WINS is the bane of all that is Evil

[Kangaroo]

My good Microsoft what where you thinking back in the day :bang2:

This legacy crap has caused me way way to many headaches including tonight.

Sorry I just had to rant and get it off my chest

for those who have no clue what I am talking about it is a geek thing

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc784180(WS.10).aspx

 

[dback]

You need to smack the person who actually set up a WINS server somewhere on your network.

 

[Kangaroo]

You need to smack the person who actually set up a WINS server somewhere on your network.

They no longer work their it is all the legacy crap that was done badly we inherited

 

[JustDezIt]

i read the link and still dont know what the hell youre talking about

 

[jubal]

I got into some of this when Mama Sue's new Galaxy 10 crashed and she swapped it for a I-pad and they threw in a Kindle. Anyway she couldn't get into her E mail or on line. I took it and sure enough it wouldn't connect even though it showed to be connected.My WiFi didn't recognize the device,tried using her MiFi portable and backdoored on somehow.Anyway it works now.
Certainly is great the things they have come up with.
After seeing SLINGSHOT on here and not knowing what it was,I looked it up and I may have to get one for on the road tv and football games.

 

[Dallas]

If you manage your own DNS, WINS is a blessing. I have about 17k hosts on our network.

WINS is a life saver for us.

 

[YosemiteSam]

WINS has it's uses. Just not on small networks.

 

[YosemiteSam]

If you manage your own DNS, WINS is a blessing. I have about 17k hosts on our network.

WINS is a life saver for us.

Didn't realize Alaska had 17k computers within it's borders.

 

[Dallas]

Didn't realize Alaska had 17k computers within it's borders.

:laugh2: :laugh2: .................................................. :chainsaw:

 

[Kangaroo]

WINS has it's uses. Just not on small networks.

Small we are not we broke a 1000 windows servers this year, plus about 150 unix servers about 10k workstations oh and we have 7 data centers (please do not get me going on this the stupid decisions). To many broken half implemented legacy crap floating around with out enough investment in the core infrastructure. If a few previous IT managers that existed before I worked here fell down and got hurt I would not cry to hard.

 

[Dallas]

Small we are not we broke a 1000 windows servers this year, plus about 150 unix servers about 10k workstations oh and we have 7 data centers (please do not get me going on this the stupid decisions). To many broken half implemented legacy crap floating around with out enough investment in the core infrastructure. If a few previous IT managers that existed before I worked here fell down and got hurt I would not cry to hard.

All of my data center sites are now 90% virtualized on VMware 4.1 for virtualization and Netapp SAN storage/CISCO UCS blade centers with Nexus 5K's and a sprinkle of Nexus 1000v virtual switches for a complete 10G redundant fabric.

Linux and Windows 2008 throughout.

I think the only legacy stuff I have left over is an old Sun Sparc10 running Sol8 that handles our DNS. I have updated BIND on it a few times already. Trying to migrate to something a bit newer, when I get time. I pray nightly it never breaks.

 

[Khartun]

Shouldn't that be the bane of all that is good? lol

 

[YosemiteSam]

Small we are not we broke a 1000 windows servers this year, plus about 150 unix servers about 10k workstations oh and we have 7 data centers (please do not get me going on this the stupid decisions). To many broken half implemented legacy crap floating around with out enough investment in the core infrastructure. If a few previous IT managers that existed before I worked here fell down and got hurt I would not cry to hard.

Two employments ago, the head IT guy over the office refused to give up his Novel server. Not a Windows or *nix server in the house. Only Novel. It was god awful. I worked on the Internet Infrastructure side. We were Sun / Linux. Though by the time I left, I converted everything to Linux and got rid of the old gigantic SPARC boxes.

Windows Servers have their place and to me, it's pretty much as Domain Controllers and Windows file servers. Beyond that, I do not like them!

Now if you are running Windows desktops that are old enough to require WINS Service, then that is where your problem begins! :laugh2:

 

[YosemiteSam]

I think the only legacy stuff I have left over is an old Sun Sparc10 running Sol8 that handles our DNS. I have updated BIND on it a few times already. Trying to migrate to something a bit newer, when I get time. I pray nightly it never breaks.

Wow, Sun only for DNS? That IMO would be one of the first Sun services I would switch out! Especially since you can virtualize the service with your VMWare infrastructure.

We are actually in the process of converting from VMWare to Redhat KVM.

We are solid Linux here except for our Windows Domain controllers / Windows File sharing.

Almost half of our company uses Linux desktops. (Ubuntu or Fedora)