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Name: Rob Golding (by robg63)
When I boot the system, it hangs on "Preparing Network Connections" for about 5 minutes. I have read endless posts about this behaviour, but no one seems to have a solution. This particular system is a Windows Server 2003 DC with AD and DNS installed. It is the only DNS server on the domain. I suspect the problem is that AD is waiting for DNS, which cant contact AD - endless loop! I have an error 4015 followed by 3 error 4004's in the event log.
I have already tried unticking the "Store this zone in Active Directory" but this did not help.
Thanks a lot.
Rob
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it takes about 5min for my server to
but everything works and no errors in any logs so i don't know if it should be fasteri only reboot maybe 1 time per month
so it is no big deal for me.
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If there's no errors in netdiag or DCDiag, I would guess it's a load problem. How many DC's do you have? How many clients?
"I have an error 4015 followed by 3 error 4004's in the event log."
Which log (system, security, or app?), and what is the source of each?
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I dont know whether these events are significant but they appear in the DNS Server section. My network has 2 DC's, with 3 clients (i know - i probably shouldn't even have a domain but I'm trying to learn about them as I would like to persue this kind of thing as a career when I am older). Anyway, the servers are turned off every night to save electricity, so it's quite a problem as it takes about 10 minutes before I can log on.
Thanks a lot
Rob
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Sorry, but on further inspection I can see that the errors actually occured 3 days ago, so they may not be relevant to this problem at all.
Rob
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This looks relevant to your DNS errors, although obviously the hotfix isn't.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;267855
"I suspect the problem is that AD is waiting for DNS, which cant contact AD - endless loop!"
Doubtful. AD is obviously working because you can still log in. It's just taking awhile.
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http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=cebf3c7c-7ca5-408f-88b7-f9c79b7306c0&displaylang=en
MPSRPT_DirSvc.EXE
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Just to make it clear, the system does actually start up after about 5 minutes, and everything works fine. It's just the long wait that I am concerned about.
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Man, what kind of hardware do you have?
It takes 4 to 5 min for a box with a 1.8 GHz to boot with a win2k, and only 2 min for a dual Xeon at 3GHz.
From what you write it is perfectly normal.
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I'm running a 550Mhz PIII with 192mb of ram. I was surprised it even worked, but my other server (450Mhz!) starts in half the time if the first server is up (due to dns i guess).
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hey we have just been having this issue too,
2000 server, box is our ad pdc, found a fix that seams to work, put the pdc's name as a static host in the hosts file.
eg 192.168.2.6 XXXpdc
seams to have fixed ours, al the pages i went to seamed to say a dns issue, some suggested changing the ip of the first dns to 127.0.0.1, but this is a touch more elegant :D
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So, seeing as my PDC is called "srv1" (inventive I know), and it's IP address is 192.168.0.9, I should add
192.168.0.9 srv1
into the hosts file? I can actually see this working - but do I need to add it to the PDC's hosts file only, or the other DC's as well?Thanks very much
Rob
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robg.. have you tryed the tip from beardedgeek?? becouse i have the same issue
that you have.. i will try as soon i gets home..btw. i have dual PIII 550 and 640Mb ram
but i don't think this problem has so much to do with the hardware..
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Yes I have added "192.168.0.9 srv1" into the hosts file, but it didn't seem to work. I agree, I don't think this is a hardware issue as ihave a 450mhz server, and that boots in half the time! I believe this is something to do with DNS, as that is pretty much the only difference between the two servers. Personally, I would have thought that adding a record as such into the hosts file would work, but obviously not. I will try adding srv2 into the hosts file as well, see what happens.
Rob
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Nope, no luck. Well, if anyone has any other suggestions, then let them be heard!
Thanks for all your help
Rob
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