Intra-Net - Creating A Domain Name Pointer


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Hi,

I have in the middle of creating a works intranet, and I want to log on to the main pages of the intranet as I would using the internet. For example "www.intranet". What do I need to do this, and is it possible to set it up on a windows system? Is there any free software around?

I have all of my PHP, MYSQL and Apache services set up and running.

Regards

Matt

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You need a DNS server that will host your internal server names. Than your clients need to talk to that DNS server. Another way is the edit the workstations host file (\windows\system32\drivers\etc) and add the entry for your webserver.

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Can I please just say that I only want to access the "domain name" internally.

Thanx

Matt

Yes you can. What does that have to do with setting up a DNS server? Does your current lan have an internal dns server - that does the lookup for outside domains? Or do you point to your ISPs supplied outside dns?

If you using ISP, you can change your internal computers to point to your internal server. Which will be authorative for your domain, ie point to your intranet web server, ie intranet.somedomain - if it does not have the a listing for the domain your looking for - it will go ask the root servers, just like every other dns server out there.

also, you really do not have to do dns to access an internal web server. If you have netbios name resolution, through a wins server and or computer browsing or broadcast - you can go to http://computername

Unless you are point to a proxy, that does not know how to resolve computername. But you can add this name to the bypass list in your browser.

If this is for a work related site - your company IT support should be able to set this up for you. Please tell me your not your companies IT support :) If for home lan, I hope this helps.

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