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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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20
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
158 option.
159
adbef119 160 Changes since 4.1.0b1
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162- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
163 be recognized.
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165 Changes since 4.1.0a2
166
167- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
168 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
169 "abandoned".
170
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171- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
172
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173- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
174 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
175
176- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
177 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
178
179- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 180 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
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182- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
183
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184- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
185 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
186 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
187 in future releases.
188
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189- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
190 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
191
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192- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
193 'dhclient -6' support.
194
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195- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
196 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
197 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
198 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
199
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201
202- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
203
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204- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
205
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206- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
207 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
208 only the latter. Fixed.
209
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210- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
211
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212- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
213 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
214
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215- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
216
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217- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
218
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219- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
220 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
221 --enable-early-chroot.
222
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223- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
224 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
225
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226- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
227 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
228 parameter.
229
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230- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
231 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
232
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233- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
234 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
235
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236- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
237
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238- Merged IA_XX related structures.
239
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240- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
241
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242- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
243
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244- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
245 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
246 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
247
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248- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
249 support.
250
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251- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
252 repaired.
253
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254- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
255
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256- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
257
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258- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
259 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
260
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261- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
262 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
263
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264- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
265 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
266
267- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
268 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
269 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
270 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
271 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
272 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
273 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
274 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
275 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
276 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
277 shared-network.
278
279- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
280 configured option values.
281
282- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
283 support class statements.
284
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285- Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
286 selection were repaired.
287
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288- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
289 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
290 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
291 by the OS.
292
293- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
294 address.
295
296- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
297 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
298
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299- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
300
301- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
302
303- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
304 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
305
01a54c17 306 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
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308- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
309
4cafb815 310- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 311 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
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313- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
314 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
315 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
316
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317- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
318 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
319
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320- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
321
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322- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
323 reserved IDs avoided).
324
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325- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
326
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327- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
328 carries a rapid-commit option.
329
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330- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
331 an empty active lease.
332
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333- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
334
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335- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
336 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
337 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
338 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
339
340- MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
341
342- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
343 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
344 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
345 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
346 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
347 Christof Chen.
348
349 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
350
351- DHCP now builds on AIX.
352
353- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
354 config file but -6 is not specified.
355
356- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
357
358- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
359 be more helpful.
360
361- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
362 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
363 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
364
365- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
366 was repaired.
367
368- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
369 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
370 been repaired.
371
372- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
373 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
374 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
375
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376- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
377 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
378
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379- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
380 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
381 IPv4 address.
382
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383- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
384 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
385 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
386 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
387 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
388
389- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
390 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
391 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
392
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393- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
394
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395- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
396
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397- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
398 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
399 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
400 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
401 unnecessary logging.
402
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403- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
404 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
405
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406- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
407 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
408 is incompatible is printed.
409
410- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
411 a previously undefined option code.
412
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413- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
414 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
415
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416- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
417 than the year 2000.
418
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419- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
420
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421- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
422
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423- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
424
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425 Changes since 4.0.0b3
426
427- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
428 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
429 configuration.
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431- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
432 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
433
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434- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
435 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
436 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
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438- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
439 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
440 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
441 a requested address.
442
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443- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
444 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
445 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
446 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
447
448- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
449 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
450 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
451 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
452
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453- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
454 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
455 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
456
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457- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
458 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
459
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460- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
461
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462- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
463 codes through some conditions.
464
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465- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
466 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
467
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468- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
469 seemingly random values.
470
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471- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
472
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473- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
474 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
475 one ever has.
476
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477- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
478 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
479 to a REQUEST.
480
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481- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
482 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
483 level.
484
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485 Changes since 4.0.0b2
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487- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
488
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489- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
490 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
491 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
492 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
493 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
494
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495- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
496 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
497 new address.
498
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499 Changes since 4.0.0b1
500
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501- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
502 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
503 simultaneously on a single interface.
504
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505- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
506 of service under unusual server configurations
507
508- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
509
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510- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
511 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
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513- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
514 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
515 on every pool rebalance run.
