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MS Windows uses a variety of naming services. DNS is only one of them.

One is NetBIOS Naming Services - Some computers regularly broadcast their name and address and other computers on the same LAN will be able to receive and keep track of these names.

There are a variety of such protocols - Windows PCs and things that coexist with them are irritatingly chatty on a LAN:

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Note the "Host Announcement" with "Periodicity" = 12 minutes.

MS Windows uses a variety of naming services. DNS is only one of them.

One is NetBIOS Naming Services - Some computers regularly broadcast their name and address and other computers on the same LAN will be able to receive and keep track of these names.

MS Windows uses a variety of naming services. DNS is only one of them.

One is NetBIOS Naming Services - Some computers regularly broadcast their name and address and other computers on the same LAN will be able to receive and keep track of these names.

There are a variety of such protocols - Windows PCs and things that coexist with them are irritatingly chatty on a LAN:

enter image description here

Note the "Host Announcement" with "Periodicity" = 12 minutes.

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MS Windows uses a variety of naming services. DNS is only one of them.

One is NetBIOS Naming Services - Some computers regularly broadcast their name and address and other computers on the same LAN will be able to receive and keep track of these names.