W2K DNS can't ping hostnames

[Bill Manning]

 INT. was constructed for INTernet infrastructure and INTernational
 treaty organizations were added later.



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%          Well, .int is a legal TLD (Top Level Domain) so you shouldn't be
%    using it.  int is for international organizations like the UN.
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%          Danny
% At 12:11 PM 1/11/01, count0 wrote:
% >I have a W2K domain controller for my intranet at work. I use DHCP and
% >Dynamic DNS to update the zone files for the DSN server, all running
% >oin the W2K machine. I also have an internal website and I setup all
% >the workstations to use an internal DNS name for the mail server. I
% >switched all the workstations over from mail.mycompanydomain.com to
% >mail.mcd.int, which is the internal domain name. It was all working
% >fine for a couple days, then it wouldn't resolve any more for some
% >reason. I tried to ping mail.mcd.int, but it gave me a "Unknown host
% >name" error. I can however, perform a forward and reverse lookup using
% >nslookup and the results are perfectly fine, I just can't ping the
% >hostname. I can however, ping "mail" as a host name, and when I enter
% >"mail" as my smtp/pop3 server names, it works fine. Though it's not
% >entirely important, as I can just use "mail" for the mail server
% >hostnames, I can't figure out why I cannot ping the "mail.mcd.int"
% >hostname, but I can perform reverse and forward lookups just fine.
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% >any suggestions? 
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--bill