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external website with same domain name
Hello,
We have a network that has the same domain name as our external website which is hosted by a 3rd party webhost.
We cannot access our website from the internal network, i created an A record for www pointing at the domains external ip address.
I could not redirect the default website in iis as it would effect the OWA setup.
the problem is even when we try www.domain.com the attempt just times out like it cnanot the website.
I have tried to ping it within the network and the pings time out howeveri can ping it from my home network (in both cases the ip shows up as it should)
when running an nslookup from the server i get:
C:\Inetpub\AdminScripts>ns
Server: localhost
Address: 127.0.0.1
Name: www.domain.com
Address: xxx.236.xxx.xxx
C:\Inetpub\AdminScripts>
from another system on internal network i get:
C:\Users\joseph.NEVADAMINI
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.3.10
Name: www.domain.com
Address: (external ip ad it should be)
C:\Users\joseph>
from home i get:
C:\Users\Media>nslookup www.domain.com
Server: resolver1.opendns.com
Address: 208.67.222.222
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: domain.com
Address: correct external ip
Aliases: www.domain.com
Any one have any ideas to help direct me to resolution?
C:\Users\Media>
We have a network that has the same domain name as our external website which is hosted by a 3rd party webhost.
We cannot access our website from the internal network, i created an A record for www pointing at the domains external ip address.
I could not redirect the default website in iis as it would effect the OWA setup.
the problem is even when we try www.domain.com the attempt just times out like it cnanot the website.
I have tried to ping it within the network and the pings time out howeveri can ping it from my home network (in both cases the ip shows up as it should)
when running an nslookup from the server i get:
C:\Inetpub\AdminScripts>ns
Server: localhost
Address: 127.0.0.1
Name: www.domain.com
Address: xxx.236.xxx.xxx
C:\Inetpub\AdminScripts>
from another system on internal network i get:
C:\Users\joseph.NEVADAMINI
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.3.10
Name: www.domain.com
Address: (external ip ad it should be)
C:\Users\joseph>
from home i get:
C:\Users\Media>nslookup www.domain.com
Server: resolver1.opendns.com
Address: 208.67.222.222
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: domain.com
Address: correct external ip
Aliases: www.domain.com
Any one have any ideas to help direct me to resolution?
C:\Users\Media>
ASKER
Thank you, attached is a screenshot 
Do you use the same address www.domain.com to access owa?
If that is the case, I would suggest you to change OWA FQDN to something like mail.domain.com, add (public) A and rDNS record for that hostname. You you will also have to instruct your users that OWA is accessed at new address.
I hope I have understood your problem correctly.
If that is the case, I would suggest you to change OWA FQDN to something like mail.domain.com, add (public) A and rDNS record for that hostname. You you will also have to instruct your users that OWA is accessed at new address.
I hope I have understood your problem correctly.
ASKER
I do have OWA working, when you visit www.domain.com/mail it redirects you to http://network-ip.com/exchange
mail.domain.com will take you to a blank IIS page on the internal server (when used outside of our network)
to access owa from internal network i've always just servername/exchange
Not really haivng issues with OWA currently, the only reason i mentioned it earlier is google results recommended configuring the default website in IIS as a redirect.
mail.domain.com will take you to a blank IIS page on the internal server (when used outside of our network)
to access owa from internal network i've always just servername/exchange
Not really haivng issues with OWA currently, the only reason i mentioned it earlier is google results recommended configuring the default website in IIS as a redirect.
If you just recently added the www A record, try flushing the cache on the local workstations and test name resolution again.
ASKER
Vanbarsoun: I did ty flushing the dns with ipconfig /flushdns
I also did 'clear cache' on the dns server
I also did 'clear cache' on the dns server
And so when you ping www.domain.com from a workstation you still get the internal IP, but pinging from the server you receive the correct external IP?
ASKER
No i do get the correct external IP on both the workstation and server.
Both get me Request timed out
I can ping from home network.
Both get me Request timed out
I can ping from home network.
But you can browse to this website from home (or external network) but not from your internal network? What happens, it just spins away and "page not found"?
ASKER
Yes, i can browse from external websites but internally its a long delay resulting in page not found.
Whats the likely hood that the problem is not actually on my end and somewhere in the traceroute?
Whats the likely hood that the problem is not actually on my end and somewhere in the traceroute?
What about mail.domain.com/mail?
