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I have run into an issue with the Open Application Instance function and multiple DNS entries.  I have two applications that I need to communicate across a network.  Sometimes one of them is running on a machine connected via VPN.  When that happens, the DNS entry for the machine contains both the local IP on the home network and the IP assigned by the VPN on the office network.  If I try to lookup the remote machine name from an internal machine on the office network, I get back both IPs.  And the order they are returned can change and is random.

The problem comes in when I try to open a connection to the remote machine by name using the Open Application Instance function.  It will try to resolve the name to an IP internally and then connect.  But if the DNS give it the local (home) IP first then it will fail to connect since that IP is not part of the office network.  If it give it the VPN IP first then it will work.  The problem is I have no control over which IP it will see.  And apparently it does not try all of them, only the first one.

Does anyone know if there is a way to control this?  I need to have it give me the local (LAN) IP if there is no VPN connection and the VPN IP if there are two IPs.  And I need it to be deterministic, not random.

 

thanks for any ideas,

-John

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