I am running Win2K with an internal DNS server for my .local domain. I
have a webserver inside my network whose DNS entry is hosted by my ISP
and directed to a public NAT. I would like to place an entry in my
internal DNS server so that when clients inside my network go to that
site, they are pointed directly to the internal address of the server.
Right now, they are resolving it to its public NAT address and are
going out, then coming back in. Of course, since my DNS server
internally does not have a forward lookup zone for our public domain,
I can't just create an A-record. Any suggestions?

Yes, you can just create a zone for that A record and point it to the
INTERNAL IP as you desire. It's a cheat, but it works.

Say the record is me.you.net, and you don't own the you.net zone but want to
map me.you.net to wherever you want, then you'd create a "ZONE" (not an A
record) called me.you.net and you will then create a blank A record (same as
parent folder) and put in the internal IP address.

HTH

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> I am running Win2K with an internal DNS server for my .local domain. I
> have a webserver inside my network whose DNS entry is hosted by my ISP
> and directed to a public NAT. I would like to place an entry in my
> internal DNS server so that when clients inside my network go to that
> site, they are pointed directly to the internal address of the server.
> Right now, they are resolving it to its public NAT address and are
> going out, then coming back in. Of course, since my DNS server
> internally does not have a forward lookup zone for our public domain,
> I can't just create an A-record. Any suggestions?

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> I am running Win2K with an internal DNS server for my .local domain. I
> have a webserver inside my network whose DNS entry is hosted by my ISP
> and directed to a public NAT. I would like to place an entry in my
> internal DNS server so that when clients inside my network go to that
> site, they are pointed directly to the internal address of the server.
> Right now, they are resolving it to its public NAT address and are
> going out, then coming back in. Of course, since my DNS server
> internally does not have a forward lookup zone for our public domain,
> I can't just create an A-record. Any suggestions?

Your best way to do this to keep from having DNS naming conflicts is to
create the zone for the full site name www.publicname.com then create a
blank record with the internal IP of the site. The blank record will bark at
you and say (same as parent folder) is not a valid host name, click OK to
create the record anyway.

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