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A company 'somecompany' is retiring WINS (Windows Internet Name Server) support. This means that where the IT staff used to be able to type:

ssh somehost

They now have to type:

ssh somehost.somecompany.com

WINS has been deprecated for years. Is there some other (preferably open source) way to implement name resolution, to simply type 'somehost' and have the lookup resolve to somehost.somecompany.com if the computer is on the somecompany.com network?

Typing those extra characters adds up.

Marcus
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Configure a DNS search suffix for your systems (probably in DHCP) of somecompany.com to allow resolution using just a host's short name.

Shane Madden
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Q: Is There A Way To Implement WINS-like Functionality Without WINS?

A: Yes. Deploy a GlobalNames Zone.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731744.aspx

joeqwerty
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