[vpn-help] Split DNS issue

Larkin Lowrey llowrey at nuclearwinter.com
Tue Oct 21 18:50:21 CDT 2014


Hello, I did select 'Professional' during installation and did activate
by entering my key. Still, no split-dns. It does work fine in v2.1.7 though.

--Larkin

On 10/13/2014 1:52 AM, Alexis La Goutte wrote:
> Hi Larkin,
>
> You need a "Pro" Release to get Split DNS feature on Shrew 2.2
>
> Regards,
>
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 5:52 AM, Larkin Lowrey
> <llowrey at nuclearwinter.com> wrote:
>> So far so good with v2.1.7. Split DNS seems to be working as expected. None
>> of the 2.2.x versions worked.
>>
>> --Larkin
>>
>>
>> On 10/12/2014 5:27 PM, Larkin Lowrey wrote:
>>> I am connecting to a Cisco ASA using Mutual PSK + XAuth and trying to use
>>> split-dns. The ASA is configured for split-tunneling and split-dns. This
>>> works fine with the official Cisco client. When running the Shrew client all
>>> DNS goes to the tunnel's DNS server. That's a problem for me since this
>>> causes my local hostnames to resolve to their public IPs instead of their
>>> internal private IPs when using the tunnel's DNS server.
>>>
>>> I've tried with the default settings of "Enable Split DNS" and "Obtain
>>> Automatically" as well as with manual entries to match the ASA's config.
>>> Neither work.
>>>
>>> I see the following in the IKE trace:
>>>
>>> ii : split DNS is disabled
>>>
>>> When searching the list archive I came across a thread from last year
>>> where someone said that split DNS had been removed from the Shrew client. Is
>>> that true? Seems hard to believe, especially since I bought a license to get
>>> split DNS support since the website said a Professional Edition license was
>>> required for split DNS.
>>>
>>> Are there any workarounds? Is there a particular older version I can
>>> install that does support split DNS?
>>>
>>> I'm running Shrew 2.2.2 Professional Edition on Windows 7 SP1 x64
>>>
>>> --Larkin
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