Re: how to create a fake host ?

Hello Peyr,

In your domain create an A record "www" without the quotes pointing to your
internal ip address of the webserver.

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> hi,
>
> from outside of our firewall (the Internet),
> myapplicationserver.mydomain.com must resolve to a public machine
> address but from inside of our firewall
> myapplicationserver.mydomain.com must resolve to a private server
> address.
>
> the DNS server for mydomain.com is in a DMZ and I have DNS server for
> mydomain.local behind the firewall
> the mydomain.local DNS server forward all non-internal request to the
> DMZ server
> computer in our LAN use the internal DNS for all their queries
> in our LAN, myapplicationserver.mydomain.com must resolve as
> myapplicationserver.mydomain.local
>
> if I had only a few fixed computer, I could add the address in the
> 'host' file but I have hundreds of computer, many of them being
> laptops which must be able to use the private or the public service
> depending on where they are connected (Internet or LAN)
>
> and last but not least, my boss DO want a unique URL,
> myapplicationserver.mydomain.com
>
> the public DNS server is u*ix based, the internal one is Win2K3 based
>
> any idea ?
>
> TIA
> Pierre

"Peyr" <> wrote in message news:421b9420-573e-488e-8d23-...
I must be dumb but I don't understand how this will solve my problem :
(

by "In your domain", do you mean the external (.com) or the internal
(.local) one ?
why a "www" A record ? how is it related to "myapplicationserver" ?
[we already have a www.mydomain.com which is completely different of
myapplicationserver.mydomain.com]

TIA
Pierre

========
Hello Pierre,

Yes, assuming you have an internal zone called mydomain.com,you would simply create an A (host) record called myapplicationserver in the zone. If you do not have mydomain.com zone created, simply create it, and create the record. Since the website is being hosted internally, for any internal machine to connect to any of the resources that anyone on the outside normally connect to, such as www, ftp, myapplicationserver, etc, connect to, you should have an corresponding internal record with the internal IP in order for any internal machine to connect to it using the same name.

This issue is actually a normal issue, and the resolution/workaround when hosting public resources internally.

I hope that helps.

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