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Feature Request: NetBIOS and WINS deprecation / removal
It is 2022. While having a good course to remove SMB 1 in Windows Server and Windows Client we still have the following things enabled by default, which are not enhancing security and performance. ...
see also https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/networking-blog/aligning-on-mdns-ramping-down-netbios-name-resolution-and-llmnr/ba-p/3290816
Windows Server vNext should not use NetBIOS as a preference over DNS.
Just maybe we might get rid of NetBIOS altogether and the unholy limit of 15 chars for machine names 🙂
I am aware this could break a lot of things but maybe we might take baby or bigger steps into this direction to remove that limit. It is upon time 🙂
Last but not least "it's always DNS, no one mentions NetBIOS."
Windows Server vNext should not use NetBIOS as a preference over DNS.
Just maybe we might get rid of NetBIOS altogether and the unholy limit of 15 chars for machine names 🙂
I am aware this could break a lot of things but maybe we might take baby or bigger steps into this direction to remove that limit. It is upon time 🙂
Last but not least "it's always DNS, no one mentions NetBIOS."