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Coos
Level 3
11 years ago

Storage Server displys IP instead of its DNS name

Hi all, I have added 2 new media servers and HP B6200 backup targets to my environment. As i was trying to add the B6200 in combination with one of the media servers to the configuration i notice t...
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Windows Server (2003-2008)
  • RiaanBadenhorst's avatar
    RiaanBadenhorst
    11 years ago

    It definitely has something to do with resolution. Can your storage device resolve everything. Maybe try hosts entries in all servers. Not nice but I've seen some strange ones like this with DD where it just wouldn't connect eventhough DNS was working fine.

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Coos
Level 3
11 years ago

Thanks everybody for you help, it looked like a dns problem. We have stopped looking and accepted te strange phenomenon. Probably this was due to a mixed invironment with different versions of windows all trying to connect to one another. My customer said it will probably be gone when they migrate to new Windows AD.....

Thanks again all!