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Home > Forums > MIS/IT > Operating Systems - Hardware Independent > Microsoft: Windows Server 2000 Forum

Domain Controller Not Booting - Stuck Preparing Network Connections

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pmaths (MIS)

27 Feb 12 10:02

I have a problem with our secondary domain controller PC. When booting it would hang with the message "preparing network connection".

Eventually after about 30 mins it booted to the login screen.

Upon investigation, I found that there was an additional DNS entry on the server pointing to our our primary domain controller with an IP address of 192.168.234.235 but also the original and correct DNS entry was there also.

Could this be the cause of the delay. Could the server be looking to ressolve the DNS entry.

Thanks in advance.

itsp1965 (IS/IT--Management)

27 Feb 12 10:13

As AD is a multimaster domain setup there is no secondary DC (are you emulating Windows NT PDC/BDCs?)Unless this IP was defined as your primary DNS server on your DC or the server couldn't reach the primary DNS server..it's possible. If it wasn't it could have been a network related issue (did you check the logs).

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