Android DNS http://servername settings?

[oynaz]

Hi guys,

I have a question regarding DNS settings on Android smart phones. At work, we make a web based system for managing documents. This system works fine in Chrome on a computer, but it would be neat if it could work on a phone as well. The system is hosted on the intranet on IIS on a Win2K8R2 box. Using http://servername and http://servername.domainname both work fine on a PC.
Cue the phone. Here, logging on to the company wi-fi, I can reach the site using http://servername.domainname but not http://servername
Problem is, the web app constructs link based on http://servername, so you contantly have to edit the links on the phone.
We can edit the web app, of course, but it would be nice to fit it nevertheless.

What do I have to do to fix this? I suspect I have to do something in the phone's DNS settings, but I do not know what.

I am using a Samsung Galaxy S3.

 

[KB]

What type of DHCP server do you use? One option, if its supported by your DHCP server, is to use DHCP to send out the DNS domain suffix to use for all clients.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee941136(v=ws.10).aspx

I did find an article that says this is an actual bug in Android though, but I am able to do it on my network with an S4.

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=8030

 

[webdave]

If you are rooted your could modify your local hosts file to map servername to servername.domain

 

[podspi]

If you are rooted your could modify your local hosts file to map servername to servername.domain

This is probably the easiest solution if OP is rooted. :thumbsup:

 

[oynaz]

Rooting is not good. If I can get it to work, we will probably invite customers to test, and requiring them to root their phones is a no-go.

It does indeed sound like this is a general Android bug. Quite amazing that this have not been fixed, really.

I will modify the app instead.