cannot resolve hosted domain name

[dmurray]

Hi All,

Win2K sp4, IIS 5
We have a single web server in house. It's hosted on the DMZ, detatched entirely from our internal network. There is a firewall in the equation also, and all seems to be set up correctly (sorry, i'm the developer not the sys admin

My problem revolves around the fact that the web server cannot resolve the domain name hosted on it. Say the site is www.myportal.com. The web service is available to be called on this same server (www.myportal.com). It cannot resolve the url http://www.myportal.com and the site cannot be pulled up in a browser either.

I just need to get my app working (calling the web service) and the systems admin has been too tied up to look into it.

Any suggestions?
TIA,
David Murray

 

[giadich]

Firewall shouldn't be an issue here. Your sys admin is. He's too busy to look into the DNS problem for you.

As for the true answers:

1. Configure DNS on the server to resolve the domain in question.

2. If DNS service isn't available on that server then modify the HOSTS file so the server can resolve that host.

Brian
http://brian-dao.blogspot.com