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1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
2 Version 4.4.1
3 28 February 2018
4
5 README FILE
6
7You should read this file carefully before trying to install or use
8the ISC DHCP Distribution.
9
10 TABLE OF CONTENTS
11
12 1 WHERE TO FIND DOCUMENTATION
13 2 RELEASE STATUS
14 3 BUILDING THE DHCP DISTRIBUTION
15 3.1 UNPACKING IT
16 3.2 CONFIGURING IT
17 3.2.1 DYNAMIC DNS UPDATES
18 3.2.2 LOCALLY DEFINED OPTIONS
19 3.3 BUILDING IT
20 4 INSTALLING THE DHCP DISTRIBUTION
21 5 USING THE DHCP DISTRIBUTION
22 5.1 FIREWALL RULES
23 5.2 LINUX
24 5.2.1 IF_TR.H NOT FOUND
25 5.2.2 SO_ATTACH_FILTER UNDECLARED
26 5.2.3 PROTOCOL NOT CONFIGURED
27 5.2.4 BROADCAST
28 5.2.6 IP BOOTP AGENT
29 5.2.7 MULTIPLE INTERFACES
30 5.3 SCO
31 5.4 HP-UX
32 5.5 ULTRIX
33 5.6 FreeBSD
34 5.7 NeXTSTEP
35 5.8 SOLARIS
36 5.8.1 Solaris 11
37 5.8.2 Solaris 11 and ATF
38 5.8.3 Other Solaris Items
39 5.9 AIX
40 5.10 MacOS X
41 5.11 ATF
42 6 SUPPORT
43 6.1 HOW TO REPORT BUGS
44 7 HISTORY
45
46 WHERE TO FIND DOCUMENTATION
47
48Documentation for this software includes this README file, the
49RELNOTES file, and the manual pages, which are in the server, common,
50client and relay subdirectories. The README file (this file) includes
51late-breaking operational and system-specific information that you
52should read even if you don't want to read the manual pages, and that
53you should *certainly* read if you run into trouble. Internet
54standards relating to the DHCP protocol are listed in the References
55document that is available in html, txt and xml formats in doc/
56subdirectory. You will have the best luck reading the manual pages if
57you build this software and then install it, although you can read
58them directly out of the distribution if you need to.
59
60DHCP server documentation is in the dhcpd man page. Information about
61the DHCP server lease database is in the dhcpd.leases man page.
62Server configuration documentation is in the dhcpd.conf man page as
63well as the dhcp-options man page. A sample DHCP server
64configuration is in the file server/dhcpd.conf.example. The source for
65the dhcpd, dhcpd.leases and dhcpd.conf man pages is in the server/ sub-
66directory in the distribution. The source for the dhcp-options.5
67man page is in the common/ subdirectory.
68
69DHCP Client documentation is in the dhclient man page. DHCP client
70configuration documentation is in the dhclient.conf man page and the
71dhcp-options man page. The DHCP client configuration script is
72documented in the dhclient-script man page. The format of the DHCP
73client lease database is documented in the dhclient.leases man page.
74The source for all these man pages is in the client/ subdirectory in
75the distribution. In addition, the dhcp-options man page should be
76referred to for information about DHCP options.
77
78DHCP relay agent documentation is in the dhcrelay man page, the source
79for which is distributed in the relay/ subdirectory.
80
81To read installed manual pages, use the man command. Type "man page"
82where page is the name of the manual page. This will only work if
83you have installed the ISC DHCP distribution using the ``make install''
84command (described later).
85
86If you want to read manual pages that aren't installed, you can type
87``nroff -man page |more'' where page is the filename of the
88unformatted manual page. The filename of an unformatted manual page
89is the name of the manual page, followed by '.', followed by some
90number - 5 for documentation about files, and 8 for documentation
91about programs. For example, to read the dhcp-options man page,
92you would type ``nroff -man common/dhcp-options.5 |more'', assuming
93your current working directory is the top level directory of the ISC
94DHCP Distribution.
95
96Please note that the pathnames of files to which our manpages refer
97will not be correct for your operating system until after you iterate
98'make install' (so if you're reading a manpage out of the source
99directory, it may not have up-to-date information).
