multiple domains on 1 dns server

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9il201$b8u at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Kevin Darcy  <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote:
>
>Hayden Wimmer wrote:
>> also, i need win98 machines to be able to do a look up on lets say server
>> and have the dns server return the correct address...
>
>Do you *need* this, or do your users just *want* it? Fully-qualified names
>are the most efficient, scalable and unambiguous way to do DNS lookups, and
>your users should be used to them, since that's what almost all Internet
>URL's contain. The longer you support the use of short names, the harder it
>will be to phase out the practice when -- not *if* -- that becomes necessary.

Doesn't Windows TCP/IP configuration have a place where the user can enter
a default domain, like Unix /etc/resolv.conf's "domain" and "search"
directives?

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