We have transactional replication set up between two servers - one in the US and the other in China.
This was done a long time ago, and only the server names for the SQL Server machines were used in the replication setup. At the time our DNS system would reliably resolve these names and everything worked fine.
But now our DNS is less reliable, and the resolution of the machine name alone sometimes fails. However if we use an fqdn reference (server.cn.domain.com rather than just server), we can reliably connect.
How can I modify our replication setup so that the replication process will use an fqdn rather than just the server name? Can I do this just by modifying the appropriate tables in the distribution database?