100
101 BUILDING THE DHCP DISTRIBUTION
102
103 UNPACKING IT
104
105To build the DHCP Distribution, unpack the compressed tar file using
106the tar utility and the gzip command - type something like:
107
108 gunzip dhcp-4.4.1.tar.gz
109 tar xvf dhcp-4.4.1.tar
110
111 CONFIGURING IT
112
113Now, cd to the dhcp-4.4.1 subdirectory that you've just created and
114configure the source tree by typing:
115
116 ./configure
117
118If the configure utility can figure out what sort of system you're
119running on, it will create a custom Makefile for you for that
120system; otherwise, it will complain. If it can't figure out what
121system you are using, that system is not supported - you are on
122your own.
123
124Several options may be enabled or disabled via the configure command.
125You can get a list of these by typing:
126
127 ./configure --help
128
129If you want to use dynamic shared libraries automake, autoconf
130(aka GNU autotools) and libtool must be available. The DHCP
131distribution provides 3 configure.ac* files: the -lt version
132has no libtool support and was copied to the configure.ac
133standard file in the distribution. To enable libtool support
134you should perform these steps:
135
136 cp configure.ac+lt configure.ac
137 autoreconf -i
138
139after you can use the regenerated configure as usual
140(with libtool support (--enable-libtool) on by default):
141
142 ./configure
143
144For compatibility (and people who don't read this documentation)
145the --enable-libtool configuration file is supported even by
146the distributed configure (and off by default). The previous
147steps are performed and the regenerated configure called with
148almost the same parameters (this "almost" makes the use of
149this feature not recommended).
150
151Note you can't go back from with libtool support to without libtool
152support by restoring configure.ac and rerun autoreconf. If you
153want or need to restore the without libtool support state the
154required way is to simply restore the whole distribution.
155
156 DYNAMIC DNS UPDATES
157
158A fully-featured implementation of dynamic DNS updates is included in
159this release. It uses libraries from BIND and, to avoid issues with
160different versions, includes the necessary BIND version. The appropriate
161BIND libraries will be compiled and installed in the bind subdirectory
162as part of the make step. In order to build the necessary libraries you
163will need to have "gmake" available on your build system.
164
165
166There is documentation for the DDNS support in the dhcpd.conf manual
167page - see the beginning of this document for information on finding
168manual pages.
169
170 LOCALLY DEFINED OPTIONS
171
172In previous versions of the DHCP server there was a mechanism whereby
173options that were not known by the server could be configured using
174a name made up of the option code number and an identifier:
175"option-nnn" This is no longer supported, because it is not future-
176proof. Instead, if you want to use an option that the server doesn't
177know about, you must explicitly define it using the method described
178in the dhcp-options man page under the DEFINING NEW OPTIONS heading.
179
180 BUILDING IT
181
182Once you've run configure, just type ``make'', and after a while
183you should have a dhcp server. If you get compile errors on one
184of the supported systems mentioned earlier, please let us know.
185If you get warnings, it's not likely to be a problem - the DHCP
186server compiles completely warning-free on as many architectures
187as we can manage, but there are a few for which this is difficult.
188If you get errors on a system not mentioned above, you will need
189to do some programming or debugging on your own to get the DHCP
190Distribution working.
191
192If you cross compile you have to follow the instructions from
193the BIND README, in particular you must set the BUILD_CC
194environment variable.
195
196 INSTALLING THE DHCP DISTRIBUTION
197
198Once you have successfully gotten the DHCP Distribution to build, you
199can install it by typing ``make install''. If you already have an old
200version of the DHCP Distribution installed, you may want to save it
201before typing ``make install''.
202
203 USING THE DHCP DISTRIBUTION
204
205 FIREWALL RULES
206
207If you are running the DHCP server or client on a computer that's also
208acting as a firewall, you must be sure to allow DHCP packets through
209the firewall. In particular, your firewall rules _must_ allow packets
210from IP address 0.0.0.0 to IP address 255.255.255.255 from UDP port 68
211to UDP port 67 through. They must also allow packets from your local
212firewall's IP address and UDP port 67 through to any address your DHCP
213server might serve on UDP port 68. Finally, packets from relay agents
214on port 67 to the DHCP server on port 67, and vice versa, must be
215permitted.
216
217We have noticed that on some systems where we are using a packet
218filter, if you set up a firewall that blocks UDP port 67 and 68
219entirely, packets sent through the packet filter will not be blocked.
