DNS through VPN

[wrightsreprints]

When I connect via VPN to our ASA 55xx, DNS does not seem to work unless I add our domain name to the end of the name COMPUTERNAME.DOMAIN.   Currently I have to add the suffix on the workstations VPN settings to bypass this.  Under the group-policy I have the DNS server values set as well as the default domain value.

So far, I have simply dealt with this; however I am in process of migrating an existing offsite network and come to find out the solution works for them. I am only noticing a few differences. One they are running version 9.xx whereas we are using 8.2.x, they have an additional variable for WINS (which I thought was depreciated) and lastly, their domain is FQDN whereas ours is SLD (soon to be changed). 

Can anyone shine a light on this? Is any of the above a contributing factor on why this does not work on our network and works on another?

Thanks,  

[Philip D'Ath]

Have you configured your VPN to give out a default domain?  That should resolve it.

Something like:

group-policy DfltGrpPolicy attributes
   default-domain value DOMAIN

[wrightsreprints]

yes, I have.

[Philip D'Ath]

Any chance you are overriding this value in another policy?

[wrightsreprints]

I thought about that but I went as far as adding that to each of the policies to make sure.