DHCP/DNS issues

We have a DC at 10.0.0.2, with DNS running. However when we ping the name of the server from that server it resolves 192.168.1.2. I put a lmosts file in with the entry: 10.0.0.2 server01 and this still did not resolve it. When i open the DHCP server console it brings up the 192 adress as a listed DHCP server but it can not connect. Now it i add the 10.0.0.2 address it works and the scope works fine for our wireless users. However our wired workstation can not get an ip address from this DHCP server. The wireless client works but not the wired? I already re-installed DHCP/DNS twice, and did some server reboots. Any hell would be appreciated.http://www.windowsbbs.com/images/smilies/confused.gif

 

I'm assuming you have DNS/DHCP both installed on same machine?
What router/switch/wireless device(s) are you using to connect server<>workstations? What OS is the server?

 

basic linksys router/latest firmware
Windows smb 2003

 

lmhosts is for NetBIOS (which is attempted after DNS lookups), try HOSTS instead just to see if it'll work. Are the server and clients all on the internal side of the Linksys router?

 

How are you connecting to the router. is it

router - network - server

or

network - server - router

That is do you have two network cards in the server, and therefore are you using the server as your network gateway to the internet.

The reason I ask this is that 192.168.1.2 looks like the IP address a router would give out. If you have two network cards, your server will have two IP addresses, one for each connection. Your problem could be that you have the 192.168.1.2 NIC (connected to the router) bound above the 10.0.0.2 NIC (connected to network). The server therefore thinks the external router NIC is it's primary NIC and returns this address instead of the correct one.

Another thing to check is the DNS record for the server. What is the IP address being shown for the server node in DNS?