Re: Small web server and DNS

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From: Jeff Cochran (jeff.nospam_at_zina.com)
Date: 03/25/05 

Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 17:04:37 GMT

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 07:33:01 -0800, Perpetually perplexed
<Perpetuallyperplexed@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>
>So far so good...I have regestered both aaa.net and bbb.net, created host
>headers aaa.net and bbb.net, created root directories, and assigned static,
>internal(192.168.x.x) ip's. But i am still directed to the default web site
>while using either aaa.net or bbb.net from outside.

Then your headers may not be configured correctly. See:

HOW TO: Use Host Header Names to Configure Multiple Web Sites in
Internet Information Services 6.0:
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=324287

Jeff

>"Leythos" wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 06:31:02 -0800, Perpetually perplexed wrote:
>> >
>> > I am trying to host 2 sites on my 2003 web edition server. I cannot
>> > access anything but the default site from outside the network. After
>> > reading similar posts I concluded I need to set up an internal DNS
>> > server. How would I create the appropriate zones using the names aaa.net
>> > and bbb.net? I only have one ip address to use. Thanks in advance.
>>
>> From the outside you need a PUBLIC DNS record for each sites name - if you
>> have aaa.net then you need a public domain name called aaa.net that points
>> to the single public IP of your network, same with bbb.net, a public DNS
>> record for it too - same IP.
>>
>> On the web server, you need to create a root site for each site, a aaa.net
>> and a bbb.net and then use HOST HEADER information to differentiate site
>> aaa from bbb. I usually set the HH to allow aaa.net, www.aaa.net, and then
>> the other one to bbb.net and www.bbb.net.
>>
>> For internal resolution of the web domains, you might want to setup and
>> Internal DNS server or use a HOSTS file. I manage about 100 websites on a
>> couple servers and we use an internal DNS server with the domain names and
>> their subs and point to their INTERNAL IP addresses so that internal users
>> can access them, our firewall would not allow them to access from inside
>> the LAN through to the DMZ with a public IP natted to a private IP.
>>
>>
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>>
>>

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