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1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
2 Version 4.3.2
3 05 March 2015
4
5 README FILE
6
7 You should read this file carefully before trying to install or use
8 the 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
48 Documentation for this software includes this README file, the
49 RELNOTES file, and the manual pages, which are in the server, common,
50 client and relay subdirectories. The README file (this file) includes
51 late-breaking operational and system-specific information that you
52 should read even if you don't want to read the manual pages, and that
53 you should *certainly* read if you run into trouble. Internet
54 standards relating to the DHCP protocol are listed in the References
55 document that is available in html, txt and xml formats in doc/
56 subdirectory. You will have the best luck reading the manual pages if
57 you build this software and then install it, although you can read
58 them directly out of the distribution if you need to.
59
60 DHCP server documentation is in the dhcpd man page. Information about
61 the DHCP server lease database is in the dhcpd.leases man page.
62 Server configuration documentation is in the dhcpd.conf man page as
63 well as the dhcp-options man page. A sample DHCP server
64 configuration is in the file server/dhcpd.conf.example. The source for
65 the dhcpd, dhcpd.leases and dhcpd.conf man pages is in the server/ sub-
66 directory in the distribution. The source for the dhcp-options.5
67 man page is in the common/ subdirectory.
68
69 DHCP Client documentation is in the dhclient man page. DHCP client
70 configuration documentation is in the dhclient.conf man page and the
71 dhcp-options man page. The DHCP client configuration script is
72 documented in the dhclient-script man page. The format of the DHCP
73 client lease database is documented in the dhclient.leases man page.
74 The source for all these man pages is in the client/ subdirectory in
75 the distribution. In addition, the dhcp-options man page should be
76 referred to for information about DHCP options.
77
78 DHCP relay agent documentation is in the dhcrelay man page, the source
79 for which is distributed in the relay/ subdirectory.
80
81 To read installed manual pages, use the man command. Type "man page"
82 where page is the name of the manual page. This will only work if
83 you have installed the ISC DHCP distribution using the ``make install''
84 command (described later).
85
86 If 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
88 unformatted manual page. The filename of an unformatted manual page
89 is the name of the manual page, followed by '.', followed by some
90 number - 5 for documentation about files, and 8 for documentation
91 about programs. For example, to read the dhcp-options man page,
92 you would type ``nroff -man common/dhcp-options.5 |more'', assuming
93 your current working directory is the top level directory of the ISC
94 DHCP Distribution.
95
96 Please note that the pathnames of files to which our manpages refer
97 will 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
99 directory, it may not have up-to-date information).
100
101 RELEASE STATUS
102
103 This is ISC DHCP 4.3.x The major theme for this release is "ipv6 uplift",
104 in which we enhance the v6 code to support many of the features found
105 in the v4 code. These include: support for v6, support for on_commit,
106 on_expiry and on_release in v6, support for accessing v6 relay options
107 and better log messages for v6 addresses. Non v6 features include:
108 support for the standard DDNS, better OMAPI class and sub-class support
109 allowing for dynamic addition and removal of sub-classes, and support for
110 DDNS without zone statements.
111
112 In this release, the DHCPv6 server should be fully functional on Linux,
113 Solaris, or any BSD. The DHCPv6 client should be similarly functional
114 except on Solaris.
115
116 The DHCPv4 server, relay, and client, should be fully functional
117 on Linux, Solaris, any BSD, HPUX, SCO, NextSTEP, and Irix.
118
119 If you are running the DHCP distribution on a machine which is a
120 firewall, or if there is a firewall between your DHCP server(s) and
121 DHCP clients, please read the section on firewalls which appears later
122 in this document.
123
124 If you wish to run the DHCP Distribution on Linux, please see the
125 Linux-specific notes later in this document. If you wish to run on an
126 SCO release, please see the SCO-specific notes later in this document.
127 You particularly need to read these notes if you intend to support
128 Windows 95 clients. If you are running HP-UX or Ultrix, please read the
129 notes for those operating systems below. If you are running NeXTSTEP,
130 please see the notes on NeXTSTEP below.
131
132 If you start dhcpd and get a message, "no free bpf", that means you
133 need to configure the Berkeley Packet Filter into your operating
134 system kernel. On NetBSD, FreeBSD and BSD/os, type ``man bpf'' for
135 information. On Digital Unix, type ``man pfilt''.
