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In the picture above, a WINS referral zone called wins.mydomain.microsoft.com.
has been created and pointed to the WINS database. Assume that a Windows NT
4.0-based client has a name client1. A Windows 2000-based client belongs to the
mydomain.microsoft.com. If the Windows 2000-based client has received a
wins.mydomain.microsoft.com. suffix with its DHCP configuration, then in an
attempt to resolve an unqualified name client1, it will first try the
mydomain.microsoft.com. suffix (that is, client1.mydomain.microsoft.com.), and if
that fails, it will then try wins.mydomain.microsoft.com. (that is,
client1.wins.mydomain.microsoft.com.). When the DNS server authoritative for the
wins.mydomain.microsoft.com. zone receives the query it can’t resolve the
requested name. But since it is configured to use WINS look-up it submits a query
for client1 to the WINS server. The WINS server containing appropriate registration
returns the host IP address to the DNS server and that passes it to the
Windows 2000-based client.
Microsoft has chosen DNS to be its strategic name space in Windows 2000
replacing NetBIOS used as a name service in previous versions of Windows NT.
The implementation of DNS in Windows 2000 is a unique DNS Server
implementation that is fully interoperable with other standards-based
implementations of DNS Server. It is a scalable, highly available, and high
performance solution. The following features of Windows 2000 DNS make it a good
choice for the corporations looking to implement a reliable hierarchical distributed
network environment:
• ADS Integration
• IXFR
• Dynamic Update and Secure Dynamic Update
• Unicode Character Support
• Enhanced Domain Locator
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Windows NT
4.0-based client
Windows NT
4.0-based client
Windows NT
4.0-based client
Windows 2000
-based client
Windows 2000
-based client
Windows 2000
-based client
NTDEV.MICROSOFT.COM
WINS.NTDEV.MICROSOFT.COM
Windows 2000-based clients
register in DNS
WINS Server
Windows NT 4.0- and
Windows 2000-based
clients register in WINS
WINS Referral