DNS Question

[nsanto17]

I have a Win2k Server running a Website that is accessable to both internal and Extenal users.

Right now the internal users use the FQDN as the external users. For the Inhouse users who use my DNS server i want to point the FQDN to the local side so they don't have to exit the network only to come back in.

I want to point the FQDN

https://support.site.com

to the local site

https://<servername>/site

Can anyone shed some light on this?

Thanks
Nick

 

[lhuegele]

First, your post should have been sent to the DNS forum if your question is DNS related.

There are many ways you can handle this. What we do here is we maintain our own copy of the "site.com" domain on our internal DNS servers. It's a forward-lookup zone that we manually administer. It's only available inside our network and the A records we populate in there have the internal IP addresses of those systems.

We do have to maintain 2 seperate DNS zones for this domain though - an internal zone and the external hosted zone. This is the only downside we are aware of. Works great for us.

Good luck,

 

[ITPangaeaArchitect]

my assumption is that 2 zones already exist...1 for public DNS name, and one for your internal DNS name. In either case (1 or 2 zones), all you need to do is create a host record for the name of the server (which is already in internal DNS if its a domain member). From there, you merely access using the servers real hostname....you dont even need to use a fqdn (can use

http://servername).

2 zones are not necessary to do this though...if you have one zone, you simply can do a cname record for the public name and map it back to the internal DNS name....or vice versa, but doing vice versa can break kerberos functionality.

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