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Damn Vista!! DNS Problem

Hi Guys,

Windows 2003 AD domain with Vista desktops.

Tried to ping a pc by hostname and it said it couldn't find the host. So added it to DNS. Checked it was added to both DNS servers.

went back to pc, same answer. Could not find host. This PC is on DHCP and it using the correct DNS servers. Tried pinging from another PC and it found the host and replied but with some junk...as per below:

Pinging pcname [fe80::8dce:8af1:1ee8:b387%9] from fe80::88b5:39aa:fff4:f2f4%9 with
32 bytes of data:

Reply from fe80::8dce:8af1:1ee8:b387%9: time=1ms
Reply from fe80::8dce:8af1:1ee8:b387%9: time=1ms
Reply from fe80::8dce:8af1:1ee8:b387%9: time<1ms
Reply from fe80::8dce:8af1:1ee8:b387%9: time=1ms

What the hell is going on? Tried pinging on Win 2003 servers and an XP machine, both work fine.

partymarty84

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10 mins later, the problem goes away. My PC can now ping fine without showing something that resembles IPv6 crap. The problematic PC can also now ping the host fine.

What could cause this? DNS cache on the DNS Server?

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partymarty84

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Thanks for answer, I thought it may be to do with some cache although couldn't see the reason why XP PC's were responding OK at the time and Vista ones weren't. In this case it was coincidence.
Obviously it's ready available if you know what the problem is but as you can see from my original question, there were a number of factors surrounding the true nature of the problem.

partymarty84

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Thanks Netminder, I'll now assign points to the correct answer.

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