TheMotherload

Nice! I'll look forward to hearing from you. - - - Updated - - - Thanks, I'll check it out. Are you using with VMware?

I'm looking to refresh our server kit here and I want to drop our SAN as I feel it's too expensive / complicated for our needs. Anyone using local storage on their hosts with vsphere? What has your experience been like? Open to recommendations (using refurbished servers) Cheers.

Thanks for the comments, will check 'em out!

I'm looking to get our fiber infrastructure sorted out in my school, does anyone have any recommended companies that do installations etc?

Thanks, I've found the culprit. The external DNS is set here... I'm at a loss for words right now.

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That's what I've been doing, it was bad last week and not so bad now but I don't why my client PC, for example is still showing the old external DNS in its list.

Local PCs, the DCs reflect the DNS servers fine.

Me again, We have experienced some problems with my network after my original posts... here is what I've done; I have reverted the changed DNS settings on all of the servers back to the originals but I still seem to be getting some problems... I have cleared the DNS Server cache and set GPO to clear cache on all of the client computers but the issues still persist. If I do an ipconfig /all on my computer it will still display the external DNS server. this is after a manual flushdns and renew of the ip address. I'm not sure how to troubleshoot from here any suggestions?

Thank you.

Thanks for that, so from what I gather it should be; 1st DC Preferred DNS : IP of 1st DC Alternative DNS : IP of 2nd DC 2nd DC Preferred DNS : IP of 1st DC Alternative DNS : IP of 2nd DC Or is the direct IP considered as the loopback and it needs to be the opposites? Cheers!

Hi everyone, I know this is my first post... Just a quick question for those who are sharp with DNS. Our school has 2 domain controllers, both have the DNS role installed and is running fine. On the NIC DNS settings for both DC's, the primary DNS is set for the 1st DC and the secondary DNS is set for the 2nd DC. It's been set like this for a number of years and I've had no problems however yesterday my colleague decided to change the secondary DNS on all the servers to an external DNS server. Is this the right thing to do? As far as I'm aware you would set the domain controllers to look at each other for DNS queries. Since the change there has been issues with people logging on etc. but I don't want to jump to conclusions here! Any insight is very much appreciated!