【How-to】Does netbios use dns - Howto.org

Today, DNS has replaced WINS, since Microsoft made changes to NetBIOS, allowing it to use the TCP/IP stack to perform its job (NetBIOS over TCP/IP) and most DNS servers are able to handle NetBIOS requests. … In short, DNS maps TCP/IP host names to IP addresses and WINS maps NetBIOS host names to IP addresses.