Our solution was to make the mobile VPN clients use the office DNS server as the primary DNS server all the time, since the office DNS server can resolve both internal and external addresses.
This adds some overhead to the DNS lookup, but with most of the VPN clients using DSL or Cable, it's not noticeable. The PCs with the VPN client are configured to use a publicly accessible DNS server for secondary DNS, so that the user does not loose Internet host name resolution if the VPN goes down. Mike Burden Lynk Systems http://www.lynk.com (616)532-4985 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Gershman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 10:25 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [gb-users] Re: Issue resolving computer name to IP > through VPN > > > On 15 Dec 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > There are no issues with the internal users. Only issue we > are having is > > with the mobile VPN users not able to use computer name > when they are > > accessing internal network from outside using Gnat VPN > Client. It works > > fine using IP address. > > We faced this same issue when we first started to use the > Gnatbox VPN Client. > The solution that worked for us was to use Netswitcher: > http://www.netswitcher.com/product_info.htm Using Netswitcher, we were able to setup up a "VPN" profile that changed the DNS/WINS settings (and other settings if needed) on the mobile client to use internal DNS/WINS servers. Internal host names could then be resolved successfully while connected to the internal network via VPN. After a user was finished, they could toggle back to their original settings without rebooting. It was worth the $14.00 per client price to have this functionality. We have since graduated to a Cisco 3015 VPN Concentrator with a Cisco-provided VPN client that switches the DNS settings automatically when connected. Mark Gershman Economy.com, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://archives.gnatbox.com/gb-users/ ------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://archives.gnatbox.com/gb-users/
