Surely though if you have a pri and secondary DNS server, that after DNS1 times out on resolution then DNS2 will then be queried?
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Carol Fee <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 on that. I think if the XP workstation had been rebooted, it would > have been just fine. > > > > *CFee* > > *From:* Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Wednesday, April 21, 2010 9:24 AM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: Domain controllers, what is supposed to happen. > > > > It’s possible that XP may require a reboot before it retires an unreachable > DNS server. I dunno. But it should work just fine. > > > > Regards, > > > > Michael B. Smith > > Consultant and Exchange MVP > > http://TheEssentialExchange.com <http://theessentialexchange.com/> > > > > *From:* Reimer, Mark [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Wednesday, April 21, 2010 9:15 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Domain controllers, what is supposed to happen. > > > > Sorry, long email. > > > > Windows 2003 Native Domain, two domain controllers, server1 and server2. > Workstations are primarily XP, some Windows 7. Other servers (file server, > email etc) are all Windows 2003. We have about 150 workstations. > > > > We have AD DNS, and WINS. Server1 has FSMO roles Infrastructure Master, PDC > Emulator, RID Master. Server2 has FSMO roles Domain Naming Master, Schema > Master. Both are GC’s. > > > > In the DHCP settings workstations get both server’s IP’s as DNS. Server2 is > listed first, then server1. Primary WINS server is server1, secondary is > Server2. > > > > Last night Server1 went down. It was off hours, but I got a call from some > late night worker (using XP), saying they couldn’t do anything. Couldn’t > reach any of the servers, or internet. I was able to get the server going > again (bad memory chip, so I just took it out). > > > > I thought that if one server went down, the DNS/WINS look up would go to > the other server. But it might be slower (note, I didn’t try any of this, > just going on what the user said). Comments? > > > > If I didn’t get Server1 running again, what should I have done? I assume I > should do the following. > > > > 1. Seize the FSMO roles from server1, and put them on server2. > > 2. Change DHCP so Primary WINS server is server2. Maybe even take > out Server1 as DNS/WINS possibilities. > > > > Then work on getting Server1 running again, or replacing it. > > > > Did I miss anything? > > > > Thanks for any help and insight you can give. > > > > Mark > > > > > > > > > > -- Gavin Wilby, Twitter: http://twitter.com/gavin_wilby GSXR Blog: http://www.stoof.co.uk ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