220However, unicast packets will be blocked. This can result in strange
221behaviour, particularly on DHCP clients, where the initial packet
222exchange is broadcast, but renewals are unicast - the client will
223appear to be unable to renew until it starts broadcasting its
224renewals, and then suddenly it'll work. The fix is to fix the
225firewall rules as described above.
226
227 PARTIAL SERVERS
228
229If you have a server that is connected to two networks, and you only
230want to provide DHCP service on one of those networks (e.g., you are
231using a cable modem and have set up a NAT router), if you don't write
232any subnet declaration for the network you aren't supporting, the DHCP
233server will ignore input on that network interface if it can. If it
234can't, it will refuse to run - some operating systems do not have the
235capability of supporting DHCP on machines with more than one
236interface, and ironically this is the case even if you don't want to
237provide DHCP service on one of those interfaces.
238
239 LINUX
240
241There are three big LINUX issues: the all-ones broadcast address,
242Linux 2.1 ip_bootp_agent enabling, and operations with more than one
243network interface. There are also two potential compilation/runtime
244problems for Linux 2.1/2.2: the "SO_ATTACH_FILTER undeclared" problem
245and the "protocol not configured" problem.
246
247 LINUX: PROTOCOL NOT CONFIGURED
248
249If you get the following message, it's because your kernel doesn't
250have the Linux packetfilter or raw packet socket configured:
251
252 Make sure CONFIG_PACKET (Packet socket) and CONFIG_FILTER (Socket
253 Filtering) are enabled in your kernel configuration
254
255If this happens, you need to configure your Linux kernel to support
256Socket Filtering and the Packet socket, or to select a kernel provided
257by your Linux distribution that has these enabled (virtually all modern
258ones do by default).
259
260 LINUX: BROADCAST
261
262If you are running a recent version of Linux, this won't be a problem,
263but on older versions of Linux (kernel versions prior to 2.2), there
264is a potential problem with the broadcast address being sent
265incorrectly.
266
267In order for dhcpd to work correctly with picky DHCP clients (e.g.,
268Windows 95), it must be able to send packets with an IP destination
269address of 255.255.255.255. Unfortunately, Linux changes an IP
270destination of 255.255.255.255 into the local subnet broadcast address
271(here, that's 192.5.5.223).
272
273This isn't generally a problem on Linux 2.2 and later kernels, since
274we completely bypass the Linux IP stack, but on old versions of Linux
2752.1 and all versions of Linux prior to 2.1, it is a problem - pickier
276DHCP clients connected to the same network as the ISC DHCP server or
277ISC relay agent will not see messages from the DHCP server. It *is*
278possible to run into trouble with this on Linux 2.2 and later if you
279are running a version of the DHCP server that was compiled on a Linux
2802.0 system, though.
281
282It is possible to work around this problem on some versions of Linux
283by creating a host route from your network interface address to
284255.255.255.255. The command you need to use to do this on Linux
285varies from version to version. The easiest version is:
286
287 route add -host 255.255.255.255 dev eth0
288
289On some older Linux systems, you will get an error if you try to do
290this. On those systems, try adding the following entry to your
291/etc/hosts file:
292
293255.255.255.255 all-ones
294
295Then, try:
296
297 route add -host all-ones dev eth0
298
299Another route that has worked for some users is:
300
301 route add -net 255.255.255.0 dev eth0
302
303If you are not using eth0 as your network interface, you should
304specify the network interface you *are* using in your route command.
305
306 LINUX: IP BOOTP AGENT
307
308Some versions of the Linux 2.1 kernel apparently prevent dhcpd from
309working unless you enable it by doing the following:
310
311 echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_bootp_agent
312
313
314 LINUX: MULTIPLE INTERFACES
315
316Very old versions of the Linux kernel do not provide a networking API
317that allows dhcpd to operate correctly if the system has more than one
318broadcast network interface. However, Linux 2.0 kernels with version
319numbers greater than or equal to 2.0.31 add an API feature: the
320SO_BINDTODEVICE socket option. If SO_BINDTODEVICE is present, it is
321possible for dhcpd to operate on Linux with more than one network
322interface. In order to take advantage of this, you must be running a
3232.0.31 or greater kernel, and you must have 2.0.31 or later system
324headers installed *before* you build the DHCP Distribution.
