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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
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2 Version 4.0.0rc1
3 December 5, 2007
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98311e4b 5 Release Notes
72c7bd79 6
da411127 7 NEW FEATURES
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9The DHCP server in version 4.0.x of the ISC DHCP Distribution supports
10DHCPv6 in addition to DHCP for IPv4.
11
12Several new options have been added to the dhcpd executable, which are
13documented in the man page. Several changes have been made to the
14configuration file as well, which are also documented in the man
15pages.
16
45d545f0 17There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
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18release, which will be addressed shortly:
19
99fe695e 20- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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22- There is no DHCPv6 Relay Agent implementation. There are only DHCPv6
23 Server and Client implementations.
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39725d92 25- Only a single address is supported per IA.
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27- IA_TA addresses are not supported.
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98bd7ca0 29- IA_PD prefixes are not supported.
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31- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages. These
32 should be configurable, and probably localized via gettext() or the
33 like.
34
35- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
36
37- Dynamically allocated leases do not respond to Confirm messages.
38
98bd7ca0 39- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 40 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 41 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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43For information on how to install, configure and run this software,
44as well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult
45the README file.
46
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47ISC DHCP now uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please
48review the output of "./configure --help" to see what options are
49available.
50
51The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and
52may not work on other platforms. Please report any problems and
53suggested fixes to <dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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56 Changes since 4.0.0b3
57
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58- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
59 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
60 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
61 a requested address.
62
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63- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
64 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
65 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
66 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
67
68- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
69 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
70 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
71 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
72
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73- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
74 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
75 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
76
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77- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
78 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
79
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80- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
81
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82- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
83 codes through some conditions.
84
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85- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
86 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
87
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88- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
89 seemingly random values.
90
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91- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
92
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93- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
94 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
95 one ever has.
96
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97- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
98 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
99 to a REQUEST.
100
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101- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
102 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
103 level.
104
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105 Changes since 4.0.0b2
106
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107- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
108
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109- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
110 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
111 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
112 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
113 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
114
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115- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
116 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
117 new address.
118
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119 Changes since 4.0.0b1
120
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121- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
122 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
123 simultaneously on a single interface.
124
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125- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
126 of service under unusual server configurations
127
128- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
129
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130- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
131 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
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133- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
134 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
135 on every pool rebalance run.
136
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137- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
138 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
139
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140- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
141 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
142
ab3a540f 143 Changes since 4.0.0a3
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145- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
146 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
147
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148- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
149 point out the problem.
150
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151- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
152 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
153 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
154
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155- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
156 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
157
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158- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
159 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
160 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
161
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162- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
163
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164- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
165 fixed by Marcus Goller.
166
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167- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
168 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
169 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
170 regardless of the existence of bindings.
171
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172- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
173
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174- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
175 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
176 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
177 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
178 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
179
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180- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
181
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182 Changes since 4.0.0a2
183
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184- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
185 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
186
763cba6b 187- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
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189- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
190 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
191 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
192
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193- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
194
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195- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
196 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
197
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198- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
199 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
200 loaded from persistent storage.
201
45d545f0 202- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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203 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
204 necessary.
205
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206- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
207 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
208 rapid-commit option.
209
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210- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
211 non-128-bits in length were removed.
212
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213 Changes since 4.0.0a1
214
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215- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
216 and fix.
217
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218- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
219
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220- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
221
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222- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
223 for when loading configuration.
224
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225- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
226 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
227 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
228
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229- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
230 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
231 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
232 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
233
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234- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
235
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236- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
237 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 238
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239- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
240
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241- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
242
243- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
244 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
245
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246- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
247 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
248
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249- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
250
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251- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
252 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
253
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254 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
255
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256- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
257
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258- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
259 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
260
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261- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
262
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263- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
264 initialized.
265
266- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
267
268- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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269 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
270
271- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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273- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
274
275- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
276 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
277
278- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
279
8ea19a71 280- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 281 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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282
283- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
284 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
285
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286- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
287
288- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
289
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290- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
291
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292 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
293
294- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
295 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
296 no support currently for both.
297
298- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
299 IAADDR option.
300
301- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
302 options.
303
304- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
305
306- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
307 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
308
309- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
310 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
311 specifying type 1 or type 2).
