What is the difference between wins and dns?
WINS is to NetBIOS names whereas DNS is to domain names. NetBIOS provides services related to the session layer of the OSI model allowing applications on separate computers to communicate over a local area network. It basically resolves the names of the client computers. PS: DNS is not required to get to the Internet. If you resolve the domain and just put in the IP of the site you are looking for you can get to it just as easily. You can also use a DNS over a LAN. (Try this: Create a static IP but leave your DNS blank. Type this “209.85.171.100” in your address bar. Google should open. But if you type “google.com” it will not, because the DNS is not there to resolve the name.
