DHCP randomly stopping

[rockjockb]

The DHCP service is randomly stopping on my server. No other services stop, and everyone who already has an address connects to the server fine. The service stops about once per week, on random days, at random times. I searched several forums and MS, but did not find any references.

TIA for your help.

 

[Jpoandl]

Do you have any other DHCP servers on your network. It is possible that the DHCP service is shutting down because of a conflict.

For example, if there is a router handing out DHCP at the same time, you might run into a problem similar to what you are experiencing.

Also, look in your event logs....it will probably tell you why the service is stopping.

Joseph L. Poandl
MCSE 2003

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[dgeddis]

Currently, we have a Windows 2003 member server at one of our sites that occassionally the DHCP server service stops at least once a day and not always at the same time. As a result we have to manually start the service up again. We checked all the event logs but nothing is logged for DHCP other than it was started up again. The DHCP logs don't seem to indicate why this would occur. There are no other devices or servers at this site that would conflict or cause DHCP to go down. Would anyone have any ideas as to what we could try to troubleshhoot this issue? If so, it would be much appreciated.

Thanks.