Win DNS URL question

[organman]

I'm using Windows 2003 as our DNS server.
This server is the primary DNS for our companys internet domain.
I have a host record

http://www.company.com

for our website.

How do I setup a record so that users can reach our website without typing

http://www.company.com

but just company.com ?

 

[chipk]

Well, you've kind of done it backwards. Typically, you'd register domain.com as your host record, and create a CNAME record for this host for the

http://www address.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324260

It may work if you create a cname for domain.com, but I'm not sure.

 

[WhoKilledKenny]

If your public and private DNS namespace is the same, then your internal clients will have to use the hostname www. because mycompany.com is the root domain of your internal DNS namespace. Mycompany.com would be the domain, it is not a host. I know this is after the fact for you, but when organization plan internal DNS namespace, microsoft recommends two ways of doing this.

1. Make the private namespace a subdomain of your public namespace. For example, if you are known publicly as Mydomain.com - Configure your private namespace as Corp.Mydomain.com

2. Make the private and public namespaces completely separate. For example, public = Mydomain.com - private = Mydomain.local

I tend to sway towards option 2.

I have seen lots of posts regarding this issue, you may want to do a search to see if someone has come up with a work-around. Off the top of my head I am not aware of one.

 

[organman]

OK, I was a bit unclear in my description.

The server is primary dns for the domain company.com and I have a host record called

http://www that

points to our website.

Do you mean that I should remove the host record

http://www and

then create a CNAME called

http://www that

points to the website ?

If so, will this mean that internet users can use just the company.com name to get to our website ?

And yes, I have a completly different namespace and dns serever for my internal users.

 

[WhoKilledKenny]

If mycompany.com is a foward lookup zone, that is not used as part of an Active directory namespace, then you just need to set up an A record for mycompany.com. The way you do this, in MS DNS, is to right-click on the zone and choose "New Host (A)..." Type in the IP address of the web server. Leave the Name blank (uses parent domain name if blank), The FQDN will be mycompany.com. If you ping mycompany.com it should resolve to the web server. Keep

http://www as

a Host(A) record so that it will resolve as

http://www.mycompany.com.

Hope that makes sense....