325
326We have heard reports that you must still add routes to 255.255.255.255
327in order for the all-ones broadcast to work, even on 2.0.31 kernels.
328In fact, you now need to add a route for each interface. Hopefully
329the Linux kernel gurus will get this straight eventually.
330
331Linux 2.1 and later kernels do not use SO_BINDTODEVICE or require the
332broadcast address hack, but do support multiple interfaces, using the
333Linux Packet Filter.
334
335 LINUX: OpenWrt
336
337DHCP 4.1 has been tested on OpenWrt 7.09 and 8.09. In keeping with
338standard practice, client/scripts now includes a dhclient-script file
339for OpenWrt. However, this is not sufficient by itself to run dhcp on
340OpenWrt; a full OpenWrt package for DHCP is available at
341ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/dhcp/dhcp-4.1.0-openwrt.tar.gz
342
343 LINUX: 802.1q VLAN INTERFACES
344
345If you're using 802.1q vlan interfaces on Linux, it is necessary to
346vconfig the subinterface(s) to rewrite the 802.1q information out of
347packets received by the dhcpd daemon via LPF:
348
349 vconfig set_flag eth1.523 1 1
350
351Note that this may affect the performance of your system, since the
352Linux kernel must rewrite packets received via this interface. For
353more information, consult the vconfig man pages.
354
355 SCO
356
357ISC DHCP will now work correctly on newer versions of SCO out of the
358box (tested on OpenServer 5.05b, assumed to work on UnixWare 7).
359
360Older versions of SCO have the same problem as Linux (described earlier).
361The thing is, SCO *really* doesn't want to let you add a host route to
362the all-ones broadcast address.
363
364You can try the following:
365
366 ifconfig net0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 0xNNNNNNNN broadcast 255.255.255.255
367
368If this doesn't work, you can also try the following strange hack:
369
370 ifconfig net0 alias 10.1.1.1 netmask 8.0.0.0
371
372Apparently this works because of an interaction between SCO's support
373for network classes and the weird netmask. The 10.* network is just a
374dummy that can generally be assumed to be safe. Don't ask why this
375works. Just try it. If it works for you, great.
376
377 HP-UX
378
379HP-UX has the same problem with the all-ones broadcast address that
380SCO and Linux have. One user reported that adding the following to
381/etc/rc.config.d/netconf helped (you may have to modify this to suit
382your local configuration):
383
384INTERFACE_NAME[0]=lan0
385IP_ADDRESS[0]=1.1.1.1
386SUBNET_MASK[0]=255.255.255.0
387BROADCAST_ADDRESS[0]="255.255.255.255"
388LANCONFIG_ARGS[0]="ether"
389DHCP_ENABLE[0]=0
390
391 ULTRIX
392
393Now that we have Ultrix packet filter support, the DHCP Distribution
394on Ultrix should be pretty trouble-free. However, one thing you do
395need to be aware of is that it now requires that the pfilt device be
396configured into your kernel and present in /dev. If you type ``man
397packetfilter'', you will get some information on how to configure your
398kernel for the packet filter (if it isn't already) and how to make an
399entry for it in /dev.
400
401 FreeBSD
402
403Versions of FreeBSD prior to 2.2 have a bug in BPF support in that the
404ethernet driver swaps the ethertype field in the ethernet header
405downstream from BPF, which corrupts the output packet. If you are
406running a version of FreeBSD prior to 2.2, and you find that dhcpd
407can't communicate with its clients, you should #define BROKEN_FREEBSD_BPF
408in site.h and recompile.
409
410Modern versions of FreeBSD include the ISC DHCP 3.0 client as part of
411the base system, and the full distribution (for the DHCP server and
412relay agent) is available from the Ports Collection in
413/usr/ports/net/isc-dhcp3, or as a package on FreeBSD installation
414CDROMs.
415
416 NeXTSTEP
417
418The NeXTSTEP support uses the NeXTSTEP Berkeley Packet Filter
419extension, which is not included in the base NextStep system. You
420must install this extension in order to get dhcpd or dhclient to work.
421
422 SOLARIS
423
424There are two known issues seen when compiling using the Sun compiler.
