Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Problem with DNS and Linksys QuickVPN

If you are using the QuickVPN by Linksys (Cisco) then you will not be able to use DNS resolution to access network resources located on the interior network. This is because the VPN 'server' on the Linksys router doesn't provide a customized DNS server. It only provides its own IP address as a DNS server, and of course the router doesn't know squat about your internal network.

A workaround is to install/enable WINS on an internal server and then manually input that server's address into the TCP/IP properties on every client. It's not a great solution but it works.

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