DHCPD dying..

[Kurt Wall]

On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 12:04:16AM +1100, James McDonald took 359 lines to write:
> Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> 
> >I have seen DHCPd die a couple times over the last week on a 
> >customer's site.  The messages seen after rebooting the system (this 
> >was their attempt to troubleshoot before calling me) are as follows.  
> >The one that catches me off guard is at 7:59:21 (Not Authoritative?), 
> >although that is not the last message before dying.  At the end it 
> >looks like DHCPd restarted (although I'm not sure why) and perhaps 
> >found another DHCP server on the network?  Or does that mean there is 
> >another DHCP server running on that box?

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> Guessing here but check that a windows 200x server dhcp box isn't 
> running. They have a feature called "Authorization" which means only the 
> servers that you specifically configure to be DHCP boxes are allowed to 
> serve DHCP requests. It could be an error message from the remote DHCP 
> box...

<grump>
So you had to quote *all* 350-odd lines of log message to add *5* lines of
text?
</grump>

I was going to propose that there's another DHCP server running somewhere.

Kurt
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