Issue resolving url with sub-directory

[Dave Woolley]

Hello,

I've got a Windows 2000 AD network "domain.com" utilizing internal DNS
servers. Our external website utilizes the same domain ("domain.com")
and is hosted by someone else. To allow internal hosts to resolve
I've added an A record which points www to the external website.
Everything works fine with that, though it is a little slow in
resolving.

Recently a new section was added to our external site... ie.
http://www.domain.com/groups. This resolves fine externally but
produces a "page not found" on the internal network. Other sections
of the site resolve fine... ie. http://www.domain.com/sponsorship.
The only thing I can think of that may be affecting resolution of
/groups is that we have a share of the same name on one of our Windows
2000 domain controllers.

Does anyone have any thoughts on what may be causing this issue and
how to resolve it?

Thanks in advance for your help!
-Dave

 

[William Stacey [MVP]]

Your guess sounds correct to me. nslookup or dig for that host on private
side, you probably get back both internal and external IPs. Don't mix the
two. Remove the private ones if you want the public IPs or visa-versa.

 

[Jeff Cochran]

I've got a Windows 2000 AD network "domain.com" utilizing internal DNS
servers. Our external website utilizes the same domain ("domain.com")
and is hosted by someone else. To allow internal hosts to resolve
I've added an A record which points www to the external website.
Everything works fine with that, though it is a little slow in
resolving.

Recently a new section was added to our external site... ie.
http://www.domain.com/groups. This resolves fine externally but
produces a "page not found" on the internal network. Other sections
of the site resolve fine... ie. http://www.domain.com/sponsorship.
The only thing I can think of that may be affecting resolution of
/groups is that we have a share of the same name on one of our Windows
2000 domain controllers.

Does anyone have any thoughts on what may be causing this issue and
how to resolve it?

If the name resolves fine to the IP, it's not a DNS issue. More
likely is an issue with the page, the permissions or the use of a
proxy or firewall. Try the IIS group with more details, such as
specific error messages, web logs, event log entries, etc.

Jeff

 

[Dave Woolley]

Thanks for the replies... I'll try another group. I think it's more
of a Windows 2000 networking thing as the website is hosted offsite
and works fine from the Internet as opposed to our LAN. DNS
resolution works fine to the rest of the website from our LAN.

Thanks again!
-Dave

 

[Roland Hall]

in message
: I've got a Windows 2000 AD network "domain.com" utilizing internal DNS
: servers. Our external website utilizes the same domain ("domain.com")
: and is hosted by someone else. To allow internal hosts to resolve
: I've added an A record which points www to the external website.
: Everything works fine with that, though it is a little slow in
: resolving.
:
: Recently a new section was added to our external site... ie.
: http://www.domain.com/groups. This resolves fine externally but
: produces a "page not found" on the internal network. Other sections
: of the site resolve fine... ie. http://www.domain.com/sponsorship.
: The only thing I can think of that may be affecting resolution of
: /groups is that we have a share of the same name on one of our Windows
: 2000 domain controllers.

Nope. http://www.domain.com/ cannot be confused with http://domain.com/ for
internal users.
If http://domain.com/groups is hard-coded into the web site, then that could
be a problem.

--
Roland Hall
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