I have an interesting issue here at my job.
When I ping a workstation on the network, it gives me my ip address.
If I Ping -a my IP address, it gives me a different workstation name. there is an example listed below. Any idea on what can be done to fix this problem?
C:\>ping dsms2-7331-696
Pinging dsms2-7331-696.northgrum.com [10.45.100.34] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 10.45.100.34: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=127 Reply from 10.45.100.34: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=127 Reply from 10.45.100.34: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=127 Reply from 10.45.100.34: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=127 Ping statistics for 10.45.100.34: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms C:\>pign -a 10.45.100.34
Pinging rssms2-flx001.ingalls.com [10.45.100.34] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 10.45.100.34: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=127 Reply from 10.45.100.34: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=127 Reply from 10.45.100.34: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=127 Reply from 10.45.100.34: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=127 Ping statistics for 10.45.100.34: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms