DNS from inside and out???

[Guest]

Hi all....

I have a problem with DNS I assume. I have a company that I've setup OWA
with SSL. When I'm at home, I connect to the owa from my home pc's browser.
For example... I'll connect to https://email.domain.com.au.

That all works fine for the users. However when I'm actually working from
inside the network I can't get to https://email.domain.com.au.

Shouldn't I be able to connect to that same address since the DNS is on the
outside world name server and considering it works from outside of the
network????

I'm a bit confused as to why this is happening.

Cheers,
Jeff

 

[Guest]

When you are on the inside of the firewall you need to use the internal IP
address of the exchange server. DNS is resolving that record to an external
IP address and when you are inside the network there is no reason to go
through your firewall to connect to your exchange server which is on the
inside of your network (im assuming). And besides as you can see it doesn't
work like that.

 

[Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]]

Hi all....

I have a problem with DNS I assume. I have a company that I've setup
OWA with SSL. When I'm at home, I connect to the owa from my home
pc's browser. For example... I'll connect to
https://email.domain.com.au.

That all works fine for the users. However when I'm actually working
from inside the network I can't get to https://email.domain.com.au.

Shouldn't I be able to connect to that same address since the DNS is
on the outside world name server and considering it works from
outside of the network????

I'm a bit confused as to why this is happening.

You need to create a record in your internal DNS that resolves
email.domain.com.au to the internal address of your Exchange server.

It may be as simple as adding a record named email to the internal zone name
domain.com.au with the internal address of the Exchange server.

If you don't have that zone, create a zone named "email.domain.com.au"
(without the quotes) then in that zone create a new host, leave the name
field blank, and give it the IP of the Exchange server.