transulting names

[kyootie]

Hello, I am having problems transulting names.

I ping a pc.

Lets say I ping 23A1539, it says reply from address 10.119.5.67

But then I do a tracert to that IP. and it sees the name as 23tya04.


C:\>ping 23A1539

Pinging 23A1539.zieglercat.com [10.119.5.67] with 32 bytes

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 10.119.5.67:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

C:\>tracert 10.119.5.67

Tracing route to 23tya04.zieglercat.com [10.119.5.67]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 * * * Request timed out.
2 ^C
C:\>



According to our DNS server IP [10.119.5.67] is leased to 23tya04.


Any idea's

 

[GlenJohnson]

Have you physically gone to those computers and done ipconfig /all to verify the names? First step in good troubleshooting. Good luck.

Glen A. Johnson
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[Serbtastic]

Either your forward and reverse DNS records do not match OR you've got an entry in the local hosts file for 23A1539 pointing to IP 10.119.5.67.

 

[BigShyBear]

A couple of things,
First, from Microsoft, Tracert may not be returning the name of the host, but the last router:
"If packets cannot reach the destination, the TRACERT command returns the name of the last router that successfully forwarded the packets."

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=323388&product=winsvr2003

Secondly, when you ping 'hostname.domainname.com' you are picking the name out of a DNS server, a host may have multiple records, the name you pinged may not be the hosts real name.
Michael Gallo