DNS Forward Lookup Zone issue on internal 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 use small words with me.

Thanks you for your assistance.

Matt

 

[pbunyon]

Matt,
verify dns is the issue or not by confirming forward and reverse lookups on your dns server. From cmd prompt type:
nslookup then enter, this will open the interactive prompt.
Type server ip address(of dns server)then enter,verify forward and reverse lookups with ip address of web server and fqdn (fully qualified domain name) name plus domain. A positive reply here would isolate the issue to something other than dns, local naming, WINS short naming, etc. I'd have to know more about your specific environment. Did zone replication take place? reload dns server, flush local machines dns's with the ipconfig /flushdns cmd? Give em a try, hope I've helped and not confused.


Paul

 

[wantagofast]

Thanks for your response Paul. I got dns to work. I guess I didn't wait for the zone replication to take place. How long is does it normally take to replicate?

Thanks again.

Matt

 

[pbunyon]

Replication as with most dynamic features can be adjusted to specific times and zones, most likely is dependent upon load, bandwidth and size of enterprise as well as application & hardware of dns servers. I've used Lucents VitaQIP which took several hours in a very large environment(500,000 hostnames), to replicate. More recently Cisco's CNR which took about 10 minutes or less in the same environment.

Paul