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IS-IT--Management
- Dec 11, 2001
- 85
Windows 2000 ADUC
I started an assignment to clean up old computer accounts and noticed that there were several accounts that had the following attributues;
First, these accounts were live, physical systems in use.
Single Forest, single domain, single subnet, DHCP
I could not ping these accounts by either name or ip.
The ping test by name would resolve to the correct IP when you would run IPCONFIG from that specified system
However, I could remote access into these systems from my own.
The users of these systems have not reported any issues or help desk requests. As far as I can tell, everything is accessible from these stations and the users are functioning completely.
There are also computer accounts that are no longer active,
that can not be pinged, but the ping by name ersolves to an IP, even though this system is no longer physically attached to the network. I would have deleted the account out of ADUC, but the live systems in use also failed the
ping test by name while resolving to an IP.
Why would this happen? Would flushing the local DNS, that our DC does act as our DNS server, remedy the sitaution where old computer accounts no longer on the network are failing the ping test, as they should, but the computer name is still resolving to an IP?
Appreciate any thoughts and suggestions.
zaw
I started an assignment to clean up old computer accounts and noticed that there were several accounts that had the following attributues;
First, these accounts were live, physical systems in use.
Single Forest, single domain, single subnet, DHCP
I could not ping these accounts by either name or ip.
The ping test by name would resolve to the correct IP when you would run IPCONFIG from that specified system
However, I could remote access into these systems from my own.
The users of these systems have not reported any issues or help desk requests. As far as I can tell, everything is accessible from these stations and the users are functioning completely.
There are also computer accounts that are no longer active,
that can not be pinged, but the ping by name ersolves to an IP, even though this system is no longer physically attached to the network. I would have deleted the account out of ADUC, but the live systems in use also failed the
ping test by name while resolving to an IP.
Why would this happen? Would flushing the local DNS, that our DC does act as our DNS server, remedy the sitaution where old computer accounts no longer on the network are failing the ping test, as they should, but the computer name is still resolving to an IP?
Appreciate any thoughts and suggestions.
zaw