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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 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
70
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71- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
72
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73- Validate the argument to the -p option.
74
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75- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
76 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
77 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
78 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
79 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
80
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81- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
82
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83- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
84 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
85 had been deleted from configuration.
86
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87- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
88 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
89 AC_USE_SYSTME_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
90 were being ignored.
91
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92- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
93
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94- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
95 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
96 Nordahl.
97
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98- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
99 dhcpv6 disabled.
100
8d7dca58 101- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 102 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
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104- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
105 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
106
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107- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
108 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
109 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
110
111- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
112 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
113 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
114 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
115 fewer system calls.
116
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117- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
118 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
119 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
120 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
121 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
122 Christof Chen.
123
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124- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
125 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
126 and in normal state.
127
128- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
129 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
130
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131- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
132
133- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
134 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
135 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
136
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137- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
138 rather than restarting the listener.
139
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140- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
141 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
142
143- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
144 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
145 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
146
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147- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
148 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
149 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
150 timeouts).
151
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152- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
153 in failover state records.
154
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155! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
156 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
157 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 158 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
8a4e543b 159
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160- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
161 processing a DHCPINFORM.
162
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163- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
164 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
165 last option definition is used.
166
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167- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
168 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
169 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
170
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171- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
172 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
173
adbef119 174 Changes since 4.1.0b1
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176- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
177 be recognized.
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179 Changes since 4.1.0a2
180
181- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
182 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
183 "abandoned".
184
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185- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
186
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187- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
188 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
189
190- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
191 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
192
193- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 194 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
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196- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
197
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198- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
199 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
200 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
201 in future releases.
202
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203- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
204 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
205
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206- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
207 'dhclient -6' support.
208
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209- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
210 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
211 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
212 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
213
7d6180be 214 Changes since 4.1.0a1
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216- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
217
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218- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
219
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220- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
221 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
222 only the latter. Fixed.
223
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224- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
225
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226- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
227 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
228
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229- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
230
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231- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
232
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233- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
234 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
235 --enable-early-chroot.
236
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237- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
238 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
239
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240- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
241 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
242 parameter.
243
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244- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
245 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
246
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247- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
248 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
249
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250- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
251
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252- Merged IA_XX related structures.
253
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254- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
255
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256- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
257
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258- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
259 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
260 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
261
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262- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
263 support.
264
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265- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
266 repaired.
267
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268- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
269
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270- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
271
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272- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
273 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
274
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275- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
276 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
277
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278- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
279 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
280
281- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
282 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
283 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
284 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
285 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
286 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
287 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
288 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
289 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
290 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
291 shared-network.
292
293- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
294 configured option values.
295
296- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
297 support class statements.
298
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299- Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
300 selection were repaired.
301
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302- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
303 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
304 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
305 by the OS.
306
307- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
308 address.
309
310- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
311 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
312
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313- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
314
315- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
316
317- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
318 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
319
01a54c17 320 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
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322- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
323
4cafb815 324- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 325 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
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327- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
328 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
329 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
330
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331- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
332 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
333
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334- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
335
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336- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
337 reserved IDs avoided).
338
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339- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
340
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341- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
342 carries a rapid-commit option.
343
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344- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
345 an empty active lease.
346
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347- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
348
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349- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
350 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
351 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
352 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
353
354- MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
355
356- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
357 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
358 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
359 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
360 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
361 Christof Chen.
362
363 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
364
365- DHCP now builds on AIX.
366
367- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
368 config file but -6 is not specified.
369
370- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
371
372- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
373 be more helpful.
374
375- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
376 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
377 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
378
379- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
380 was repaired.
381
382- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
383 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
384 been repaired.
385
386- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
387 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
388 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
389
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390- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
391 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
392
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393- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
394 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
395 IPv4 address.
396
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397- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
398 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
399 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
400 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
401 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
402
403- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
404 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
405 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
406
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407- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
408
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409- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
410
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411- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
412 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
413 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
414 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
415 unnecessary logging.
416
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417- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
418 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
419
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420- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
421 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
422 is incompatible is printed.
423
424- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
425 a previously undefined option code.
426
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427- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
428 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
429
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430- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
431 than the year 2000.
