IT Interview Questions:What is the difference between tombstoning a WINS record and simply deleting it?

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IT Interview Questions:What is the difference between tombstoning a WINS record and simply deleting it?

Through replication and convergence, the record ownership will change from WINS server to WINS server. Eventually, you may many end up with a scenario where a WINS server that owns a record and its direct replication partner has a replica of the record but does not own the record. The problem occurs when no domain controllers refresh the [1C] record on the remote WINS server, the records will expire, become tombstoned, and be scavenged out of the database. The following is an example of what could happen

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