Releasing DNS name of Network Card

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Hello,
How do I clear what I believe is the DNS name of a NIC that has managed to
register itself via DHCP accidentally when it was meant to be setup with a
Static IP.
The DHCP registered the NIC with a number like x.x.x.200 and a name like
ABC, when what I really wanted was a static IP of x.x.x.10 and a name of
"ABC.XYZ".
I have since correctly configured with the Static details as above but now
when I try to ping the name ABC.XYZ it just shows "Request timed out" as it
tries to ping the wrongly assigned DHCP IP address.
However if I ping to the correct IP address it resolves & replies correctly.
Is there a way I can get the DNS or DHCP server to remove the incorrect entry?
Is this a WINS issue perhaps?
Does this have to be cleared from the Server side or can this be cleared
from the Client side?
Help appreciated.
Thanks.

N.

Btw, I have experienced the same issue while setting up a mixture of Win2k
and Win2003 servers.
The network staff have already reserved the x.x.x.10 address as Static on
the DHCP server also.
 
open DNS and/or WIS manager to clean the record. you may do ipconfig /flushdns on the computer. For more and other information, go to http://howtonetworking.com.

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Hello,
How do I clear what I believe is the DNS name of a NIC that has managed to
register itself via DHCP accidentally when it was meant to be setup with a
Static IP.
The DHCP registered the NIC with a number like x.x.x.200 and a name like
ABC, when what I really wanted was a static IP of x.x.x.10 and a name of
"ABC.XYZ".
I have since correctly configured with the Static details as above but now
when I try to ping the name ABC.XYZ it just shows "Request timed out" as it
tries to ping the wrongly assigned DHCP IP address.
However if I ping to the correct IP address it resolves & replies correctly.
Is there a way I can get the DNS or DHCP server to remove the incorrect entry?
Is this a WINS issue perhaps?
Does this have to be cleared from the Server side or can this be cleared
from the Client side?
Help appreciated.
Thanks.

N.

Btw, I have experienced the same issue while setting up a mixture of Win2k
and Win2003 servers.
The network staff have already reserved the x.x.x.10 address as Static on
the DHCP server also.
 
Go into the MMC for the DNS Server find the thing in both the Forward Lookup
Zone and the Reverse Lookup Zone and simply delete the entries. They will
re-enter themselves with the correct IP# sometime later on their own.

I recommend following the same proceedure on the WINS Server if you have
one. This will get rid of incorrect Netbios Name mappings that may be
incorrect. It will also re-enter itself with the correct IP# later on its
own.

In both cases it will most likely work fine even without any entries in the
"interim" period befor those entries automatically recreate themselves.
 
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