Russ, The trailing dot issue is a classic nslookup behavior (some call it bug :)). Nslookup does domain devolution on all lookups and, unless the query is terminated with a ".", any rlookup for a record will always be submitted by nslookup in the following fashion: recordname.current.dns.context. I am going to assume that the reason you see different behaviors in your parent/child servers is because the child server is not configured to append suffixes (in TCP/IP). The parent server "appears" to be configured to append "child.ourcompany.com" in the domain suffixes search list. I am waging that if you remove that entry, your experience is likely to differ. Sincerely,
D�j� Ak�m�l�f�, MCSE+M MCSA+M MCP+I Microsoft MVP - Directory Services www.readymaids.com - we know IT www.akomolafe.com Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about Yesterday? -anon ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Rimmerman, Russ Sent: Mon 5/23/2005 7:03 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ActiveDir] DNS oddity We have an empty root domain, and 1 child domain. When we do an nslookup on an external hostname (eg nslookup www.yahoo.com) from the child domain, we get the proper responses we'd expect. When we terminal serve to our root domain DNS and do an nslookup on the same external hostname, if we don't add a "." at the end, it always appends our child domain suffix to the end. So nslookup on the child DNS servers = nslookup www.yahoo.com = nslookup www.yahoo.com Nslookup on root DNS servers = nslookup www.yahoo.com = nslookup www.yahoo.com.child.ourcompany.com However nslookup on root DNS servers = nslookup www.yahoo.com. = nslookup www.yahoo.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This e-mail is confidential, may contain proprietary information of the Cooper Cameron Corporation and its operating Divisions and may be confidential or privileged. This e-mail should be read, copied, disseminated and/or used only by the addressee. If you have received this message in error please delete it, together with any attachments, from your system. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
