DNS God it hard

From: wayne (wmb37_at_zoom.co.uk)
Date: 02/12/04 

Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 19:13:56 -0000

Hello all.

I've just become the network admin of a small netowks which was set up
incorrectly for fault tollerance. They had one server wit DNS on and I want
2, so another AD server was built and I install DNS after it was built. We
now have 2 servers with AD, DNS, DHCP. So if one server goes down the other
is there to provide services for the users. The server seem to be
replicating AD nice and dandy;)

The problem I have now, when the old AD server which is the Opps master
goes down, no one can gain access to the Net, Email or anything until that
server comes up again. I suppect my problem is DNS. The scope in DHCP has
both DNS server. When I install DNS in the second server it did not ask me
if I wanted to instal DNS as a secondary. DNS was install after the server
was built, but all the DNS entries from the first server are there so I did
not worry. Have I done somthing wrong. How do I know which is the
secondary and the Primary DNS and why when the opps master goes down the
other dns server does not take over?

sorry for the long message

wayne

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