Won't resolve FQDN

[Sarah]

In a forest, machines in either company.com or uk.company.
com cannot resolve the FQDN of a machine in usa.company.
com, though it will resolve the name. Therefore it will
resolve Fred, but not Fred.usa.company.com. However, Fred.
usa.company.com can resolve Shirley.uk.company.com.

What on earth is going on?

 

[Deji Akomolafe]

are you using different DNS server for all the zones? I presume yes. If
that's the case, then the problem is very likely to be that you have not
properly delegated the usa.company.com zone from company.com. If you go to
the company.com zone, you should see a funny-looking folder called usa.
Click on that and you should see the name of the DNS servers responsible for
usa.company.com listed. If you don't see the folder or don't see the
NameServers, try creating a delegation for the "usa" child-domain.

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Sincerely,

Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE MCSA MCP+I
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www.iyaburo.com
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Yesterday? -anon

 

[Ace Fekay [MVP]]

In

are you using different DNS server for all the zones? I presume yes.
If that's the case, then the problem is very likely to be that you
have not properly delegated the usa.company.com zone from
company.com. If you go to the company.com zone, you should see a
funny-looking folder called usa. Click on that and you should see the
name of the DNS servers responsible for usa.company.com listed. If
you don't see the folder or don't see the NameServers, try creating a
delegation for the "usa" child-domain.


Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE MCSA MCP+I
www.akomolafe.com
www.iyaburo.com
Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about
Yesterday? -anon

To add, possibly the search suffix can also be a factor.

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[sarah]

Thanks all. It seemed that I had an out of date subzone for
the usa domain rather than a delegation. Once I'd deleted
the zone and created a delegation it all worked.

Thank you!

 

[Ace Fekay [MVP]]

In

Thanks all. It seemed that I had an out of date subzone for
the usa domain rather than a delegation. Once I'd deleted
the zone and created a delegation it all worked.

Thank you!

Cool!


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Ace

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