Webdispatcher with load-balancing and local icm configuration

Dear all,
we have a webdispatcher in place to load-balance the requests to our three application servers (ABAP). The webdispatcher has a hostname that is resolved by the DNS. The application servers use local hostnames that can't be resolved in our infrastructure at the moment.
That configuration works fine for all requests that reach the infrastructure from outside.
But, if a user logs on with SAP GUI and then calls a web transaction like a webdynpro, the browser opens with the local application server hostname. However that hostname can't be resolved.
Is it possible to change the three local icm configurations in a way that all local generated web requests refers to the webdispatcher too? What is the preferred configuration for this more or less usual scenario?
Thanks in advance,
Daniel

Hello,
In your scenario, I would try to create entries in table HTTPURLLOC. After that the 3 app servers should generate URLs using the SAP Web Dispatcher.
Best Regards,
Olivier

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