pptp on Linux

[James McDonald]

On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 07:45:22PM -0400, A. Khattri wrote:
> On Tue, 31 May 2005, James McDonald wrote:
> 
> > I'm in Michaels boat it's been flawless and reliable. Only problem is
> > that linux doesn't seem to do split dns so when you dial up you get the
> > remote pptp server/dns assignments and your local resolution fails. I
> > presume that it's just a configuration issue.
> 
> You can tell dhcp to not overwrite resolv.conf. All you need then is to
> use a local nameserver and have that do local queries and recursive
> queries for anything else.

Yes that would be fine but how would you set it up to do a query to that local server timeout / fail and then query the dns server on the VPN link? Because in a situation where you are using a VPN you are frequently connecting into a network that has a heap of 'internal' dns hostnames that are not published on the Internet DNS system and the VPN client needs to split it's attention between local and internet name resolution sources.