Comments on: Microsoft Small Business Server and FTP

By: netsupport

netsupport — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:02:07 +0000

Or Just add an entry to the clients hosts file. xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx http://ftp.zevcohen.com

This would have to be done on each Client PC.

By: tswirka

tswirka — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:01:54 +0000

I added the DNS zone as instructed by mrdenny and everything works perfectly. Thanks to everyone for their help and input.

By: Troy Tate

Troy Tate — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:10:23 +0000

MrDenny's answer is the best approach with setting up the internal DNS zone with the same name as the external domain name. Then create the appropriate records for internal resources using internal addresses. This is called split-horizon (or split) DNS. See this article about split DNS for additional information.

By: mrdenny

mrdenny — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:24:52 +0000

Man the forum mangled that comment I just name.

If you have questions as to what that’s supposed to be let me know.

By: mrdenny

mrdenny — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:23:51 +0000

The problem is that the way NAT works traffic can’t go out a network port then back in the same network port.

The easiest solution would be to add a DNS zone to your internal DNS servers called http://ftp.zevcohen.com (not zevcohen.com with a record called ftp) and setup a CNAME for the name “.” pointing to the internal DNS record for the FTP server. This way internal users can hit the FTP server via the name but without going out to the public net.

By: tswirka

tswirka — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:05:24 +0000

My internal DNS domain name is xxxxxx.MSFT, (the xxxxxx is not the same as my external domain name.
I thought I might have to add something in DNS, but I wasn’t sure how to add it. Can you elaborate on that if you think that’s the answer?