Internal DNS

[nolechief]

Hi all. Need a little help here. I have a web
application that calls the url on another server to
populate fields in the call. Both servers are on the smae
LAN. Only problem is that I cannot browse internally and
when the app calls for the info it uses the DNS that I
have set up which points to our external(public)ip
addresses. Also have a PIX Firewall. Do I have to set up
an additional internal DNS server that serves up the URLs
with internal addresses to solve this problem? Or is
there another way to correct this?

Thanks.

 

[William Stacey [MVP]]

Few ways:
1) Add an internal DNS like you said that the internal servers point to. If
you have an AD domain - this would be your AD DNS server(s).
2) If this is the only naming problem (i.e. the one server), you may want to
just use a "hosts" file and plug the IP and name in there and be done.
3) Use the IP address in the URL inside the app instead of the fqdn. Not
pretty, but will work until the IP changes on the other server. If so, your
app will need a command line or input file that can set the IP respectively.

Number 2 is probably easiest if this is the only naming issue you have. If
more come up, number 1 is probably your better bet.