Re: Two Win2K8 R2 DNS Servers

2010-11-01 Thread Andrew S. Baker
What server is each DNS server using as its primary DNS server? If it is using the other server, that might cause your problem, if for some reason, it's not failing over to the next one in the list in a timely fashion. Also, when you do an NSLOOKUP locally on each server, is it responding via IPv

RE: Two Win2K8 R2 DNS Servers

2010-10-30 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Win2K8 R2 DNS Servers On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Martin Blackstone wrote: > When one of the servers is down DNS becomes totally unreachable until > they are both available. So two DC's both hosting DNS. Shut down one, > and the other stops serving DNS and DHCP. Anything

Re: Two Win2K8 R2 DNS Servers

2010-10-30 Thread Ben Scott
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Martin Blackstone wrote: > When one of the servers is down DNS becomes totally unreachable until they > are both available. So two DC’s both hosting DNS. Shut down one, and the > other stops serving DNS and DHCP. Anything in the logs of either DC or the clients

RE: Two Win2K8 R2 DNS Servers

2010-10-30 Thread Martin Blackstone
That's not it. From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 4:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Two Win2K8 R2 DNS Servers Hah, Memories! This once bit me in the ass when I had a rather short expiry on a zone. jlc From: M

RE: Two Win2K8 R2 DNS Servers

2010-10-30 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Hah, Memories! This once bit me in the ass when I had a rather short expiry on a zone... jlc From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:mblackst...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 5:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Two Win2K8 R2 DNS Servers When one of the servers is down DNS becomes

Two Win2K8 R2 DNS Servers

2010-10-30 Thread Martin Blackstone
When one of the servers is down DNS becomes totally unreachable until they are both available. So two DC's both hosting DNS. Shut down one, and the other stops serving DNS and DHCP. Once they are both up, everything comes back. Has anyone seen this? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that