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Saral6978
Guest
*posting here and in the DNS forum*
DNS is causing my Domain Controller (Win2003R2) to hang on reboot. It
freezes on "Preparing Network Connections". To determine it was DNS, I
booted into Safe mode and disabled DHCP and DNS. The server booted normally
and I was able to log in. I then enabled DHCP and rebooted server and the
server booted normally. After I logged in, I then changed the DNS service to
manual and started the service and it started successfully and my forward and
reverse zones came up (active directory integrated) and all AD errors were
cleared on this particular server (I have a total of 4 DCs among 3 different
sites).
Problems started a couple of weeks ago, when after a reboot, DHCP and DNS
were not working. I had to manually start DHCP and although DNS was running,
the zones were gone. After I restarted DNS, the zones reappeared and all was
fine. The next week DHCP was fine, but again, the zones in DNS disappeared
until I restarted the service. Now this week, DNS won't even allow the
server to boot. Once DNS is started, replication appears to be working just
fine between my sites, and my workstations and servers are happy.
Any suggestions on fixing the startup issue when DNS is set to automatic?
Seeing as though this is a DC, I probably can't just uninstall and reinstall
DNS, can I? I will probably be running dcdiag to help confirm things are
okay between all the DCs, but any other suggestions would be helpful if you
have them.
I'm just not sure why the DNS service is freezing my server upon startup.
Thank you!
Sara
DNS is causing my Domain Controller (Win2003R2) to hang on reboot. It
freezes on "Preparing Network Connections". To determine it was DNS, I
booted into Safe mode and disabled DHCP and DNS. The server booted normally
and I was able to log in. I then enabled DHCP and rebooted server and the
server booted normally. After I logged in, I then changed the DNS service to
manual and started the service and it started successfully and my forward and
reverse zones came up (active directory integrated) and all AD errors were
cleared on this particular server (I have a total of 4 DCs among 3 different
sites).
Problems started a couple of weeks ago, when after a reboot, DHCP and DNS
were not working. I had to manually start DHCP and although DNS was running,
the zones were gone. After I restarted DNS, the zones reappeared and all was
fine. The next week DHCP was fine, but again, the zones in DNS disappeared
until I restarted the service. Now this week, DNS won't even allow the
server to boot. Once DNS is started, replication appears to be working just
fine between my sites, and my workstations and servers are happy.
Any suggestions on fixing the startup issue when DNS is set to automatic?
Seeing as though this is a DC, I probably can't just uninstall and reinstall
DNS, can I? I will probably be running dcdiag to help confirm things are
okay between all the DCs, but any other suggestions would be helpful if you
have them.
I'm just not sure why the DNS service is freezing my server upon startup.
Thank you!
Sara