I have setup DNS and have an issue.

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Hello,

It seems that I have setup active directory with domain name "companyname.co.uk", and now when I try to ping the company website" www.companyname.co.uk" which is hosted externally with a public ip address, I receive an erro" unknown host"

How should I resolve this?
PS clients and servers point to the internal dns server, and can access internet, however this website issue is ongoing?

Thanks in advance,

Kevin.
 
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kevin said:
Hello,

It seems that I have setup active directory with domain name
"companyname.co.uk", and now when I try to ping the company website"
www.companyname.co.uk" which is hosted externally with a public ip
address, I receive an erro" unknown host"

How should I resolve this?
PS clients and servers point to the internal dns server, and can
access internet, however this website issue is ongoing?

Thanks in advance,

Kevin.
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In your local Forward Lookup Zone for "companyname.co.uk" create a new host
named "www" giving it the public address of the website.
 
Add a host records named "www" on the internal DNS server and point it to the external IP address of the website. The reason this happens is that the internal
DNS server thinks it's authoritative for the zone "companyname.co.uk". Since it currently doens't have a record for "www" it thinks that it doesn't exist. Since it's
authoritative for that zone, it will not forward the request to any other DNS servers.

Thank you,
Mike Johnston
Microsoft Network Support

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Thank you for your quick response. Since I added the www host record, everything is as it should be.

Thanks again.

Kevin.
 
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