[Kea-users] Kea 1.2.0 - not finding host reservation via flex-id & pgsql

Jason Lixfeld jason-kea at lixfeld.ca
Tue Sep 19 13:17:00 UTC 2017


> On Sep 15, 2017, at 2:12 PM, Jason Lixfeld <jason-kea at lixfeld.ca> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I was troubleshooting an issue with host reservations via flex-id and postgresql.
> 
> I tracked it down to a difference in how the database was storing identifier_value, vs. how the identifier_expression is configured in the kea config file.
> 
> The kea debug shows the generated flex-id:
> 
> 2017-09-15 13:32:01.182 DEBUG [kea-dhcp4.packets/631] DHCP4_FLEX_ID flexible identifier generated for incoming packet: flex-id=010972677730312E6C616200040C370201
> 
> The kea config identifier_expression is like so:
> 
>                "hooks-libraries": [
>                        {
>                        "library": "/usr/local/lib/hooks/libdhcp_flex_id.so",
>                        "parameters":
>                                {
>                                "identifier-expression": "concat(relay4[2].hex,relay4[1].hex)"
>                                }
>                        }
>                ],
> 
> I set the identifier_value per the how-to (https://kea.isc.org/wiki/HostReservationsHowTo) to match what the kea debug generated for the flex-id:
> 
>>> kea=# \set identifier_value ‘010972677730312e6c616200040c370201'
>>> 
> When I noticed that the reservation was not working, I looked at the postgres query that Kea was making, and it appears as though $3 is prepended with \x :
> 
> 2017-09-15 13:32:01.189 EDT [726] kea at kea LOG:  execute get_host_subid4_dhcpid: SELECT h.host_id, h.dhcp_identifier, h.dhcp_identifier_type,   h.dhcp4_subnet_id, h.dhcp6_subnet_id, h.ipv4_address, h.hostname,   h.dhcp4_client_classes, h.dhcp6_client_classes,   h.dhcp4_next_server, h.dhcp4_server_hostname, h.dhcp4_boot_file_name,   o.option_id, o.code, o.value, o.formatted_value, o.space, o.persistent FROM hosts AS h LEFT JOIN dhcp4_options AS o ON h.host_id = o.host_id WHERE h.dhcp4_subnet_id = $1 AND h.dhcp_identifier_type = $2    AND h.dhcp_identifier = $3 ORDER BY h.host_id, o.option_id
> 2017-09-15 13:32:01.189 EDT [726] kea at kea DETAIL:  parameters: $1 = '1', $2 = '4', $3 = '\x010972677730312e6c616200040c370201’
> 
> Making that query directly of course fails, which is where the issue lies:
> 
> SELECT h.host_id, h.dhcp_identifier, h.dhcp_identifier_type,   h.dhcp4_subnet_id, h.dhcp6_subnet_id, h.ipv4_address, h.hostname,   h.dhcp4_client_classes, h.dhcp6_client_classes,   h.dhcp4_next_server, h.dhcp4_server_hostname, h.dhcp4_boot_file_name,   o.option_id, o.code, o.value, o.formatted_value, o.space, o.persistent FROM hosts AS h LEFT JOIN dhcp4_options AS o ON h.host_id = o.host_id WHERE h.dhcp4_subnet_id = '1' AND h.dhcp_identifier_type = '4' AND h.dhcp_identifier = '\x010972677730312e6c616200040c370201' ORDER BY h.host_id, o.option_id;
> 
> host_id | dhcp_identifier | dhcp_identifier_type | dhcp4_subnet_id | dhcp6_subnet_id | ipv4_address | hostname | dhcp4_client_classes | dhcp6_client_classes | dhcp4_next_server | dhcp4_server_hostname | dhcp4_boot_file_name | option_id | code | value | formatted_value | space | persistent
> ---------+-----------------+----------------------+-----------------+-----------------+--------------+----------+----------------------+----------------------+-------------------+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------+------+-------+-----------------+-------+------------
> (0 rows)
> 
> If I remove the leading \x from the query, the expected results are presented:
> 
> SELECT h.host_id, h.dhcp_identifier, h.dhcp_identifier_type,   h.dhcp4_subnet_id, h.dhcp6_subnet_id, h.ipv4_address, h.hostname,   h.dhcp4_client_classes, h.dhcp6_client_classes,   h.dhcp4_next_server, h.dhcp4_server_hostname, h.dhcp4_boot_file_name,   o.option_id, o.code, o.value, o.formatted_value, o.space, o.persistent FROM hosts AS h LEFT JOIN dhcp4_options AS o ON h.host_id = o.host_id WHERE h.dhcp4_subnet_id = '1' AND h.dhcp_identifier_type = '4' AND h.dhcp_identifier = '010972677730312e6c616200040c370201' ORDER BY h.host_id, o.option_id;
> 
> host_id |                            dhcp_identifier                             | dhcp_identifier_type | dhcp4_subnet_id | dhcp6_subnet_id | ipv4_address | hostname | dhcp4_client_classes | dhcp6_client_classes | dhcp4_next_server | dhcp4_server_hostname | dhcp4_boot_file_name | option_id | code | value | formatted_value | space | persistent
> ---------+------------------------------------------------------------------------+----------------------+-----------------+-----------------+--------------+----------+----------------------+----------------------+-------------------+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------+------+-------+-----------------+-------+------------
>       6 | \x30313039373236373737333033313265366336313632303030343063333730323031 |                    4 |               1 |                 |    171966277 |          |                      |                      |                   |                       | bootfile.efi         |           |      |       |                 |       |
> (1 row)
> 
> Manually decoding the dhcp_identifier shows the non-prepended value:
> 
> kea=# select convert_from('\x30313039373236373737333033313265366336313632303030343063333730323031', 'UTF-8');
>            convert_from
> ------------------------------------
> 010972677730312e6c616200040c370201
> (1 row)
> 
> kea=#
> 
> So my question is did I misinterpret the instructions (either by cluelessness or oversight) when setting this up, or is this a bug?
> 
> Thanks!

