Re: VPN connection issues

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Hello William, yepper we are good to go at the moment.

Thanks for your help

Chuck

Hi Chuck!

Right away I can see that your Mac is listing the Internet root
servers rather than your company's internal DNS servers. The Windows
machine is listing an acceptable internal DNS server IP address.

You're correct, I'm wrong. Your Windows machine is getting DNS (and I
was suspecting WINS only) but your Mac isn't get the internal DNS
servers. Odd.

You mentioned that you added the server names to a Hosts file on your
Mac, which will work just fine, but you might consider creating a
second Location that has the DNS servers entered manually so that you
can use them to look up all resources on your network rather than
limiting yourself to the list in your Hosts file.

But you're up and working, right? If it ain't broke...

bill

In article <263eec5f08fc8c75ca8aeb41728@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Chuck.cobern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Hello William,

Here's what I got on the G4. I don't see anything about the vpn dns.
The windows info is after the Mac's:

; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>>
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 2743
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 13, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL:
13
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;.                              IN      NS
;; ANSWER SECTION:
.                       400465  IN      NS      L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       400465  IN      NS      M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       400465  IN      NS      A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       400465  IN      NS      B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       400465  IN      NS      C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       400465  IN      NS      D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       400465  IN      NS      E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       400465  IN      NS      F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       400465  IN      NS      G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       400465  IN      NS      H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       400465  IN      NS      I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       400465  IN      NS      J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       400465  IN      NS      K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     50096   IN      A       198.41.0.4
B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     50096   IN      A       192.228.79.201
C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     591265  IN      A       192.33.4.12
D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     158474  IN      A       128.8.10.90
E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     59336   IN      A       192.203.230.10
F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     591265  IN      A       192.5.5.241
G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     59336   IN      A       192.112.36.4
H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     50096   IN      A       128.63.2.53
I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     591265  IN      A       192.36.148.17
J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     158474  IN      A       192.58.128.30
K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     591265  IN      A       193.0.14.129
L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     591265  IN      A       198.32.64.12
M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     591265  IN      A       202.12.27.33
;; Query time: 59 msec
;; SERVER: 24.26.193.62#53(24.26.193.62)
;; WHEN: Wed Jul 20 08:43:56 2005
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 436
Windows:

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : auswk01
Primary Dns Suffix  . . . . . . . : sbstp.com
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : sbstp.com
sbstp.com
TechPointe.local
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : sbstp.com
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast
Ethernet NIC
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-01-29-82-2B-17
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.119
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.254
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.5
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.5
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Thursday, July 21, 2005 3:08:37
PM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Sunday, July 24, 2005 3:08:37 PM
PPP adapter S3Ventures:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : WAN (PPP/SLIP) Interface
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-53-45-00-00-00
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.15.108
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.15.3
65.106.1.196
Thanks

Chuck

In article <263eec5f087f8c7597faed811cb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Chuck.cobern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

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.

Let's check that...

On a Windows machine, open a command prompt by going to Start -->
Run and entering "cmd" without quotes. Click OK.

At the command prompt type "ipconfig /all" without quotes. Note any
DNS server IP addresses that you see. Also, note if you're getting
any entries for WINS servers.

On the Mac, open the Terminal from /Applications/Utilities. Type
"dig" without quotes and hit press Return. You should see IP
addresses for your DNS servers under the Additional Section.

If on the Windows machine you see WINS entries but no DNS then this
is what's doing name resolution and not DNS. You can manually enter
a WINS server entry on the Mac using
/Applications/Utilities/Directory Access/SMB.

Curious as to what you find...

bill



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