My google-fu is coming up empty on this one... Here's the problem: When employees use VPN to connect to our network, the VPN system cannot configure the client's resolver to follow our DNS suffix search order. The VPN system can only tell the client to use one suffix as its default DNS domain.
I'm wondering if anyone is aware of software that acts like a DNS server, accepting DNS queries from clients and then executing a DNS suffix search order behind the scenes. For example: Tell the VPN client that its default domain is dummy.foo.com. When the user types in an unqualified hostname bar, the client sends a query for bar.dummy.foo.com to my DNS proxy server. The DNS proxy server sends queries to our real DNS servers for: bar.zone1.foo.com bar.zone2.foo.com bar.zone3.foo.com etc... If it gets a hit on any of them, it simply returns the result as if it's the result for bar.dummy.foo.com. If it gets NXDOMAIN on all of them, it returns NXDOMAIN to the client. ---- Jeremy Charles Epic's Computer and Technology Services Division [email protected] Phone: 608-271-9000 Fax: 608-410-5961 _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