516
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517- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
518 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
519
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520- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
521 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
522
ab3a540f 523 Changes since 4.0.0a3
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525- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
526 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
527
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528- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
529 point out the problem.
530
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531- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
532 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
533 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
534
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535- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
536 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
537
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538- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
539 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
540 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
541
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542- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
543
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544- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
545 fixed by Marcus Goller.
546
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547- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
548 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
549 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
550 regardless of the existence of bindings.
551
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552- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
553
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554- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
555 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
556 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
557 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
558 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
559
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560- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
561
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562 Changes since 4.0.0a2
563
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564- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
565 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
566
763cba6b 567- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
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569- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
570 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
571 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
572
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573- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
574
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575- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
576 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
577
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578- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
579 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
580 loaded from persistent storage.
581
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583 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
584 necessary.
585
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586- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
587 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
588 rapid-commit option.
589
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590- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
591 non-128-bits in length were removed.
592
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593 Changes since 4.0.0a1
594
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595- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
596 and fix.
597
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598- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
599
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600- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
601
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602- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
603 for when loading configuration.
604
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605- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
606 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
607 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
608
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609- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
610 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
611 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
612 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
613
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614- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
615
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616- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
617 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
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619- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
620
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621- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
622
623- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
624 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
625
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626- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
627 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
628
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629- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
630
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631- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
632 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
633
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634 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
635
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636- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
637
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638- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
639 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
640
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641- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
642
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643- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
644 initialized.
645
646- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
647
648- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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649 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
650
651- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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653- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
654
655- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
656 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
657
658- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
659
8ea19a71 660- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 661 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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662
663- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
664 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
665
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666- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
667
668- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
669
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670- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
671
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672 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
673
674- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
675 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
676 no support currently for both.
677
678- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
679 IAADDR option.
680
681- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
682 options.
683
684- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
685
686- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
687 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
688
689- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
690 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
691 specifying type 1 or type 2).
692
693- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
694 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
695
696- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
697 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
698 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
699 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
700 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
701 differently, they both use the same code here).
702
703- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
704 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
705 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
706
707- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
708
709- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
710 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
711 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
712 it should not intercept.
713
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714 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
715
716- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
717 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
718 between primary and secondary.
719
720- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
721 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
722 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
723
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724- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
725
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726- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
727 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
728 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
729 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
730 or REQUEST messages.
731
732- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
733 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
734
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735- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
736
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737 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
738
739- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
740 failover protected subnets was removed.
741
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742 Changes since 3.1.0b2
743
744- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
745 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
746 odd number of leases).
747
748- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
749 rebalance run, and one after.
750
751- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
752 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
753 processing these messages.
754
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757- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
758 objects.
759
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760- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
761 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
762 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
763 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
764 at Allianz.
765
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766- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
767 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
768
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769- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
770 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
771
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772- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
773 caused the server to abort.
774
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775- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
776 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
777 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
778
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779- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
780 by empty spaces would not get included.
781
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782- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
783 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
784
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785- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
786 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
787
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788- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
789 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
790
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791- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
792 on the parameter request list.
793
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794 Changes since 3.1.0a3
795
796- Some spelling fixes.
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798 Changes since 3.1.0a2
799
800- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
801 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
802
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803- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
804 domain-search option syntax.
805
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806 Changes since 3.1.0a1
807
808- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
809 hash table was repaired.
810
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811- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
812 entering normal state.
813
814- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
815 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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816 'xid mismatch' log messages.
817
818- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
819 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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821- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
822 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
823 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
824 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
825
45d545f0 826- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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827 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
828 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
829 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
830 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
831 to their needs.
832
833- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
834 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
835 run will attempt balance.
836
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837- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
838
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839 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
840
841- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
842 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
843 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
844 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
845
98bd7ca0 846- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 847 was introduced.
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848
849- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
850 via OMAPI.
851
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852- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
853 the protocol draft.
854
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855- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
856 one does not already exist on the system.
857
b43c87ad 858- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
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860- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
861 matches RFC 3074.
