Inside Out?

[staboogie]

I have an ftp server. It has a public address but when my users inside the building try to connect to it or even ping it xxxx.xxxx.xxx, it tries to connect them with the outside address. I don't know what is taking them to the outside address because in DNS manager i made the name equal to the internal IP of the inside machine. It is a NT network by the way with 2 internal dns servers.

 

[mojo31]

By public, do you mean 192.168.x.x? To me it sounds like the clients pc thinks that the server is on a different network, thus why it seeks a router/switch to go to another network.

 

[jbud]

Are your DNS clients also NT? You may have to reboot them to clear their local resolver cache if you made the change recently.

You may also want to try to use ipconfig and nslookup on the client to verify the name server they're pointing to.