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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
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2 Version 4.2.0
3 21 December 2012
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0171be2d 5 Release Notes
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0171be2d 7 NEW FEATURES
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9ISC DHCP 4.2.x includes features that were not included in DHCP 4.1.x.
10These include:
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12There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
13release, which will be addressed in the future:
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01a54c17 15- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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17- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages, in
18 English. A method to reconfigure or support other languages would
19 be preferrable.
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21- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
22
98bd7ca0 23- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 24 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 25 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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27For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as
28well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the
29README file.
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31ISC DHCP uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please review the
32output of "./configure --help" to see what options are available.
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34The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and may not
35work on other platforms. Please report any problems and suggested fixes to
36<dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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39 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
40
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41- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
42 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 43 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
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45- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
46 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
47 Cantrell at Red Hat.
48
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49- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
50 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
51
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52- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
53
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54- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
55 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
56 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
57 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
58 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
59 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
60
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61- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
62 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
63 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
64 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
65 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
66 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
67 FQDN options by default).
68
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69- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
70 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
71 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
72 determined lease time) are omitted.
73
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74 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
75
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76- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
77
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78- Validate the argument to the -p option.
79
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80- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
81 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
82 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
83 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
84 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
85
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86- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
87
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88- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
89 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
90 had been deleted from configuration.
91
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92- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
93 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
94 AC_USE_SYSTME_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
95 were being ignored.
96
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97- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
98
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99- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
100 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
101 Nordahl.
102
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103- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
104 dhcpv6 disabled.
105
8d7dca58 106- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 107 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
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109- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
110 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
111
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112- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
113 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
114 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
115
116- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
117 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
118 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
119 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
120 fewer system calls.
121
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122- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
123 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
124 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
125 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
126 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
127 Christof Chen.
128
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129- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
130 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
131 and in normal state.
132
133- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
134 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
135
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136- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
137
138- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
139 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
140 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
141
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142- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
143 rather than restarting the listener.
144
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145- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
146 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
147
148- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
149 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
150 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
151
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152- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
153 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
154 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
155 timeouts).
156
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157- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
158 in failover state records.
159
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160! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
161 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
162 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 163 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
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165- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
166 processing a DHCPINFORM.
167
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168- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
169 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
170 last option definition is used.
171
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172- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
173 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
174 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
175
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176- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
177 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
178
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179- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
180 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
181 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
182 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
183 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
184 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
185
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186- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
187 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
188 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
189 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
190
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191- Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
192 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'.
193
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194- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
195 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
196
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199- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
200 be recognized.
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202 Changes since 4.1.0a2
203
204- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
205 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
206 "abandoned".
207
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208- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
209
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210- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
211 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
212
213- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
214 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
215
216- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 217 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
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219- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
220
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221- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
222 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
223 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
224 in future releases.
225
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226- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
227 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
228
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229- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
230 'dhclient -6' support.
231
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232- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
233 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
234 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
235 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
236
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238
239- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
240
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241- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
242
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243- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
244 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
245 only the latter. Fixed.
246
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247- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
248
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249- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
250 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
251
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252- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
253
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254- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
255
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256- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
257 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
258 --enable-early-chroot.
259
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260- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
261 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
262
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263- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
264 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
265 parameter.
266
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267- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
268 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
269
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270- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
271 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
272
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273- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
274
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275- Merged IA_XX related structures.
276
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277- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
278
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279- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
280
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281- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
282 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
283 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
284
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285- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
286 support.
287
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288- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
289 repaired.
290
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291- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
292
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293- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
294
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295- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
296 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
297
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298- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
299 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
300
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301- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
302 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
303
304- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
305 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
306 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
307 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
308 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
309 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
310 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
311 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
312 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
313 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
314 shared-network.
315
316- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
317 configured option values.
318
319- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
320 support class statements.
321
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322- Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
323 selection were repaired.
324
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325- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
326 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
327 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
328 by the OS.
329
330- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
331 address.
332
333- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
334 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
335
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336- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
337
338- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
339
340- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
341 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
342
01a54c17 343 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
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345- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
346
4cafb815 347- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 348 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
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350- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
351 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
352 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
353
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354- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
355 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
356
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357- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
358
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359- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
360 reserved IDs avoided).
361
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362- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
363
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364- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
365 carries a rapid-commit option.
366
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367- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
368 an empty active lease.