312
313- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
314 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
315
316- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
317 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
318 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
319 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
320 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
321 differently, they both use the same code here).
322
323- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
324 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
325 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
326
327- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
328
329- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
330 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
331 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
332 it should not intercept.
333
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334 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
335
336- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
337 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
338 between primary and secondary.
339
340- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
341 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
342 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
343
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344- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
345
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346- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
347 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
348 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
349 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
350 or REQUEST messages.
351
352- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
353 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
354
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355- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
356
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357 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
358
359- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
360 failover protected subnets was removed.
361
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362 Changes since 3.1.0b2
363
364- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
365 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
366 odd number of leases).
367
368- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
369 rebalance run, and one after.
370
371- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
372 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
373 processing these messages.
374
fe5b0fdd 375 Changes since 3.1.0b1
27837f95 376
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377- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
378 objects.
379
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380- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
381 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
382 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
383 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
384 at Allianz.
385
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386- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
387 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
388
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389- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
390 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
391
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392- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
393 caused the server to abort.
394
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395- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
396 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
397 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
398
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399- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
400 by empty spaces would not get included.
401
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402- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
403 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
404
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405- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
406 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
407
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408- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
409 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
410
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411- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
412 on the parameter request list.
413
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414 Changes since 3.1.0a3
415
416- Some spelling fixes.
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418 Changes since 3.1.0a2
419
420- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
421 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
422
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423- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
424 domain-search option syntax.
425
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426 Changes since 3.1.0a1
427
428- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
429 hash table was repaired.
430
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431- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
432 entering normal state.
433
434- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
435 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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436 'xid mismatch' log messages.
437
438- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
439 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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441- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
442 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
443 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
444 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
445
45d545f0 446- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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447 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
448 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
449 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
450 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
451 to their needs.
452
453- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
454 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
455 run will attempt balance.
456
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457- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
458
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459 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
460
461- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
462 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
463 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
464 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
465
98bd7ca0 466- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 467 was introduced.
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469- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
470 via OMAPI.
471
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472- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
473 the protocol draft.
474
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475- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
476 one does not already exist on the system.
477
b43c87ad 478- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 479
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480- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
481 matches RFC 3074.
482
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483- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
484 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 485 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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487- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
488 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 489 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
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491- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
492 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
493 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
494 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
495
496- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
497 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
498 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
499 priority over the client's parameter request list.
500
f7fdb216 501- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 502 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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503 DHCPv6 support.
504
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505- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
506 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
507 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
508
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509- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
510 have been incorporated.
511
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512- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
513 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
514 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
515 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
516 that belong to the peer in need.
517
518- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
519 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
520
521- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
522 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
523 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
524
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525- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
526 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
527
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528- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
529 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
530 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
531 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
532 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
533
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534- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
535 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
536 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
537 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
538
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539- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
540 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
541 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
542 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
543 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
544 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
545 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
546 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
547 ignoring this aspect of their request.
548
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549- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
550 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
551
41e45067 552- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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553 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
554 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
555 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
556
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557- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
558 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
559 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
560 hardware and funding the development.
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562- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
563 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
564 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
565 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
566 via Robin Breathe.
567
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568- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
569 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
570 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
571 from Christof Chen.
572
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573- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
574 formally supported.
575
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576 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
577
578- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
579 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
580
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581 Changes since 3.0.5
582
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583- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
584 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
585 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 586 they actually received.
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588- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
589
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590- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
591 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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592 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
593 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
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595- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
596
d69fb6a8 597- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 598 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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600- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
601 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
602 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
603 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
604 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
605 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
606 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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607 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
608
609- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
610 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
611 'file' field.
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613- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
614 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
615
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616- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
617 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
618 a patch from Kevin Steves.
619
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620- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
621 from Chris Wagner.
622
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623- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
624 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
625 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
626
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627- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
628 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
629 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
630 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
631 was set.
632
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633- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
634 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
635
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636- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
637 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
638 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
639 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
640 active ones.
641
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645 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
646 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
647 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
648 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
649
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650- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
651 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
652
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653 Changes since 3.0.4
654
655- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
656 scopes are actually global has been added.
657
658- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
659 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
660 known to be damaging.
661
662- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
663 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
664 balancing).
