Enabling WINS Lookups Through DNS

You can enable WINS lookups through DNS. This integration of WINS and DNS provides for an additional opportunity to resolve an IP address to a host name when normal DNS lookups fail. Typically, this might be necessary for clients that can't register their IP addresses in DNS using dynamic updates.

You enable WINS name resolution on a zone-by-zone basis from within the DNS console. Follow these steps:

  1. In the DNS console, right-click the zone you want to work with, and then select Properties.

  2. In the Properties dialog box, select the WINS or WINS-R tab as appropriate for the type of zone. The WINS tab is used with forward lookup zones and the WINS-R tab is used with reverse lookup zones.

  3. Select Use WINS Forward Lookup or Use WINS Reverse Lookup as appropriate.

  4. If you're not using DNS servers running on Windows 2000 or later as secondary servers, select Do Not Replicate This Record. This ensures the WINS record that is created during this configuration won't be replicated to servers that don't support this feature.

  5. Type the IP address of a WINS server you want to use for name resolution, and click Add. Repeat this step for other WINS servers that should be used.

  6. Click OK.

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