Hi and a question

[SilvrT]

Hi... just joined. I'm the Technical Coordinator for an in-bound call centre in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Somewhere on my network there is a computer with an IP address of 192.168.1.54. How can I find out what that computer's name is? I don't know what computer it physically is. I'd originally statically assigned that IP to a server and the DNS & DHCP records verify that. Then at some point, I started getting an IP address conflict which killed the NIC on the server from getting an IP. (remember, it was 54). I gave it a new address of 55 and the DNS/DHCP records verify but there's still an active connection to 54 somewhere coz I can ping it.

Any ideas?

 

[CCT]

http://searchnetworking.techtarget....arget.com/tip/0,289483,sid7_gci989782,00.html

 

[gguerra]

Are you on Active Directory?? If so go to the server, go to control panel, administrative tools, then DNS, then forward lookup zones, then your domain. That will give you a lost of all the IP's and computers on the network that have requested DNS

 

[SilvrT]

Tried their suggestions... doesn't help. I know the names of all the computers on my network. I have pinged all of them...none come up with IP 54. Yet, I can ping IP 54 and I get a response. That tells me there is a computer somewhere on my network that shouldn't be there. Somehow I need to find out what it's name is or where it is.

 

[SilvrT]

Are you on Active Directory?? If so go to the server, go to control panel, administrative tools, then DNS, then forward lookup zones, then your domain. That will give you a lost of all the IP's and computers on the network that have requested DNS

been there, done that... IP 54 does not show up.

We also have a VPN incoming. Is it possible that a computer connected via VPN would have that IP and cause a conflict??? ( I doubt this but something is using IP 54 )