DNS without using FQDNs
 

DNS seems to be set up on our 'rcminternal.com' zone. Ping, nslookup, dig, etc work fine.

I'm trying to make it so i can just ping the hostname and not the fqdn.

On linux boxes, i just edit /etc/resolv.conf to have

serach rcminternal.com
nameserver 10.0.3.209

on those boxes i can ping any hostname fine.

However the majority of our laptops are windows based and cant do this ping with hostname only. any suggestions?

Thanks,
Brent

have a look at post #4 here:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ight=sam+win98

sl mritch.

If you are using DHCP for the laptops, you can specify the doman-name. Windows will use it. Otherwise you have to go the the Advanced TCP/IP Settings for the network interface.