136
137
138 BUILDING THE DHCP DISTRIBUTION
139
140 UNPACKING IT
141
142 To build the DHCP Distribution, unpack the compressed tar file using
143 the tar utility and the gzip command - type something like:
144
145 gunzip dhcp-4.3.2.tar.gz
146 tar xvf dhcp-4.3.2.tar
147
148 CONFIGURING IT
149
150 Now, cd to the dhcp-4.3.2 subdirectory that you've just created and
151 configure the source tree by typing:
152
153 ./configure
154
155 If the configure utility can figure out what sort of system you're
156 running on, it will create a custom Makefile for you for that
157 system; otherwise, it will complain. If it can't figure out what
158 system you are using, that system is not supported - you are on
159 your own.
160
161 Several options may be enabled or disabled via the configure command.
162 You can get a list of these by typing:
163
164 ./configure --help
165
166 DYNAMIC DNS UPDATES
167
168 A fully-featured implementation of dynamic DNS updates is included in
169 this release. It uses libraries from BIND and, to avoid issues with
170 different versions, includes the necessary BIND version. The appropriate
171 BIND libraries will be compiled and installed in the bind subdirectory
172 as part of the make step. In order to build the necessary libraries you
173 will need to have "gmake" available on your build system.
174
175
176 There is documentation for the DDNS support in the dhcpd.conf manual
177 page - see the beginning of this document for information on finding
178 manual pages.
179
180 LOCALLY DEFINED OPTIONS
181
182 In previous versions of the DHCP server there was a mechanism whereby
183 options that were not known by the server could be configured using
184 a name made up of the option code number and an identifier:
185 "option-nnn" This is no longer supported, because it is not future-
186 proof. Instead, if you want to use an option that the server doesn't
187 know about, you must explicitly define it using the method described
188 in the dhcp-options man page under the DEFINING NEW OPTIONS heading.
189
190 BUILDING IT
191
192 Once you've run configure, just type ``make'', and after a while
193 you should have a dhcp server. If you get compile errors on one
194 of the supported systems mentioned earlier, please let us know.
195 If you get warnings, it's not likely to be a problem - the DHCP
196 server compiles completely warning-free on as many architectures
197 as we can manage, but there are a few for which this is difficult.
198 If you get errors on a system not mentioned above, you will need
199 to do some programming or debugging on your own to get the DHCP
200 Distribution working.
201
202 INSTALLING THE DHCP DISTRIBUTION
203
204 Once you have successfully gotten the DHCP Distribution to build, you
205 can install it by typing ``make install''. If you already have an old
206 version of the DHCP Distribution installed, you may want to save it
207 before typing ``make install''.
208
209 USING THE DHCP DISTRIBUTION
210
211 FIREWALL RULES
212
213 If you are running the DHCP server or client on a computer that's also
214 acting as a firewall, you must be sure to allow DHCP packets through
215 the firewall. In particular, your firewall rules _must_ allow packets
216 from IP address 0.0.0.0 to IP address 255.255.255.255 from UDP port 68
217 to UDP port 67 through. They must also allow packets from your local
218 firewall's IP address and UDP port 67 through to any address your DHCP
219 server might serve on UDP port 68. Finally, packets from relay agents
220 on port 67 to the DHCP server on port 67, and vice versa, must be
221 permitted.
222
223 We have noticed that on some systems where we are using a packet
224 filter, if you set up a firewall that blocks UDP port 67 and 68
225 entirely, packets sent through the packet filter will not be blocked.
226 However, unicast packets will be blocked. This can result in strange
227 behaviour, particularly on DHCP clients, where the initial packet
228 exchange is broadcast, but renewals are unicast - the client will
229 appear to be unable to renew until it starts broadcasting its
230 renewals, and then suddenly it'll work. The fix is to fix the
231 firewall rules as described above.
232
233 PARTIAL SERVERS
234
235 If you have a server that is connected to two networks, and you only
236 want to provide DHCP service on one of those networks (e.g., you are
237 using a cable modem and have set up a NAT router), if you don't write
238 any subnet declaration for the network you aren't supporting, the DHCP
239 server will ignore input on that network interface if it can. If it
240 can't, it will refuse to run - some operating systems do not have the
241 capability of supporting DHCP on machines with more than one
242 interface, and ironically this is the case even if you don't want to
243 provide DHCP service on one of those interfaces.
