Re: Strange access to exchange via web

[Mike <koldark@xxxxxxxxx>]

I had the same problem just a couple days ago... and this was inside the
network! I was able to access via IP and via Firefox, but not IE7. A bit
later, I could access via IE7 again normally.

On Jan 18, 2008 3:26 PM, Roger Vicker, CCP <rv-tech@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have just come across something that leaves me not even sure what
> terms to Google for.
>
> New customer has an Exchange Server 2003 behind a router that only
> allows incoming https. The server is using a self signed certificate.
> The DNS is provided by their ISP, uses a static IP, however the RDNS
> returns the ISP's domain not the customer's. I am working on getting the
> ISP to change the RDNS.
>
> Outside users have been able to use
> https://www.customer.domain/exchange/ to access their email.
>
> Now some (not all) users are getting a "Server not found page." If the
> user does a nslookup on the domain and then substitutes the IP for the
> domain they get the Exchange page. A tracert by name and by IP show the
> same successful results.
>
> At first it looked like the unlucky ones were on a different ISP but I
> have found at least one on the same ISP (even in the same sub-net) as
> the customer that is getting the same failure.
>
> What do I look at next?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Roger Vicker, CCP
>
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