Win 2K DNS Problem

[Jefftopia]

This is the basic layout of my Windows 2000 network...
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Router
IP: 207.68.132.97 (Gateway)
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WEB (IIS 5.0)
RRAS (NAT enabled)
ID: web1.mysite.com
IP: 207.68.132.98 (WAN)
IP: 192.168.1.2 (LAN)
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DNS
Active Directory
ID: prime1.mysite.com
IP: 192.168.1.1
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My DNS looks like the following...

(same as parent) Start of Authority mysite.com
(same as parent) Name Server prime1.mysite.com
prime1 Host 192.168.1.1
web1 Host 192.168.1.2
www Host 207.68.132.98


Here is my problem...

I can ping all private and public IP addresses and URLs (such as

http://www.mysite.com)

both within my network and on the outside. Additionally, I have a default html document (default.htm) located in my "Default Web Site" webroot folder. However, when I attempt to call

http://www.mysite.com

from a web browser (either inside or outside my network) I get the "HTTP 404 Page Not Found" error. What am I missing?

 

[globalstrata]

Do you have an external DNS server? If not, have you asked you ISP to publish a

http://www record

for yoursite.com? Once you do this, you do not have to host yoursite.com in the internal DNS server and all you do is configure your internal DNS to relay request to your external DNS.

In addition, if you have multiple web sites in the same machine, you may need to configure Host Header Names for that web site under IIS.

Gladys I. Rodriguez - MCSE, CCDA, MCP+I
GlobalStrata Solutions Inc.

http://www.globalstrata.com

 

[globalstrata]

Something else I thought, depending on the type of NAT you may need to do some configuration to that box for it to direct all traffic to the appropiate internal server.

 

[JabbaTheNut]

Problem solved!

While I was setting up my network, I changed the IP address of my web server from a previously entered address that does not currently exist to a new one. However, I neglected to change the IP address in the properties page of "Default Web Site". Once I did this, everything worked perfectly. Thanks for your help Game Over, Man!