> -----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
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