- Posted by justin on October 12, 2005
In previous posts I have mentioned that I am using Virtual PC with shared networking and while this setup typically works great, I have found issues when connected through vpn. Every so often the DNS name resolution fails to work so I can not get to any machine/web site by name. To get around this issue, I have hard coded the DNS server values for both and work into the network adapter for the virtual pc image. To get the dns server ip address for home, I logged into my wireless router and grab the dns servers for my isp. To get the dns server ip address for work, I open up a command prompt and use the ipconfig/all command.
After I set the dns servers in the virtual pc I have not had any more problems with not being able to resolve server names.