Cannot ping FQDN

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If I can ping my secondary server but cannot ping it's FQDN, where do I look
correct the situation?
 
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Julie said:
If I can ping my secondary server but cannot ping it's FQDN, where do
I look correct the situation?
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Is the name in your DNS zone?

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Sorry for the bother Ace and Kevin and thank you for your response. I just
remembered, it would help if I call my ISP and have them add my new server
to their listings.

Thanks,

Julio
 
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Julie said:
Sorry for the bother Ace and Kevin and thank you for your response.
I just remembered, it would help if I call my ISP and have them add
my new server to their listings.
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I'm not sure what you are saying here or what your ISP would have to do with
it.
Can you elaborate on your primary/secondary setup?
Your original question is "I cannot ping the FQDN of the secondary" Where is
the secondary?
Where is the primary?
 
This will show my ignorance Kevin. My apologies if it does.

I just setup a secondary server in our small company here. I can ping the
IP addresses of both primary server and secondary server. However, if I
ping the FQDN I can only get a response from the primary server and not the
secondary. The message I get from pinging the secondary's FQDN is:
Ping request could not find host secondary.server.domain.com. Please check
the name and try again.

Am I on the right track calling my ISP provider?

Thanks
 
I see two entries of it in the Foward Lookup Zones. One as a host and
another as a Name Server.

Twice also in Reverse lookup. One as a Name Server and another as a
pointer.

"Ace Fekay [MVP]"
 
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Julie said:
This will show my ignorance Kevin. My apologies if it does.

I just setup a secondary server in our small company here. I can
ping the IP addresses of both primary server and secondary server.
However, if I ping the FQDN I can only get a response from the
primary server and not the secondary. The message I get from pinging
the secondary's FQDN is:
Ping request could not find host secondary.server.domain.com. Please
check the name and try again.

Am I on the right track calling my ISP provider?

Thanks
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Does the ISP host the secondary?
I'll tell you what I have had to do, I noticed myself that in order to
resolve external name servers I had to create a local "A" record for the
secondary.
And I know my ISP has to do the same. For instance SBC host secondary zones
for me but after I set it up on my end my DNS servers would no longer
resolve their Name server IPs.
So I created a forward lookup zone locally name ns1swbell.net and
ns2.swbell.net with blank records in each on for its respective IP
addresses. That fixed it I guess it is a bug in all DNS servers Because I
know they had to create local "A" records for my name servers, and they use
BIND on UNIX.
 
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Julie said:
I see two entries of it in the Foward Lookup Zones. One as a host and
another as a Name Server.

Twice also in Reverse lookup. One as a Name Server and another as a
pointer.
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What entries are you speaking of? Does the server's host name exist under
the zone name that you are trying to ping?
example,
ping server.domain.com

So under the domain.com zone name in your DNS, a host entry must exist
called server with it's respective IP address.

ANother issue, if you are NOT pointing only to your internal server that
hosts the domain.com zone that you want to resolve, then this can happen
also.

I see in your conversation with Kevin that you're talking about your ISP.
Kevin already asked, and so am I, what do they have to do with your local
DNS server? Who is the Primary server? Is it yours? Who is the secondary
server? Yours? And is it a secondary to what Primary server? Yours or their
Primary?

Another question, do you have AD running?



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Regards,
Ace

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Ace Fekay, MCSE 2000, MCSE+I, MCSA, MCT, MVP
Microsoft Windows MVP - Active Directory
 
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