DHCP Server May Fail to Record Lease

• Microsoft Windows NT Server version 4.0
• Microsoft Windows NT Server, Enterprise Edition version 4.0
• Microsoft Windows NT Server version 4.0, Terminal Server Edition

SYMPTOMS

If you have an Windows NT DHCP server with two network interfaces, one on a segment with DHCP clients and the other on a segment where you can receive the same DHCP client packets that have been forwarded by a DHCP Relay Agent, the DHCP server may hand out addresses to the clients but fail to record them in the database.

Network Traces will show that the client successfully receives a lease.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows NT 4.0 or Windows NT Server 4.0, Terminal Server Edition. For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q152734 How to Obtain the Latest Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT 4.0 and Windows NT Server 4.0, Terminal Server Edition. This problem was first corrected in Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 4.0 and Windows NT Server 4.0, Terminal Server Edition Service Pack 4.

Additional query words: DHCP lease

Keywords : kbnetwork NT4SP4Fix ntsp kbbug4.00 kbfix4.00.sp4
Version : WinNT:4.0
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbbug