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by joerie_b 1 view

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Hi! Guy

He have a small setup in the office, we have windows 2000 server with 8 client running windows pro. We have registered dns name in the Internet sample.com and I used this dns to my server. And I configured my server to use NAT for the Internet. My problem is cant browsed our web site in the client side. When I? am doing a ping command in client side ex. Ping sample.com his giving me an internal ip address not external ip address. What I?m going to do any configuration in my server? Ineed your help guy. Thanks in advance

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by quintar51

make sure you have a forward lookup zone created on your dns server for sample.com. Right-click on it, properties, make sure dynamic updates is allowed. Then right-click on the server object, properties, forwarders tab, put in your ISP's dns servers here, make sure also to check 'do not use recursion'.

Then, on your client machines, see if you can ping 'outside' your network.

by colin

You really need to have a different internal DNS to external!!

Eg External=xxx.com
internal=ad.xxx.com

To get round the problem, go to your DNS forward lookup zone and right click and choose new host. Call the new host www and give it the IP address of your external web site.

Now, when you go to www.xxx.com it will work.

Hope this helps.

by jeremy the it guy

I had this same problem and I had to create a host record for www with the external IP address. So if my website was http://www.rightanswer.com and my domain was rightanswer.com, I went into my DNS console and create a new Host Record and for Name I put (www) and for IP I put (External IP address). Hope this helps, Jeremy

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