Re: Servers hang on boot

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Hello obnetadmin,

The problem is your public DNS entry. DNS server i would configure this way:

Preferred NIC itself, secondary the other INTERNAL DNS server, NO entry for external DNS server.

For the ISP's DNS server configure a forwarder on the DNS server properties in the DNS management console. On this way all requests will be handled internal without any delay and if an request is for internet, the DNS server knows how to forward it to an external DNS server.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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Meinolf-

My DNS is setup as follows-

Server ADMINROOTDC01-Primary DNS
Server ADMINROOTDC02-Secondary DNS
The third DC at this site is a GC server but not a DNS server. Should
they point to each other or themselves for DNS resolution? They also
point to Verizon's public DNS servers for forwarding

"Meinolf Weber" wrote:

Hello obnetadmin,

How is DNS setup on the main site? How many of the DC's are DNS
servers?

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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I have a single forest single domain Windows Server 2003 AD
environment with multiple DC/GC servers at my remote sites. At my
main site, I have three DC's (two of them are GC servers as well).
Everytime I have to power down these boxes (whether voluntary or
involuntary), they seem to take extremely long time to come and get
hung somwhere between preparing network connections and applying
computer settings. Should they be brought back up in a different
order (i.e DC3,DC2,DC1) than they where brought down?



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