425
426The first is that older Sun compilers generate an error on some of
427our uses of the flexible array option. Newer versions only generate
428a warning, which can be safely ignored. If you run into this error
429("type of struct member "buf" can not be derived from structure with
430flexible array member"), upgrade your tools to Oracle Solaris Studio
431(previously Sun Studio) 12 or something newer.
432
433The second is the interaction between the configure script and the
434makefiles for the Bind libraries. Currently we don't pass all
435environment variables between the DHCP configure and the Bind configure.
436
437If you attempt to specify the compiler you wish to use like this:
438
439 CC=/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc ./configure
440
441"make" may not build the Bind libraries with that compiler.
442
443In order to use the same compiler for Bind and DHCP we suggest the
444following commands:
445
446 CC=/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc ./configure
447 CC=/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc make
448
449 Solaris 11
450
451We have integrated a patch from Oracle to use sockets instead of
452DLPI on Solaris 11. This functionality was written for use with
453Solaris Studio 12.2 and requires the system/header package.
454
455By default this code is disabled in order to minimize disruptions
456for current users. In order to enable this code you will need to
457enable both USE_SOCKETS and USE_V4_PKTINFO as part of the
458configuration step. The command line would be something like:
459
460 ./configure --enable-use-sockets --enable-ipv4-pktinfo
461
462 Solaris 11 and ATF
463
464We have reports that ATF 0.15 and 0.16 do not build on Solaris 11. The
465following changes to the ATF source code appear to fix this issue:
466
467diff -ru atf-0.15/atf-c/tp_test.c atf-0.15-patched/atf-c/tp_test.c
468--- atf-0.15/atf-c/tp_test.c 2011-12-06 06:31:11.000000000 +0100
469+++ atf-0.15-patched/atf-c/tp_test.c 2012-06-19 15:54:57.000000000 +0200
470@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
471*/
472
473#include <string.h>
474+#include <stdio.h>
475#include <unistd.h>
476
477#include <atf-c.h>
478
479diff -ru atf-0.15/atf-run/requirements.cpp atf-0.15-patched/atf-run/requirements.cpp
480--- atf-0.15/atf-run/requirements.cpp 2012-01-13 20:44:25.000000000 +0100
481+++ atf-0.15-patched/atf-run/requirements.cpp 2012-06-19 15:41:51.000000000 +0200
482@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
483
484extern "C" {
485#include <sys/param.h>
486-#include <sys/sysctl.h>
487+//#include <sys/sysctl.h>
488}
489
490#include <cerrno>
491
492 Other Solaris Items
493
494One problem which has been observed and is not fixed in this
495patchlevel has to do with using DLPI on Solaris machines. The symptom
496of this problem is that the DHCP server never receives any requests.
497This has been observed with Solaris 2.6 and Solaris 7 on Intel x86
498systems, although it may occur with other systems as well. If you
499encounter this symptom, and you are running the DHCP server on a
500machine with a single broadcast network interface, you may wish to
501edit the includes/site.h file and uncomment the #define USE_SOCKETS
502line. Then type ``make clean; make''. As an alternative workaround,
503it has been reported that running 'snoop' will cause the dhcp server
504to start receiving packets. So the practice reported to us is to run
505snoop at dhcpd startup time, with arguments to cause it to receive one
506packet and exit.
507
508 snoop -c 1 udp port 67 > /dev/null &
509
510The DHCP client on Solaris will only work with DLPI. If you run it
511and it just keeps saying it's sending DHCPREQUEST packets, but never
512gets a response, you may be having DLPI trouble as described above.
513If so, we have no solution to offer at this time, aside from the above
514workaround which should also work here. Also, because Solaris requires
515you to "plumb" an interface before it can be detected by the DHCP client,
516you must either specify the name(s) of the interface(s) you want to
517configure on the command line, or must plumb the interfaces prior to
518invoking the DHCP client. This can be done with ``ifconfig iface plumb'',
519where iface is the name of the interface (e.g., ``ifconfig hme0 plumb'').
520
521It should be noted that Solaris versions from 2.6 onward include a
522DHCP client that you can run with ``/sbin/ifconfig iface dhcp start''
523rather than using the ISC DHCP client, including DHCPv6. Consequently,
524we don't believe there is a need for the client to run on Solaris, and
525have not engineered the needed DHCPv6 modifications for the dhclient-script.
526If you feel this is in error, or have a need, please contact us.
