Hello,
I'm not good at networking, but I will try to explain as much as I can.
I have a Windows 7 host machine, running a Centos 2.16 as guest system on VMware Workstation 10.
The problem I have is that when I connect with Juniper VPN on my host computer, all network traffic (including VMnet8 - NAT network) is redirected to the VPN network (including DNS).
So when the VPN is not connected the tracert to the guest machine form the host is as follows:
C:\>tracert 192.168.254.128
Tracing route to 192.168.254.128 over a maximum of 30 hops
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.254.128
Trace complete.
But when I connect to VPN it looks as follows:
C:\>tracert 192.168.254.128
Tracing route to 192.168.254.128 over a maximum of 30 hops
1 74 ms 65 ms 65 ms 10.200.200.200
2 66 ms 66 ms 67 ms ****.****.****.com [****.X.XX.XX]
3 67 ms 65 ms 65 ms yyy.yyy.yyy.com [YYY.Y.YY.YYY]
4 68 ms 67 ms 67 ms zzz.zzz.zzz.com [ZZZ.Z.ZZ.ZZZ]
etc.
First workaround I found for this problem was to use port forwarding in VMware Virtual Network Editor. I can access all applications running on guest system with localhost:<forwarded_port>. And this works for 99% of applications running on guest OS (like Tomcat), except the on I care the most - EMC Documentum Content Server.
On guest machine:
/etc/hosts has:
192.168.254.128 mydocbase.localdomain mydocbase
server.ini has:
[DOCBROKER_PROJECTION_TARGET]
host = mydocbase.localdomain
port = 1489
In VMware Virtual Network Editor I forwarded the Docbroker (1489) and Docbase (47625) port:
and entered
127.0.0.1 mydocbase.localdomain
in the Windows hosts file.
In dfc.properties I entered:
dfc.docbroker.host[1]=mydocbase.localdomain
dfc.docbroker.port[1]=1489.
And everything is working fine unless I connect my host machine to VPN. When I lunch dqMan I get the Documentum Login screen with the Docbase name running on my guest machine, but when I try to log-in I get Login Failure - Please try again.
I launched a wireshark on the guest system and suddenly when Logging in to to Docbase there is:
18 5.474156 192.168.254.128 192.168.254.2 DNS Standard query AAAA mydocbase.localdomain
19 5.546983 192.168.254.2 192.168.254.128 DNS Standard query response, No such name
multiple times.
I guess this must have to do something with the fact that the DNS lookups on guest are redirected as well as on the host machine when connected to VPN.
Anyone has any idea how to resolve this issue?
