What happens if you run nslookup and resolve both server1 and
server1.mycompany.com names? Do you get the results that you are expecting?
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>I can ping hosts by name eg. server1 which returns an IP address but I
> cannot ping server1.mycompany.com even though my DNS server has a
> pointer record mapping the IP to server1.mycompany.com.
>
> Any ideas?
>