samba - Oct 2006 - wins.dat file

In the cached wins.dat file I'm noticing that it's caching the wrong ip 
for a hostname. We are using WINS not dns. So we can't ping the host by 
name, just by ip address only. Is there a way to clear this cache? Or 
what else on a network could be causing this?

I have stopped nmbd and cleared out the wins.dat file. Then put only 
this entry in:
"PCRITSMB#03" 0 10.5.73.101 66R

When I start up nmbd it gets populated and the host PCRITSMB get 
assigned 10.5.73.102, instead of what it really is at 10.5.73.101.

This host is also the samba and WINS server.

The problem also started yesterday as we made a change to it's ip 
address. It used to be 102 but now it's 101. So how/why would it revert 
back to the old ip as far as WINS is concerned?

Scott Mecham wrote:
> In the cached wins.dat file I'm noticing that it's caching the
wrong
> ip for a hostname. We are using WINS not dns. So we can't ping the 
> host by name, just by ip address only. Is there a way to clear this 
> cache? Or what else on a network could be causing this?