Setting up a secondary name server
To ensure that the Notes® Name Service is always available to Notes® users, assign a secondary name server in users' Location documents.
About this task
You can specify a different secondary name server for any location whose Location type is either Local area network or Custom. The secondary server can use the TCP/IP protocol. The secondary name server is used when:
- The user's home server is down.
- The user's home server is not running the expected protocol, for example, TCP/IP.
- The name of the user's home server cannot be resolved over the
expected protocol, for example, TCP/IP.Note: You can use desktop policy settings to assign secondary name servers to groups of users.
Procedure
- In Notes® client, select , and select the location for which you want to designate a secondary name server.
- Click Edit .
- Click the tab.
- To specify a secondary server for one of the offered protocols,
for example, TCP/IP, in the Secondary TCP/IP Notes name
server field, enter one of the following:
- The common name of the Domino® server -- for example, Notesserver1
- The hierarchical name of the Domino® server -- for example, Notesserver1/Renovations
- In the Secondary TCP/IP host name or address field,
enter one of the following:
- IP address -- for example, 197.114.33.22.
- The fully qualified domain name -- for example, notesserver1.renovations.com
- The simple host name -- for example, notesserver1
- Optional: Specify secondary servers for NDS.
- Click Save and Close.