WINS forward queries to DNS

[Roger Sewell]

Hi,

Is there any way to get WINS to forward queries onto DNS when it cannot
resolve a name?


Thanks

Roger

 

[Herb Martin]

No, it only works the other way -- the presumption is that
WINS is the "legacy resource" and needs to be checked for
machines that don't REGISTER in DNS.

All IP clients can be DNS clients but not all can be WINS
clients.

WINS has always been a dynamic resource so the DNS->WINS
integration was a temporary, partial fix to get dynamic registration
for "DNS lookups" until DNS was able to do dynamic registration
as well.

Just set your clients to use both DNS and WINS.

 

[Michael Johnston [MSFT]]

Unfortunately, WINS cannot perform DNS looks ups. DNS however can lookup WINS entries.

Thank you,
Mike Johnston
Microsoft Network Support

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