Is it possible to push DNS search suffices from DNS server to client?

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Published on 2011-06-21T15:09:26Z Indexed on 2011/06/21 16:24 UTC
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Our (active directory, windows-server-based) intranet used to be called "intranet", and DNS worked fine for windows machines and iPads/Android devices.

We have changed it to be "apps.intranet", and it still works for windows machines, but no longer for iPads/Android devices.

I think this is because out windows clients are configured to append .company.com when searching DNS, to make it a fully qualified lookup (this search suffix list is pushed to the PCs via AD group policies).

I must admit, though, I don't know why it worked with just "intranet"!

Does anyone know if it's possible to get DNS to "tell" the iPads/Android devices to append .company.com ... or how we can make it work some other way (but still using the multi-label, non-qualified DNS names) ?

Thanks!

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