Failover Cluster can delay DNS Registration for 10 minutes

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re: Failover Cluster can delay DNS Registration for 10 minutes

Jeff Guillet — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:28:10 GMT

PLEASE make this server side delay configurable setting. Consider this scenario:

CCR stretch cluster is configured using NODE1 and NODE2. NODE1 (the active node) must be brought offline for maintenance and the cluster is failed over to NODE2. NODE1 is brought online 30 minutes later and the cluster is failed back.

In this scenario, clients would be unable to connect to the cluster for 10 minutes because the cluster record still points to NODE2. This is not acceptable for a highly available resource.

I don't argue that this might be good default behavior, but you need to allow it to be configured according to business needs.

Jeff