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Possible DNS Naming Mistake?

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by virtualnet Nov 12, 2009 last reply Nov 12, 2009

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My users are unable to see our company website through our domain. I believe the reason why they cannot navigate to our website is because I made the mistake of configuring my server 2008 as XXXXX.com insted of XXXXX.local. Could this be the reason why? If so how can i fix this.

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by virtualnet Nov 12, 2009

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by cg it Nov 12, 2009

that's the problem... your DNS resolves the name and returns your local network address.

Microsoft Technet has some articles on conditional forwarders in DNS which should give you guidance on how to fix the problem.

here's an example:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc757172(WS.10).aspx

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