How to configure DNS for Private Intranet address for web server?

[Guest]

We have Widnows 2000 server with SP4 - Domain controller + DNS. We are
planning to implement company intranet which should be accessible by all the
office staff. We have DNS server configured in all the client PC in thier
network connection settings. The web server name is "ABCDE5". What I need to
do so that users can access the default web site of the IIS server as a
"intranet.companyname.com"

our inside domain name is configured as "xyz.companyname.com" where "xyz" is
a domain name. which records i.e. A or CNAME or any other I need to create in
DNS server so that people can access the web server directly from thier
browser. We also have Secondary DNS server on the network, Do I need to
configure the same records manually on another server or will it update
automatically?

Let me know.

 

[Herb Martin]

We have Widnows 2000 server with SP4 - Domain controller + DNS. We are
planning to implement company intranet which should be accessible by all
the
office staff. We have DNS server configured in all the client PC in thier
network connection settings. The web server name is "ABCDE5". What I need
to
do so that users can access the default web site of the IIS server as a
"intranet.companyname.com"

Add this entry to the DNS server -- as either an A record or a CNAME
pointing to an existing A record.

Ensure that the IIS (or other web software) allows for this Name in the Site
definitions it supports.

our inside domain name is configured as "xyz.companyname.com" where "xyz"
is
a domain name. which records i.e. A or CNAME

Either. (CNAME requires you have an existing A record to map it to.)

or any other I need to create in
DNS server so that people can access the web server directly from thier
browser. We also have Secondary DNS server on the network, Do I need to
configure the same records manually on another server or will it update
automatically?

Secondaries pull changes from their Master, which is either the Primary
where
ALL changes are made, or is another Secondary which will eventually will
pull
from that Primary as Master.

 

[Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]]

We have Widnows 2000 server with SP4 - Domain controller + DNS. We are
planning to implement company intranet which should be accessible by
all the office staff. We have DNS server configured in all the client
PC in thier network connection settings. The web server name is
"ABCDE5". What I need to do so that users can access the default web
site of the IIS server as a "intranet.companyname.com"

our inside domain name is configured as "xyz.companyname.com" where
"xyz" is a domain name. which records i.e. A or CNAME or any other I
need to create in DNS server so that people can access the web server
directly from thier browser. We also have Secondary DNS server on the
network, Do I need to configure the same records manually on another
server or will it update automatically?

Create a new forward lookup zone named "intranet.companyname.com", in that
zone create one new host, leave the name field blank, give it the IP of the
web server. Win2k barks at you saying (same as parent folder) is not a valid
host name, click OK to create the record anyway. Client may have to run
ipconfig /flushdns to clear and negative cached answers for the name.
This will cause your DNS to take authority of intranet.companyname.com,
while the rest of companyname.com is forwarded.


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Best regards,
Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]
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