servers as the servers to be used for communication by the operating system and applications before power up or before dial up alternatively where employees are given desktop access to the network each employee computer is hard coded to use the internal dns server for private inquiries and the extrenal dns server for public inquiries in a preferred embodiment the vpn client resident on the user 39 s computer to grant the user access to the vpn system is a software program the vpn client can be installed for example by download from a base server that is available for access to global users or from an internal server as at optional step 30 or on desktop computers at the home or at the office of authorized users as at optional step 30 or on mobile computers of authorized users as at optional step 30 the vpn client is preferably active or inactive at the selection of the user or the installer upon activation the vpn client may override at step 16 the dns assigned by for example an isp into which the user 39 s computer has dialed in favor of the address of a vpn gateway however in the preferred embodiment the.