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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
40ec5f38 2 Version 4.1.0a2
d104d45b 3 29 August 2008
72c7bd79 4
98311e4b 5 Release Notes
72c7bd79 6
da411127 7 NEW FEATURES
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9ISC DHCP 4.1.x includes several new DHCPv6 features that were not included
10in DHCP 4.0.x. These include:
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01a54c17 12- Support for the rapid-commit option on the client side
98bd7ca0 13
01a54c17 14- Prefix Delegation support
98bd7ca0 15
01a54c17 16- IA_TA address support
98bd7ca0 17
7de20a95 18- A basic DHCPv6 relay agent
98bd7ca0 19
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20- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support
21
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22There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
23release, which will be addressed in the future:
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01a54c17 25- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
3a16098f 26
01a54c17 27- Only a single address is supported per IA.
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29- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages. These
30 should be configurable, and probably localized via gettext() or the
31 like.
32
33- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
34
98bd7ca0 35- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 36 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 37 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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39For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as
40well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the
41README file.
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43ISC DHCP uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please review the
44output of "./configure --help" to see what options are available.
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46The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and may not
47work on other platforms. Please report any problems and suggested fixes to
48<dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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51 Changes since 4.1.0a2
52
53- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
54 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
55 "abandoned".
56
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57- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
58
7d6180be 59 Changes since 4.1.0a1
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60
61- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
62
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63- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
64
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65- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
66 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
67 only the latter. Fixed.
68
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69- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
70
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71- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
72 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
73
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74- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
75
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76- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
77
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78- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
79 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
80 --enable-early-chroot.
81
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82- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
83 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
84
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85- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
86 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
87 parameter.
88
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89- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
90 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
91
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92- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
93 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
94
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95- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
96
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97- Merged IA_XX related structures.
98
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99- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
100
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101- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
102
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103- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
104 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
105 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
106
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107- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
108 support.
109
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110- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
111 repaired.
112
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113- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
114
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115- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
116
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117- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
118 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
119
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120- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
121 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
122
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123- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
124 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
125
126- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
127 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
128 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
129 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
130 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
131 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
132 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
133 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
134 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
135 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
136 shared-network.
137
138- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
139 configured option values.
140
141- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
142 support class statements.
143
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144- Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
145 selection were repaired.
146
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147- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
148 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
149 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
150 by the OS.
151
152- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
153 address.
154
155- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
156 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
157
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158- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
159
160- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
161
162- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
163 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
164
01a54c17 165 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
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167- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
168
4cafb815 169- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 170 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
4cafb815 171
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172- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
173 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
174 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
175
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176- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
177 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
178
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179- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
180
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181- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
182 reserved IDs avoided).
183
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184- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
185
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186- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
187 carries a rapid-commit option.
188
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189- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
190 an empty active lease.
191
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192- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
193
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194- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
195 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
196 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
197 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
198
199- MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
200
201- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
202 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
203 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
204 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
205 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
206 Christof Chen.
207
208 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
209
210- DHCP now builds on AIX.
211
212- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
213 config file but -6 is not specified.
214
215- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
216
217- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
218 be more helpful.
219
220- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
221 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
222 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
223
224- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
225 was repaired.
226
227- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
228 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
229 been repaired.
230
231- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
232 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
233 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
234
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235- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
236 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
237
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238- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
239 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
240 IPv4 address.
241
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242- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
243 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
244 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
245 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
246 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
247
248- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
249 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
250 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
251
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252- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
253
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254- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
255
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256- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
257 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
258 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
259 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
260 unnecessary logging.
261
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262- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
263 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
264
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265- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
266 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
267 is incompatible is printed.
268
269- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
270 a previously undefined option code.
271
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272- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
273 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
274
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275- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
276 than the year 2000.
277
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278- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
279
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280- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
281
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282- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
283
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284 Changes since 4.0.0b3
285
286- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
287 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
288 configuration.
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290- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
291 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
292
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293- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
294 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
295 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
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297- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
298 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
299 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
300 a requested address.
301
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302- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
303 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
304 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
305 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
306
307- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
308 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
309 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
310 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
311
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312- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
313 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
314 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
315
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316- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
317 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
318
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319- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
320
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321- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
322 codes through some conditions.
