DNS Setup

Microsoft DNS needs to be configured to support Round Robin as described in the TechNet article “Configure DNS for Load Balancing”. Follow the link and see the item “To enable round robin for Windows Server”.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg398251.aspx

The following figure shows the setup when Round Robin option is enabled.

DNS Multiple A record setup – Mediation Servers

To set up DNS Host (A) records for the two Mediation servers, the following must be configured. In the DNS Manager Tool, create the entries as shown in the following table.

Note:

For more information about creating the DNS Host A records, refer to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg398593.

FQDN

TYPE

IP ADDRESS

med.moon.galaxy

Host (A)

192.168.222.7

med.moon.galaxy

Host (A)

192.168.222.8

To test your configuration, use the command ping to check the setup.

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