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Have you ever wanted to be able to find and connect to your computer across the Internet, but did not want the complexity and cost of buying a domain name and using Dynamic DNS? With Windows Vista, you can use Internet Computer Naming.

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Is there a central server? The cool answer is that no, there is no central server. The whole service is peer to peer based on a technology called PNRP ... basically, every machine knows about a few other machines basically at random. Those machines know a few others, who know a few others, etc. When I want to resolve someone else's name, I can use all of those relationships to track down the machine publishing the name I want.

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