I'm sure its here somewhere but I just cant find the answer and it is driving me nuts. I am a novice with Windows Server and I need to get this working. Our firewall does not to DNS loopbacks so we are screwed with our own internal servers that have a external ip address. I was told to setup a dns server to do the work and have it forward any requests to the local IP if we type the public one. I gave the DNS server a name of mysite.local(mysite not real of course). I create a Host A with the entry of app.mysite.local becase (the site I need to connect to is app.mysite.com) and pointed it to the local ip 192.168.200.5 which is the ip of this web server. When I type out app.mysite.com in a browser, it just sits there like it usually does and eventually fails. I type app.mysite.local and viola it takes me to the server. The problem is this will not work for our needs. I need to be able to use app.mysite.com but nothing seems to work. My guess is it it still goign tot the firewall and getting stuck there still and the only way to resolve this is to put the DNS server outside the firewall which is just not possible. Any help on this would be awesome.

Try using the hosts file to point it to the internal IP address. There are many sites explaining it.

Have you created a Resource Record for for the Domain Name Pointer for app.mysite.com ? Maybe that's the problem.