[Vpn-help] Non-local DNS lookup failed in 2.1.0-release

Matthew Grooms mgrooms at shrew.net
Sat Aug 16 12:36:12 CDT 2008


Tai-hwa Liang wrote:
>   After upgrading 2.1.0-beta-5 to 2.1.0-release, DNS queries to outside
> domain no longer works after connected to VPN gateway:
> 
[snip]
> 
>   Meanwhilst, ping/lookup to host inside VPN works; ping'ing to outside
> domain using IP address works as well.  Once I disconnected from the VPN
> gateway, DNS lookup to www.google.com works again.
> 
>   VPN client version = 2.1.0 release
>   Windows OS version = Windows XP SP3
>   Gateway = FreeBSD 6-STABLE + ipsec-tools-0.7
> 

Tai-hwa,

I did some tests on the software and can't seem to re-produce the issue.
Are you using split DNS to classify which packets should be sent to the
tunnel specific DNS server? If not, no DNS queries will be handles by a
local DNS server when a tunnel specific DNS server is specified.

Thanks,

-Matthew



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