different preferred dns servers - can't ping

windows server 2003 , active directory

2 servers on same subnet. each has different preferred dns server. can not
ping each other.

what could be the reason ?

Hi John,

Can you give us more information? How about IP, subnet mask (subnet mask
should be same on both servers) and default gateway configuration?

* Can both servers ping default gateway?
* Is e.g. personal firewall enabled on servers (probably not but just
checking)
* If you ping server B from server A and then run

arp -a

on server A do you see IP and MAC address of server B? How about the other
way around?

Few other things to check:
* network cards
* cabels
* switches
* ...

I hope this helps,

Mike

"John A Grandy" <johnagrandy-at-yahoo-dot-com> wrote in message
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> windows server 2003 , active directory
>
> 2 servers on same subnet. each has different preferred dns server. can
> not
> ping each other.
>
> what could be the reason ?
>
>