[Kea-users] DHCP4 seems to be shutting itself down after a time

[Carsten Strotmann]

Hi Corby,

> On 25. Sep 2025, at 18:21, Corby Stephens via Kea-users <kea-users at lists.isc.org> wrote:
> 
> I'm testing an instance of Kea 3 DHCP4 with a small number of test client devices. I'm going to try to pin down the time with better observation, but after some period of time the service just stops running. The machine is not rebooted, it's set to start on boot anyway. The status will just show failed for some reason. It comes right back up when I issue a start command. 
> 
> What should I look for?


Which Kea DHCP version are you running? Version 3.0.0 had an issue (CVE) that could lead to crashes. Version 3.0.1 has fixes.

Else, a good logging configuration and the log-output should give you the root cause.

Greetings

Carsten