DNS ISSUES - PLEASE HELP 1

[dblack63]

I have read many posts about this type of a problem. Therefore, I know that my basic issue revolves around the fact that my internal domain name, bartonville66.com, is the same as my website name

http://www.bartonville66.com.

Everything seems to work well enough, except that there are issues when the DC is set as the DNS host. Prior to installing several XP machines, I had DHCP set the clients to use the ISPs DNS and they were happy enough. However, XP won't play that way. When I set my internal DC as DNS, everything is great except that I cannot access the website. Could someone please explain how, step by step, to add a

http://www host

record in DNS so that it will point to the website's IP address? When I try, it won't let me use any dots. I have a very large network and changing the internal domain name is quite impractical. Will someone help, please?

Thank you.

 

[camusa]

You must create a host record with the fqdn and ip address of the server hosting your webpage. Then creat an alias (cname) record and put in

http://www in

the alias name field (no periods allowed) and then browse to the previously created host record. You will now be able to type in

http://www.bartonville66.com

and pull up the webpage.

 

[dblack63]

Worked great. Thanks for your help.