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The problem is in browser, ssh,...

Windows:

myservername is resolved to myservername.company.com and both the URLs work fine

Linux:

Only myservername.company.com works here and myservername is not resolved.

Any ideas what might cause this behavior on Linux?

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If you want linux machines to automatically search dns suffixes then your DHCP server will need to issue the "domain-name" option populated with the suffixes you want to be appended to unqualified domain names (where you just state the host part). The isc-dhcp-server scope directive would be:

option domain-name "company.com";

It is probable that your windows machines are getting their primary suffix from being a domain member.

If you aren't using dhcp, then you can manually add this to your /etc/resolv.conf:

domain company.com
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  • Also an option for resolv: search company.com - Will cause the lookup for myservername to first hit myservername.company.com then move on from there to look up names.
    – WernerCD
    Oct 10, 2012 at 15:07

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