369
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370- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
371
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372- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
373 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
374 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
375 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
376
377- MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
378
379- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
380 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
381 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
382 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
383 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
384 Christof Chen.
385
386 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
387
388- DHCP now builds on AIX.
389
390- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
391 config file but -6 is not specified.
392
393- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
394
395- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
396 be more helpful.
397
398- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
399 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
400 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
401
402- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
403 was repaired.
404
405- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
406 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
407 been repaired.
408
409- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
410 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
411 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
412
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413- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
414 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
415
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416- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
417 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
418 IPv4 address.
419
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420- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
421 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
422 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
423 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
424 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
425
426- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
427 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
428 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
429
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430- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
431
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432- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
433
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434- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
435 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
436 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
437 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
438 unnecessary logging.
439
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440- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
441 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
442
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443- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
444 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
445 is incompatible is printed.
446
447- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
448 a previously undefined option code.
449
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450- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
451 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
452
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453- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
454 than the year 2000.
455
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456- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
457
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458- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
459
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460- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
461
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462 Changes since 4.0.0b3
463
464- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
465 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
466 configuration.
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468- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
469 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
470
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471- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
472 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
473 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
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475- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
476 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
477 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
478 a requested address.
479
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480- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
481 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
482 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
483 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
484
485- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
486 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
487 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
488 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
489
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490- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
491 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
492 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
493
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494- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
495 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
496
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497- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
498
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499- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
500 codes through some conditions.
501
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502- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
503 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
504
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505- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
506 seemingly random values.
507
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508- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
509
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510- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
511 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
512 one ever has.
513
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514- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
515 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
516 to a REQUEST.
517
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518- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
519 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
520 level.
521
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522 Changes since 4.0.0b2
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524- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
525
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526- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
527 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
528 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
529 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
530 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
531
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532- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
533 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
534 new address.
535
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536 Changes since 4.0.0b1
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538- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
539 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
540 simultaneously on a single interface.
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542- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
543 of service under unusual server configurations
544
545- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
546
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547- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
548 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
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550- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
551 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
552 on every pool rebalance run.
553
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554- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
555 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
556
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557- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
558 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
559
ab3a540f 560 Changes since 4.0.0a3
763cba6b 561
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562- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
563 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
564
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565- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
566 point out the problem.
567
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568- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
569 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
570 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
571
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572- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
573 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
574
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575- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
576 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
577 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
578
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579- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
580
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581- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
582 fixed by Marcus Goller.
583
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584- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
585 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
586 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
587 regardless of the existence of bindings.
588
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589- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
590
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591- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
592 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
593 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
594 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
595 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
596
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597- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
598
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599 Changes since 4.0.0a2
600
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601- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
602 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
603
763cba6b 604- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
e889ded1 605
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606- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
607 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
608 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
609
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610- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
611
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612- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
613 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
614
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615- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
616 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
617 loaded from persistent storage.
618
45d545f0 619- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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620 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
621 necessary.
622
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623- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
624 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
625 rapid-commit option.
626
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627- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
628 non-128-bits in length were removed.
629
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630 Changes since 4.0.0a1
631
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632- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
633 and fix.
634
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635- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
636
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637- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
638
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639- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
640 for when loading configuration.
641
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642- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
643 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
644 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
645
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646- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
647 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
648 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
649 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
650
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651- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
652
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653- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
654 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 655
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656- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
657
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658- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
659
660- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
661 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
662
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663- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
664 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
665
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666- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
667
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668- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
669 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
670
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671 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
672
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673- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
674
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675- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
676 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
677
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678- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
679
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680- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
681 initialized.
682
683- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
684
685- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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686 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
687
688- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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690- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
691
692- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
693 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
694
695- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
696
8ea19a71 697- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 698 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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699
700- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
701 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
702
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703- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
704
705- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
706
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707- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
708
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709 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
710
711- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
712 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
713 no support currently for both.
714
715- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
716 IAADDR option.
717
718- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
719 options.
720
721- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
722
723- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
724 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
725
726- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
727 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
728 specifying type 1 or type 2).
729
730- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
731 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
732
733- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
734 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
735 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
736 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
737 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
738 differently, they both use the same code here).
739
740- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
741 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
742 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
743
744- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
745
746- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
747 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
748 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
749 it should not intercept.
750
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751 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
752
753- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
754 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
755 between primary and secondary.
