| Subject: | Dual DHCP Servers installed, one goes down, workstations not picking up the rema |
| Posted by: | markm75 (markm7…@msn.com) |
| Date: | 23 Feb 2007 |
Here is my domain config: Two DCs, a few member servers.. a GC is set
on both DCs. Both of these DCs act as DNS/DHCP servers, providing
fault tolerance if one server is down/off.
Earlier today we had one of them offline.
A brand new workstation was brought out of its box today, connected to
the wall.
It failed to find an IP address.. went into 169.x low connectivity
mode.
Similarly, existing workstations (i'm assuming ones who had ip
addresses from the secondary, down, DHCP server) that were working
fine, if repaired the connection or logged off and back on.. could not
then attain an ip address.
Shouldnt this fault tolerant situation still allow for the
workstations to retrieve an IP address from the other DHPC, if the
other one goes down?
I really was at a loss as to why the redundancy wasnt working (no
error logs either)...
Thanks for any help.