DNS for non-domain'd URL?

[howartp]

Hi,

 

I'm not sure whether this is doable or not.

 

I'm trying to browse a hardware appliance (Ruckus Zonedirector) from our student WLAN - but when I set it up, I just gave it a name of 'ZD3000' without any domain suffix. I will eventually, during a holiday, rename it but that needs regenerating the certificate so I want to leave that until Christmas. (I'm on a training course all Half Term)

 

I therefore need, if possible, our DNS servers to respond with an IP address when a request comes in for 'ZD3000' - but it is not returning anything. I have tried a static entry in the scope, as well as in our regular and scopes, but none are responding.

 

Is it possible for our internal DNS to return an IP for a non-domain-suffix'd entry?

 

Peter

[Boredguy]

You should just need an A record in your regular DNS zone with the host name you want and the IP address it should be resolving to.

[howartp]

You should just need an A record in your regular DNS zone with the host name you want and the IP address it should be resolving to.

 

If I do that, it auto-completes the FQDN (ZD3000.myschool.internal).

 

I just need ZD3000 without the .myschool.internal.

 

Peter

[howartp]

I've realised that as I have two ZoneDirectors linked master/slave, I can generate and apply a new certificate to the slave with correct FQDN, then force them to failover, then repeat on the other unit.

 

All now working.

 

Peter