How to resolve OWA w/in network w/ int DNS & ext Website host 1

[DThrashMan]

We have Exchange 5.5 and OWA in our organization with an internal DNS server and a website hosted by a 3rd party provider. I set up a Host (A) record to point to the IP of the external web host so when people type our address (

http://www.company.com)

from inside our network they are directed to the web host IP. The problem is that when people are off site and try to get their company email via OWA they type "

http://www.company.com/exchange"

and get the OWA logon, but when they our within our network they have to type the IP address/exchange e.g., "10.1.2.3/exchange". Is it easy to add a record that allows people to type the same thing when on site as they do offsite e.g.,

http://www.company.com/exchange?

 

[ChrisAC]

You need to use 'views' (in BIND terms, don't know about Windows DNS) so that queries for

http://www.domain.com

from inside the network are resolved to the internal address and queries for the same name from outside the network are resolved to the external address. You basically have two zone files, one internal and one external.

Chris.

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[DThrashMan]

We only have internal queries on our network to our DNS so I don't know how the views would matter. I wonder if there is a way to create a record in windows 2000 DNS manager to a site/URL like "

http://www.mycompany.com/exchange"

that would resolve to an IP. It seems like DNS Host A records only resolve sub domains with periods (server1.company.com), but what about the forward slash part.

 

[JimWells]

What about trying to get the users to go to "email.company.com" and redirecting that to the OWA login page?

 

[ChrisAC]

Ah, no DNS only resolves hosts. You can't direct to a path using DNS.

Jim's idea is best. Set up a virtual for email.company.com and then do a http redirect to the URL that you want to use.

Chris.

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