Re: web browsing

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I'll go further than this, because I can.

Naming your AD DNS with ANY relationship to your FQDN is STUPID. This is not 
an 'SBS' question, it is pure AD (_many_ an _enterprise_ admin should heed 
my words).

AD DNS is used to satisfy queries inside the AD, queries outside the AD get 
satisfied by the AD integrated DNS servers by the use of either 'forwarders' 
or 'root hints'.

Should you wish to make resources (servers) inside your AD available to the 
public internet you can do so (mail.domain.com, ts.domain.com, 
smtp.domain.com, etc...) by asking your public FQDN hosts to create records 
pointing to the appropriate IPs and forwarding the ports from your firewall 
to the appropriate servers.

"Jim Martin [MSFT]" <jimmart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
news:NJTa4$5JGHA.3944@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Generally speaking it is not recommended to install SBS with a domain name
> of (domain).com .  Using a domain name suffix of ".local" or any
> non-top-level domain suffix is preferable.  It can cause a variety of
> issues, similar to what you are experiencing.
>
> BUT, if you really want that internal domain name you can make it work.
> But it would help if we knew from where you were trying to browse from...
> outside your LAN or within.  If from within, adding the www A record to
> your local zone pointed to your internal IP address should work.  But a 
> lot
> of it is dependent upon other factors, such as whether you have ISA, how
> your DNS is configured, etc.
>
> Can you access the web site using the IP address?  When you try to ping
> www.domain.com, does it resolve to the right IP address?  Is the web site
> separate from the default web site in IIS?  Can you browse it fro the
> server as opposed to from the outside or an internal client?  Is the web
> server also the SBS server, or a different machine?
>
> Lot's of questions, I know.  But the more details we have the better we 
> can
> help you.
>
> Cheers!
> Jim
> 


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