Connects if ip addr is ?not? present

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We were having difficulties getting our app to connect to our msde database.
USUALLY, it seems to be a dns error on the given network, so we have to
remove the machine name from our connection string and replace it with the
machine's IP address.

However, this time, we thought we'd beat the system and just use the IP
address instead...... it wouldn't connect. Finally after several
exhausting attempts we tried putting the machine name in place of the ip
address... this worked....

Can someone help explain this?

What is typically the cause if only the IP address works, not the machine
name?

And, now, I'm curious too, what is typically the cause if only the machine
name works instead of the IP address?

Make sense?
 
I should add that this recent device (where we had to add the mahine name in
place of the ip address) was connected to the network via 802.11b.

Should this make a difference?
 
Can you ping the device from the machine whose name/IP address is in
question. Maybe your 802.11 network isn't correctly bridged to the wired
network where the server machine is located.

Paul T.
 
Yes, I should have mentioned that too, we can ping both ways - server to
scanner / scanner to server.
 
I think you're going to have to post a small sample program that shows the
problem, then.

Paul T.
 
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