Web Address and not an IP address

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Hello all -

I am trying to get my users on my LAN to be able to type the URL of my
webserver into a browser (example - www.webserver.com) vs the local IP
address since the webserver is behind my firewall.
I know this is directly related to DNS, but I am not quite sure how to
accomplish this task.

Any suggestions or help would be so much appreciated...
Scott
 
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SCOTT said:
Hello all -

I am trying to get my users on my LAN to be able to type the URL of my
webserver into a browser (example - www.webserver.com) vs the local IP
address since the webserver is behind my firewall.
I know this is directly related to DNS, but I am not quite sure how to
accomplish this task.

Any suggestions or help would be so much appreciated...
Scott
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Do you have forward lookup zone in DNS for the webserver.com domain?
Put a record in it named www point it to the private address of the
webserver.com web site.
 
I have the webserver as a member server in my domain. It is on a private
address on my LAN and my firewall uses a one-to-one NAT to give it a public
address. The www entry in DNS did not give me the ability to type the url in
a browser from my LAN workstations.

Is there something I am missing here?
Thanks for your help!
 
I discovered that my firewall had the DNS pointing to external servers and
not internal. I changed that and then added the www pointer to DNS and
WALAH! It works...
Thanks for the helpful hints. This solved a big problem internally.
(LAN users - you can't live with em and you can't .... )
 
Under your zone name called "webserver.com", create a record called "www"
(without the quotes) and give it the IP of the webserver itself. Then in
IIS, webiste properties, next to the IP box is an Advanced button. Click on
that, edit the current entry and type in www.webserver.com. That is what we
call the hostheader.

More explicit info here:

315982 - HOW TO Configure DNS Records for Your Web Site in Windows 2000:
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=315982

IIS Answers - How to create multiple websites with one IP address:
http://www.iisanswers.com/Top10FAQ/t10-hostheaders.htm

Using Host Headers to Allow for One I.P Address to Host Multiple Domains:
http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/ASPscripts/PrintPage.asp?REF=/webtech/080200-1.shtml

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Regards,
Ace

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