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DNS forwarding or IIS redirect?  Which is better when...

Asked by LMITAdmin in Windows 2003 Server

Tags: redirect, iis, dns

Ok, I'm an intermediate...no expert...with DNS and IIS (learning like a knowledge sponge), but I know the answer should be fairly simple because I have it working now but just don't know if the situation could be improved (speed wise and security wise).

I just upgraded our small office to Server 2003 (all 8 servers).  We have one firewall server (ISA), two AD servers with DNS and one web server with IIS 6.

The ultimate goal is to get that "cool feature" working that if someone enters "domain.com" in the browser that they will automatically be sent to "www.domain.com".  I currently have this working using IIS 6 redirects but it took a total of six websites to do it.  We have the following:

www.domain.com (actual working page)
domain.com - redirect to www.domain.com
www.domain.net -  redirect to www.domain.com
domain.net -  redirect to www.domain.com
www.domain.org -  redirect to www.domain.com
domain.org -  redirect to www.domain.com

At the domain registrar I have the .net and the .org pointing to domain.com (although I'm thinking to kill at least one step I could send those to www.domain.com).  Can I someone do this same thing SECURELY on our local DNS server?  Would that be advantageous?  I'm just worried about the web server overhead having all of those redirects going on.  I did try it on our DNS server, but kept getting an error that said I couldn't assign the A record "www" to the root "domain.com".  The webserver is currently hosting a few websites using the host header names and we'd like to keep it that way if at all possible.

I will be assigning a low point value to this because I have it working one way and almost got it working the other way.  However, if you've got a killer way of improving both performance and overhead using one way or the other I'll jack the points up.  Thanks in advance!
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