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  2. Windows Internet Name Service - Wikipedia

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    Like the DNS, it is implemented in two parts, a server service (that manages the embedded Jet Database, server to server replication, service requests, and conflicts) and a TCP/IP client component which manages the client's registration and renewal of names, and takes care of queries. Basically, Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) is a legacy ...

  3. Name Service Switch - Wikipedia

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    The Name Service Switch (NSS) is a feature found in the standard C library of various Unix-like operating systems that connects a computer with a variety of sources of common configuration databases and name resolution mechanisms. [1]

  4. LMHOSTS - Wikipedia

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    Windows 95, 98, Millennium Edition The file is located in %windir% , and a sample file ( lmhosts.sam ) is installed here. Note that %windir% is an environment variable pointing to the Windows installation directory, usually C:\Windows .

  5. Microsoft DNS - Wikipedia

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    With the DNS Client service running: The "hosts" file is read and parsed only a few times, once at service startup, and thereafter whenever the DNS Client service notices that it has been modified. Additionally, running the DNS Client service in conjunction with a “large” HOSTS file can cause it to put a 100% load on the CPU/core on which ...

  6. Round-robin DNS - Wikipedia

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    Round-robin DNS is a technique of load distribution, load balancing, or fault-tolerance provisioning multiple, redundant Internet Protocol service hosts, e.g., Web server, FTP servers, by managing the Domain Name System's (DNS) responses to address requests from client computers according to an appropriate statistical model.

  7. NetBIOS over TCP/IP - Wikipedia

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    The Name Service, according to RFCs 1001 and 1002, is called NetBIOS Naming Service or NBNS. Microsoft WINS is an implementation of NBNS. It is worth saying that due to constant development of the way in which the Name Service handles conflict or merges, "group names" varies from vendor to vendor and can even be different by version e.g. with ...

  8. Zero-configuration networking - Wikipedia

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    DNS-SD (DNS Service Discovery [16]) allows clients to discover a named list of service instances and to resolve those services to hostnames using standard DNS queries. The specification is compatible with existing unicast DNS server and client software, but works equally well with mDNS in a zero-configuration environment.

  9. Link-Local Multicast Name Resolution - Wikipedia

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    The Link-Local Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR) is a protocol based on the Domain Name System (DNS) packet format that allows both IPv4 and IPv6 hosts to perform name resolution for hosts on the same local link. It is included in Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10. [1]