can ping by IP, cannot ping by name

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kurt sune

After one of our employess left work we found that we cannot ping his
win2000-server.
We can ping it by ip-address, not by the servername.
We can connect to it remote only by ip-address not by servername.

Why?


/k
 
Name resolution problem. Check your DNS setup.
Are you using MS AD Dynamic DNS? If yes then check that the client in
question is set to Auto Register.
If not a AD Dynamic DNS then manually enter an A record for the host in
Question.
 
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