Man going through the archives of my brain.
Later versions of SBS made you pick .local so the internal dns wouldn't
be the same as the external.
On SBS 2003 if you picked .com it's looking internally.
Create a new DNS record:
1.Start DNS Manager by clicking Start, pointing to Programs, pointing to
Administrative Tools, and then clicking DNS.
2.Expand your server branch, and then expand the Forward Lookup Zones
branch.
3.Expand the DNS name zone.
4.On the Action menu, click New Host, and then type the name www (or
other host name) in the New Host dialog box.
5.Type the IP address of the host. You can obtain this information by
contacting your ISP, or by using the ping command from a computer that
is not on your network. For example, you could ping www.mycompany.com
<http://www.mycompany.com/> from a computer on the Internet, and it
should resolve with an IP address. You may want to confirm this address
with your ISP. ISP-managed IP addresses are subject to change. If this
happens, you will need to update the A record you created for "www" in
your DNS zone.
You need to go into the DNS manager of SBS 2003 and add a record for the
web site. It's possible that your web site hoster moved their IP
address for your external web site and that's why it's not working.
</net nanny mode> Exchange 2003 is no longer supported. Windows 2003
has one more year. Use this summer to plan for migration on that little
box.
On 5/22/2014 6:42 AM, Kennedy, Jim wrote:
When you hit it externally, with an external computer/phone using
external DNS what happens?
*From:*[email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Charles F Sullivan
*Sent:* Thursday, May 22, 2014 9:38 AM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* RE: [NTSysADM] DNS issue with SBS 2003
When you do nslookup on either of those, do you get what’s expected?
I can’t think of a good reason www should resolve to just the domain
name, unless there is another www record besides the one you want.
*From:* [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>] *On Behalf Of *Jimmy Tran
*Sent:* Thursday, May 22, 2014 9:23 AM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* [NTSysADM] DNS issue with SBS 2003
I have client who has their internal domain name the same as their
external domain name. They are running SBS 2003. Issue is when
someone internally types in http://www.domain.net, it drops the www
and redirects to http://domain.net and displays the SBS Webserver.
This was working fine till yesterday. There is a www record set, on
the internal dns, to resolve to an outside IP.
Any suggestions on how to fix or to keep the www in place?
-Jimmy
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