Windows Clients Failover

Mark_Andrews at isc.org Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Tue Sep 24 23:08:15 UTC 2002


> Hi all,
> 
> Quick question.
> 
> We're running bind on solaris servers, one slave for each city.  The other
> day our master for one city suffered a critical failure...
> [ID 866145 daemon.crit] message.c:782: REQUIRE(*rdataset == 0) failed
> /usr/local/sbin/named[787]:
> [ID 866145 daemon.crit] exiting (due to assertion failure)
> 
> Anyways during the failure the actual server stayed up it was just DNS.  The
> problem is that during the failure none of the Windows clients (NT 4.0 and
> 2K) used the secondary DNS specified via DHCP...
> 
> Could anyone shed some light on this?  I found some old post regarding same
> problem prior to SP3 in NT, but we're at SP6 on NT and SP3 on Win2k.
> 
> Any help or insight would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks!

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