A company is receiving reports that multiple teams cannot resolve the internal finance site. They use a local server for corporate domains, and external addresses work. The logs do not show any queries for the finance site. Which factor best explains the cause of the name lookup failure?
The switch that serves the finance VLAN is not routing data between subnets
The local naming service is forwarding requests outside the environment, missing the internal finance zone
A stale entry in the local cache is causing the query to fail
A misconfigured inbound rule on the finance server prevents access
A local Domain Name System (DNS) server should manage queries for internal resources. If the local naming service forwards requests outside the environment, the external provider does not have a record for finance. The firewall misconfiguration answer is misleading because it does not explain why no queries appear in the logs. The switch issue answer is unrelated to name lookup at this stage, and the caching explanation does not address why the local logs show no queries in the first place.
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