outside domain website access

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I have a Windows 2000 domain that I am using my
registered domain name (sample.com) as my local domain
name. I have DNS installed and forwarding enabled on my
2000 server. My problem is when users try to goto
www.sample.com they get an error in there web browser
that the site can not be found. Our website is hosted by
an outside company. Anyone outside our network can access
the website; it's the computers within our domain who
cannot access the website. If I goto a users computer and
change the DNS #'s from our DNS server, to our ISP DNS
server's it works. It seems that I need to make some
changes in my DNS so that it points to the correct
location of the website at www.sample.com. I would
appreciate any help that you can provide.
 
You can add a host record to your internal DNS for "www" pointing to the
external IP address of the website.


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Microsoft Technical Support

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Ryan said:
I have a Windows 2000 domain that I am using my
registered domain name (sample.com) as my local domain
name. I have DNS installed and forwarding enabled on my
2000 server. My problem is when users try to goto
www.sample.com they get an error in there web browser
that the site can not be found. Our website is hosted by
an outside company. Anyone outside our network can access
the website; it's the computers within our domain who
cannot access the website.
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This implies that you never added the WWW record to the INTERNAL
version of the DNS zone.

When using a "shadow DNS" setup, internal and external DNS with the same
name
and TWO "primaries/masters", then you must manually add all EXTERNAL records
to BOTH zones.
If I goto a users computer and
change the DNS #'s from our DNS server, to our ISP DNS
server's it works.
Click to expand...

Sure, because the WWW record only exists (apparently) externally.

You must add all external resource records to BOTH DNS server sets.
It seems that I need to make some
changes in my DNS so that it points to the correct
location of the website at www.sample.com. I would
appreciate any help that you can provide.
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Add an INTERNAL ZONE A record. (Do the same for any other external records
you require, e.g., smtp, ftp, etc.)
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In Ryan <[email protected]> posted a question
Then Kevin replied below:
: I have a Windows 2000 domain that I am using my
: registered domain name (sample.com) as my local domain
: name. I have DNS installed and forwarding enabled on my
: 2000 server. My problem is when users try to goto
: www.sample.com they get an error in there web browser
: that the site can not be found. Our website is hosted by
: an outside company. Anyone outside our network can access
: the website; it's the computers within our domain who
: cannot access the website. If I goto a users computer and
: change the DNS #'s from our DNS server, to our ISP DNS
: server's it works. It seems that I need to make some
: changes in my DNS so that it points to the correct
: location of the website at www.sample.com. I would
: appreciate any help that you can provide.

Use the DNS console to expand the DNS server, Expand forward lookup zones,
open the sample.com zone, in the action menu, select new host name it www,
give it the IP address of the www.sample.com website then click create.

Note, you may have to run ipconfig /flushdns before it will resolve, this is
because negative answers get cached the same as any other record.
 
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