Microsoft KB Archive/154553

= Windows NT 4.0 DNS WINS Reverse Lookups Do Not Use WINS =

Article ID: 154553

Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q154553



SUMMARY
On a Windows NT 4.0 Domain Name System (DNS), Reverse WINS lookups are made through node status requests, not through WINS.



MORE INFORMATION
Because the WINS database is not indexed by IP addresses, Windows NT 4.0 Domain Naming System (DNS) does not send a reverse name lookup to WINS to get the computer's name given its IP address. Instead, it sends a node status request directly to the given IP address

  NBT: NS: Query req. for *<00...(15)>

and gets the NetBIOS name from the node status response:

  NBT: NS: Query (Node Status) resp. for *<00...(15)>, Success

The DNS then appends the domain name to the NetBIOS name and returns the results to its clients.

Additional query words: prodnt ntdns

Keywords: kbnetwork KB154553

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