Dynamic DNS registration failing on some XP machines

[wchull]

We are running Microsoft Windows 2000 DHCP and DNS at our site. We also have Windows XP workstations setup to acquire IP addresses through DHCP and dynamically register their Host (A) resource records with DNS. Note also that DNS and DHCP are both hosted on the same server.

For several thousand workstations we are having no problems however we have one group of users where dynamic DNS registration of their Host (A) resource records has ceased to occur. We believe that dynamic registration was working on their machines 2-3 weeks ago but has since stopped. We know they can reach the server as they are acquiring an IP address from DHCP. This same DHCP/DNS server is working correctly for everyone else so we are assuming that something has been added or configured on the machines that is causing dynamic registration to cease. Is anyone out there aware of anything that might cause dynamic DNS registration to fail on the client side?

 

[GlenJohnson]

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