Instand keyword issue

[wienerwald]

Too keep it short and simple:

We have a distributed network topology with external dhcp-servers at each site...To get instant keywords working, we provided the clients with the correct dns-suffix via dhcp (same as set in instant keywords @ FS-management). DNS is provided by FirstSpot.

With this Setup, logging out by typing "logout.ourdomain.local" in a browser works fine. Unfortunately a simple "logout" does not.

[wienerwald]

Oh, forgot something:

What am I missing? How to get this to work?

[wienerwald]

Mh...missing the edit button. And I meant InstanT keyword, of course.

[alan]

It should be still related to default DNS suffix. Your client should get DNS suffix of "ourdomain.local" from your DHCP server.

To test, just issue the below command in the client side:

nslookup logout

and you should get the Visitor Network Interface IP.
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[wienerwald]

That´s the Problem: Firstspot does not resolve a simple "logout", therefore "logout" doesn´t work.

The DNS-suffix sent by the DHCP-Server and the one in "Instant Keywords" are set identical! "ipconfig -all" proves that.

[alan]

Please issue the following command in the client PC:

ipconfig/all
nslookup
set d2
logout

and post the output here.
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[wienerwald]

Thanks, that pointed me into the right direction.

I was testing the visitor network with a domain-joined machine. The diagnostic nslookup-ouput showed that the connection specific dns-suffix was not in the clients dns queries at all. I tried to additionally push dhcp-option 115 (domain search order) to the client with no success.

Since we push dns search order lists via group policy to our internal clients, dhcp-option 115 doesn´t seem to override these settings (which is fine! ;]).

So, after leaving the domain with the client, everything worked like a charm.

So we finally seem to end up with a simple "logout" working for all machines except for domain-machines which have a dns suffix list/search order applied by group policy - the users of these clients have to use "logout.somedomain.local". I can live with that!

[wienerwald]

Oh, I meant DHCP-option 119....not 115.