Secondary DNS server not serving requests

[pavan]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.dns (More info?)

Hello All,

We have a Primary and Secondary DNS servers that serve multiple zones.
Both the servers are Win2000 and are patched-up with latest updates. The
problem we are facing is, if the Primary server goes down the secondary
server is able to server requests until a reboot. When the Secondary comes
back online it is looking for a Zone file on the primary server, since the
primary is already down it is not able to find the zone file and fails to
serve any DNS requests.

Is there a way around this? May be Win2003 can handle this situation
well....................


Any comments or thoughts...............................



Thanks,
-Pavan

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.dns (More info?)

Is there any event logged?

BR,
Denis

"Pavan" wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> We have a Primary and Secondary DNS servers that serve multiple zones.
> Both the servers are Win2000 and are patched-up with latest updates. The
> problem we are facing is, if the Primary server goes down the secondary
> server is able to server requests until a reboot. When the Secondary comes
> back online it is looking for a Zone file on the primary server, since the
> primary is already down it is not able to find the zone file and fails to
> serve any DNS requests.
>
> Is there a way around this? May be Win2003 can handle this situation
> well....................
>
>
> Any comments or thoughts...............................
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> -Pavan
>
>
>

 

[pavan]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.dns (More info?)

Hello All,

Figured it out ...........

On the secondary server there was no file name in the Zone properties,
placed a named and everything works fine now.

Thanks Guys for your help

"Denis Wong @ Hong Kong" <DenisWongHongKong@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
in message news:4A2EE38E-B396-44E5-A709-99D0A15897BF@microsoft.com...
> Is there any event logged?
>
> BR,
> Denis
>
> "Pavan" wrote:
>
> > Hello All,
> >
> > We have a Primary and Secondary DNS servers that serve multiple
zones.
> > Both the servers are Win2000 and are patched-up with latest updates. The
> > problem we are facing is, if the Primary server goes down the secondary
> > server is able to server requests until a reboot. When the Secondary
comes
> > back online it is looking for a Zone file on the primary server, since
the
> > primary is already down it is not able to find the zone file and fails
to
> > serve any DNS requests.
> >
> > Is there a way around this? May be Win2003 can handle this situation
> > well....................
> >
> >
> > Any comments or thoughts...............................
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Pavan
> >
> >
> >