Uh, yeah, in that case, your web site might be broken. I see no reason for a web site to redirect www.domain.tld to the bare domain.tld.
Kurt On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:46 AM, J- P <[email protected]> wrote: > I have the www A record in DNS but it will not load the page without the > host entry , what I seem to notice is that website seems to be redirecting > www.domain.com to domain.com , could this be causing the issue? > > Jean-Paul Natola > > > >> Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 10:42:22 -0700 > >> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Access to website from inside WITHOUT host file >> change >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] > >> >> A static A record in your AD DNS for 'www' pointing at your off-site >> web server should work just fine - that's exactly what I use. >> >> What happens when you take the entry out of the hosts file, and add in >> the DNS entry for 'www'? >> >> Kurt > >> >> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:26 AM, J- P <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > I would like to know what is the proper way to have internal users of >> > domain.com access their externally hosted website of the same name >> > www.domain.com. >> > >> > my "work around" has been to add an entry in the host file of the pc >> > with >> > the external (hosted website) IP such as this; >> > >> > 64.61.120.50 domain.com >> > >> > which was ok for one or two users, I would like to be able to do it >> > without >> > this hack/mod. >> > >> > When I tried to add a www record in DNS (Active Directory) the browsers >> > never make it to the page- >> > >> > I believe* this is something "split-dns" related. >> > >> > Any pointers are appreciated. >> > >> > TIA >> > >> > >> > >> >>
