Multiple domains using short name resolution vs FQDN

[Kathleen]

I am not sure how to get this working. We have it setup so that the name of our mail server is something like mail.abc.def. If we type in nslookup on mail, it comes back with mail.abc.def and the ip. It resolves on the dns just using mail.
We have just recently added a few new servers and our boss wants to use the domain admin.com for internal resolution. He wants to be able to do that same short name resolution. Is there a way to setup so that both domains resolve to the short name? Right now we need to do the FQDN to get the admin.com entries to resolve. Please help!
Thanks

[Kathleen]

we got it to work using a CNAME entry....

[Suresh Patoria]

Hi,
It will work

make new alias using the parameter CNAME

thanx

[Kenneth Platz]

Add the following line to your /etc/resolv.conf file:

search abc.def admin.com

That will cause your DNS searches to search the abc.def domain first, followed by the admin.com domain.

Share & enjoy.

[Steven E. Protter]

Its actually a combination of all prior posts

here is an example of the cname

servername domainname.com.


will resolve servername

[Kathleen]

it did work using the cname entry. I updated my post with that after I figured it out....its a wonderful thing now! Works beautiful

[Kathleen]

I appreciate all the feedback...thanks :)