756
757- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
758 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
759 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
760
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761- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
762
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763- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
764 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
765 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
766 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
767 or REQUEST messages.
768
769- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
770 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
771
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772- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
773
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774 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
775
776- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
777 failover protected subnets was removed.
778
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779 Changes since 3.1.0b2
780
781- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
782 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
783 odd number of leases).
784
785- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
786 rebalance run, and one after.
787
788- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
789 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
790 processing these messages.
791
fe5b0fdd 792 Changes since 3.1.0b1
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794- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
795 objects.
796
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797- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
798 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
799 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
800 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
801 at Allianz.
802
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803- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
804 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
805
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806- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
807 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
808
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809- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
810 caused the server to abort.
811
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812- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
813 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
814 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
815
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816- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
817 by empty spaces would not get included.
818
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819- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
820 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
821
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822- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
823 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
824
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825- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
826 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
827
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828- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
829 on the parameter request list.
830
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831 Changes since 3.1.0a3
832
833- Some spelling fixes.
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835 Changes since 3.1.0a2
836
837- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
838 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
839
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840- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
841 domain-search option syntax.
842
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843 Changes since 3.1.0a1
844
845- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
846 hash table was repaired.
847
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848- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
849 entering normal state.
850
851- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
852 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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853 'xid mismatch' log messages.
854
855- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
856 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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858- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
859 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
860 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
861 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
862
45d545f0 863- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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864 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
865 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
866 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
867 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
868 to their needs.
869
870- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
871 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
872 run will attempt balance.
873
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874- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
875
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876 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
877
878- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
879 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
880 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
881 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
882
98bd7ca0 883- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 884 was introduced.
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885
886- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
887 via OMAPI.
888
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889- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
890 the protocol draft.
891
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892- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
893 one does not already exist on the system.
894
b43c87ad 895- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 896
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897- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
898 matches RFC 3074.
899
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900- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
901 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 902 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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904- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
905 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 906 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
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908- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
909 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
910 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
911 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
912
913- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
914 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
915 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
916 priority over the client's parameter request list.
917
f7fdb216 918- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 919 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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920 DHCPv6 support.
921
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922- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
923 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
924 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
925
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926- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
927 have been incorporated.
928
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929- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
930 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
931 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
932 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
933 that belong to the peer in need.
934
935- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
936 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
937
938- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
939 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
940 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
941
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942- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
943 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
944
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945- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
946 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
947 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
948 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
949 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
950
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951- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
952 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
953 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
954 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
955
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956- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
957 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
958 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
959 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
960 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
961 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
962 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
963 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
964 ignoring this aspect of their request.
965
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966- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
967 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
968
41e45067 969- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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970 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
971 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
972 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
973
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974- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
975 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
976 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
977 hardware and funding the development.
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979- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
980 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
981 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
982 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
983 via Robin Breathe.
984
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985- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
986 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
987 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
988 from Christof Chen.
989
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990- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
991 formally supported.
992
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993 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
994
995- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
996 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
997
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998 Changes since 3.0.5
999
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1000- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
1001 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
1002 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 1003 they actually received.
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1004
1005- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
1006
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1007- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
1008 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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1009 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
1010 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
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1012- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
1013
d69fb6a8 1014- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 1015 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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1017- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
1018 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
1019 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
1020 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
1021 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
1022 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
1023 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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1024 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
1025
1026- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
1027 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
1028 'file' field.
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1030- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
1031 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
1032
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1033- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
1034 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
1035 a patch from Kevin Steves.
1036
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1037- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
1038 from Chris Wagner.
1039
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1040- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
1041 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
1042 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
1043
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1044- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
1045 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
1046 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
1047 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
1048 was set.
1049
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1050- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
1051 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
1052
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1053- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
1054 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
1055 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
1056 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
1057 active ones.
1058
02428754 1059 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
0a73b7b6 1060
901306d5 1061- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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1062 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
1063 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
1064 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
1065 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
1066
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1067- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
1068 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
1069
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1070 Changes since 3.0.4
1071
1072- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
1073 scopes are actually global has been added.
1074
1075- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
1076 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
1077 known to be damaging.
1078
1079- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
1080 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
1081 balancing).
1082
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1083- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
1084 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
1085 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
1086
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1087- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
1088 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
1089 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
1090
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1091- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
1092 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
1093 more clear now.
