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   Message 887 of 2,348   
   Joe Beasley to Paul Jones   
   Re: DNS, WINS et al   
   08 Apr 04 00:04:49   
   
   From: replytonewsgoup@nospam.net   
      
   The cisco 3030 vpn allows you to specify multiple dns and wins entries.   
      
   Paul Jones wrote:   
      
   > There seems to be a recurring theme regarding non-M$ VPN solutions for M$   
   > platforms wrt useful IP configuration items that allow clients to access   
   > the remote network in a consistent manner.   
   >   
   > Admittedly I've only evaluated two VPN client packages, Cisco and   
   > SafeNet's SoftRemote. Both of them did not allow me to supply DNS servers   
   > to be used while connected to the remote network. I tried talking to   
   > NetGear support, the guy led me to believe that this is also the case with   
   > their VPN Client. Without providing tunnel specific setting I would have   
   > to expose our internal DNS services to the Internet so that the clients   
   > can obtain this information from the underlying Internet config. Exposing   
   > WINS in this manner would probably not be feasible or sensible.   
   >   
   > Can anyone point me in the direction of an IPSec solution that provides a   
   > better level of integration/configuration ? At the moment we are using   
   > FreeS/WAN as the server, so solutions that are compatible with it are   
   > prefered.   
   >   
   > TIA   
   > Paul   
      
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