Internal Webserver DNS entry

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ChuckN

I have defined the entry for our web server in our DNS server as the
internal address. Many times when I try to get to our website, it tries to
find the website on our external address.

In my NIC configuration, I define the primary DNS server as my internal DNS
server, then an external DNS server. Why does it seem to always pick the
address from the external DNS server and what can I do to override the entry
on my workstation.
 
ChuckN said:
I have defined the entry for our web server in our DNS server as the
internal address. Many times when I try to get to our website, it tries to
find the website on our external address.

In my NIC configuration, I define the primary DNS server as my internal
DNS server, then an external DNS server. Why does it seem to always pick
the address from the external DNS server and what can I do to override the
entry on my workstation.
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Could be a number of issues. Have you shelled out to
a command shell and done an "nslookup server.domain.com" ??
This will tell you 2 things, the IP address returned for server.domain.com,
and the IP address of the DNS server that resolved the address. It
could be the "internal" DNS server is returning the external address.

You can also force a dns server in your nslookup command to see
what each server is returning, example :

"nslookup server.domain.com xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" where
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address of the DNS server you want to
resolve your request.

It could also be a proxy issue in your browser. Are you using proxy ?
If so, make sure you check the box to "bypass proxy for local addresses".


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