Cant send to MSMQ with 2 DNS names

We just got off the phone with Microsoft. This is a limitation of MSMQ. You can not receive on queues with a DNS name different than the server NETBIOS name. You can SEND to queues with an alternate DNS name provided you use the two registry keys mentioned above, OptionalNames and IgnoreOSNameValidation.

Back to virtual ip's for us, or we might keep the virtual name for the sending connection strings (with the reg settings) and use .\ for the receiving servername...that works.

Thanks for the help.

From:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;899611

By default, Message Queuing verifies the message that it receives to determine whether the message is intended for the local computer. If the message is not intended for the local computer, the message is rejected.

So follow the section on "IgnoreOSNameValidation" in this article and I hope it will help.