323
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324- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
325 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
326
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327- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
328 seemingly random values.
329
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330- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
331
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332- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
333 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
334 one ever has.
335
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336- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
337 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
338 to a REQUEST.
339
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340- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
341 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
342 level.
343
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344 Changes since 4.0.0b2
345
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346- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
347
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348- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
349 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
350 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
351 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
352 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
353
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354- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
355 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
356 new address.
357
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358 Changes since 4.0.0b1
359
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360- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
361 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
362 simultaneously on a single interface.
363
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364- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
365 of service under unusual server configurations
366
367- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
368
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369- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
370 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
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372- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
373 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
374 on every pool rebalance run.
375
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376- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
377 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
378
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379- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
380 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
381
ab3a540f 382 Changes since 4.0.0a3
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384- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
385 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
386
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387- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
388 point out the problem.
389
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390- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
391 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
392 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
393
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394- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
395 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
396
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397- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
398 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
399 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
400
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401- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
402
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403- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
404 fixed by Marcus Goller.
405
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406- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
407 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
408 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
409 regardless of the existence of bindings.
410
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411- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
412
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413- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
414 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
415 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
416 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
417 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
418
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419- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
420
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421 Changes since 4.0.0a2
422
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423- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
424 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
425
763cba6b 426- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
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428- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
429 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
430 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
431
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432- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
433
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434- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
435 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
436
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437- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
438 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
439 loaded from persistent storage.
440
45d545f0 441- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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442 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
443 necessary.
444
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445- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
446 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
447 rapid-commit option.
448
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449- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
450 non-128-bits in length were removed.
451
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452 Changes since 4.0.0a1
453
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454- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
455 and fix.
456
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457- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
458
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459- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
460
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461- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
462 for when loading configuration.
463
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464- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
465 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
466 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
467
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468- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
469 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
470 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
471 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
472
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473- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
474
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475- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
476 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 477
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478- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
479
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480- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
481
482- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
483 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
484
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485- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
486 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
487
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488- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
489
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490- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
491 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
492
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493 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
494
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495- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
496
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497- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
498 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
499
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500- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
501
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502- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
503 initialized.
504
505- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
506
507- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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508 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
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510- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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512- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
513
514- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
515 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
516
517- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
518
8ea19a71 519- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 520 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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521
522- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
523 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
524
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525- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
526
527- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
528
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529- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
530
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531 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
532
533- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
534 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
535 no support currently for both.
536
537- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
538 IAADDR option.
539
540- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
541 options.
542
543- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
544
545- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
546 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
547
548- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
549 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
550 specifying type 1 or type 2).
551
552- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
553 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
554
555- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
556 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
557 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
558 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
559 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
560 differently, they both use the same code here).
561
562- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
563 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
564 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
565
566- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
567
568- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
569 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
570 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
571 it should not intercept.
572
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573 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
574
575- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
576 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
577 between primary and secondary.
578
579- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
580 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
581 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
582
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583- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
584
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585- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
586 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
587 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
588 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
589 or REQUEST messages.
590
591- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
592 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
593
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594- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
595
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596 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
597
598- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
599 failover protected subnets was removed.
600
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601 Changes since 3.1.0b2
602
603- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
604 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
605 odd number of leases).
606
607- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
608 rebalance run, and one after.
609
610- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
611 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
612 processing these messages.
613
fe5b0fdd 614 Changes since 3.1.0b1
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616- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
617 objects.
618
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619- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
620 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
621 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
622 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
623 at Allianz.
624
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625- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
626 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
627
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628- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
629 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
630
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631- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
632 caused the server to abort.
633
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634- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
635 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
636 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
637
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638- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
639 by empty spaces would not get included.
640
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641- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
642 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
643
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644- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
645 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
646
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647- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
648 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
649
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650- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
651 on the parameter request list.
652
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653 Changes since 3.1.0a3
654
655- Some spelling fixes.
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657 Changes since 3.1.0a2
658
659- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
660 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
661
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662- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
663 domain-search option syntax.
664
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665 Changes since 3.1.0a1
666
667- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
668 hash table was repaired.
