Windows 2003 DNS/AD Query

[TheCake]

Hi Guys,

Fairly simple one I hope. Have someone with an AD called ourcompany.com and servers named server1.ourcompany.com and server2.ourcompany.com.

I find out today that everyone in the building cannot access the company website www.ourcompany.com which is hosted elsewhere out on the internet.

I pressume I need to add a DNS entry called www.ourcompany.com into the DNS record table along with the IP to direct traffic.

Help appreciated.

Thanks

 

[sargey]

If you ping www.ourcompany.com from a client machines, what do you get?

If you getting "Host cannot be found", try pinging the ip address of www.ourcompany.com. If it replies, the yes, you are correct. You need to add the DNS entry.

If you don't get a reply form either, it could be someone has been messing with firewall / content filtering etc.

 

[McBunny]

this is why you dont call domains the name of your webdomain name ourcompany.local works much better or .lan

but yes just need a dns entry we have the same problem from many moons ago when someone first set up the network here

 

[TheCake]

Ok how do I add the DNS entry chaps?!

 

[sargey]

Off the top of my head, DNS from Admin tools on the server and create a forward look up zone....... I think..... I might be wrong though....

McBunny, do you concur?

 

[TheCake]

Already had a lookup zone but managed to do it. Thanks sargey and MrBunny.