RE: Problem with Net::Ping to DFS cluster

> I'll make a wild guess here: Is it possible that the alias is not in
> DNS? Perhaps one machine you are testing from has WINS enabled and it
> is resolving the cluster alias.
> Microsoft's tcpip stack will use WINS for name resolution if it is
> available.
> Try modifying your script so that $pinghost is a FQDN. If it then fails
> on both machines, DNS is your answer.

I can reproduce the same thing on my machine here... I tried with and without FQDN, no difference. When I ping the clusteralias in a dosbox, I get a hostname of one of the servers back, like:

Ping clusteralias
Reply from nasserver1.fq.dn
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