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670- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
671 entering normal state.
672
673- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
674 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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675 'xid mismatch' log messages.
676
677- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
678 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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680- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
681 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
682 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
683 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
684
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686 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
687 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
688 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
689 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
690 to their needs.
691
692- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
693 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
694 run will attempt balance.
695
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696- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
697
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698 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
699
700- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
701 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
702 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
703 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
704
98bd7ca0 705- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 706 was introduced.
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707
708- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
709 via OMAPI.
710
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711- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
712 the protocol draft.
713
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714- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
715 one does not already exist on the system.
716
b43c87ad 717- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
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719- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
720 matches RFC 3074.
721
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722- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
723 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 724 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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726- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
727 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 728 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
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730- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
731 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
732 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
733 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
734
735- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
736 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
737 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
738 priority over the client's parameter request list.
739
f7fdb216 740- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 741 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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742 DHCPv6 support.
743
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744- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
745 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
746 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
747
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748- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
749 have been incorporated.
750
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751- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
752 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
753 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
754 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
755 that belong to the peer in need.
756
757- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
758 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
759
760- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
761 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
762 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
763
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764- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
765 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
766
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767- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
768 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
769 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
770 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
771 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
772
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773- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
774 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
775 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
776 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
777
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778- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
779 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
780 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
781 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
782 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
783 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
784 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
785 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
786 ignoring this aspect of their request.
787
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788- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
789 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
790
41e45067 791- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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792 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
793 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
794 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
795
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796- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
797 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
798 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
799 hardware and funding the development.
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801- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
802 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
803 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
804 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
805 via Robin Breathe.
806
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807- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
808 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
809 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
810 from Christof Chen.
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812- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
813 formally supported.
814
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815 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
816
817- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
818 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
819
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820 Changes since 3.0.5
821
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822- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
823 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
824 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 825 they actually received.
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826
827- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
828
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829- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
830 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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831 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
832 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
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834- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
835
d69fb6a8 836- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 837 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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839- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
840 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
841 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
842 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
843 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
844 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
845 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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846 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
847
848- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
849 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
850 'file' field.
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852- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
853 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
854
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855- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
856 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
857 a patch from Kevin Steves.
858
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859- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
860 from Chris Wagner.
861
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862- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
863 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
864 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
865
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866- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
867 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
868 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
869 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
870 was set.
871
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872- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
873 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
874
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875- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
876 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
877 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
878 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
879 active ones.
880
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901306d5 883- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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884 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
885 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
886 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
887 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
888
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889- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
890 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
891
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892 Changes since 3.0.4
893
894- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
895 scopes are actually global has been added.
896
897- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
898 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
899 known to be damaging.
900
901- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
902 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
903 balancing).
904
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905- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
906 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
907 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
908
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909- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
910 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
911 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
912
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913- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
914 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
915 more clear now.
916
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917- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
918 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
919 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
920 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
921 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 922 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
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924- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
925 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
926
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927- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
928 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
929 made possible.
930
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931- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
932 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
933 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
934
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935- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
936 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
937
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938- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
939 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
940 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
941
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942- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
943 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
944 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
945 value with the later configured value).
946
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947- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
948 have been named and documented.
949
950- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
951 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
952 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
953 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
954 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
955 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
956 write new output.
957
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958 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
959
960- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
961 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
962
963 Changes since 3.0.4b3
964
965- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
966 mailing list.
967
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968 Changes since 3.0.4b2
969
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971 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
972
973- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
974 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
975
976- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
977 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
978 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
979 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
980
981- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
982 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
983 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
984 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
985 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
986 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
987 transition (properly).
988
989- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
990
991 Changes since 3.0.4b1
992
993- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
994 STDIN after reading one line.
995
996- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
997 descriptor it opened twice.
998
999- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
1000 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
1001 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
1002
1003 Changes since 3.0.3
1004
1005- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
1006 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
1007 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
1008
1009- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
1010 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
1011 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
1012
1013- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
1014 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 1015 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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1016 leases to allocate.
1017
1018- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 1019 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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1020 than the entire block of them.
1021
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1022! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
1023 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
1024 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
1025 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
1026 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
1027 to a patch from infamous42md.
