Re: Local Domain name conflicts with web address

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From: Cypher (Cypher_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/28/04 

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 08:49:13 -0700

Thank you- I went to DNS and added a new CNAME actually. That seemed to do
the trick. I appreciate the quick response.

"Roger Abell" wrote:

> If your clients are XP then you could push out an
> explicit DNS suffix searchlist via GPO, so that use
> of an unqualified name would cause resolution attempts
> with each entry in the explicit searchlist, likely
> ourcompany.local and then ourcompany.com
>
> Another approach is to make a manual A record in
> your DNS zone for ourcompany.local to define www
> with correct IP for the webserver so that unqualified
> use of www will find www.ourcompany.local with
> the intended address (note: if you website is defined
> with use of host header checking then you would need
> to also add this name on the IIS for the website)
>
> The first approach resolves this issue for all names,
> whereas the second is narrow for only www but could
> be used repeated as needed for other hosts.
> --
> Roger Abell
> Microsoft MVP (Windows Server System: Security)
> MCSE (W2k3,W2k,Nt4) MCDBA
> "Cypher" <Cypher@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:12B786D5-75F5-4C1A-A54D-B2053EC37203@microsoft.com...
> > I have a server with W2k3 as my PDC and 21 other DC around the city
> running
> > W2k3. In order for all of our computers to register in DNS I set the DHCP
> > scope option for DNS Domain Name to ourcompany.local. However, it used to
> be
> > set as ourcompany.com. Before changing it we would type www in the address
> > bar and get our home page. Now that it has changed to .local, this no
> longer
> > works. Is there a setting in DNS or DHCP that needs to be configured, or
> am I
> > out of luck?
> > Thanks!
>
>
>

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