244
245 LINUX
246
247 There are three big LINUX issues: the all-ones broadcast address,
248 Linux 2.1 ip_bootp_agent enabling, and operations with more than one
249 network interface. There are also two potential compilation/runtime
250 problems for Linux 2.1/2.2: the "SO_ATTACH_FILTER undeclared" problem
251 and the "protocol not configured" problem.
252
253 LINUX: PROTOCOL NOT CONFIGURED
254
255 If you get the following message, it's because your kernel doesn't
256 have the linux packetfilter or raw packet socket configured:
257
258 Make sure CONFIG_PACKET (Packet socket) and CONFIG_FILTER (Socket
259 Filtering) are enabled in your kernel configuration
260
261 If this happens, you need to configure your Linux kernel to support
262 Socket Filtering and the Packet socket, or to select a kernel provided
263 by your Linux distribution that has these enabled (virtually all modern
264 ones do by default).
265
266 LINUX: BROADCAST
267
268 If you are running a recent version of Linux, this won't be a problem,
269 but on older versions of Linux (kernel versions prior to 2.2), there
270 is a potential problem with the broadcast address being sent
271 incorrectly.
272
273 In order for dhcpd to work correctly with picky DHCP clients (e.g.,
274 Windows 95), it must be able to send packets with an IP destination
275 address of 255.255.255.255. Unfortunately, Linux changes an IP
276 destination of 255.255.255.255 into the local subnet broadcast address
277 (here, that's 192.5.5.223).
278
279 This isn't generally a problem on Linux 2.2 and later kernels, since
280 we completely bypass the Linux IP stack, but on old versions of Linux
281 2.1 and all versions of Linux prior to 2.1, it is a problem - pickier
282 DHCP clients connected to the same network as the ISC DHCP server or
283 ISC relay agent will not see messages from the DHCP server. It *is*
284 possible to run into trouble with this on Linux 2.2 and later if you
285 are running a version of the DHCP server that was compiled on a Linux
286 2.0 system, though.
287
288 It is possible to work around this problem on some versions of Linux
289 by creating a host route from your network interface address to
290 255.255.255.255. The command you need to use to do this on Linux
291 varies from version to version. The easiest version is:
292
293 route add -host 255.255.255.255 dev eth0
294
295 On some older Linux systems, you will get an error if you try to do
296 this. On those systems, try adding the following entry to your
297 /etc/hosts file:
298
299 255.255.255.255 all-ones
300
301 Then, try:
302
303 route add -host all-ones dev eth0
304
305 Another route that has worked for some users is:
306
307 route add -net 255.255.255.0 dev eth0
308
309 If you are not using eth0 as your network interface, you should
310 specify the network interface you *are* using in your route command.
311
312 LINUX: IP BOOTP AGENT
313
314 Some versions of the Linux 2.1 kernel apparently prevent dhcpd from
315 working unless you enable it by doing the following:
316
317 echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_bootp_agent
318
319
320 LINUX: MULTIPLE INTERFACES
321
322 Very old versions of the Linux kernel do not provide a networking API
323 that allows dhcpd to operate correctly if the system has more than one
324 broadcast network interface. However, Linux 2.0 kernels with version
325 numbers greater than or equal to 2.0.31 add an API feature: the
326 SO_BINDTODEVICE socket option. If SO_BINDTODEVICE is present, it is
327 possible for dhcpd to operate on Linux with more than one network
328 interface. In order to take advantage of this, you must be running a
329 2.0.31 or greater kernel, and you must have 2.0.31 or later system
330 headers installed *before* you build the DHCP Distribution.
331
332 We have heard reports that you must still add routes to 255.255.255.255
333 in order for the all-ones broadcast to work, even on 2.0.31 kernels.
334 In fact, you now need to add a route for each interface. Hopefully
335 the Linux kernel gurus will get this straight eventually.
