MS Server 2008 R2: DNS Redirection on second server for website

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Published on 2012-06-13T09:39:39Z Indexed on 2012/06/13 10:42 UTC
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We have a website on a secondary server that we want this website to be accessible from Internet, with www.mywebsite.com. In the domain name provider of www.mywebsite.com, we set our 2 dns names, dns1.company.ch, dns2.company.ch and our static ip address.

System is set as following:

MS Server 2008 R2 N°1: Main server, in AD

  • With IP 192.168.1.100
  • With DNS zone dns1.company.ch
  • With DNS secondary zone from server N°2: dns2.company.ch
  • With DNS secondary zone from server N°2: mywebsite.com (zone transfer is on)

MS Server 2008 R2 N°2: Secondary server, not in AD

  • With IP 192.168.1.101
  • With DNS zone dns2.company.ch
  • With DNS zone mywebsite.com with host: 192.168.1.101
  • With the website under ISS with bindings www.mywebsite.com:80, mywebsite.com:80

All traffics for ports 80 (http) and 53 (dns) from Internet goes to server N°1.

How can we redirect all traffics for www.mywebsite.com from Internet to our secondary server so the corresponding website can be displayed in Internet ?

Note: Under DNS of server N°1, we tried to use also a conditional redirector mywebsite.com (192.168.0.101), but it was working only for intranet.

Thank you, Alain

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