Hello. On my home network, I have DNS running on an AD 2000 Server with domain name, say myhome.local. Two client machines running 2000 Pro.
These machines are not attached to the Domain right now, workgroup only.
The “Box1” machine uses DHCP (given out by the 2000 AD Server) and can lookup local addresses with Nslookup fine. For example, nslookup Box2.
The “Box2” machine is set as static IP on the same subnet with all the proper DNS IP, Gateway IP, WINS IP, etc., pointing at the 2000 AD Server.
Here’s the problem. When Box2 tries to do “nslookup box1”, it fails with this message: server failed.
However, if I specify the FQDN, then it works. Such as: nslookup box1.myhome.local
Is this cause for concern, and how do I solve it? I’d really like to know the answer to this one, because at work we’re going to a domain model and I can foresee this same thing cropping up.
Thanks very much for any feedback!
Dennis