432
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433- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
434
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435- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
436
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437- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
438
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439 Changes since 4.0.0b3
440
441- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
442 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
443 configuration.
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445- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
446 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
447
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448- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
449 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
450 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
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452- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
453 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
454 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
455 a requested address.
456
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457- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
458 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
459 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
460 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
461
462- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
463 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
464 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
465 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
466
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467- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
468 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
469 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
470
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471- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
472 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
473
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474- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
475
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476- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
477 codes through some conditions.
478
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479- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
480 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
481
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482- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
483 seemingly random values.
484
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485- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
486
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487- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
488 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
489 one ever has.
490
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491- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
492 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
493 to a REQUEST.
494
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495- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
496 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
497 level.
498
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499 Changes since 4.0.0b2
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501- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
502
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503- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
504 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
505 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
506 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
507 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
508
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509- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
510 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
511 new address.
512
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513 Changes since 4.0.0b1
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515- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
516 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
517 simultaneously on a single interface.
518
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519- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
520 of service under unusual server configurations
521
522- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
523
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524- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
525 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
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527- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
528 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
529 on every pool rebalance run.
530
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531- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
532 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
533
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534- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
535 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
536
ab3a540f 537 Changes since 4.0.0a3
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539- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
540 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
541
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542- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
543 point out the problem.
544
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545- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
546 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
547 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
548
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549- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
550 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
551
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552- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
553 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
554 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
555
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556- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
557
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558- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
559 fixed by Marcus Goller.
560
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561- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
562 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
563 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
564 regardless of the existence of bindings.
565
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566- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
567
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568- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
569 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
570 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
571 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
572 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
573
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574- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
575
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576 Changes since 4.0.0a2
577
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578- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
579 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
580
763cba6b 581- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
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583- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
584 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
585 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
586
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587- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
588
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589- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
590 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
591
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592- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
593 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
594 loaded from persistent storage.
595
45d545f0 596- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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597 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
598 necessary.
599
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600- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
601 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
602 rapid-commit option.
603
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604- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
605 non-128-bits in length were removed.
606
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607 Changes since 4.0.0a1
608
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609- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
610 and fix.
611
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612- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
613
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614- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
615
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616- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
617 for when loading configuration.
618
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619- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
620 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
621 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
622
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623- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
624 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
625 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
626 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
627
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628- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
629
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630- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
631 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
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633- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
634
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635- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
636
637- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
638 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
639
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640- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
641 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
642
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643- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
644
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645- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
646 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
647
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648 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
649
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650- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
651
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652- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
653 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
654
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655- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
656
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657- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
658 initialized.
659
660- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
661
662- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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663 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
664
665- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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667- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
668
669- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
670 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
671
672- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
673
8ea19a71 674- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 675 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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676
677- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
678 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
679
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680- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
681
682- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
683
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684- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
685
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686 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
687
688- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
689 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
690 no support currently for both.
691
692- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
693 IAADDR option.
694
695- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
696 options.
697
698- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
699
700- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
701 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
702
703- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
704 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
705 specifying type 1 or type 2).
706
707- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
708 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
709
710- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
711 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
712 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
713 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
714 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
715 differently, they both use the same code here).
716
717- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
718 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
719 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
720
721- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
722
723- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
724 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
725 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
726 it should not intercept.
727
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728 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
729
730- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
731 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
732 between primary and secondary.
733
734- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
735 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
736 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
737
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738- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
739
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740- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
741 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
742 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
743 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
744 or REQUEST messages.
745
746- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
747 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
748
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749- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
750
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751 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
752
753- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
754 failover protected subnets was removed.
755
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756 Changes since 3.1.0b2
757
758- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
759 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
760 odd number of leases).
761
762- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
763 rebalance run, and one after.
764
765- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
766 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
767 processing these messages.
768
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771- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
772 objects.
773
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774- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
775 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
776 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
777 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
778 at Allianz.
779
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780- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
781 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
782
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783- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
784 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
785
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786- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
787 caused the server to abort.
788
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789- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
790 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
791 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
792
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793- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
794 by empty spaces would not get included.
795
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796- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
797 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
798
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799- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
800 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
801
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802- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
803 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
804
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805- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
806 on the parameter request list.