527
528 AIX
529
530The AIX support uses the BSD socket API, which cannot differentiate on
531which network interface a broadcast packet was received; thus the DHCP
532server and relay will work only on a single interface. (They do work
533on multi-interface machines if configured to listen on only one of the
534interfaces.)
535
536We have reports of Windows XP clients having difficulty retrieving
537addresses from a server running on an AIX machine. This issue
538was traced to the client requiring messages be sent to the all ones
539broadcast address (255.255.255.255) while the AIX server was sending
540to 192.168.0.255.
541
542You may be able to solve this by including a relay between the client
543and server with the relay configured to use a broadcast of all-ones.
544
545A second option that worked for AIX 5.1 but doesn't seem to work for
546AIX 5.3 was to:
547 create a host file entry for all-ones (255.255.255.255)
548and then add a route:
549 route add -host all-ones -interface <local-ip-address>
550
551The ISC DHCP distribution does not include a dhclient-script for AIX--
552AIX comes with a DHCP client. Contribution of a working dhclient-script
553for AIX would be welcome.
554
555
556 MacOS X
557
558The MacOS X system uses a TCP/IP stack derived from FreeBSD with a
559user-friendly interface named the System Configuration Framework.
560As it includes a builtin DHCPv4 client (you are better just using that),
561this text is only about the DHCPv6 client (``dhclient -6 ...''). The DNS
562configuration (domain search list and name servers' addresses) is managed
563by a System Configuration agent, not by /etc/resolv.conf (which is a link
564to /var/run/resolv.conf, which itself only reflects the internal state;
565the System Configuration framework's Dynamic Store).
566
567This means that modifying resolv.conf directly doesn't have the
568intended effect, instead the macos script sample creates its own
569resolv.conf.dhclient6 in /var/run, and inserts the contents of this
570file into the Dynamic Store.
571
572When updating the address configuration the System Configuration
573framework expects the prefix and a default router along with the
574configured address. As this extra information is not available via
575the DHCPv6 protocol the System Configuration framework isn't usable
576for address configuration, instead ifconfig is used directly.
577
578Note the Dynamic Store (from which /var/run/resolv.conf is built) is
579recomputed from scratch when the current location/set is changed.
580Running the dhclient-script reinstalls the resolv.conf.dhclient6
581configuration.
582
583
584 ATF
585
586Please see the file DHCP/doc/devel/atf.dox for a description of building
587and using these tools.
588
589The optional unit tests use ATF (Automated Testing Framework) including
590the atf-run and atf-report tools. ATF deprecated these tools in
591version 0.19 and removed these tools from its sources in version 0.20,
592requiring you to get an older version, use Kyua with an ATF compatibility
593package or use the version included in the Bind sources.
594
595 SUPPORT
596
597The Internet Systems Consortium DHCP server is developed and distributed
598by ISC in the public trust, thanks to the generous donations of its
599sponsors. ISC now also offers commercial quality support contracts for
600ISC DHCP, more information about ISC Support Contracts can be found at
601the following URL:
602
603 https://www.isc.org/services/support/
604
605Please understand that we may not respond to support inquiries unless
606you have a support contract. ISC will continue its practice of always
607responding to critical items that effect the entire community, and
608responding to all other requests for support upon ISC's mailing lists
609on a best-effort basis.
610
611However, ISC DHCP has attracted a fairly sizable following on the
612Internet, which means that there are a lot of knowledgeable users who
613may be able to help you if you get stuck. These people generally
614read the dhcp-users@isc.org mailing list. Be sure to provide as much
615detail in your query as possible.
616
617If you are going to use ISC DHCP, you should probably subscribe to
618the dhcp-users or dhcp-announce mailing lists.
619
620WHERE TO SEND FEATURE REQUESTS: We like to hear your feedback. We may
621not respond to it all the time, but we do read it. If ISC DHCP doesn't
622work well for you, or you have an idea that would improve it for your
623use, please send your suggestion to dhcp-suggest@isc.org. This is also
624an excellent place to send patches that add new features.
625
626WHERE TO REPORT BUGS: If you want the act of sending in a bug report
627to result in you getting help in the form of a fixed piece of
628software, you are asking for help. Your bug report is helpful to us,
629but fundamentally you are making a support request, so please use the
630addresses described in the previous paragraphs. If you are _sure_ that
631your problem is a bug, and not user error, or if your bug report
632includes a patch, you can send it to our ticketing system at
633dhcp-bugs@isc.org. If you have not received a notice that the ticket
634has been resolved, then we're still working on it.
