DNS Mystery
Ok, encountering a bit of a mystery here with DNS resolution which came to light when the Out of Office Assistant in Outlook randomly stopped working for Terminal Server users.Here's the situation:SBS...
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royvanleeuwen wrote:Two Terminal Servers, both of which have their preferred DNS pointing to the SBS server and alternate DNS set to 8.8.8.8.Never do this. Mixing internal and external DNS is one of...
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royvanleeuwen wrote:sometimes a Terminal Server appears to not use the preferred DNS but instead goes straight to the alternate DNS. When that happens, DNS queries to their mail FQDN fail because it...
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Fair point, but we did this to have a failover should the SBS server go down. I know that it's better to have a secondary DNS server setup locally but convincing the client of that is likely not an...
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royvanleeuwen wrote:Fair point, but we did this to have a failover should the SBS server go downAnd that is what you have.When the DNS on the SBS server isn't responding because it's busy then the...
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Exactly as Gary said. All internal workstations and servers should point to an internal DNS server. The DNS Server is then going to be configured to forward the DNS queries it can't lookup locally to...
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Gary D Williams wrote:royvanleeuwen wrote:Fair point, but we did this to have a failover should the SBS server go downAnd that is what you have.When the DNS on the SBS server isn't responding because...
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