DNS with WSUS

I have DNS and WSUS setup on win 2K3 server and had a thought to make access to WSUS. I set WSUS up on port 8530, just in case a something happens to port 80. When i log in I has to use http://servername:8530. I thought that I could setup CNAME to link wsus.servername.local to http://servername:8530 but its not working out. Also it is to hide the port number. Is this possable this way or is there a better alternitive?

 

No that won't work. A DNS name has the form NodeName.DomainName.RootDomain. So if your domain is mycompany, the correct DNS name for your server is servername.mycompany.local. So to connect to the WSUS service you'd enter servername.mycompany.local:8530. You could create a wsus alias in the DNS, but then the correct address will be wsus.mycompany.local:8530

That's a browser issue rather than something you can configure at the server. Basically your bowser expects http requests to be on port 80, so you don't have to specify the port number when using the default port 80. Use any other port for http traffic, and you have to specify the port number via ortnumber