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I have a test setup that has 2 Windows Server 2012 VMs on Hyper-V joined to a windows 2008 R2 domain - there is an internal network whose DNS server is on the domain controller and an external network whose DNS server is also a Windows 2008 R2 box.

All Cluster validation tests pass.

When I get to the first screen in the Create Cluster Wizard which asks for the Cluster Name, no matter what I type in the box, I get the error "The network name {0} is already used in the network" - the error comes back almost immediately and there are no events in the System or Application logs of any of the servers.

I have Windows 2008 R2 VMs with clusters on this exact setup. I'm happy to post more information, but I don't even know where to start looking at this point.

Thanks

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  • Do you have a default DNS record configured on your internal DNS? – Chris S Jul 29 '13 at 13:53
  • I'm not sure I understand the question - possibly not - I followed some directions I found (a while ago) to configure the DNS server and it worked with my Win 2008 R2 clusters - haven't touched it since - I'm a SQL guy - not much of a network guy... – Mike DeFehr Jul 29 '13 at 14:08
  • It's probably fine, try running ping aklasjdlfjskd on the command line. It should return "host not found" or similar. If it finds an IP to ping, you've got a default record somewhere that's tripping up the cluster. – Chris S Jul 29 '13 at 14:14
  • It returns with the IP address of a server at opendns which is where the external DNS server goes when looking up external addresses - All that is set up on the external DNS server is a forwarder - I need that (I think) in order to resolve external addresses - not sure how to make it work properly, but at least I know where to start looking now - thanks – Mike DeFehr Jul 29 '13 at 14:35
  • Excellent - I added a Forward lookup zone on my external DNS server for my domain - this presumably became authoritative on the domain and it stopped forwarding the requests to OpenDNS - do you want to propose an answer? – Mike DeFehr Jul 29 '13 at 14:54
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Temporarily disable your external network adapter and ping aklasjdlfjskd. This time the ping should return "Host not found" or a similar error. Repeat the step to add a cluster name and ip address and it should work fine. After this you can re-enable your external network adapter.

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    Just for the sake of random curiosity, what is this supposed to do? – Falcon Momot Jan 13 '14 at 9:34

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