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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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:
> ebinal@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > but for some reason DNS is not resolving, I confirmed that NETBIOS is
> > working through nbtstat.
>
> NetBIOS resolves WINS, not DNS. Those are distinct.
>
> > 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?
>
> Did you ever try to traceroute to the DNS server?
>
> > 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.
>
> 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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ebinal@gmail.com wrote:
> 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.

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

Yours,
VB.
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to propagate it, and it has very little (if anything at all) to do with sex."
Tina Lorenz

Re: Linksys behind Sonicwall prevents DNS resolution

Thanks...does anyone using a Sonicwall know if there is a way to
configure this hardware to handle the stub reolving?

On Jan 18, 1:06 am, Sebastian Gottschalk wrote:
> ebi...@gmail.com wrote:
> > 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.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.