[Openswan Users] Windows dns lookup over IPSEC/L2TP

Duncan Reed duncan at elminster.com
Thu Nov 4 10:11:46 CET 2004


On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 23:19, Jacco de Leeuw wrote:
> Duncan Reed schreef:
> 
> >>>When I browse or do an nslookup it uses the primary dns on the Ethernet
> >>>adaptor connection, i.e. the ISP, rather than those specified by the VPN
> >>>connection.
> 
> I get the same result. IPCONFIG /ALL lists the DNS servers from the VPN
> connection after 'dial-up' so I figured it would be OK but a tcpdump
> shows that the original DNS servers are used.
> 
> It should be a Windows client problem because on the Linux L2TP/IPsec
> server everything is configured OK.
> 
> The only information I could find at this stage is:
> http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBM/tip6100/rh6175.html

Okay thanks, I shall continue my search for a solution at least I know I
haven't done anything obviously wrong. 

Seeing how MS seem to have tweaked DNS, DHCP etc so that it integrates
with Win2k server I wondered if it might be a windowism rather than a
Linux side config issue.

Duncan


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