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Foil 29 Unix / PC Integration (3)

From Introduction to Network Management Lectures at Xi'an Jaotong University -- Sept 1998. by Roman Markowski
Namespace protocols:
  • WINS - Windows Internet Name Service (RFC 1001, 1002)
    • complement to DHCP
    • allows for resolving names to addresses
    • a WINS server manages only a NetBIOS naming which is distinct from DNS namespace
    • WINS, unlike DNS, is not hierarchical
Almost all Unix workstations have static entries in DNS tables
Microsoft's Socket Library (Winsock)
  • looks into local HOSTS file
  • forwards request to DNS server
  • then WINS is used; NetBIOS Broadcast node (B-node) name resolution is attempted (the standard database file for NetBIOS is LMHOSTS in \winnt\system32\drivers\

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