DNS suffix

[Brian McKee]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 4:56 AM, marc<gmane at auxbuss.com> wrote:
> I've arrived at a Windows site where the local DNS requires the Windows
> clients to add "DNS suffix for this connection" -- 'vt' in this case.
>
> If I try to ping a local server by name, ping fred, the ping fails. When
> I add the "DNS suffix", fred.vt', the ping works -- the correct server
> is being pinged.
>
> However, when I try to access a local web-page, this fails, presumably
> due to some Apache magic with the domain name.
I don't think that's likely what is going on...

> How do you configure networking to take account of the "DNS suffix"?
Simply add the .vt to everything....  or, in /etc/resolv.conf add 'search .vt'

Brian

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