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Internal to external DNS issues - redirect? virtual host?


Hello everyone - I've been reading the list emails for a month now, in the hopes of learning more, but haven't really had any issues that I needed help with until now, so here we go...

I host DNS for my domain internally, as I have a number of sub-domains that I use (mail.myhost.com, helpdesk.myhost.com, etc) that are visible both inside and outside of my network. However, our company website, 'www.mydomain.com' is hosted externally, and my internal DNS record for it is an external IP address. 

Using a computer outside of my network, entering 'http://mydomain.com' in a browser WITHOUT the 'www' redirects to 'www.mydomain.com', but internally 'http://mydomain.com' just gives a "can't connect to http://mydomain.com" error. 

The guy who does the website for my company wants to be able to get to www.mydomain.com without having to put the 'www' on addresses (as he is using an authoring program that expects a web address w/o a 'www' on the front of it to automatically redirect there), and I'd like to see if I can make that happen for him.

Is there a fairly easy workaround for this problem? I can't seem to wrap my head around this internal-to-external problem, even though it seems that it should be logically pretty simple.

Server running DNS is a PPC XServe, running 10.4.10 (is also OD Master and serving DHCP for my network) - any other details needed here?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Blair

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Blair Carswell
Technology / OS X Server / PowerSchool
The Churchill School
New York, NY
rm 022 / 212-722-0610 x2401
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