MS2003 DNS - Forward domain to external website

[Leeviker101]

I have an MS2003 server running in the DMZ which hosts our external DNS. We apparently have a 3rd party vendor hosting an onlinestore for our company. I have a 'mycompany.com' zone in DNS. I need to create a setup in DNS where onlinestore.mycompany.com is redirected to an external address at

http://www.3rdparty.com/mycompany

. I created a subdomain called 'onlinestore' under 'mycompany.com' in DNS. In the 'onlinestore' folder in DNS I created a CName entry to point to '

http://www.3rdparty.com/mycompany

.

Will this work? It doesn't seem to and I need a solution ASAP!

thanks,
Lee

 

[WhoKilledKenny]

I don't know about creating a sub-domain? As onlinestore would just be a hostname?
Fist make sure external DNS is working.
I would do an nslookup on mycompany.com and make sure the DNS server is the porper name server for the Domain.

Then
I wouldn't create a new sub-domain as onlinestore is a host on the domain mycompany.com.
I would create to host records:
onlinestore.mycompany.com
-and-

http://www.onlinestore.mycompany.com

and point them to the IP Address for the web server.
Test that the hostnames resolved to the IP address of the server.

So... Then.
If the Web server is hosting multiple-site I would give the web administrator the hostnames created so that he/she can make appropriate changes to foward requests to the proper site. (for example is IIS, hostheaders would need to be created for onlinestore.mycompany.com and

http://www.onlinstore....).

Hope this helps....

 

[ShackDaddy]

The root of the problem here is that you are trying to hit a subdirectory at the 3rd-party site. As WKK said, you can have the 3rd-party use host headers to accomodate you are redirect that traffic to the appropriate subdirectory.

The other option, which you may not be ready to do (being on SBS), is to actually run a web service on your server with no actual virtual directory, just a redirector that sends people to the path at the remote server that you had in mind.

So you'd create a new site at your place, but then on the IIS screen at which you point at a subdirectory for the web files, you would instead configure a redirect to

http://www.3rdparty.com/mycompany.

I've done this regularly when I can't get the remote party to cooperate.

ShackDaddy

 

[WhoKilledKenny]

I like Shack's workaround...
Another question pop up in my head.
If you are hosting your own external DNS why not just Host your own web-servers as well? Is the something or someone preventing this from happening?