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Linksys behind Sonicwall prevents DNS resolution

Hi...I've got an interesting setup and an interesting problem. I've setup a Sonicwal SOHO to VPN tunnel to our office HQ. Then I have a Linksys WRT54GS taking the WAN in. I can access IP addresses at HQ, but for some reason DNS is not resolving, I confirmed that NETBIOS is working through nbtstat.

Also I tried accessing my home network from HQ and that doesn't seem to work either. Our HQ has a DHCP and DNS server, both not running on the Sonicwall at that site...I'm curious if that could be the problem?

Anyways I would be grateful if anyone could provide some insight, and please let me know what other information would be helpful to further clarify the issue.

Thanks.

EKiN

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ebinal
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NetBIOS resolves WINS, not DNS. Those are distinct.

Did you ever try to traceroute to the DNS server?

Well, did you ever specify any important information? You just gave a vague description of the network setup, nothing more.

On the other hand, what about asking your admin? Or if you're the admin, then you should reconsider your job qualifications.

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Sebastian Gottschalk

Owch Sebastian...I appreciate the advice but I'm no IT wizard and nor do I claim to - I'm just an employee trying to set up a vpn connection to work.

How bout some constructive advice? In anycase I thought my provided information made it clear that trace route works with the IP address specified, but not with the domain name.

Interestingly I figured out that just putting 'servername' is not enough, but i need the domain information 'servername.location.com'...what's the best way to resolve the appending the domain affix? I don't want to have to specify '***location.com' everytime.

Thanks.

Sebastian Gottschalk wrote:

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ebinal

The best way is to have your stub resolver automatically attach the domain suffix. Even Windows does that, just check your network settings configuration menu.

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Sebastian Gottschalk

Then likely your DNS resolving does not work. Configure a working name server.

Yours, VB.

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Volker Birk

automatically attach the domain

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ebinal

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