You've set yourself up as authoritative for the mydomain.com zone?
Don't you want to slave yourself to the real (external) DNS server
instead?
--Kyle Sluder
On Nov 16, 2007 8:32 PM, OddSox <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Nov 16, 2007, at 3:01 PM, Blair Carswell wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> As far as I can tell, the DNS for http://www.mydomain.com/ and http://
> mydomain.com/ is properly set up, and so is http://www.myhost.com and
> http://myhost.com - I can't see why there would be a problem...
>
> > 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.
>
> What kind of lame program is that? What if he was trying to author
> helpdesk.myhost.com?
>
> > 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
>
> Fred
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