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Domain Name issue

I have a local domain controller in my home.  Lets say the local domain name is jeff.com.  I purchased a web domain name and registered it, its www.jeff.com.  I can get to my web site www.jeff.com from everwhere but my home.  I know this is becasue my local domain is named jeff.com as well.  I cannot even ping Jeff.com.  So what on my local domain controller can I change to allow me to get to my web page www.jeff.com.  I do not want to have to redo the home local domain all over.
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The problem is that you named your internal domain name the same as you external registered internet domain.

If you Internet domain is Jeff.com, you should name your internal domain name something different (like jeff.local, jeff.net, jeff-int.com, etc)

Anyway, because you don't want to change the name of your internal domain name, you should create a record in your local DNS to point to your web page.

MORE INFORMATION ON THE PROBLEM:

Your internal DNS structure believes that it is responsible for all resolutions to jeff.com.  Therefore, when you try to lookup www.jeff.com, your local DNS says "nope, I don't know what IP WWW is in the domain jeff.com.)  Because your internal domain is called jeff.com, your internal DNS servers don't bother to forward the request to Internet DNS servers.

To fix this problem, simply create a new record in your local DNS database that points to the IP address of your web server.

1) Go into the DNS console  
2) Right Click your Forward Lookup Zone
3) Create new A-record called WWW and assign the IP address of your web server.

or you can always connect to you local web server using the IPADDRESS instead of the host name. http://xx.xx.xx.xx

Thank you,

Joe Poandl MCSE
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Man, I love this forum.  I knew the issue was DNS, but just not sure what to add in DNS.  You guys ROCK!.  I added a record www with the IP of the host server and BAM, it worked.

Thanks Adam and Mullins!
Max10137,

Glad to help. :-)