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Cannot get to website internally but works externally

HI,

Just inherited a new system and unfortunately the windows domain name is the same as the external domain name lets say candy.com

On friday we changed IP scope of the network and immediately after we can no longer access the website internally.

We have a CNAME record in DNS which points to oursite.convio.net (our web host)

When I do a NSlookup internally it takes me to the WRONG IP for www.candy.com but external NSlookup is correct

How do I find where my internal server is getting this info and try to resolve

thanks!

btny

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To add to this, I deleted one of the CNAME records and decided to try an A record with the correct IP.

Even with that, NSlookup doesnt see the IP in the A record it sees another IP.

It feels like this IP is hard coded somewhere, any thoughts? I checked hosts file and not there

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josika

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btny

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We have that in place already and when I do a nslookup for www the IP doesnt match the internal IP

This leads me to beleive the previous admin hardcoded the IP somewhere or something...?

josika

Can you check the local hosts file?

%systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc

Open it with notepad to see the contents.

josika

Also, should the internal users be going to the internal IP or external IP or the web server?

You may want to check the IP address on the A record for the web server as well and make sure it is correct.

btny

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Host file is clear

We do not have an A record for the website since it goes to a CNAME of yada.convio.net

When I make google my DNS it works, so there is something cached maybe in my DNS?

josika

Hmm, check the A record for 'yada' in the forward lookup zone convio.net. Make sure it has the updated IP address.

btny

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I dont have a forward looking zone for convio.net since it is my webhost and my domain is candy.com

I have a CNAME record for www which points to yada.convio.net.

josika

Ahh ok, I have a setup similar to this and here is what I do:

You can create a new Forward Lookup Zone for convio.net on your DNS servers and create the yada A record with the IP address that Google is returning. This way, internal users would be able to resolve the external IP address of your web host.

You can also create a forwarder on your DNS servers for the convio.net domain. Right click on your DNS server and go to Properties > Forwarders tab. Enter the convio.net DNS domain and enter either your web hosts DNS servers or Google's DNS server cluster that can properly resolve the IP address.

josika

Any updates?

Thanks.

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My commend fixed it however it WAS setup and working previously with the way Josika mentioned

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