server domain problem

Ish

Ish

Ish

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Hi

I have 2008 R2 server and the domain is abc.org

The problem I am having is when I try and access the website abc.org from the server or any of the domain machines they can't find the website. The website is externally hosted. I can't even ping the website.

The website works fine on any non domain machines.

How do I fix this? I'm guessing it's some sort of DNS issue as my domain is abc.org
 
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Hi Ish, Yes as you have their domain name internally, you need to create an A record with www and then the host IP for their website

You then also have to add records for any other external resources on their site that internal clients need to get to, such as FTP etc...
 
Do I need to create the A record on the 2008 R2 server? How do I do this?

abc.org (which is just an example) but our real domain is our own domain name and DNS records are already setup on the external host.
 
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This is why it's a lot simpler to have your AD domain only resolvable privately, e.g. corp.abc.org (where corp is a name that doesn't exist at the nameservers for abc.org).

As it stands I believe you'll need to do as already suggested and replicate the important records on your internal DNS servers. Whenever you modify the public records for abc.org you'll need to dupe them on your internal servers.

That's unless there isn't come kind of conditional forwarding magic that would work...
 
Ok, I have got the website working now by adding the DNS records on to the server but the only thing I can't get working is the exchange 365 accounts. Normally I can just put the email address and password in to Outlook 2010 and it will auto setup. I have copied over the Exchange 365 DNS records to the 2008 server but Outlook 2010 won't setup the email accounts.
 
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Ish said:
Ok, I have got the website working now by adding the DNS records on to the server but the only thing I can't get working is the exchange 365 accounts. Normally I can just put the email address and password in to Outlook 2010 and it will auto setup. I have copied over the Exchange 365 DNS records to the 2008 server but Outlook 2010 won't setup the email accounts.
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You need to add the autodiscover CNAME record to point to autodiscover.outlook.com in your DNS zone.
 
edscdk said:
1) burn down the office
2) install new domain abc.local
3) problems solved
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As there is only one client added to the domain yet it wouldn't be too much of a problem to install a new domain if I can't get it working as it is.
 
I'd agree with rebuilding the domain with a "private" domain name, it's going to cause problems down the line without careful management
 
Ish said:
As there is only one client added to the domain yet it wouldn't be too much of a problem to install a new domain if I can't get it working as it is.
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If you have that option then do it now as you will never be able to do it as easily down the line. Burn it and rebuild as ABC.local or local.abc.org basically anything that is not used externally and never will be which is why .local is popular
 
.local is also not best practice these days and can actually cause other issues. If this is a new setup I would recommend against it. Go with a subdomain of your public namespace as mentioned earlier in the thread e.g. ad.domain.com / internal.domain.com / corp.domain.com
 
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