LMHOSTS not working for NSLOOKUP and PING

When I use PING and NSLOOKUP my LMHOSTS file is no longer taken into
consideration.

However NBTSTAT -c does show the entries corresponding to those in the
LMHOSTS file.

Any ideas (Windows Server 2003, cache only ISA 2000, single NIC, fixed
IP address, NETBIOS over TCP/IP enabled)

NSLookup queries DNS servers, so the LMHosts shouldn't really come into
play.

As for PING, it will use whatever name resolution it can, which by default
on Windows 2000+ is something like:

Cache
Hosts file
DNS lookup
LMHosts file
WINS
Broadcast on the wire

If anything answers the query before hand, the rest are not used. This
means that if DNS answers the query, then LMHosts will not be used

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Microsoft Corporation
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"Carol Chisholm" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> When I use PING and NSLOOKUP my LMHOSTS file is no longer taken into
> consideration.
>
> However NBTSTAT -c does show the entries corresponding to those in the
> LMHOSTS file.
>
> Any ideas (Windows Server 2003, cache only ISA 2000, single NIC, fixed
> IP address, NETBIOS over TCP/IP enabled)
>