DNS question.

[DB55185]

How would I go about setting up a specific URL name to internally resolve to our server? Not quite sure how to proceed here

http://www.mydomainname.com

is our main website that hosted locally and internally on our server.

http://www.mydomainname2.com

is a name we own that is resolving to

http://www.mydomainname.com

outside of our office.

But internally(within our network) when I type

http://www.mydomainname2.com

it is not resolving to

http://www.mydomainname.com.

It goes nowhere and I get the white "page cant be found" screen.

I imagine there is a DNS entry or something I need to add to our internal DNS server that will route mydomainname2.com to our mydomainname.com, but I am not quite sure of the specifics. Could someone steer me in the right direction? What do I need to do to be able to resolve mydomainname2.com to mydomainname.com inside of our network?

Thanks much!

 

[anawrocki]

Depending on what you use for a DNS server, you add an A record (AKA Host Record) and give it the IP address of

http://www.mydomainname.com.

Depending upon your routers/firewall you may need to use a private IP versus the public IP you use from the outside.

 

[WhoKilledKenny]

Is your external domain name the same as you internal domain name?