DNS / WINS Query Tool

In many windows networks where both WINS and DNS are used for there are sometimes problems which might be hard to find related to name resolution. There might be mismatches between WINS servers. DNS servers might contain different data for the same host entry and so on.

This tool has been asked for from many users. Now you have a tool to query one or several DNS or WINS servers in your network at the same time to verify that all registered entries are correct.

You can query the WINS servers for all possible types of records, the same goes for DNS servers. The type of records queried for is selected in the dropdown box in the respective section.

The WINS and DNS servers that are avaliable in the server selections lists are added in the options dialog available from the "Servers" button in the lower right of the query window.

The name to query for is entered in the field in the top of the form, a WINS query is selected by default. If you enter a fully qualified DNS name the DNS query optionbox is automatically selected. You can also enter an IP-address in the query field, the Querytool will then make a reverse lookup of the IP-address using DNS.