Unable To Resolve ISP Hosted Web Site

[Andre Stubberfield]

I'm new to DNS. I have entered my company's domain on our
DNS server (Domain.org). We have our company's web server
hosted by an outside ISP (Domain.org). The problem that I
am encountering is my users are unable to resolve our
company's web address using our internal DNS. What entry
must I make on my DNS so that it realizes the address
www.Domain.org is not an internal address?

 

[Jonathan de Boyne Pollard]

AS> I have entered my company's domain on our DNS server
AS> (Domain.org). We have our company's web server hosted
AS> by an outside ISP (Domain.org). The problem that I
AS> am encountering is my users are unable to resolve our
AS> company's web address using our internal DNS.

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[Alan Wood [MSFT]]

Hi Andre,
If you are not using a Proxy server then you should creeate the HOST
record "www" on your internal server with the IP address of the external
Web Server. These are the types of problems you are going to run into
when you make your internal and external domain space the same. This is
not a recommended configuration, but you can make it work.

300679 Internal Web Clients Are Unable to Access an Externally-Hosted Web
Site
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=300679

Thank you,


Alan Wood[MSFT]

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[Kevin D. Goodknecht [MVP]]

In Andre Stubberfield <[email protected]> posted a question
Then Kevin replied below:
: I'm new to DNS. I have entered my company's domain on our
: DNS server (Domain.org). We have our company's web server
: hosted by an outside ISP (Domain.org). The problem that I
: am encountering is my users are unable to resolve our
: company's web address using our internal DNS. What entry
: must I make on my DNS so that it realizes the address
: www.Domain.org is not an internal address?

In the local DNS zone for domain.org create a new host named www give it the
IP of the external website. You may have to run ipconfig /flushdns at first
to get it to resolve since negative answers are cached.