1028
1029! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
1030 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
1031 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
1032 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
1033 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
1034 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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1036- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
1037 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
1038 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
1039
1040- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
1041 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
1042
1043- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
1044 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
1045 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
1046 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
1047 transitional states.
1048
1049- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
1050 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
1051 once it detects the old db does not exist.
1052
1053- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
1054 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
1055 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
1056
1057- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 1058 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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1060- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
1061 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
1062
1063- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
1064 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
1065 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
1066
1067- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
1068 patch from 'infamous42md'.
1069
1070- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
1071 repaired.
1072
1073- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
1074 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
1075 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
1076 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
1077
1078- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
1079 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
1080 data.
1081
1082- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
1083 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
1084 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
1085 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
1086 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
1087
1088- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
1089 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
1090 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
1091 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
1092 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
1093
1094- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
1095 has been repaired.
1096
1097- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
1098 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
1099 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
1100 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
1101 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
1102
1103- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 1104 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
88cd8aca 1105
45d545f0 1106- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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1107 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
1108 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
1109 move to 3.[01].x.
1110
1111- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
1112 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
1113
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1114 Changes since 3.0.3b3
1115
1116- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
1117 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
1118
1119- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
1120 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
1121 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
1122 workaround.
1123
1124 Changes since 3.0.3b2
1125
1126- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
1127 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
1128
1129 Changes since 3.0.3b1
1130
1131- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
1132 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
1133 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
1134
1135- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
1136 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
1137 dynamic updates were also retouched.
1138
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1139 Changes since 3.0.2
1140
1141- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 1142 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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1143 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
1144
1145- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
1146 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
1147 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
1148 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
1149 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
1150
1151- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
1152 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
1153 Jason Vas Dias at Redhat.
1154
1155- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
1156 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
1157 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
1158
1159- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
1160 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
1161 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
1162 Peter Poeml.
1163
1164- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
1165 Dr. Peter Poeml.
1166
1167- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
1168 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
1169 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
1170 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
1171 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
1172 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
1173
1174- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
1175 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
1176 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
1177 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
1178
1179- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
1180 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
1181 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
1182 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
1183
1184- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
1185 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
1186
1187- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
1188 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
1189 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
1190
1191- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
1192 7 bytes, and failover.
1193
1194- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
1195 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
1196 at Redhat.
1197
1198- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
1199 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
1200 should work better.
1201
1202- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
1203 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
1204 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
1205
1206- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
1207 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
1208 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
1209
1210 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
1211
1212- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
1213 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
1214
1215 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
1216
45d545f0 1217- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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1218 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
1219 overloading. This was repaired.
1220
1221- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
1222 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
1223 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
1224 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
1225 three chunks to fit.
1226
1227- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
1228 were repaired.
1229
1230- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
1231 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
1232 leak).
1233
1234 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
1235
1236- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
1237 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
1238
1239 Changes since 3.0.2b1
1240
1241- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
1242
1243 Changes since 3.0.1
1244
1245- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
1246 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
1247 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
1248
1249- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
1250 name was not provided by the server.
1251
1252- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
1253 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
1254
1255- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
1256 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
1257
1258- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
1259 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
1260
1261- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
1262
1263- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
1264
1265- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
1266 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
1267 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
1268 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
1269 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
1270
1271- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
1272 the configuration be globally scoped.
1273
1274- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
1275 Farkas.
1276
1277- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
1278 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1279
1280- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
1281 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
1282
1283- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
1284 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
1285
1286- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
1287 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
1288 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
1289 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
1290
1291- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
1292 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
1293 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
1294 respond to POOLREQ messages.
1295
1296- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
1297 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
1298 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
1299
1300- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
1301
1302- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
1303 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
1304 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
1305
1306- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
1307 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
1308 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
1309 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
1310 Fjone and directconnect.no.
1311
1312- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
1313 to Andreas Gustafsson.
