Quibbles re WINS

Gerald W. Carter cartegw at Eng.Auburn.EDU
Fri Feb 5 14:44:48 GMT 1999


David Collier-Brown wrote:
> 
>         Hmmn...
>         Would using LDAP be a better thing to provide WINS replication
>         than reverse-engineering a private protocol?

Now that's a thought!  What about performance of table 
lookups since we have to respond within a given time 
frame (positive or negative), would an external table lookup
such as an LDAP server be quick enough?



jerry
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                            Gerald ( Jerry ) Carter	
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