Random Services Stopping (DNS, DHCP, SMB, etc)

Hello,
I have been trying to wrap my head around this, but we have a single Xserve 10.5.4 and it runs the the majority of the services here in the office, like DNS, DHCP, AFP, SMB, Web, Software Update, Open Directory, and more. The problem I've been having is that over the weekend some of these services just stopped. Not all of them, and in the most recent case SMB, DNS, DHCP, and Software Updates stopped. The server was up the whole weekend, people were in the office saturday working just fine but not on sunday. So where do I even begin to look on this? Some other things you might want to know is that we are dealing with an internal packet loss issue due to cabling, we have been troubleshooting out various bad lines in this office and preparing to have these lines repaired, but to be honest, I can't see how packet loss would cause services to stop on this machine. What do you think?

Oct 6 15:42:59 server com.apple.AppleFileServer[93]: MDSChannelPeerCreate: (os/kern) invalid argument
Oct 6 15:44:01 server kernel[0]: 192.168.2.1 sent from address 00:17:f2:92:fa:81
Oct 6 15:44:01 server kernel[0]: en1 duplicate IP address 192.168.2.1 sent from address 00:17:f2:92:fa:81
Oct 6 15:44:19: --- last message repeated 53 times ---
Oct 6 15:44:19 server kernel[0]: t from address 00:17:f2:92:fa:81
Oct 6 15:44:19 server kernel[0]: en1 duplicate IP address 192.168.2.1 sent from address 00:17:f2:92:fa:81
Oct 6 15:44:49: --- last message repeated 9 times ---
This is what shows up in the log. I have not seen this in the log before as I have been digging through it to troubleshoot the issues here (I'm new to this company and have been trying to wrap my head around their issues)
I checked into where that MAC address belongs and I have found that it belongs to the server itself, which seems strange that it's reporting that the duplicate IP is being sent from the server that's reporting this error, it shouldn't be reporting itself as a duplicate correct? I feel like I'm reading that wrong, but in looking there are no DNS errors like the ones you mentioned. I turned up the log reporting for DNS to be more verbose, hopefully that will turn something up.
Thank you for responding so quickly.

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On 06.08.2012 21:56, gathagan wrote:
>
> When I moved the majority of my Netware 6 servers to OES-NW last year, I
> started using iManager to handle admin duties for DNS and DHCP.
>
> With a planned move to OES-L coming up, I tried accessing both services
> using the DNS/DHCP java console.
>
> While I am able to log into that console, I am unable to see my
> DNS/DHCP server or any of the expected components for either service
> (DHCP pools, zone records, etc...).
>
> I have tried both the console that is installable from the server and
> the newer LDAP-based version.
> I have tried both 32 and 64-bit versions on XP and Windows 7,
> respectively.
>
> Since I want to move those services to OES/Linux and the java console
> is the only mechanism that can administrate the services on that
> platform, I am perplexed.
> My needs are simple, and I could easily move those duties to a SUSE
> server or even a Windows server, but that is not my preference.
>
> Any ideas on where to begin troubleshooting are welcome.
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