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by billc124

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I just got done setting up my first Windows 2000 server. Everything went fine with the AD install and all that. I have one little problem that is bothering me. When we setup AD the name we gave the domain was companyname.com, now when I try to get to companyname.com's website, which is hosted externally, from my Win2K machine which is using the Win2K DNS server, I can't resolve it. I am using a forwarder in DNS to forward any external name resolution to my ISP. My question is is there any way to make this work properly. I can get around it by typing the IP address of the Website in my browser, but I want to know if I can setup anything in DNS to get around this. I know it has something to do with calling the internal domain the same as thewebsite domain. Any help is appreciated.

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by tony.colgrove

Your internal DNS believe it is the SOA or Authorative DNS for your companyname.com. So when you try to go to your website, your internal DNS server doesnt find it in its zone, so it doesnt resolve. Forwards dont help because your DNS server believes any requests for your domain it should handle and will never pass that off.
The easiest thing to do is add an A record in your DNS with the IP address of the website.

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