[vpn-help] Dynamic DNS Registration

[Matthew Grooms]

On 1/22/2010 8:15 AM, Evan Kinney wrote:
> Actually, I take that back. I just looked at the zonefile for the domain
> we have for remote users and it seems the problem is that the Shrew Soft
> client isn’t sending my hostname to the concentrator, so the
> concentrator is assigning a hostname to me that it generates.
>
> *From:* Evan Kinney
> *Sent:* Friday, January 22, 2010 9:08 AM
> *To:* 'vpn-help at lists.shrew.net'
> *Subject:* Dynamic DNS Registration
>
> Just noticed something: when I was using the Cisco client, it would
> register my hostname with DNS after I connected. This doesn’t seem to
> happen with the Shrew Soft client.
>
> I’m not sure what mechanism it uses for this since there’s no DHCP
> involved, but is there any way to get this working (and has anyone else
> noticed this as well)? Myself and a lot of my co-workers would like to
> connect back to our machines on the other end of the tunnel when we’re
> on the internal network, but we end up getting a different tunnel
> address almost every time.
>

The Shrew Soft Client currently disables dynamic DNS registration. This 
is handled at the adapter level, in this case, the virtual adapter that 
gets assigned the private network address. I'll look into adding an 
option that allows this to be enabled.

-Matthew