Accessing company web page

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I have a Primary and Secondary DNS server. On Win2k DC and a member server.
I am using the internal DNS as primary and forwarding to my isp. Now I
cannot access the company's web page from the internal network. the web page
being hosted by another company which points to the isp DNS. Can I somehow
add the Ip address into my internal DNS zonefile. Right now I am using the
host file to access this web page.

Please help

compunow
 
You message is unclear but we will try to unravel this for
you....

compunow said:
I have a Primary and Secondary DNS server. On Win2k DC and a member server.
I am using the internal DNS as primary and forwarding to my isp. Now I
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Which machine is forwarding? They both should be forwarding
in most (all) cases.

How are the clients setup? ALL clients should be set to one or
both of these internal servers -- no internal client (including these
servers themselves on the NIC\IP\DNS Server settings) should
be set to anything else.

Most common problem is people who set ONE of the two servers
to forward (the other doesn't and fails to resolve public names) OR
who set both an external DNS servers on the internal clients (even
with an internal server) -- in this case it works sporadically; fails
unpredictably.
cannot access the company's web page from the internal network. the web page
being hosted by another company which points to the isp DNS. Can I somehow
add the Ip address into my internal DNS zonefile. Right now I am using the
host file to access this web page.
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Yes, but not in DNS -- on (all of) the clients you can build a hosts file,
but I bet that isn't necessary if we get the DNS setup correct.

If checking the above doesn't work, try clarifying precisely what works
and what doesn't -- and from precisely where it work etc.

nslookup www.company.com
nslookup www.company.com Particular.DNS.Server.Address

Try the first command from a client, then the latter from each DNS
server involved (including the ISP's server.)

Paste "IPConfig /all >IPConfig.txt" output to us here.
 
Is your intenal Name space the samename as your registed name space on the
internet? If it is add a host record called www and put the external ip
address of the web server.
 
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