PDC & Internet Domain Name

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We just set up a new Windows 2000 server that is our primary domain
controller. The domain name given to it was something like pciusa.local.
The domain name we purchased for our website is pciusa.com. How can I
configure our DNS server to take any requests for www.pciusa.com and
route them to the appropriate in house web server? I don't see any
correlation between our PDC name of pciusa.local and our internet domain
name, pciusa.com.

Thanks for your help

James
 
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James said:
We just set up a new Windows 2000 server that is our
primary domain controller. The domain name given to it
was something like pciusa.local. The domain name we
purchased for our website is pciusa.com. How can I
configure our DNS server to take any requests for
www.pciusa.com and route them to the appropriate in house
web server? I don't see any correlation between our PDC
name of pciusa.local and our internet domain name,
pciusa.com.

Thanks for your help

James
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If the website is on an in house web server, then you will need to create a
record in DNS that has the internal IP of the web server.
The beset way to do this so it doesn't cause a conflict is to create a
Forward Lookup zone named www.pciusa.com then create a host record leaving
the name field blank and give it the internal IP of the web server.
 
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James said:
We just set up a new Windows 2000 server that is our primary domain
controller. The domain name given to it was something like
pciusa.local. The domain name we purchased for our website is
pciusa.com. How can I configure our DNS server to take any requests
for www.pciusa.com and route them to the appropriate in house web
server? I don't see any correlation between our PDC name of
pciusa.local and our internet domain name, pciusa.com.

Thanks for your help

James
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I see, you are hosting your external website on an internal webserver that
has a private IP which port 80 is port remapped to this internal webserver.

Easy fix...Manually create the pciusa.com zone name in your internal DNS and
create a www entry and give it the internal private IP, not the external WAN
IP. You can also alter the (same as parent) A record with the private IP as
well to allow access by http://pciusa.com.

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