NBTSTAT using different IP than PING

[Guest]

Hi All

Just wondered if any of you knew why PING COMPUTERNAME would use a different IP Address than NBTSTAT -a COMPUTERNAME

I also get the same sort of condition on a different machine in the domain, except it says "Host Not Found" although ping works correctly

Obviously somewhere I have the name defined twice with different IP addresses and/or something wierd in the name resolution, but I cannot see where

Any ideas?

 

[Steven L Umbach]

Not sure. Run ipconfig /all on the computer in question to see what is reported as
far as adapters and IP addresses. One guess is that in one case host name resolution
is being used and in the other netbios name resolution is being used. I would check
dns zone, wins database, hosts file and lmhosts file for any wrong entries. Using
Ethereal to capture the packet sequence while trying to ping or nbtstat -a the target
computer would probably help narrow the issue down. -- Steve

http://www.ethereal.com/ --- free!

Hi All,

Just wondered if any of you knew why PING COMPUTERNAME would use a different IP

Address than NBTSTAT -a COMPUTERNAME?

I also get the same sort of condition on a different machine in the domain, except

it says "Host Not Found" although ping works correctly.

Obviously somewhere I have the name defined twice with different IP addresses

and/or something wierd in the name resolution, but I cannot see where.