862
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863- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
864 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 865 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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867- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
868 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 869 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
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871- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
872 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
873 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
874 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
875
876- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
877 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
878 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
879 priority over the client's parameter request list.
880
f7fdb216 881- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 882 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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883 DHCPv6 support.
884
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885- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
886 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
887 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
888
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889- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
890 have been incorporated.
891
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892- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
893 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
894 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
895 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
896 that belong to the peer in need.
897
898- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
899 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
900
901- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
902 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
903 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
904
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905- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
906 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
907
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908- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
909 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
910 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
911 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
912 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
913
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914- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
915 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
916 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
917 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
918
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919- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
920 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
921 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
922 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
923 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
924 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
925 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
926 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
927 ignoring this aspect of their request.
928
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929- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
930 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
931
41e45067 932- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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933 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
934 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
935 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
936
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937- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
938 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
939 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
940 hardware and funding the development.
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942- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
943 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
944 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
945 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
946 via Robin Breathe.
947
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948- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
949 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
950 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
951 from Christof Chen.
952
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953- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
954 formally supported.
955
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956 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
957
958- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
959 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
960
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961 Changes since 3.0.5
962
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963- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
964 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
965 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 966 they actually received.
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967
968- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
969
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970- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
971 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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972 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
973 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
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975- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
976
d69fb6a8 977- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 978 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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980- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
981 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
982 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
983 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
984 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
985 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
986 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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987 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
988
989- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
990 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
991 'file' field.
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993- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
994 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
995
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996- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
997 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
998 a patch from Kevin Steves.
999
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1000- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
1001 from Chris Wagner.
1002
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1003- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
1004 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
1005 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
1006
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1007- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
1008 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
1009 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
1010 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
1011 was set.
1012
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1013- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
1014 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
1015
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1016- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
1017 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
1018 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
1019 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
1020 active ones.
1021
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901306d5 1024- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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1025 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
1026 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
1027 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
1028 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
1029
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1030- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
1031 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
1032
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1033 Changes since 3.0.4
1034
1035- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
1036 scopes are actually global has been added.
1037
1038- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
1039 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
1040 known to be damaging.
1041
1042- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
1043 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
1044 balancing).
1045
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1046- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
1047 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
1048 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
1049
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1050- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
1051 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
1052 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
1053
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1054- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
1055 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
1056 more clear now.
1057
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1058- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
1059 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
1060 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
1061 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
1062 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 1063 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
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1065- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
1066 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
1067
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1068- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
1069 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
1070 made possible.
1071
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1072- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
1073 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
1074 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
1075
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1076- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
1077 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
1078
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1079- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
1080 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
1081 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
1082
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1083- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
1084 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
1085 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
1086 value with the later configured value).
1087
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1088- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
1089 have been named and documented.
1090
1091- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
1092 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
1093 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
1094 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
1095 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
1096 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
1097 write new output.
1098
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1099 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
1100
1101- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
1102 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
1103
1104 Changes since 3.0.4b3
1105
1106- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
1107 mailing list.
1108
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1109 Changes since 3.0.4b2
1110
45d545f0 1111- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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1112 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
1113
1114- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
1115 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
1116
1117- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
1118 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
1119 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
1120 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
1121
1122- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
1123 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
1124 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
1125 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
1126 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
1127 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
1128 transition (properly).
1129
1130- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
1131
1132 Changes since 3.0.4b1
1133
1134- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
1135 STDIN after reading one line.
1136
1137- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
1138 descriptor it opened twice.
1139
1140- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
1141 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
1142 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
1143
1144 Changes since 3.0.3
1145
1146- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
1147 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
1148 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
1149
1150- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
1151 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
1152 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
1153
1154- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
1155 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 1156 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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1157 leases to allocate.
1158
1159- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 1160 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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1161 than the entire block of them.
1162
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1163! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
1164 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
1165 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
1166 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
1167 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
1168 to a patch from infamous42md.
1169
1170! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
1171 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
1172 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
1173 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
1174 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
1175 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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1176
1177- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
1178 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
1179 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
1180
1181- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 1182 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1183
1184- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
1185 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
1186 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
1187 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
1188 transitional states.
