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Tim said:
Hi guys,
I installed AD and exchange 2003 on one box. I also have
another stand alone server to host website. I added
external ip address on the nameserver of the external DNS.
added www, and mx reconds. The problem is :
1. my website from internal and external doesn't work. I
chaked nslookup the name serolves ok.
If your webserver is local behind the same NAT device you are you can only
access it by its private IP, you need a www record or whatever the hostname
is, pointing to the private address of the web site.
External users need the public address and incoming connections on port 80
on that address will need to be forwarded to the IP of the webserver in NAT
(your router).
2. I want to users access to OWA which is hosted on AD
server ( if that is possible)
Yes that is possible, but if you are are talking about it being on a
different machine from your Web site then you need two public IP addresses
or put your exchange web site on a different port from your default web site
and either link it or use web site redirection.
Example:
default web site
www.example.com on port 80
then on that page put a link to mail.example.com:81/exchange
Then put excahnge on port 81 and port forward in your router connections on
port 81 to port 81 on the exchange server.
You can also do this by way of a subweb on the default web site such as mail
then on the properties of that subweb forward to
mail.example.com:81/exchange
3. Do i need to add any records on AD server the one host
Exchange?
If the mail domain is the same name as the AD domain you need to add records
pointing to the internal IP of the sites in your internal DNS server forward
lookup zone.
To give you a good effective answer I need more information on your network
setup. How and where the sites are hosted and whether or not you are
attempting to host your public DNS zone yourself.
There have been a lot of users attempting to host their own public DNS with
only one DNS server. While it is not totally impossible, unless the public
domain is the same name as your AD domain. AD domains must resolve
internally with private addresses which cannot be used on the public
namespace, public domains must resolve in the public namespace with public
addresses only, which usually cannot be used in the private namespace.
