On 12 Sep 2001, at 16:00, Volker Tanger wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> Johnston Mark schrieb:
>
> > I have set up a PIX firewall with VPN capabilities. Everything seems
> > to be working except for WINS. I dont want to go through the whole
> > configuration, but I'm calling on anyone that has run into the same
> > problem or can give me any pointers.
>
> Which WINS? I guess setting up a WINS server and pointing the clients
> to it should do the work.
>
> NETBIOS name resolution (often confused with WINS) is broadcast-based
> which probably does not across networks with different IP addresses
> (e.g. local 10.0.0.0/8, remote 192.168.0.0/16).
NetBIOS clients can be set to do name resolution in four ways:
1. broadcast
2. direct to WINS server
3. direct to WINS server, broadcast if no answer
4. broadcast, direct to WINS server if no answer (silly...)
In addition, any NT/2000 box can be told, via the registry, to act
as a WINS proxy: when you see a bradcast name resolution request,
forward it to the WINS server.
IF the client type is broadcast and there are no proxies in the
broadcast domain, then the only way to resolve NetBIOS addresses
outside the BD is via the lmhosts file.
David Gillett
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