1189
1190- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
1191 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
1192 once it detects the old db does not exist.
1193
1194- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
1195 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
1196 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
1197
1198- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 1199 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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1200
1201- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
1202 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
1203
1204- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
1205 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
1206 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
1207
1208- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
1209 patch from 'infamous42md'.
1210
1211- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
1212 repaired.
1213
1214- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
1215 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
1216 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
1217 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
1218
1219- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
1220 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
1221 data.
1222
1223- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
1224 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
1225 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
1226 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
1227 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
1228
1229- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
1230 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
1231 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
1232 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
1233 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
1234
1235- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
1236 has been repaired.
1237
1238- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
1239 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
1240 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
1241 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 1242 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1243
1244- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 1245 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
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45d545f0 1247- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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1248 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
1249 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
1250 move to 3.[01].x.
1251
1252- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
1253 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
1254
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1255 Changes since 3.0.3b3
1256
1257- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
1258 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
1259
1260- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
1261 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
1262 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
1263 workaround.
1264
1265 Changes since 3.0.3b2
1266
1267- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
1268 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
1269
1270 Changes since 3.0.3b1
1271
1272- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
1273 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
1274 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
1275
1276- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
1277 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
1278 dynamic updates were also retouched.
1279
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1280 Changes since 3.0.2
1281
1282- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 1283 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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1284 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
1285
1286- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
1287 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
1288 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
1289 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
1290 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
1291
1292- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
1293 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 1294 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1295
1296- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
1297 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 1298 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1299
1300- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
1301 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
1302 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
1303 Peter Poeml.
1304
1305- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
1306 Dr. Peter Poeml.
1307
1308- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
1309 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
1310 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
1311 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
1312 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
1313 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
1314
1315- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
1316 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
1317 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
1318 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
1319
1320- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
1321 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
1322 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
1323 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
1324
1325- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
1326 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
1327
1328- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
1329 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
1330 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
1331
1332- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
1333 7 bytes, and failover.
1334
1335- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
1336 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 1337 at Red Hat.
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1338
1339- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
1340 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
1341 should work better.
1342
1343- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
1344 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
1345 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
1346
1347- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
1348 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
1349 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
1350
1351 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
1352
1353- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
1354 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
1355
1356 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
1357
45d545f0 1358- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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1359 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
1360 overloading. This was repaired.
1361
1362- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
1363 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
1364 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
1365 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
1366 three chunks to fit.
1367
1368- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
1369 were repaired.
1370
1371- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
1372 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
1373 leak).
1374
1375 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
1376
1377- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
1378 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
1379
1380 Changes since 3.0.2b1
1381
1382- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
1383
1384 Changes since 3.0.1
1385
1386- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
1387 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
1388 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
1389
1390- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
1391 name was not provided by the server.
1392
1393- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
1394 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
1395
1396- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
1397 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
1398
1399- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
1400 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
1401
1402- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
1403
1404- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
1405
1406- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
1407 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
1408 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
1409 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
1410 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
1411
1412- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
1413 the configuration be globally scoped.
1414
1415- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
1416 Farkas.
1417
1418- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
1419 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1420
1421- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
1422 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
1423
1424- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
1425 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
1426
1427- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
1428 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
1429 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
1430 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
1431
1432- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
1433 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
1434 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
1435 respond to POOLREQ messages.
1436
1437- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
1438 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
1439 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
1440
1441- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
1442
1443- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
1444 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
1445 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
1446
1447- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
1448 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
1449 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
1450 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
1451 Fjone and directconnect.no.
1452
1453- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
1454 to Andreas Gustafsson.
