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Resolve VPN connection issues on Windows Vista machines


Rahul Shah, Contributor
04.09.2007
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Some of your users may face problems accessing network resources while using a VPN connection to the corporate network from a workstation running Microsoft Windows Vista.

One reason for this is because a Domain Name System (DNS) suffix cannot be obtained for the TCP/IPv4 address. This happens because Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol version 6 (DHCPv6) does not support connection-specific DNS suffixes. Therefore, DNS suffixes must be configured by using TCP/IPv4, either manually or automatically.

To work around


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this issue, manually configure the DNS suffix for the TCP/IPv4 address in the VPN connection. To do this:

About the author:
Rahul Shah currently works at a software firm in India, where he is a systems administrator maintaining Windows servers. He has also worked for various software firms in testing and analytics, and also has experiences deploying client/server applications in different Windows configurations.

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