newbie fault - bind could'nt find external hosted website

[Kevin Darcy]

Dirk Schaare wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've made a newbie fault back awhile, as I set our local Network Domain-Name
> equal to the Name of our Internet-Domain. That was not an obvious problem
> since we have a small subnet with only one Member-Server (NT) on it. But now
> I've setup a Linuxbox (SuSE 7.1) for NAT, Firewalling, E-Mail and so on.
> Everything runs fine: DNS and DHCP with dynamic updates, Sendmail via UUCP,
> ISDN-Routing, etc. (thanks to SuSE, nice distribution).
>
> The only thing that I could'nt bring to the light is access to our external
> hosted Website. Bind tells me that the server "www.ourdomain.de" is unkown.
> Is
> there a change to tell bind, that "www.ourdomain.de" is not at the local
> network "ourdomain.de" and ask the forwarders? I tried an entry in the
> hosts-file with the ip from the external webserver. But they run it as
> virtual site so the ip without the name could not be resolved properly.

Why don't you just add the name www.ourdomain.de to the internal version of
your domain?


- Kevin