DNS Forward Lookup Zone Help with Web Site

[wantagofast]

Hello everyone.

I'm running W2k on my DC and my web server. Two separate machines. DNS is working on the DC and I have no DNS issues yet. Our internal domain name is different from our public domain name.

What I would like to do is to view our public web site internally.

What I've done already is this: I added a forward lookup zone with our public domain name. I then added a host record with "www" and the ip address of the web server. Restarted DNS. Tried to connect to the web site using the URL and still can't view.

I can view the site by using the ip of the web server.

What am I missing? I'm not real strong on DNS so us small words with me.

Thanks you for your assistance.

Matt

 

[Jpoandl]

If you have and Internet connection, do this:

1)Delete the forward lookup zone with your public internet domain name (you don't need this).

2) configure your internal DNS server to forward lookups to Internet DNS servers.

In the DNS console, right click on your server name and choose Properties from the drop down list. Then click the FORWARDS tab. Enter the IP addresses of your ISP DNS servers here (you may have to contact your ISP to find out what the DNS servers IP addresses are...)

Note: If all of the FORWARDERS information is greyed out, this means you still have a "." root forward lookup zone. You need to delete this zone before you can configure forwarding..

After this is setup, try to hit your web site...

Joseph L. Poandl
MCSE 2003

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