For the archives, the issue was that the source value is a hex value, but it was being stored as ASCII, instead of binary.  The fix was to modify the insert query accordingly.

kea=# START TRANSACTION;
START TRANSACTION
kea=# \set ipv4_reservation '10.63.255.69'
kea=# \set identifier_type 'flex-id'
kea=# \set identifier_value '010972677730312e6c616200040c370201'
kea=# \set dhcp4_subnet_id 1
kea=# \set boot_file_name 'bootfile.efi'
kea=#
kea=# INSERT INTO hosts (dhcp_identifier,
kea(#                    dhcp_identifier_type,
kea(#                    dhcp4_subnet_id,
kea(#                    ipv4_address,
kea(#                    dhcp4_boot_file_name)
kea-# VALUES (DECODE(REPLACE(:'identifier_value', ':', ''), 'hex'),
kea(#  (SELECT type FROM host_identifier_type WHERE name=:'identifier_type'),
kea(#         :dhcp4_subnet_id,
kea(#         (SELECT (:'ipv4_reservation'::inet - '0.0.0.0'::inet)),
kea(#         :'boot_file_name');
INSERT 0 1
kea=#
kea=# COMMIT;
COMMIT
kea=# select * from hosts;
host_id |           dhcp_identifier            | dhcp_identifier_type | dhcp4_subnet_id | dhcp6_subnet_id | ipv4_address | hostname | dhcp4_client_classes | dhcp6_client_classes | dhcp4_next_server | dhcp4_server_hostname | dhcp4_boot_file_name
---------+--------------------------------------+----------------------+-----------------+-----------------+--------------+----------+----------------------+----------------------+-------------------+-----------------------+----------------------
      9 | \x010972677730312e6c616200040c370201 |                    4 |               1 |                 |    171966277 |          |                      |                      |                   |                       | bootfile.efi
(1 row)
kea=#

