Intranet Sharepoint Alias/Redirect Problem

[kwilliams]

Hello all,

I'm having a strange problem with our intranet sharepoint alias/redirect. When I type in "http://intranet" or "intranet" into any browser, I get redirected to different pages or sites depending on the browser. This is what happened with a test of several browsers:
Firefox 1.8:
http://intranet - redirected to http://www.intranetjournal.com/
intranet - SAME

Netscape 8.0
http://intranet - redirected to http://search.netcenter.netscape.com/nctr/search?fromPage=NS8BrowserRoll&query=intranet
intranet - SAME

IE 6.0
http://intranet - Cannot find server: The page cannot be displayed
intranet - redirected to http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?srch=105&FORM=AS5&q=intranet

Opera 8.0
http://intranet - redirected to http://www.intranet.com/
intranet - SAME

So as you can see, there is some problem with the alias/redirect that was set up for our intranet site. But so far, this is only happening on my machine. I realize that it's not a browser issue but an intranet sharepoint issue, but I'm not sure what to do. If anyone knows what's going on, and how I can fix it, I'd love to know. Thanks for any help.

[ray326]

Uh, there is no Firefox 1.8; did you mean 1.5?

The problem appears to be that you don't have a host named intranet in your company DNS. See what 'nslookup intranet' does for you in a DOS window.

[drhowarddrfine]

there is no Firefox 1.8; did you mean 1.5?Probably Mozilla 1.8

[kwilliams]

Hi drhowarddrfine and ray326,

Uh, there is no Firefox 1.8; did you mean 1.5?
I went to check that out, and when I again right-clicked on Mozilla Firefox's thumbnail image, it stated that it was version 1.8.20051.11116. So I just assumed that it was 1.8 from that.

The problem appears to be that you don't have a host named intranet in your company DNS. See what 'nslookup intranet' does for you in a DOS window.
I checked with my Network Administrator who handles that stuff, and he states that "it's a DNS entry on our DNS servers".

When I typed "nslookup intranet" into the MS-DOS window, this is the error message that I received (without the sensitive data of course):
C:/...>nslookup intranet
Server: SERVERNAME
Address: IPADDRESS

***SERVERNAME can't find intranet: Server failed

I'll forward this info on to my NA, and we'll see what happens. Thanks for your help.

[poiuy]

The browser versions don't matter because all there doing is finding a link out in the internet that matches that search result since it doesn't match an internal result. Type in anything that doesn't match an internal computer and that will happen.

I had this happen a long time ago with IIS but can't remember what I did to resolve it.

It is certainly in the settings of your Intranet. If the browser isn't hitting INTRANET and you can't ping it then it's definately an internal issue.

If you have the IP address of the computer with the Intranet on it try typing that into the browser and see if that works.

[kwilliams]

Well, here is an update. My NA set something up just for me so that it would redirect to the correct intranet site. But I'm not sure why he had to do something separate for me vs. everyone else that we work with...which is a lot of poeple. But now if I enter "intranet" into any browser, I get redirected correctly. So I guess it all worked out for me. Thanks again for all of your help!