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Moving wins1.eecs, March 27 9pm

March 27, 2017 by Lars Rohrbach

Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) is used for name resolution, typically by Microsoft clients, to map hostnames to IP addresses. It allows clients to find machines by name even if they don’t have fixed IP addresses in DNS. In EECS, we have two WINS servers for redundancy, wins1.eecs.berkeley.edu and wins2.eecs.berkeley.edu.

On Monday night at 9pm, in an effort to simplify network routing architecture, we will be replacing the current wins1.eecs with a machine in Cory Hall. Service from wins1.eecs may be unavailable for about an hour.

Because of WINS redundancy, most clients should not notice the downtime.

WINS is a relatively old Microsoft service, and in the coming year we will be examining WINS usage to see if we can plan for retirement of WINS in EECS.

Resolved as of 2017-03-27 22:15:00

Filed Under: Resolved Incidents Services: WINS

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