name resolution just working for servers!?

[Jerome]

Hi,

I've got the following problem:

It seems like the name resolution of our internal machines only works
for those machines that are servers?

The normal PCs are visible in the DNS managment console with their
corresponding IP address but when I try to ping them using their name I
get the "ping could not find host" error? Pinging their IP address is no
problem though. But I want and need to access some of those by their name.

So what went wrong?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Jerome

 

[Ace Fekay [MVP]]

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Hi,

I've got the following problem:

It seems like the name resolution of our internal machines only works
for those machines that are servers?

The normal PCs are visible in the DNS managment console with their
corresponding IP address but when I try to ping them using their name
I get the "ping could not find host" error? Pinging their IP address
is no problem though. But I want and need to access some of those by
their name.

So what went wrong?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Jerome

Are you pinging by the computername (as a single label name) or by FQDN?

If single label, it suffixes the domain suffix set on the local machine, and
on top of that it depends on what type of client.

Do you also have WINS in use?

Are you ONLY setting the internal DNS IP on your client machine's IP
properties or are you mixing internal DNS and ISP's DNS? (Can't mix ISP and
internal. Use internal ONLY).




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Ace

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