Two XP Client Machines that fail to register with DNS

From: Todd Chandler (tchandler_at_nospam.emailacu.org)
Date: 06/09/04 

Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 10:41:50 -0700

I have two client machines on our network that fail to
register their names with the DNS servers. Both machines
have errors in the event logs (IDs 11167 and 11163)
stating that the network adapter couldn't register with
DNS. The weird thing is, the error message gives me the
IP address of the server that these machines are trying to
register with. The problem is that the IP address shown
is not a legitimate DNS server on our network. I have
doublechecked the DNS setting on these two computers and
they are correct. For whatever reason they continue to
attempt to register their names with a DNS server that
doesn't exist. No other machines on our network are
having this issue, only these two. Any suggestions would
be appreciated.

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