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DNS- resolve www. address of our webserver internally? 1

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pjewett

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Feb 1, 2006
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One of our guys in Marketing is working on a few projects related to our Company's website which we host ourselves. He often needs to demonstrate some of the changes he's making to our Executives while here on the premises and inside of our network.

The issue apparently is that in his demonstrations he needs or wants to be able to use "www" in front of our domain name when he browses to the site.

It was explained to me that because we host our own site and that because it is located inside of our network that users internal to our network are prevented from using "www" when visiting our site because "www" forwards the request to port 80, where a DNS server would then direct the user back to the external IP of our webserver, which is not allowed to prevent one from "spoofing" into our network.

Is this information accurate and is there a way to allow users internal to our network to browse to our internally hosted webserver using the same address they would use externally? exp. instead of apple.com without compromising security?


Thanks very much in advance.
 
Add an entry to your internal DNS servers (cname)
<your internal IP>

or if it is a single windows machine you coudl add it to the lmhosts file

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Matt
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