I have 2 servers with a share, \\servera\share
and \\serverb\share
. DFS is setup on \\domain\share
to point to both machines. A 3rd party replication solution compares \\servera\share
to \\serverb\share
.
When I turn off serverb \\domain\share
is still available, as expected. However \\serverb\share
is also still available but shows the contents from servera. This messes up the replication.
Why is this happening and how can I be sure to connect to one specific server or another?
When you turn serverb off you can no longer ping it but you can still connect to the share (but see servera). At no point does the dns for serverb ever point at servera.