Question : DNS - Getting non-autoritative answer from primary DNS server

I've got a DNS server (windows 2003) running DNS
I have created a primary zone, called demodomain.local on it, and a single A record for a machine.

When I perform an nslookup on that machine (which has itself as the only DNS server) it cannot find the record and get a non-authoritive response.

I have tried reloading & recreating the zone and it doesn't help.

Answer : DNS - Getting non-autoritative answer from primary DNS server

Yeah, but NsLookup appends the Suffix prior to submitting the query with no suffix.

The DNS Client itself will not append a suffix to a multi-label name (depending on a registry setting and patch level, see AppendToMultiLabelName registry setting or group policy).

NsLookup on the other hand is a troubleshooting tool, it has its own, more basic, rule-set it will always append unless you terminate the name with a period.

That is, the difference between this:

nslookup demogateway.demodomain.local.

And this:

nslookup demogateway.demodomain.local

If you want to see it do that, run this one for Debug:

nslookup -d demogateway.demodomain.local

Chris