807
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808 Changes since 3.1.0a3
809
810- Some spelling fixes.
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812 Changes since 3.1.0a2
813
814- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
815 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
816
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817- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
818 domain-search option syntax.
819
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820 Changes since 3.1.0a1
821
822- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
823 hash table was repaired.
824
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825- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
826 entering normal state.
827
828- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
829 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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830 'xid mismatch' log messages.
831
832- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
833 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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835- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
836 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
837 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
838 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
839
45d545f0 840- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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841 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
842 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
843 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
844 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
845 to their needs.
846
847- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
848 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
849 run will attempt balance.
850
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851- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
852
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853 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
854
855- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
856 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
857 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
858 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
859
98bd7ca0 860- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 861 was introduced.
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862
863- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
864 via OMAPI.
865
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866- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
867 the protocol draft.
868
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869- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
870 one does not already exist on the system.
871
b43c87ad 872- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
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874- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
875 matches RFC 3074.
876
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877- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
878 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 879 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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881- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
882 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 883 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
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885- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
886 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
887 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
888 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
889
890- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
891 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
892 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
893 priority over the client's parameter request list.
894
f7fdb216 895- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 896 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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897 DHCPv6 support.
898
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899- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
900 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
901 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
902
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903- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
904 have been incorporated.
905
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906- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
907 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
908 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
909 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
910 that belong to the peer in need.
911
912- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
913 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
914
915- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
916 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
917 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
918
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919- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
920 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
921
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922- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
923 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
924 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
925 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
926 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
927
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928- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
929 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
930 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
931 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
932
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933- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
934 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
935 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
936 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
937 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
938 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
939 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
940 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
941 ignoring this aspect of their request.
942
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943- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
944 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
945
41e45067 946- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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947 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
948 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
949 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
950
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951- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
952 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
953 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
954 hardware and funding the development.
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956- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
957 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
958 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
959 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
960 via Robin Breathe.
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962- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
963 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
964 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
965 from Christof Chen.
966
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967- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
968 formally supported.
969
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970 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
971
972- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
973 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
974
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975 Changes since 3.0.5
976
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977- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
978 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
979 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 980 they actually received.
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981
982- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
983
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984- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
985 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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986 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
987 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
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989- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
990
d69fb6a8 991- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 992 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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994- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
995 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
996 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
997 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
998 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
999 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
1000 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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1001 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
1002
1003- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
1004 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
1005 'file' field.
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1007- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
1008 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
1009
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1010- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
1011 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
1012 a patch from Kevin Steves.
1013
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1014- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
1015 from Chris Wagner.
1016
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1017- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
1018 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
1019 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
1020
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1021- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
1022 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
1023 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
1024 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
1025 was set.
1026
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1027- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
1028 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
1029
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1030- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
1031 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
1032 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
1033 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
1034 active ones.
1035
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901306d5 1038- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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1039 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
1040 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
1041 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
1042 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
1043
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1044- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
1045 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
1046
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1047 Changes since 3.0.4
1048
1049- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
1050 scopes are actually global has been added.
1051
1052- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
1053 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
1054 known to be damaging.
1055
1056- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
1057 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
1058 balancing).
1059
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1060- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
1061 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
1062 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
1063
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1064- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
1065 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
1066 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
1067
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1068- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
1069 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
1070 more clear now.
1071
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1072- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
1073 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
1074 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
1075 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
1076 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 1077 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
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1079- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
1080 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
1081
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1082- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
1083 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
1084 made possible.
1085
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1086- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
1087 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
1088 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
1089
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1090- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
1091 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
1092
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1093- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
1094 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
1095 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
1096
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1097- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
1098 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
1099 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
1100 value with the later configured value).
1101
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1102- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
1103 have been named and documented.
1104
1105- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
1106 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
1107 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
1108 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
1109 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
1110 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
1111 write new output.
1112
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1113 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
1114
1115- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
1116 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
1117
1118 Changes since 3.0.4b3
1119
1120- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
1121 mailing list.
1122
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1123 Changes since 3.0.4b2
1124
45d545f0 1125- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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1126 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
1127
1128- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
1129 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
1130
1131- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
1132 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
1133 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
1134 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
1135
1136- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
1137 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
1138 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
1139 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
1140 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
1141 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
1142 transition (properly).
