Accessing Intranet by alias name- urgent

Hi there,

I am having difficulties setting up DNS on an NT 4 machine so that I will be able to access my corporate Intranet via a friendly name, such as URL as opposed to using it's computer Netbios name.
What kind of record do I need to create? Do I need to create a whole new zone altogether?

Any help would be much appreciated

Neile

in linux it very easy to set up that
but in windoze you need a dns server where you will specify your local domain names, and then make all your local net looking at that dns for requests

First off, there is no such thing as urgent in any public forums, if it's really urgent, don't come here, go find a consultant.
As far as your question, that depends on how big your corporate Intranet is. For < 20 you can simply use c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file for creating the FQDN's alias and its IP mapping.

I have that setup with hostnames only, and works fine, but it may cause some conflict with FQDN, since windoze double checks dns's. I know that @ our net intranet works only if only local dns is specified,
if you includ public dns even as secondary, or tre..iary it would not resolve local domain names

Routable IPs and external FQDNs should never be placed in hosts file (any OS) in the first place.

Oooh...
Would you be kind to explain more on this. Why if more than 20 we can't use this?

You can do anything, but DNS was invented because keeping long hosts files correct on many computers is at best a royal PITA and at worse, impossible.

mmmm.... what is royal PITA?
when i googling it, it return as hotel name.

Pain in The area ....
or a word less polite than that