On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Jeremy Charles wrote:

> 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.

asfar as I know DHCP can only assign one default domain, you can however 
set a series of search domains. Check to see if that solves your problem.

David Lang

>
> 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.
>
>
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> Jeremy Charles
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