1143
1144- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
1145
1146 Changes since 3.0.4b1
1147
1148- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
1149 STDIN after reading one line.
1150
1151- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
1152 descriptor it opened twice.
1153
1154- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
1155 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
1156 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
1157
1158 Changes since 3.0.3
1159
1160- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
1161 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
1162 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
1163
1164- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
1165 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
1166 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
1167
1168- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
1169 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 1170 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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1171 leases to allocate.
1172
1173- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 1174 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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1175 than the entire block of them.
1176
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1177! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
1178 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
1179 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
1180 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
1181 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
1182 to a patch from infamous42md.
1183
1184! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
1185 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
1186 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
1187 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
1188 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
1189 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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1190
1191- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
1192 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
1193 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
1194
1195- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 1196 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1197
1198- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
1199 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
1200 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
1201 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
1202 transitional states.
1203
1204- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
1205 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
1206 once it detects the old db does not exist.
1207
1208- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
1209 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
1210 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
1211
1212- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 1213 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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1214
1215- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
1216 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
1217
1218- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
1219 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
1220 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
1221
1222- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
1223 patch from 'infamous42md'.
1224
1225- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
1226 repaired.
1227
1228- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
1229 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
1230 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
1231 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
1232
1233- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
1234 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
1235 data.
1236
1237- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
1238 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
1239 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
1240 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
1241 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
1242
1243- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
1244 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
1245 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
1246 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
1247 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
1248
1249- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
1250 has been repaired.
1251
1252- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
1253 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
1254 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
1255 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 1256 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1257
1258- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 1259 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
88cd8aca 1260
45d545f0 1261- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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1262 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
1263 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
1264 move to 3.[01].x.
1265
1266- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
1267 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
1268
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1269 Changes since 3.0.3b3
1270
1271- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
1272 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
1273
1274- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
1275 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
1276 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
1277 workaround.
1278
1279 Changes since 3.0.3b2
1280
1281- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
1282 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
1283
1284 Changes since 3.0.3b1
1285
1286- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
1287 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
1288 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
1289
1290- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
1291 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
1292 dynamic updates were also retouched.
1293
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1294 Changes since 3.0.2
1295
1296- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 1297 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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1298 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
1299
1300- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
1301 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
1302 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
1303 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
1304 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
1305
1306- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
1307 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 1308 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1309
1310- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
1311 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 1312 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1313
1314- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
1315 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
1316 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
1317 Peter Poeml.
1318
1319- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
1320 Dr. Peter Poeml.
1321
1322- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
1323 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
1324 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
1325 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
1326 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
1327 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
1328
1329- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
1330 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
1331 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
1332 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
1333
1334- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
1335 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
1336 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
1337 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
1338
1339- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
1340 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
1341
1342- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
1343 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
1344 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
1345
1346- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
1347 7 bytes, and failover.
1348
1349- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
1350 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 1351 at Red Hat.
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1352
1353- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
1354 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
1355 should work better.
1356
1357- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
1358 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
1359 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
1360
1361- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
1362 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
1363 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
1364
1365 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
1366
1367- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
1368 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
1369
1370 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
1371
45d545f0 1372- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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1373 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
1374 overloading. This was repaired.
1375
1376- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
1377 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
1378 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
1379 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
1380 three chunks to fit.
1381
1382- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
1383 were repaired.
1384
1385- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
1386 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
1387 leak).
1388
1389 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
1390
1391- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
1392 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
1393
1394 Changes since 3.0.2b1
1395
1396- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
1397
1398 Changes since 3.0.1
1399
1400- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
1401 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
1402 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
1403
1404- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
1405 name was not provided by the server.
1406
1407- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
1408 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
1409
1410- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
1411 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
1412
1413- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
1414 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
1415
1416- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
1417
1418- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
1419
1420- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
1421 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
1422 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
1423 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
1424 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
1425
1426- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
1427 the configuration be globally scoped.
1428
1429- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
1430 Farkas.
1431
1432- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
1433 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1434
1435- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
1436 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
1437
1438- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
1439 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
1440
1441- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
1442 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
1443 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
1444 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
1445
1446- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
1447 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
1448 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
1449 respond to POOLREQ messages.
