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DNS resolution through VPN tunnel

I just setup a B2B VPN tunnel between our company and headquarters. All employees access a special corporate public web-portal which can be accessed from anywhere on the internet. One of the links on the portal, let's call it "acct.company.com" points to an accounting server and only works if the computer trying to access it is on a secure network over the VPN tunnel. Otherwise the user will get a page cannot be displayed. On our tunnel rules, we allow access to this accounting server by its IP, (10.55.55.1).

The problem is if a user click on the accts link, the web page resolves to "acct.company.com" which does not go through the tunnel and it fails. If I replace the "acct.company.com" with the server IP 10.55.55.1, it works. I am sure I need to created a record on our DNS server (Windows 2003 AD) but not sure how and if it will work through the tunnel.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

John

You might also need a Hosts file entry on the client machine to associate an IP with a name. There are samples in the Hosts file (windows\system32\drivers\etc) .... T

lehan

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I tried the hosts file entry on my laptop but unfortunately that did not work.
I added:
10.55.55.1 acct.company.com

any idea how to add to the DNS server?

John

DNS is available through Admin tools on the server, but I don't see how entries here will assist someone at the other end of a VPN tunnel. It may be that your entries in the VPN setup need to be modified, but I am not knowledgeable enough to make a suggestion. I use consultants myself to set up VPN's. .... T

lehan

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I am unable to find (so far) anyway of adding a url resolving to an IP in my firewall rules.
To clarify, a user on our end of the tunnel is trying to access a secure web server on the other end of the tunnel.

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