Can't access external website from local domain (variant)

Hi guys,

Wondering how you address this issue which is a vairant of the "can't access external website from local domain" issue.

Our internal AD domain is called company.com
Our external website is called company.com
We are not going to rename our internal domain name to company.com.local etc
Internal users can't access the external company.com website (as it resolves in DNS to the local Domain name/AD etc)
For various reasons, we can't setup www.company.com and add an A record to the internal DNS that points to the external website in the normal way
We could add an entry to the local hosts file to overide where company.com points too, but this is messy solution

Is there any solution to this issue or is there no way around it?

Cheers

PT