VPN clients and slip tunnelling

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Andrew Story

Hello NG,

We have some users (mixture of Win2k Pro and XP) who connect via a VPn
client (Watchguard MUVPN). When *some* of these clients work from home,
they are unable to get access to any resources on the Company network when
connected. After some digging it seems that the clients are using the ISP's
DNS server and not the internal one's. Does anyone know of a work around
for this (apart from having the user do anything manually), or has anyone
experianced this before and found a fix?

TIA
 
Put the IP address of the Internal DNS server as the preferred and the ISPs
DNS server as the alternate. When the VPN is not connected the attempt to
contact the preferred will fail and the ISPs DNS server will be used. After
connecting, the Internal DNS server will be available. There are some
problems with this but it works fairly well. Also, make sure you have the
Internal DNS servers listed in the TCP/IP properties of the client's VPN
connection if this is a Windows VPN.

...kurt
 
Kurt, I will give this a try, thanks for the advice and I really hope this
helps. Whats left of my hair has been getting slowly pulled out over this
one.

Much appreciated, Andrew
 
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