I have a Windows 7 machine I'm trying to setup for development. Typically we access our development domains using a URL like user.site.dev. The DNS is setup for user.site.dev.sd.ourdomain.com. I am able to ping user.site.dev.sd.ourdomain.com but if I try to ping just user.site.dev it returns "Ping request could not find host user.site.dev."
When I run ipconfig it shows a connection-specific DNS suffix of sd.ourdomain.com, and when I edit the properties for the network adapter, the DNS setting under the advanced menu are checked as "Append primary and connection specific DNS suffixes" and "Append parent suffixes of the primary DNS suffix".
These are the same setting as I have on an XP machine, and they resolve the url correctly there; but Windows 7 doesn't seem to be appending the suffix correctly. Am I doing this wrong? Or has anyone else had this experience and found a workaround?
Update: I tried toggling the settings to "Append these DNS suffixes (in order):" and adding sd.ourdomain.com to the list, but the url still didn't resolve.