Re: Microsoft Windows 2000 Server DNS Question

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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 21:37:09 -0600

Corbin,

BellSouth is corect - just send them the IP your hoster provides, and
they'll set it up on their end. Generally, webhosts provide DNS, it may be
easier for you to have your host do the DNS too.

Internally, just create an A record for www and put in the same IP you give
BellSouth.

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"Corbin O'Reilly" <coreilly@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> Hi everyone. Here is my scenario. We currently have our external DNS
> (example: rocket.com) hosted by BellSouth. We have a few MX records and
> several A (Host) records. One of them is WWW which points to our web site
> that we host internally. The name of the Windows 2000 Server hosting our
web
> site on our internal LAN is WWW. Everything works great. Internal users at
> rocket.com can access www.rocket.com and so can external users. Internally
> we have an W2K Active Directory Integrated Zone for rocket.com and like I
> said everything is working perfectly. Here is where things change. We are
> moving just our web site to an external hosting service. I called
BellSouth
> and they said that all we would have to do is give them the new IP of the
> external hosting server. They would edit our zone file and point WWW to
the
> IP address of the hosting service's server and external users will be
> redirected there. My concern is the internal users at rocket.com. When
they
> go to www.rocket.com I need them to be directed to the external hosting
site
> and not the old internal site. On our internal W2K DNS Server do I need to
> remove the old host record for WWW and replace it with the new external IP
> address of the hosting server? Do I need to rename the WWW server on our
LAN
> to a different name? Do I need to setup some kind of alias? I would
> appreciate any help or guidance with this project. Thanks.
>
>

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