Cannot access external company website

[optvision]

I have configured an Active Directory domain with the same name as our company website. I can access the company website just fine outside of our network. However, I cannot access the website from within the internal network. I have seen similar forum questions on this topic, but I have had no luck so far. I created an Alias using www, pointing to our hosting companies name server, but it still cannot resolve the name. I would appreciate any suggestions on this issue. By the way, I am running a single Windows 2000 Server with Ad, DHCP, and DNS. All other websites are resolving just fine through our DNS.

 

[Serbtastic]

You would create an A record pointing

http://www to

the actual IP of your hosting company's web server.

Try pinging

http://www from

within your network. What IP does it currently point to?

 

[wbg34]

Go to start --> Programs --> Administrator tools --> DNS.
Expand forward lookup zones. Expand Your domain. Right click on your domain and select create a new host. Name the host

http://www and

enter your websites local IP addy. Click OK and close. Go to a workstation and open a command prompt. Type in ipconfig /flushdns and hit enter. Open IE and enter your websites name.

 

[Serbtastic]

Read the post! He said his company's website is being hosted. So what IP is his websites local IP addy? The answer is: there is none, its being hosted!

 

[optvision]

Thank you to everyone for helping me out with this. I was able to resolve this issue by creating a Host Record using

http://www and

pointing it to our company website. Fortunately, the hosted website does have a static IP address, so this worked out nicely. I also found out that I could have also used an Alias within DNS and pointed this to the actual web server that is hosting the site, in case the IP was dynamic. I have seen other posts on this topic, so it was a good learning exercise. Thanks again.