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By lheisey ·
In W2K, tracert will give me the host name if I enter the IP and the IP if I enter the host name. Why doesn't that do the same in XP and what do to get the host name from an IP address?

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by wallen In reply to Tracert

Do a ipconfig/all

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by lheisey In reply to

I really want the tracert command

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by w2ktechman In reply to Tracert
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by jschein In reply to Tracert

do this:

ping -a xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

x's = i.p. address

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by lheisey In reply to Tracert

I apparently did not make that clear enough. When I am sitting at a server and want to see whose workstation is coming up by IP on some report, I used to use tracert with the IP address and it would return the name associated with that address. I want to do the same on XP. But the name and IP are not on the station I am initiating the trace from.

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by sfc_gijoe In reply to Tracert

If you are running a STATIC IP address make sure the DNS is correct.....

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by lheisey In reply to

What do you mean make sure the DNS is correct.... the DNS on workstations points to the server hosting DNS

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by sfc_gijoe In reply to Tracert

Something in your network setup is wrong then. All my XP machine will resolve to a host name and vice versa. Are you running multiple DNS or WINS.....

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