336
337 Linux 2.1 and later kernels do not use SO_BINDTODEVICE or require the
338 broadcast address hack, but do support multiple interfaces, using the
339 Linux Packet Filter.
340
341 LINUX: OpenWrt
342
343 DHCP 4.1 has been tested on OpenWrt 7.09 and 8.09. In keeping with
344 standard practice, client/scripts now includes a dhclient-script file
345 for OpenWrt. However, this is not sufficient by itself to run dhcp on
346 OpenWrt; a full OpenWrt package for DHCP is available at
347 ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/dhcp/dhcp-4.1.0-openwrt.tar.gz
348
349 LINUX: 802.1q VLAN INTERFACES
350
351 If you're using 802.1q vlan interfaces on Linux, it is necessary to
352 vconfig the subinterface(s) to rewrite the 802.1q information out of
353 packets received by the dhcpd daemon via LPF:
354
355 vconfig set_flag eth1.523 1 1
356
357 Note that this may affect the performance of your system, since the
358 Linux kernel must rewrite packets received via this interface. For
359 more information, consult the vconfig man pages.
360
361 SCO
362
363 ISC DHCP will now work correctly on newer versions of SCO out of the
364 box (tested on OpenServer 5.05b, assumed to work on UnixWare 7).
365
366 Older versions of SCO have the same problem as Linux (described earlier).
367 The thing is, SCO *really* doesn't want to let you add a host route to
368 the all-ones broadcast address.
369
370 You can try the following:
371
372 ifconfig net0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 0xNNNNNNNN broadcast 255.255.255.255
373
374 If this doesn't work, you can also try the following strange hack:
375
376 ifconfig net0 alias 10.1.1.1 netmask 8.0.0.0
377
378 Apparently this works because of an interaction between SCO's support
379 for network classes and the weird netmask. The 10.* network is just a
380 dummy that can generally be assumed to be safe. Don't ask why this
381 works. Just try it. If it works for you, great.
382
383 HP-UX
384
385 HP-UX has the same problem with the all-ones broadcast address that
386 SCO and Linux have. One user reported that adding the following to
387 /etc/rc.config.d/netconf helped (you may have to modify this to suit
388 your local configuration):
389
390 INTERFACE_NAME[0]=lan0
391 IP_ADDRESS[0]=1.1.1.1
392 SUBNET_MASK[0]=255.255.255.0
393 BROADCAST_ADDRESS[0]="255.255.255.255"
394 LANCONFIG_ARGS[0]="ether"
395 DHCP_ENABLE[0]=0
396
397 ULTRIX
398
399 Now that we have Ultrix packet filter support, the DHCP Distribution
400 on Ultrix should be pretty trouble-free. However, one thing you do
401 need to be aware of is that it now requires that the pfilt device be
402 configured into your kernel and present in /dev. If you type ``man
403 packetfilter'', you will get some information on how to configure your
404 kernel for the packet filter (if it isn't already) and how to make an
405 entry for it in /dev.
406
407 FreeBSD
408
409 Versions of FreeBSD prior to 2.2 have a bug in BPF support in that the
410 ethernet driver swaps the ethertype field in the ethernet header
411 downstream from BPF, which corrupts the output packet. If you are
412 running a version of FreeBSD prior to 2.2, and you find that dhcpd
413 can't communicate with its clients, you should #define BROKEN_FREEBSD_BPF
414 in site.h and recompile.
415
416 Modern versions of FreeBSD include the ISC DHCP 3.0 client as part of
417 the base system, and the full distribution (for the DHCP server and
418 relay agent) is available from the Ports Collection in
419 /usr/ports/net/isc-dhcp3, or as a package on FreeBSD installation
420 CDROMs.
421
422 NeXTSTEP
423
424 The NeXTSTEP support uses the NeXTSTEP Berkeley Packet Filter
425 extension, which is not included in the base NextStep system. You
426 must install this extension in order to get dhcpd or dhclient to work.
427
428 SOLARIS
429
430 There are two known issues seen when compiling using the Sun compiler.
431
432 The first is that older Sun compilers generate an error on some of
433 our uses of the flexible array option. Newer versions only generate
434 a warning, which can be safely ignored. If you run into this error
435 ("type of struct member "buf" can not be derived from structure with
436 flexible array member"), upgrade your tools to Oracle Solaris Studio
437 (previously Sun Studio) 12 or something newer.
438
439 The second is the interaction between the configure script and the
440 makefiles for the Bind libraries. Currently we don't pass all
441 environment variables between the DHCP configure and the Bind configure.
