Split DNS Problem

I have a split dns setup and I cannot figure out how to get internal clients
to resolve our external website without using www. I have a forward lookup
zone called abc.com. In there, I have a host record with the name www which
points to the external IP of our website. This works fine when our internal
clients type www.abc.com. When they type just abc.com, they can't find the
site. What do I add to our DNS to get this work? I would like it to
re-direct so that the browser shows www.abc.com when they type abc.com.

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Thanks!

Saucer Man wrote:
> I have a split dns setup and I cannot figure out how to get internal clients
> to resolve our external website without using www. I have a forward lookup
> zone called abc.com. In there, I have a host record with the name www which
> points to the external IP of our website. This works fine when our internal
> clients type www.abc.com. When they type just abc.com, they can't find the
> site. What do I add to our DNS to get this work? I would like it to
> re-direct so that the browser shows www.abc.com when they type abc.com.
>
>

AD? And if so, is abc.com your AD domain? Because if it is you can't
have that name, it must resolve to your DCs if your directory is to
operate correclty.

If it is not your AD Domain: You need to add a host record with a blank
name and the correct IP. That will appear as "(same as parent folder)"
in MS DNS.

Redirection is exactly as Frankster said, something a web server must
deal with. All this does is resolve abc.com to an IP, nothing more. If
your external web server can't do that for you then you would need to
set up another web server and bounce the request off that.

Chris

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Got it. Thanks. Our AD domain has a different name than the website so
adding the Host record with a blank name did the trick. Thanks to both of
you.

"Chris Dent" <> wrote in message
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> Saucer Man wrote:
>> I have a split dns setup and I cannot figure out how to get internal
>> clients to resolve our external website without using www. I have a
>> forward lookup zone called abc.com. In there, I have a host record with
>> the name www which points to the external IP of our website. This works
>> fine when our internal clients type www.abc.com. When they type just
>> abc.com, they can't find the site. What do I add to our DNS to get this
>> work? I would like it to re-direct so that the browser shows www.abc.com
>> when they type abc.com.
>>
>>
>
> AD? And if so, is abc.com your AD domain? Because if it is you can't have
> that name, it must resolve to your DCs if your directory is to operate
> correclty.
>
> If it is not your AD Domain: You need to add a host record with a blank
> name and the correct IP. That will appear as "(same as parent folder)" in
> MS DNS.
>
> Redirection is exactly as Frankster said, something a web server must deal
> with. All this does is resolve abc.com to an IP, nothing more. If your
> external web server can't do that for you then you would need to set up
> another web server and bounce the request off that.
>
> Chris
>
> --
> Blog: http://www.indented.co.uk
> DnsShell: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/dnsshell