Maybe there's no PTR record in DNS for that address. Ping finds the
hostname by doing a reverse lookup so if that fails then you won't get a
hostname returned. Check and see if the PTR record exists and if it doesn't
then if you add one it should resolve.
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J.C. Hornbeck, MCSE
Microsoft Product Support
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