SLP Items Getting Unregistered
Articles and Tips: qna
01 Dec 2002
Q.
A couple of times now we have seen what seems to be something getting unregistered in SLP. I'm not exactly sure what it is that isn't working right, but to unload and then reload the DS.NLM seems to get it all back in order. What we're losing is the server's entry under the bindery.novell item. This can be seen with SLPSnoop.
We are using DS 8.5 (85.25z). SLP*.NLM are all 1.07c. Servers are NetWare 5.1 with Support Pack 4 installed on them. I do not believe we ever saw this before changing from unscoped to scoped. Have you seen something like this before?
Dave DVD Danielson
A.
Dear Dave: I believe we were seeing the same thing here as well. Our two Arcserve boxes weren't seeing the new servers that we added to the tree. We put the IP address of the DA in the scope list instead of the scope name. The servers started picking the new stuff up, but then it would disappear again.
To solve this, we applied the latest SLP patches and things seem to be working properly again. Most of the time, running the latest code build is the best!
* Originally published in Novell AppNotes
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