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Question : DNS configuration for viewing website hosted offsite
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We have a widnows 2003 domain of abc.com DNS works great for everything except viewing our website from inside our network. Since it is hosted by Network Solutions and does not have an "assigned" ip address that I can create a record for, employees receive the IIS "welcome" screen for one of our servers when they attempt to view our website. Is there a way that DNS can be configured so that it will correctly pass webpage requests and bring back the website content?
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Answer : DNS configuration for viewing website hosted offsite
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Ouch. I know what happened. Your internal domain is probably the same as your hosted domain. what this means is that your local DNS server _has_ to be set as the primary DNS for the domain, at least for your local network. There's not much you can do about it, as it was planned behavior on microsoft's part.
Now, what I have done in this situation is simply edit the DNS records on your Active Directory server, and hard code the 'www' address to point to the correct IP where your domain is hosted. By doing that, you'll override the local IP address that's being served to them.
I doubt it's 'abc.com', so I can't tell you what IP address to use - to check, go outside of your local network, and ping the domain itself - 'www.abc.com' or whatever. That's the address you'll need to put in for 'www.abc.com' in your local DNS server.
You'll only need to change it if network solutions moves the site to another system, which is very rare.
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