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    • scottalanmillerS

      Microsoft Finally Deprecated WINS

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      @DustinB3403 said in Microsoft Finally Deprecated WINS:

      @scottalanmiller Finally. . . I have a customer who insists that WINS is as good as it'll ever get. . .

      Now maybe I can put their nose into it. .

      How many clients even know what it is? Wow.

    • scottalanmillerS

      Use Static IPs in Avimark Shortcuts for Safety

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      @scottalanmiller

      I wonder if your assumptions are correct. They are probably just using gethostbyname() / getaddrinfo() to find the IP and then it's the OS (Windows) that is responsible for the behavior you're seeing.

      As I'm sure you know those function are part of socket programming functions of the OS. Based on BSD originally but Microsoft must have added code to deal with netbios, wins and whatever they've been doing since the days of Wfw.

      Linux by comparison only deals with name resolution by DNS and manual hosts files. I can't think of anything else right now at least.

    • DashrenderD

      nslookup - can it use WINS info

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      @NerdyDad said in nslookup - can it use WINS info:

      @scottalanmiller Just out of curiosity, is there an nslookup alternative command for WINS? If so, what is it?

      nblookup.exe

    • wirestyle22W

      Domain Controller and WINS Server Powered Down and Removed without Proper Demotion

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      @Mike-Davis said in Domain Controller and WINS Server Powered Down and Removed without Proper Demotion:

      @wirestyle22 said in Domain Controller and WINS Server Powered Down and Removed without Proper Demotion:

      We don't use DHCP at all

      I would go the other direction then and check for WINS queries and then visit all the NICs that are still using WINS and remove the entry. This article explains it:
      https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/craigf/2010/07/09/decommissioning-wins/

      Thanks! This actually answered a few of my other questions too.

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