Re: DNS OK - Internet Not

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From: Joe (joe_at_jretrading.com)
Date: 10/22/04 

Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 20:30:30 +0100

In message <OqqG4r9tEHA.2196@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl>, "Cris Hanna
(SBS-MVP)" <crishannanospam@computingpossibilities.net> writes
>but they were configured to use the external DNS
>In the LAN they need WINS for internal name resolution and recognizing that
>the request needs to go outside the LAN
>
WINS may speed up initial Netbios browsing after boot but if it isn't
there then the Netbios machines on a subnet will find each other by
broadcast. It may take a few minutes, but it will happen. If you're in a
hurry, Find Computer will do it immediately. I repeat, I looked after a
small NT4 network for five years, and I know for sure the server wasn't
running WINS. The usual browser elections occurred. I'm not running WINS
at home: my Samba server insists, by various dirty tricks, on being my
master browser and the other machines sort of muddle through.

I don't believe pre-W2K machines will ever try to use anything but DNS
to resolve a FQDN. There was a very strong distinction between Netbios
names and TCP/IP names, one that did not need WINS to decide. 

-- 
Joe

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