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deji
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| It's actually not a religious thing. At least not to meΏ]. It's more academic. It just does not make much sense to say: WINS is easy/better and where/when it appears to be not so, it is a 'quality-of-admin' issue. But, DNS? Not only is it not easy, it sucks eggs too, and its suckage has nothing to do with 'qualtiy-of-admin' issue.
And, coming from an expert like joe, it is a doubly dangerous stipulation because next thing you know, blogs and white papers will be springing up all over the place lamenting the "stupidity" of MS jettisoning WINS in favor of DNS when "all the experts" agree that WINS is better.
It is the same type of mindset that gave rise to FACTS like "XYZ application NEEDS WINS", or (the classic) "If you have more than one subnet, you NEED WINS". Try explaining to anyone who has read the "official" White Papers or KB articles that "substantiate" those claims that they are not true, and you will understand what I'm talking about.
Ώ] and I don't give a rat's patootie what Al thinks
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From: ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org [ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org] On Behalf Of Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] [sbradcpa@pacbell.net]
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Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] WINS? Ick. WAS [OT] introduction
WINS/DNS
XP/Vista
Ubuntu/Mac/Windows
Obama/Clinton/McCain
Why not bring all the religious arguments into the mix while we're at it?
IMHO change is hard.
We all hate change.
And we typically don't RTFM.
Brian Desmond wrote:
I don't think it's you or anyone's place to say that this is a true/false question. It depends on each environment, and I've worked in large shops wehre either WINS is easier than DNS or WINS is harder than DNS apply.
--brian
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Akomolafe, Deji <deji@readymaids.com<mailto:deji@readymaids.com>> wrote:
The argument that WINS is "easier" to manage is false. And, much as joe would like to avoid stating it, even he had "issues" with it in his "widget" shop.
I totally agree with the position that, like everything else, the efficacy of a tool is greatly affected by the expertise of the person holding/deploying/managing it. Anyone can wield a machette, but few can employ it as well as a farmer can.
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From: ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org<mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org> [ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org<mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org>] On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia [darren@sdmsoftware.com<mailto:darren@sdmsoftware.com>]
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 8:58 AM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org<mailto:ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org>
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] WINS? Ick. WAS [OT] introduction
Actually, I don't really understand that. Is it because the WINS namespace
is flat and so somehow that is simpler to manage? Because my experience with
WINS management is that it was not easy (at least in a large environment)
and required quite a bit of expertise and baby-sitting to keep it healthy.
Things like replication that are handled for you today with AD-integrated
DNS had to be manually managed in WINS and were fraught with peril if not
designed well. Also, WINS was/is completely inflexible with respect to
functionality equivalent to CNAMES, had issues with name lengths, required
you to keep track of a myriad of ridiculous suffixes and generally speaking
was constantly requiring database maintenance.
Darren
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[mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org<mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org>] On Behalf Of Wells, James Arthur
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That might be the case - but I think the point is that WINS is less complex
to manage.
So it'll take fewer admins/lower TCO/fewer operational risks vs. DNS, given
the same quality admins.
--James
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[mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org<mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org>] On Behalf Of Akomolafe, Deji
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 9:22 AM
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You cleverly side-stepped the question, joe.
If you truly believe that the health of a WINS implementation is directly
proportional to the "quality" of its implementor/administrator, then is it
not logical to assume the same of DNS?
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[ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org<mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org>] On Behalf Of joe [listmail@joeware.net<mailto:listmail@joeware.net>]
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 6:20 AM
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] introduction
You know we didn't run Windows DNS at all. We needed functionality that MSFT
didn't put in because they thought they knew what we were doing...
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[mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org<mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org>] On Behalf Of Akomolafe, Deji
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 1:17 AM
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] introduction
Did I just hear you say "DNS worked very well for us on NT4 (and beyond).
Possibly it was simply the quality of the admins running it"?
Does that mean you are going to stop dumping on DNS now?
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Yesterday? -anon ________________________________________
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[ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org<mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org>] On Behalf Of joe [listmail@joeware.net<mailto:listmail@joeware.net>]
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 10:09 PM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org<mailto:ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org>
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] introduction
Maybe because you are recalling this poorly Deji.
I wasn't always chasing errant 1C/1B records, I wasn't ever chasing errant
1B/1C records but then you weren't involved in the Enterprise domain stuff
where we worked, you worked on resource dp,aom servers. We occasionally has
Samba boxes hijacking 1C records and I had a script that monitored that so
when it happened we had it fixed in very short order. Outside of that the
biggest issue was "admins" miscofiguring servers to either not point at the
proper WINS servers or loading and running the WINS Service on them. Got to
the point where when someone would call with a WINS issue my team would
first check the member server in question to make sure it was configured
properly and it usually wasn't. Didn't matter how many times we tried to
explain you couldn't configure WINS on a server than then point it at
another WINS server for name res and have it work properly.
WINS worked very well for us on NT4. Possibly it was simply the quality of
the admins running it.
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[mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org<mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org>] On Behalf Of Akomolafe, Deji
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 12:29 AM
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] introduction
Even in NT 4.0. joe just wouldn't admit that it was a kludge, even for
someone with his expertise. He was always chasing after some errant 1C and
1B (or is it 3x) records that periodically go missing for no reason.
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[ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org<mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org>] On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia
[darren@sdmsoftware.com<mailto:darren@sdmsoftware.com>]
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 9:23 PM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org<mailto:ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org>
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] introduction
Brandon-
Apparently you never used WINS in NT 3.50... :-)
Darren Mar-Elia
CTO & Founder
SDM Software, Inc.
"The Group Policy Experts"
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From: "Brandon Shell" <tshell@gmail.com<mailto:tshell@gmail.com>>
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org<mailto:ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org>
Sent: 4/30/2008 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] [OT] introduction
The suffering point was that DNS is harder to configure, Manage, and
troubleshoot than WINS.
But I agree... lets move on 
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Akomolafe, Deji <deji@readymaids.com<mailto:deji@readymaids.com>>
wrote:
> You've completely lost me, and I still don't understand the "suffering"
> part of your original statement. And you still haven't explained how MS'
> decision to adopt Kerberos was the beginning of your woes, especially
since
> you just stated that other Kerberos implementations depend on DNS as
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