DNS for Intranet

[John Cabot]

Hi - We have an internal intranet which all users can access from within
the LAN. When users try to access the intranet via a remote vpn connection
they are able to get access to the index page and use the link on the page but
once they browse outside the index they get page cannot be found errrors.
For example. The intranet site is called http://intranet and the ip is
192.168.1.50. once you surf off the index page the url is listed as for
example http://intranet/testfile.html. ; All files on the testfile page show
page cannot be found errors because the link is
http://intranet/testfile.html
and it expects the link to be http://192.168.1.50/testfile.html. ; This
probably is a dns error - can I setup some type of directional pointer so
it sees 192.168.1.50 and http://intranet as the same. If I correct the url on
the address line and replace with the IP it works everytime. Just
wondering if there is a quick fix.

[Brian Henry]

do a NSLOOKUP and look at your default DNS server... most likely you are
getting your ISP's DNS server instead of your internal one... make sure your
internal and external VPN adapters have the DNS set up correctly as your
local DNS server

[Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]]

Either add an entry to all your hosts files for intranet 192.168.1.50 or
add a record to your DNS server in the domains in your DNS suffix search
list named intranet with the IP. Make sure all clients use ONLY the local
DNS server.
All links in the site should be relative links, not URLs. An example of a
relative link is <a href="testfile.html">

Remember, all names not appended with a trailing dot will be appended with
the names in your DNS suffix search list. So if "domain.com" is in your DNS
suffix search list, "intranet.domain.com" is sent to DNS.
The only way "intranet" is sent to DNS is when you add a trailing dot
"intranet.". in this case you need a zone name intranet, with a host with
the name field left blank and the IP you need.

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Best regards,
Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]
Hope This Helps
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[Максим Зятнин]

in dns-client's setting your local DNS-server should be set. For external
queries your DNS-server uses forwardings to ISP's DNS-server.

"Brian Henry" <nos...@nospam.com> wrote:
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