Clients pings server VPN IP responds

[Schoolies]

On my Windows XP workstation computers, when I ping the dns name of the server, I get reply timeout from the VPN IP address of the server. If I ping the IP address of the server, it will respond. The arp cache on the client computers show two IP address for the server, the regular local IP and the VPN ip.

the problem is not crashing the network or anything but it's causing alot of computers to run very slowly when accessing the mapped drives.

How do I assign the workstations to use the local IP instead of the VPN IP? In DNS on the server there is a A record for both IPs. I use the VPN connection so I do not want to remove that.

Thanks.

 

[wlee]

You could just use the LAN IP of the server rather than it's DNS name in the mapped share. e.g., \\192.168.1.1\mysharedfolder instead of \\myserver.mydomain.local\mysharedfolder

 

[nweaver]

you shouldn't share DNS zones with internal/external stuff...

for example mail.example.com would point to IP1, intdomain.mail.example.com would point to internalIP

 

[Schoolies]

The problem is also occuring when trying to add Outlook to Exchange.

nweaver, I'm not exactly sure what you are saying. I'm not sharing anything externally all IP addresses are internal addresses. I removed the A host record in DNS for the VPN but as soon as someone logs in via VPN, the record reappears and I have the same problem over again.