DNS resolves non-existent domain

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ekapco - 13 Jun 2005 14:12 GMT

Our companies domainname is lets say "wp.wp-partners.nl"
our website is "www.wp-partners.nl"

In my DNS server in the cached lookups under NL I get WP and under WP I get
my local machine names with the external website address.

Also when I use "nslookup www.microsoft.com" I get
Non-authorative answer "www.microsoft.com.wp-partners.nl" with the IP-adres
of "www.wp-partners.nl"
I have option 015 in my dhcpserver set as "wp.wp-partners.nl"

Please advise

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Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP] - 13 Jun 2005 17:03 GMT

> Our companies domainname is lets say "wp.wp-partners.nl"
> our website is "www.wp-partners.nl"
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>
> Please advise

This sounds like a wildcard record issue in the wp-partners.nl zone. This
combined with your DNS suffix search list produces this behavior.

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rafik - 31 Jul 2005 08:39 GMT

>> Our companies domainname is lets say "wp.wp-partners.nl"
>> our website is "www.wp-partners.nl"
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> This sounds like a wildcard record issue in the wp-partners.nl zone. This
> combined with your DNS suffix search list produces this behavior.

you must delete dns suffixe in TCP/IP configuration of your cards if
there is.

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Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP] - 31 Jul 2005 15:31 GMT

>>> I have option 015 in my dhcpserver set as "wp.wp-partners.nl"

Why?
This adds the suffix to the connection specific suffix and to the DNS suffix
search list. Neither of which can I think of a reason to need.
Since they use a Wildcard record, any specific name not in your local zones
will resolve to the Wildcard record IP. If this suffix gets searched first,
every non-FQDN will resolve to the wildcard address.

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