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 orCustom. 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.

1. In Notes client, select File -> Locations -> Manage Locations, and select the location for which you want to designate a secondary name server.

2. Click Edit .

3. Click the Advanced -> Secondary Servers tab.

4. 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

• 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

7. Click Save and Close.

Related concepts
Creating policies
Ensuring DNS resolves in TCP protocols

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Resolving server names to network addresses in NRPC
Server setup tasks specific to TCP/IP