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However, if I put in the IP address of my machine (e.g., the 192.168.1.10) and had the VPN on, I could successfully connect. But when I was doing it remotely (via the VPN), my connection would simply timeout. The issue for me was that when I used Remote Desktop to connect to my computer, when I was at work, I could just user mycomputer in the name field. In the ping process, I could get the IP address of that machine, for this example, let’s say that it’s 192.168.1.10. Side note: To get a machine’s IP address, all that you have to do is “ping” that computer by simply issuing the command ping mycomputer and it would (hopefully) respond back.
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But, if you have the IP address of your machine, you can always use that to connect. If you can’t, your internal networking might not be working right. If your network is set up properly, and you are on that network, you can just type in the name of your computer (e.g., in a Remote Desktop Application) and you “should” be able to connect. This is much the way that the internet works domains translate into public IP address. When you are on the same network, you have routers and DNS servers that translate the name that you put in and convert it into an IP address.
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You might not think that this is a big deal, but for me it is because it is hard to remember IP addresses and if you have a DHCP environment, sometimes those IP addresses change. This post is about another issue that I seemed to have resolved where when using my VPN, none of my hostnames were resolving, fully qualified or shortened ones weren’t working, only using an IP address.
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I did find some ways to correct that (the Error 51 issue) and how to migrate your Cisco setting over to the native Mac OS VPN client, but that will be the subject of another post. I tried to use my Cisco VPN client on my Mac after having upgraded to Lion.