Re: How do I push out manual entries in DNS to my workstations?

From: Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP] (admin_at_nospam.WFTX.US)
Date: 08/10/04


Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 17:49:30 -0500

In news:5qhih0h0400e4e2aqque7d0au2e9nghq38@4ax.com,
David Lewis <*@*.*> wrote their comments
Then Kevin replied below:
> On my 2003 DC I manually added the entry of www to point
> to an external ip address. Our external and internal
> domain
> names are the same domain.com for this discussion. So I
> added www so that my clients can point to www.domain.com
> to
> reach the company web site. It was not resolving in the
> past. I also added ftp and mail to resolve externally.
> I made
> a mistake in the ip entry for ftp. I found the mistake
> and corrected it. But my workstation still resolves to
> the old
> ip address. On the DC if I ping ftp or ftp.domain.com it
> resolves correctly. On my workstation ping ftp or
> ftp.domain.com resolves to the old incorrect entry. So I
> am comfused. If my workstation is supposed to look to
> the DC
> as its DNS server, why isn't it getting the corrected ip
> address when I try to resolve ftp.domain.com?

Run ipconfig /flushdns on the workstation, that should fix it.

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