Earthlink Search

[TC10284]

I am trying to connect to my work VPN at home. At home I use Earthlink cable. They've been good to me so far. However, when I follow the instructions to setup a VPN in XP and type in a web address that is on the corporate Intranet only, freakin' Earthlink Search ALWAYS catches the address and takes me to their stupid search engine at:
http://earthlink-help.com/main?AddI...ientLocation=us&FailedURI=http://example.com/

I KNOW the VPN instructions work as I went to my neighbors house and setup the same VPN (but they have a different ISP), and I got on to the Intranet web pages without any trouble.

Is there any way I can bypass the Earthlink search?

This is NOT software from Earthlink that's installed on my computer(s). I've tried the same VPN steps at home on two different PCs with the same results.

 

[TC10284]

Change WAN side DNS server(s)?

 

[bruceb]

Do you use a router ? ?
You may be able to set it up so that when you type in the Intranet VPN Address
that you can tell the router to use no DNS Address

Or perhaps, when are going to VPN into work, just go into the network connection
and disable the DNS setting ... or try a free dns server instead of the one that
Earthlink uses

 

[TC10284]

Yes, IPCop as my router.

So I set the forwarder on my DNS servers to point to 4.2.2.2 and 4.2.2.3 and it works well now. But that's only because DHCP on IPCop is handing out the DNS server IPs on my local network and then they are forwarding requests to 4.2.2.2. I have yet to configure my router to use those DNS IPs on what DHCP from Earthlink hands out. I need to find the config file in IPCop most likely. I've posted a question over in their forums though.

 

[bruceb]

This tells you how to set IPCOP for use with VPN

http://thinkhole.org/wp/2006/03/28/ipcop-openvpn-howto/