Hosts File Issue

[Tim Bourne]

Hi all,
I am having issues with a hosts file on w2k. I need to
map an ip to a specific domain name for use with a CRM
Application. On a particular w2k machine, I edit the
hosts file correct entries, but when I ping the domain
name, the host is not resolved. A "ping -a" command also
fails to resolve the host name from the IP address.

The machine also has a lmhosts.sam, network,protocol and
services file in the etc directory, but removing these
still has no effect.

Any suggestions? I look forward to hearing your comments
Tim

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

So you have

xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx hostname

in your hosts file?

Did you try

nbtstat -R

to reload? Or reboot, which will do the same thing?
Can you ping localhost?

 

[Guest]

Hi there,
I can ping the localhost. It returns the computer name
as it's suppost to. I ahve also rebooted the machine but
to no avail. It seems as if all host name entries are
ignored by the system.
Tim

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Have you searched for 'hosts' all over your computer, and run an AV scan?
Dunno if it's relevant, but there are some viruses that do bad things to
hosts files....