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Implementing WINS

Managing the WINS Server Database

Product Manual

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10.7.3

Scavenging the Database

The local WINS database should be cleared periodically of released entries and old entries
that were registered at another WINS server and replicated to the local WINS server, but
for some reason did not get removed from the local WINS database.

This process, called

scavenging

, is done automatically over intervals defined by the

relationship between the Renewal and Extinct intervals defined in the WINS Server
Configuration dialog box. You can also clean the database manually.

To manually scavenge the WINS database, choose the Initiate Scavenging command
from the Mappings menu. The following table describes the results of scavenging a WINS
database.

State before scavenging

State after scavenging

Owned active names for which the Renewal interval has
expired

Marked

released

Owned released name for which the Extinct interval has
expired

Marked

extinct

Owned extinct names for which the Extinct timeout has
expired

Deleted

Replicas of extinct names for which the Extinct interval
has expired

Deleted

Replicas of active names for which the Verify interval has
expired

Revalidated

Replicas of extinct or deleted names

Deleted