It does not matter If you are on a windows 2000 platform or higher a ping wil ALWAYS use DNS
You are on the right track Your IP static or DHCP does not matter To test DNS resolution use ping To test WINS resolution use NBTSTAT or ping from a legacy client (pre-2000 uses WINS for name resolution) -------------------------------- Rob Weatherly -------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Lum, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 10:37 AM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: More name resolution Q's After informing Corporate that our WINS configuration is less than optimal, they have told me I get to fix it (ok I kind of volunteered :-). Hey it's just 1700 users to break.... "PING SERVER1" from a Win2K client (on a different subnet) is successful. I have no HOSTS nor LMHOST entries, and "NBTSTAT -a SERVER1" fails. This means WINS or DNS is resolving the name, correct? If so, can I find out which system is resolving it by turning off DNS for Windows name resolution and pinging by name again? If my PC is currently a DHCP client do I need to give myself a static IP or DHCP reservation to be able to turn off DNS for Windows name resolution? Dave Lum - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Network Specialist - Textron Financial 503-675-5510 ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ------ You are subscribed as [email protected] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
