Name Resolution over VPN

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I have two campuses at our church, each with cable Internet connection. I have a MikroTik 1100AHx2 at each location. The Main Campus (FEC) is setup as the VPN server and the North Campus (NC) is a client connecting to the FEC. The VPN is up and running and I can ping IP addresses both ways across the VPN. The FEC has a Windows SBS that acts as the DNS and DHCP Server for the FEC, as well as the AD server for the admin computers. Our Tech computers are NOT on the AD domain (most Macs.) I set the DNS at the NC to include the internal IP of the Win Server and the DNS servers from our cable provider. I also included the IP of the Win Server as the WINS server.

At this point, the NC computers can successfully ping the server by name or by IP address. However, I am not able to resolve any other computer names in either direction. I can ping, remote control and everything else in each direction using their IP address.

I am using 192.168.1.0 for the FEC network, 192.168.2.0 for the NC Network and 172.16.1.0 for the VPN Tunnel.

Would anyone be able to point me in the right direction for a fix for name resolution? Thanks in advance. I’ll include my exports for the two routers below:

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I figured it all out. I just needed to add the computers to the Active Directory. Now, I am able to ping the DNS/WINS name.

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Hi there!

I had the same problem in the same situation. We mostly needed to see NAS server located in the main office from the branch one by its name (NAS is Synology). So what I did to make it easy (there are many more complicated suggestions) because all computers that are joining to Domain through VPN constant channel (made between two Mikrotiks) in a branch office couldn’t resolve names due to they are in other subnet and had their own DNS servers.

  1. On the WINS server I had checked the records. NAS is based on Linux and do not join Domain and etc, so I made a record his name → ip

  2. On the branch’s router in DHCP server → Networks I made WINS record of the Domain server’s address and added its address to be one of the DNS servers for DHCP server to distribute to clients.

After that I could resolve \NAS_server_name (via WINS) as well as other servers in domain through server_name.domain_name.zone (via DNS)

very easy!