Create a "www" record in your internal dns and point it to the external IP
of your website.

-Frank

<ianhobo@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1153735076.767520.197600@s13g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...
> Hi, im new to google groups (and dns ). i hope this question is in
> the right place and someone can me.
> To cut a long story short,
> on an internally hosted website running on small business server,
> whenever anyone on the local network tries to access the website
> through its url or ip address, the local hosts end up connecting to our
> router, where they are asked to login into the router! the main website
> cannot be reached, but is fine when accessed externally. From what I
> have read, this is probably quite a trivial question, but I havnt been
> able to find an explicit answer.
> Thanks in advance
> Ian
>