I have an IP address but need to find its host name. Windows 2003 network, and the PC in question is most likely Windows XP.
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You would think something like this would be an easy solution, but I've probably spent a good few hours looking into it to find absolutely nothing worthwhile. Naturally, I give the...
When I ping a client, it returns the incorrect ip address. I know this is caused by stale dns records but I want to prevent this in the future. It is an Active Director integrated zone on my w...
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We are having a problem with getting emails kicked back to us with errors of no PTR record found, now that we have switched to AT&T for our Internet provider. AT&T flatly refuses to add a PTR...
Is it possible to resolve a hostname when you ping its IP?
I have a utility written using C# that -
Makes HTTP requests
Edits and saves the hosts file
Repeats the above
The problem is the changes to the hosts file are not being used by the new...
We have two DNS servers on production network not Active Directory related.
DNS Server 1: IP 192.168.1.68, Windows 2003, and all zones (in Forward and Reverse zones) are set to Primary...
For the longest time our internal dns server has just relied on root hints for external name resolution. We started having problems about a week ago where our websites hosted by a company in ...
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This issue has been driving me nuts. I recently added a new computer to our domain. I reused the computer name of the computer it was replacing. Before adding the new computer to t...
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I'm planning to install a new DC in our network. I have other DC with DNS running on them. I have doubts about creating a reverse lookup zone and how to answer questions in the wizard. ...
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I have an xp laptop that connect to our network via a vodafone 3g card. I have the hosts file setup with the correct entries, but when I try and ping by name I get 'cannot find host...
Plan:
Client wants to install two new domain controllers using the Novell DNS as the primary source for name resolution.
Current DNS configuration:
2 Primary DNS servers: 2 Novell D...
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This is how it started, I hooked up a battery backup installed the software, restarted and boom no connectivity. I left the domain and joined a workgroup and then tried to re...
I'm using Windows 2003 Server, and I have a question regarding whether each DC should be set up with a Host (A) entry for a website. I have a related question about redundancy.
I have mult...
On both of my DCs (running Win2k3 Standard) when I do a nslookup, it says it cannot find the domain. How can this be right if it IS a domain controller? See code snippet below:
When replying to a craigslist posting, I get the bounce message below and need to know how to fix this.
There was a SMTP communication problem with the recipient's email server. Please con...
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Windows 2000 server, running DNS, DHCP, WINS
Windows 2000 server running SQL and file server, print
10 machines on LAN
ADSL Router
This week our network has been slow. One of our lap...
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I recently purchased a domain name from GoDaddy.com. For about a week it was forwarding to a different address with no issues.
Tonight I changed the nameservers from GoDaddy's redirect ser...
We use RPC for Outlook and have our clients pointing to our external address owa.widgets.com.
I keep getting server timeouts and wondered if it would be better to create a DNS entry for the...
Hey guys, and thanks as always for your time and expertise. Do you guys recommend ever deleting or clearing the cached lookups? And additionally, is there a difference between going to view a...
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We have a Primary DNS server (Windows 2003 Server) with multiple Zones configured. It is running on a Windows Server 2003 box. We wish to configure a Secondary DNS server that replica...
I have an AD domain, lets say dept.school.edu, which has never been properly integrated with live DNS. That is to say, department clients have looked to our internal DNS and worked fine, but c...
