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Vieux 14/03/2006, 11h58   #6
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Par défaut Re: Machines never look to secondary DNS

What is happening is that the primary is hanging and connectivity to it is
lost (perhaps a bad NIC, but haven't determined that yet). If I try to go
into the properties of the secondary I just get a warning that it can't load
the zone.


"Neil Ruston" <NeilRuston@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> To add to the below - bear in mind that a client will consider a DNS
> server
> alive so long as the server can be contacted (via an ICMP ping).
>
> That means, that if the DNS service has hung, clients will *not* revert to
> the secondary server, since the primary is still available.
>
> This is as per RFC 2182 behaviour.
>
> hth,
> neil
>
>
>
>
> "Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> Absolutely wrote:
>> > 2 2000 Servers (SP4), one with AD, the other member. DC is primary
>> > DNS and member is secondary. Member is also mail server (IMail) and
>> > DHCP. Workstations are 2000 and XP.
>> >
>> > At some point last week the primary stopped responding to DNS queries
>> > (restarting the DNS service cured it), but even though the secondary
>> > was running fine, nothing would look to it for answers.

>>
>> How have you determined that the clients are not using the Alternate DNS?
>>
>> Are these two DNS servers configured to use a forwarder? What are the
>> forwarders?
>>
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>> Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]
>> Hope This s
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