connect to 'www.mydomain.com' within office

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connect to 'www.mydomain.com' within office

Hi everyone. Hope all is well.
I am not sure if this in a DNS issue, or a web service question, but I think it is DNS related.

We are running DNS here in the office to help resolve local DNS. We are also hosting our domain locally, as well.

Previously, in 10.3, I was able to connect to my website in a browser with the www. Now, in 10.4, I can only connect to my domain like: mydomain.com, without the 'www'

I am able to connect to my domain: www.mydomain.com from outside of the network, so I know it works fine.
My question then is, how can I setup in my settings so we can all connect to: www.mydomain.com in my office?

Thank you in advance for any help.
Thanks again!
josh

Powermac G5, Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Posted on Jan 30, 2006 2:07 PM

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Answer 1

Jan 30, 2006 3:19 PM in response to Joshua Cohen

I'm assuming this is in a NAT environment? Can you post the results of running these commands from a NAT'd LAN machine:

host -r myDomain.com <lan-nameserver-ip-here>

and

host -r www.myDomain.com <lan-nameserver-ip-here>

iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.4)

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Answer 2

Jan 31, 2006 5:44 AM in response to Joshua Cohen

Not sure if this is the proper way to do it but it is working for me, and I'd be interested to know if there is a different/better way to do it.

I just listed both my public IP and my private IP in my zone files and have them resolve my domain name... in case that didn't make any sense here's the output of a dig on my domain

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;raoset.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
raoset.com. 10800 IN A 192.168.0.254
raoset.com. 10800 IN A 68.21.192.86

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
raoset.com. 10800 IN NS ns1.raoset.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.raoset.com. 10800 IN A 192.168.0.254
ns1.raoset.com. 10800 IN A 68.21.192.86

;; Query time: 2 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.0.254#53(192.168.0.254)
;; WHEN: Tue Jan 31 08:42:44 2006
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 110

Works well for me. And it works in 10.4.4

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