Internal users cannot see externally hosted website

I setup ad on my network and I called the domain the same domain as my
company's registered one. When my users try to access the website (hosted
offsite), they get dns error page in IE, yet the website is up. Obviously, I
need something in my DNS to point to my external website. I setup a www
entry, but that didn't seem to work. ANy suggestions?

Thanks,

John

 

Well, if you created a Host A Recrod 'www' in the primary domain zone,
pointing it to the IP address of
www record host by the ISP, it must work. May be
you did not set the the www "Host" record in your DNS correct.

But doing above is not really a good solution because you will have to
always keep the
track of IP address of the www record hosted by the ISP and do the change in
your DNS whenever it changes.

Instead of having a www Host A record in your DNS, you can instead
create a delegation with www as delegated domain and giving the names
server as the ISP's names server which holds record of your domain.
With this, you need not keep the track.

To do this,
Remove the www Host A record
Right click on the primary zone of your domain, and select new delegation.
Enter Delegated domain as ' www ' , click next.
Click on Add to add a names server entry, and give the FQDN and
IP address of the ISP's names server which hold the record of your
registered domain.

Sharad

 

In John C. Weldin <> posted a question
Then Kevin replied below:
: I setup ad on my network and I called the domain the same domain as my
: company's registered one. When my users try to access the website
: (hosted offsite), they get dns error page in IE, yet the website is
: up. Obviously, I need something in my DNS to point to my external
: website. I setup a www entry, but that didn't seem to work. ANy
: suggestions?
:
: Thanks,
:
: John

You've made the right fix.
Does the www record have the IP of your website?
Run ipconfig /flushdns and try again.

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