RRAS and Windows 200 Server

[Guest]

I have been having some problems with my RRAS and VPN setup (which could
ultimately be caused by an incorrect DNS configuration).

I currently have a Windows 2000 Server operating with one NIC serving as my
domain controller. I configured RRAS and have been using a VPN for quite a
while. However, there are a few things happeneing which I'm not sure are
normal.

First, since I use only one NIC (we have 30 public IP's at my office so no
NAT is used either), a "virtual" Internal interface was automatically
configured by RRAS. It shows up in IP Routing -> General, and is assigned an
actual IP address on my subnet. Should this Interface be there or should I
delete it? It seems to cause problems because it orignally added a host
record in my DNS so that the server actually had two records in the DNS.

Second, when I connect remotely, and try to connect to the server using
remote desktop, I am not able to connect. I can connect to the web server on
our network, however, this is only possible when I insert a static record
into my laptop's HOSTS file.

When I connect through to the VPN remotely, I am not able to ping the RRAS
server by either name or IP address. I'm not sure what is wrong. It seems
to be an issue with my remote client not being able to contact the DNS server
once it's connected.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Ryan

 

[Robert L [MS-MVP]]

this may help. quoted from
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