1450
1451- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
1452 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
1453 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
1454
1455- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
1456
1457- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
1458 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
1459 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
1460
1461- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
1462 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
1463 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
1464 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
1465 Fjone and directconnect.no.
1466
1467- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
1468 to Andreas Gustafsson.
1469
1470- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
1471 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
1472
1473- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
1474 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
1475 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
1476 DISCOVER timeout handling.
1477
1478- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
1479 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
1480
1481- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
1482 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
1483 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
1484
1485- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
1486 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
1487 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
1488 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
1489 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
1490 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
1491
1492- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
1493 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
1494 Infoblox.
1495
1496- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
1497
1498- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
1499 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
1500 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
1501 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
1502 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
1503 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
1504 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
1505
1506- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
1507 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
1508 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
1509
1510- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
1511 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
1512 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
1513
1514- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
1515
1516 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
1517
1518- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
1519 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
1520 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
1521 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
1522 systems either.
1523
1524- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
1525
1526- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
1527 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
1528 is false.
1529
1530- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
1531 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
1532
1533- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
1534
1535 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
1536
1537! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
1538 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
1539 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
1540 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
1541 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
1542 both finding and solving the problem.
1543
1544! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
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1546 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
1547 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
1548 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
1549 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
1550 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
1551 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
1552 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
1553 published version of ISC DHCP.
1554
1555- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
1556
1557- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
1558
1559 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
1560
1561- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
1562 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
1563 Richard Hirst.
1564
1565- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
1566 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
1567 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
1568
1569- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
1570
1571- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
1572 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
1573 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
1574 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
1575
1576- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 1577 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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1578
1579- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
1580 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
1581
1582- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
1583
1584 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
1585
1586- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
1587 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
1588
1589- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
1590 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
1591 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
1592
1593- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
1594 by name was fixed.
1595
45d545f0 1596- Declaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
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1597 longer result in error.
1598
1599- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
1600
1601- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
1602 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
1603 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
1604
1605- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
1606 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
1607
1608- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
1609 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
1610 Blapp.
1611
1612- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
1613 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
1614 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
1615 Martin Blapp.
1616
1617- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
1618 expiry times in failover configurations.
1619
1620- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
1621 Steve G.
1622
1623- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
1624 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
1625
1626- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
1627 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
1628 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
1629 now "unknown-144".
1630
1631- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
1632 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
1633
1634 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
1635
1636- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
1637
1638- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
1639 not be bash.
1640
1641- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1642
1643- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
1644 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
1645 that errored before will now work properly.
1646
1647- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
1648 names was repaired.
1649
1650- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
1651 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
1652 configuration file.
1653
1654- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
1655 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1656
1657- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
1658 error rather than a null dereference.
1659
1660 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
1661
1662- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
1663
1664- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
1665
1666- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
1667 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
1668
1669- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
1670
1671- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
1672
1673- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
1674 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
1675 self-corrupting lease databases.
1676
1677- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
1678
1679- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
1680 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
1681
1682- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
1683
1684- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
1685
1686- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
1687 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
1688 Ling Gou.
1689
1690- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
1691 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1692
1693- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
1694 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
1695 Ted Lemon for the patch.
1696
1697- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
1698 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
1699
1700 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
1701
1702- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
1703 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
1704
1705- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
1706
1707- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
1708 a memory leak.
1709
1710- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
1711 script.
1712
1713- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
1714
1715- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
1716
1717- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
1718
1719- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
1720
1721- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
1722
1723- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
1724
1725- Increment the hop count when relaying.
1726
1727- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
1728
1729- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
1730
1731- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
1732
1733- Change the type of rbuf_max.
1734
1735- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
1736
1737 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
1738
1739- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
1740 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
1741 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
1742
1743 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
1744
1745- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
1746 to be renewed.
1747
1748- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
1749 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
1750
1751- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
1752 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
1753
1754- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
1755 that two permit lists matched.
1756
1757- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
1758 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
1759
1760- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
1761
1762- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
1763 requested it, contrary to the standard.
1764
1765- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
1766
1767- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
1768
1769- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
1770 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
1771 going to update its A record.
