Jun 16, 2003 #2 mgam Technical User Jun 16, 2003 35 IE Hi there,DNS provides only basic name resolution, also WINS is typically dynamic and DNS is static. Upvote 0 Downvote
Jun 16, 2003 #3 Serbtastic Vendor Feb 17, 2003 1,206 CA WINS is used to resolve Windows Netbios names while DNS is used to resolve FQDN (fully qualified domain names, like http://www.yahoo.com) to IP addresses. Upvote 0 Downvote
WINS is used to resolve Windows Netbios names while DNS is used to resolve FQDN (fully qualified domain names, like http://www.yahoo.com) to IP addresses.