Article ID: 154553
Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition
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.
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