1772
1773- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
1774 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
1775 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
1776 DNS server.
1777
1778- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
1779
1780- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
1781
1782- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
1783 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
1784 NetBSD project).
1785
1786- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
1787 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
1788
1789- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
1790 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
1791
1792- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
1793
1794- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
1795
1796- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
1797 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
1798 failover protocol standard.
1799
1800- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
1801 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
1802 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
1803
1804- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
1805 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
1806 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
1807 do so.
1808
1809- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
1810
1811 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
1812
1813- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
1814
1815- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
1816 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
1817
1818- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
1819 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
1820
1821- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
1822 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
1823 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
1824
1825- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
1826 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
1827 network, merge the two pools.
1828
1829- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
1830 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
1831 fix this bug.
1832
1833 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
1834
1835- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
1836 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
1837
1838- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
1839 the same case.
1840
1841- Additional documentation.
1842
1843- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
1844 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
1845
1846 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
1847
1848- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
1849- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
1850
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1852
1853- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
1854 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
1855 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
1856 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
1857 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
1858
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1860
1861- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
1862 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
1863 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
1864 wasn't the one that removed it.
1865
1866- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
1867 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
1868 were not configured.
1869
1870- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
1871
1872- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
1873 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
1874 routing information.
1875
1876- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
1877 request being sent.
1878
1879- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
1880 done.
1881
1882- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
1883 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
1884 were pending.
1885
1886- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
1887 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
1888 problems with failover.
1889
1890- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
1891 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
1892 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
1893
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1895
1896- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
1897 smash in the subclass allocation code.
1898
1899- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
1900 no object is open, it dumps core.
1901
1902- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
1903
1904- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
1905
1906- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
1907
1908- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
1909 a host object attribute with a null value.
1910
1911 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
1912
1913- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
1914
1915- Fix an obscure core dump.
1916
1917- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
1918 when crucial information is left out.
1919
1920- Log "no free leases" as an error.
1921
1922- Documentation updates.
1923
1924 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
1925
1926- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
1927
1928- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
1929 structure wasn't zeroed.
1930
1931- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
1932 incorrectly.
1933
1934- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
1935 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
1936 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
1937 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
1938 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
1939 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
1940 restarted.
1941
1942 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
1943
1944- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
1945 in failover-enabled pools.
1946
1947- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
1948 declarations).
1949
1950- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
1951 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
1952
1953- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
1954 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
1955
1956- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
1957
1958- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
1959 defined but not referenced by any pools.
1960
1961- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
1962
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1964
1965- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
1966
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1968
1969- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
1970
1971- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
1972
1973- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
1974
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1976
1977- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
1978 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
1979 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
1980
1981- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
1982 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
1983 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
1984 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
1985 string.
1986
1987- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
1988
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1990
1991- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
1992 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
1993
1994- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
1995 malformed packets.
1996
1997- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
1998
1999- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
2000 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
2001 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
2002
2003- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
2004
2005- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
2006
2007- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
2008
2009- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
2010 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
2011
2012- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
2013 tcp connections from being played back.
2014
2015- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
2016 on exit.
2017
2018- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
2019
2020- Add some configurability to the build system.
2021
2022- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
2023
2024- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
2025 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
2026 hadn't been noticed until now.
2027
2028 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
2029
2030- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
2031 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
2032
2033- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
2034 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
2035 conformant, but also didn't work).
2036
2037- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
2038 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
2039
2040- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
2041 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
2042
2043- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
2044 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
2045
2046- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
2047 variables to leases via OMAPI.
2048
2049- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
2050 doing failover.
2051
2052- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
2053 running on alpha processors.
2054
2055- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
2056 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
2057
2058- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
2059
2060- Install omshell (including new documentation).
2061
2062- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
2063 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
2064
2065- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
2066
2067- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
2068 actually named (key names are domain names).
2069
2070- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
2071
2072- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
2073 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
2074
2075- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
2076 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
2077
2078- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
2079 statements.
2080
2081- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
2082 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
2083
2084- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
2085 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
2086 operating.
2087
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2089
2090- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
2091 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
2092 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
2093 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
2094
2095- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
2096 using omapi to manipulate leases.
