Default for queries without host names in URL?

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I run my own DNS for our company domain. Nothing's changed on my end
for a few months (last time I had to add a new machine host name).

Up until a couple days ago, someone going to domainname.com was
somehow resolving to what was our www.domainname.com server. (i wasn't
aware of this, as I preface things with the host or alias name
myself).

Evidently one of my employees tried that yesterday, and it's no longer
forwarding to our default website. I hadn't known it was in the first
place, and am not worried about it, but our CTO wants it to be set up
that way so that if someone doesn't put in a host name or the alias
WWW, it'll still go.

What do I need to do to get windows 2000 DNS server to default like
that to a particular machine when someone opens a web browser and puts
in no host, just domain.com?

Thanks

John
 
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JDTHREE said:
I run my own DNS for our company domain. Nothing's changed on my end
for a few months (last time I had to add a new machine host name).

Up until a couple days ago, someone going to domainname.com was
somehow resolving to what was our www.domainname.com server. (i wasn't
aware of this, as I preface things with the host or alias name
myself).

Evidently one of my employees tried that yesterday, and it's no longer
forwarding to our default website. I hadn't known it was in the first
place, and am not worried about it, but our CTO wants it to be set up
that way so that if someone doesn't put in a host name or the alias
WWW, it'll still go.

What do I need to do to get windows 2000 DNS server to default like
that to a particular machine when someone opens a web browser and puts
in no host, just domain.com?

Thanks

John
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This requires a blank record with the IP of the website. The problem is
domain controllers create a blank record for each of their IP addresses and
this record is necessary for group policies. So in order for you to do this
from the internal network you need to run IIS on your DCs then have IIS on
the DC redirect domainname.com to www.domainname.com
 
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This requires a blank record with the IP of the website. The problem is
domain controllers create a blank record for each of their IP addresses and
this record is necessary for group policies. So in order for you to do this
from the internal network you need to run IIS on your DCs then have IIS on
the DC redirect domainname.com to www.domainname.com


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This is for a standalone external DNS server - not part of my internal
active directory. Thanks for the quick reply!

John
 
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JDTHREE said:
This is for a standalone external DNS server - not part of my internal
active directory. Thanks for the quick reply!

John
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Then all you need to do is create the Blank record with the web site IP. If
the web site is using host headers you will need a host header for the
domainname.com web site.
 
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