Re: SBS2003 and external website

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In news:4BCA3994-22C4-438D-B3EE-C47A3D075534@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Jon <Jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
I'm wondering the same thing, although my internal domain is
mycompanyd.lan, but when people try to access my public domain name
mycompany.com I want them to be redirected to an external hosted
website (ie, by one of the free hosting websites, such as
Homestead.com)

If you aren't using mycompany.com internally, that's precisely what should
be happening now (presuming mycompany.com has its externally-hosted DNS
configured properly). What *does* happen now?


Eventually, I will use IIS to host

Don't do that. Really. Leave it outside.

, but for now I just want to
redirect queries to my public domain to this exernal website. How
do I do this?

Thanks for your help in advance.



"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:

In news:1159368138.364906.224420@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
mc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
Hi everyone,
I have a SBS2003 installation. My domain is "mycompany.com" and
Exchange works fine getting all emails directly thanks to MX record
set up at my ISP.
The problem is that when I try to reach my website, which is hosted
by my ISP, I get either PAGE CANNOT BE DISPLAYED (from local PCs) or
default SBS2003 website if tried directly on the server. Can someone
tell me how to redirect www requests to my ISP ?

Any help appreciated.

If your AD domain name is also mycompany.com (as in, it matches your
public domain name), your internal users will have problems
connecting to *external* hosts on mycompany.com, because SBS thinks
it is authoritative for that domain name, and won't find stuff like
www, mail, whatever.mydomain.com inside. This is one of the main
reasons that it isn't recommended to use the same DNS domain name
inside as well as outside.

To work around this, open DNS on the SBS server in admin tools, and
in the forward lookup zone, add a host called www - and point it at
the correct public IP.



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