On Thursday 16 October 2008 19:58:58 Nicholas Accad wrote:
> 
> I noticed something recently, due to me moving to a work environment
> where everything is Microsoft based.

Welcome to hell.

> To be exact, my own domain, has one alias that points to
> ghs.google.com, at home using OpenDNS it resolves fine, from several
> dedicated Linux boxes it also works OK, but on two occasions, two
> completely different networks, that CNAME will not resolve if the
> internal nameserver is Windows.

"Out of crystal balls" error. Which record? What version of Microsoft DNS, 
what platform.

> So I am wondering, where is the problem exactly? And what can be done
> - if anything - to solve it.

Most likely the Microsoft network is using WINS, or some other curious name 
resolution scheme and picking up some internal reference.

Are the two networks with the issue completely independent? Or could they have 
shared WINS data in the past?
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