XP Clients not registering their names and IP addresses

[Steve]

Here is what I think should happen. . .
A XP client registers itself in DNS and a record for that
client shows up in the zone.
I do nslookup and specify the name of the client and the
ip address is returned.

Here is what happens. . . .
There is not record for the client in the zone.
nslookup does not return any info except the error
***can't find server. . .

I manually add a record for the client, run nslookup and
everything looks fine.
What I assume is happening is that the client is not
registering with the DNS server. . but why?? well all the
settings in the client appear to be fine and ipconfig
shows the correct ip address for the DNS server. Any help
would be appreciated. .

 

[Kevin D. Goodknecht [MVP]]

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Here is what I think should happen. . .
A XP client registers itself in DNS and a record for that
client shows up in the zone.
I do nslookup and specify the name of the client and the
ip address is returned.

Here is what happens. . . .
There is not record for the client in the zone.
nslookup does not return any info except the error
***can't find server. . .

I manually add a record for the client, run nslookup and
everything looks fine.
What I assume is happening is that the client is not
registering with the DNS server. . but why?? well all the
settings in the client appear to be fine and ipconfig
shows the correct ip address for the DNS server. Any help
would be appreciated. .

The client must be set to register in DNS and it may need permissions on the
zone ACL if it is an AD integrated zone.

For this:

***can't find server. . .

If the error is 'can't find server name for <ipaddress>'

Nslookup performs a reverse lookup on the IP of the DNS server if it can't
find a PTR record you get the message.

 

[Steve]

One other quick question. . .

If nslookup returns the ip address of the client mentioned
below after I entered the record manually, can I assume
that the problem of the clients not registering is on the
client side and that the DNS Server is configured OK?