I have a weird issue that I have never seen before. Hopefully someone out there has. We have a storage server (windows 2003) that used the IP address 192.168.1.12 and has worked for a number of years no problem. Today certain people started to have issues accessing. And it seemed random, didn't matter what switch they were plugged into or if they were on different subnets.
I got a work around for it by changing it's IP to a new one. All the issues went away, but I was not satisfied with that. I got a laptop and made its IP address the 192.168.1.12. At first it had no problems then after about an hour it had the same problems as the storage server. Could not ping all machines, but could ping some.
I cleared out the A Host record for the IP address from our DNS server, but that did not fix it. I tried an ipconfig /release, /renew as well as a /registerdns and a /flushdns.
Hopefully someone has seen this before,
Thanks in advance
I got a work around for it by changing it's IP to a new one. All the issues went away, but I was not satisfied with that. I got a laptop and made its IP address the 192.168.1.12. At first it had no problems then after about an hour it had the same problems as the storage server. Could not ping all machines, but could ping some.
I cleared out the A Host record for the IP address from our DNS server, but that did not fix it. I tried an ipconfig /release, /renew as well as a /registerdns and a /flushdns.
Hopefully someone has seen this before,
Thanks in advance