Re: DNS Lookups Fail once connected to PPTP VPN

On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:33:00 -0700, travis wrote:

Is this a normal experience with PPTP VPN or is it something that's easy
to fix? I don't tend to think it's a Windows issue since the problem
happens on a Mac OSX box as well.

All of our firewalls use the IP of the DNS server inside the LAN for their
WAN DNS, this means that people that VPN into the firewall (not the server
as we don't allow that) get the DNS of the local server and they can
resolve DNS properly.

As with any good firewall you have to setup rules for your account in the
firewall. If you VPN into the firewall as DSMITH, then you need to setup
rules that permit DSMITH firewall account to use DNS ports, to have
external WEB access, etc...

Also, with most PPTP connections, once you connect you can't access your
local network unless you uncheck the Use Default Gateway on Remote
Network, but then you know better than doing that since you don't want to
run the risk of using your network or your public internet connection
while VPN'd into the office.


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