Re: VPN - why do I need IP address

[Peter Dow <petercdow@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jeff,

I VPN in to various customers and use the server name with no problems.

It sounds like a DNS problem. If you look at the details of the active 
VPN connection, what do you see for the DNS server? Or do you have some 
incorrect entries in your local hosts file?

If you're on a Windows PC, try "ping -a x.x.x.x" at a command line. The 
-a switch tells it to do a reverse DNS lookup, giving you the name of 
the server at that IP address.  Try using that in RDP.

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*Peter Dow* /
Dow Software Services, Inc.
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On 10/25/2013 9:15 AM, Jeff Crosby wrote:
> All,
>
> Ignorance question.  When I use our VPN to "get to the office" from my home
> or elsewhere, why do I have to use IP address (192.168.0.xxx) for RDP
> instead of being able to use the server name?
>
> Over the years we've been through 3 different VPNs and this has been true
> of all of them.  I have always thought that once I VPN'ed in, I was on the
> LAN.  Yet for RDP I always need to use IP address or it can't find the
> server I want.  Is it because the PC I am using remotely is not on the
> office domain?
>
> Thanks.