1314
1315- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
1316 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
1317
1318- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
1319 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
1320 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
1321 DISCOVER timeout handling.
1322
1323- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
1324 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
1325
1326- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
1327 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
1328 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
1329
1330- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
1331 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
1332 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
1333 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
1334 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
1335 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
1336
1337- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
1338 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
1339 Infoblox.
1340
1341- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
1342
1343- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
1344 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
1345 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
1346 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
1347 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
1348 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
1349 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
1350
1351- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
1352 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
1353 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
1354
1355- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
1356 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
1357 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
1358
1359- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
1360
1361 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
1362
1363- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
1364 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
1365 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
1366 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
1367 systems either.
1368
1369- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
1370
1371- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
1372 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
1373 is false.
1374
1375- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
1376 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
1377
1378- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
1379
1380 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
1381
1382! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
1383 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
1384 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
1385 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
1386 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
1387 both finding and solving the problem.
1388
1389! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
45d545f0 1390 in log_*() functions was evidenced, on some specific platforms where
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1391 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
1392 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
1393 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
1394 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
1395 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
1396 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
1397 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
1398 published version of ISC DHCP.
1399
1400- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
1401
1402- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
1403
1404 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
1405
1406- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
1407 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
1408 Richard Hirst.
1409
1410- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
1411 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
1412 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
1413
1414- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
1415
1416- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
1417 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
1418 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
1419 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
1420
1421- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 1422 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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1423
1424- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
1425 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
1426
1427- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
1428
1429 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
1430
1431- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
1432 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
1433
1434- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
1435 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
1436 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
1437
1438- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
1439 by name was fixed.
1440
45d545f0 1441- Declaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
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1442 longer result in error.
1443
1444- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
1445
1446- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
1447 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
1448 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
1449
1450- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
1451 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
1452
1453- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
1454 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
1455 Blapp.
1456
1457- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
1458 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
1459 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
1460 Martin Blapp.
1461
1462- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
1463 expiry times in failover configurations.
1464
1465- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
1466 Steve G.
1467
1468- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
1469 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
1470
1471- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
1472 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
1473 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
1474 now "unknown-144".
1475
1476- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
1477 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
1478
1479 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
1480
1481- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
1482
1483- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
1484 not be bash.
1485
1486- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1487
1488- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
1489 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
1490 that errored before will now work properly.
1491
1492- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
1493 names was repaired.
1494
1495- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
1496 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
1497 configuration file.
1498
1499- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
1500 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1501
1502- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
1503 error rather than a null dereference.
1504
1505 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
1506
1507- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
1508
1509- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
1510
1511- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
1512 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
1513
1514- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
1515
1516- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
1517
1518- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
1519 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
1520 self-corrupting lease databases.
1521
1522- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
1523
1524- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
1525 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
1526
1527- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
1528
1529- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
1530
1531- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
1532 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
1533 Ling Gou.
1534
1535- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
1536 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1537
1538- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
1539 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
1540 Ted Lemon for the patch.
1541
1542- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
1543 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
1544
1545 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
1546
1547- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
1548 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
1549
1550- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
1551
1552- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
1553 a memory leak.
1554
1555- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
1556 script.
1557
1558- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
1559
1560- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
1561
1562- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
1563
1564- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
1565
1566- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
1567
1568- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
1569
1570- Increment the hop count when relaying.
1571
1572- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
1573
1574- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
1575
1576- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
1577
1578- Change the type of rbuf_max.
1579
1580- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
1581
1582 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
1583
1584- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
1585 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
1586 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
1587
1588 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
1589
1590- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
1591 to be renewed.
1592
1593- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
1594 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
1595
1596- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
1597 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
1598
1599- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
1600 that two permit lists matched.
1601
1602- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
1603 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
1604
1605- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
1606
1607- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
1608 requested it, contrary to the standard.
1609
1610- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
1611
1612- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
1613
1614- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
1615 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
1616 going to update its A record.
1617
1618- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
1619 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
1620 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
1621 DNS server.
1622
1623- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
1624
1625- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
1626
1627- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
1628 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
1629 NetBSD project).
1630
1631- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
1632 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
1633
1634- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
1635 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
1636
1637- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
1638
1639- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
1640
1641- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
1642 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
1643 failover protocol standard.
1644
1645- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
1646 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
1647 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
1648
1649- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
1650 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
1651 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
1652 do so.