1094
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1095- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
1096 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
1097 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
1098 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
1099 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 1100 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
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1102- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
1103 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
1104
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1105- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
1106 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
1107 made possible.
1108
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1109- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
1110 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
1111 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
1112
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1113- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
1114 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
1115
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1116- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
1117 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
1118 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
1119
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1120- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
1121 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
1122 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
1123 value with the later configured value).
1124
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1125- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
1126 have been named and documented.
1127
1128- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
1129 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
1130 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
1131 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
1132 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
1133 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
1134 write new output.
1135
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1136 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
1137
1138- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
1139 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
1140
1141 Changes since 3.0.4b3
1142
1143- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
1144 mailing list.
1145
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1146 Changes since 3.0.4b2
1147
45d545f0 1148- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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1149 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
1150
1151- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
1152 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
1153
1154- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
1155 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
1156 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
1157 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
1158
1159- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
1160 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
1161 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
1162 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
1163 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
1164 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
1165 transition (properly).
1166
1167- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
1168
1169 Changes since 3.0.4b1
1170
1171- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
1172 STDIN after reading one line.
1173
1174- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
1175 descriptor it opened twice.
1176
1177- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
1178 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
1179 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
1180
1181 Changes since 3.0.3
1182
1183- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
1184 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
1185 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
1186
1187- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
1188 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
1189 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
1190
1191- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
1192 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 1193 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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1194 leases to allocate.
1195
1196- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 1197 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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1198 than the entire block of them.
1199
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1200! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
1201 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
1202 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
1203 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
1204 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
1205 to a patch from infamous42md.
1206
1207! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
1208 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
1209 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
1210 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
1211 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
1212 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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1213
1214- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
1215 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
1216 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
1217
1218- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 1219 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1220
1221- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
1222 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
1223 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
1224 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
1225 transitional states.
1226
1227- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
1228 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
1229 once it detects the old db does not exist.
1230
1231- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
1232 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
1233 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
1234
1235- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 1236 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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1237
1238- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
1239 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
1240
1241- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
1242 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
1243 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
1244
1245- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
1246 patch from 'infamous42md'.
1247
1248- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
1249 repaired.
1250
1251- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
1252 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
1253 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
1254 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
1255
1256- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
1257 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
1258 data.
1259
1260- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
1261 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
1262 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
1263 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
1264 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
1265
1266- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
1267 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
1268 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
1269 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
1270 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
1271
1272- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
1273 has been repaired.
1274
1275- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
1276 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
1277 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
1278 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 1279 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1280
1281- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 1282 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
88cd8aca 1283
45d545f0 1284- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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1285 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
1286 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
1287 move to 3.[01].x.
1288
1289- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
1290 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
1291
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1292 Changes since 3.0.3b3
1293
1294- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
1295 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
1296
1297- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
1298 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
1299 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
1300 workaround.
1301
1302 Changes since 3.0.3b2
1303
1304- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
1305 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
1306
1307 Changes since 3.0.3b1
1308
1309- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
1310 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
1311 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
1312
1313- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
1314 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
1315 dynamic updates were also retouched.
1316
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1317 Changes since 3.0.2
1318
1319- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 1320 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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1321 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
1322
1323- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
1324 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
1325 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
1326 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
1327 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
1328
1329- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
1330 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 1331 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1332
1333- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
1334 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 1335 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1336
1337- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
1338 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
1339 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
1340 Peter Poeml.
1341
1342- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
1343 Dr. Peter Poeml.
1344
1345- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
1346 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
1347 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
1348 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
1349 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
1350 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
1351
1352- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
1353 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
1354 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
1355 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
1356
1357- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
1358 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
1359 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
1360 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
1361
1362- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
1363 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
1364
1365- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
1366 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
1367 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
1368
1369- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
1370 7 bytes, and failover.
1371
1372- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
1373 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 1374 at Red Hat.
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1375
1376- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
1377 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
1378 should work better.
1379
1380- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
1381 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
1382 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
1383
1384- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
1385 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
1386 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
1387
1388 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
1389
1390- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
1391 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
1392
1393 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
1394
45d545f0 1395- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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1396 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
1397 overloading. This was repaired.
1398
1399- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
1400 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
1401 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
1402 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
1403 three chunks to fit.
1404
1405- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
1406 were repaired.
1407
1408- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
1409 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
1410 leak).
