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Can't See web server from internal network
We recently added a Sonicwall Firewall, which replaced good ol' Proxy Server 2. Our web site is served on a Windows 2000 Server which has two NICs, one outside and one inside. This will change in the near future as we can utililze the Sonicwall for this. The question is, I can see the web site from home, no problem....but why can't I see it from work? If you give the workstation a non-authoritative outside DNS ip, you can see the web site.....but we have internal private addressing DNS servers. I attempted to add the web server's internal address to the DNS as a WKS http record, but that didn't work. Am I doing something wrong........or is this possibly a router issue? Any help would be appreciated. Not an emergency...more a curiosity.
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That works using the internal address. I went to the IIS server and added the 192.168.206.185 address and now we can see it by http:\\192.168.206.185 But still doesn't answer why it doesn't resolve by name. We're running Windows 2000 Server running DNS on two servers. I looked for a www zone entry, but the closest I could find as a record to enter was a WKS (well known service) http. Any ideas there?
Thanks!!! You're close!!!
DB
Thanks!!! You're close!!!
DB
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I found this on my own, but since you were the only person that attempted to assist, I'll accept your answer....not to mention you're correct. What I needed to do was to include a CNAME with www in my DNS server's Forward looking zone. After that, internal folks can enter www.mycompanyname.com and it resolves. Thanks again!!! - DB
try using a telnet client from inside the LAN:
> telnet 192.168.a.b 80
the '80' at the end tells the telnet client to connect to port 80 (web server) instead of default telnet (23) port.
doing these things, you will soon discover whether it is a server/firewall or dns issue.
post your results back here for further ideas.
cheers.