665
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666- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
667 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
668 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
669
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670- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
671 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
672 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
673
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674- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
675 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
676 more clear now.
677
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678- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
679 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
680 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
681 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
682 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 683 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
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685- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
686 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
687
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688- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
689 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
690 made possible.
691
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692- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
693 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
694 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
695
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696- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
697 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
698
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699- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
700 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
701 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
702
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703- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
704 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
705 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
706 value with the later configured value).
707
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708- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
709 have been named and documented.
710
711- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
712 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
713 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
714 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
715 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
716 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
717 write new output.
718
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719 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
720
721- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
722 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
723
724 Changes since 3.0.4b3
725
726- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
727 mailing list.
728
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729 Changes since 3.0.4b2
730
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732 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
733
734- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
735 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
736
737- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
738 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
739 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
740 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
741
742- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
743 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
744 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
745 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
746 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
747 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
748 transition (properly).
749
750- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
751
752 Changes since 3.0.4b1
753
754- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
755 STDIN after reading one line.
756
757- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
758 descriptor it opened twice.
759
760- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
761 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
762 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
763
764 Changes since 3.0.3
765
766- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
767 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
768 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
769
770- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
771 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
772 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
773
774- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
775 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 776 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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777 leases to allocate.
778
779- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 780 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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781 than the entire block of them.
782
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783! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
784 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
785 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
786 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
787 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
788 to a patch from infamous42md.
789
790! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
791 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
792 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
793 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
794 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
795 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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797- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
798 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
799 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
800
801- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
802 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
803
804- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
805 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
806 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
807 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
808 transitional states.
809
810- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
811 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
812 once it detects the old db does not exist.
813
814- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
815 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
816 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
817
818- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 819 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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821- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
822 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
823
824- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
825 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
826 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
827
828- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
829 patch from 'infamous42md'.
830
831- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
832 repaired.
833
834- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
835 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
836 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
837 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
838
839- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
840 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
841 data.
842
843- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
844 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
845 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
846 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
847 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
848
849- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
850 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
851 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
852 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
853 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
854
855- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
856 has been repaired.
857
858- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
859 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
860 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
861 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
862 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
863
864- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 865 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
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868 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
869 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
870 move to 3.[01].x.
871
872- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
873 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
874
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875 Changes since 3.0.3b3
876
877- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
878 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
879
880- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
881 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
882 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
883 workaround.
884
885 Changes since 3.0.3b2
886
887- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
888 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
889
890 Changes since 3.0.3b1
891
892- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
893 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
894 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
895
896- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
897 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
898 dynamic updates were also retouched.
899
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900 Changes since 3.0.2
901
902- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
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905
906- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
907 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
908 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
909 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
910 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
911
912- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
913 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
914 Jason Vas Dias at Redhat.
915
916- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
917 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
918 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
919
920- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
921 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
922 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
923 Peter Poeml.
924
925- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
926 Dr. Peter Poeml.
927
928- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
929 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
930 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
931 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
932 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
933 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
934
935- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
936 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
937 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
938 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
939
940- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
941 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
942 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
943 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
944
945- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
946 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
947
948- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
949 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
950 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
951
952- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
953 7 bytes, and failover.
954
955- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
956 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
957 at Redhat.
958
959- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
960 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
961 should work better.
962
963- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
964 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
965 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
966
967- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
968 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
969 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
970
971 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
972
973- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
974 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
975
976 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
977
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979 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
980 overloading. This was repaired.
981
982- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
983 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
984 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
985 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
986 three chunks to fit.
987
988- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
989 were repaired.
990
991- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
992 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
993 leak).
994
995 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
996
997- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
998 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
999
1000 Changes since 3.0.2b1
1001
1002- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
1003
1004 Changes since 3.0.1
1005
1006- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
1007 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
1008 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
1009
1010- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
1011 name was not provided by the server.
1012
1013- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
1014 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
1015
1016- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
1017 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
1018
1019- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
1020 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
1021
1022- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
1023
1024- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
1025
1026- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
1027 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
1028 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
1029 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
1030 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
1031
1032- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
1033 the configuration be globally scoped.
1034
1035- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
1036 Farkas.
1037
1038- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
1039 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1040
1041- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
1042 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
1043
1044- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
1045 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
1046
1047- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
1048 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
1049 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
1050 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
1051
1052- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
1053 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
1054 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
1055 respond to POOLREQ messages.