1411
1412 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
1413
1414- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
1415 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
1416
1417 Changes since 3.0.2b1
1418
1419- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
1420
1421 Changes since 3.0.1
1422
1423- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
1424 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
1425 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
1426
1427- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
1428 name was not provided by the server.
1429
1430- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
1431 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
1432
1433- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
1434 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
1435
1436- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
1437 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
1438
1439- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
1440
1441- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
1442
1443- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
1444 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
1445 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
1446 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
1447 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
1448
1449- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
1450 the configuration be globally scoped.
1451
1452- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
1453 Farkas.
1454
1455- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
1456 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1457
1458- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
1459 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
1460
1461- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
1462 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
1463
1464- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
1465 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
1466 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
1467 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
1468
1469- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
1470 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
1471 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
1472 respond to POOLREQ messages.
1473
1474- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
1475 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
1476 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
1477
1478- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
1479
1480- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
1481 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
1482 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
1483
1484- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
1485 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
1486 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
1487 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
1488 Fjone and directconnect.no.
1489
1490- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
1491 to Andreas Gustafsson.
1492
1493- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
1494 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
1495
1496- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
1497 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
1498 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
1499 DISCOVER timeout handling.
1500
1501- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
1502 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
1503
1504- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
1505 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
1506 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
1507
1508- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
1509 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
1510 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
1511 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
1512 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
1513 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
1514
1515- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
1516 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
1517 Infoblox.
1518
1519- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
1520
1521- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
1522 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
1523 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
1524 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
1525 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
1526 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
1527 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
1528
1529- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
1530 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
1531 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
1532
1533- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
1534 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
1535 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
1536
1537- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
1538
1539 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
1540
1541- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
1542 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
1543 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
1544 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
1545 systems either.
1546
1547- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
1548
1549- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
1550 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
1551 is false.
1552
1553- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
1554 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
1555
1556- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
1557
1558 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
1559
1560! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
1561 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
1562 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
1563 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
1564 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
1565 both finding and solving the problem.
1566
1567! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
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1569 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
1570 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
1571 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
1572 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
1573 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
1574 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
1575 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
1576 published version of ISC DHCP.
1577
1578- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
1579
1580- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
1581
1582 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
1583
1584- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
1585 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
1586 Richard Hirst.
1587
1588- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
1589 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
1590 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
1591
1592- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
1593
1594- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
1595 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
1596 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
1597 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
1598
1599- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 1600 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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1601
1602- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
1603 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
1604
1605- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
1606
1607 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
1608
1609- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
1610 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
1611
1612- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
1613 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
1614 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
1615
1616- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
1617 by name was fixed.
1618
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1620 longer result in error.
1621
1622- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
1623
1624- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
1625 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
1626 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
1627
1628- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
1629 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
1630
1631- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
1632 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
1633 Blapp.
1634
1635- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
1636 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
1637 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
1638 Martin Blapp.
1639
1640- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
1641 expiry times in failover configurations.
1642
1643- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
1644 Steve G.
1645
1646- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
1647 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
1648
1649- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
1650 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
1651 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
1652 now "unknown-144".
1653
1654- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
1655 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
1656
1657 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
1658
1659- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
1660
1661- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
1662 not be bash.
1663
1664- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1665
1666- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
1667 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
1668 that errored before will now work properly.
1669
1670- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
1671 names was repaired.
1672
1673- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
1674 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
1675 configuration file.
1676
1677- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
1678 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1679
1680- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
1681 error rather than a null dereference.
1682
1683 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
1684
1685- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
1686
1687- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
1688
1689- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
1690 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
1691
1692- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
1693
1694- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
1695
1696- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
1697 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
1698 self-corrupting lease databases.
1699
1700- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
1701
1702- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
1703 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
1704
1705- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
1706
1707- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
1708
1709- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
1710 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
1711 Ling Gou.
1712
1713- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
1714 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1715
1716- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
1717 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
1718 Ted Lemon for the patch.
1719
1720- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
1721 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
1722
1723 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
1724
1725- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
1726 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
1727
1728- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
1729
1730- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
1731 a memory leak.
1732
1733- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
1734 script.
1735
1736- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
1737
1738- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
1739
1740- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
1741
1742- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
1743
1744- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
1745
1746- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
1747
1748- Increment the hop count when relaying.
1749
1750- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
1751
1752- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
1753
1754- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
1755
1756- Change the type of rbuf_max.
