That does work, but isn't what Paul is asking about.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sterling Jacobson" <[email protected]> To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 1:37:00 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] DNS Suffix On Windows you used to open the Hosts file and enter the ‘alias’ name you wanted and what it pointed to and it would work. Not sure if that still works, or if you need something more in Windows 10. From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Paul McCall Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 12:27 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] DNS Suffix I agree it should be trivial. In our case, we have a domain name where ALL internal equipment has a DNS forward have A records for (and in most cases reverses), and we prefix that domain name with a zone for each tower. So, it would be router.towername.ourdomain.com, sitemon.towername.ourdomain.com etc. Used to be able to add ourdomain.com to the DNS Suffix and just be able to refer to the piece of gear as router.towername and the rest would get internally applied. It stopped functioning with Win 10, even though it has the same setup. Paul From: AF < [email protected] > On Behalf Of Adam Moffett Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 10:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] DNS Suffix More like you telnet to "foo" and the computer fills in foo.bar.net. I understand how it could be convenient, but I've never really relied on it. I do not know the answer to the question. It was definitely a trivial feature in older Windows versions, so I'm surprised it isn't trivial still. -Adam On 9/17/2019 9:51 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: I may be showing my ignorance, but what is a DNS suffix? I assume you don’t mean tld, like .com or .net. Is this a feature where if you don’t enter a domain name, it fills in a default? Like if your domain is foo.bar and you address an email to just paul, it assumes you mean [email protected] ? From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Paul McCall Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 7:56 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> Subject: [AFMUG] DNS Suffix Anybody know the magic secret of how to make DNS suffixes actually work in Windows 10. Mine stopped working when I upgrade to Windows 10 a couple years ago, and I never got around to figuring it out. Under TCP/IPv4, advanced, DNS, Append these….. it seems to ignore it. On my home computer (workgroup) I have it defined and it lists the primary suffix in ipconfig /all. On my office domain, I have 2 suffixes defined, one shows up in ipconfig, yet doesn’t not work. Googled a bit, no success. PIA Paul Paul McCall, President Florida Broadband / PDMNet 658 Old Dixie Highway Vero Beach, FL 32962 772-564-6800 -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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