Win2K3 R2 - DHCP Server settings lost after service restart

Windows Server 2003 R2 domain controller, 5 month old installed. Just setup
DHCP on the server, configured the scope, and set the lease time to 30 days.
When
the service or server is restarted, the lease expiration setting is lost.

There are no DHCP event logs written that would indicate an error.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

....D

This is very strange. Is this issue is reproducing consistantly ?
-RamaSubbu SK
"Danny" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:1F9F2ED1-E670-4953-9751-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Windows Server 2003 R2 domain controller, 5 month old installed. Just
> setup
> DHCP on the server, configured the scope, and set the lease time to 30
> days.
> When
> the service or server is restarted, the lease expiration setting is lost.
>
> There are no DHCP event logs written that would indicate an error.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> ...D
>

"RamaK" wrote:
> This is very strange. Is this issue is reproducing consistantly ?
> -RamaSubbu SK

Happens everytime.

....D

Then there seems to be an issue.
Can you tell me step-by-step how you are how you are creating the scope and
where you are setting the lease time like while creating the scope itself or
after creating setting it in properties window of the scope...etc.

-RamaSubbu SK

"Danny" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:2DC1E92A-F45F-49B0-B30D-(E-Mail Removed)...
> "RamaK" wrote:
>> This is very strange. Is this issue is reproducing consistantly ?
>> -RamaSubbu SK
>
> Happens everytime.
>
> ...D
>

Not sure if this helps, we have recently seen the same issue, in our case it
turned out that there was a rogue reservation in the scope of the scope name
e.g. if the scope is 192.168.0.1 there was also a reservation in the scope of
that name 192.168.0.1. Deleting this reservation allowed the scope options to
be saved.

"Danny" wrote:

> Windows Server 2003 R2 domain controller, 5 month old installed. Just setup
> DHCP on the server, configured the scope, and set the lease time to 30 days.
> When
> the service or server is restarted, the lease expiration setting is lost.
>
> There are no DHCP event logs written that would indicate an error.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> ...D
>

Hi,

I also recently had a very similar problem. Every DHCP server restart
would reset one particular scope option back to server defaults.

Turns out I had a silly reservation in that scope - a network address
(eg, 192.168.1.0). Removing this entry allowed the DHCP server to save
the custom scope options permanently.

Cheers

Daz wrote:
> Not sure if this helps, we have recently seen the same issue, in our case it
> turned out that there was a rogue reservation in the scope of the scope name
> e.g. if the scope is 192.168.0.1 there was also a reservation in the scope of
> that name 192.168.0.1. Deleting this reservation allowed the scope options to
> be saved.
>
> "Danny" wrote:
>
> > Windows Server 2003 R2 domain controller, 5 month old installed. Just setup
> > DHCP on the server, configured the scope, and set the lease time to 30 days.
> > When
> > the service or server is restarted, the lease expiration setting is lost.
> >
> > There are no DHCP event logs written that would indicate an error.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > ...D
> >