Comments on: Active Directory Tip: Access External Website With The Same Domain Name As Your Internal Domain http://oddjobsintech.com/active-directory-tip-access-external-website-with-the-same-domain-name-as-your-internal-domain/ Managing the Business of Information Technology Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:54:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Justin http://oddjobsintech.com/active-directory-tip-access-external-website-with-the-same-domain-name-as-your-internal-domain/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Justin Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:54:57 +0000 http://oddjobsintech.com/?p=249#comment-9 Hi Joe- The A record that you are deleting, is it with the "www" or without (i.e. www.domain.com or domain.com)? AD requires A records for your DCs without the "www", it will automatically create the records if they do not exist, as I think you are seeing. However, You should be able to create a CNAME for the "www" record that points to your webserver. Your only option to make "domain.com" redirect to the correct webserver would be to setup a redirect on each of your DCs default websites. I hope that helps. Let me know if I missed the point. -Justin Hi Joe-

The A record that you are deleting, is it with the “www” or without (i.e. http://www.domain.com or domain.com)?

AD requires A records for your DCs without the “www”, it will automatically create the records if they do not exist, as I think you are seeing. However, You should be able to create a CNAME for the “www” record that points to your webserver. Your only option to make “domain.com” redirect to the correct webserver would be to setup a redirect on each of your DCs default websites.

I hope that helps. Let me know if I missed the point.

-Justin

]]> By: Joe http://oddjobsintech.com/active-directory-tip-access-external-website-with-the-same-domain-name-as-your-internal-domain/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Joe Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:04:24 +0000 http://oddjobsintech.com/?p=249#comment-8 Hi Justin, I am kind having problem in similiar situation. We had setup the website same name as our domain name. For external access we do not have any problem by seting up NAT in our firewall the public IP pointing the private IP of the web server.The web server is in DMZ. But internally i am having problem. We have two domain controllers with DNS. I created the CNAME and A record pointing to the web server, before that i deleted the A record that pointing to the two domain controller. Now when we browse internally everything is fine, but after 10 to 12 hours DNS keeps creating the A record for the two domain contrllers, at the time when we browse the website, it comes up the defualt website of the domain controllers. Then again i have to delete the A record of the DCs. Do i am missing anything. I really apperciate to your reply. Thank you Joe Hi Justin,

I am kind having problem in similiar situation. We had setup the website same name as our domain name. For external access we do not have any problem by seting up NAT in our firewall the public IP pointing the private IP of the web server.The web server is in DMZ.

But internally i am having problem. We have two domain controllers with DNS. I created the CNAME and A record pointing to the web server, before that i deleted the A record that pointing to the two domain controller. Now when we browse internally everything is fine, but after 10 to 12 hours DNS keeps creating the A record for the two domain contrllers, at the time when we browse the website, it comes up the defualt website of the domain controllers. Then again i have to delete the A record of the DCs.

Do i am missing anything. I really apperciate to your reply.

Thank you
Joe

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