Topic: unable to see the website from the internal network

[swissis]

I'm hosting a website www.xyz.bla it works fine from the internet.
On sme 6 i was able to use the same adres from the local network.

On sme 7rc3 nothing happens, i tried a tracert the first hop is to the internal nic and it won't go further.

anyone?

[mmccarn]

Is  www.xyz.bla hosted on the SME box itself, or on another box?

[swissis]

yes it's hosted on the sme box.

[mmccarn]

For internal access to work you need to get a local ip address when you do "nslookup www.xyz.bla".

Things that would keep "nslookup www.xyz.bla" from returning an internal IP:

- If the DNS server setting on your workstation is *not* your local SME server.

- If it's a virtual domain and the DNS Server setting needs to be set differently for this virtual domain.

- If you're using a dynamic DNS provider like "DynDNS.org" you could see odd behavior caused by their "wildcard" feature (I have intermittent problems accessing my local server that go away if I add a trailing "." to the hostname...)