Is this how DNS is supposed to work on Domain? (quickie Q)

[sab4you]

I setup a domain, lets say for ABC.com

Inside the LAN I have a computer called Dev1.

When I ping Dev1 it comes back as Dev1.abc.com

Is this how a windows 2000 domain/dns is supposed to work? or should it not change from Dev1 to Dev1.abc.com

I am in an arguement with a programmer who continually states I have set it up incorrectly, so I would like to find out if this is correct or not.

 

[FredUG]

DNS is acting correctly. It's translating the host to the FQDN so therefore it must be working.

Hope that helps,

FredUG

 

[GlenJohnson]

Why would the programmer think this is not correct? What would he expect to see? Just curious.

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[sab4you]

Well the programmer is a moron with everything else, so thats how I will start it out

I setup a VPN connection since he works from home. Once he is connected, if he pings other computers such as "ping dev1" it comes back "dev1.abc.com"

He states that this then resolves to the internet abc.com address and he cannot connect to the computers.

It is very apparent to me that he simply does not use our internal DNS server, which would properly redirect him to the interntal machine no problem.

I gave the standard MS instructions on how to setup a VPN, but I am very sure he then removed the checkbox for using the VPN connection as a gateway. Leaving it checked woudl have forced DNS requests to our internal DNS server and solved his problem. SInce he is unchecking it, his DNS requests are being forwarded to his ISP DNS which of course cannot resolve dev1.abc.com

 

[sab4you]

edit: and to summarize, the programmer expects to connect to our company domain via VPN, and then ping a domain computer "dev1" and simply get back the response "dev1" not "dev1.abc.com"

 

[ricpinto]

Add an ip adrress and dev1 to his hosts file. If he pings he can only see dev1, or maybe you can explain to him that dev1 is netbios name (show the result of: nbtstat -a dev1) and dev1.abc.com is the FQDN (fully qualified domain name) for dev1, FQDN consist of a hostname and a domain name, dev1 is the host and abc.com is the domain and cannot help it because you are using DNS in a domain environment.