DNS Suffix Question

[grimm08]

I was setting up a new Linux box and router today and when I was looking to see if my custom DNS servers were being handed off in DHCP to my Ubuntu box I realized that the isp was shoving down onto my machines their dns suffix. Since I have configured my dhcp scope in the router to hand out a local dns suffix I am not sure why my suffix is not being used. Is there a way to use the .local dns suffix for both my linux and windows machines with dhcp instead of having to manually set the suffix?

Thanks
Grimm

[ptkobe]

No, you can't. You must set it manually

[abarclay]

You have custom DNS servers, but you don't run your own DHCP server?
What kind of router is it? I have a Netgear WNR3500 running dd-wrt and it definitely lets me configure the dns suffix that it hands out - over-riding the domain pushed down by the ISP.
What I have is a local dhcpd that hands out the IP of my local DNS server and the DNS domain "unixpeople.internal".
All queries go to that server and it recursively resolves anything for which it's not authoritative.

[grimm08]

I literaly just got my DNS server up and running last night(the server was having probelms running my zones), and any mechine that was picking up my dns server got my internal dns suffix. I am howerer having a problem with my router being a dns relay but thats another problem.

So it seams that setting a dns server with a local domain zone solved the problem, thanks for help.