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Harry A
Harry A

Reputation: 121

Can ping IP but cannot ping hostname - intermittent problem

I tried searching for my answer on google and then just stackoverflow but clearly I am not using the right keywords.

Problem: I have two windows 10 laptops on my LAN, both wireless connections (if that matters). And the "main" laptop seems to have forgotten the "spare" laptops name. I could two days ago "ping SPARE" and it would work. Today MAIN cannot ping (or tracert) SPARE. And yes I did power down MAIN between the two sessions.

Addition clue: MAIN could not ping the IP of SPARE - until I had SPARE Ping MAIN. and THEN main knew how to ping the IP of spare

Does anyone out there recognize this situation? and can you help a programmer who's in over his head with networking details?

Thanks Harry

Upvotes: 0

Views: 15732

Answers (2)

Hemendr
Hemendr

Reputation: 1048

You can ping another PC using both

  • host name and
  • ipaddress.

If you can not ping using both then please see solution provided by me on this link of stackoverflow.

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However if you can ping using IP address but not by host name then there are other options to try as well like

  • create entry in host file (most common location of this file is C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts)
  • execute command ipconfig /flushdns and ipconfig /registerdns on HP8 pc

Upvotes: 1

Ferdi Abdelkader Elhachemi
Ferdi Abdelkader Elhachemi

Reputation: 27

When the computer can ping with the IP it means there is no connections errors between them , the problem is in the DNS server used by the comupters , DNS ( Domain Name System ) is the protocol used to translate the SPARE name to the PC's actual ip address .

Upvotes: 2

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