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My DHCP server is down! Urgent!

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by hunterzh

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In Windows 2000 server, when fresh installing, I set up DHCP service for machines in our Intranet. Now the DHCP service is down! In Services, I can start the service manually, but it will stop automatically in a few minutes. And in DHCP console, it always show that "Cannot find the DHCP Server". How can I recover the DHCP service? (I?ve tried uninstall and reinstall the service in Control Panel, Add/Remove Windows components, but still remain the same)

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by d'solve it

Ensure that the DHCP Server has a static IP assigned.

From your post, it appears to me that this is the case - the DHCP server itself has a dynamic IP and that is the reason the DHCP server wont start automatically and "looses" itself after a while when you manually start the service.

by blackcurrant

Hi

Yes, you need to set the scope to exclude the address of the server itself. For example, our server is 192.168.0.1 and the DHCP scope would allocate addresses from 192.168.0.2 onwards.

Good luck

by blackcurrant

sorry, that is not very clear. Our server has a static IP address, and the DHCP scope has to be setup to exclude the static address of the server.

by bfilmfan

Also make sure the DHCP client is started on the DHCP server. If it is not, you will sometimes see that error.

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