September 2012
Intermediate to advanced
1680 pages
88h 3m
English
DNS can use the WINS database to provide for quasi-DNS resolution of WINS clients. This means that if a name-resolution request is sent to a DNS server to resolve client1.companyabc.com, for example, the DNS server will first look in the companyabc.com zone. If no record exists for client1.companyabc.com, the DNS server will perform a lookup on the WINS database for CLIENT1; if a WINS record exists, the DNS server will take this IP address and send it back to the DNS client as client1.companyabc.com, as illustrated in Figure 10.25.
Figure 10.25. WINS integration with DNS.
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