I have a website running (well sort of) on my win2k server. We called our providers (AT&T) and had them create an 'A' record for with one of our external ip addresses as the ip given to them (one from our list is what head of MIS told me), where there was only previously a mail.sitename.com, which was our exchange server. After they had created the 'A' record the site still wouldn't pop up, and since this was my first time doing this, I tried something. I went into dns manager on one of the other servers and created an 'A' record there for the pointing to the internal ip address of the server that had the website on it. Bingo! I could access the website. It wasn't until a couple days later that someone told me they couldn't access the site at all from out of the office, i.e. the 'A' record I had created in our dns servers allowed those inside to point to the server, but no one outside. I tried adding an 'NS' record in our DNS server for for kicks and that didn't do anything either. Really am at a loss for what to do here. Is there an additional step I need to take? Or do you guys think AT&T doesn't have their stuff together. Conceptually, there must be something to link their 'A' record IP address (which is just one of our external ip's) with the internal ip address of my server, and I thought that thing was the DNS inside 'A' record I created, but I guess not. Please help.
-dbromberg
-dbromberg