We’ve now seen this several times and would like to know the answer….
Background:
-Students with Win98.
-Getting a correct IP via DHCP.
-Students can’t telnet.
-Students can ping (but incomplete – see below)
We’ve had several (about 5) students who are getting the correct IP via DHCP but have a rather strange problem. When they try to telnet to any system they get a “Can’t find host” error. When you try to ping you get really strange results.
-You can ping an IP and get a reply.-You can ping a system and get a reply (short name – i.e. server).
-You Can NOT ping the fully qualified host name. (i.e. server.domain.edu)
The first system we saw with this was a Win98 notebook that had “IP Routing Enabled” (checked when you ran winipcfg.exe). It only had one nic card. My first thoughts were that this was it’s problem but after I turned this off it still did not solve the problem. The only thing we’ve found so far to solve this is to re-install windows… not a great solution but it does work.
We’ve tried all the usual. Removing everything from the Network control panel and re-install. Removing TCP/IP and re-install. We even replaced the Ethernet card with a new one (different brand) and it still did the same thing.
It’s a strange one…. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks in advance….
