Windows Server 2008: DNS entries for domain name without extension

DrJohnZoidberg

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I am having a bit of a struggle trying to set up dns entries for non-standard domain names.

Basically I need to create entries on our local dns servers for domain names without any extensions e.g. http://mysite

We have one dns server running Windows Server 2008 R2 and the secondary is running with BIND on a linux box.

I have set up a new zone and added an A record for the host, lets call it mysite but I cannot access this from any of the Windows machines on the domain however I can access it fine from my Linux machine. I have flushed dns on the Windows machines.

If I add the entry to the hosts file on the Windows client machines then it works fine. Would there be anything preventing the Windows machines from accessing this domain, all our other dns zones work fine but they are all standard domain.extension format.

nslookup from the Linux box:

Code: 
user@pc ~ $ nslookup mysite
Server:		192.168.40.254
Address:	192.168.40.254#53

Name:	mysite
Address: 10.12.2.1

nslookup from Windows box:

Code: 
C:\Users\user>nslookup mysite
Server:  server.site.local
Address:   192.168.40.254

*** server.site.local can't find mysite: Non-existent domain

Anybody know what gives?
 
Your Windows is automatically adding site.local to single label name lookups

Why would you want to use a single label name for a site?

Why not just use mysite.site.local?

You'll still be able to access it via http://mysite/
 
So you are creating the entry on the secondary zone? (bind)
how are you handling updates between zones?
 
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