DNS Question

[ryoun1b]

Hello,

I run an NT 4.0 environment with no DNS behind a firewall. I point my users to my ISP's DNS in the DHCP parameters.

I have a outlook web access url that is a A record in my ISPs DNS to point to my second fixed IP address. From there the firewall/router does a one to one nat to the machine which has outlook web access and IIS installed to serve the OWA pages.

I would like to also use that same URL in my LAN so that the same external URL points to the same server in my LAN environment. How should I set up my DNS records to accomplish this?

 

[yizhar]

HI.

The best solution is to implement an internal DNS server for internal use.

Bye
Yizhar Hurwitz

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[Jackcipk]

Ok, before you start setting up your internal DNS, test this first: Try to access your web server's IP from IE(via the public IP) from inside your LAN. Can you see the default site ?

Let me know. It's not about whether you can do it or not, it's about HOW
OK, Let's Do It !!!
jliu@Cipk.com

 

[bgssgk]

Don't waste so much time unless your network is really big, you have two options
1. add a line to your client's host files the computer checks the hosts file before dns and this will increase response time internally.
the line looks like this:
IP actual url shortcut name.
192.168.1.10 server.yourdomain.com server

Or (easier) 2. You can also access it internally by using the url

http://servername/directory

and skip the host file.
by server name I mean the machine name (i.e., exchange)

Hope that helps