Configure all the Windows Server nodes in your cluster to use IPv4 addresses only. You can either disable IPv6 (see How to disable IP version 6 or its specific components in Windows) or set the preference to IPv4.
Ensure that the host's fully-qualified domain name ("FQDN") resolves to an IPv4 address as follows:
To verify that IPv4 is set to
preferred, enter:ipconfig /all
The system should display:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . . : Description . . . . . . . . . . .: Intel(R) PRO/1000 MT Network Connection Physical Address. . . : XX-XX-XX-XX-XX DHCP Enabled. . . .. . . . . .: No Autoconfiguration Enabled .. . . : Yes IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . .. . : 10.0.0.2(Preferred) Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . .: 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . .: 10.0.0.100 DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . .: 10.10.0.101 NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . .: Enabled
To flush the DNS cache, enter:
ipconfig /flushdns
To verify that the host name of the system resolves to the correct IP address, enter:
ping -a 10.0.0.2
The system should display:
Pinging win08r2-node1.HWXsupport.com 10.0.0.2 with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 10.0.0.2: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128 Reply from 10.0.0.2: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128 Reply from 10.0.0.2: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
