If anyone else ever bumps into this, this hack works:  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311218/en-us

-Bill

----- Bill Cavalieri <bill at lumensoftware dot com> wrote:
> I wrote a program that uses the windows networking api, and do some ip
> lookups.  I see it time after time, hitting the local dns, then the
> pptp dns.
> 
> I'll have to figure that mess out then.  Looks like this is all
> windows problem.
>