DNS question with FQDN

ranjitcoolranjitcool Member Posts: 80 ■■□□□□□□□□
Hey Guys,

I setup a windows 2008 box at home and have a AD going on it with DNS and DHCP on the same box.

Now I have a server added to the domain called STREAM.domain.com

Now when i do a nslookup for stream or STREAM or even stream.domain.com - I get non-existent domain.

When i do a nslookup for STREAM.domain.com - it works and returns the ip.

How do I get it to reply to STREAM and how do I get it to ignore the lower/upper case?

Thanks
RJ
Cleared Network+, MCTS.
Want to clear - CCSA, CCNA, VCP for now.

Spending time @ www.itgrunts.com - Tech Juice, Not from Concentrate!

Comments

  • morrowmsmorrowms Member Posts: 8 ■□□□□□□□□□
    To make sure I understand the issue, you are getting different results with 3 different NSLOOKUP queries?

    C:\>nslookup
    Default Server: <your primary DNS server>
    Address: <your primary DNS server IP>


    > STREAM
    Server: <your primary DNS server>
    Address: <your primary DNS server IP>
    *** <your primary DNS server> can't find STREAM: Non-existent domain

    > STREAM.domain.com
    Server: <your primary DNS server>
    Address: <your primary DNS server IP>
    *** <your primary DNS server> can't find STREAM: Non-existent domain


    > stream.domain.com
    Server: <your primary DNS server>
    Address: <your primary DNS server IP>
    *** <your primary DNS server> can't find STREAM: Non-existent domain

    Your resolution could be coming from NetBIOS, WINS, etc and not pure DNS. Pure DNS does not care about case.
  • ranjitcoolranjitcool Member Posts: 80 ■■□□□□□□□□
    Yes you have got it right - how do I fix the netbios wins issue? I am not using either here.. Also I tried doing some group policy changes but when i enforce the policy in AD it doesnt apply to all the clients right away.
    Cleared Network+, MCTS.
    Want to clear - CCSA, CCNA, VCP for now.

    Spending time @ www.itgrunts.com - Tech Juice, Not from Concentrate!
  • morrowmsmorrowms Member Posts: 8 ■□□□□□□□□□
    The computer you are querying from, is it joined to the domain and the primary DNS server is set to the IP of the box that DNS is running on? Also, if domain.com is not the connection specific dns suffix or domain.com is not in the suffix search list you will not get the correct reply with hostname only, that will be returned via NetBIOS. When you do a FQDN search for STREAM.domain.com and stream.domain.com can you show me the difference?
  • ranjitcoolranjitcool Member Posts: 80 ■■□□□□□□□□
    Hello,

    No my laptop is not joined to the domain. It just gets the dhcp ip from the dhcp server which lists it to use the dns server (AD DNS server).

    RJ
    Cleared Network+, MCTS.
    Want to clear - CCSA, CCNA, VCP for now.

    Spending time @ www.itgrunts.com - Tech Juice, Not from Concentrate!
  • morrowmsmorrowms Member Posts: 8 ■□□□□□□□□□
    ok, so that leaves out using the hostname only. What difference do you get with STREAM.domain.com and stream.domain.com?
  • ranjitcoolranjitcool Member Posts: 80 ■■□□□□□□□□
    Sorry for late reply but now it works just fine. I am not sure what may have changed huh. One issue i am having is that when i go to my site www.domain.com which is hosted externally, its resolving within my AD domain and never reaching my website. What do i have to do in the DNS to say for any www request go to that ip - oh wait do I add a A record?
    Cleared Network+, MCTS.
    Want to clear - CCSA, CCNA, VCP for now.

    Spending time @ www.itgrunts.com - Tech Juice, Not from Concentrate!
  • Ivanr4g63Ivanr4g63 Member Posts: 77 ■■□□□□□□□□
    Did you setup 'forwarders' on your local DNS server?
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