Need Help: IIS, Host files, and DNS... oh my!

[sully127]

Hi,

I'm new here and am really hoping someone can shed some light on a problem that I'm having.

I just set up a very simple Intranet and have it hosted on a server using IIS.

The IP of the server on which it is located is 10.0.1.4

My network has two servers running as DNS servers (10.0.1.7 and 10.0.1.13). Now, I can enter 10.0.1.4 (the IIS server's IP) from any client machine on the network and get to my index page, but I want to map out a URL to it, something like companyname-intranet.com

I've tried to change the host file on each of the DNS servers, adding the line
10.0.1.4 company-intranet.com
but this doesn't seem to have any affect aside from on the server itself.

I'm absolutely sure that these are the two servers handling all name resolution for my network, too.

Am I doing something wrong here?

Any help is really appreciated.

[Damian]

What sort of DNS server is at? The hosts file is used primarily for that machine to resolve names. You need to update the DNS server's zone files.

Let us know the DNS server type and we can sort this out.

Cheers,
Damian Driessen
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