1056
1057- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
1058 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
1059 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
1060
1061- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
1062
1063- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
1064 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
1065 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
1066
1067- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
1068 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
1069 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
1070 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
1071 Fjone and directconnect.no.
1072
1073- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
1074 to Andreas Gustafsson.
1075
1076- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
1077 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
1078
1079- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
1080 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
1081 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
1082 DISCOVER timeout handling.
1083
1084- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
1085 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
1086
1087- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
1088 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
1089 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
1090
1091- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
1092 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
1093 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
1094 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
1095 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
1096 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
1097
1098- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
1099 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
1100 Infoblox.
1101
1102- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
1103
1104- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
1105 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
1106 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
1107 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
1108 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
1109 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
1110 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
1111
1112- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
1113 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
1114 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
1115
1116- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
1117 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
1118 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
1119
1120- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
1121
1122 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
1123
1124- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
1125 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
1126 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
1127 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
1128 systems either.
1129
1130- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
1131
1132- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
1133 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
1134 is false.
1135
1136- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
1137 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
1138
1139- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
1140
1141 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
1142
1143! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
1144 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
1145 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
1146 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
1147 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
1148 both finding and solving the problem.
1149
1150! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
45d545f0 1151 in log_*() functions was evidenced, on some specific platforms where
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1152 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
1153 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
1154 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
1155 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
1156 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
1157 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
1158 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
1159 published version of ISC DHCP.
1160
1161- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
1162
1163- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
1164
1165 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
1166
1167- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
1168 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
1169 Richard Hirst.
1170
1171- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
1172 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
1173 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
1174
1175- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
1176
1177- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
1178 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
1179 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
1180 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
1181
1182- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 1183 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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1184
1185- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
1186 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
1187
1188- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
1189
1190 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
1191
1192- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
1193 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
1194
1195- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
1196 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
1197 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
1198
1199- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
1200 by name was fixed.
1201
45d545f0 1202- Declaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
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1203 longer result in error.
1204
1205- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
1206
1207- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
1208 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
1209 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
1210
1211- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
1212 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
1213
1214- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
1215 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
1216 Blapp.
1217
1218- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
1219 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
1220 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
1221 Martin Blapp.
1222
1223- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
1224 expiry times in failover configurations.
1225
1226- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
1227 Steve G.
1228
1229- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
1230 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
1231
1232- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
1233 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
1234 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
1235 now "unknown-144".
1236
1237- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
1238 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
1239
1240 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
1241
1242- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
1243
1244- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
1245 not be bash.
1246
1247- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1248
1249- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
1250 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
1251 that errored before will now work properly.
1252
1253- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
1254 names was repaired.
1255
1256- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
1257 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
1258 configuration file.
1259
1260- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
1261 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1262
1263- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
1264 error rather than a null dereference.
1265
1266 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
1267
1268- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
1269
1270- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
1271
1272- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
1273 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
1274
1275- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
1276
1277- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
1278
1279- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
1280 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
1281 self-corrupting lease databases.
1282
1283- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
1284
1285- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
1286 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
1287
1288- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
1289
1290- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
1291
1292- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
1293 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
1294 Ling Gou.
1295
1296- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
1297 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1298
1299- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
1300 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
1301 Ted Lemon for the patch.
1302
1303- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
1304 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
1305
1306 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
1307
1308- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
1309 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
1310
1311- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
1312
1313- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
1314 a memory leak.
1315
1316- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
1317 script.
1318
1319- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
1320
1321- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
1322
1323- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
1324
1325- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
1326
1327- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
1328
1329- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
1330
1331- Increment the hop count when relaying.
1332
1333- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
1334
1335- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
1336
1337- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
1338
1339- Change the type of rbuf_max.
1340
1341- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
1342
1343 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
1344
1345- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
1346 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
1347 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
1348
1349 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
1350
1351- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
1352 to be renewed.
1353
1354- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
1355 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
1356
1357- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
1358 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
1359
1360- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
1361 that two permit lists matched.
1362
1363- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
1364 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
1365
1366- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
1367
1368- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
1369 requested it, contrary to the standard.
1370
1371- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
1372
1373- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
1374
1375- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
1376 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
1377 going to update its A record.
