Re: Setting up DNS records for internal web sites

"vseven" <vseven@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello. I've searched through this group trying to find the answer but
the things that look like they would work havn't for me. I have 4
servers but I'm working with two of them. ServerA is running Windows
2003 standard with AD, DNS, WINS, and file/print sharing. ServerB is
running Windows 2003 Web Edition with IIS6. My domain is
"domain.local". I've setup DNS for the domain and all the other
servers are resolving correctly. I can ping "ServerB.domain.local"
just fine.

Now I want to host a site on ServerB called "MyWeb" (no
.com, no www).

Such a name makes no sense for an "international web site" as it
would only be locatable within your own local organization AT
BEST.

Esssentially this would make the domain a NEW top level domain
(equal to .com or .fr or .edu or .web) but one that is UNREGISTERED
on the Internet and so accessible only to users who use YOUR DNS
DIRECTLY, i.e., in their NIC->IP settings.

I make a site on the IIS6 box and set the headers to
"MyWeb". I then tried adding a new forward lookup zone called "MyWeb"
with a single blank A record pointing to ServerB's IP address. This is
not working. When I try to access it I get no response and trying to
ping it does not resolve. What am I doing wrong?

For clients using that DNS server DIRECTLY it should work.

For others it will NOT work.

What happens when you use NSLookup directed SPECIFICALLY at
the DNS server which holds this zone?

nslookup MyWeb IP.DNS.Holding.Zone

If this fails then you have not correctly setup the zone MyWeb or
perhaps the A record with blank name in that zone.

BTW, what are you really trying to do as this is so non-standard
as to make almost no sense.


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