Resolve Host from other suffixes

[cnull]

I'm a bit new to this, but I hope someone can help me.

My dept is in a domain "DOM1.dept.company.com"
Another application server is in "dept.company.com"

We maintain our own DNS servers in "DOM1.dept.company.com", but we need to resolve other hosts that are in "dept.company.com".

On the client I tried to list the DNS servers like this:
10.1.1.10 Our DNS primary
10.20.1.10 Their DNS secondary
and I have also setup Append DNS Suffix in a search order:
DOM1.dept.company.com
dept.company.com

When I ping a host in the other suffix it fails so I put the hostname in our DNS, except now when I ping it using the FQDN it fails. Unfortunately some of the apps require FQDN. What do I do to fix this?

Any suggestions?

 

[GlenJohnson]

Have you setup forwarders on your dns server? Also, your'e clients should only look at your dns servers, not others.

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[cnull]

Okay I looked at the forwarders and I beleive that was the problem. The first forwarder was itself. The following two were the company DNS servers. If I understand correctly how forwarders work, it would loop forever and never get to the correct DNS server to resolve.

I tested and removed the first forwarder (itself) and made the company DNS servers the first and second forwarder. It appears to be working correctly.

Thank you!

 

[GlenJohnson]

Glad to hear it.

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