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Sorry, i forgot to mention. Our current zone is ourcompany.local. Will the same steps above apply?
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Sorry, i forgot to mention. Our current zone is ourcompany.local. Will the same steps above apply?

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Hi,<br />
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Yep, the same steps apply, if the zone was ourcompany.com you'd only have to add the www record to the existing zone. 1 and 2 both cover creating a new zone to handle this requirement.<br />
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Chris
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Hi,

Yep, the same steps apply, if the zone was ourcompany.com you'd only have to add the www record to the existing zone. 1 and 2 both cover creating a new zone to handle this requirement.

Chris

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Very helpful, thank you for your assistance.
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Very helpful, thank you for your assistance.

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Currently our company has it's webserver on the same network as the DNS server. We use a DNS entry &quot;website&quot; to access the site internally, and an external address for customers (<a href="http://www.ourcompany.com" rel="ugc">www.ourcompany.com</a>). Our developer, however, wrote an intranet and SQL applications to make calls to the external domain.<br />
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Is it possible to use the external domain on our internal network? Our internal DNS server is used strictly for internal DNS functions, and we use EasyDNS for our website. And the entire network operates on a Server 2003 platform.<br />
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Any help is greatly appreciated.
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Currently our company has it's webserver on the same network as the DNS server. We use a DNS entry "website" to access the site internally, and an external address for customers (www.ourcompany.com). Our developer, however, wrote an intranet and SQL applications to make calls to the external domain.

Is it possible to use the external domain on our internal network? Our internal DNS server is used strictly for internal DNS functions, and we use EasyDNS for our website. And the entire network operates on a Server 2003 platform.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Accessing an internal webserver with an external domain name

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.

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).