Re: Do I need WINS?

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From: Oli Restorick [MVP] (oli_at_mvps.org)
Date: 07/01/04 

Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 22:12:00 +0100

If you have 98 and NT4, you'll definitely need WINS.

Oli

<Junior> wrote in message news:1ab8e0plkdl5dru1ddv746fb8p7au5kpdu@4ax.com...
> According to what I've read, WINS is not need when you have DNS running on
> a
> single forest/single child-domain scenario.
>
> My question is....
> If I add an additional child-domain to the existing forest or another
> forest
> with a trust-relationship in between the two forests, how will
> cross-domain
> lookups work without a WINS server? Will the clients timeout with the
> default 2
> second delay?
>
> Keep in mind I have a mixture of clients on both domains ranching from
> Win98 -
> WinXP.