dns confusion on forward zone
Ive created a sharepoint portal at http://sharepointserver. I also created an A record for 'portal' to point to that site since the server name is not user friendly. My boss would like the portal address to be http://portal.gocompany instead of just http://portal, is this possible? I created the portal.gocompany record in dns but of course it created a new domain called gocompany and then an A record called portal. Is this something that needs to be done in iis?
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Second thing to consider is DNS. If the portal needs to be accessible via http://portal.gocompany, the gocompany acts as TLD (Top Level Domain) and portal would be an A-Record ...
Two options
1. Nasty one - adding the domain into the hostfile of each workstation ... well .. horrible idea - so forget that one.
2. Adding the domain 'gocompany' into DNS (which is used by the workstations) and add an A-Record with the IP of the sharepoint server.
For this, you need to create a new forward zone called 'gocompany' and underneath that an A-Record portal
Whats the difference between creating a forward zone called gocompany, and just creating a domain called gocompany within the existing forward zone?
Cannot even find an exaplanation in my MCTS / MCITP books.
I'll ask around ..
Maybe someone else here can enlighten us ? This is the option he is refering to :
Unfortunately I don't have access to my test server at the moment and I don't really want to touch customer live server to test that ..
Could check it tomorrow ...
I think.
John
Work In Progress: BSCI, Sharepoint
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If that is the case he indeed needs to create a new forward lookup zone.
Wait .. for subdomain I would actually just add an A-Record .. now I am confused ..
Edit2: Ah wait a second, a CHILD DOMAIN , not SUB DOMAIN .... I Seeeeeee
This is clearly not what you need. So create a new forward zone called gocompany, create an A-Record 'portal' etc., like I said in my first post.
The A-Record specifies obviously an IP which the IIS website is configured with. If you run multiple websites using the same IP don't forget to specify host header.
Good to know. I'll try it after hours so I dont break anything. Thanks!