442
443 If you attempt to specify the compiler you wish to use like this:
444
445 CC=/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc ./configure
446
447 "make" may not build the Bind libraries with that compiler.
448
449 In order to use the same compiler for Bind and DHCP we suggest the
450 following commands:
451
452 CC=/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc ./configure
453 CC=/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc make
454
455 Solaris 11
456
457 We have integrated a patch from Oracle to use sockets instead of
458 DLPI on Solaris 11. This functionality was written for use with
459 Solaris Studio 12.2 and requires the system/header package.
460
461 By default this code is disabled in order to minimize disruptions
462 for current users. In order to enable this code you will need to
463 enable both USE_SOCKETS and USE_V4_PKTINFO as part of the
464 configuration step. The command line would be something like:
465
466 ./configure --enable-use-sockets --enable-ipv4-pktinfo
467
468 Solaris 11 and ATF
469
470 We have reports that ATF 0.15 and 0.16 do not build on Solaris 11. The
471 following changes to the ATF source code appear to fix this issue:
472
473 diff -ru atf-0.15/atf-c/tp_test.c atf-0.15-patched/atf-c/tp_test.c
474 --- atf-0.15/atf-c/tp_test.c 2011-12-06 06:31:11.000000000 +0100
475 +++ atf-0.15-patched/atf-c/tp_test.c 2012-06-19 15:54:57.000000000 +0200
476 @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
477 */
478
479 #include <string.h>
480 +#include <stdio.h>
481 #include <unistd.h>
482
483 #include <atf-c.h>
484
485 diff -ru atf-0.15/atf-run/requirements.cpp atf-0.15-patched/atf-run/requirements.cpp
486 --- atf-0.15/atf-run/requirements.cpp 2012-01-13 20:44:25.000000000 +0100
487 +++ atf-0.15-patched/atf-run/requirements.cpp 2012-06-19 15:41:51.000000000 +0200
488 @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
489
490 extern "C" {
491 #include <sys/param.h>
492 -#include <sys/sysctl.h>
493 +//#include <sys/sysctl.h>
494 }
495
496 #include <cerrno>
497
498 Other Solaris Items
499
500 One problem which has been observed and is not fixed in this
501 patchlevel has to do with using DLPI on Solaris machines. The symptom
502 of this problem is that the DHCP server never receives any requests.
503 This has been observed with Solaris 2.6 and Solaris 7 on Intel x86
504 systems, although it may occur with other systems as well. If you
505 encounter this symptom, and you are running the DHCP server on a
506 machine with a single broadcast network interface, you may wish to
507 edit the includes/site.h file and uncomment the #define USE_SOCKETS
508 line. Then type ``make clean; make''. As an alternative workaround,
509 it has been reported that running 'snoop' will cause the dhcp server
510 to start receiving packets. So the practice reported to us is to run
511 snoop at dhcpd startup time, with arguments to cause it to receive one
512 packet and exit.
513
514 snoop -c 1 udp port 67 > /dev/null &
515
516 The DHCP client on Solaris will only work with DLPI. If you run it
517 and it just keeps saying it's sending DHCPREQUEST packets, but never
518 gets a response, you may be having DLPI trouble as described above.
519 If so, we have no solution to offer at this time, aside from the above
520 workaround which should also work here. Also, because Solaris requires
521 you to "plumb" an interface before it can be detected by the DHCP client,
522 you must either specify the name(s) of the interface(s) you want to
523 configure on the command line, or must plumb the interfaces prior to
524 invoking the DHCP client. This can be done with ``ifconfig iface plumb'',
525 where iface is the name of the interface (e.g., ``ifconfig hme0 plumb'').
526
527 It should be noted that Solaris versions from 2.6 onward include a
528 DHCP client that you can run with ``/sbin/ifconfig iface dhcp start''
529 rather than using the ISC DHCP client, including DHCPv6. Consequently,
530 we don't believe there is a need for the client to run on Solaris, and
531 have not engineered the needed DHCPv6 modifications for the dhclient-script.
532 If you feel this is in error, or have a need, please contact us.
533
534 AIX
535
536 The AIX support uses the BSD socket API, which cannot differentiate on
537 which network interface a broadcast packet was received; thus the DHCP
538 server and relay will work only on a single interface. (They do work
539 on multi-interface machines if configured to listen on only one of the
540 interfaces.)
