Read inline please.
In news:E4B7F677-613D-4588-9B54-3B0913C14F0D[ at ]microsoft.com,
Scott G <Scott G[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> typed:
[Quoted Text] > Our Windows 2000 SP4 DNS servers return a reply code of "Server
> Failure (2)" if a non fully qualified query is sent to them. This
> was never an issue in the past, since all clients had the Primary DNS
> suffix assigned via AD. We now have a 3rd party appliance that is
> trying to do DNS queries based on just hostnames, and the queries are
> failing. Is there any way to tell the Windows 2000 DNS server a
> default domain to append to non FQDN queries?
It is not the DNS server's function to add a suffix to unqualified names,
the client must do that.
The 3rd party appliance should append the suffixes, or be configured to
query a WINS server.
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Best regards,
Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]
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