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