541
542 We have reports of Windows XP clients having difficulty retrieving
543 addresses from a server running on an AIX machine. This issue
544 was traced to the client requiring messages be sent to the all ones
545 broadcast address (255.255.255.255) while the AIX server was sending
546 to 192.168.0.255.
547
548 You may be able to solve this by including a relay between the client
549 and server with the relay configured to use a broadcast of all-ones.
550
551 A second option that worked for AIX 5.1 but doesn't seem to work for
552 AIX 5.3 was to:
553 create a host file entry for all-ones (255.255.255.255)
554 and then add a route:
555 route add -host all-ones -interface <local-ip-address>
556
557 The ISC DHCP distribution does not include a dhclient-script for AIX--
558 AIX comes with a DHCP client. Contribution of a working dhclient-script
559 for AIX would be welcome.
560
561
562 MacOS X
563
564 The MacOS X system uses a TCP/IP stack derived from FreeBSD with a
565 user-friendly interface named the System Configuration Framework.
566 As it includes a builtin DHCPv4 client (you are better just using that),
567 this text is only about the DHCPv6 client (``dhclient -6 ...''). The DNS
568 configuration (domain search list and name servers' addresses) is managed
569 by a System Configuration agent, not by /etc/resolv.conf (which is a link
570 to /var/run/resolv.conf, which itself only reflects the internal state;
571 the System Configuration framework's Dynamic Store).
572
573 This means that modifying resolv.conf directly doesn't have the
574 intended effect, instead the macos script sample creates its own
575 resolv.conf.dhclient6 in /var/run, and inserts the contents of this
576 file into the Dynamic Store.
577
578 When updating the address configuration the System Configuration
579 framework expects the prefix and a default router along with the
580 configured address. As this extra information is not available via
581 the DHCPv6 protocol the System Configuration framework isn't usable
582 for address configuration, instead ifconfig is used directly.
583
584 Note the Dynamic Store (from which /var/run/resolv.conf is built) is
585 recomputed from scratch when the current location/set is changed.
586 Running the dhclient-script reinstalls the resolv.conf.dhclient6
587 configuration.
588
589
590 ATF
591
592 Please see the file DHCP/doc/devel/atf.dox for a description of building
593 and using these tools.
594
595 The optional unit tests use ATF (Automated Testing Framework) including
596 the atf-run and atf-report tools. ATF deprecated these tools in
597 version 0.19 and removed these tools from its sources in version 0.20,
598 requiring you to get an older version, use Kyua with an ATF compatibility
599 package or use the version included in the Bind sources.
600
601 SUPPORT
602
603 The Internet Systems Consortium DHCP server is developed and distributed
604 by ISC in the public trust, thanks to the generous donations of its
605 sponsors. ISC now also offers commercial quality support contracts for
606 ISC DHCP, more information about ISC Support Contracts can be found at
607 the following URL:
608
609 https://www.isc.org/services/support/
610
611 Please understand that we may not respond to support inquiries unless
612 you have a support contract. ISC will continue its practice of always
613 responding to critical items that effect the entire community, and
614 responding to all other requests for support upon ISC's mailing lists
615 on a best-effort basis.
616
617 However, ISC DHCP has attracted a fairly sizable following on the
618 Internet, which means that there are a lot of knowledgeable users who
619 may be able to help you if you get stuck. These people generally
620 read the dhcp-users@isc.org mailing list. Be sure to provide as much
621 detail in your query as possible.
622
623 If you are going to use ISC DHCP, you should probably subscribe to
624 the dhcp-users or dhcp-announce mailing lists.
625
626 WHERE TO SEND FEATURE REQUESTS: We like to hear your feedback. We may
627 not respond to it all the time, but we do read it. If ISC DHCP doesn't
628 work well for you, or you have an idea that would improve it for your
629 use, please send your suggestion to dhcp-suggest@isc.org. This is also
630 an excellent place to send patches that add new features.
631
632 WHERE TO REPORT BUGS: If you want the act of sending in a bug report
633 to result in you getting help in the form of a fixed piece of
634 software, you are asking for help. Your bug report is helpful to us,
635 but fundamentally you are making a support request, so please use the
636 addresses described in the previous paragraphs. If you are _sure_ that
637 your problem is a bug, and not user error, or if your bug report
638 includes a patch, you can send it to our ticketing system at
639 dhcp-bugs@isc.org. If you have not received a notice that the ticket
640 has been resolved, then we're still working on it.
