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Off Topic - Lion Server DNS record gone from infoblox

  • December 1, 2011
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I wanted to see if anyone else has been experienced this issue.

I have a test JSS that was upgraded to Lion server. Since then the forward DNS record has disappeared from infoblox three different times now. The reverse record is there, just the forward record is missing. changeip -checkhostname resolves correctly. The server was upgraded from Snow Leopard server, prior to that I did not have any issue with this server. If anyone has any ideas I would appreciate it.

Sean

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    • gregp
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    • December 6, 2011

    And here I thought it was just us...

    We put in a Mac mini demo unit with A & PTR records and was fine. We pulled it out of service and put in our prod mini with the same hostname & IP address. Some short time later, noticed that our A rec was gone, but PTR was fine. Thought it was someone accidentally erasing our A rec (has happened before), but now I wonder. Don't know if we use Infoblox as that's another group entirely.

    Both minis were brand new. The demo unit was installed without incident. Had to fight with the prod mini as mirrored its disks and our proxies are blocking the glorious Internet Recovery.

    Greg

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    • elislider
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    • January 28, 2013

    I am having this issue now spontaneously, for unexplainable reasons. My Casper server disappeared from DNS twice in the last couple weeks. after the first time I manually recreated the A record, thinking it either expired (unlikely) or someone deleted it (although nobody said they had touched dns lately). A week later and its gone again!

    Anybody have any insight?

    Update: I ended up unbinding and rebinding the server from the domain, and that seemed to have cleared up the drops. Still totally unexplained though.

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    • elislider
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    • June 7, 2013

    Another update. This missing DNS record problem has been happening repeatedly for us. I tried setting up an entirely new 10.8 server since I figured my existing one was having unfixable problems, and the day after setting up the new 10.8 server, it also started disappearing from DNS.

    Hopefully others have seen this problem, as it seems to be reproducible with OSX server machines...

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