Problems accessing website due to DNS Problem

[ThePilgrim06]

This is probably a simple problem that many techies have sorted - but - I'm stuck.

Lets say our internal domain name is abc.co.uk. Also - our website address (hosted elsewhere) is

http://www.abc.co.uk.

If we access that URL out side of the company - all is fine. But if we try access the URL internally while connected to the domain - we get an address unavailable error message.

I am pretty sure this is a DNS error - but I'm not sure how to solve it. Anyone any ideas?

 

[pgaliardo]

It's definitely a DNS issue. I forget exactly what you have to do. I think you need to add a CNAME in your local DNS, mapping a

http://www address

to the internal address of your web server. Hopefully the following link will help. I know the question has been asked before in this forum. Maybe someone can provide more details.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows200...2000/en/advanced/help/sag_DNS_pro_AddHost.htm

 

[ThePilgrim06]

Just to let people know we sorted this. On our 2000 DNS server we added a host record named

http://www and

pointed it to the IP address of the hosted website. This adds a host record to DNS of www.[domain name].

Then when you browse to that URL - that DNS entry resolves and away you go.