We run a mixed environment Macintosh and Windows workstations joined to a Windows 2008 AD. Most of these systems have VMWare Workstation and VMWare Fusion installed on them.
VMWare workstation creates "Virtual" network adaptors with non-routable ip addresses. These non routable ip addresses get registered into Microsoft active directory for that workstation which causes problems when one pings the workstation.
The below example workstation ws122228.stl.ad resolves to 10.42.53.35 & 172.17.8.211. The problem is that the 172.17.8.211 is the VMWare Workstation's virtual ip address which is NOT routable.
Same behavior on both Windows and Macintosh. Does anyone have any ideas on how to only register the 10.42.53.35 ip address which is the wired ethernet connection?
If I dig this workstation, I get the below:
[fjeuw@dkslin261 ~]$ dig ws122228.stl.ad A
; <<>> DiG 9.8.2rc1-RedHat-9.8.2-0.30.rc1.el6_6.2 <<>>
ws122228.stl.ad A
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 1918
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ws122228.stl.ad. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
ws122228.stl.ad. 1200 IN A 10.42.53.35
ws122228.stl.ad. 1200 IN A
172.17.8.211
;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: 10.19.52.22#53(10.19.52.22)
;; WHEN: Sat May 9 09:01:19 2015
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 72
