How to set a DNS suffix?

Howdy!
Is it possible to insert a DNS suffix somewhere in OSX 10.4.8? I've been googling forever, but all that comes up about DNS suffixes is Windows related.
Any ideas?

What do you mean by 'DNS suffix'?
If you mean a domain name that's automatically appended to hostnames when resolving, add the domains you want to the 'Search Domains' in Network preferences.

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This is a solution for the frequent problem that arises during installation of iPlanet Application Server on Windows-2000 platform.
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Note:
1. Make sure that it is added to the windows registry:
Just run regedit and click on the My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM \ControlSet001\Services \Tcpip\Parameters key, you will see the Domain key value set to your domainname, otherwise enter the domain name into this key value, and than reboot the m/c, and than reinstall the iAS. It should work.
2. Make sure you are using static IP address.

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It wasn't anything to do with the DNS suffix afterall (not that I could find where to change it).
From looking at other posts about VPN, it was to do with the BT automatic redirecting on DNS error which is automatically enabled.
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Quite why BT would automatically enable a "service" that breaks a simple thing like a VPN connection is beyond me.

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the server is set up with a mirror RAID on the OS drive as well as mirror RAID on the storage drives
How are you doing this? Both XServes support only three internal drives and two mirrors require 4 drives. Where does the fourth drive come into play?
I'm curious as to how I set up DNS in this situation
There are numerous ways of doing this, but with a single static IP address your best bet is to leave DNS where it is - managed by your hosting provider. Just add a record in the domain zone (e.g. ftp.yourdomain.com) that has the IP address of the public interface your SonicWall firewall. You don't need a separate domain for this. You also don't need to setup internal DNS for this (although you may need internal DNS if you're running Open Directory.
Because Xserve #2 is going to be hosting FTP, would it make sense to setup DNS on this server and not set it up on Xserve #1?
Assuming you're referring to setting up a DNS server - use them BOTH. Make one of the servers the primary server (I'd pick the internal-only server for this) and set the other server to be a slave (so it copies all the zone data from the primary server). That way you have a replica of the data to provide additional resilience.

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[SOLVED] Append DNS Suffixes

How can I append DNS suffixes to my network connection in Arch? I have 3 suffixes to add for my work VPN connection.
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Hi there, I've had the same problem, and fixed it the way you described!
At this point, I would, however, point out that this solution should not be required, according to the wiki entry for resolv.conf:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Resolv.conf
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It wasn't anything to do with the DNS suffix afterall (not that I could find where to change it).
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How we have to set up our mail server that we can pick up our emails from our public dnsname2.com?
And when we write an email how we have to set up it that the dnsname is dansname2.com and not dnsname1.private?

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1. How do you point the DNS to my mac mini server.
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Our new Lion Server has a static IP Address pointed to over the internet by our registrar's zone file. Planning the Lion Server installation process with the intent of hosting Web, Mail and Open Directory services to a small number of users who are nearly all located off-site. I do also want Lion Server to be a caching DNS Server and DHCP authority on the local network to replace what dnsmasq does on our current Linux server.
I am looking forward to offloading some of the lower level Linux administration tasks and putting myself in the hands of the Lion Server Setup Assistant and Server App :-) but at the same time don't understand some of its assumptions and fear having to spend a lot of time experimenting and re-installing.
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You do indeed need to have a master zone on lion server. There's no way to get around that since Open Directory depends on Kerberos and Kerberos depends on the DNS. LS scripts may see that the rDNS record exists, but I highly doubt that it'll auto configure everything for you... and given the number of possible variables, I bet that even if it worked something would need additional tweaking.
Sounds like an interesting lab excersize. You should try it on a test server!
Again... you just need to folow the set up procedure that Lion Server presents you with.
It won't be smart enough to see your external records and use them to configure a key distribution center for your OD.
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The question then is how long will it wait for a response from the first server? Or will the first server respond with "I don't know" sending the client immediately to the second.
The server set up that I have works similarly. I have an internal master DNS that is replicated to a secondary. The first DNS has an A record (community.server.com) that points to the INTERNAL ip address of the secondary server that's also running the web service. The first server is running DHCP. It tells the clients to use the first and second servers as it's DNS lookup.
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