Your internal DNS servers is not authoritative for your external domain.
At your external DNS servers you should set additional two A records for www and mail. One pointing at your public IP address of web server, other at your public IP address of your mail server (66.*.*.*)
Don't you get correct IP also from nslookup from your server?
(That is why they recommend that you should not use the same domain name for internal and external network.)
Your internal DNS servers is not authoritative for your external domain.
At your external DNS servers you should set additional two A records for www and mail. One pointing at your public IP address of web server, other at your public IP address of your mail server (66.*.*.*)
Don't you get correct IP also from nslookup from your server?
(That is why they recommend that you should not use the same domain name for internal and external network.)
What happens when you run a tracert from an internal host to the external www IP?
Sorry I meant mail.domain.com/exchange. Try from both locations.
If you try to go http://domain.org from home, you will probably get your external web server. From LAN you will get internal IIS default web site.
If you try to go http://domain.org from home, you will probably get your external web server. From LAN you will get internal IIS default web site.
You can not use www.domain.com for accessing web server and www.domain.com/mail for accessing mail server. The same FQDN can not have two different IP addresses. (Reno?)
ASKER
vanbarsoun:
C:\Users\joseph>tracert www.domain.com
Tracing route to www.domain.com]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.3.1
2 21 ms 21 ms 24 ms 10.99.113.1
3 25 ms 20 ms 20 ms xxxxxxxxxx
4 21 ms 21 ms 21 ms 96-34-121-10.static.unas.n
21.10]
5 44 ms 44 ms 43 ms bbr01rvsdca-tge-0-2-0-2.rv
34.2.94]
6 48 ms 47 ms 50 ms 96.34.3.97
7 47 ms 47 ms 47 ms 96-34-156-22.static.unas.m
56.22]
8 47 ms 46 ms 48 ms ae0-50g.cr1.lax1.us.nlayer
9 102 ms 101 ms 101 ms xe-4-0-0.cr2.ord1.us.nlaye
10 121 ms 119 ms 115 ms ae2-20g.ar1.ord6.us.nlayer
11 102 ms 103 ms 102 ms as32475.xe-1-0-1.ar1.ord6.
11.30]
12 104 ms 104 ms 102 ms asw-fx150.ord03.singlehop.
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * * Request timed out.
Trace complete.
C:\Users\joseph>
davorin:
correct, i get internal from internal and external from external when accessing http://domain.com
The problem is not with mail or owa. The FQDN is mail.nevadamining.org the issue is we cannot access our external website from within our network. IE i cant update the website via ftp, cpanel or anything.
C:\Users\joseph>tracert www.domain.com
Tracing route to www.domain.com]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.3.1
2 21 ms 21 ms 24 ms 10.99.113.1
3 25 ms 20 ms 20 ms xxxxxxxxxx
4 21 ms 21 ms 21 ms 96-34-121-10.static.unas.n
21.10]
5 44 ms 44 ms 43 ms bbr01rvsdca-tge-0-2-0-2.rv
34.2.94]
6 48 ms 47 ms 50 ms 96.34.3.97
7 47 ms 47 ms 47 ms 96-34-156-22.static.unas.m
56.22]
8 47 ms 46 ms 48 ms ae0-50g.cr1.lax1.us.nlayer
9 102 ms 101 ms 101 ms xe-4-0-0.cr2.ord1.us.nlaye
10 121 ms 119 ms 115 ms ae2-20g.ar1.ord6.us.nlayer
11 102 ms 103 ms 102 ms as32475.xe-1-0-1.ar1.ord6.
11.30]
12 104 ms 104 ms 102 ms asw-fx150.ord03.singlehop.
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * * Request timed out.
Trace complete.
C:\Users\joseph>
davorin:
correct, i get internal from internal and external from external when accessing http://domain.com
The problem is not with mail or owa. The FQDN is mail.nevadamining.org the issue is we cannot access our external website from within our network. IE i cant update the website via ftp, cpanel or anything.
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Sorry i did not close this ticket.
I resolved the issue by having the web hosts move the website to a different external server and assigning a new dedicated IP.
As soon as i plugged the new ip into the a record it worked.
I resolved the issue by having the web hosts move the website to a different external server and assigning a new dedicated IP.
As soon as i plugged the new ip into the a record it worked.
Also, if you have more than one DNS server make sure they're all configured properly for this zone and reporting the same records.