Wouldn't it be nice to get rid of WINS in your environment? But have you stopped to think about why that would be a nice thing? Could it be because of the years of plaque-like build up of erroneous records in your WINS databases? Is it because of the many people with varied thoughts and ideas that have "owned" WINS in your company ...

What’s in a name?  That famous question makes me wonder if names are really very meaningful or even interesting. Names sure are important to the proper working of networked devices. No getting around it, you must have solid working name resolution if you expect to have a working implementation of <insert your application or service ...