Category Archives: DNS

DHCP: Failover

Posted on January 28, 2013 by jaye

Configured liminf01 as secondary/failover server with liminf03. It appears that while both are up they round-robin/load balance between them. Tested liminf03 going down. On Windows, must do a /release before a /renew is successful on the failover server. I don’t … Continue reading →

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Power Outage Notes

Posted on October 29, 2012 by jaye

– QBServer: Failed to auto power on. Quickbooks Server started automatically once the system was turned on. – Knowledge Forum: DBs remained down due to remaining lock files. Lock files were manually removed and KF restarted. – liminf03: Was notified … Continue reading →

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Netmon01 – Added to DNS Slaves

Posted on October 29, 2012 by jaye

This weekend’s power outage uncovered another challenge. Netmon01 is my primary conduit into LiM, from remote locations. If the primary DNS server is down, I can’t SSH in. I don’t understand why it doesn’t fall back on the secondary server? … Continue reading →

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