Re: Creating a zone to use our external FTP name and point to our

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From: Curtis J. Pogue (CurtisJPogue_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/28/05


Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:37:03 -0800

You have the correct external information, it does not allow anonymous. I
used the internal address in the A record in DNS. DNS in internal.

"Roland Hall" wrote:

> "Curtis J. Pogue" wrote in message
> news:ED29E6E1-F632-4FC9-A907-88172ED75ECF@microsoft.com...
> :I was hoping I could ask you this question directly as I'm needing an
> answer
> : pretty quick.
> :
> : I rebuilt our DNS this weekend because I inherited it and it wasn't quite
> : right.
>
> You appear to be going in the wrong direction.
>
> : We host a FTP server and our users were accessing the site using the
> : external name of ftp.prorodeo.com.
>
> Is this the correct external IP? 64.140.2.125
> And name: ns1.isocentric.com
> I connected to it:
> Connected to ftp.prorodeo.com.
> 220 Gene6 FTP Server v3.4.0 (Build 16) ready...
> User (ftp.prorodeo.com:(none)): anonymous
> 331 Password required for anonymous.
> Password:
> 530 Login or Password incorrect.
> Login failed.
> ftp> close
> 221 Goodbye.
> ftp> quit
>
> It didn't allow anonymous logons. Hopefully that is correct.
>
> : When I recreated our DNS I created a
> : prorodeo.com zone and put the FTP A record in there.
>
> And what address did you put in there? The external or internal IP address
> and is this the external or internal DNS server?
>
> : This caused a problem
> : today because people were not able to access our website and we have
> internal
> : Outlook users that use POP3 to access our mail server and our mail server
> : said that prorodeo.com was not found in DNS.
>
> Sounds like you're in the calf scramble already. The IP is important.
>
> : I was wondering what is the best way to set this up so it works again?
>
> Need the IP info first. See above.
>
> If the DNS server is internal and the internal IP address is 192.168.x.x or
> some other private IP address and you used the external address, it's not
> going to work. If the FTP server is external, then there is no reason to
> put a zone in your internal DNS for people internal to get to it. When you
> mention servers and internal vs external, we need to know where everything
> is and internal IP addresses are important. External usually isn't and
> protects your privacy.
>
> --
> Roland Hall
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