Cannot access our own website
We are using a single windows 2003 server in conjunction with a D-Link router for internet access. We have just moved our website to a new location, which in actual fact is now located at our service provider. We have modified the external DNS at our service provider, which used to point to the old host server. Everyone outside our network can access our website just fine. However, we have removed some internal DNS records which again pointed to the old hsot server, but now we cannot access our own website. We can access all other sites on the internet, but just not our own site. I presume that we need to add another DNS record, but when I add one which points to our static IP address, when we type our domain name in a browser, we get the router interface.
Can anyone advise what we need to do to correct this?
Can anyone advise what we need to do to correct this?
AmityNA
Not to keen on this but I would assume in your router you need to setup some sort of loop back so you can see the website internally and it will respond to use within the network
what did you put as the host value when you create the dns pointer?
for example, use www as the host if you web site name is www.yourdomain.com...
for example, use www as the host if you web site name is www.yourdomain.com...
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I tried both www on its own and www.ourdomainname.com pointing to our static IP address. I presume you mean the local DNS here, ie on our server. I am not sure what other IP address I should use, but it keeps bringing up our d-link interface.
do you get the public IP address when you ping www.ourdomainname.com from your server?
ASKER
Yes we do. NSLookup www.ourdomain.com also responds correctly??
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When we use nslookup along with our public ip address we get non existing domain name as a result.
Please post the result when you do tracert. Thanks.
ASKER
Tracing route to www.smartcomputers.co.uk [80.229.5.47]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms smartcomputers.plus.com [80.229.5.47]
Trace complete.
C:\Documents and Settings\nigelb>tracert 80.229.5.47
Tracing route to smartcomputers.plus.com [80.229.5.47]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms smartcomputers.plus.com [80.229.5.47]
Trace complete.
Any ideas?
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That was just what we needed, thankyou. It is now working fine.