1757
1758- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
1759
1760 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
1761
1762- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
1763 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
1764 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
1765
1766 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
1767
1768- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
1769 to be renewed.
1770
1771- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
1772 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
1773
1774- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
1775 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
1776
1777- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
1778 that two permit lists matched.
1779
1780- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
1781 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
1782
1783- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
1784
1785- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
1786 requested it, contrary to the standard.
1787
1788- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
1789
1790- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
1791
1792- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
1793 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
1794 going to update its A record.
1795
1796- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
1797 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
1798 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
1799 DNS server.
1800
1801- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
1802
1803- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
1804
1805- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
1806 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
1807 NetBSD project).
1808
1809- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
1810 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
1811
1812- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
1813 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
1814
1815- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
1816
1817- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
1818
1819- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
1820 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
1821 failover protocol standard.
1822
1823- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
1824 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
1825 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
1826
1827- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
1828 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
1829 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
1830 do so.
1831
1832- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
1833
1834 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
1835
1836- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
1837
1838- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
1839 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
1840
1841- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
1842 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
1843
1844- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
1845 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
1846 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
1847
1848- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
1849 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
1850 network, merge the two pools.
1851
1852- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
1853 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
1854 fix this bug.
1855
1856 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
1857
1858- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
1859 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
1860
1861- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
1862 the same case.
1863
1864- Additional documentation.
1865
1866- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
1867 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
1868
1869 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
1870
1871- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
1872- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
1873
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1875
1876- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
1877 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
1878 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
1879 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
1880 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
1881
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1883
1884- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
1885 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
1886 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
1887 wasn't the one that removed it.
1888
1889- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
1890 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
1891 were not configured.
1892
1893- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
1894
1895- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
1896 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
1897 routing information.
1898
1899- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
1900 request being sent.
1901
1902- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
1903 done.
1904
1905- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
1906 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
1907 were pending.
1908
1909- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
1910 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
1911 problems with failover.
1912
1913- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
1914 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
1915 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
1916
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1918
1919- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
1920 smash in the subclass allocation code.
1921
1922- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
1923 no object is open, it dumps core.
1924
1925- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
1926
1927- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
1928
1929- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
1930
1931- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
1932 a host object attribute with a null value.
1933
1934 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
1935
1936- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
1937
1938- Fix an obscure core dump.
1939
1940- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
1941 when crucial information is left out.
1942
1943- Log "no free leases" as an error.
1944
1945- Documentation updates.
1946
1947 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
1948
1949- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
1950
1951- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
1952 structure wasn't zeroed.
1953
1954- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
1955 incorrectly.
1956
1957- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
1958 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
1959 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
1960 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
1961 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
1962 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
1963 restarted.
1964
1965 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
1966
1967- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
1968 in failover-enabled pools.
1969
1970- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
1971 declarations).
1972
1973- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
1974 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
1975
1976- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
1977 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
1978
1979- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
1980
1981- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
1982 defined but not referenced by any pools.
1983
1984- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
1985
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1987
1988- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
1989
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1991
1992- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
1993
1994- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
1995
1996- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
1997
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1999
2000- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
2001 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
2002 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
2003
2004- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
2005 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
2006 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
2007 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
2008 string.
2009
2010- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
2011
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2013
2014- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
2015 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
2016
2017- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
2018 malformed packets.
2019
2020- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
2021
2022- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
2023 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
2024 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
2025
2026- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
2027
2028- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
2029
2030- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
2031
2032- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
2033 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
2034
2035- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
2036 tcp connections from being played back.
2037
2038- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
2039 on exit.
2040
2041- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
2042
2043- Add some configurability to the build system.
2044
2045- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
2046
2047- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
2048 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
2049 hadn't been noticed until now.
2050
2051 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
2052
2053- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
2054 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
2055
2056- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
2057 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
2058 conformant, but also didn't work).
2059
2060- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
2061 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
2062
2063- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
2064 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
2065
2066- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
2067 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
2068
2069- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
2070 variables to leases via OMAPI.
2071
2072- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
2073 doing failover.
2074
2075- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
2076 running on alpha processors.
2077
2078- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
2079 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
2080
2081- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
2082
2083- Install omshell (including new documentation).
2084
2085- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
2086 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
2087
2088- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
2089
2090- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
2091 actually named (key names are domain names).
