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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
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2 Version 4.2.0
3 21 December 2012
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0171be2d 5 Release Notes
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0171be2d 7 NEW FEATURES
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9ISC DHCP 4.2.x includes features that were not included in DHCP 4.1.x.
10These include:
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12Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
13The DHCP server or client can now continue with it's processing while
14awaiting replies from the DNS server.
15
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16As part of the changes to support asynchronous DNS the DHCP code was
17modified to use the current BIND libraries and a small number of changes
18were made to the BIND libraries to support DHCP. There is a bug in one
19of these changes that can cause an exception in a DHCP server. This bug
20requires either failover or omapi to be in use and a number of events
21(timeouts, packet reception, packet transmision) to happen within the same
22scheduling interval. As a work around the number of events required to
23trigger this issue has been increased though this may affect the responsivness
24of the DNS code under load. A fix is being developed but needs
25to go into a BIND release. Note that the bug is in a part of the BIND
26libraries that is only used by the DHCP code and does NOT affect any
27other part of the BIND code.
28
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29There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
30release, which will be addressed in the future:
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01a54c17 32- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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34- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages, in
35 English. A method to reconfigure or support other languages would
36 be preferrable.
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38- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
39
98bd7ca0 40- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 41 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 42 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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44For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as
45well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the
46README file.
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48ISC DHCP uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please review the
49output of "./configure --help" to see what options are available.
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51The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and may not
52work on other platforms. Please report any problems and suggested fixes to
53<dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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56 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
57
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58- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
59 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 60 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
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62- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
63 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
64 Cantrell at Red Hat.
65
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66- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
67 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
68
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69- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
70
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71- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
72 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
73 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
74 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
75 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
76 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
77
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78- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
79 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
80 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
81 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
82 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
83 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
84 FQDN options by default).
85
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86- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
87 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
88 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
89 determined lease time) are omitted.
90
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91- Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
92 The DHCP server or client can now continue with it's processing while
93 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
94
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95 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
96
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97- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
98
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99- Validate the argument to the -p option.
100
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101- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
102 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
103 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
104 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
105 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
106
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107- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
108
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109- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
110 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
111 had been deleted from configuration.
112
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113- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
114 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
571c38b0 115 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
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116 were being ignored.
117
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118- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
119
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120- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
121 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
122 Nordahl.
123
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124- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
125 dhcpv6 disabled.
126
8d7dca58 127- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 128 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
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130- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
131 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
132
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133- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
134 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
135 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
136
137- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
138 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
139 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
140 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
141 fewer system calls.
142
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143- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
144 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
145 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
146 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
147 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
148 Christof Chen.
149
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150- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
151 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
152 and in normal state.
153
154- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
155 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
156
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157- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
158
159- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
160 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
161 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
162
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163- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
164 rather than restarting the listener.
165
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166- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
167 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
168
169- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
170 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
171 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
172
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173- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
174 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
175 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
176 timeouts).
177
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178- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
179 in failover state records.
180
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181! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
182 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
183 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 184 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
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186- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
187 processing a DHCPINFORM.
188
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189- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
190 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
191 last option definition is used.
192
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193- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
194 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
195 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
196
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197- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
198 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
199
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200- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
201 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
202 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
203 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
204 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
205 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
206
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207- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
208 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
209 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
210 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
211
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212! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
213 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
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215- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
216 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
217
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218- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
219 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
220 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
221 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
222 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
571c38b0 223 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
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224 configuration.
225
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226- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
227 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
228
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229- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
230 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
231 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
232 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
233
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236- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
237 be recognized.
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239 Changes since 4.1.0a2
240
241- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
242 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
243 "abandoned".
244
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245- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
246
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247- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
248 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
249
250- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
251 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
252
253- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 254 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
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256- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
257
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258- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
259 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
260 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
261 in future releases.
262
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263- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
264 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
265
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266- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
267 'dhclient -6' support.
268
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269- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
270 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
271 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
272 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
273
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275
276- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
277
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278- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
279
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280- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
281 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
282 only the latter. Fixed.
283
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284- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
285
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286- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
287 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
288
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289- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
290
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291- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
292
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293- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
294 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
295 --enable-early-chroot.
296
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297- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
298 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
299
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300- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
301 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
302 parameter.
303
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304- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
305 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
306
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307- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
308 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
309
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310- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
311
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312- Merged IA_XX related structures.
313
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314- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
315
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316- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
317
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318- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
319 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
320 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
321
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322- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
323 support.
324
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325- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
326 repaired.
