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dandoo
Hello,
I hope this is the best place to post my question. I have noticed something
that has me puzzled about XP's DNS query behavior when XP clients are
connected to VPN's. I have XP (SP2) clients who are members of domain
SubA.DomainA.com. Their primary search suffix is the same as their domain as
expected. Things get weird when connecting to VPN's which are not a part of
this same domain. We have a partner we regularly have clients connect to
with the domain SubB.CompanyB.com. When the clients connect to the CompanyB
VPN, they do pick up the correct search suffix of SubB.CompanyB.com as
verified when I view ipconfig /all and examine the PPTP adapter settings. I
have noticed that these clients can't resolve host names on the CompanyB
VPN. When I take a trace, I see the clients always append the
SubA.CompanyA.com suffix to their DNS queries and never the CompanyB suffix
even though it is the only suffix showing for that connection. This is using
Windows Server 2003 PPTP with just the MS PPTP settings on the clients. Is
there some reason the clients seem to be ignoring the suffix sent to them
from the VPN server?
Thanks!
Danny
I hope this is the best place to post my question. I have noticed something
that has me puzzled about XP's DNS query behavior when XP clients are
connected to VPN's. I have XP (SP2) clients who are members of domain
SubA.DomainA.com. Their primary search suffix is the same as their domain as
expected. Things get weird when connecting to VPN's which are not a part of
this same domain. We have a partner we regularly have clients connect to
with the domain SubB.CompanyB.com. When the clients connect to the CompanyB
VPN, they do pick up the correct search suffix of SubB.CompanyB.com as
verified when I view ipconfig /all and examine the PPTP adapter settings. I
have noticed that these clients can't resolve host names on the CompanyB
VPN. When I take a trace, I see the clients always append the
SubA.CompanyA.com suffix to their DNS queries and never the CompanyB suffix
even though it is the only suffix showing for that connection. This is using
Windows Server 2003 PPTP with just the MS PPTP settings on the clients. Is
there some reason the clients seem to be ignoring the suffix sent to them
from the VPN server?
Thanks!
Danny