VPN - how does serverlist work?

Question

In Windows 10, the VPN connection is stored in...

%appdata%\Microsoft\Network\Connections\Pbk\rasphone.pbk

This can contain multiple servers;

ServerListServerName=server.domain
ServerListFriendlyName=server.domain

You can also set using...

Set-VpnConnection -ServerList

But how does this work?

• does it try servers at random?
• does it try a default server, but if that fails, tries other servers at random?

This might be useful to customise...

• Staff primarily in Los Angeles connect to lavpn.contoso.net by default, but can also connect to the San Francisco server at sfvpn.contoso.net
• New York has hundreds of users, and 10 VPN servers; ny1vpn.contoso.net, ny2vpn.contoso.net, ny3vpn.contoso.net, etc. They are assigned a default, but can connect to an alternative NY VPN server if necessary.

I cannot find any documentation from Microsoft on this.

Answer 1

Nothing in

Deploy Remote Access in a Cluster | Microsoft Learn
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/remote/remote-access/ras/cluster/deploy-remote-access-in-cluster

Answer 2

Hey

Did you find any documentation about it ?

I'm looking for the same information.

Thanks