1455
1456- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
1457 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
1458
1459- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
1460 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
1461 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
1462 DISCOVER timeout handling.
1463
1464- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
1465 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
1466
1467- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
1468 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
1469 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
1470
1471- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
1472 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
1473 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
1474 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
1475 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
1476 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
1477
1478- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
1479 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
1480 Infoblox.
1481
1482- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
1483
1484- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
1485 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
1486 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
1487 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
1488 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
1489 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
1490 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
1491
1492- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
1493 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
1494 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
1495
1496- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
1497 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
1498 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
1499
1500- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
1501
1502 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
1503
1504- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
1505 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
1506 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
1507 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
1508 systems either.
1509
1510- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
1511
1512- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
1513 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
1514 is false.
1515
1516- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
1517 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
1518
1519- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
1520
1521 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
1522
1523! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
1524 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
1525 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
1526 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
1527 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
1528 both finding and solving the problem.
1529
1530! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
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1532 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
1533 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
1534 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
1535 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
1536 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
1537 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
1538 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
1539 published version of ISC DHCP.
1540
1541- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
1542
1543- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
1544
1545 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
1546
1547- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
1548 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
1549 Richard Hirst.
1550
1551- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
1552 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
1553 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
1554
1555- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
1556
1557- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
1558 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
1559 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
1560 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
1561
1562- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 1563 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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1564
1565- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
1566 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
1567
1568- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
1569
1570 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
1571
1572- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
1573 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
1574
1575- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
1576 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
1577 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
1578
1579- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
1580 by name was fixed.
1581
45d545f0 1582- Declaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
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1583 longer result in error.
1584
1585- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
1586
1587- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
1588 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
1589 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
1590
1591- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
1592 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
1593
1594- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
1595 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
1596 Blapp.
1597
1598- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
1599 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
1600 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
1601 Martin Blapp.
1602
1603- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
1604 expiry times in failover configurations.
1605
1606- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
1607 Steve G.
1608
1609- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
1610 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
1611
1612- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
1613 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
1614 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
1615 now "unknown-144".
1616
1617- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
1618 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
1619
1620 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
1621
1622- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
1623
1624- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
1625 not be bash.
1626
1627- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1628
1629- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
1630 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
1631 that errored before will now work properly.
1632
1633- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
1634 names was repaired.
1635
1636- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
1637 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
1638 configuration file.
1639
1640- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
1641 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1642
1643- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
1644 error rather than a null dereference.
1645
1646 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
1647
1648- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
1649
1650- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
1651
1652- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
1653 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
1654
1655- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
1656
1657- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
1658
1659- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
1660 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
1661 self-corrupting lease databases.
1662
1663- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
1664
1665- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
1666 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
1667
1668- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
1669
1670- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
1671
1672- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
1673 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
1674 Ling Gou.
1675
1676- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
1677 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1678
1679- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
1680 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
1681 Ted Lemon for the patch.
1682
1683- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
1684 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
1685
1686 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
1687
1688- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
1689 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
1690
1691- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
1692
1693- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
1694 a memory leak.
1695
1696- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
1697 script.
1698
1699- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
1700
1701- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
1702
1703- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
1704
1705- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
1706
1707- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
1708
1709- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
1710
1711- Increment the hop count when relaying.
1712
1713- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
1714
1715- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
1716
1717- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
1718
1719- Change the type of rbuf_max.
1720
1721- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
1722
1723 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
1724
1725- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
1726 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
1727 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
1728
1729 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
1730
1731- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
1732 to be renewed.
1733
1734- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
1735 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
1736
1737- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
1738 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
1739
1740- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
1741 that two permit lists matched.
1742
1743- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
1744 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
1745
1746- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
1747
1748- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
1749 requested it, contrary to the standard.
1750
1751- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
1752
1753- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
1754
1755- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
1756 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
1757 going to update its A record.
1758
1759- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
1760 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
1761 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
1762 DNS server.
1763
1764- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
1765
1766- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
1767
1768- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
1769 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
1770 NetBSD project).
1771
1772- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
1773 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
1774
1775- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
1776 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
1777
1778- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
1779
1780- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
1781
1782- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
1783 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
1784 failover protocol standard.
1785
1786- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
1787 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
1788 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
1789
1790- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
1791 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
1792 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
1793 do so.
