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by swampdoc

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We have an IBM Netfinity 6000 with 4x Xeon 700 CPU's, 2gb RAM, 144gb RAID, running w2k Advanced Server, MSSQL2k, with all latest service packs for all that is set to reboot nightly at 0400. The problem is it is taking till 0530 for the system to come back up. Any ideas on what could be causing this?

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by cj.morgan

Don't know if this answer will apply to you as well, but it's something I posted to another user:
"Not sure if the same applies to workstation, but check your network connection properties (TCP/IP). We just upgraded an NT 4.0 server to Win2000, andthe option to "register this connection's address in DNS" was checked. I knew for a fact that our DNS guy (which our DNS runs on BIND), is not allowing the machines to dynamically register. The machine would hang at the "preparing network connection" dialog box during boot up for 5 minutes or more until finally giving me the logon prompt. I unchecked this option and the reboot went much quicker. "
Check it out and see if it helps.

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