We have had ongoing issues with DNS. the problem in this: a handful of computers on the network do not resolve correctly to the right ip address. For instance, if I ping a workstation name it will reply back with an ip address. If I do an NBTSTAT -A to that ip address it's showing me a different workstation. If I then ping that workstation it also resolves to the same ip address as the first workstation:
Example:
Ping ws187
Reply from 10.0.0.96
Ping ws194
Reply from 10.0.0.96
Only one is correct (in this case ws187) cuz when I do an NBTSTAT -A on the .96 address it shows up as WS187.
I have no clue as to the true ip adress of WS194 cuz I don't know where in the office it is offhand.
We run spiceworks to do inventories and it is messing it up.
These are all on class c network and all dhcp.
Any clues???
By the way, it's not always the same computers that have the problem. It varies week to week.
dhcp is probably your issue, if the routers arent giving a forever lease then the ip is given to whichever machine asks for it at the time and doesnt reserve it.
either switch to a static ip or can you use hostnames instead of ips to connect your software?
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