1378
1379- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
1380 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
1381 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
1382 DNS server.
1383
1384- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
1385
1386- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
1387
1388- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
1389 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
1390 NetBSD project).
1391
1392- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
1393 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
1394
1395- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
1396 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
1397
1398- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
1399
1400- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
1401
1402- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
1403 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
1404 failover protocol standard.
1405
1406- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
1407 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
1408 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
1409
1410- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
1411 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
1412 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
1413 do so.
1414
1415- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
1416
1417 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
1418
1419- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
1420
1421- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
1422 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
1423
1424- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
1425 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
1426
1427- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
1428 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
1429 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
1430
1431- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
1432 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
1433 network, merge the two pools.
1434
1435- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
1436 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
1437 fix this bug.
1438
1439 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
1440
1441- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
1442 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
1443
1444- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
1445 the same case.
1446
1447- Additional documentation.
1448
1449- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
1450 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
1451
1452 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
1453
1454- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
1455- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
1456
1457 Changes since 3.0.1rc2
1458
1459- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
1460 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
1461 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
1462 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
1463 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
1464
1465 Changes since 3.0.1rc1
1466
1467- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
1468 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
1469 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
1470 wasn't the one that removed it.
1471
1472- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
1473 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
1474 were not configured.
1475
1476- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
1477
1478- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
1479 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
1480 routing information.
1481
1482- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
1483 request being sent.
1484
1485- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
1486 done.
1487
1488- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
1489 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
1490 were pending.
1491
1492- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
1493 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
1494 problems with failover.
1495
1496- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
1497 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
1498 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
1499
1500 Changes since 3.0
1501
1502- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
1503 smash in the subclass allocation code.
1504
1505- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
1506 no object is open, it dumps core.
1507
1508- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
1509
1510- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
1511
1512- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
1513
1514- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
1515 a host object attribute with a null value.
1516
1517 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
1518
1519- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
1520
1521- Fix an obscure core dump.
1522
1523- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
1524 when crucial information is left out.
1525
1526- Log "no free leases" as an error.
1527
1528- Documentation updates.
1529
1530 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
1531
1532- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
1533
1534- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
1535 structure wasn't zeroed.
1536
1537- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
1538 incorrectly.
1539
1540- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
1541 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
1542 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
1543 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
1544 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
1545 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
1546 restarted.
1547
1548 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
1549
1550- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
1551 in failover-enabled pools.
1552
1553- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
1554 declarations).
1555
1556- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
1557 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
1558
1559- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
1560 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
1561
1562- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
1563
1564- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
1565 defined but not referenced by any pools.
1566
1567- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
1568
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1570
1571- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
1572
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1574
1575- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
1576
1577- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
1578
1579- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
1580
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1582
1583- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
1584 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
1585 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
1586
1587- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
1588 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
1589 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
1590 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
1591 string.
1592
1593- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
1594
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1596
1597- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
1598 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
1599
1600- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
1601 malformed packets.
1602
1603- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
1604
1605- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
1606 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
1607 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
1608
1609- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
1610
1611- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
1612
1613- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
1614
1615- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
1616 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
1617
1618- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
1619 tcp connections from being played back.
1620
1621- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
1622 on exit.
1623
1624- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
1625
1626- Add some configurability to the build system.
1627
1628- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
1629
1630- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
1631 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
1632 hadn't been noticed until now.
1633
1634 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
1635
1636- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
1637 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
1638
1639- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
1640 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
1641 conformant, but also didn't work).
1642
1643- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
1644 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
1645
1646- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
1647 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
1648
1649- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
1650 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
1651
1652- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
1653 variables to leases via OMAPI.
1654
1655- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
1656 doing failover.
1657
1658- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
1659 running on alpha processors.
1660
1661- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
1662 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
1663
1664- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
1665
1666- Install omshell (including new documentation).
1667
1668- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
1669 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
1670
1671- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
1672
1673- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
1674 actually named (key names are domain names).
1675
1676- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
1677
1678- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
1679 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
1680
1681- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
1682 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
1683
1684- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
1685 statements.
1686
1687- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
1688 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
1689
1690- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
1691 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
1692 operating.
1693
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1695
1696- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
1697 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
1698 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
1699 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
1700
1701- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
1702 using omapi to manipulate leases.
