dns weirdness

[Stevo]

Have 2 internal dns servers running on nw65sp8, edir 8.7.3.10. Clients
only get these 2 servers for dns, and they're set w/ our isp dns
servers in the forwarding list.

Ended up having to put the isp dns servers in *every* subnet we have,
as people started losing the ability to ping (or surf) anything outside
our network.

Noticed now too that several devices we have w/ static addresses & dns
entries set up are not reachable w/o putting the entire domain on it.

For example, if I try pinging serverA, I cannot find it by name unless
I ping serverA.my.domain. This is not the case for other static
machines, they'll ping just fine by name serverB, not the whole thing.

What gives? What do I need to fix to correct this issue?

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Stevo

[Craig Johnson]

In article <iAR_m.1804$q93....@kovat.provo.novell.com>, Stevo wrote:
> What gives? What do I need to fix to correct this issue?
>

Are the clients using DHCP?

If you set the client addresses manually, most people forget to set the
default DNS domain. If you give the clients a DNS domain, it should be
automatically be added to (at least some) DNS requests if you don't end
the request with a period.

Craig Johnson
Novell Support Connection SysOp