How to reach an internal web server via domain name

[Kerry Thompson]

Check that your client PCs are using 10.0.0.10 as their DNS server, and
nothing else. Because clients will be using this server exclusively,
you'll need to configure a forwarder on the DNS server to forward internet
lookups to your internet DNS server ( ISP server or whatever ).

Rather than using a browser, you should be able to run this command:
  nslookup www.eee.nl 10.0.0.10

to query the DNS server directly from the client and get a response with
the correct 10.0.0.10 address.

Also check that you can run that nslookup on the DNS server itself, using
both its interface IP and loopback :
  nslookup www.eee.nl 10.0.0.10
  nslookup www.eee.nl 127.0.0.1

Kerry


Peter Paul Jansen said:
> L.S.
>
> Here's my problem.
>
> I have a web server (Suse Linux 9) running in my LAN, ip 10.0.0.10.
> We are connected through an adsl router to the internet.
> I have set the routing table so http requests from the outside for
> www.eee.nl\
> are redirected to 10.0.0.10
>
> My colleagues inside the lan are not so enthousiastic about the fact
> that they have to type in an IP number in stead of the url.
>
> I am running named.
>
> I have added to
> /var/lib/named/etc/named.conf
> the lines:
>
> zone "eee.nl" in {
>       type master;
>       file "eee-internal.zone";
>       notify no;
> };
>
>
> In the directory:
> /var/lib/named
> I have added a text file called:
> eee-internal.zone
> containing the following text:
> $TTL 1W
> eee.nl   IN SOA      www         ppj.eee.nl.(
>                      2004100101  ; serial
>                      1D          ; refresh
>                      2H          ; retry
>                      1W          ; expiry
>                      2D          ; minimum
>
>          IN NS       www
> www      IN A        10.0.0.10
>
>
> If I type www.eee.nl in my browser (inside the LAN of course) I get
> switched to search.msn.nl (or equivalent message, depending on the
> setting of the browser) that tells me there are no results found for
> www.eee.nl.
>
> Can anyone point me to the solution in this dilemma
>
> TIA
>
> Peter Paul Jansen
> Triple EEE management Support BV
> Rijswijk, The Netherlands
> ppjansen at eee dot nl
>
>
>