W2K DNS can't ping hostnames

[Danny Mayer]

         Well, .int is a legal TLD (Top Level Domain) so you shouldn't be
   using it.  int is for international organizations like the UN.

         Danny
At 12:11 PM 1/11/01, count0 wrote:
>I have a W2K domain controller for my intranet at work. I use DHCP and
>Dynamic DNS to update the zone files for the DSN server, all running
>oin the W2K machine. I also have an internal website and I setup all
>the workstations to use an internal DNS name for the mail server. I
>switched all the workstations over from mail.mycompanydomain.com to
>mail.mcd.int, which is the internal domain name. It was all working
>fine for a couple days, then it wouldn't resolve any more for some
>reason. I tried to ping mail.mcd.int, but it gave me a "Unknown host
>name" error. I can however, perform a forward and reverse lookup using
>nslookup and the results are perfectly fine, I just can't ping the
>hostname. I can however, ping "mail" as a host name, and when I enter
>"mail" as my smtp/pop3 server names, it works fine. Though it's not
>entirely important, as I can just use "mail" for the mail server
>hostnames, I can't figure out why I cannot ping the "mail.mcd.int"
>hostname, but I can perform reverse and forward lookups just fine.
>
>any suggestions?