Re: Can Not View Externaly Hosted Website

From: David Elders (david_elders_at_nospam.hotmail.com)
Date: 04/08/04 

Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 11:25:19 +0100

Hi Daniel,

It's recommended not to use your fully qualified domain name for your local
domain name - usual recommendation is to use mydomain.local. More info here:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;296250
The Domain Name System Recommendations for Small Business Server 2000

"The disadvantages of using the sub-domain of a publicly registered domain
name or a publicly registered domain name include, but may not be limited
to, the following issues:
  a.. Internal clients may be able to resolve resources on the internal
domain, however, queries to external resources of the domain are not
resolved by the DNS server. For example, if the internal network namespace
is configured by using the publicly registered domain name of Contoso.com,
only resources that have "A" (Host) records in the forward lookup zone for
Contoso.com are available to local clients. This behavior can pose a problem
if Contoso.com hosts resources, such as, a web server by means of an
external provider or Internet service provider (ISP). Any queries from
internal clients to www.contoso.com are resolved as a negative query by the
local DNS server because the "A" record for "www" does not exist in the
forward lookup zone for Contoso.com. For clients to access external
resources, "A" records must be added to the forward lookup zone of the DNS
server for those resources."
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;254680
DNS Namespace Planning

Incidentally, is the www A record you entered [in the forward lookup zone,
right?] 'pointing' at the IP address of your externally hosted website?
Might be a daft question but thought I'd ask it anyway.

Hope some of that helps, although it sounds like you're already aware of the
above in any case. Sorry if its not much help.

Regards,

David

"Daniel Merchant" <danielmerchant@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:bbd681be.0404080106.53049f5@posting.google.com...
> See Below for ipconfig/all from server.
> I have followed some advice and set the Primary DNS server on internal
> and external NIC to internal address of server.
> I can now ping www.mydomain.com and get a sucessfull reply from the
> external address but I still get this password box when accessing the
> site through internet explorer.
> I would appreciate any more ideas.
>
> Windows 2000 IP Configuration
>
> Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : MYSBS
> Primary DNS Suffix . . . . . . . : mydomain.co.uk
> Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
> IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : Yes
> WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
> DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : mydomain.co.uk
> co.uk
>
> Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection :
>
> Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
> Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) PRO/100 S Server
> Adapter
> Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-22-B3-4D-FF-E9
> DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
> IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.0.0.200
> Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
> Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
> DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.0.0.200
> Primary WINS Server . . . . . . . : 10.0.0.200
>
> Ethernet adapter Internet:
>
> Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
> Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel 8255x-based PCI
> Ethernet Adapt
> er (10/100)
> Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-B1-A3-FC-34-94
> DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
> IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 217.XX.XX.9
> Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.248
> Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 217.XX.XX.14
> DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.0.0.200
>
>
>
>
>
>
> "Marina Roos [SBS-MVP]" <marina@roos.nodontwantspam.nl.com> wrote in
message news:<ePdqWJTHEHA.2576@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl>...
> > Can you post the ipconfig/all from the server please?
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> >
> > Marina
> > Microsoft SBS-MVP

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