Re: Need help with sites configuration

Hi
- If I understand you correctly, your clients become more slow (at startup)
when the connection to their Primary DNS servers in SITE A is lost, because
they're trying to reach those servers, if I'm wrong please let me know?

- Unfortunately, this how it works, the clients try to get their DNS servers
and they'll for an answer, if they don't get that answer from that DNS
server they'll try the next one, and of course this can be time consuming.

- One way to avoid this or at least make it a little more fast process, is
to use the GPO setting "Always wait for the network at computer startup and
logon" to false.


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I hope that the information above helps you.
Have a Nice day.

Jorge Silva
MCSE, MVP Directory Services
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<miponte@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Need help with disaster situation:

I have an active directory with a single domain and 4 domain
controllers.
I have 2 sites (A and B) configured with 2 domain controllers in each
site.
All domain controllers have a copy of my DNS zone.

All my clients have statically configured DNS servers 1 and 2 both on
site A.
Production computers have a GPO, setting their DNS servers to 3 and 4
both on site B.

Last week I had a problem and the connection from production computers
to site A was
really slow. I had tested total lost of connection to site A, and
clients correctly
logon and work with site B, but with the lost of bandwith, clients
were still
trying to reach site A, and lots of them were not being able to work:

Their computers were stuck at "Aplying computer settings..."

I am going now to statically configure all 4 DNS servers in all
computers. But I am
Still worried.

I need total indepency so if there is any problem with one site, the
other one will
make the production computers work.

The first two Domain controllers I installed are the ones at site A..

Is there any role or service I have to replicate to site B so I can
have total independency ???

All of the DC are Global Catalog Servers.

PLEASE HELP ??



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