2017-09-18 10:29:45.609 DEBUG [kea-dhcp4.hosts/516] HOSTS_CFG_GET_ONE_SUBNET_ID_IDENTIFIER get one host with IPv4 reservation for subnet id 1, identified by flex-id=010972677730312E6C616200040C370201
2017-09-18 10:29:45.610 DEBUG [kea-dhcp4.hosts/516] HOSTS_CFG_GET_ALL_IDENTIFIER get all hosts with reservations using identifier: flex-id=010972677730312E6C616200040C370201
2017-09-18 10:29:45.610 DEBUG [kea-dhcp4.hosts/516] HOSTS_CFG_GET_ALL_IDENTIFIER_COUNT using identifier flex-id=010972677730312E6C616200040C370201, found 0 host(s)
2017-09-18 10:29:45.610 DEBUG [kea-dhcp4.hosts/516] HOSTS_CFG_GET_ONE_SUBNET_ID_IDENTIFIER_NULL host not found using subnet id 1 and identifier flex-id=010972677730312E6C616200040C370201
2017-09-18 10:29:45.610 DEBUG [kea-dhcp4.hosts/516] HOSTS_MGR_ALTERNATE_GET4_SUBNET_ID_IDENTIFIER get one host with IPv4 reservation for subnet id 1, identified by flex-id=010972677730312E6C616200040C370201
2017-09-18 10:29:45.611 DEBUG [kea-dhcp4.hosts/516] HOSTS_MGR_ALTERNATE_GET4_SUBNET_ID_IDENTIFIER_HOST using subnet id 1 and identifier flex-id=010972677730312E6C616200040C370201, found host: flex-id=010972677730312E6C616200040C370201 ipv4_subnet_id=1 hostname=(empty) ipv4_reservation=10.63.255.69 siaddr=(no) sname=(empty) file=bootfile.efi ipv6_reservations=(none)

2017-09-18 10:29:45.610 EDT [506] kea at kea LOG:  execute get_host_subid4_dhcpid: SELECT h.host_id, h.dhcp_identifier, h.dhcp_identifier_type,   h.dhcp4_subnet_id, h.dhcp6_subnet_id, h.ipv4_address, h.hostname,
  h.dhcp4_client_classes, h.dhcp6_client_classes,   h.dhcp4_next_server, h.dhcp4_server_hostname, h.dhcp4_boot_file_name,   o.option_id, o.code, o.value, o.formatted_value, o.space, o.persistent FROM hosts A
S h LEFT JOIN dhcp4_options AS o ON h.host_id = o.host_id WHERE h.dhcp4_subnet_id = $1 AND h.dhcp_identifier_type = $2    AND h.dhcp_identifier = $3 ORDER BY h.host_id, o.option_id
2017-09-18 10:29:45.610 EDT [506] kea at kea DETAIL:  parameters: $1 = '1', $2 = '4', $3 = '\x010972677730312e6c616200040c370201’

kea=# SELECT h.host_id, h.dhcp_identifier, h.dhcp_identifier_type,   h.dhcp4_subnet_id, h.dhcp6_subnet_id, h.ipv4_address, h.hostname, h.dhcp4_client_classes, h.dhcp6_client_classes,   h.dhcp4_next_server, h.dhcp4_server_hostname, h.dhcp4_boot_file_name,   o.option_id, o.code, o.value, o.formatted_value, o.space, o.persistent FROM hosts AS h LEFT JOIN dhcp4_options AS o ON h.host_id = o.host_id WHERE h.dhcp4_subnet_id = '1' AND h.dhcp_identifier_type = '4'    AND h.dhcp_identifier = '\x010972677730312e6c616200040c370201' ORDER BY h.host_id, o.option_id;
kea=#

host_id |           dhcp_identifier            | dhcp_identifier_type | dhcp4_subnet_id | dhcp6_subnet_id | ipv4_address | hostname | dhcp4_client_classes | dhcp6_client_classes | dhcp4_next_server | dhcp4_server_hostname | dhcp4_boot_file_name | option_id | code | value | formatted_value | space | persistent
---------+--------------------------------------+----------------------+-----------------+-----------------+--------------+----------+----------------------+----------------------+-------------------+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------+------+-------+-----------------+-------+------------
      9 | \x010972677730312e6c616200040c370201 |                    4 |               1 |                 |    171966277 |          |                      |                      |                   |                       | bootfile.efi         |           |   |       |                 |       |
(1 row)
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