Exchange access from outside/inside firewall

[PeteK]

Can anybody suggest an apporach to allow access to Exchange 5.5 server using
an outlook client from both outside and behind the firewall on the LAN where
the server resides? We're on a NT 4.0 domain, so there is no local DNS
service on the LAN (DNS comes from ISP).

Access thru the firwall is working OK.

Issue crops up when we need to swap the NETBIOS name with the FQDN when we
move either onto or off the LAN and resolve the name of the server to
alternately a public or private IP address.

It looks like a hosts or lmhosts file is the cure for this, just wanted to
see if somebody else encountered and dealt with this before.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Neil]

why not just set up local dns ?

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