Re: Resolving website with lan address of .com

"Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]" wrote:

Joe K wrote:
I inherited a doamin that was named landomain.com. Their website is
www.landoamin.com. They were having loacal DNS problems finding the
server on the lan. It turns out hey had the ISP as the preferred &
secondary DNS servers on the server. I changed the DNS to the local
server (itself). I set up forwarders to the ISP and all is well on
the lan with the exception of finding the company web page on the
Internet from this LAN. The landomain.com DNS is looking internally
for www.landomain.com as it is looking locally and nobody can resolve
that lookup on the internet. I put the ISP DNS as a secondary (on the
server) and it doesn't make it to that if it fails internally. The
lookup fails. How can I get that one site to resolve outside rather
than inside?

You will need to create a new host record named www and give it the IP
address of the website. Accessing the website by using only
http://landomain.com will not be possible, that name must resolve only the
internal addresses of all domain controllers for the \\landomain.com\SYSVOL
and \\landomain.com\NETLOGON DFS Shares.
Alternately, you can create a website on all domain controllers for
http://landomain.com and use the Home Directory tab on the website
properties *** to redirect to http://www.landomain.com.

Under no circumstances should you use your ISP's DNS in TCP/IP properties on
any interface of any domain member, including DCs and DNS servers.

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Best regards,
Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]
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Thanks Kevin,
Agreed, I don't knwo what they were thinking setting up the domain with .com
instead of .local or .lan. What I did temporarily is add an entry into the
host file on each machine pointing to the website and flushed everyone's DNS
cache. There are only 5 workstations and a Win2K Server. This resolves the
site externally & allows the DNS internally & externally to be handled by the
DC.
One more quick ??
Would changing the domain to .local mean re-doing the entire network? i.e.
domain memebership, computer & user accounts, AD, DNS etc.

thanks again
.