> You might want to double-check, but I believe that Microsoft's
> implementation of dynamic DNS is partly based on NetBIOS. My current
> understanding is that Windows DHCP clients report their NetBIOS host names
> when requesting an IP address, which the Windows DHCP server then adds to
> the Windows DNS server.

Actually, it's dynamic DNS updates, plain and simple.  MS DNS servers 
support it, as well as BIND 8 and above.  You can actually make a perl 
script to do the update; "perldoc Net::DNS", and search for "dynamic 
update".

Unfortunately, win2k and xp have "register this connection's addresses in 
DNS" enabled by default when creating a new network connection, so I 
constantly see peoples' machines trying to update the zone after they get 
an IP address.

RF

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