While troubleshooting a connection problem to one of your servers named accounting.company.local, you start by using the ping program. When you try to ping accounting, you get an error but you are successful when you try to ping accounting.company.local. Where does the problem most likely lie?
A) the DNS zone data on the DNS server
B) the DNS resolver on the client computer
C) the DHCP server
D) the Primary DNS suffix of the client computer

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The problem most likely lies in the Primary DNS suffix of the client computer. Since pinging the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) "accounting.company.local" is successful but pinging the short name "accounting" is not, it suggests that the client computer is not automatically appending the correct DNS suffix to unqualified domain names. This is a function of the Primary DNS suffix configuration on the client.

While Troubleshooting a Connection Problem to One of Your Servers