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Windows Server 2008 DNS

I have an FTP/https server in my DMZ. I need to access the server as https://servername.domainname.com from both the external public domain and the inside interface, because when sharing a file or folder the software uses the url that was used to access the server.

Our internal domain is domain.internal.com so when I use DNS to access the site I get https://servername.domain.internal.com (and of course this link does not work when received by an external user).

I can use a host file entry to get around this by using the DMZ, local IP address 172.17.10.5 with the fqdn of servername.domain.com (just leaving out .internal)

How can I accomplish this using Windows 2008 DNS so I don't have to bother the users?

Shane McKeown

Just create a new Forward Lookup zone in the DNS console called 'domainname.com'
Then add an A record for 'servername' which points to the internal IP address...

That should take care of this for all users...

lruiz52

Exactly what smckeown777 suggested.

Its called Split-brain DNS or Split DNS. check out the link below for visual instructions on how to set it up.

http://www.thesuperkev.com/2012/10/setting-up-split-dns-in-windows-server.html

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Thanks DrDave242, worked just the way I want.