[SiliconAngel]

Sorry if this seems rudimentary, but I've been banging my head against this for a few days and can't seem to find a solution.

I have a PDC for our internal domain, "mydomain.com" that is also the DNS server, however we also have a website called "mydomain.com" which no longer resolves to anything for any computer using the PDC as the DNS server. As soon as the DNS server is changed to something external, the website resolves. Obviously the PDC believes DNS requests to the website which shares exactly the same name as the internal domain should be directed to itself, however it's not a web server so that's never going to work.

So how do I get "mydomain.com" to redirect to the IP address of the external web host with DNS of the PDC?

Thanks in advance for your assistance,

Trevor

 

[SiliconAngel]

Yep, replying to myself, just in case anyone else happens across this post looking for answers.

I ended up reconfigured the primary A record for mydomain.com to point to the website IP address and restarted the DNS service and it's working. Interestingly, the server re-added it's own primary A record pointing to it's own internal IP immediately upon restart of the DNS service, however the domain resolves at the external IP correctly now, so I don't care - it works, that's all I'm interested in!

So if you find yourself trying to resolve external web requests to a FQDN that's exactly the same as the local domain name and your website doesn't use the 'www' host name, you CAN change the primary A record for your domain in DNS to point to the external host IP and it will work fine without breaking the internal domain