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From: billy@vaxb.acs.unt.edu
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: WKS Records
Message-ID: <12194.2545db65@vaxb.acs.unt.edu>
Date: 25 Oct 89 16:12:21 GMT
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HI,

My question is about the Well Known Services records in the name server.
I was recently told that the WKS records are not actually used.  I started
checking around the Internet and discovered that a lot of nodes either
don't set their WKS records or they are wrong.  

What purpose does the WKS records service and when are they used?  If many 
nodes don't set their WKS records right (or at all), why would I mess with 
it?  

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