Re: VPN connection issues

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Hello William,

Well I have it working now. I added the server names to the host file. I'll go back and see if I can manually add the DNS and see how that works. I'm still wondering why my G4 is not getting the DNS info. The window clients are getting the correct DNS info when they make a VPN connection.

Thanks

Chuck


In article <263eec5f044a8c75733aa80bd86@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Chuck.cobern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I can make a vpn connection from my G4, I can ping the server via IP
address, but I can not ping it via hostname.  Is there something
special on the Mac configuration to tell it how to resolve names on
the vpn network and not to go to the internet to resolve names?

BTW: I'm using a Microsoft's VPN Server.

BTW:I can connect from a windows client and it can ping the server
via hostname.

Hi Chuck!

Once you're VPN'ed in to your network, DHCP should assign your DNS
servers for you provided that it has been configured to do so for your
VPN connection.

If you have any DNS IP addresses manually entered into your TCP/IP
settings then these will override anything you get from DHCP.

If you don't have anything entered for DNS servers then your VPN
connection is probably not providing you the needed DNS IP addresses.
Try entering them manually. You can create a "location" so that you
can switch between your work connection and regular Internet
connection.

Hope this helps! bill



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