Can't access company web site after adding Peplink

Can't access company web site after adding Peplink

Situation: The client has two domains in different VLANs, private and DMZ. Their network domain name and the Internet domain are the same, for example both web site name and network domain name are chicagotech.net. To access the web site, they need to created a DNS A record in the internal DNS to point to the outside web site IP. The DMZ domain name is dmz.local so that it doesn't need to create the record. Now after they adding a Peplink as name server, the computers in the DMZ can't access the web site any more.

Resolution: When the computers accesses the chicagotech.net web site, peplink route to the private network that will be blocked. What they need to do is create a new DNS Zone for accessing chicagotech.net web site. To do that, open DNS manager. Right click on the DNS and select New zone. Follow the instruction to create a new DNS zone. Then add a A record pointing to the web site IP address.

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