[vpn-help] Split DNS not working

[Harondel J. Sibble]

Several people including myself have reported that issue, hopefully it'll get 
fixed..... someday.

Not really holding my breath for that someday to be anytime soon though.

:-(

On 12 Aug 2015 at 18:12, John Michael Fischer wrote:

> Hello,
>   I recently setup Shrew to replace a Cisco DNS client in Windows 10.
> Standard features work great.  I wanted Split DNS and purchased a pro
> license, but it isn't working.
> Other than the connection credentials, my configuration is
> Policy > Uncheck "Obtain Topology Automatically...."
> Policy > Add > Add the /8 corresponding to the network I want included
> This works great, and IPs in that /8 are routed over the VPN while other
> traffic is not.
> Moving to DNS settings...
> DNS > Enable DNS (checked)
> DNS > Obtain Auto [DNS] (checked)
> DNS > Suffix Obtain Auto (checked)
> Split DNS > Enable (checked)
> Split DNS > Obtain Auto (unchecked)
> Split DNS > Add > bigCompanyWithSlashEight.com
> 
> Save.
> Connect.
> 
> Open browser/terminal and try internaldomain.bigCompanyWithSlashEight.com and
> I get an error saying cannot be resolved.
> 
> If I open a terminal and use ipconfig /all to get the DNS servers on that
> adapter, then do nslookup internaldomain DNS_FROM_VPN_ADAPTER it works
> 
> Help?  This is the actual reason I paid for the software :(
> 


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