On 2/15/2012 7:31 PM, Matthew Grooms wrote:
All,
For the longest time I thought there was no way to manually influence
the order in which windows prioritizes adapter specific DNS servers. I
ran across this solution the other day and wanted to share it with the
mailing list. Apparently, the DNS server priority is directly related to
binding order of the associated adapter ...
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311218
If you bump up the binding order of the adapter, the DNS servers that
are associated with that adapter will be preferred over other adapters
when performing name resolution. For example: By bumping up the Shrew
Soft Virtual Adapter in the binding order, the DNS servers associated
with that adapter will be preferred over other adapters set to a lower
binding order ( when the VPN client is active ).
Crap. Now that I look at it closer, the Shrew Soft Virtual Adapter is
hidden so it can't be easily re-ordered. I did find this solution but
it's a command line tool ...
http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/nvspbind
As a quick howto, you run the tool in a cmd window as root. First you
find your adapter binding order for ms_tcpip ...
>nvspbind.exe /o ms_tcpip
Hyper-V Network VSP Bind Application 6.1.7725.0.
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Protocols:
{5D9F4D1D-F5B3-48BA-85AD-9B44176DD0C8}
"ms_tcpip"
"Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)":
enabled: Local Area Connection 4
enabled: Local Area Connection 3
enabled: Local Area Connection* 11
enabled: Local Area Connection* 12
enabled: Local Area Connection 2
enabled: Local Area Connection
enabled: VMware Network Adapter VMnet1
enabled: VMware Network Adapter VMnet8
cleaning up...finished (0)
... Local Area Connection* 12 is my Shrew Soft VPN Network Adapter. If I
want to move it up one position in the network binding, I can use the
following command line options ...
>nvspbind.exe /+ "Local Area Connection* 12" ms_tcpip
Hyper-V Network VSP Bind Application 6.1.7725.0.
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
acquiring write lock...success
Protocols:
{5D9F4D1D-F5B3-48BA-85AD-9B44176DD0C8}
"ms_tcpip"
"Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)":
enabled: Local Area Connection 4
enabled: Local Area Connection 3
enabled: Local Area Connection* 11
enabled: Local Area Connection* 12
enabled: Local Area Connection 2
enabled: Local Area Connection
enabled: VMware Network Adapter VMnet1
enabled: VMware Network Adapter VMnet8
moving 'Local Area Connection* 12' above 'Local Area Connection* 11'
enabled: Local Area Connection 4
enabled: Local Area Connection 3
enabled: Local Area Connection* 12
enabled: Local Area Connection* 11
enabled: Local Area Connection 2
enabled: Local Area Connection
enabled: VMware Network Adapter VMnet1
enabled: VMware Network Adapter VMnet8
'Local Area Connection* 12' found
cleaning up...releasing write lock...success
finished (0)
... Problem solved :)
-Matthew
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