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Hey experts, <br />
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This is a Windows 2003 domain enviroment w/ DNS running local. <br />
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The person who setup this domain gave the domain name a .com extension, ex: example.com (instead of example.local etc etc) <br />
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Internal users cannot access their external web server (<a href="http://example.com" rel="ugc">http://example.com</a>). &nbsp;They are being redirected back to the local IIS. &nbsp;There is no entry in the DNS that directly points them back to the local IIS instead of the external website. <br />
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I assumed if I manually added an A record in the DNS pointing example.com to the external webserver it would automatically redirect them, but this appears to not be working as desired. &nbsp; When I test with NSLookup, it says its now pointing to the right site, but it still pulling the page from the local IIS in the webbrowser<br />
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What steps do I need to take to manually add record(s) in the DNS server to redirect users attempting to go to <a href="http://example.com" rel="ugc">http://example.com</a>&nbsp;to external webserver.
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Hey experts, 

This is a Windows 2003 domain enviroment w/ DNS running local. 

The person who setup this domain gave the domain name a .com extension, ex: example.com (instead of example.local etc etc) 

Internal users cannot access their external web server (http://example.com).  They are being redirected back to the local IIS.  There is no entry in the DNS that directly points them back to the local IIS instead of the external website. 

I assumed if I manually added an A record in the DNS pointing example.com to the external webserver it would automatically redirect them, but this appears to not be working as desired.   When I test with NSLookup, it says its now pointing to the right site, but it still pulling the page from the local IIS in the webbrowser

What steps do I need to take to manually add record(s) in the DNS server to redirect users attempting to go to http://example.com to external webserver.

Manually Change DNS records to redirect to a website

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical, globally distributed system responsible for associating the name of a computer, service or other resource into an IP address for connecting to the Internet or a private network. Most prominently, it translates domain names to the numerical IP addresses needed for the purpose of computer services and devices worldwide.

The Internet Protocol (IP) is the principal communications protocol in the Internet protocol suite for relaying datagrams across network boundaries, organized in abstraction layers, traditionally called "Link," "Internet," "Transport" and "Application”. Its routing function enables internetworking, and essentially establishes the Internet. IP defines packet structures that encapsulate the data to be delivered. It also defines addressing methods that are used to label the datagram with source and destination information.

Internet Protocols

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