ping -a produces loopback on all computers

[SNosko]

Hi,

Whenever I do a ping -a to any ip address on my subnet I get returned to netbios name of "loopback". It's not just my computers that reports this problem. Does anyone know what is going on?

Thanks

 

[jgercken]

Are you pinging by IP, FQDN or Wins name?
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[SNosko]

I'm pinging by IP. If I ping by NETBios name then I get the correct IP address but if I do a "ping -a 192.168.0.112" then I get a message stating that I am "pinging loopback".

 

[SupaTech1]

maybe it can't find DNS, ping -a just resolves to hostname

try an nslookup to see if you can resolve the name that way.

 

[SNosko]

The DNS server is available. For some reason I was thinking that the -a was resolving the netbios name and not the hostname. I don't know what I was thinking.

 

[SNosko]

Update: I do have one DNS server that is not working properly. This is the one that is giving me the loopback problem. If I change my clients to a new DNS server that I installed then everything works great.

Thanks for all of the help.