1653
1654- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
1655
1656 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
1657
1658- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
1659
1660- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
1661 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
1662
1663- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
1664 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
1665
1666- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
1667 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
1668 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
1669
1670- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
1671 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
1672 network, merge the two pools.
1673
1674- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
1675 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
1676 fix this bug.
1677
1678 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
1679
1680- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
1681 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
1682
1683- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
1684 the same case.
1685
1686- Additional documentation.
1687
1688- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
1689 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
1690
1691 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
1692
1693- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
1694- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
1695
1696 Changes since 3.0.1rc2
1697
1698- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
1699 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
1700 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
1701 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
1702 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
1703
1704 Changes since 3.0.1rc1
1705
1706- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
1707 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
1708 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
1709 wasn't the one that removed it.
1710
1711- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
1712 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
1713 were not configured.
1714
1715- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
1716
1717- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
1718 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
1719 routing information.
1720
1721- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
1722 request being sent.
1723
1724- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
1725 done.
1726
1727- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
1728 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
1729 were pending.
1730
1731- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
1732 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
1733 problems with failover.
1734
1735- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
1736 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
1737 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
1738
1739 Changes since 3.0
1740
1741- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
1742 smash in the subclass allocation code.
1743
1744- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
1745 no object is open, it dumps core.
1746
1747- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
1748
1749- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
1750
1751- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
1752
1753- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
1754 a host object attribute with a null value.
1755
1756 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
1757
1758- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
1759
1760- Fix an obscure core dump.
1761
1762- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
1763 when crucial information is left out.
1764
1765- Log "no free leases" as an error.
1766
1767- Documentation updates.
1768
1769 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
1770
1771- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
1772
1773- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
1774 structure wasn't zeroed.
1775
1776- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
1777 incorrectly.
1778
1779- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
1780 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
1781 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
1782 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
1783 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
1784 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
1785 restarted.
1786
1787 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
1788
1789- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
1790 in failover-enabled pools.
1791
1792- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
1793 declarations).
1794
1795- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
1796 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
1797
1798- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
1799 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
1800
1801- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
1802
1803- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
1804 defined but not referenced by any pools.
1805
1806- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
1807
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1809
1810- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
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1813
1814- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
1815
1816- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
1817
1818- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
1819
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1821
1822- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
1823 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
1824 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
1825
1826- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
1827 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
1828 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
1829 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
1830 string.
1831
1832- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
1833
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1835
1836- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
1837 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
1838
1839- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
1840 malformed packets.
1841
1842- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
1843
1844- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
1845 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
1846 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
1847
1848- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
1849
1850- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
1851
1852- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
1853
1854- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
1855 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
1856
1857- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
1858 tcp connections from being played back.
1859
1860- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
1861 on exit.
1862
1863- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
1864
1865- Add some configurability to the build system.
1866
1867- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
1868
1869- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
1870 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
1871 hadn't been noticed until now.
1872
1873 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
1874
1875- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
1876 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
1877
1878- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
1879 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
1880 conformant, but also didn't work).
1881
1882- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
1883 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
1884
1885- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
1886 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
1887
1888- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
1889 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
1890
1891- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
1892 variables to leases via OMAPI.
1893
1894- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
1895 doing failover.
1896
1897- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
1898 running on alpha processors.
1899
1900- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
1901 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
1902
1903- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
1904
1905- Install omshell (including new documentation).
1906
1907- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
1908 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
1909
1910- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
1911
1912- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
1913 actually named (key names are domain names).
1914
1915- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
1916
1917- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
1918 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
1919
1920- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
1921 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
1922
1923- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
1924 statements.
1925
1926- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
1927 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
1928
1929- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
1930 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
1931 operating.
1932
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1934
1935- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
1936 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
1937 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
1938 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
1939
1940- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
1941 using omapi to manipulate leases.
1942
1943- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
1944
1945
1946 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
1947
1948- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
1949 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
1950
1951- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
1952 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
1953 to the chain.
1954
1955- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
1956
1957- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
1958
1959- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
1960
98311e4b 1961- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
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1962 attribute values in omshell.
