wins-hook question

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl at samba.org
Wed Jan 12 21:25:53 GMT 2000


also see rfc 1088.txt... i think.

On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Maxim Berlin wrote:

> Hello Giulio,
> 
> 
> Thursday, January 13, 2000, you wrote:
> []
> GO> wins hook fires for  "WORKGROUP <00>" with ip 255.255.255.255.
> GO> Is this correct being WORKGROUP <00> a group name?
> GO> This cause the log file I use to register the name/ip mappings to
> GO> include the mapping "WORKGROUP 255.255.255.255"
> []
> 
> http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q163/4/09.asp?LNG=ENG&SA=ALLKB
> ..
>   Group (G): A normal group; the single name may exist with many IP
> addresses.  WINS  responds  to  a  name query on a group name with the
> limited broadcast address (255.255.255.255). Because routers block the
> transmission  of  these  addresses, the Internet Group was designed to
> service communications between subnets.
> ...
> 
> 
> Best wishes,
>  Maxim                            mailto:mak at rtsnet.ru
> 
> 

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