Hi,

I have always set up AD up with the same AD domain name as their registered
domain. After installation, I always manually add www to the DNS server so
internally they can type www.domainname.com to get to the external corporate
site, but how do I let them also just type in domainname.com and still get
there?

This has for the first time ever become an issue for me. Thank you.

Thank you.

Hi

This is luckily very straight forward, all you need to do is create a host
record (leave name blank, ie same as parent record) in the domainname.com
zone and point it at the same IP you point the www. Host record to.

simon

Kevin Cotreau wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have always set up AD up with the same AD domain name as their registered
>domain. After installation, I always manually add www to the DNS server so
>internally they can type www.domainname.com to get to the external corporate
>site, but how do I let them also just type in domainname.com and still get
>there?
>
>This has for the first time ever become an issue for me. Thank you.
>
> Thank you.

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I appreciate your response Simon, but I am still having an issue.

I have done that but an nslookup still shows the 2 internal IP addresses as
well as the external I added (I had tried this previously too). So when I
typed domainname.com into the browser, it clearly used one of the internal
addresses, and gave me a "Page under construction". Any ideas?

Thanks again.


"simon via WinServerKB.com" <u11670@uwe> wrote in message
news:73e6f5d94a358@uwe...
> Hi
>
> This is luckily very straight forward, all you need to do is create a host
> record (leave name blank, ie same as parent record) in the domainname.com
> zone and point it at the same IP you point the www. Host record to.
>
> simon
>
> Kevin Cotreau wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>I have always set up AD up with the same AD domain name as their
>>registered
>>domain. After installation, I always manually add www to the DNS server so
>>internally they can type www.domainname.com to get to the external
>>corporate
>>site, but how do I let them also just type in domainname.com and still get
>>there?
>>
>>This has for the first time ever become an issue for me. Thank you.
>>
>> Thank you.
>
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>

"Kevin Cotreau" <u4ic61@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:RMKdnd24r4EcmOrbnZ2dnUVZ_sOknZ2d@comcast.com. ..
>I appreciate your response Simon, but I am still having an issue.
>
> I have done that but an nslookup still shows the 2 internal IP addresses
> as well as the external I added (I had tried this previously too). So when
> I typed domainname.com into the browser, it clearly used one of the
> internal addresses, and gave me a "Page under construction". Any ideas?

>> This is luckily very straight forward, all you need to do is create a
>> host
>> record (leave name blank, ie same as parent record) in the domainname.com
>> zone and point it at the same IP you point the www. Host record to.


Actually it is rather difficult IF you have a DOMAIN since EVERY DC
registers the base name of the domain.

There is a KB article that lets you reconfigure this behavior but it is not
worth the trouble and (I think) a poor practice.

Best is to just train users to type: DomainName<ctrl-Enter>


--
Herb Martin, MCSE, MVP
http://www.LearnQuick.Com
(phone on web site)

Read inline please.

In news:73e6f5d94a358@uwe,
simon via WinServerKB.com <u11670@uwe> typed:
> Hi
>
> This is luckily very straight forward, all you need to do is create a
> host record (leave name blank, ie same as parent record) in the
> domainname.com zone and point it at the same IP you point the www.
> Host record to.
>

Simon, unfortunattely this won't work if the web site name is the same as
the AD Domain name. Domain controllers will register these records, which
are used to resolve the Domain DFS shares, \\domainname.com\netlogon and
\\domainname.com\sysvol The quickest an most surefire way of doing this is
to configure a web site on every DC that redirects http://domainname.com to
http://www.domainname.com (Easily done on the Home Directory tab of the web
site properties sheet)

>
> Kevin Cotreau wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have always set up AD up with the same AD domain name as their
>> registered domain. After installation, I always manually add www to
>> the DNS server so internally they can type www.domainname.com to get
>> to the external corporate site, but how do I let them also just type
>> in domainname.com and still get there?
>>
>> This has for the first time ever become an issue for me. Thank you.
>>
>> Thank you.



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Best regards,
Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]
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