We have a Win2003 server running our DNS right now. Currently our clients run Windows XP and all is well.
However, we’re beginning to add Win 7 machines onto the domain and it seems that they can navigate to ALIAS records (like how we have a server called ‘alpha’ but we made a record called ‘beta’ that points to alpha so when people goto http://beta it in essence goes to alpha)
Problem is, when they attempt to goto subdomains, Windows 7 fails completely. Someone said that Vista and 7 will not append on DNS suffixes by default.
When I pinged: alpha.server, it failed to come back.
When I pinged: alpha.server.full.dns, it did come back.
So does anyone know what I need to do to get the Windows 7 rigs to function on our domain? I hope it’s a resolve on the Win 2003 server’s DNS rather than having to hit all the Win 7 rigs.