NICs not initialising before contacting DC

I have a W2K3 server with 2 NICS which are teamed, that is trying to contact
a DC before the NICs are initialised.... the server eventually authenticates
and gets its policies, but is there anything i can do to prevent server
trying to contact DC before the NICS are initialised?

In news:422574BD-AA85-4C11-A130-(E-Mail Removed),
AJ <(E-Mail Removed)> stated, which I commented on below:
> I have a W2K3 server with 2 NICS which are teamed, that is trying to
> contact a DC before the NICs are initialised.... the server
> eventually authenticates and gets its policies, but is there anything
> i can do to prevent server trying to contact DC before the NICS are
> initialised?

You mean before the team intialization, and not the actual NIC drivers
"initializing"? You can set the teaming service (whatever manuf it is) as a
dependency for netlogon.

Otherwise, (and just a reiteration of the basics of AD and DNS that all AD
machines MUST ONLY use the internal DNS server(s) in their IP properties),
it may be a simpler issue because anytime there are more than two NICs
(assuming not teamed), the one at the top of the binding order will be the
default used. Now if any of the NICs have an outside DNS configured (eg not
an internal DNS that hosts thge AD zone name), it may be trying to contact
an outside DNS asking it where the internal DC is and of course, it doesn';t
have that answer. The rule of thumb is only internal DNS and configure a
forwarder if you desire, otherwise, the Roots will be used for outside
resolution.

I had to state this because it is a very common configuration error that
will cause long logon times, among numerous other problems when it comes to
AD authentication, domain functionality and other problems with it's
members.


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