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only primary domain suffix.



This can lead to the inability to resolve incomplete (not fully qualified). Try adding all subdomains in the search suffix. It cannot be done with DHCP but you can create a custom GPO ADM to do it.

You could also create a test entry in LMHOSTS.
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