Hi! I'm not sure if this is the best place to ask this question, but I need help getting some DNS settings correct on our domain controller that is running Windows 2008 R2 server. We have to domain controller setup to properly route various domain names to our webserver. Our main website is ccchapel.com and we have a subdomain setup for each of our campuses (i.e. hudson.ccchapel.com). What I'm looking to do is setup www.hudson.ccchapel.com in case we have people that accidentally add the www. I created a new A Record in DNS and entered www.hudson and the appropriate IP Address. DNS accepted it, created a "hudson" folder under the ccchapel.com zone and there are two records in the hudson folder: www and (same as parent). However, when I try to ping "www.hudson.ccchapel.com" internally, I get an "Unknown host" error. When I ping "hudson.ccchapel.com" I get the proper response. I've already added the "www.hudson.ccchapel.com" binding to our website in IIS on our Web Server as well. I would think this would be rather easy, but I'm not really sure what I'm doing wrong. If someone could please help me, that would be great! Thanks! -Eric

what is hte output of nsllokup for below: nslookup hudson.ccchapel.com nslookup www.hudson.ccchapel.comWith kind regards Krystian Zieja http://www.projectnenvision.com Follow me on twitter My Blog

Hello, I have not understood well your description but if you want to assign an IP address for www.hudson.ccchapel.com, you have to: Create a www.huson.ccchapel.com primary DNS zone on your DNS server Create an empty A record and put the IP address you want Once done, use nslookup to check that all is okay. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees , and confers no rights. Microsoft Student Partner Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator: Security Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer: Security Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuration Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure, Configuration Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Windows Server 2008 Applications Infrastructure, Configuration