Can't access our website from internal network 1

[mquinn0908]

We have a website that is hosted outside of our network but I am unable to access this site from inside the network by the name. I can access this site by it's IP address but not the actual name. I know this is related to DNS but I am not sure where we need to make a change so I can access our site internally. Just as a note: I can access this site by both name and IP address outside of our network.

 

[ChicagoTechNet]

quoted from

http://www.chicagotech.net

Why our web site doesn't work internally

Q: Everyone can access our web site on the Internet. But no one can access the web site internally. Instead, we are point to our Intranet.

A: If you network domain name is the same of your web site name, you should point the web to the web public IP. To do this, open DNS manager and create a host. for example

http://www.chicagotech.net=public

ip.



Robert Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Windows, Network, Internet, VPN, Routing and How to at

http://www.ms-mvps.com

 

[mquinn0908]

I was able to work around this by editing the host file and adding an entry for our web site pointing to the public IP address. And yes our network domain name is the same of our web site name.

 

[tylan]

What type of firewall do you have? I just ran into a PIX, that was causing the same thing. We had to use the ALIAS command to allow the PCs to hit thier internal web server from its external name.

 

[minxca]

You have to add

http://www in

your internal DNS.