DNS domain same as Active directory domain name 1

[tanksley]

Ok, this is a tricky one: We have a client that has an active directory dns name the same as their internet DNS name. This would be fine except that their web site is hosted externally. So when clients that have their primary DNS pointing to the internal server (as required by active directory) try to access the external web site, active directory thinks it's internal and can't find it. No problem, put in a zone for

http://www in

the internal DNS. That works fine. Now when they try to access

http://www.domain.com

active directory sees that it has

http://www on

it and points it to the external site as specified in the dns. The problem is that their web site has thousands of pages and 5% of the links dropped the

http://www for

some reason. So when internal users try to go to those pages, active directory takes the request and can't find the page internally. Changing the pages would be the best idea but this is a satellite office of a 50,000 person company and the corporate office doesn't want to listen. Isn't there a way to make active directory forward dns requests for the local domain externally so they will resolve? I have forwards set in DNS to an external DNS server.

 

[dmandell]

Let me see if I have this correctly.
To make a long story short you want internal clients to resolve "domain.com" to the IP of your external

http://www server.

Is that correct?

If so, you don't need any special

http://www zone.

Just add a forward entry (A record) for the

http://www server

in your "domain.com" zone, but leave the host name blank. (Yes you heard me correctly.)

When you are done, you should have an A record in your domain.com zone for "

http://www.domain.com"

and one for "domain.com" both pointing to the same IP of your web server. (Not a CNAME record) two A records.

When you are done, a lookup for both "

http://www.domain.com"

and "domain.com" will point to your web server.

If I did not understand your question correctly, could you clarify it for me?

hope this helps,
Dana

 

[tanksley]

That sounds like it would work. I think you understood my question properly. I'm going to try it. Thanks.

 

[RicardoH2000]

I have the same problem,

The AD domain name is sample.com and when users try to access the

http://www.sample.com

site externally, it error's out for them.

So I'll try to do what your response says to do.

Thanks