wierd problem

[dgmm]

Our office in on a MS Server and our website is hosted on apache server out of the office. They route our email to us.
Our email address is the same domain name as the website.
Often in the office I try to bring up our website in my browser and get a can not be found error. The site is online though. People outside the office can view it.

Does anyone have any idea as why this is happening?
I do appreciate any help anyone can provide.

 

[josephdavis]

What is you internal domain name?
What is your website domain name?
Are they the same?

-Joe

http://joe.galactik.com

 

[dgmm]

I've got a call in to the admin to make sure, but I do believe they are the same. I did a check of the ip address for the mx record and got the following.

SMTP - 25 220 server.xxx.org Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service, Version: 6.0.3790.3959 ready at Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:19:24 -0800

HTTP - 80 HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 1433
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Location:

http://xxxmail.xxx.org/iisstart.htm

Last-Modified: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 03:48:30 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
ETag: "03b724325dac21:735"
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:19:24 GMT
Connection: close

 

[dgmm]

I just found out from the admin. Yes they are the same domain name.

 

[josephdavis]

Check your local DNS server. If it contains records for the domain name, which it should if your Active Directory domain and your website domain are the same, make sure it has a record for

http://WWW pointing

to the public IP address of your website.

-Joe

http://joe.galactik.com

 

[dgmm]

The unix box which hosts the website has these records. Do they look correct?

Name server records point to the unix box which is a different host name than the MS box.

3 (A) records

http://www.domain-name.com

> unix box ip address
domain-name.com > unix box ip address
xxxxmail.domain-name.com > MS box ip address
Also a bunch of sub-domains > unix box ip address

 

[josephdavis]

That looks correct, what about the local DNS within your environment? (not the website environment)

-Joe

http://joe.galactik.com

 

[epiphonic]

HOw about a proxy server. do you need to add an exception if your browser is trying to resolve name via proxy?