DHCP Leases Parser

José Queiroz zekkerj at gmail.com
Wed Apr 13 15:16:50 UTC 2016


I believe that what you're trying to do is partly implemented with storing
leases on MySQL databases.

2016-04-13 12:11 GMT-03:00 Ryan Gray <ryantgray at gmail.com>:

> Thanks for your input Patrick.  I'll look into what might be helpful
> information from the ISC folks. I am going to put some time in up front on
> something that might help obfuscate leases data while keeping
> same-data-points randomized to the same strings (if that makes sense). As
> much as I would like to skip this step for the sake of diving into the
> development of the parser itself, I cannot make a case for sending this
> data out without this step or some mitigating actions to remove the risk.
>
> Thank you.
>
>
> Regards,
> Ryan Gray
>
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 9:48 AM, Patrick Trapp <ptrapp at nex-tech.com>
> wrote:
>
>> It would be interesting to see if the ISC folks can provide some
>> insight/aid to you even if they as an organization have not prioritized
>> building the project themselves.
>>
>> We have a pretty simplistic analysis that I might be able to share with
>> you, but I think your PHP classes are probably what our developers are
>> using.
>>
>> I have a pretty busy leases file, I think, but I would want to obfuscate
>> things before I gave it to "some dude on the Internet" as you so eloquently
>> put it.
>>
>> Patrick
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* dhcp-users-bounces at lists.isc.org [
>> dhcp-users-bounces at lists.isc.org] on behalf of Ryan Gray [
>> ryantgray at gmail.com]
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 13, 2016 9:36 AM
>> *To:* Users of ISC DHCP
>> *Subject:* DHCP Leases Parser
>>
>> Greetings everyone,
>>
>> This is one part poll, one part request. I am working on a project that
>> necessitates analyzing the dhcpd.leases "database".  For many years I have
>> struggled with getting usable information out of the leases database in a
>> sane fashion.  While there have been some very helpful utilities, (command
>> line scripts, dhcpstatus.cgi, dhcpd-pools anyone?), none of them have been
>> exactly what I was looking for and all of them are quite antiquated in
>> regards to what they are built with.  I've had it with cobbling together
>> nearly unacceptable solutions and am going to build an application to solve
>> this, at the very least for myself. I've got a good start with some super
>> helpful PHP classes that I've been working on.
>>
>> Poll:
>> If there were a service that allowed you to upload, or otherwise sync,
>> your leases file and would give you status, statistics, and historical
>> information, would you be interested in using it? I am not talking about
>> anything that is actively part of the DHCP traffic, purely a leases
>> analyzer.  Is there interest in a web based utility like this?
>>
>> Request:
>> If there is interest in a service like this, it will be imperative that I
>> gather as many example dhcpd.leases files as possible during development. I
>> can only generate so much data locally and I want to account for as many
>> variables as possible. My request is that if you are interested in
>> something like this and are able to send me any dhcpd.leases files, that
>> would be extremely helpful. I realize that leases information might be
>> considered too sensitive to just send to some dude on the internet, so if
>> anyone is interested and finds this a hurdle, I would be happy to come up
>> with a way for us to mitigate that risk.  ....perhaps a script that you can
>> run locally to obscure sensitive data.
>>
>> Just putting out the feelers here. This is getting built regardless, but
>> if there is community interest in the topic, I would be excited to work
>> with you and to give back to a community that has done so much for so many
>> for so long.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ryan Gray
>>
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