[pptp-server] DNS/WINS/Gateway

Kenneth E. Lussier klussier at mclinux.com
Thu Jun 22 08:48:06 CDT 2000


They're on totally different subnets. The remote hosts are on
10.100.0.0/16 and the DNS and WINS servers are on 10.1.0.0/16.

Kenny 

-- 
Kenny Lussier
Systems Administrator
Mission Critical Linux

Brian Aust wrote:
> 
> Hmmm... well, the only thing i can say is that this looks suspicious:
> 
> localip 10.100.0.2-10
> remoteip  10.100.0.11-100
> 
> This means that your REMOTE CLIENTS will be receiving .11 thru .100, and yet
> you've specified your WINS and DNS servers to be:
> 
> ms-dns 10.1.0.24
> ms-wins 10.1.0.20, which fall in that .11 - .100 range.
> 
> So it seems to me like the local and remote ip's are mixed up.  Maybe not.
> But i don't see how the DNS and WINS servers could be the remote roving
> clients -- wouldn't those have to be in the localip set on your LAN?
> 
> That's my initial observation...
> 
> Brian
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth E. Lussier
> To: 'pptp-server at lists.schulte.org'
> Sent: 6/22/00 8:57 AM
> Subject: [pptp-server] DNS/WINS/Gateway
> 
> All,
>         I can connect to my pptp server with a Windows box with out
> issue, and
> I get get at all of the resources that I need. The only problem is that
> I can only do so by IP address. For some reason, I'm not getting DNS or
> WINS settings, and the gateway is being assigned as the remote-host IP.
> Now, I'm sure that this is just something small that I overlooked, but
> any help would be appriciated. Also, will the ms-dns and line in the
> /etc/ppp/options files hand out dns settings to a Linux pptp client as
> well? Below are my configs.
> TIA,
> Kenny
> 
> --
> Kenny Lussier
> Systems Administrator
> Mission Critical Linux
> 
> /etc/ppp/options:
> lock
> debug
> kdebug 1
> ms-dns 10.1.0.24
> ms-wins 10.1.0.20
> netmask 255.255.255.0
> proxyarp
> nodeflate
> auth
> mppe-128
> mppe-stateless
> +chapms-v2
> defaultroute
> 
> /etc/pptpd.conf:
> debug
> speed 115200
> localip 10.100.0.2-10
> remoteip  10.100.0.11-100
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