2092
2093- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
2094
2095- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
2096 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
2097
2098- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
2099 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
2100
2101- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
2102 statements.
2103
2104- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
2105 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
2106
2107- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
2108 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
2109 operating.
2110
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2112
2113- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
2114 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
2115 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
2116 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
2117
2118- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
2119 using omapi to manipulate leases.
2120
2121- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
2122
2123
2124 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
2125
2126- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
2127 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
2128
2129- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
2130 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
2131 to the chain.
2132
2133- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
2134
2135- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
2136
2137- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
2138
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2141
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2144- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
2145
2146 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
2147
2148- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
2149 DHCPDECLINE.
2150
2151- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
2152
2153- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
2154 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
2155 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
2156
2157- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
2158
2159- Documentation fixes.
2160
2161- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
2162 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
2163
2164- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
2165 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
2166
2167- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
2168
2169- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
2170
2171- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
2172 case-insensitive.
2173
2174- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
2175
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2178 consistently.
2179
2180- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
2181 systems with the probe not working correctly.
2182
2183- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
2184
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2186
2187- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
2188 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
2189 result of duplicate leases.
2190
2191- Document OMAPI server objects.
2192
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2194
2195- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
2196 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
2197
2198- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
2199 core dumps.
2200
2201- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
2202 Friedrich.
2203
2204- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
2205
2206 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
2207
2208- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
2209 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
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2212
2213- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
2214 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
2215
2216- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
2217 trace file.
2218
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2221- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
2222 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
2223 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
2224 e.g., Digital Unix.
2225
2226- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
2227 when no error had occurred.
2228
2229- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
2230 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
2231 non-communicating state.
2232
2233- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
2234
2235- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
2236 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
2237 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
2238
2239- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
2240 when the client lease expired.
2241
2242- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
2243 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
2244 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
2245 in testing.
2246
2247- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
2248 the command line, it would fail.
2249
2250- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
2251 user impact).
2252
2253- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
2254
2255- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
2256 they're executable.
2257
2258 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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2260- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
2261 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
2262 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
2263 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
2264
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2266 Transmeta.
2267
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2269 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
2270 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
2271 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
2272
2273- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
2274 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
2275
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2277
2278- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
2279 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
2280
2281- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
2282
2283- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
2284
2285- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
2286
2287- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
2288
2289- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
2290
2291- Update some parts of the README file.
2292
2293- Support GCC on SCO.
2294
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2297- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
2298 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
2299
2300- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
2301 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
2302 unbill the old class.
2303
2304- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
2305 process the state transition immediately.
2306
2307- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
2308 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
2309
2310- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
2311
2312- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
2313
2314- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
2315
2316- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
2317
2318- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
2319 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
2320 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
2321
2322- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
2323 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
2324
2325- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
2326 lease file.
2327
2328- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
2329
2330- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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2334- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
2335 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
2336
2337- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
2338
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2340
2341- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
2342
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2344
2345- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
2346
2347- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
2348 pl19.
2349
2350- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
2351 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
2352 past the regression test.
2353
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2355
2356- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
2357 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
2358
2359- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
2360 DHCPREQUEST.
2361
2362- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
2363
2364- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
2365
2366- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
2367
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2370- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
2371 (Damien Neil)
2372
2373- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
2374 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
2375
2376- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
2377 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
2378 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
2379
2380- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
2381 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
2382 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
2383 message.
2384
2385- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
2386 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
2387 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
2388
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2390 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
2391 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
2392 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
2393 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
2394 this way will work.
2395
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2396- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
2397
2398- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
2399 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
2400 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
2401 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
2402
2403 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
2404
2405 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
2406
2407- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
2408 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
2409 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
2410
2411- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
2412 Hermann Lauer.
2413
2414- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
2415 messages.
2416
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2417- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
2418 it contained quoted strings.
2419
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2420 ** there was no pl17 **
2421
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2424- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
2425 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
2426 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
2427 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
2428 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
2429 tracking down memory leaks.
2430
2431- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
2432 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
2433 Solaris.
2434
2435- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
2436 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
2437 corruption and core dumps.
2438
2439- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
2440 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
2441
2442- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
2443
2444- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
2445 and implemented by Damien Neil.
2446
2447- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
2448 name and version to standard output.
2449
2450- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
2451
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2452- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
2453 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
2454
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2455- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
2456
2457- Lots of documentation updates.
