jdurand said:
Actually, it is likely improperly formed and thereby made
overly-complex.... said:
What changes do I need to make to implement FQDN
resolution?
Changes to what? Every IP machine -- with very few exceptions and
none worth mentioning -- resolves fully qualified names.
So the simple answer is "nothing." Or install IP and get it working.
Technically an FQDN is a name ending in a DOT.
www.Microsoft.com
is NOT an FQDN, but
www.Microsoft.com. is an FQDN.
Usually people mean "What do I do so that my computer can resolve
DNS names with dots in them?"
Answer: Configure your machines to use a DNS server or install a DNS
server and configure it and the clients.
Right now everything looks like
<i>computername</i>.<i>domain</i> or
So it now seems the real question is: "I have a SINGLE tag domain name,
and wish I had made it at least TWO tags, what to do?"
<i>username</i>@<i>domain</i>.
That's not a DNS name. That's (probably) a badly formed email address,
based on the above single tag domain names.
Single tag domain names are a "bad idea" and there is an article on the MS
website detailing how to live with them but the best solution is to
re-installing
the domain to change the name -- there is no trivial way to rename Win2000
domains.
I would like things to be
<i>computername</i>.<i>domain</i>.<b>com</b> or
<i>username</i>@<i>domain</i>.<b>com</i>.
What you are really dealing with is the need to rename your domain from
one to two tags, e.g.,
domain ---> domain.com
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Of course if this isn't a "domain" question, you could just create the
correct
DNS zone on your DNS server and just use it -- IP doesn't care, but Active
Directory does. Machines can have as many "DNS names" as you wish, but
they can only have one name "in the AD/Domain" sense.
