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[Nirvana]

Hi All,
I have IIS 6 running on Windows 2003 server.
All my Intranet and internet servers have been working fine and also
working fine now except that intranet sites are not displayed when I
tried to access them from the Server PC itself.

I can access all inranet sites from other computers on the network, but
when I try to access them from the Windows 2003 PC where I'm hosting
all sites they display the classic The Page cannot be displayed ..
Cannot find server or DNS Error.

I'm totally at loss. Why they won't work from the server itself while
they work from the other PCs on the network?

Any help would be appreciated.

cheers
Nirvana

[Nirvana]

More funy thing.
I got 2 Laptops connected to the LAN apart from the Windows 2003 Server
PC. On one of laptop the Intranet works but from other it works
sometimes.

I have checked the DNS settings in both Laptops they are same.

[Derek]

Perhaps it's because of NAT

Your server may have a different external IP address that is visible to your
customer via DNS than the internal IP address you get when you are on the
console of the server.

First try accessing the web site you want by its internal IP address. If
that works stick an entry in the local HOSTS file for the local IP address
with the DNS name of the web site e.g. (file location
C:\Windows\System32\Driver\etc\)

10.0.0.9 www.mywebsite.com #PRE

Then do an NBTSTAT -R (from a command promt)

Then try the web site. Your hosts file entry will override DNS and you
should be sorted.
Derek

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[Nirvana]

Hi Derek,
Thanx for reply.

1) I'm behind NAT and I have an static IP address.
2) All my Internet Websites are working fine.
3) For Intranet websites I use Host headers to identify and all of them
are having same IP address which is the IP address of Server PC and
which is the DNS IP address.

And all Intranet websites use same port 80

4) I don't have any entry in hosts file. I never had any entry there,
since I use host headers to identify Intranet websites. Do I need to
have entries for Intranet sites?

5) Firewall and McAfee onAccess scan are disabled

6) I don't hae any other servers apart from IIS 6 on my server PC

7) I did NBTSTAT but no success

Any further hints?

cheers
Nirvana
Any further hint

[Jeff Cochran]

On 19 May 2006 16:28:24 -0700, "Nirvana" <param_...@yahoo.com>
wrote:

How about by IP instead of name?

Jeff

[Kristofer Gafvert]

The error message you get indicate that the client was unable to find the
webserver ("Cannot find server or DNS error"). This makes me think that
perhaps the name of the website cannot be resolved on the server itself.

Can you please try to ping the name of the website from the Windows 2003
machine? Do you get any reply?

--
Regards,
Kristofer Gafvert
http://www.gafvert.info/iis/ - IIS Related Info

[Nirvana]

Hi Jeff,

When I type IP address
http://192.168.1.69/
from all machines I get following errors

The page cannot be found
HTTP 400 - Bad Request
Internet Explorer

This is the IP address of my Windows 2003 server where I host all the
Intranet and Internet websites.

I don't have any defasult website running on my Server.

Still I'm at same situiation. Internet websites work fine from all PCs.
But Intranet website don't work from one PC and from Server itself

[Nirvana]

Hi Kristofer,

1) ping intranet.xyz.co.uk from server (Windows 2003) PC
Ping request could not find host. Please check the name and try again.

Similar results for my other intranet web sites

2) However from the other PC ping works fine for the websites which are
visible from that PC but for other intranet sites it shows same abnove
error.

To summarise

http://intranet.xyz.com
doesn't work from Windows Server PC, works from 2nd PC, works from 3rd
PC

http://intranet.abc.uk, http://intranet.klm.uk
doesn't work from Windows Server, works from 2nd PC, doesn' work from
3rd PC

And pinging also shows the above results

[Nirvana]

Problem seems to be DNS.
I tried nslookup from Server PC and also from client PCs and it goes to
my ISP rather than to local DNS.

nslookup has same results on all PCs.

So even for working intranet sites it goes to ISP DNS to fins the
intranet site.

Now that is strange, what could be the problem in DNS configuration?

[Kristofer Gafvert]

So that's your problem. If neither the server nor client machines are
supposed to go to your ISP's DNS server, then you have a misconfiguration
(either your machines don't use the correct DNS server, or your DNS server
is not properly configured). That is what is needed to be fixed.

--
Regards,
Kristofer Gafvert
http://www.gafvert.info/iis/ - IIS Related Info

[Nirvana]

Yes I think it is the misconfigured DNS.

How do I correctly configure DNS?

I have been googling and also i've posted question on DNS group but no
success.

[Nirvana]

In Opera browser it shows Could not locate remote server error

Strange that when I reboot my PCs nothing works and after sometime it
start working from the other PC.

[Nirvana]

Well I made it work if I enter the IP address of Server PC in the
SErverPC->TCP/IP settings->DNS.

But the nslookup still doesn't resolve the intranet.xyz.uk etc.

Shall I assume that now my DNS settings are configured properly?

[Kristofer Gafvert]

If nslookup does not resolve the domain name, it is not working properly.

It is extremely difficult to give any guidance how to set it up, because
it depends on how you want it set up. The DNS newsgroup will be better to
help you configure DNS properly.

--
Regards,
Kristofer Gafvert
http://www.gafvert.info/iis/ - IIS Related Info

[Jeff Cochran]

On 21 May 2006 09:33:05 -0700, "Nirvana" <param_...@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>Shall I assume that now my DNS settings are configured properly?

No, they're not configured properly. That's why pinging by name
doesn't work and pinging by IP does. It's strictly a name resolution
issue. Try a DNS group for help in getting the DNS working.

Jeff