Hi
I am using a Win XP (SP1) machine connected to a domain. The DC is a Win2k server running SBS server 2k, and there is only one domain. A DHCP server (on the DC) used to be used to dynamically assign IP Addresses in the range 192.168.0.50 – 192.168.0.100, with 192.168.0.2 – 192.168.0.49 being excluded, but this has been disabled. All the machines on the network now have static addresses.
This morning I was using ping -a to resolve each computer’s host name, so that I could compile a list of which computer was using which IP Address. I pinged addresses 1 through to 60, and although not all the machines were able to return a host name, I discovered that my machine had 4 addresses. The first address was 192.168.0.3 and the host name returned was \\computer name (sans\\), the remainder were over 192.168.0.50 and the host name returned was the fully qualified domain name – computername.domainname.local.
I have checked my network adaptor and confirmed that I have just one IP Address. Does anyone know what is happening? Is the ping command retrieving data from defunct DHCP records on the DC?
