Windows are not using dns for resolving short hostnames ?

Hello,

we are using static DNS records on our company's router and Windows is not trying to resolve hostnames.

For example on the router is set DNS foo for address 192.168.2.1

When I try ping foo from linux machine, it works just fine. But it is not working on Windows, because windows doesn't even try to resolve this kind of "short" hostnames.

It works when it's changed to foo.foo or when foo is added into hosts file. But adding it on every machine is what I don't want to do.

Is there a way how to configure Windows to resolve these short hostnames via DNS ? 

Thanks