New to DNS...having problems with resolution

[cgoff]

I'm having a problem with our district website's domain name and a new server I recently put in. I still am not sharp at DNS, so I think it's some little setting I'm missing. My problem is when I try and visit the website from the internal network (i.e. just typing in

http://mydomain.com

at my workstation) it just times out. The only way I can get it to work is if I use the ip address, which causes problems with some scripts I installed because they are coded in their respective config files for the domain path.

Example:

Script looks for

http://mydomain.com/mail

when you try to access it but since I have to enter

http://10.0.0.6/mail

to get there in the first place it times out when looking for

http://mydomain.com/mail.

If I tell the script to look for 10.0.0.6/mail in the config file(s), when I try to access the email from a computer at home it obviously can't find the 10.0.0.6 ip address because it's an internal network.

The email/web server is running Slackware 10. I have two internal DNS servers, one installed on the firewall (which I believe is running BIND...we lease the firewall from another company) and the main one being a Windows 2003 ADS.

Any help/pointers would be appreciated!

 

[Stiddy]

Make sure that you have an A Record in DNS for the Server or workstation hosting the webpage. Furthermore, if you dont want your users to have to type the computers name in the URL you could add a CNAME record to point to the webserver which could be a little more of a friendly name such as:

Instead of them typing:

HTTP://webserver011234/mail

you could have

HTTP://ABCCompany/mail

HTH - Stiddy