All cifs shares not accessible in vserver when there is no DNS A host record available for cifs server name
Applies to
- Ontap 9 and later
- CIFS/SMB
Issue
- None of the cifs share is accessible and it throws below error:
NOTE: Error can be different than the one showing above or no error may pop up.
- ping and nslookup is failing for cifs server name:
C:\Users\user1>nslookup cifsserver
Server: dns.domain.com
Address: 10.xx.xx8.xx
*** dns.domain.com can't find cifsserver: Non-existent domain
C:\Users\user1>ping cifsserver
Ping request could not find host cifsserver. Please check the name and try again.
- Ping with IP works fine:
C:\Users\user1>ping 10.xx.x1.xx
Pinging 10.xx.x1.xx with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 10.xx.x1.xx: time<1ms
Reply from 10.xx.x1.xx: time<1ms
Ping statistics for 10.xx.x1.xx:
Packets: Sent = 2, Received = 2, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms