Re: Microsoft Windows 2000 Server DNS Question

From: Sharad Naik (sharadnaik_at_nospam-vsnl.net)
Date: 03/25/04 

Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 09:04:47 +0530

You can just point the existing www record in your win 2k DNS to the new
external IP.
If the hosting service provider changes the
IP address of the web server, then you have to
ask BellSouth to change the record accordingly,
as well, change the record on your win 2K DNS too.

Another option:
Delete the existing record www in your DNS.
right click on zone rocket.com and select New Delegation
Under delegated host type www , click next
Click add to add a names server, and give names server
name of BellSouth's primary DNS and its IP address,
(I.e. BlueSouth's DNS server, which is hosting your
records for rocket.com)
With this option if the hosting service provider changes the
IP of the web server, only BlueSouth has to change the
record, you won't have to do anything on your DNS.

Sharad

"Corbin O'Reilly" <coreilly@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:2Fr8c.6138$HP.3854@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net...
> 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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