URL redirect behavior - IE vs Chrome

2012-05-07 Thread Juned Shaikh
I need understanding and help with this phenomenon: Chrome : When I do http://domainname.com ; it properly routes to my http://www.domainame.com but Using IE : it takes me to Bing/Google and searches for the keyword. How do I get this fixed so that the URL http://domainame.com automatically

RE: URL redirect behavior - IE vs Chrome

2012-05-07 Thread Mike Hoffman
To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: URL redirect behavior - IE vs Chrome I need understanding and help with this phenomenon: Chrome : When I do http://domainname.com ; it properly routes to my http://www.domainame.com but Using IE : it takes me to Bing/Google and searches for the keyword

Re: URL redirect behavior - IE vs Chrome

2012-05-07 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Juned Shaikh jsha...@gmail.com wrote: I need understanding and help with this phenomenon: Chrome : When I do http://domainname.com ; it properly routes to my http://www.domainame.com I'm guessing Chrome is trying to lookup up domainname.com, failing, and

RE: URL redirect behavior - IE vs Chrome

2012-05-07 Thread Tobie Fysh
...@gmail.com] Sent: 07 May 2012 17:54 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: URL redirect behavior - IE vs Chrome I need understanding and help with this phenomenon: Chrome : When I do http://domainname.com ; it properly routes to my http://www.domainame.com but Using IE : it takes me to Bing/Google

RE: URL redirect behavior - IE vs Chrome

2012-05-07 Thread Juned Shaikh
DNS change seems to be more viable option? Can you please help us in understanding how to train DNS to handle this? Thanks ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here:

Re: URL redirect behavior - IE vs Chrome

2012-05-07 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Juned Shaikh jsha...@gmail.com wrote: DNS change seems to be more viable option? That would be my recommendation. Can you please help us in understanding how to train DNS to handle this? Talk to your network administrator. They should be able to add the A

Re: URL redirect behavior - IE vs Chrome

2012-05-07 Thread Juned Shaikh
Ben: What DNS needs to be created.. There already exist www record in DNS? Our DNS servers are AD integrated- Win2k8R2. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here:

Re: URL redirect behavior - IE vs Chrome

2012-05-07 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Juned Shaikh jsha...@gmail.com wrote: Ben: What DNS needs to be created.. There already exist www record in DNS? 1. There needs to be a DNS A record (address record, also called host record) for domainname.com.. 2. That A record should specify the IP address

Re: URL redirect behavior - IE vs Chrome

2012-05-07 Thread Juned Shaikh
Finished checking the DNS entry.. the entry exist.. The A record is pointing to domain.com, still for some reason it doesn't work with IE.. Any further advice? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ---

Re: URL redirect behavior - IE vs Chrome

2012-05-07 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Juned Shaikh jsha...@gmail.com wrote: Finished checking the DNS entry.. the entry exist.. The A record is pointing to domain.com, still for some reason it doesn't work with IE.. Any further advice? A records do not point to domains, they point to IP

RE: URL redirect behavior - IE vs Chrome

2012-05-07 Thread Michael B. Smith
: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 07, 2012 7:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: URL redirect behavior - IE vs Chrome Have you confirmed this DNS resolution at the client-end? -- Espi On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Juned Shaikh jsha

Re: URL redirect behavior - IE vs Chrome

2012-05-07 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: Chrome, for better or worse, will automatically prepend a ‘www’. It’s that simple. IE doesn’t do that. He needs a cname for www to the root A resource record for the domain. I think you have that backwards. Chrome

RE: URL redirect behavior - IE vs Chrome

2012-05-07 Thread Juned Shaikh
so www record exist and 2) yet another A record which is point to the domain example.com both exist. NSLOOKUP of www record show correct IP address however NSLOOKUP of domain example.com finds all AD DNS Servers.. (expected as all servers are AD integrated DNS server) This proves that

Re: URL redirect behavior - IE vs Chrome

2012-05-07 Thread Steve Kradel
Oh-ho, you are trying to serve web pages from a domain with the same name as your AD's FQDN. That was an important omission. Unless you have a really compelling reason to do this, the simplest course of action is not to do this. Pick another name for the website, tool around with your clients'