On 3/9/2010 8:44 AM, Jack LaMattino wrote: > Hi, > > I've been using the your latest VPN client but cannot establish a > connection back to my system running the client since it doesn't > register its hostname with DDNS or DNS locally. > > I just looked through some packet dumps from when I was bringing up a > VPN tunnel and it looks like the client isn't actually sending a > hostname with its reply to the server's request for config > information... which would definitely explain the problem with DDNS > registration. > > The concentrator *does* give you a hostname, though... but it's > randomly generated based off of the shared group you connect with > (i.e. mine right now is sasvpn727-26654.rmt.sas.com) so that doesn't > really do you any good. > > As a workaround, when I start the client I run a quick batch file to > send the actual IP to my remote machine so I can then connect back to > it via the IP but this is cumbersome. > > @echo off net use m: \\itsvista4137.na.sas.com\public ipconfig /all> > m:\ipconfigoutput.txt dir > > Have you looked into this problem yet and is there a possible > workaround? > > The client works great. Just need to get it to return its hostname. >
I can try to add an option to allow DNS registration if you willing to test it. ATM, the client specifically turns off this feature in the per adapter configuration. -Matthew _______________________________________________ vpn-help mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shrew.net/mailman/listinfo/vpn-help
