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 > > >
