Oops "Doesn't work" = "connects to the old server"
And now, 30 minutes later, it works with no other changes on my part. Must have been some Win7 timeout before looking elsewhere. I didn't make it to an XP box to test out before it started working on my box. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 6:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: DNS alias change, no http to alias unless FQDN On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:09 AM, David Lum <[email protected]> wrote: > while the http://FQDN of the alias works, using just http://hostname doesn't. Explain "doesn't work". Can't resolve the name? Timeout connecting? Error message? Flames come out of the computer? > Example: DNS alias is a CNAME of SharePointNew pointing to a host name of > ServerA, and HTTP://SharePointNew.ourcompany.local works, but > http://SharePointNew does not. First, on *any* DNS problem, query all the configured DNS servers directly to see what they are saying. Try both implicit suffixes and fully-qualified names. For example: nslookup -type=any SharePointNew dns1.ourcompany.local. nslookup -type=any SharePointNew dns2.ourcompany.local. nslookup -type=any SharePointNew.ourcompany.local. dns1.ourcompany.local. nslookup -type=any SharePointNew.ourcompany.local. dns2.ourcompany.local. Please note the dots at the end of domain names are syntactically significant. Then compare that to what a tool which uses the Windows name resolution functions says. For example: ping SharePointNew ping SharePointNew.ourcompany.local. > That it would be a NetBIOS thing right? Maybe. Try querying NetBIOS/WINS directly. I'm not awayre of a good way to do that using 'doze tools, but "nmblookup" from the Samba suite works well. For example: nmblookup commons nmblookup -U wins_server_name -R commons The first uses broadcast resolution, the second sends a unicast query to the WINS server you name, and asks for recursive resolution (non-local names). -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
