ping -a does not resolve host name

[CK]

When I ping an IP address using -a it replies only with
the IP address and does not show the Host name.
Reverse Lookup Zones are enabled and PTR records exist
for the IP addresses in the Reverse Lookup Zone. NSLookUp
resolves both forward and reverse without any problem.
Why doesn't ping -a resolve the host name?

 

[William Stacey]

Check the DNS servers on the client your using. Make sure they only point
to your internal dns server. nslookup starts the server list from the first
one, whereas ping uses the client resolver which may be stuck at pointing to
another server which does not have your rev zones.

 

[CK]

I tried hard coding one of my internal DNS servers which
are AD integrated. This still did not resolve the issue.
Does anyone have any other ideas?

 

[CK]

I tried hard coding one of my internal DNS servers which
are AD integrated. This still did not resolve the issue.
Does anyone have any other ideas?

 

[William Stacey]

1) Lets set an ipconfig /all on the local host.
2) Lets see the output of nslookup using each dns server listed in #1 above.
3) Lets see the output of the ping command.
4) You may also want dig.exe from www.isc.org which can help this kind of
diag.