Originally Posted by
xzh445
O.K. the HSRP comment was a bit simplified. The points I was making were that I am certain that the design of the network provides for redundancy/failover, and the Host (SHARES) was not the cause of the outage. It was running fine..but couldn't talk to anyone.
Well - we know from multiple first-hand accounts that there was stale and missing data when the system finally came back up. That certainly suggests an application problem, rather than a hardware problem - unless you're saying there was a hardware/network problem that was so severe that they failed over to a redundant system with stale data just to get something back up...