1703
1704- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
1705
1706
1707 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
1708
1709- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
1710 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
1711
1712- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
1713 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
1714 to the chain.
1715
1716- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
1717
1718- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
1719
1720- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
1721
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1724
98311e4b 1725- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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1727- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
1728
1729 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
1730
1731- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
1732 DHCPDECLINE.
1733
1734- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
1735
1736- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
1737 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
1738 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
1739
1740- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
1741
1742- Documentation fixes.
1743
1744- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
1745 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
1746
1747- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
1748 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
1749
1750- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
1751
1752- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
1753
1754- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
1755 case-insensitive.
1756
1757- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
1758
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1761 consistently.
1762
1763- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
1764 systems with the probe not working correctly.
1765
1766- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
1767
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1769
1770- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
1771 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
1772 result of duplicate leases.
1773
1774- Document OMAPI server objects.
1775
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1777
1778- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
1779 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
1780
1781- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
1782 core dumps.
1783
1784- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
1785 Friedrich.
1786
1787- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
1788
1789 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
1790
1791- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
1792 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 1793 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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1795
1796- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
1797 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
1798
1799- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
1800 trace file.
1801
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1804- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
1805 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
1806 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
1807 e.g., Digital Unix.
1808
1809- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
1810 when no error had occurred.
1811
1812- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
1813 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
1814 non-communicating state.
1815
1816- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
1817
1818- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
1819 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
1820 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
1821
1822- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
1823 when the client lease expired.
1824
1825- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
1826 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
1827 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
1828 in testing.
1829
1830- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
1831 the command line, it would fail.
1832
1833- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
1834 user impact).
1835
1836- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
1837
1838- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
1839 they're executable.
1840
1841 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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1843- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
1844 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
1845 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
1846 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
1847
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1848- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
1849 Transmeta.
1850
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1851- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
1852 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
1853 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
1854 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
1855
1856- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
1857 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
1858
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1860
1861- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
1862 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
1863
1864- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
1865
1866- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
1867
1868- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
1869
1870- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
1871
1872- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
1873
1874- Update some parts of the README file.
1875
1876- Support GCC on SCO.
1877
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1879
1880- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
1881 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
1882
1883- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
1884 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
1885 unbill the old class.
1886
1887- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
1888 process the state transition immediately.
1889
1890- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
1891 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
1892
1893- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
1894
1895- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
1896
1897- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
1898
1899- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
1900
1901- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
1902 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
1903 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
1904
1905- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
1906 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
1907
1908- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
1909 lease file.
1910
1911- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
1912
1913- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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1916
1917- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
1918 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
1919
1920- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
1921
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1923
1924- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
1925
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1926 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 20
1927
1928- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
1929
1930- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
1931 pl19.
1932
1933- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
1934 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
1935 past the regression test.
1936
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1938
1939- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
1940 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
1941
1942- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
1943 DHCPREQUEST.
1944
1945- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
1946
1947- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
1948
1949- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
1950
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1951 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 18
1952
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1953- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
1954 (Damien Neil)
1955
1956- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
1957 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
1958
1959- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
1960 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
1961 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
1962
1963- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
1964 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
1965 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
1966 message.
1967
1968- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
1969 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
1970 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
1971
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1973 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
1974 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
1975 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
1976 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
1977 this way will work.
1978
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1979- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
1980
1981- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
1982 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
1983 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
1984 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
1985
1986 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
1987
1988 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
1989
1990- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
1991 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
1992 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
1993
1994- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
1995 Hermann Lauer.
1996
1997- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
1998 messages.
1999
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2000- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
2001 it contained quoted strings.
2002
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2003 ** there was no pl17 **
2004
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2005 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 16
2006
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2007- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
2008 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
2009 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
2010 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
2011 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
2012 tracking down memory leaks.
2013
2014- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
2015 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
2016 Solaris.
2017
2018- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
2019 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
2020 corruption and core dumps.
2021
2022- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
2023 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
2024
2025- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
2026
2027- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
2028 and implemented by Damien Neil.
2029
2030- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
2031 name and version to standard output.
2032
2033- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
2034
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2035- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
2036 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
2037
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2038- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
2039
2040- Lots of documentation updates.
