local DNS and subdomain

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  pradco · Member · Jan 22, 2010 at 3:23 pm

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  I host my own DNS for my local corporate domain and have an external DNS host for the outside world. I have setup the subdomain and my external DNS CNAME and everything works fine from outside my local network. The problem is that I can’t view my blog from within my local network. let say my office is on corp.com and the DNS for that domain is hosted locally. So if I try and go to blog.corp.com it is looking it up locally and then failing. If I add a CNAME entry to blog.wordpress.com in my local DNS it still doesn’t work. I am missing something, can someone point me to a way to fix this?

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  timethief · Member · Jan 22, 2010 at 8:07 pm

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  Does this support documentation entry help?
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-subdomain/

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  pradco · Member · Jan 22, 2010 at 9:35 pm

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  No, I already did that and it works fine. I can get to the subdomain URL from outside my local network fine. It’s within my local network that I am having DNS issues.

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  timethief · Member · Jan 22, 2010 at 9:39 pm

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  Please clarify. How is what’s happening within your local network a wordpress.com technical support question?

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  pradco · Member · Jan 26, 2010 at 2:18 pm

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  Well, I thought you would be helpful, but since you are not, forget it. I thought I wouldn’t be the only person that experienced this issue when redirecting a subdomain to wordpress.com. I’ll go to a helpful forum and ask there.

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  timethief · Member · Jan 26, 2010 at 7:34 pm

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  Does this warning help?

  Warning:
  Changing the name servers will make any previously setup custom DNS records such as A, CNAME, or MX records stop working, and we do not have an option for you to create custom DNS records here. If you already have email configured on your domain, you must either switch to Custom Email with Google Apps or you can use a subdomain instead which doesn’t require changing the name servers. http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-existing-domain/

  If not have you considered contacting Staff? http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/

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  pradco · Member · Jan 27, 2010 at 1:56 pm

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  No, that isn’t my problem. I have been through everything I could find on here and I did that well before posting the question. Forget it. I’ll find an answer elsewhere.

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 28, 2010 at 1:20 am

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  You will have to, because after reading that I’ve decided not to help you.