1794
1795- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
1796
1797 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
1798
1799- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
1800
1801- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
1802 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
1803
1804- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
1805 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
1806
1807- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
1808 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
1809 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
1810
1811- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
1812 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
1813 network, merge the two pools.
1814
1815- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
1816 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
1817 fix this bug.
1818
1819 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
1820
1821- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
1822 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
1823
1824- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
1825 the same case.
1826
1827- Additional documentation.
1828
1829- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
1830 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
1831
1832 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
1833
1834- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
1835- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
1836
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1838
1839- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
1840 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
1841 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
1842 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
1843 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
1844
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1846
1847- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
1848 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
1849 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
1850 wasn't the one that removed it.
1851
1852- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
1853 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
1854 were not configured.
1855
1856- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
1857
1858- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
1859 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
1860 routing information.
1861
1862- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
1863 request being sent.
1864
1865- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
1866 done.
1867
1868- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
1869 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
1870 were pending.
1871
1872- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
1873 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
1874 problems with failover.
1875
1876- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
1877 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
1878 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
1879
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1881
1882- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
1883 smash in the subclass allocation code.
1884
1885- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
1886 no object is open, it dumps core.
1887
1888- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
1889
1890- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
1891
1892- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
1893
1894- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
1895 a host object attribute with a null value.
1896
1897 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
1898
1899- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
1900
1901- Fix an obscure core dump.
1902
1903- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
1904 when crucial information is left out.
1905
1906- Log "no free leases" as an error.
1907
1908- Documentation updates.
1909
1910 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
1911
1912- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
1913
1914- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
1915 structure wasn't zeroed.
1916
1917- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
1918 incorrectly.
1919
1920- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
1921 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
1922 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
1923 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
1924 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
1925 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
1926 restarted.
1927
1928 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
1929
1930- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
1931 in failover-enabled pools.
1932
1933- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
1934 declarations).
1935
1936- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
1937 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
1938
1939- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
1940 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
1941
1942- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
1943
1944- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
1945 defined but not referenced by any pools.
1946
1947- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
1948
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1950
1951- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
1952
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1954
1955- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
1956
1957- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
1958
1959- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
1960
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1962
1963- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
1964 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
1965 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
1966
1967- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
1968 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
1969 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
1970 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
1971 string.
1972
1973- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
1974
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1976
1977- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
1978 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
1979
1980- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
1981 malformed packets.
1982
1983- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
1984
1985- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
1986 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
1987 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
1988
1989- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
1990
1991- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
1992
1993- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
1994
1995- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
1996 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
1997
1998- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
1999 tcp connections from being played back.
2000
2001- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
2002 on exit.
2003
2004- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
2005
2006- Add some configurability to the build system.
2007
2008- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
2009
2010- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
2011 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
2012 hadn't been noticed until now.
2013
2014 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
2015
2016- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
2017 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
2018
2019- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
2020 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
2021 conformant, but also didn't work).
2022
2023- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
2024 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
2025
2026- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
2027 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
2028
2029- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
2030 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
2031
2032- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
2033 variables to leases via OMAPI.
2034
2035- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
2036 doing failover.
2037
2038- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
2039 running on alpha processors.
2040
2041- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
2042 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
2043
2044- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
2045
2046- Install omshell (including new documentation).
2047
2048- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
2049 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
2050
2051- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
2052
2053- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
2054 actually named (key names are domain names).
2055
2056- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
2057
2058- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
2059 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
2060
2061- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
2062 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
2063
2064- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
2065 statements.
2066
2067- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
2068 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
2069
2070- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
2071 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
2072 operating.
2073
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2075
2076- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
2077 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
2078 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
2079 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
2080
2081- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
2082 using omapi to manipulate leases.
2083
2084- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
2085
2086
2087 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
2088
2089- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
2090 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
2091
2092- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
2093 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
2094 to the chain.
2095
2096- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
2097
2098- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
2099
2100- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
2101
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2104
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2106
2107- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
2108
2109 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
2110
2111- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
2112 DHCPDECLINE.
2113
2114- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
2115
2116- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
2117 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
2118 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
2119
2120- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
2121
2122- Documentation fixes.
