[DHCP] RE: Determining request

James Dinkel jdinkel at gmail.com
Wed Jan 6 21:21:51 UTC 2010


On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Simon Hobson <dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk> wrote:

>
> James Dinkel wrote:
>
>  Oops, if this is accurate:
>> http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/network/wins/winsinfo/index.xml.ID=Browsing
>> It looks like you will still not be able to browse computers across
>> subnets even with WINS.  But as I said, I personally would prefer to not
>> have that functionality anyway.  And since WINS is a deprecated technology,
>> that's further motivation to just stick with DNS.
>>
>
> Odd. At my last job I had exactly the setup Jonathan mentions, and it "just
> worked" - you opened your browser and there were the workgroups for the
> other sites. OK it was slow as we only had 64k links, but it worked exactly
> the same as for just the local site.
>
> Now I've not been involved in that side of networking for a few years, so
> I'm not too familiar with AD etc. However, as I understand it, in an AD
> setup, as machines connect to the network, they will populate the DNS and
> other machines can find them via that - ie they don't rely on broadcasts to
> find other machines. But I could be wrong there.
>

Did you have a domain at your last job?  If so, then that would explain why
it "just worked."  With a domain controller, it should just work even with
just DNS.
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