DHCP in a Cluster Environment

[Guest]

I am running DHCP on a Windows 2003 server in a cluster environment. The
problem I am having is with the pointer records, which are registering under
the active node in the cluster instead of the virtual cluster name. When we
failed over the cluster. The pointer records could not be updated because
the security rights are assign to the now inactive cluster. Is this normal
behavior?

 

[Herb Martin]

I am running DHCP on a Windows 2003 server in a cluster environment. The
problem I am having is with the pointer records, which are registering under
the active node in the cluster instead of the virtual cluster name. When we
failed over the cluster. The pointer records could not be updated because
the security rights are assign to the now inactive cluster. Is this normal
behavior?

It is if you are not using the feature of
the Win2003 DHCP server which allows
for "update credentials."

Without this, each node must use it's own
computer account which are NOT part of
the cluster control and so are separate accounts.

If you specify (in the DHCP console) that each
will use the SAME account for update credentials
it should solve the problem.

(BTW, this is a new feature in Win2003, not available
in Win2000 DHCP.)

FYI:
In Win2000/Win2003 the older choice is to put both
computer accounts into the DNSUpdateProxy group.