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I'm hosting a grizzly web service on a Windows 7 Pro machine (embedded in a regular Java process), and it is binding to http://my-domain-name.

When trying to hit the service from another machine, requests to http://my-domain-name fail (fiddler shows error code 502), but requests to http://my-ip work. When the service runs on a Windows Server 2008 machine, this doesn't happen (both requests succeed).

What could be the issue?

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How's your name resolution set up for my-domain-name? – Shane Madden Jul 4 '12 at 20:32
We have a local dns – Hitchhiker Jul 8 '12 at 5:48
Please provide more detail. What kind of record is set up for that name, what address is it pointing to? Are the non-functional clients using that name server for resolution? What zone is the record in, and is the DNS search suffix consistent between working and non-working clients? Is the name the same name as the computer's NetBIOS name? – Shane Madden Jul 8 '12 at 5:55
Pinging "my-domain-name" resolves to "my-ip". It's a pretty standard gig, I think. All the machines use the same name server. Also, there is no such thing as 'non-functional' client. The same client works fine when the server is a Windows2k8 machine, which leads me to believe this is a server and not a client problem (also, WCF hosted services seem to work fine in all machines). And yes, the name is the same as the NetBIOS name, plus our local dns suffix – Hitchhiker Jul 8 '12 at 6:08
By "non-working client" I mean the system that you're referring to here: When trying to hit the service from another machine, requests to http://my-domain-name fail – Shane Madden Jul 8 '12 at 6:36

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