Persistent Bi-Di VPN problems

Using connections via Registered Domain Names into Hardware routers that
forward correctly to RRAS servers on their respective private networks. That
works as I can do regular old VPN just fine!!!

My setup is two domains, HOME & WORK.

After configuring Bi-Di persistent VPN. . .
On a DHCP host from Home, I can ping any WORK DHCP or STATIC host by name
and IP. Woo-hoo!!!
ping from STATIC IP WORK host (not the RRAS machine) to HOME DHCP/STATIC
host works but only by IP address. But with the -a option, it does return the
host name. hmmm?!?!
On a DHCP host from WORK, I can ping only HOME DHCP/STATIC host by IP, and
the -a option does NOT return the host name, just the ip address.

Any ideas???

Again, home to work is just fine. . . work to home has a few glitches.

Here's the set-up (Arrived through by trial and error as this is all so new
to me):
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HOME NETWORK:
IP 192.168.2.0
MASK 255.255.255.0
HW Router 192.168.2.1
ADs (2003) DC 192.168.2.101
RRAS(2003) LAN NIC 192.168.2.101
RRAS(2003) LAN NIC Gateway 192.168.2.1
RRAS(2003) WAN NIC 192.168.2.102
DNS Server 192.168.2.101
WINS Server 192.168.2.101
DHCP Server 192.168.2.101

HOME DHCP Options:
Router 192.168.2.101
Name Servers 192.168.2.101
DNS Servers 192.168.2.101
Time Servers 192.168.2.101

HOME DNS Options:
DNS Fowarders (ISP IP addresses)
192.168.0.96

HOME RRAS Options:
Demand Dial I/F WORK_ROUTER
STATIC ROUTE 192.168.0.0 / 255.255.255.0
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

WORK NETWORK:
IP 192.168.0.0
MASK 255.255.255.0
HW Router 192.168.0.1
ADs (2000) DC 192.168.0.96
RRAS(2003) LAN NIC 192.168.0.99
RRAS(2003) LAN NIC Gateway 192.168.0.1
RRAS(2003) WAN NIC 192.168.0.97
DNS Server 192.168.0.96
WINS Server 192.168.0.96
DHCP Server 192.168.0.96

WORK DHCP Options:
Router 192.168.0.99
Name Servers 192.168.0.96
DNS Servers 192.168.0.96
Time Servers 192.168.0.96

WORK DNS Options:
DNS Fowarders (ISP IP addresses)
192.168.2.101

WORK RRAS Options:
Demand Dial I/F HOME_ROUTER
STATIC ROUTE 192.168.2.0 / 255.255.255.0

Figured part of it out. Had to put the IP address of my HOME WINS in the Work
WINS/NB DHCP option (Why isn't listing it in the DNS enough? is that a WIN
2000 server issue???)

Jo,
No what you need to do is replicate the WINS servers between Work and home
then it matters not which one you use.
Not sure if your home server is a domain controller for your works domain. I
suspect not otherwise DNS would replicate through active directory and you
could ping all the hosts by name.
If it is a different domain then you need to add the domain to the DNS
suffix search list in the work computers to resolve your home domain by host.
You should still be able to resolve your home computers by using FQDN e.g.
ping homeserver.myhomedomain.com as set by your DNS forwarders which should
probably be listed before your ISP DNS.
You might also like to set up secondary DNS zones for Home and Work and
loose the forwarders.

"joe mamma" wrote:

> Figured part of it out. Had to put the IP address of my HOME WINS in the Work
> WINS/NB DHCP option (Why isn't listing it in the DNS enough? is that a WIN
> 2000 server issue???)