DNS wouldn't be doing that. So, something on your webserver, your website's application code, or some intermediate device (e.g. a proxy server) is doing that.
If you do "ping www.domain.com<http://www.domain.com>" from an internal machine, does it resolve to the correct IP? If so, then the problem isn't at the IP (and thus DNS) layer. It's at a higher layer in the stack. Cheers Ken From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of J- P Sent: Thursday, 1 August 2013 3:47 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Access to website from inside WITHOUT host file change 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<http://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]<mailto:[email protected]> > To: [email protected]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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<http://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 > > > > > > > >
