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Can't view website internally from different domain
We are setting up a new section of our business and have created a seperate domain for everything associated with that business. We will call the old domain Domain A and the new one Domain B. Domain A and B have seperate dns servers setup in them and the machines that are members of Domain A use domain A servers and of course domain B members use domain B dns. Well the problem is we want to host a website on domain B and all the members of domain B can see the website fine but when you try to view the website from domain A like typing in www.ourwebsite.com in the the address bar it takes you to a google search for www.ourwebsite.com. So basically I need a way to forward dns requests for www.ourwebsite.com from domain a to domain b or something like that so that domain a can see the website. Also the website works fine from outside the office and all machines run through the same router.
If they are different DNS names (such as our company.net vs our compnay.com) then you can setup conditional forwarding on the DNS server to forward requests for company.net to domain B's servers while still have all other requests go their normal route.
See here for more details http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/DNS_Conditional_Forwarding_in_Windows_Server_2003.html
See here for more details http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/DNS_Conditional_Forwarding_in_Windows_Server_2003.html
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brwwiggins:
Hey thanks thats got it partially working but only some of the machines in domain A can see it now even though they all use the same domain controllers...any ideas?
Hey thanks thats got it partially working but only some of the machines in domain A can see it now even though they all use the same domain controllers...any ideas?
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Ok i take that back....when i was leaving yesterday some of the machines were working but now we are back to none again...also i can ping and nslookup domain B and both of them come back fine...
so you can ping the server by name but it won't come up via the browser?
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You can also setup a zone to slave off the DNS Server on Domain B but the recommendation above is much simpler to implement.