Conditional Forwarder Master Servers lack DNS suffix

We have our 2008 domain zyx.int trusting their domain abc.local. On our DNS,
we have a conditional forwarder to their domain abc.local. We have entered
three masters servers as provided to us, and believe these to be correct. In
our trust, these appear as DCs and DNS Servers, and their naming convention
is consistent with DCs. But under Master Servers on the domain entries
properties under Conditional Forwards in DNS Manager, where it lists IP
Address and Server FQDN, their server names only appear as hostnames,
without the DNS suffix of their domain. Shouldn't this in fact be the FQDN?

I'm not sure if this is a symptom, but when first opening the conditional
forwarder's properties, the servers appear one at a time, each in turn after
a ten to fifteen second wait. That just doesn't seem right.
______
Greg Stigers, MCSE
remember to vote for the answers you like

"Greg Stigers" <gregstigers+> wrote in message
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> We have our 2008 domain zyx.int trusting their domain abc.local. On our
> DNS, we have a conditional forwarder to their domain abc.local. We have
> entered three masters servers as provided to us, and believe these to be
> correct. In our trust, these appear as DCs and DNS Servers, and their
> naming convention is consistent with DCs. But under Master Servers on the
> domain entries properties under Conditional Forwards in DNS Manager, where
> it lists IP Address and Server FQDN, their server names only appear as
> hostnames, without the DNS suffix of their domain. Shouldn't this in fact
> be the FQDN?
>
> I'm not sure if this is a symptom, but when first opening the conditional
> forwarder's properties, the servers appear one at a time, each in turn
> after a ten to fifteen second wait. That just doesn't seem right.
> ______
> Greg Stigers, MCSE
> remember to vote for the answers you like


You will need to add abc.local to your server's and all machines on your
side as a Search Suffix.


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"Ace Fekay [MCT]" <> wrote in message
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> "Greg Stigers" <gregstigers+> wrote in message
> news:...
>> We have our 2008 domain zyx.int trusting their domain abc.local. On our
>> DNS, we have a conditional forwarder to their domain abc.local. We have
>> entered three masters servers as provided to us, and believe these to be
>> correct. In our trust, these appear as DCs and DNS Servers, and their
>> naming convention is consistent with DCs. But under Master Servers on the
>> domain entries properties under Conditional Forwards in DNS Manager,
>> where it lists IP Address and Server FQDN, their server names only appear
>> as hostnames, without the DNS suffix of their domain. Shouldn't this in
>> fact be the FQDN?
>>
>> I'm not sure if this is a symptom, but when first opening the conditional
>> forwarder's properties, the servers appear one at a time, each in turn
>> after a ten to fifteen second wait. That just doesn't seem right.
>> ______
>> Greg Stigers, MCSE
>> remember to vote for the answers you like
>
>
> You will need to add abc.local to your server's and all machines on your
> side as a Search Suffix.

I forgot to add, that it may be possible that on their end, their own
servers may not be registered correctly in their own Nameservers tab in
their DNS server properties. But the search suffix on your side will be
necessary for your client side resolver to properly devolve queries that may
possibly be in their zone.

Ace