DNS resolving Primary Zone

[greg0303]

We have had some major DNS problems and are trying to recreate records but one issue we are having is that records no longer resolve from a primary zone without typing in the FQDN.

We have two zones, one is AD Integrated and the other is a Standard Primary Zone copied from another domain. Host records that lived in the Standard Primary Zone were able to resolve simply by the host name (ie 'ping server1' resolved the proper ip). Now this server will not resolve unless we use the fqdn of server1.PrimaryzoneName. Is there a record that we need to create in our Integrated AD zone or a reverse lookup zone so that these records resolve without creating them inside the Integrated AD zone?

Thanks for any help

 

[elgrandeperro]

I am not a windows guy, but this sounds like you didn't add the domain to your search path. DNS is usually NOT in charge of resolving unqualified names; it is the job of the client to use either resolv.conf entries (Unix servers) or search path in the TCP/DNS config. For DHCP clients, this is given to them by the DHCP server.