Quibbles re WINS

David Collier-Brown davecb at Canada.Sun.COM
Fri Feb 5 15:29:04 GMT 1999


Jean Francois Micouleau wrote:
> Now my question: What Microsoft is doing in NT5 to replace the Wins
> Service ? Dynamic hacked (or Microsoftized) DNS or Active Directory (aka
> LDAP) ?

	The public documents convolute the two: I strongly suspect
	one (ldap) will be the master, and  the other (dns) will be 
	a source of adresses only.  Whether the implementation is 
	actually optimized to use dns first I wouldn't care to guess.

--dave
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