1963
98311e4b 1964- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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1966- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
1967
1968 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
1969
1970- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
1971 DHCPDECLINE.
1972
1973- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
1974
1975- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
1976 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
1977 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
1978
1979- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
1980
1981- Documentation fixes.
1982
1983- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
1984 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
1985
1986- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
1987 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
1988
1989- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
1990
1991- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
1992
1993- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
1994 case-insensitive.
1995
1996- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
1997
98311e4b 1998- If a signature algorithm is not terminated with '.', terminate it so
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1999 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
2000 consistently.
2001
2002- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
2003 systems with the probe not working correctly.
2004
2005- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
2006
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2008
2009- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
2010 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
2011 result of duplicate leases.
2012
2013- Document OMAPI server objects.
2014
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2016
2017- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
2018 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
2019
2020- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
2021 core dumps.
2022
2023- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
2024 Friedrich.
2025
2026- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
2027
2028 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
2029
2030- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
2031 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 2032 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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2033 billing class code.
2034
2035- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
2036 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
2037
2038- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
2039 trace file.
2040
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2043- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
2044 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
2045 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
2046 e.g., Digital Unix.
2047
2048- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
2049 when no error had occurred.
2050
2051- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
2052 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
2053 non-communicating state.
2054
2055- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
2056
2057- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
2058 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
2059 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
2060
2061- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
2062 when the client lease expired.
2063
2064- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
2065 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
2066 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
2067 in testing.
2068
2069- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
2070 the command line, it would fail.
2071
2072- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
2073 user impact).
2074
2075- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
2076
2077- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
2078 they're executable.
2079
2080 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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2082- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
2083 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
2084 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
2085 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
2086
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2087- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
2088 Transmeta.
2089
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2090- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
2091 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
2092 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
2093 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
2094
2095- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
2096 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
2097
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2099
2100- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
2101 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
2102
2103- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
2104
2105- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
2106
2107- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
2108
2109- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
2110
2111- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
2112
2113- Update some parts of the README file.
2114
2115- Support GCC on SCO.
2116
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2118
2119- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
2120 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
2121
2122- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
2123 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
2124 unbill the old class.
2125
2126- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
2127 process the state transition immediately.
2128
2129- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
2130 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
2131
2132- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
2133
2134- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
2135
2136- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
2137
2138- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
2139
2140- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
2141 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
2142 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
2143
2144- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
2145 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
2146
2147- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
2148 lease file.
2149
2150- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
2151
2152- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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2155
2156- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
2157 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
2158
2159- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
2160
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2162
2163- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
2164
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2166
2167- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
2168
2169- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
2170 pl19.
2171
2172- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
2173 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
2174 past the regression test.
2175
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2177
2178- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
2179 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
2180
2181- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
2182 DHCPREQUEST.
2183
2184- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
2185
2186- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
2187
2188- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
2189
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2190 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 18
2191
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2192- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
2193 (Damien Neil)
2194
2195- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
2196 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
2197
2198- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
2199 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
2200 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
2201
2202- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
2203 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
2204 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
2205 message.
2206
2207- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
2208 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
2209 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
2210
98311e4b 2211- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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2213 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
2214 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
2215 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
2216 this way will work.
2217
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2219
2220- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
2221 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
2222 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
2223 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
2224
2225 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
2226
2227 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
2228
2229- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
2230 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
2231 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
2232
2233- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
2234 Hermann Lauer.
2235
2236- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
2237 messages.
2238
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2240 it contained quoted strings.
2241
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2242 ** there was no pl17 **
2243
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2244 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 16
2245
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2246- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
2247 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
2248 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
2249 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
2250 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
2251 tracking down memory leaks.
2252
2253- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
2254 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
2255 Solaris.
2256
2257- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
2258 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
2259 corruption and core dumps.
2260
2261- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
2262 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
2263
2264- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
2265
2266- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
2267 and implemented by Damien Neil.
2268
2269- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
2270 name and version to standard output.
2271
2272- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
2273
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2275 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
2276
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2277- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
2278
2279- Lots of documentation updates.
2280
2281- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
2282 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
2283
2284- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
2285
2286- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
2287 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
2288
2289
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2290 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 15
2291
2292- Some documentation tweaks.