2458
2459- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
2460 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
2461
2462- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
2463
2464- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
2465 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
2466
2467
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2469
2470- Some documentation tweaks.
2471
2472- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
2473
2474- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
2475
2476- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
2477 agent options into them.
2478
2479- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
2480
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2481- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
2482 options.
2483
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2485
2486- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
2487 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
2488 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
2489 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
2490 used in class statements to control address allocation.
2491
2492- Fix up documentation.
2493
2494- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
2495 significantly in a high-demand situation.
2496
2497- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
2498
2499- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
2500
2501- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
2502 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
2503 practical use otherwise.
2504
2505- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
2506 for debugging.
2507
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2509
2510- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
2511 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
2512 dump on some systems.
2513
2514- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
2515 option.
2516
2517- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
2518 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
2519
2520- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
2521 that were not printing enough information.
2522
2523- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
2524 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
2525
2526- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
2527 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
2528 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
2529 were answering.
2530
2531- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
2532 the transition.
2533
2534
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2536
2537- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
2538
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2539 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
2540
2541- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
2542 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
2543 representation from working correctly.
2544
2545- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
2546 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
2547 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
2548 could spin.
2549
2550- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
2551 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
2552
2553- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
2554 interface name on the command line.
2555
2556- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
2557 client state.
2558
2559- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
2560 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
2561 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
2562 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
2563 added by Ted Lemon.
2564
2565- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
2566 be made to log debugging information and other information.
2567
2568- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
2569 end option.
2570
2571- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
2572 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
2573 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
2574
2575- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
2576 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
2577 face of a null hardware address on input.
2578
2579- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
2580 specified unqualified.
2581
2582- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
2583 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
2584
2585- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
2586 RFC.
2587
2588- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
2589
2590- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
2591
2592- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
2593 it works.
2594
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2595 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
2596
2597- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
2598 to CVS.
2599
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2600 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
2601
2602- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
2603
2604- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
2605 in patchlevel 9.
2606
2607- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
2608 options at renewal time.
2609
2610- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
2611 configuration language.
2612
2613- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
2614
2615- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
2616 done when no client hostname was received.
2617
2618- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
2619
2620- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
2621 the DHCP option space.
2622
2623- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
2624
2625- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
2626 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
2627
2628- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
2629 silently dropped.
2630
2631- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
2632 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
2633
2634- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
2635 will be correctly updated.
2636
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2637 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
2638
2639- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
2640 bounds-checking.
2641
2642 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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2643
2644- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
2645
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2648- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
2649 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
2650 possible to exploit it any further than that.
2651
2652- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
2653 option.
2654
2655- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
2656 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
2657 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
2658 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
2659 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
2660 meaningfully.
2661
2662- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
2663 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
2664 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
2665
2666- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
2667 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
2668 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
2669 this one down!
2670
2671- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
2672 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
2673 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
2674 down and fixing this problem.
2675
2676 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
2677
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2678- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
2679 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
2680
2681- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
2682 environment.
2683
2684- Fix suffix operator.
2685
2686- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
2687
2688- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
2689 connection code.
2690
2691- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
2692
2693- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
2694
2695- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
2696 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
2697
2698- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
2699
2700- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
2701
2702- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
2703 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
2704
2705- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
2706 spawn with.
2707
2708- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
2709 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
2710
2711- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
2712 for OMAPI.
2713
2714- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
2715 can install in host declarations.
2716
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2717 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
2718
2719- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
2720 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
2721 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
2722 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
2723 comments)!
2724
2725- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
2726
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2727- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
2728 request for help on this with patches!
2729
2730- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
2731 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
2732 lost, they never reconnect.
2733
2734- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
2735 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
2736
2737- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
2738 dump.
2739
2740- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
2741 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
2742 catching this one.
2743
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2744 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
2745
2746- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
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2748 lease renewal time.
2749
2750- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
2751 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
2752 declared without a key.
2753
2754- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
2755
2756- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
2757 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
2758
2759- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
2760 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
2761 determine the maximum size of the response.
2762
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2764
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2765- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
2766 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
2767
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2768- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
2769 RENEWING client.
2770
2771- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
2772
2773- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
2774 using memcmp().
2775
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2776 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
2777
2778- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
2779 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
2780 pointing this out.
2781
2782- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
2783 exit.
2784
2785- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
2786
2787- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
2788 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.