327
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328- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
329
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330- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
331
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332- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
333 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
334
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335- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
336 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
337
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338- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
339 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
340
341- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
342 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
343 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
344 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
345 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
346 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
347 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
348 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
349 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
350 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
351 shared-network.
352
353- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
354 configured option values.
355
356- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
357 support class statements.
358
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359- Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
360 selection were repaired.
361
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362- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
363 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
364 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
365 by the OS.
366
367- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
368 address.
369
370- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
371 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
372
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373- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
374
375- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
376
377- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
378 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
379
01a54c17 380 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
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382- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
383
4cafb815 384- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 385 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
4cafb815 386
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387- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
388 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
389 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
390
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391- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
392 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
393
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394- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
395
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396- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
397 reserved IDs avoided).
398
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399- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
400
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401- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
402 carries a rapid-commit option.
403
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404- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
405 an empty active lease.
406
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407- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
408
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409- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
410 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
411 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
412 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
413
414- MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
415
416- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
417 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
418 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
419 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
420 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
421 Christof Chen.
422
423 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
424
425- DHCP now builds on AIX.
426
427- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
428 config file but -6 is not specified.
429
430- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
431
432- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
433 be more helpful.
434
435- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
436 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
437 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
438
439- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
440 was repaired.
441
442- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
443 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
444 been repaired.
445
446- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
447 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
448 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
449
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450- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
451 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
452
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453- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
454 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
455 IPv4 address.
456
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457- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
458 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
459 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
460 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
461 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
462
463- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
464 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
465 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
466
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467- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
468
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469- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
470
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471- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
472 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
473 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
474 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
475 unnecessary logging.
476
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477- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
478 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
479
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480- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
481 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
482 is incompatible is printed.
483
484- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
485 a previously undefined option code.
486
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487- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
488 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
489
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490- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
491 than the year 2000.
492
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493- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
494
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495- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
496
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497- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
498
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499 Changes since 4.0.0b3
500
501- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
502 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
503 configuration.
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505- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
506 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
507
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508- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
509 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
510 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
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512- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
513 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
514 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
515 a requested address.
516
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517- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
518 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
519 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
520 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
521
522- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
523 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
524 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
525 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
526
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527- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
528 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
529 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
530
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531- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
532 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
533
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534- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
535
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536- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
537 codes through some conditions.
538
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539- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
540 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
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542- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
543 seemingly random values.
544
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545- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
546
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547- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
548 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
549 one ever has.
550
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551- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
552 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
553 to a REQUEST.
554
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555- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
556 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
557 level.
558
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559 Changes since 4.0.0b2
560
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561- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
562
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563- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
564 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
565 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
566 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
567 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
568
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569- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
570 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
571 new address.
572
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573 Changes since 4.0.0b1
574
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575- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
576 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
577 simultaneously on a single interface.
578
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579- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
580 of service under unusual server configurations
581
582- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
583
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584- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
585 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
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587- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
588 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
589 on every pool rebalance run.
590
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591- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
592 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
593
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594- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
595 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
596
ab3a540f 597 Changes since 4.0.0a3
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599- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
600 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
601
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602- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
603 point out the problem.
604
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605- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
606 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
607 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
608
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609- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
610 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
611
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612- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
613 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
614 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
615
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616- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
617
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618- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
619 fixed by Marcus Goller.
620
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621- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
622 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
623 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
624 regardless of the existence of bindings.
625
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626- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
627
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628- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
629 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
630 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
631 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
632 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
633
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634- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
635
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636 Changes since 4.0.0a2
637
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638- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
639 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
640
763cba6b 641- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
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643- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
644 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
645 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
646
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647- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
648
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649- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
650 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
651
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652- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
653 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
654 loaded from persistent storage.
655
45d545f0 656- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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657 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
658 necessary.
659
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660- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
661 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
662 rapid-commit option.
663
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664- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
665 non-128-bits in length were removed.
666
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667 Changes since 4.0.0a1
668
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669- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
670 and fix.
671
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672- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
673
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674- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
675
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676- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
677 for when loading configuration.
678
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679- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
680 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
681 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
682
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683- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
684 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
685 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
686 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
687
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688- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
689
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690- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
691 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 692
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693- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
694
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695- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
696
697- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
698 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
699
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700- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
701 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
702
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703- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
704
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705- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
706 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
707
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708 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
709
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710- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
711
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712- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
713 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
714
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715- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
716
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717- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
718 initialized.
719
720- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
721
722- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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723 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
724
725- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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727- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
728
729- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
730 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
731
732- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
733
8ea19a71 734- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 735 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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736
737- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
738 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
739
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740- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
741
742- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
743
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744- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
745
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746 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
747
748- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
749 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
750 no support currently for both.
