multiple domains on 1 dns server

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Thu Jul 12 21:08:17 UTC 2001


Barry Margolin wrote:

> In article <9il201$b8u at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
> Kevin Darcy  <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote:
> >
> >Hayden Wimmer wrote:
> >> also, i need win98 machines to be able to do a look up on lets say server
> >> and have the dns server return the correct address...
> >
> >Do you *need* this, or do your users just *want* it? Fully-qualified names
> >are the most efficient, scalable and unambiguous way to do DNS lookups, and
> >your users should be used to them, since that's what almost all Internet
> >URL's contain. The longer you support the use of short names, the harder it
> >will be to phase out the practice when -- not *if* -- that becomes necessary.
>
> Doesn't Windows TCP/IP configuration have a place where the user can enter
> a default domain, like Unix /etc/resolv.conf's "domain" and "search"
> directives?

I'm sure I've never seen such a thing :-)


- Kevin





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