Red Hat – Disable DNS Recursion (BIND)
Disable DNS Recursion KB ID 0000981 Problem I got a Tweet, to say the site was down. I checked and the VPS was off-line? So I powered it on and waited a few minutes. Linux is not one of my strongest technical areas so I did some Googling about what logs to check etc. When I looked in the var/log/messages log it was full of these, up to the point where it went down; Aug 7 03:51:52 MY-HOSTNAME named[490]: error (unexpected RCODE...
You were not connected because a duplicate name exists on the network
Duplicate name exists KB ID 0000991 Problem I hadn’t seen this myself but it was asked in a forum the other day so I replicated it on the test bench. You were not connected because a duplicate name exists on the network. Go to System in Control Panel to change the computer name and try again. or You were not connected because a duplicate name exists on the network. If joining a domain, go to System in Control Panel to change...
Cannot Join Domain?
Cannot Join Domain KB ID 0000534 Problem The primary cause (99.99% of the time) a client cannot connect to, or join a domain is DNS related. The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted Solution : Cannot Join Domain 1. To Troubleshoot you need to know the IP address of your DNS server, In many cases it’s on the first domain controller but that’s not always the case so find out (go to a WORKING...
Nutanix: Could Not Reach Next Server
Could Not Reach Next Server KB ID 0001865 Problem Nutanix is very flaky! On a new (single host cluster,) post setup whilst attempting to login to Prism for the first time, it wanted to link to my Nutanix account. Unknown host, could not reach NEXT server. Please configure name server Solution : Could Not Reach Next Server Why do I say it’s flaky, well I defined a DNS server when I created the cluster. However, If I fired up SSH...
Windows Remote VPN no DNS
VPN no DNS KB ID 0001402 Problem I’ve been setting up a VPN solution on the test bench as I’m looking at Always On VPN. When I noticed that I had a problem with my remote VPN connections on Windows. They would connect fine but I could not resolve any FQDNs for my domain? VPN no DNS Solution By default, all (Windows) VPN connections are ‘Force Tunnel’ (this means they have the option ‘Use default gateway...