751
752- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
753 IAADDR option.
754
755- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
756 options.
757
758- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
759
760- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
761 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
762
763- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
764 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
765 specifying type 1 or type 2).
766
767- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
768 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
769
770- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
771 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
772 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
773 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
774 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
775 differently, they both use the same code here).
776
777- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
778 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
779 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
780
781- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
782
783- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
784 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
785 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
786 it should not intercept.
787
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788 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
789
790- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
791 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
792 between primary and secondary.
793
794- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
795 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
796 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
797
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798- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
799
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800- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
801 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
802 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
803 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
804 or REQUEST messages.
805
806- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
807 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
808
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809- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
810
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811 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
812
813- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
814 failover protected subnets was removed.
815
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816 Changes since 3.1.0b2
817
818- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
819 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
820 odd number of leases).
821
822- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
823 rebalance run, and one after.
824
825- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
826 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
827 processing these messages.
828
fe5b0fdd 829 Changes since 3.1.0b1
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831- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
832 objects.
833
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834- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
835 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
836 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
837 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
838 at Allianz.
839
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840- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
841 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
842
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843- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
844 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
845
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846- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
847 caused the server to abort.
848
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849- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
850 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
851 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
852
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853- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
854 by empty spaces would not get included.
855
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856- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
857 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
858
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859- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
860 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
861
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862- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
863 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
864
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865- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
866 on the parameter request list.
867
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868 Changes since 3.1.0a3
869
870- Some spelling fixes.
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872 Changes since 3.1.0a2
873
874- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
875 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
876
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877- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
878 domain-search option syntax.
879
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880 Changes since 3.1.0a1
881
882- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
883 hash table was repaired.
884
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885- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
886 entering normal state.
887
888- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
889 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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890 'xid mismatch' log messages.
891
892- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
893 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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895- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
896 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
897 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
898 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
899
45d545f0 900- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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901 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
902 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
903 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
904 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
905 to their needs.
906
907- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
908 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
909 run will attempt balance.
910
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911- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
912
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913 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
914
915- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
916 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
917 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
918 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
919
98bd7ca0 920- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 921 was introduced.
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922
923- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
924 via OMAPI.
925
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926- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
927 the protocol draft.
928
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929- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
930 one does not already exist on the system.
931
b43c87ad 932- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
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934- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
935 matches RFC 3074.
936
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937- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
938 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 939 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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941- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
942 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 943 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 944
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945- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
946 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
947 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
948 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
949
950- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
951 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
952 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
953 priority over the client's parameter request list.
954
f7fdb216 955- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 956 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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957 DHCPv6 support.
958
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959- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
960 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
961 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
962
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963- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
964 have been incorporated.
965
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966- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
967 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
968 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
969 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
970 that belong to the peer in need.
971
972- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
973 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
974
975- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
976 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
977 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
978
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979- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
980 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
981
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982- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
983 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
984 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
985 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
986 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
987
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988- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
989 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
990 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
991 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
992
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993- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
994 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
995 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
996 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
997 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
998 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
999 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
1000 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
1001 ignoring this aspect of their request.
1002
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1003- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
1004 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
1005
41e45067 1006- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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1007 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
1008 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
1009 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
1010
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1011- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
1012 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
1013 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
1014 hardware and funding the development.
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1016- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
1017 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
1018 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
1019 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
1020 via Robin Breathe.
1021
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1022- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
1023 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
1024 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
1025 from Christof Chen.
1026
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1027- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
1028 formally supported.
1029
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1030 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
1031
1032- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
1033 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
1034
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1035 Changes since 3.0.5
1036
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1037- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
1038 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
1039 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 1040 they actually received.
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1041
1042- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
1043
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1044- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
1045 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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1046 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
1047 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
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1049- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
1050
d69fb6a8 1051- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 1052 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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1054- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
1055 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
1056 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
1057 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
1058 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
1059 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
1060 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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1061 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
1062
1063- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
1064 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
1065 'file' field.
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1067- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
1068 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
1069
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1070- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
1071 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
1072 a patch from Kevin Steves.
1073
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1074- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
1075 from Chris Wagner.
1076
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1077- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
1078 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
1079 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
1080
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1081- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
1082 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
1083 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
1084 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
1085 was set.
1086
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1087- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
1088 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
1089
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1090- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
1091 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
1092 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
1093 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
1094 active ones.
