WINS Tombstone definition needed

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All - I'm discussing a WINS migration with a client and a question
arose that I'm not sure how to answer. The question is whether a
tombstoned WINS record will continue to resolve via WINS until it is
actually removed from the database during scavenging.

My assumption is that a record gets marked as tombstoned when it hasn't
been refreshed in xx period of time. Then, when the scavenging process
runs it will remove tombstoned records from the database making them
unavailable.

Will a record marked as tombstoned continue to resolve via WINS until
it is actually removed from the database?

Any info would be appreciated.

Regards,
Dan Knoblauch.
 
With tombstoning, the "tombstoned" records are marked as extinct on the WINS
server and immediately removed from active use by the server for WINS name
resolution. However, these mappings are not immediately deleted from the
server's database. Instead, the tombstoned records remain present for
replication purposes so that other WINS servers are notified as well that
these records are inactive in WINS. After the deleted records are marked as
tombstoned on all WINS servers where they have been replicated, the records
will then be removed during subsequent scavenging operations performed on
each server.
 
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