About:
The Internet Software Consortium DHCP distribution includes a DHCP client, a DHCP server, and a DHCP relay agent. DHCP is a protocol for automatically configuring nodes on an IP network. The ISC DHCP server and client are well known for being extremely configurable, reasonably easy to use, and quite efficient.

Release focus: Major feature enhancements

Changes:
This release adds DHCPv6 rapid commit support. It adds explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options. It has improved IANA compliance. Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client. DHCP now builds on AIX. Compilation bugs relating to Solaris 9 and Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) have been fixed. There are numerous other enhancements and bugfixes.

Author:
Ted Lemon [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.37/10.00 (4 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP/
Changelog:
http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/dhcp_rel.php
RPM package:
ftp://angus.ind.wpi.edu/pub/packages/isc/dhcp/

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		No Input/Output (Daemon)
[License]		OSI Approved :: BSD License (original)
[Operating System]		POSIX
[Programming Language]		C
[Topic]		System :: Networking

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	4.1.0a1	13-Feb-2008	BSD License (original)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
4.1.0a1	Major feature enhancements	13-Feb-2008 19:03
3.0.3	N/A	17-Oct-2005 17:11
3.0	Major feature enhancements	10-Jan-2002 21:13
3.0rc10	Minor bugfixes	03-Jul-2001 05:22
3.0rc9	Minor bugfixes	29-Jun-2001 22:59
3.0rc8pl2	Major bugfixes	27-Jun-2001 20:10
3.0rc8	Major bugfixes	07-Jun-2001 12:01
3.0rc7	Major feature enhancements	25-May-2001 15:24
3.0b2pl2	N/A	06-Sep-2000 01:43
3.0b1pl0	N/A	07-Jul-1999 21:44

 Articles referencing this project

Debian: New dhcp packages fix arbitrary code execution by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sat, Oct 20th 2007 13:15 Debian: New dhcp packages fix denial of service by Patrick Lenz , in Security Thu, Aug 24th 2006 13:01 SuSE: New dhcp/dhcp-server packages fix remote system compromise by Patrick Lenz , in Security Wed, Jun 23rd 2004 02:33 Red Hat: Updated dhcp packages fix possible packet storm by Patrick Lenz , in Security Tue, Apr 8th 2003 06:49

Debian: New dhcp3 packages fix potential network flood by Patrick Lenz , in Security Tue, Jan 28th 2003 09:24 SuSE: remote system compromise in dhcp by Patrick Lenz , in Security Mon, Jan 20th 2003 10:18 Debian: New dhcp3 packages fix arbitrary code execution by Patrick Lenz , in Security Mon, Jan 20th 2003 10:04 Red Hat: Updated dhcp packages fix security vulnerabilities by Patrick Lenz , in Security Thu, Jan 16th 2003 06:07

 Comments

[»] dhcp.conf
by Mundi King - Feb 23rd 2000 15:17:43

I had a problem with the dhcp.conf file that was located at /dhcp-3.0b1pl13/server/dhcpd.conf The sample file has the following line

option name-servers bb.home.vix.com, gw.home.vix.com;

which I believe should read

option domain-name-servers bb.home.vix.com, gw.home.vix.com;

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[»] Version 2.0 is out!
by Ted Lemon - Jun 30th 1999 09:34:31

I mention this because a previous comment says it's coming soon, but in fact it's here! :')

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[»] Why use this one?
by Dagmar - Jun 23rd 1999 10:12:49

This package contains both a client AND a server in case you didn't notice, and the client is the most flexible and configurable implementation around from what I can see. A major benefit is this program has an external shell script that gets called every time the lease is modified somehow, which should be perfect for people trying to maintain updated DNS information (like WINS integration, or roaming DNS services), since you can edit it to your heart's content. It's client also has no "issues" with NT DHCP server implementations, unlike another implementation I could name.

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