On 7/8/2010 4:00 PM, JohnS wrote:
Windows name resolution has next to nothing to do with ip routing. If your routing works you can make windows name resolution work over it, but it isn't automatic.
If it does not work then it want happen as in getting routed to the wins server. You agree on that right? If routing don't work then there is no wins resolution in effect. In other words we have to know where to go.
Yes, if your routing is broken or you firewall needed services between subnets, lots of things will break.
Agreed, but putting a wins server on every subnet would be complicated - and unnecessary.
Yea could be a PITA. You know umm Winblows Serve, WINS Services can umm do multi SNs I do think. Now I may not me totally correct on that.
That's the whole point of using a WINS server. If you only have or care about one subnet you can let broadcasts and the ad-hoc master browser election do their thing. Current windows versions will also use DNS for most name lookups but I don't know if you can use it to find a PDC. Active Directory sort of hides the difference between netbios and DNS names by combining them - and things get weird if don't put them on the same server.