Re: iis and intranet config question

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From: Ray Joslyn (ray_at_work)
Date: 01/10/05 

Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 10:11:11 -0600

Jeff,
Which way should it be? Right now the default web site is pointing to the
internal ip address, and OWA is set to (All Unassigned)

Ray

"Jeff Cochran" <jeff.nospam@zina.com> wrote in message
news:41e2a5f9.262924255@msnews.microsoft.com...
> On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:16:27 -0600, "Ray Joslyn" <ray@work> wrote:
>
>>We host a mail server which our isp forwards all our incoming mail to. We
>>recently had our reverse dns changed to reflect our server, it now will
>>show
>>mail.ourdomain.com It was causing problems before because the reverse
>>dns
>>lookup was returning our isp's server, which made mail coming out of our
>>server look to be spam.
>>
>>Anyways the problem now is when someone goes to http://mail.ourdomain.com
>>it
>>is bringing up our internal intranet site running on the mail server
>>(running iis 5.0). What I would like for it to do is for that address to
>>acually go to are outlook web access and have no access to the intranet,
>>which is also running on the exchange server 2000.
>>
>>What do I have to do to accomplish this?
>
> Sounds like you have the DNS entry for mail.ourdomain.com pointing to
> the same IP as the internal web site answers on, or it answers on All
> Unassigned. If the former, you'll need to use host headers to
> separate the sites, if the latter, and you've assigned specific IP
> addresses to the individual sites and have the sites answer on those
> IP addresses.
>
> Basically, you need to ensure that the IP used by Exchange for OWA
> isn't the same used by the internal web site. Which really should be
> an internal IP not being passed through your firewall anyway.
>
> Jeff

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