Services Utility: Peer Name Resolution Protocol Service
| Display Name (?): | Peer Name Resolution Protocol | ||||||||||||||
| Short Name (?): | PNRPSvc | ||||||||||||||
| Executable (?): | svchost.exe | ||||||||||||||
| Library (?): | p2psvc.dll | ||||||||||||||
| Depends On (?): | tcpip6, Peer Networking Identity Manager | ||||||||||||||
| Supports (?): | Peer Networking Identity Manager, Peer Networking | ||||||||||||||
| Description (?): | Enables Serverless Peer Name Resolution over the Internet | ||||||||||||||
| OS (?): | XP Home/Professional, Vista Home/Business, Server 2003, Vista Server | ||||||||||||||
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Explanation (?): | The peer name resolution protocol service provides Windows a pseudo serverless based name resolution system that runs through TCP/IP version 6 (IPv6). A seed server is used to populate a peer cloud and these peers hold onto a portion of the name record. This service is installed when you install IPv6 so if you want to disable this service then I would suggest just uninstalling IPv6 from add / remove programs in the control panel. |