2097
2098- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
2099
2100
2101 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
2102
2103- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
2104 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
2105
2106- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
2107 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
2108 to the chain.
2109
2110- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
2111
2112- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
2113
2114- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
2115
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2117 attribute values in omshell.
2118
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2120
2121- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
2122
2123 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
2124
2125- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
2126 DHCPDECLINE.
2127
2128- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
2129
2130- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
2131 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
2132 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
2133
2134- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
2135
2136- Documentation fixes.
2137
2138- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
2139 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
2140
2141- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
2142 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
2143
2144- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
2145
2146- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
2147
2148- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
2149 case-insensitive.
2150
2151- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
2152
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2155 consistently.
2156
2157- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
2158 systems with the probe not working correctly.
2159
2160- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
2161
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2163
2164- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
2165 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
2166 result of duplicate leases.
2167
2168- Document OMAPI server objects.
2169
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2171
2172- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
2173 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
2174
2175- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
2176 core dumps.
2177
2178- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
2179 Friedrich.
2180
2181- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
2182
2183 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
2184
2185- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
2186 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
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2189
2190- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
2191 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
2192
2193- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
2194 trace file.
2195
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2198- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
2199 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
2200 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
2201 e.g., Digital Unix.
2202
2203- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
2204 when no error had occurred.
2205
2206- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
2207 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
2208 non-communicating state.
2209
2210- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
2211
2212- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
2213 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
2214 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
2215
2216- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
2217 when the client lease expired.
2218
2219- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
2220 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
2221 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
2222 in testing.
2223
2224- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
2225 the command line, it would fail.
2226
2227- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
2228 user impact).
2229
2230- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
2231
2232- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
2233 they're executable.
2234
2235 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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2237- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
2238 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
2239 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
2240 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
2241
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2243 Transmeta.
2244
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2246 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
2247 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
2248 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
2249
2250- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
2251 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
2252
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2254
2255- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
2256 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
2257
2258- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
2259
2260- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
2261
2262- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
2263
2264- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
2265
2266- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
2267
2268- Update some parts of the README file.
2269
2270- Support GCC on SCO.
2271
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2273
2274- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
2275 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
2276
2277- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
2278 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
2279 unbill the old class.
2280
2281- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
2282 process the state transition immediately.
2283
2284- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
2285 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
2286
2287- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
2288
2289- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
2290
2291- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
2292
2293- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
2294
2295- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
2296 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
2297 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
2298
2299- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
2300 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
2301
2302- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
2303 lease file.
2304
2305- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
2306
2307- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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2311- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
2312 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
2313
2314- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
2315
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2318- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
2319
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2321
2322- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
2323
2324- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
2325 pl19.
2326
2327- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
2328 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
2329 past the regression test.
2330
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2332
2333- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
2334 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
2335
2336- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
2337 DHCPREQUEST.
2338
2339- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
2340
2341- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
2342
2343- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
2344
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2347- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
2348 (Damien Neil)
2349
2350- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
2351 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
2352
2353- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
2354 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
2355 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
2356
2357- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
2358 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
2359 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
2360 message.
2361
2362- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
2363 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
2364 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
2365
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2368 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
2369 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
2370 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
2371 this way will work.
2372
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2373- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
2374
2375- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
2376 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
2377 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
2378 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
2379
2380 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
2381
2382 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
2383
2384- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
2385 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
2386 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
2387
2388- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
2389 Hermann Lauer.
2390
2391- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
2392 messages.
2393
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2394- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
2395 it contained quoted strings.
2396
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2397 ** there was no pl17 **
2398
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2401- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
2402 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
2403 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
2404 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
2405 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
2406 tracking down memory leaks.
2407
2408- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
2409 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
2410 Solaris.
2411
2412- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
2413 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
2414 corruption and core dumps.
2415
2416- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
2417 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
2418
2419- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
2420
2421- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
2422 and implemented by Damien Neil.
2423
2424- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
2425 name and version to standard output.
2426
2427- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
2428
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2429- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
2430 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
2431
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2432- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
2433
2434- Lots of documentation updates.
2435
2436- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
2437 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
2438
2439- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
2440
2441- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
2442 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
2443
2444
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2446
2447- Some documentation tweaks.
