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Is it possible to redirect a website URL to an IP or address on the LAN using DNS?

Hi,

I'm wondering if it's possible to redirect a website URL to an IP or address on the LAN using DNS?

For example, a user types in www.facebook.com to their browser. Can we somehow setup the DNS on our server (Microsoft Windows Server 2003) to redirect this to an IP address on our LAN (our intranet home page for example).

We're looking at this as a deterent for users abusing our internet connection! I know they could get round it using the IP address of the website, but for most cases this should be sufficient.
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Looks like the perfect solution! Could you just talk me through the wizard for setting up a new Forward Lookup Zone? There's quite a few option in there that look a bit daunting!

Sure, sorry, I should have included that. This is how I normally do it (for low maintenance):

1. Right Click on Forward Lookup Zones and select New Zone
2. Select Primary and tick Store Zone in Active Directory
3. Select To All DNS servers in the Active Directory Domain
4. Follows on as above

Chris