Fortinet Client 5.6 override DNS settings - how to get name resolution for internal hosts?
Environment: Fortinet Client 5.6.0.1075
Windows 7 Professional SP1 64-bit
On our network, we have a local DNS (IP address A.B.C.x) that resolves names like compa.mycompany.com to the correct IP address.
Our customer wants us to use Forinet Client to VPN to their machine.
After I open the VPN connection, I can access serv34.mycompany.com via IP address but no longer via name. I can however access serv57.customer.com successfully via name, which of course is what we want.
How do I work around this issue of being unable to access my own internal servers by name? (Besides putting all our mycompany.com servers in my local hosts file)
In the example below, A, B, C, D, E, x represent numbers in the IP address
Before I start the Fortinet client, "ipconfig /all" shows me this
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : A.B.C.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : A.B.C.1 DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : A.B.C.x A.B.C.x+1 A.B.C.x+2
After I start the Fortinet client, "ipconfig /all" shows me this (our internal DNS still show, but are preceded by the customer's DNS)
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : A.B.C.1 DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : A.B.C.1 DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : A.D.E.1 A.D.E.2 A.B.C.x A.B.C.x+1 A.B.C.x+2