Re: Ping not pinging name

In news:039601c340d0$9e58c9a0$a301280a@phx.gbl,
David <ginnius2000ad@aol.com>
posted their concerrns,
Then Kevin D4Dad added his reply at the bottom.
> I have my DNS server setup with a forward and reverse
> lookup zone,, The clients are gaining ip's by DHCP since
> they are downlevel. I can watch new ptr records appear in
> my reverse zone with the pc's boot up and they are listed
> in the forwared zone.. But When I go to ping the pc's name
> it comes up as host unkown, when I ping the ip I get
> replies.
>
> ANy thing I can do about this so I can ping the names too.
>
> Thanks allot.....

If you cannot ping the FQDN then I would have to guess you are not pointing
to your internal DNS server *only*
If you cannot ping by host name I would say you need to add your domain name
to the search order list.

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