Fixed: DHCP Server won't start with error "The DHCP/BINL service is not authorized in the directory service domain "2A040000" "
In my Lab I've been having some trouble with the DHCP server. Today I finally got around to working on it.
On my freshly installed DHCP server I got the following 3 events.
Event ID: 1004
The DHCP service failed to initialize the database. The following error occurred:
An error occurred while accessing the DHCP database. Look at the DHCP server event log for more information on this error.
Event ID: 1018
The DHCP service failed to restore the database. The following error occurred:
An error occurred while accessing the DHCP database. Look at the DHCP server event log for more information on this error.
Event ID: 1008
The DHCP service is shutting down due to the following error:
The DHCP/BINL service is not authorized in the directory service domain "2A040000" (Server IP Address The DHCP/BINL service is not authorized in the directory service domain "2A040000" (Server IP Address The DHCP/BINL service is not authorized in the directory service domain "2A040000" (Server IP Address The DHCP/BINL service is not authorized in the directory service domain "%2" (Server IP Address %1)
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It's worth mentioning here that my AD domain is contoso.com, NOT 2A040000. That error looks like an unhanded exception that is falling through to the wrong error message. The only explanation I could come up with for this was that my DHCP database was corrupt. I tried removing and reinstalling the DHCP Role, but that did not fix it. My solution was to delete the DHCP database and recreate it as follows.
Warning: This will lose information about all of your active scopes, options, and leases.
On my freshly installed DHCP server I got the following 3 events.
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| DHCP Event ID 1004 |
The DHCP service failed to initialize the database. The following error occurred:
An error occurred while accessing the DHCP database. Look at the DHCP server event log for more information on this error.
Event ID: 1018
The DHCP service failed to restore the database. The following error occurred:
An error occurred while accessing the DHCP database. Look at the DHCP server event log for more information on this error.
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| DCHP Event ID 1008 |
Event ID: 1008
The DHCP service is shutting down due to the following error:
The DHCP/BINL service is not authorized in the directory service domain "2A040000" (Server IP Address The DHCP/BINL service is not authorized in the directory service domain "2A040000" (Server IP Address The DHCP/BINL service is not authorized in the directory service domain "2A040000" (Server IP Address The DHCP/BINL service is not authorized in the directory service domain "%2" (Server IP Address %1)
)
)
)
It's worth mentioning here that my AD domain is contoso.com, NOT 2A040000. That error looks like an unhanded exception that is falling through to the wrong error message. The only explanation I could come up with for this was that my DHCP database was corrupt. I tried removing and reinstalling the DHCP Role, but that did not fix it. My solution was to delete the DHCP database and recreate it as follows.
Warning: This will lose information about all of your active scopes, options, and leases.
- Stop the DHCP Service.
- Use the DHCP MMC to de-authorize the dhcp server.
- Move the contents of c:\windows\system32\dhcp to a temporary folder.
- Start the DHCP Service.
- Authorize the DHCP Service in the DHCP MMC.
- Create the DHCP scopes.
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Thanks!