> -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Lawrence [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 8:47 AM > To: Picher, Michael > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [sipX-dev] dns configuration on distrubuted server during > HA installation > > On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 05:38 -0400, Picher, Michael wrote: > > I don’t recall seeing this discussed so please excuse me if it has > > been. > > > > > > > > During a HA install, the master server is typically installed and > > setup as its own DNS server. > > > > > > > > Next when the distributed server gets installed, we also need this > > server to be a DNS server for DNS failover (assuming the first server > > goes away). > > > > > > > > So, during the distributed install, DNS is installed and I pointed > the > > first forwarder at the master server and the second forwarder off to > > the internet. However, during the install the first DNS server added > > to resolv.conf is 127.0.0.1 and the SIP domain zone is already on the > > distributed server, there is no record yet of the Master server in > the > > zone file. The result is that the distributed server can not find the > > master server. > > > > > > > > If I drop out of the install wizard, move 127.0.0.1 down one line in > > resolv.conf, restart the network services and then restart the wizard > > the distributed server install completes properly. > > > > > > > > Of course if separate DNS servers were being used this wouldn’t be an > > issue, but I don’t know that we should assume that. > > Good catch Michael. > > I think that the right fix is to put the IP address of the Master into > resolv.conf as the second choice - in the bootstrap case the secondary > will time out looking up on its local server (which is not initialized > yet), and then use the Master to do the resolution. > > Please file an issue. >
Created the issue... I had essentially what you are talking about configured but I believe DNS is started already by that point in the game (because if you pick your own DNS server it fires it up to go get the ntp stuff). I noted that in the issue I filed. Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ sipx-dev mailing list [email protected] List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-dev Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-dev
