not configured to listen on any interface

[kalyanasundaram S]

Once it happened to me when the server was not having an IP address.

i have a set up with me (two system) there is no router .
so i do subnet declaration what ever i want(the subnet range).

I was working on some other real network. It has xxx.xxx.169.10 and other few systems in the same subnet
are used as client. So in that i did subnet declaration as xxx.xxx.155.0 i got this error.
so i have changed the subnet declaration to xxx.xxx.169.0 then it worked.

what is happening, am i missing some basic understanding?
i beleive the dhcp server can maintain cross subnet too.

plz somebody explain what is happeneing...

thanks in advance,
  -"kalyan"