So the DNS server has both DNS zones, or just the one "trousers.com"?
Our Active Directory Domain Controller hosts "trousers.com" and the
parent company is in a different AD, with a different DC and called
"socks.biz"
We load the "socks.biz" as a forward lookup zone on our DC.
I was told that would allow name forwarding without suffixes by
someone, though obviously we know that's not the case now!
Is there another way to do it? We've no-one here who really an expert
in DNS, we've just got by with enough knowledge in the past.
Being able to resolve a domain without the suffix is generally just to
allow your users to be LAZY -- this really has nothing to do with the
DNS resolution by the DNS Servers.
The reason we need this to be able to work is we use Lotus Notes and
the servers are set up as "Sausages/SOCKS" in Notes and
"saus-001.socks.biz" in windows.
When you click on a database link in Notes, it looks for the notes
server, in this case "Sausages" with no domain suffix.
All the server documents sets up with the windows names in them, in
this case, the "Sausages/SOCKS" server document has
"saus-001.socks.biz" as the Fully Qualified Internet Name, but Notes
doesn't seem to use that to resolve it.
I totally agree about the lazyness part, but unfortunately it's Notes
being lazy and there's nothing the users can do to get around it.
I was pretty horrified when I realised that Notes worked like this,
I'd always assumed it did something to resolve itself internally, but
since we've had to move to different Notes/Windows server names, I've
realised it doesn't do anything of the sort.
Just add the additional suffixex in the NIC->IP Advanced->DNS tab
of every client (or through a GPO etc.)
Why? You can do it, but this is not going to change how DNS servers
works.
No. You do this on the DNS CLIENT.
Ugh.
Just teach your users to type the full name is the BEST solution.
Otherwise they may get the "wrong" server if there happens to be
Large.trousers.com and a Large.socks.com servers.
All the Notes/Windows server names are based on locations (I've used
artistic licence with the names I've used above!) so there should be
no name overlaps.
To give a bit of background into why we've got a bit of a crappy
setup, we were taken over by a larger company a few years ago.
We've integrated into their Notes domain fine, but we've had trouble
being allowed to join their Windows AD as we've a lot of restricted
data here which we're told is not allowed to be accessed by
administrators from the parent AD.
So we're stuck in a sort of half-way position, which is a right pain.
But it does sound like we're out of luck with what we were hoping we
could do the Forward Lookup Zone.
Anyway, cheers for the reply.
