The ability to install Roaming clients on devices with Static IP addresses.
more information needed
Jake Morrow
It would be very beneficial to to able to install a roaming client on windows devices that are set with a static IP address. right now it will work for a period of time and then stop working. there are many scenarios were a static is needed internally and they don't have a static IP from their ISP for the forwarding option to work.
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Ryan Rorie
I believe this is a bug with recent versions of the roaming client (v1.15.3.0). Almost all of our roaming clients have static IPs and we didn’t have any issues until this version. We have a support ticket open on it. Version 1.13.2.0 doesn’t have issues, so we reverted to that.
We might have been experiencing different issues from you, though. Our Roaming Clients were randomly having their DNS IP entries cleared from the registry by the Roaming client after some reboots.
Jonathan Bullock
In addition to the fix below you could also setup a reservation on local DHCP server or when then static is set use the Loopback address when setting the static IP.
If this needed to be done in bulk locally you could possible use the below script to set DNS to use loop back IP on all interfaces:
echo "before job"
ipconfig /all
$netAdapters = (Get-NetAdapter).Name
foreach ($adapter in $netAdapters) {
netsh interface ip add dns name="$adapter" addr=172.0.0.1 index=1
netsh interface ip add dns name="$adapter" addr=172.0.0.2 index=2
}
echo "after job"
ipconfig /all
Philip Nickels
I didn't even realize this was an issue but makes complete sense.
I have multiple end points that have static IP set that seem to periodically have DNS filter issues.
Didn't even think it could be related to the static IP address
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Ryan Poppa
more information needed
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Ryan Poppa
Jake Morrow Would it be possible to create a support ticket on this? It would be good to understand what is happening with logs from your client.
Jake Morrow
Ryan Poppa a previous ticket was created for this.
Hi Jake,
Thank you for getting back to me. Unfortunately, a static IP cannot be set while the roaming client agent is running, as it resets your DNS entry back to 127.0.0.2. If you are looking to implement split DNS resolution for Anycast IP and local DNS, please click here for the document. This guide will help you configure the DNSFilter Relay to manage DNS requests effectively based on their origin, enhancing network performance and security.
Let me know if you have any questions and hope to hear from you soon!
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Ryan Poppa
Jake Morrow: Thanks, let me look into it.