Adding a machine to a domain over a Cisco VPN connection

Adding a machine to a domain over a Cisco VPN connection I have rebuilt my machine and in order to add it to the work domain, I guess I need to actually go to work and connect to the network physically to to it.
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"You need the DNS name of your domain controller to resolve correctly. You can either manually edit your hosts file (which on windows 7 should be in something like C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc)

or

If your domain controller is also a running DNS server, you could edit your Windows 7 network settings and add the domain controller to the list of DNS servers to search (adding it by IP address)

Also consider the possibility that you might need to flush your DNS cache since your machine might already have another record for your domain controller at an address it can't access when connected via VPN. Of course this won't matter if you add it to the hosts file since it should check there before it checks its DNS cache."