Re: DNS or IIS issue?

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From: Jeff Cochran (jeff.nospam_at_zina.com)
Date: 09/16/04 

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 01:59:48 GMT

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 13:27:11 -0700, "MDPILWL"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I have Windows2003 Ent running IIS 6.0 and DNS
>
>I have created a new web site in FrontPage 2003 on a
>seperate workstaion in the domain. I am at the Publishing
>phase now and have been trying everything the books say
>on how to publish your site pointing to a server with
>Frontpage extentions. I don't want to use the default
>site in IIS so I created a new directory on my server
>then created a new web site in IIS and pointed to that
>directory as the home directory. I then went into the
>advanced settings for the new site in IIS and removed the
>default Host header value and created a new one with the
>WWW.MYDEV.COM as the header value and used the IP address
>of the server and port 80. I also enable FP extensions
>for this new site.
>
>I then created a DNS CNAME record of www.mydev.com and
>pointed it to the servers FQDN A record.

A record or IP address? It should be the latter.

>I restarted DNS and IIS services.
>
>I try and push or Publish my web pages to the server but
>it can't resolve or find http://www.mydev.com.

How do you know? It it displayas an error, telling us would help.

>I go to my IE browser and type http://www.mydev.com and
>it goes out on the internet and doesn't resolve to my
>inTRAnet site?

What does the host name resolve to? How about testing with a ping or
NSlookup?

>If I type http://myservername in the browser it resolves
>to the default IIS webpage.

That's as expected.

>Did I create the DNS record wrong? any ideas.

The DNS record may be fine. But if the client isn't using that DNS
server, the record is useless.

Jeff

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