VPN issues with Snow Leo client against Tiger Server
I have installed Snow Leopard on my Mac Book Pro and now have an issue with network routing when I connect L2TP VPN to a Tiger server.
VPN is configured to not route all traffic over VPN. This has worked nicely for the last 2+ years. When I am at home or at a customers site I connect VPN to my office Tiger Server. No problem leaving the connection on for intranet access and at the same time access the internet directly.
However since installing Snow Leopard client this does not work any more. Whenever I try to connect to the internet (e.g. try to browse with Safari) I get the message "You are not connected to the Internet" while at the same time I browse my VPN'ed intranet and access afp shares and a private mail server over this channel. As soon as I disconnect VPN internet access is restored. I have checked in VPN prefs that the checkbox "route all traffic..." is still unchecked. I even toggled it on, then off again, but nothing happened. Interestingly some times I get the message that Safari cannot find the server, and sometimes, although very rarely, I can actually connect to a server on the outside. I think these are servers whose address is still in the cache so that no DNS lookup is needed. The whole behavior reeks like some DNS issues, but I may be wrong.
Well, from here on I need help. It has worked for the last 2 years and now stopped. The only new thing in the game is Leopard client upgraded to Snow Leopard. Thus I think there must be something in the new OS that causes the problems. But what? And how can I fix it?
Any help very much appreciated
---markus---
VPN is configured to not route all traffic over VPN. This has worked nicely for the last 2+ years. When I am at home or at a customers site I connect VPN to my office Tiger Server. No problem leaving the connection on for intranet access and at the same time access the internet directly.
However since installing Snow Leopard client this does not work any more. Whenever I try to connect to the internet (e.g. try to browse with Safari) I get the message "You are not connected to the Internet" while at the same time I browse my VPN'ed intranet and access afp shares and a private mail server over this channel. As soon as I disconnect VPN internet access is restored. I have checked in VPN prefs that the checkbox "route all traffic..." is still unchecked. I even toggled it on, then off again, but nothing happened. Interestingly some times I get the message that Safari cannot find the server, and sometimes, although very rarely, I can actually connect to a server on the outside. I think these are servers whose address is still in the cache so that no DNS lookup is needed. The whole behavior reeks like some DNS issues, but I may be wrong.
Well, from here on I need help. It has worked for the last 2 years and now stopped. The only new thing in the game is Leopard client upgraded to Snow Leopard. Thus I think there must be something in the new OS that causes the problems. But what? And how can I fix it?
Any help very much appreciated
---markus---
MacBook Pro 15", Mac OS X (10.6)
