if I do a ping to www.domain.com it finds the right address, however, when you try to open the page it fails because the designer removed /redirected www.domain.com to domain.com, which is the local /internal domain name.
only with the host file entry; xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx domain.com will it load the site, however doing that seems incorrect to me From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Access to website from inside WITHOUT host file change Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 23:25:20 +0000 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” 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 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 > > > > > > > >
