Hi,

Yes but my company.com domain is all managed by external providers. I could map the few IP Addresss in on my local DNS, but I dont really want to because I have had situations before where locally the web site all looks ok, but externally (not using my DNS) it is mapping incorrectly and had problems with the external web sites because of this.

I am just surprised that the LAN based Microsoft DNS hasnt got some sort of setting to say, "yes this particular name "mail.company.com" I know the IP Address for but this other one that is in the same domain (company.com) I dont know so I had better refer that outside to the Internet like normal". In fact I'm not surprised, I am 95% confident that this can be done if I knew how, this must be so common, I feel everybody must have the sme problem.

My internal domain is webbedsolutionslimited.local and my external which is managed by third parties is webbedsolutions.co.uk.

Anyway, thanks for you help.

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A.Rajesh Khanna