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Mac Forum / Applications / Other MS Products / July 2005VPN connection issues
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. Thanks Chuc > 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 [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > 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  SignatureWilliam M. Smith (Microsoft Interop MVP) 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 >> 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 [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > Hope this helps! bill > 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 SignatureWilliam M. Smith (Microsoft Interop MVP) 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 >> 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 [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > bill 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 > Hello William, > [quoted text clipped - 119 lines] > > > > bill Hello William, yepper we are good to go at the moment. Thanks for your help Chuck > Hi Chuck! > [quoted text clipped - 131 lines] >>> >>> bill |
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