no internal name resolution

[Richard]

I have two computers running WinXP Home. They're connected via a DSL router.
File and Printer sharing works fine mostly, but if I try to ping one
computer from the other by name, instead of resolving to the internal IP
address, it tries to ping my external domain name (using dyndns). If I have
my router set to reply to external pings, then I end up getting a response
from 192.168.0.1 instead of the target computer's IP address, and if
external ping replies are disable, the request times out. I can ping either
computer by IP address successfully, but since I'm using DHCP, I'm not
really eager to start making entries in my hosts file. I'm 90% certain I've
gotten this to work before, I just don't know how. Any suggestions would be
appreciated.

Richard

 

[Steven Hull]

In a larger network we use a DNS server with DNS forwarding turned on -
which means it will try to resolve to our internal DNS first (which knows
the names of our workstations), if it doesn't know, it will forward the
request up the chain all the way to a root server.

Hard to say in your situation, I'm looking forward to someone answering this
without using a hosts file or internal DNS server, I would like to know too.
I am thinking the master browser service is supposed to take care of this,
nor sure.