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dns problem - can't visit site using our url

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by toretto84 3 views

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hi,

recently a dns problem popped up at our company. We've been hosting our own website on a remote server, and until recently we could visit it using the domain name (www.it2change.be) just fine. Problem is that we recently added some extra records in our dns for our mail server, for which we had to use the it2change.be domain.

When we now try to visit www.it2change.be or use it to remote connect we'll get an error. I know the problem is that we try to find the www.it2change.be and our local dns server tells us there's no such thing because we didn't made that record.

So, my question is: how can we avoid getting this error when visiting our company website? would distributing some external dns servers through dhcp solve the problem? Or is there another way around?

thanks,

steven.

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by bart777

You'll want to add a record to your DNS servers for www to point to the correct IP address. The new record should let your machines go to that address and view the site.

This is the reason that Microsoft suggests that you make your internal domain a .local domain. (it2change.local) But that's water under the bridge at this point.

Best of luck

by toretto84

@sanferd: I can now, now that the problem is fixed ;-)

@ bart777: thanks, that seems to have solved the problem. we ARE using an it2change.local domain, but I made a forward lookupzone it2change.be for our mail hosts etc.

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