Re: Point users to the outside name of an internal resource

From: Ace Fekay [MVP] (PleaseSubstituteMyActualFirstName&LastNameHere_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/09/04


Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 21:59:34 -0500

In news:0F486CAE-6E37-4215-83B4-0E9149FA0261@microsoft.com,
poguec <cpogue@prorodeo.com> posted their thoughts, then I offered mine
> We host our own FTP Server and a lot of our users access it from our
> website which uses the external name. Our firewall will not let
> users access the site by using the external name so I've made an
> internal DNS setting. This of course doesn't work from the website
> so I was wondering if there is a way to set hosts files from AD or if
> there's a way in AD to specify a policy to redirect people to the
> internal name?

Actually no. Suggestion probably creating another link on the page that has
the private IP. Name it something like, "Internal users, click here".

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Ace Fekay, MCSE 2000, MCSE+I, MCSA, MCT, MVP
Microsoft Windows MVP - Active Directory
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