Slave DNS server not taking over.

[Bryan Irvine]

On 19 Jul 2006 14:42:54 -0700, techjohnny at gmail.com
<techjohnny at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, Group:
>
> I've got an Active Directory providing the primary DNS to clients, and
> the backup DNS server is running Bind 9 as a slave.
>
> Today, the primary DNS server failed, but the clients still couldn't
> resolve, even though I was able to manually use the nslookup, change
> servers, and verify that the slave responded to requests made by the
> clients.
>
> The clients are using DHCP and have a primary and secondary dns server,
> but the secondary doesn't automatically kick in when the primary fails.
>
> The slave dns server is properly receiving requests from the primary
> and the zones are all up-to-date.



lets see if I can be really really vague too.

perhaps it's broken? :-)

Try posting your config.

--Bryan