2123
2124- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
2125 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
2126
2127- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
2128 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
2129
2130- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
2131
2132- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
2133
2134- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
2135 case-insensitive.
2136
2137- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
2138
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2141 consistently.
2142
2143- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
2144 systems with the probe not working correctly.
2145
2146- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
2147
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2149
2150- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
2151 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
2152 result of duplicate leases.
2153
2154- Document OMAPI server objects.
2155
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2157
2158- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
2159 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
2160
2161- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
2162 core dumps.
2163
2164- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
2165 Friedrich.
2166
2167- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
2168
2169 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
2170
2171- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
2172 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
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2175
2176- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
2177 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
2178
2179- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
2180 trace file.
2181
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2184- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
2185 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
2186 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
2187 e.g., Digital Unix.
2188
2189- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
2190 when no error had occurred.
2191
2192- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
2193 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
2194 non-communicating state.
2195
2196- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
2197
2198- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
2199 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
2200 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
2201
2202- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
2203 when the client lease expired.
2204
2205- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
2206 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
2207 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
2208 in testing.
2209
2210- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
2211 the command line, it would fail.
2212
2213- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
2214 user impact).
2215
2216- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
2217
2218- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
2219 they're executable.
2220
2221 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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2223- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
2224 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
2225 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
2226 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
2227
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2229 Transmeta.
2230
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2231- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
2232 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
2233 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
2234 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
2235
2236- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
2237 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
2238
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2240
2241- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
2242 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
2243
2244- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
2245
2246- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
2247
2248- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
2249
2250- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
2251
2252- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
2253
2254- Update some parts of the README file.
2255
2256- Support GCC on SCO.
2257
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2260- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
2261 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
2262
2263- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
2264 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
2265 unbill the old class.
2266
2267- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
2268 process the state transition immediately.
2269
2270- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
2271 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
2272
2273- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
2274
2275- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
2276
2277- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
2278
2279- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
2280
2281- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
2282 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
2283 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
2284
2285- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
2286 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
2287
2288- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
2289 lease file.
2290
2291- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
2292
2293- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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2297- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
2298 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
2299
2300- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
2301
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2304- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
2305
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2307
2308- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
2309
2310- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
2311 pl19.
2312
2313- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
2314 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
2315 past the regression test.
2316
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2319- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
2320 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
2321
2322- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
2323 DHCPREQUEST.
2324
2325- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
2326
2327- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
2328
2329- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
2330
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2333- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
2334 (Damien Neil)
2335
2336- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
2337 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
2338
2339- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
2340 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
2341 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
2342
2343- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
2344 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
2345 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
2346 message.
2347
2348- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
2349 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
2350 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
2351
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2354 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
2355 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
2356 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
2357 this way will work.
2358
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2359- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
2360
2361- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
2362 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
2363 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
2364 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
2365
2366 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
2367
2368 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
2369
2370- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
2371 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
2372 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
2373
2374- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
2375 Hermann Lauer.
2376
2377- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
2378 messages.
2379
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2380- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
2381 it contained quoted strings.
2382
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2383 ** there was no pl17 **
2384
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2387- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
2388 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
2389 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
2390 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
2391 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
2392 tracking down memory leaks.
2393
2394- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
2395 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
2396 Solaris.
2397
2398- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
2399 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
2400 corruption and core dumps.
2401
2402- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
2403 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
2404
2405- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
2406
2407- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
2408 and implemented by Damien Neil.
2409
2410- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
2411 name and version to standard output.
2412
2413- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
2414
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2415- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
2416 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
2417
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2418- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
2419
2420- Lots of documentation updates.
2421
2422- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
2423 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
2424
2425- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
2426
2427- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
2428 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
2429
2430
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2432
2433- Some documentation tweaks.
2434
2435- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
2436
2437- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
2438
2439- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
2440 agent options into them.
2441
2442- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
2443
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2444- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
2445 options.
2446
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2448
2449- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
2450 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
2451 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
2452 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
2453 used in class statements to control address allocation.
