DNS issue with company website

[ScottCGI]

We have an issue viewing our company website from inside of our network and I think I've found the problem but don't know how to solve it. Our file server (server 2003) is our main DNS server with the exchange server (server 2000) serving as a backup. There is a host record (uses parent domain) for our domain name that points to the private IP of our Exchange server. I didn't create it and I don't know what it's purpose is. When I delete it I find that our website can then be viewed fine. But it recreates itself for some reason and when this happens we cannot view certain images on the website. How can I fix this??
FYI.... our website can be viewed fine externally.

 

[stfaprc]

Do you have seperate zones setup for internal and external?

 

[ShackDaddy]

Can you set up an explicit

http://www A-record

internally and start using

http://www.domain.com

or

http://www.domain.local

to resolve the internal website instead of just

http://domain.local

or

http://domain.com?

Internally, your AD wants to be able to resolve the domain name to one of the domain controllers, so you don't want to have the parent domain map somewhere besides a DC on the internal network. If you remove it, it's probably putting it back to keep things healthy.

Dave Shackelford
Shackelford Consulting