635
636PLEASE DO NOT REPORT BUGS IN OLD SOFTWARE RELEASES! Fetch the latest
637release and see if the bug is still in that version of the software,
638and if it is still present, _then_ report it. ISC release versions
639always have three numbers, for example: 1.2.3. The 'major release' is
6401 here, the 'minor release' is 2, and the 'maintenance release' is 3.
641ISC will accept bug reports against the most recent two major.minor
642releases: for example, 1.0.0 and 0.9.0, but not 0.8.* or prior.
643
644PLEASE take a moment to determine where the ISC DHCP distribution
645that you're using came from. ISC DHCP is sometimes heavily modified
646by integrators in various operating systems - it's not that we
647feel that our software is perfect and incapable of having bugs, but
648rather that it is very frustrating to find out after many days trying
649to help someone that the sources you're looking at aren't what they're
650running. When in doubt, please retrieve the source distribution from
651ISC's web page and install it.
652
653 HOW TO REPORT BUGS OR REQUEST HELP
654
655When you report bugs or ask for help, please provide us complete
656information. A list of information we need follows. Please read it
657carefully, and put all the information you can into your initial bug
658report. This will save us a great deal of time and more informative
659bug reports are more likely to get handled more quickly overall.
660
661 1. The specific operating system name and version of the
662 machine on which the DHCP server or client is running.
663 2. The specific operating system name and version of the
664 machine on which the client is running, if you are having
665 trouble getting a client working with the server.
666 3. If you're running Linux, the version number we care about is
667 the kernel version and maybe the library version, not the
668 distribution version - e.g., while we don't mind knowing
669 that you're running Redhat version mumble.foo, we must know
670 what kernel version you're running, and it helps if you can
671 tell us what version of the C library you're running,
672 although if you don't know that off the top of your head it
673 may be hard for you to figure it out, so don't go crazy
674 trying.
675 4. The specific version of the DHCP distribution you're
676 running, as reported by dhcpd -t.
677 5. Please explain the problem carefully, thinking through what
678 you're saying to ensure that you don't assume we know
679 something about your situation that we don't know.
680 6. Include your dhcpd.conf and dhcpd.leases file as MIME attachments
681 if they're not over 100 kilobytes in size each. If they are
682 this large, please make them available to us, e.g., via a hidden
683 http:// URL or FTP site. If you're not comfortable releasing
684 this information due to sensitive contents, you may encrypt
685 the file to our release signing key, available on our website.
686 7. Include a log of your server or client running until it
687 encounters the problem - for example, if you are having
688 trouble getting some client to get an address, restart the
689 server with the -d flag and then restart the client, and
690 send us what the server prints. Likewise, with the client,
691 include the output of the client as it fails to get an
692 address or otherwise does the wrong thing. Do not leave
693 out parts of the output that you think aren't interesting.
694 8. If the client or server is dumping core, please run the
695 debugger and get a stack trace, and include that in your
696 bug report. For example, if your debugger is gdb, do the
697 following:
698
699 gdb dhcpd dhcpd.core
700 (gdb) where
701 [...]
702 (gdb) quit
703
704 This assumes that it's the dhcp server you're debugging, and
705 that the core file is in dhcpd.core.
706
707Please see https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/ for details on how to subscribe
708to the ISC DHCP mailing lists.
709
710 HISTORY
711
712ISC DHCP was originally written by Ted Lemon under a contract with
713Vixie Labs with the goal of being a complete reference implementation
714of the DHCP protocol. Funding for this project was provided by
715Internet Systems Consortium. The first release of the ISC DHCP
716distribution in December 1997 included just the DHCP server.
717Release 2 in June 1999 added a DHCP client and a BOOTP/DHCP relay
718agent. DHCP 3 was released in October 2001 and included DHCP failover
719support, OMAPI, Dynamic DNS, conditional behaviour, client classing,
720and more. Version 3 of the DHCP server was funded by Nominum, Inc.
721The 4.0 release in December 2007 introduced DHCPv6 protocol support
722for the server and client.
723
724This product includes cryptographic software written
725by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com).