostnames, but WINS is a flat database using NetBIOS names (16 characters) and DNS is using a hiarchical structured database (like PC1.education.Microsoft.COM). This same station (PC1) can have different names like:
FQDN = PC1.education.microsoft.com
station name = PC1
Netbios name = PC1
FQDN = Fully Qualified Domain Name
Prefere to use DNS, but in a enviromend with Win98, Me, 95 you will also need WINS.
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Robert
Robert A.H. Wullems
Sniffer University Instructor
SCM/CNX/MCP/MSCA
Citee Education
the Netherlands
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