Please excuse (or even better, correct) my misuse of terminology here, I'm a bit of a noob at this.
On my companies internal network, on the DNS server (server 2k3), if I create an AName record to an internal machine, say:
AndrewsPc 192.168.0.1
this works fine, and can be accessed from any networked machine no problem.
However, subdomains do not work without being fully qualified with the domain name. For example:
for the internal webserver i set up an AName like this:
CruiseControl 192.168.0.1
I'd like the sites on it to be configured as:
MySite.CruiseControl 192.168.0.1
however, the only way to access these sites is via:
MySite.CruiseControl.MyDomainName
where as i can Access CruiseControl via just CruiseControl
i.e. it doesnt need to be CruiseControl.MyDomainName
I'm pretty sure I've setup dns records in exactly the same way on other networks and had no problem (i.e. not needed to add the domain on the end).
What is causing this and how do I make it so i can access subdomains without needing the full domain path?