2454
2455- Fix up documentation.
2456
2457- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
2458 significantly in a high-demand situation.
2459
2460- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
2461
2462- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
2463
2464- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
2465 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
2466 practical use otherwise.
2467
2468- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
2469 for debugging.
2470
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2472
2473- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
2474 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
2475 dump on some systems.
2476
2477- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
2478 option.
2479
2480- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
2481 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
2482
2483- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
2484 that were not printing enough information.
2485
2486- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
2487 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
2488
2489- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
2490 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
2491 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
2492 were answering.
2493
2494- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
2495 the transition.
2496
2497
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2499
2500- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
2501
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2502 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
2503
2504- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
2505 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
2506 representation from working correctly.
2507
2508- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
2509 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
2510 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
2511 could spin.
2512
2513- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
2514 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
2515
2516- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
2517 interface name on the command line.
2518
2519- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
2520 client state.
2521
2522- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
2523 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
2524 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
2525 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
2526 added by Ted Lemon.
2527
2528- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
2529 be made to log debugging information and other information.
2530
2531- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
2532 end option.
2533
2534- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
2535 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
2536 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
2537
2538- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
2539 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
2540 face of a null hardware address on input.
2541
2542- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
2543 specified unqualified.
2544
2545- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
2546 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
2547
2548- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
2549 RFC.
2550
2551- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
2552
2553- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
2554
2555- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
2556 it works.
2557
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2558 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
2559
2560- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
2561 to CVS.
2562
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2563 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
2564
2565- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
2566
2567- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
2568 in patchlevel 9.
2569
2570- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
2571 options at renewal time.
2572
2573- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
2574 configuration language.
2575
2576- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
2577
2578- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
2579 done when no client hostname was received.
2580
2581- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
2582
2583- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
2584 the DHCP option space.
2585
2586- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
2587
2588- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
2589 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
2590
2591- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
2592 silently dropped.
2593
2594- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
2595 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
2596
2597- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
2598 will be correctly updated.
2599
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2600 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
2601
2602- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
2603 bounds-checking.
2604
2605 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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2606
2607- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
2608
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2611- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
2612 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
2613 possible to exploit it any further than that.
2614
2615- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
2616 option.
2617
2618- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
2619 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
2620 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
2621 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
2622 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
2623 meaningfully.
2624
2625- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
2626 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
2627 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
2628
2629- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
2630 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
2631 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
2632 this one down!
2633
2634- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
2635 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
2636 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
2637 down and fixing this problem.
2638
2639 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
2640
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2641- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
2642 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
2643
2644- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
2645 environment.
2646
2647- Fix suffix operator.
2648
2649- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
2650
2651- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
2652 connection code.
2653
2654- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
2655
2656- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
2657
2658- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
2659 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
2660
2661- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
2662
2663- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
2664
2665- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
2666 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
2667
2668- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
2669 spawn with.
2670
2671- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
2672 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
2673
2674- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
2675 for OMAPI.
2676
2677- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
2678 can install in host declarations.
2679
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2680 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
2681
2682- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
2683 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
2684 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
2685 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
2686 comments)!
2687
2688- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
2689
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2690- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
2691 request for help on this with patches!
2692
2693- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
2694 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
2695 lost, they never reconnect.
2696
2697- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
2698 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
2699
2700- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
2701 dump.
2702
2703- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
2704 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
2705 catching this one.
2706
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2707 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
2708
2709- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
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2711 lease renewal time.
2712
2713- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
2714 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
2715 declared without a key.
2716
2717- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
2718
2719- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
2720 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
2721
2722- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
2723 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
2724 determine the maximum size of the response.
2725
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2726 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
2727
359b023e
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2728- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
2729 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
2730
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2731- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
2732 RENEWING client.
2733
2734- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
2735
2736- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
2737 using memcmp().
2738
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2739 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
2740
2741- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
2742 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
2743 pointing this out.
2744
2745- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
2746 exit.
2747
2748- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
2749
2750- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
2751 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.