Hostname Is Resolving The Wrong IP Address

Hello All,

First off I should say that I am in a educational environment I am the system admin at the school. I am having trouble with getting a copier that I have networked to stay registered in the system. When connecting all the equipment back for the new year I was having trouble getting this one specific copier back online properly.

I used to have it assigned with a static IP because the person that was here before me had all the computers map the printer using the IP instead of Hostname but that was causing IP conflicts so I removed it and mapped the printer through Hostname which is made “MPF-TOSHRM328”

So now for the actual problem, after the copier got the new dynamic IP of 10.8.214.151 i thought it would be fine and everything would click in because it was mapped to the host name and not the IP. But when I do a tracert on the hostname it still shows up with the old IP. and now that the old ip has been reassigned it actually points to a physical machine now. Weird. All attempts to flush the DNS have not resolved the issue. I even tried going in and deleting the entries in manually. No luck. As a point of reference here is the result from the tracert.

Tracing route to MFP-TOSHRM328.78B450.nycboe.org [10.8.214.126]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms SLS330W09 [10.8.214.126]

Trace complete.

Thanks in advance for any help.

I should also mention that this server is only here in the sense that it is the DC for the computers on this floor. There is a whole other system that assigns the IP’s and handles the DNS. I do not have access to it, it is run by the main network people at the central offices.