DNS Help

[iantaylor2100]

Hi I have set up a DNS server for our Intranet.
However the domain name is the same as our actual web site e.g. test.com.
I've added an A RECORD as the intranet has additional text e.g intranet.test.com

Problem is whenever someone intrenally tries to access our website they cannot find it.
I thought of adding anothre A RECORD to say

http://www.test.com

go here but the web site is housed externally.

Hopes this makes sense to someone and would appreciate any help on this.

Thanks in advance

Ian Taylor

 

[jbud]

I thought of adding anothre A RECORD to say

http://www.test.com

go here but the web site is housed externally.

Adding an A record would be the easiest solution. As long as your hosting provider doesn't change the IP address for your external site, you probably won't have any issues.

 

[iantaylor2100]

Thanks JBUD.

I've been trying to find the IP address but think its on a shared system so probably doesn't have a dedicated IP. Is there another RECORD type I can use, I have a link that goes direct to the site without using the domain. Can I use that??

 

[jbud]

You should be able to use that. You may want to verify how their virtual hosting is set up (ie, is it IP-based or name-based?).

The other solution to this would be to delegate, on your internal server, the zone

http://www.test.com,

to the hosting providers' DNS servers.

 

[iantaylor2100]

the site is name based

http://test.isp

Which record type could I use to do this or send it to a DNS server?

 

[iantaylor2100]

excellent thanks JBUD, I got it to work. I tried using the IP address that showed up in the firewall and it works fine.

Thanks again