Hi All

I can now confirm that the DNS issue I was having was related to having 
a wildcard DNS entry with my DNS provider. Removing this entry has 
resolved my issue.

I hope this will help someone else if they ever come across this.

Mark

Mark Wass wrote:

> Hi Tim
>
> You're absolutely right! I do recall seeing a wild card entry in our 
> DNS settings with our DNS provider for that particular domain. This 
> was left over from years ago and we don't make use of that any more. 
> I'll try removing it and see if it fixes it.
>
> Thanks :-)
>
>
>
> Tim Kingman wrote:
>
>> The domain you're entering in General Setup is being passed to DHCP
>> clients as a search domain. Normally, this means that DNS lookups will
>> try to append those domains to all lookups. For example, on my
>> computer at work, I have sub.ourdomain.edu and domain.edu set as
>> search domains, so I only have to ssh hostname, and it works even
>> though I'm really getting to hostname.sub.domain.edu.
>>
>> I'm going to guess that the difference in your case is that your real
>> domain's DNS provider is doing wildcard dns, so
>> anything.your-real-domain.com will resolve to your-real-domain.com's
>> IP address. Even though mycorp.com is a real domain name, it does not
>> have wildcard DNS, so google.com.mycorp.com doesn't resolve, so the
>> Windows DNS resolver tries again without the search domain appended.
>>
>> The next logical question is: can m0n0wall be set to not pass the
>> entered domain to DHCP clients as a search domain? Or, can you just
>> enter a completely bogus domain name and not inadvertently break some
>> other component? I assume you can, because my General Setup is
>> configured with a hostname of m0n0wall and a domain of just my
>> apartment number. I guess it's possible that this causes my computers
>> to query RoadRunner's DNS servers for google.com.123 every time, but I
>> haven't seen any problems.
>>
>> -tim
>>
>>
>> On 11/9/05, Mark Wass <mark dot wass at market dash analyst dot com> wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Ok Guys I have figured out what the problem was.
>>>
>>> In my General Setup in m0n0wall I used our real domain name. This is a
>>> real domain that we own and resolves to a real IP.
>>>
>>> As soon as I used mycorp.com (the suggested example) as the domain name
>>> in General Settings all was ok.
>>>
>>> One thing to note is that our domain contains a hyphen "-" in it, I
>>> wonder if that was the problem.
>>>
>>> So my question now is, Why can't I use my real domain but I can use
>>> mycorp.com?
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>   
>>
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