Microsoft's Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) provides a distributed database for registering and querying dynamic mappings of NetBIOS names for computers and groups used on your network. WINS maps NetBIOS names to IP addresses; it was designed to solve the problems arising from NetBIOS name resolution in routed environments.
Intermapper uses WINS names as follows:
Note: Intermapper does not use the WINS server - it only resolves local device names.
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