From: "Frank Haber" 

WINS is hardly practical in a changeable serverless peer environment.  I'd
do better pasting a hand-edited LMHOSTS to each machine.  The snappiness of
broadcast resolution has been in steady decline since my all-Win98 days. 
If you just remembered to keep one desktop machine always up as browser
master, and make sure its NIC management was off, the net card was good and
wasn't some godforsaken PCMCIA or USB thing.

Someone somewhere in this wireless/wardriving world must be doing something
about nonce-authentication.  I'd be happy with a firmware box that
registered any MACs knocking at my door, and let me hand-enter that in a
table, then give the knocker a day ticket.

--- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-4