2293
2294- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
2295
2296- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
2297
2298- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
2299 agent options into them.
2300
2301- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
2302
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2304 options.
2305
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2307
2308- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
2309 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
2310 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
2311 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
2312 used in class statements to control address allocation.
2313
2314- Fix up documentation.
2315
2316- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
2317 significantly in a high-demand situation.
2318
2319- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
2320
2321- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
2322
2323- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
2324 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
2325 practical use otherwise.
2326
2327- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
2328 for debugging.
2329
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2331
2332- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
2333 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
2334 dump on some systems.
2335
2336- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
2337 option.
2338
2339- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
2340 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
2341
2342- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
2343 that were not printing enough information.
2344
2345- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
2346 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
2347
2348- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
2349 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
2350 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
2351 were answering.
2352
2353- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
2354 the transition.
2355
2356
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2358
2359- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
2360
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2362
2363- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
2364 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
2365 representation from working correctly.
2366
2367- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
2368 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
2369 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
2370 could spin.
2371
2372- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
2373 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
2374
2375- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
2376 interface name on the command line.
2377
2378- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
2379 client state.
2380
2381- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
2382 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
2383 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
2384 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
2385 added by Ted Lemon.
2386
2387- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
2388 be made to log debugging information and other information.
2389
2390- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
2391 end option.
2392
2393- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
2394 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
2395 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
2396
2397- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
2398 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
2399 face of a null hardware address on input.
2400
2401- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
2402 specified unqualified.
2403
2404- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
2405 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
2406
2407- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
2408 RFC.
2409
2410- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
2411
2412- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
2413
2414- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
2415 it works.
2416
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2417 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
2418
2419- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
2420 to CVS.
2421
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2422 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
2423
2424- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
2425
2426- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
2427 in patchlevel 9.
2428
2429- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
2430 options at renewal time.
2431
2432- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
2433 configuration language.
2434
2435- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
2436
2437- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
2438 done when no client hostname was received.
2439
2440- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
2441
2442- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
2443 the DHCP option space.
2444
2445- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
2446
2447- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
2448 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
2449
2450- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
2451 silently dropped.
2452
2453- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
2454 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
2455
2456- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
2457 will be correctly updated.
2458
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2459 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
2460
2461- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
2462 bounds-checking.
2463
2464 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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2465
2466- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
2467
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2470- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
2471 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
2472 possible to exploit it any further than that.
2473
2474- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
2475 option.
2476
2477- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
2478 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
2479 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
2480 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
2481 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
2482 meaningfully.
2483
2484- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
2485 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
2486 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
2487
2488- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
2489 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
2490 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
2491 this one down!
2492
2493- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
2494 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
2495 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
2496 down and fixing this problem.
2497
2498 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
2499
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2500- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
2501 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
2502
2503- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
2504 environment.
2505
2506- Fix suffix operator.
2507
2508- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
2509
2510- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
2511 connection code.
2512
2513- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
2514
2515- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
2516
2517- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
2518 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
2519
2520- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
2521
2522- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
2523
2524- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
2525 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
2526
2527- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
2528 spawn with.
2529
2530- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
2531 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
2532
2533- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
2534 for OMAPI.
2535
2536- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
2537 can install in host declarations.
2538
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2539 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
2540
2541- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
2542 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
2543 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
2544 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
2545 comments)!
2546
2547- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
2548
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2549- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
2550 request for help on this with patches!
2551
2552- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
2553 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
2554 lost, they never reconnect.
2555
2556- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
2557 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
2558
2559- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
2560 dump.
2561
2562- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
2563 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
2564 catching this one.
2565
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2567
2568- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
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2570 lease renewal time.
2571
2572- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
2573 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
2574 declared without a key.
2575
2576- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
2577
2578- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
2579 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
2580
2581- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
2582 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
2583 determine the maximum size of the response.
2584
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2586
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2587- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
2588 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
2589
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2590- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
2591 RENEWING client.
2592
2593- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
2594
2595- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
2596 using memcmp().
2597
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2598 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
2599
2600- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
2601 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
2602 pointing this out.
2603
2604- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
2605 exit.
2606
2607- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
2608
2609- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
2610 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.