From: "Geo." 

"Rich"  wrote in message news:3e30599d{at}w3.nls.net...
>>   I don't think WINS makes a difference here.  I'm fuzzy on whether this
makes a difference.  I have seen references to WINS supporting multiple
addresses for a single NetBIOS name and some load balancing between the
multiple addresses.  I thought though that that was for a computer with
multiple NICs on different subnets that can both be reached from a third
subnet.  Maybe not.<<

I think the load balancing can only be done with DNS (not when you are
running NetBIOS). It basically just sets up round robin dns to do the
balancing. But I do remember there was some feature that allowed a whole
group of machines to share the same IP address so maybe you're right but I
don't think that would apply here (that was for multiple web servers
serving the same site if I remember right)

>>Humorously, the DNS folks are moving to fill in in the other direction
with mDNS which would support broadcast name resolution for scenarios where
centralized DNS is impractical or costly, like home and SOHO
environments.<<

Via the dns client service?

Geo.

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