[vpn-help] Shrew VPN DNS issue with Virgin Mobile Broadband2Go

[kevin vpn]

On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:08:55 -0400
"James Minard" <JMinard at precisioncs.net> wrote:

> We have a client using Shrew VPN client 2.1.7 on Windows 7 Pro 64-bit
> with a Virgin Mobile Broadband2Go 3G connection. The DNS servers that
> the VPN device is setup to hand out to the Shrew clients do get
> assigned to the Shrew VPN Adapter on the laptop, but when I run an
> NSLookup on the client machine after establishing the VPN, the
> default DNS server is one of Virgin's, not the internal DNS server at
> the client's office. Does anyone have a solution for this problem?
> For the time being, I configured a hosts and an lmhosts file on the
> laptop, but I really don't like that as a long term solution.
> 

Hi James,

This may be a bug in the Shrew 2.1.7 client:
http://lists.shrew.net/mailman/htdig/vpn-help/2010-December/003266.html

You could try using the 2.2.0 beta client to see if it resolves the
issue.