Title: name resolution
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# name resolution

 *  [hadoz@verizon.net](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hadozverizonnet/)
 * (@hadozverizonnet)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/name-resolution/)
 * I’m not a wordpress user and up until recently had never heard of it.
    I’m reaching
   out to those who are wordpress users to hopefully shed some light on a little
   mystery that’s happening on our network. Whenever I ping a PC on the LAN with
   the switch that also resolves the computer name (ping -a x.x.x.x) I get the usual
   replies but the name always resolves to WORDPRESS.COM. It doesn’t matter what
   I ping this way, access points, switches as well as PCs, the name is always wordpress.
   com. It’s a small lan that uses our ISP’s DNS servers for resolution outside 
   of the lan environment. We have no internal DNS server and names are resolved
   locally via the browser service or NetBIOS over TCP/IP. When I use ping -a to
   ping the local IP address of the computer I’m using it reports back with the 
   correct PC name. Anyone ever seen this before? We already rebooted all PCs and
   the master browser has changed to another PC. I realize this may be more of a
   question for Microsoft support but I haven’t found any support articles describing
   a problem like this. I was hoping that a wordpress user could shed some light
   on whether or not using wordpress would somehow affect the name resolution on
   a network. It’s weird because PCs can’t all have the same NetBIOS name yet that’s
   what ping is telling me. Any help would be most welcome.

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/name-resolution/#post-3884899)
 * I’m sorry but these forums are for WordPress users. This has nothing to do with
   WordPress.

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/name-resolution/#post-3884899)
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