2448
2449- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
2450
2451- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
2452
2453- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
2454 agent options into them.
2455
2456- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
2457
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2458- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
2459 options.
2460
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2462
2463- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
2464 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
2465 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
2466 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
2467 used in class statements to control address allocation.
2468
2469- Fix up documentation.
2470
2471- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
2472 significantly in a high-demand situation.
2473
2474- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
2475
2476- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
2477
2478- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
2479 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
2480 practical use otherwise.
2481
2482- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
2483 for debugging.
2484
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2486
2487- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
2488 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
2489 dump on some systems.
2490
2491- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
2492 option.
2493
2494- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
2495 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
2496
2497- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
2498 that were not printing enough information.
2499
2500- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
2501 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
2502
2503- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
2504 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
2505 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
2506 were answering.
2507
2508- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
2509 the transition.
2510
2511
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2513
2514- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
2515
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2516 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
2517
2518- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
2519 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
2520 representation from working correctly.
2521
2522- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
2523 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
2524 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
2525 could spin.
2526
2527- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
2528 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
2529
2530- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
2531 interface name on the command line.
2532
2533- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
2534 client state.
2535
2536- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
2537 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
2538 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
2539 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
2540 added by Ted Lemon.
2541
2542- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
2543 be made to log debugging information and other information.
2544
2545- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
2546 end option.
2547
2548- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
2549 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
2550 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
2551
2552- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
2553 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
2554 face of a null hardware address on input.
2555
2556- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
2557 specified unqualified.
2558
2559- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
2560 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
2561
2562- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
2563 RFC.
2564
2565- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
2566
2567- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
2568
2569- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
2570 it works.
2571
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2573
2574- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
2575 to CVS.
2576
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2577 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
2578
2579- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
2580
2581- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
2582 in patchlevel 9.
2583
2584- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
2585 options at renewal time.
2586
2587- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
2588 configuration language.
2589
2590- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
2591
2592- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
2593 done when no client hostname was received.
2594
2595- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
2596
2597- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
2598 the DHCP option space.
2599
2600- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
2601
2602- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
2603 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
2604
2605- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
2606 silently dropped.
2607
2608- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
2609 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
2610
2611- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
2612 will be correctly updated.
2613
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2614 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
2615
2616- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
2617 bounds-checking.
2618
2619 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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2620
2621- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
2622
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2625- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
2626 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
2627 possible to exploit it any further than that.
2628
2629- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
2630 option.
2631
2632- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
2633 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
2634 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
2635 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
2636 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
2637 meaningfully.
2638
2639- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
2640 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
2641 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
2642
2643- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
2644 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
2645 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
2646 this one down!
2647
2648- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
2649 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
2650 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
2651 down and fixing this problem.
2652
2653 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
2654
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2655- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
2656 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
2657
2658- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
2659 environment.
2660
2661- Fix suffix operator.
2662
2663- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
2664
2665- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
2666 connection code.
2667
2668- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
2669
2670- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
2671
2672- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
2673 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
2674
2675- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
2676
2677- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
2678
2679- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
2680 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
2681
2682- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
2683 spawn with.
2684
2685- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
2686 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
2687
2688- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
2689 for OMAPI.
2690
2691- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
2692 can install in host declarations.
2693
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2695
2696- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
2697 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
2698 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
2699 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
2700 comments)!
2701
2702- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
2703
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2704- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
2705 request for help on this with patches!
2706
2707- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
2708 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
2709 lost, they never reconnect.
2710
2711- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
2712 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
2713
2714- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
2715 dump.
2716
2717- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
2718 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
2719 catching this one.
2720
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2722
2723- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
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2725 lease renewal time.
2726
2727- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
2728 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
2729 declared without a key.
2730
2731- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
2732
2733- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
2734 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
2735
2736- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
2737 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
2738 determine the maximum size of the response.
2739
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2741
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2742- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
2743 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
2744
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2745- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
2746 RENEWING client.
2747
2748- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
2749
2750- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
2751 using memcmp().
2752
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2754
2755- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
2756 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
2757 pointing this out.
2758
2759- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
2760 exit.
2761
2762- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
2763
2764- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
2765 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.