&gt; Server B's primary zone setup as a secondary zone and vice versa. &gt; &gt; Workstations that reside in opposite sites can ping each other, but only &gt; by &gt; &gt; pinging the FQDN of the corresponding workstation. Workstations that &gt; reside &gt; &gt; in the same site can ping each other by Host Name and FQDN. My questions &gt; &gt; is......is it possible to allow workstations in opposite sites to ping &gt; each &gt; &gt; other by Host Name and FQDN? &gt; &gt; Yes. DNS and/or WINS server(s) setup correctly do this &gt; quite easily. &gt; &gt; Ok, so both zones are at both sites (Srv A & B each have both) &gt; pinging by name should work just fine IF pinging by number already &gt; works (you did register the names, right?) &gt; &gt; Technically it's not a FQDN until you put a DOT. on the END., e.g., &gt; www.Domain.Com . &lt;-- DOT there (but lots of people use FQDN &gt; to MEAN a multipart name with several tags ending in a TLD &gt; &gt; Host name is not a definitive term, it is commonly just a synonym &gt; for what you are calling a FQDN. &gt; &gt; Your machine can ping by just the machine part IF the other machine is in &gt; your machines SAME Domain/Zone OR you add an additional suffix &gt; search list in the NIC properties -- notice this is dependent on being &gt; able to ping by the full name which is