Well, it doesn't sound right that DNS would be giving IPs outside of the local domain.. 
Are you sure that all your DNS server settings are correct?  It sounds like your 
local DNS server is not recognizing the contoso.com domain and forwarding the request 
to a different server.  Which means that a share would also go to a different location 
also I would think, although I'm not familiar with DFS.

THe only reason why I can think of this happening, is that your local DNS server 
is not in charge of the contoso.com domain, but rather a subdomain like sub.contoso.com... 
 I'm not for sure on this, but making your local DNS server manage the local contoso.com 
zone should gurantee it always gives the proper IP address.  Ofcourse, it would have 
to mirror the same entries that your public DNS server maintains, or the users on 
your local intranet wouldn't be able to reach certain sub domains.  I could just 
be blabbing to, because again, I don't know much about DFS.. :)

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