Internal name space same a external hosted site

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Internal and domain and external hosted website are same
name space.
I know about adding a www record in DNS to point to the IP
of the external site, but the public site does not have a
dedicated IP. It has a URL something like
www.hostcompany.com/myweb. NSLOOKUP gives the host company
server IP, not our site.

Any way to forward the www.myweb.com request out to public DNS?

Thanks in advance!
 
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Will said:
Internal and domain and external hosted website are same
name space.
I know about adding a www record in DNS to point to the IP
of the external site, but the public site does not have a
dedicated IP. It has a URL something like
www.hostcompany.com/myweb. NSLOOKUP gives the host company
server IP, not our site.

Any way to forward the www.myweb.com request out to public DNS?

Thanks in advance!
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DNS won't forward a name that it believe it's authorative for.

If the IP changes alot, you can use a delegation:
Rt-click your zone, new delegation, type in www, then give it the IP address
of the actual DNS server that is authorative for your public domain name.
Then it doesn't matter if the IP changes since it will always query the DNS
server that's authorative for it.

As for the myweb subfolder, which is all that is, it will be sent to that
subfolder (or even if it's a subweb, but same difference) there once the
www.hostcompany.com name gets resolved.


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Ace

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Microsoft Windows MVP - Active Directory
 
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Will said:
Internal and domain and external hosted website are same
name space.
I know about adding a www record in DNS to point to the IP
of the external site, but the public site does not have a
dedicated IP. It has a URL something like
www.hostcompany.com/myweb. NSLOOKUP gives the host company
server IP, not our site.

Any way to forward the www.myweb.com request out to public DNS?

Thanks in advance!
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There are services that allow you to have a domain name that points to a web
server subweb, but you can't do it with DNS.
 
DNS won't forward a name that it believe it's authorative for.

If the IP changes alot, you can use a delegation:
Rt-click your zone, new delegation, type in www, then give it the IP address
of the actual DNS server that is authorative for your public domain name.
Then it doesn't matter if the IP changes since it will always query the DNS
server that's authorative for it.

As for the myweb subfolder, which is all that is, it will be sent to that
subfolder (or even if it's a subweb, but same difference) there once the
www.hostcompany.com name gets resolved.


--
Regards,
Ace

Please direct all replies to the newsgroup so all can benefit.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties.

Ace Fekay, MCSE 2000, MCSE+I, MCSA, MCT, MVP
Microsoft Windows MVP - Active Directory
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Much Thanks!

I'll give it a shot, or maybe try and get a static IP for
the website.
 
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