Dana S. Millaway wrote: > > A couple of clarifications for those who responded: > > 1. I have only 1 dns server within our system and it is running primary > services only. It gets its dns information when necessary from another > server upstream from us. > > 2. Our dns server IS NOT a windows box and I don't intend to put dns on > a windoze box. :P > > A development in the saga: > > I tried pinging the family info server using just its hostname and got > the server not found message. But when I pinged it with our domain name > after it, it responded. So I specified the full name in the web address > and voila!, it worked on both a mac and a win98 machine. I setup > records for another of our app servers in the dns and it worked too. > Yippee. > > So my remaining concern would be how to fill in the names of these app > servers when I purchase my SSL certs. Do I use just the host name or > the full name - ie - myserver.mydomain.k12.mn.us ? > You should specify the full domain name in a certificate, so yes use myserver.mydomain.k12.mn.us.