Re: Simple network layout design questions

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That's what I was asking *your* opinion on. I'd rather have a WINS server
doing nothing than clients doing shed loads of broadcasts. Maybe you've
seen a LAN where the load has been negligable, especially with most name
resolution being DNS these days, and don't care for a WINS server
(especially if the admins are numpties or very young ;-)

No, I actually like the WINS server (but wish to separate the requirements
from the "nice to have" because so many people misunderstand this stuff
and want to argue they don't need a WINS server when they do.)

As to seeing negligible loads, this is becoming the standard case since
both "small networks" (a few to a few dozens machines) and large
networks (typically deployed on switches) but with limited nodes per
broadcast domain cover just about every case these days.

No one (almost <grin> no one anyway) puts 250 plus nodes on the
same broadcast domains these days as we did in the "good old days"
of expensive routers and no such things as affordable switches.

[Remember Cisco made there fortune by introducing "cheap routers"
that cost upwards of $50,000 each -- but in those days a routers was
a MINI-computer or Mainframe at $100,000-$1 Million per server
so people were happy to pay for those "cheap routers".]

* Ok, they COULD use distributed LMHosts files but anyone asking such
questions would not know everything they needed to write into one of
those,
and even those that could create an LMHosts file would not want to do so,
or to keep it up to date and distributed to every machine.


They'd be crazy and/ or stupid. LMHOSTS, while still necessary in one or
two circumstances, suck in any kind of deployment.

But we still have to put "practical requirement for WINS Server" or add the
caveat about LMHosts to keep someone from confusing the issue for
beginners by piping up about LMhosts.

I would leave it out if people wouldn't insist on distracting from the
important
issues with mention of the LMHosts file.


--
Herb Martin, MCSE, MVP
http://www.LearnQuick.Com
(phone on web site)


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