641
642 PLEASE DO NOT REPORT BUGS IN OLD SOFTWARE RELEASES! Fetch the latest
643 release and see if the bug is still in that version of the software,
644 and if it is still present, _then_ report it. ISC release versions
645 always have three numbers, for example: 1.2.3. The 'major release' is
646 1 here, the 'minor release' is 2, and the 'maintenance release' is 3.
647 ISC will accept bug reports against the most recent two major.minor
648 releases: for example, 1.0.0 and 0.9.0, but not 0.8.* or prior.
649
650 PLEASE take a moment to determine where the ISC DHCP distribution
651 that you're using came from. ISC DHCP is sometimes heavily modified
652 by integrators in various operating systems - it's not that we
653 feel that our software is perfect and incapable of having bugs, but
654 rather that it is very frustrating to find out after many days trying
655 to help someone that the sources you're looking at aren't what they're
656 running. When in doubt, please retrieve the source distribution from
657 ISC's web page and install it.
658
659 HOW TO REPORT BUGS OR REQUEST HELP
660
661 When you report bugs or ask for help, please provide us complete
662 information. A list of information we need follows. Please read it
663 carefully, and put all the information you can into your initial bug
664 report. This will save us a great deal of time and more informative
665 bug reports are more likely to get handled more quickly overall.
666
667 1. The specific operating system name and version of the
668 machine on which the DHCP server or client is running.
669 2. The specific operating system name and version of the
670 machine on which the client is running, if you are having
671 trouble getting a client working with the server.
672 3. If you're running Linux, the version number we care about is
673 the kernel version and maybe the library version, not the
674 distribution version - e.g., while we don't mind knowing
675 that you're running Redhat version mumble.foo, we must know
676 what kernel version you're running, and it helps if you can
677 tell us what version of the C library you're running,
678 although if you don't know that off the top of your head it
679 may be hard for you to figure it out, so don't go crazy
680 trying.
681 4. The specific version of the DHCP distribution you're
682 running, as reported by dhcpd -t.
683 5. Please explain the problem carefully, thinking through what
684 you're saying to ensure that you don't assume we know
685 something about your situation that we don't know.
686 6. Include your dhcpd.conf and dhcpd.leases file as MIME attachments
687 if they're not over 100 kilobytes in size each. If they are
688 this large, please make them available to us eg via a hidden
689 http:// URL or FTP site. If you're not comfortable releasing
690 this information due to sensitive contents, you may encrypt
691 the file to our release signing key, available on our website.
692 7. Include a log of your server or client running until it
693 encounters the problem - for example, if you are having
694 trouble getting some client to get an address, restart the
695 server with the -d flag and then restart the client, and
696 send us what the server prints. Likewise, with the client,
697 include the output of the client as it fails to get an
698 address or otherwise does the wrong thing. Do not leave
699 out parts of the output that you think aren't interesting.
700 8. If the client or server is dumping core, please run the
701 debugger and get a stack trace, and include that in your
702 bug report. For example, if your debugger is gdb, do the
703 following:
704
705 gdb dhcpd dhcpd.core
706 (gdb) where
707 [...]
708 (gdb) quit
709
710 This assumes that it's the dhcp server you're debugging, and
711 that the core file is in dhcpd.core.
712
713 Please see https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/ for details on how to subscribe
714 to the ISC DHCP mailing lists.
715
716 HISTORY
717
718 ISC DHCP was originally written by Ted Lemon under a contract with
719 Vixie Labs with the goal of being a complete reference implementation
720 of the DHCP protocol. Funding for this project was provided by
721 Internet Systems Consortium. The first release of the ISC DHCP
722 distribution in December 1997 included just the DHCP server.
723 Release 2 in June 1999 added a DHCP client and a BOOTP/DHCP relay
724 agent. DHCP 3 was released in October 2001 and included DHCP failover
725 support, OMAPI, Dynamic DNS, conditional behaviour, client classing,
726 and more. Version 3 of the DHCP server was funded by Nominum, Inc.
727 The 4.0 release in December 2007 introduced DHCPv6 protocol support
728 for the server and client.
729
730 This product includes cryptographic software written
731 by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com).