website unavailable from within network

[robman70]

I was wondering if someone might have any ideas as to why this is happening. Im on an NT network with a win2k webserver. The webserver has two ip addresses assigned to the NIC in the advanced tcp/ip properties, one for the internal network and one for the internet. when you go into the tcp/ip properties on the nic it has the internal address, you dont see the public address til you click the advanced button. Our website (url or ip address) is inaccessable from within the network. From outside it comes up just fine, but from within or even if you are out and have a vpn connection established, the website is not found. Has anyone ever had an issue like this and if so how did you resolve it. Any help appreciated

 

[ChicagoTechNet]

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http://www.chicagotech.net

Why our web site doesn't work internally

Q: Everyone can access our web site on the Internet. But no one can access the web site internally. Instead, we are point to our Intranet.

A: If you network domain name is the same of your web site name, you should point the web to the web public IP. To do this, open DNS manager and create a host. for example

http://www.chicagotech.net=public

ip.


Robert Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Windows, Network, Internet, VPN, Routing and How to at

http://www.ms-mvps.com

 

[robman70]

Thanks for the reply, I havent tried creating a host yet, but it sounds like this would be troubleshooting dns. I can't get to the webservers public ip address, not using the domain name, can't even ping it. I doubt dns is the problem, if anyone has any other suggestions, id be happy to hear them