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DNS not resolving

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cydian

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Jan 17, 2003
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Well, actually it is, but not sure where to post this, so......
I have a W2K8 R2 server that I inherited.
The local domain name was setup with a .com FDQN which matches an external web site.
EG-local is server.ourdomain.com and external web site is at ourdomain.com.
So, of course they cannot reach the web site since it resolves to the local system.
Easy fix, I thought. Just add an A record into the local DNS pointing the external web site of the host.
I do that and I can correctly ping and it resolves to the external IP address. But I still cannot reach the site.
What I see happening is that when I (from any browser anywhere on the network) put into the address bar and hit enter, the address I input is truncated to just ourdomain.com and all I can get to is the local IIS.
Why is the address being truncated like that in the browser address bar? It does not matter what browser I use or where on the network I try it from, the address is always truncated to remove the www.
I am at a loss... any advice?
 
It sounds to me like you've got a renaming line of code in your IIS web.config file either on the windows server or the web server, assuming it is an MS site. If it's a Linux site, then that'd be in an .htaccess file quite probably.

I've no real experience on the MS IIS side of things, but from what I read, that's the equivalent of the .htaccess file on Linux web servers.

Wherever it resides, it does definitely sound like a renaming issue - which will often be tied to the redirects.

"But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." 1 Corinthians 15:57
 
If the server is on your local LAN than just create an A record for the server name with the internal IP address and a cname or alias for www

server A internal IP address

www Alias(CNAME) server.ourdomain.com


That's what I did and it works for me

Norm

 
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