We have two suffixes that are appended to (I always assumed) non-dotted lookups. test1.com test1.local.com However recently when I do a lookup, the lookup is appending these suffixes even if I use a dotted name. So looking up www.google.com results in: "Standard Query A www.google.com.test1.com" "Standard Query Response, No such name" "Stadard Query AAAA www.google.com.test1.com" "Standard Query Response, No such name" "Standard Query A www.google.com.test1.local.com" "Standard Query Reponse, No such name" "Standard Query AAAA www.google.com.test1.local.com" "Standard Query Response, No such name" "Standard Query A www.google.com" phew it finally gets it right. But sometimes I get timeouts because of how long it takes.... How do I prevent the appending from happening? It shouldn't with dotted names, right???? The computer is not connected to a domain. Thanks!

Your assumption is correct. Refer to this MS article: Configuring DNS client settings http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc778792(WS.10).aspx Domain name suffix searches are used only when a DNS name entry is not fully qualified. To fully qualify a DNS name, a trailing period (.) is entered at the end of the name. I am not familiar with this issue at the moment. I am interested so I'll be researching this. Hopefully someone else has encountered this problem. Visit: anITKB.com, an IT Knowledge Base.