DNS problem/not working

[Palagast]

Hi all,

Yesterday morning people started complaining that they couldn't connect to my Citrix farm. After some troubleshooting I discovered that the URL entered in the ICA agent wasn't resolvable. When I pinged the address on a (win98) client, it came with the error "Bad IP address". As this looks like a faulty DNS, I first rebooted the client to flush the local DNS cache without effect. After restarting the DNS Server service on the DNS Server and even rebooting the machine (no eventlog messages btw), some clients could go back to work, some couldn't.
What it comes down to: Some clients still can't resolve the DNS name ICA.<domain>.<extension>
Does anyone know or have a hint on how to proceed to get the clients working? Is there a way to force a dns-flush/reset on clients for example?
Thanks in advance.

 

[minxca]

Hi, I don't use URL. I use TCP/IP and then enter the servers IP addresses.

What is the result from NSLookup?

 

[Palagast]

Winoto,

Thanks for your reply. I use DNS because I have 4 Citrix servers. If one fails, an other one can easily be reached.
NSLookup doesn't work on Windows 98 unfortunately..

 

[phantasus]

Try editing your host file.

 

[jtb]

Can you say "WINS"? Seems your W9x clients might really, really, really want NETBIOS...



JTB
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[minxca]

I put all of my citrix IP's on CPN instead of nebios name.