2041
2042- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
2043 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
2044
2045- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
2046
2047- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
2048 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
2049
2050
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2051 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 15
2052
2053- Some documentation tweaks.
2054
2055- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
2056
2057- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
2058
2059- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
2060 agent options into them.
2061
2062- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
2063
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2064- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
2065 options.
2066
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2067 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 14
2068
2069- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
2070 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
2071 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
2072 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
2073 used in class statements to control address allocation.
2074
2075- Fix up documentation.
2076
2077- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
2078 significantly in a high-demand situation.
2079
2080- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
2081
2082- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
2083
2084- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
2085 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
2086 practical use otherwise.
2087
2088- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
2089 for debugging.
2090
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2092
2093- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
2094 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
2095 dump on some systems.
2096
2097- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
2098 option.
2099
2100- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
2101 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
2102
2103- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
2104 that were not printing enough information.
2105
2106- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
2107 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
2108
2109- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
2110 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
2111 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
2112 were answering.
2113
2114- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
2115 the transition.
2116
2117
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2119
2120- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
2121
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2122 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
2123
2124- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
2125 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
2126 representation from working correctly.
2127
2128- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
2129 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
2130 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
2131 could spin.
2132
2133- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
2134 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
2135
2136- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
2137 interface name on the command line.
2138
2139- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
2140 client state.
2141
2142- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
2143 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
2144 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
2145 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
2146 added by Ted Lemon.
2147
2148- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
2149 be made to log debugging information and other information.
2150
2151- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
2152 end option.
2153
2154- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
2155 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
2156 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
2157
2158- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
2159 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
2160 face of a null hardware address on input.
2161
2162- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
2163 specified unqualified.
2164
2165- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
2166 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
2167
2168- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
2169 RFC.
2170
2171- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
2172
2173- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
2174
2175- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
2176 it works.
2177
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2179
2180- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
2181 to CVS.
2182
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2183 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
2184
2185- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
2186
2187- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
2188 in patchlevel 9.
2189
2190- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
2191 options at renewal time.
2192
2193- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
2194 configuration language.
2195
2196- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
2197
2198- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
2199 done when no client hostname was received.
2200
2201- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
2202
2203- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
2204 the DHCP option space.
2205
2206- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
2207
2208- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
2209 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
2210
2211- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
2212 silently dropped.
2213
2214- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
2215 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
2216
2217- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
2218 will be correctly updated.
2219
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2221
2222- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
2223 bounds-checking.
2224
2225 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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2227- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
2228
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2231- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
2232 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
2233 possible to exploit it any further than that.
2234
2235- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
2236 option.
2237
2238- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
2239 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
2240 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
2241 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
2242 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
2243 meaningfully.
2244
2245- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
2246 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
2247 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
2248
2249- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
2250 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
2251 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
2252 this one down!
2253
2254- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
2255 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
2256 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
2257 down and fixing this problem.
2258
2259 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
2260
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2261- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
2262 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
2263
2264- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
2265 environment.
2266
2267- Fix suffix operator.
2268
2269- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
2270
2271- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
2272 connection code.
2273
2274- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
2275
2276- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
2277
2278- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
2279 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
2280
2281- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
2282
2283- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
2284
2285- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
2286 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
2287
2288- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
2289 spawn with.
2290
2291- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
2292 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
2293
2294- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
2295 for OMAPI.
2296
2297- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
2298 can install in host declarations.
2299
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2301
2302- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
2303 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
2304 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
2305 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
2306 comments)!
2307
2308- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
2309
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2310- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
2311 request for help on this with patches!
2312
2313- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
2314 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
2315 lost, they never reconnect.
2316
2317- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
2318 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
2319
2320- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
2321 dump.
2322
2323- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
2324 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
2325 catching this one.
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2328
2329- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
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2332
2333- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
2334 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
2335 declared without a key.
2336
2337- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
2338
2339- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
2340 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
2341
2342- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
2343 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
2344 determine the maximum size of the response.
2345
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2347
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2348- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
2349 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
2350
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2351- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
2352 RENEWING client.
2353
2354- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
2355
2356- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
2357 using memcmp().
2358
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2360
2361- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
2362 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
2363 pointing this out.
2364
2365- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
2366 exit.
2367
2368- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
2369
2370- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
2371 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.