which record?

[Guest]

In my internal DNS, I have an A record which I have called it ww
that points to my web server's Ip address
Client machines inside inside my lan use www.mydomain.net to access the website

what record do i need to have them to be able to type mydomain.net and gets route
to the web server too? do I add another A record and use mydomain.net and point t
the web server's IP address

Also I want have my outside DNS servers to do the same
thanks alot

 

[William Stacey [MVP]]

You add a blank domain A record. It gets the name because you don't add any
label such as "www". Create an A record and don't add any label to get
"mydomain.net A x.x.x.x". Note if this zone is an AD zone also, then this
will not work without turning off some things in DNS and Registry. This is
not recommended. Use the www record to make it simple. If this domain is
not AD, then add the blank domain A record and go. HTH

 

[Guest]

William
Thanks for response. When you mention blank domain A record, you mean host A record, right
The zone is not an AD zone and we just want our external DNS servers resolve bot
www.ourcompany.net and ourcompany.net to the web server

 

[William Stacey [MVP]]

Yes. Just to clarify, not just talking ad-integrated zone type here. The
zone can not be used by AD (i.e. AD has same name as zone) even if using
primary. If your a std primary with domain name that does not match AD
domain name, then you will be ok. As an external server, you would not want
that as AD member anyway. Sounds like you not, so your in good shape.
Cheers.