You are right. I thought he was only talking about the "www" issue. I didn't think about the DNS zone problem.
Robert, Are you using the Split DNS? Santhosh Santhosh Sivarajan MCSE(W2K3/W2K/NT4),MCSA(W2K3/W2K/MSG),CCNA,Network+ Houston, TX On 4/29/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's a good work-around, but it will not make his original problem go away. > > He's looking to resolve xyz.com, which happens to be his internal domain > name. Robert, unless your DCs are also your web servers, you will have to > forget about this idea. Your DCs use that address, and if you try to hack > around it and make the address resolve to your web servers, you will be in a > lot of troubles. > > Take Santhosh's recommendation and start telling your users that, because > your internal and external names are the same, and because your DCs and Web > servers are not the same machines (I hope), there is no "easy" way for them > to reach xyz.com from the internal side. > > Sincerely, > > D�j� Ak�m�l�f�, MCSE+M MCSA+M MCP+I > Microsoft MVP - Directory Services > www.readymaids.com - we know IT > www.akomolafe.com > Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about > Yesterday? -anon > > ________________________________ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Santhosh Sivarajan > Sent: Thu 4/28/2005 3:09 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] ACTIVE DIRECTORY AND WEBSITE CONFLICTS > > > Create a new Alias entry with "www" and point it to the internal or > external web site IP address. > > Santhosh > > On 4/28/05, Santhosh Sivarajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Create a new Alias entry with "www" and point it to the internal or > > external web site address. > > > > Santhosh > > > > Santhosh Sivarajan > > MCSE(W2K3/W2K/NT4),MCSA(W2K3/W2K/MSG),CCNA,Network+ > > Houston, TX > > > > > > On 4/28/05, Robert Oytun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Folks, > > > > > > > > > > > > I have a question, our active directory domain was setup as xyz.com also > our > > > > > > Website hosted by web hosting company called xyz.com. > > > > > > > > > > > > Now internal users, when they open their IE, can not visit xyz.com, but > > > outside of our company it works fine. > > > > > > I believe I need to define in DNS. > > > > > > > > > > > > Could you please help. > > > > > > > > > > > > Thank you > > > > > > > > > > > > RObert > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx > List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx > List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
