BIG dns problem

[sKiBa]

I need a hand here, our pc's have to access a database in another state, now it's not getting through when I ping the database's ip it always returns back our hosts ip address!? our host is nothing to with the database or us. I've plugged a laptop into the router and it resolves the ip just fine. when i ping it from the server it always returns the wrong ip. It comes back with

http://www.databasename.ourdomain.com

Any idea's on what is going on? The strange thing is we have 2 offices and it's started doing it at both at exactly the same time?

 

[ChicagoTechNet]

I am not sure the issue. But you may want to check the routing table and DNS records.

Robert Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Windows, Network, Internet, VPN, Routing and How to at

http://www.ms-mvps.com

 

[philote]

I actually had this happen today as well, but on a Windows XP Pro machine using Win2k server for DNS. I think what finally fixed it was running

ipconfig /flushdns

.