Ping Hostname Resolves To Wrong Adapter

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jc0r

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Hi all.

I have the following issue.

I have 3 machines, a master and 2 x slaves. The master has 2 network adapters, one with a static address of 192.168.44.45 which communicates with slave 1's 192.168.44.46 adapter. The masters second adapter has a DHCP address of 192.168.1.45 which communicates with slave 2's 192.168.1.46.

The Master can ping both slaves and vice versa. However, when i try to ping via hostname, slave 2 works, but slave 1 does not. Slave 1 has a hostname of "b2b1" and i get the following:


Code: 
C:\Users\master>ping b2b1

Pinging b2b1.home [192.168.1.111] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 192.168.1.111:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

The master is trying to send the ping request on the wrong adapter 192.168.1.xx instead of 192.168.44.xx where brb1 resides. I know i can manually edit the hosts file to add the route which i've done and does work, however, can anyone explain why? For information, 192.168.1.111 isn't even a machine on my network so i'm not sure why that appears when trying to ping brb1.

I have many other machines that all work fine in this configuration with nothing in their masters host file?

Many thanks
 
Code: 
C:\Users\Main>nslookup b2b1.home
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.1.254

Name:     b2b1.home
Address:   192.168.1.111
 
ahh i've just found it listed on the router supplying 192.168.1.xx network. strange how i have no computer assigned to it. Maybe an old connection?
 
It said it was physically plugged in. I rebooted the router and it disappeared. I'm guessing it's just bad firmware with an anomaly. Thanks all the same
 
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