Windows 2000 DNS

Configuring WINS Lookup

You can configure WINS lookup on both primary and secondary servers. To configure WINS lookup on a DNS server, perform the following steps:

To configure WINS lookup

In the DNS console, right-click the zone for which you are enabling WINS lookup, and then click Properties.
In the Properties dialog box for the zone, click the WINS tab.
Select the Use WINS forward lookup check box.
Under IP address, type the WINS Server IP address that will be used for resolution, and then click Add.

Repeat the procedure to add any other desired WINS servers. You can configure WINS lookup on both primary and secondary servers. You might want to configure WINS lookup on a secondary server, for example, if your primary and secondary servers are located at different sites and you want the secondary server to use local WINS servers. If you do so, however, you must disable replication from the primary server by clicking the check box Do not replicate this record on the WINS tab of the properties page for the zone.

Caution

The WINS and WINS-R resource records are proprietary to the DNS service provided by Windows 2000 Server and earlier versions of Windows NT Server. It is best to make sure that all DNS servers that are authoritative for a zone are running Windows 2000 or any version of Windows NT; otherwise, resolvers can only look up WINS and WINS-R records intermittently. If you do make a server that is running another implementation of DNS authoritative for the zone, you must prevent these resource records from being included in zone transfers to other DNS server implementations by clicking the check box Do not replicate this record on the WINS tab of the zone properties. For more information about disabling WINS replication, see "WINS Lookup Interoperability Considerations" later in this chapter.