1095
02428754 1096 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
0a73b7b6 1097
901306d5 1098- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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1099 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
1100 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
1101 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
1102 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
1103
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1104- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
1105 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
1106
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1107 Changes since 3.0.4
1108
1109- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
1110 scopes are actually global has been added.
1111
1112- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
1113 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
1114 known to be damaging.
1115
1116- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
1117 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
1118 balancing).
1119
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1120- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
1121 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
1122 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
1123
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1124- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
1125 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
1126 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
1127
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1128- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
1129 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
1130 more clear now.
1131
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1132- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
1133 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
1134 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
1135 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
1136 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 1137 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
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1139- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
1140 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
1141
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1142- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
1143 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
1144 made possible.
1145
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1146- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
1147 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
1148 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
1149
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1150- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
1151 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
1152
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1153- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
1154 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
1155 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
1156
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1157- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
1158 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
1159 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
1160 value with the later configured value).
1161
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1162- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
1163 have been named and documented.
1164
1165- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
1166 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
1167 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
1168 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
1169 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
1170 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
1171 write new output.
1172
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1173 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
1174
1175- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
1176 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
1177
1178 Changes since 3.0.4b3
1179
1180- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
1181 mailing list.
1182
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1183 Changes since 3.0.4b2
1184
45d545f0 1185- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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1186 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
1187
1188- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
1189 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
1190
1191- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
1192 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
1193 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
1194 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
1195
1196- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
1197 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
1198 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
1199 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
1200 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
1201 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
1202 transition (properly).
1203
1204- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
1205
1206 Changes since 3.0.4b1
1207
1208- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
1209 STDIN after reading one line.
1210
1211- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
1212 descriptor it opened twice.
1213
1214- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
1215 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
1216 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
1217
1218 Changes since 3.0.3
1219
1220- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
1221 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
1222 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
1223
1224- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
1225 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
1226 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
1227
1228- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
1229 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 1230 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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1231 leases to allocate.
1232
1233- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 1234 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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1235 than the entire block of them.
1236
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1237! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
1238 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
1239 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
1240 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
1241 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
1242 to a patch from infamous42md.
1243
1244! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
1245 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
1246 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
1247 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
1248 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
1249 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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1250
1251- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
1252 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
1253 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
1254
1255- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 1256 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1257
1258- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
1259 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
1260 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
1261 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
1262 transitional states.
1263
1264- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
1265 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
1266 once it detects the old db does not exist.
1267
1268- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
1269 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
1270 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
1271
1272- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 1273 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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1274
1275- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
1276 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
1277
1278- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
1279 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
1280 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
1281
1282- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
1283 patch from 'infamous42md'.
1284
1285- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
1286 repaired.
1287
1288- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
1289 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
1290 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
1291 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
1292
1293- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
1294 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
1295 data.
1296
1297- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
1298 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
1299 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
1300 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
1301 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
1302
1303- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
1304 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
1305 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
1306 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
1307 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
1308
1309- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
1310 has been repaired.
1311
1312- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
1313 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
1314 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
1315 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 1316 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1317
1318- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 1319 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
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45d545f0 1321- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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1322 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
1323 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
1324 move to 3.[01].x.
1325
1326- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
1327 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
1328
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1329 Changes since 3.0.3b3
1330
1331- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
1332 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
1333
1334- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
1335 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
1336 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
1337 workaround.
1338
1339 Changes since 3.0.3b2
1340
1341- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
1342 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
1343
1344 Changes since 3.0.3b1
1345
1346- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
1347 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
1348 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
1349
1350- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
1351 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
1352 dynamic updates were also retouched.
1353
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1354 Changes since 3.0.2
1355
1356- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 1357 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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1358 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
1359
1360- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
1361 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
1362 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
1363 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
1364 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
1365
1366- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
1367 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 1368 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1369
1370- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
1371 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 1372 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1373
1374- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
1375 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
1376 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
1377 Peter Poeml.
1378
1379- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
1380 Dr. Peter Poeml.
1381
1382- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
1383 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
1384 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
1385 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
1386 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
1387 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
1388
1389- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
1390 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
1391 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
1392 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
1393
1394- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
1395 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
1396 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
1397 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
1398
1399- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
1400 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
1401
1402- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
1403 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
1404 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
1405
1406- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
1407 7 bytes, and failover.
1408
1409- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
1410 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 1411 at Red Hat.
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1412
1413- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
1414 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
1415 should work better.
1416
1417- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
1418 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
1419 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
1420
1421- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
1422 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
1423 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
1424
1425 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
1426
1427- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
1428 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
1429
1430 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
1431
45d545f0 1432- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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1433 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
1434 overloading. This was repaired.
1435
1436- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
1437 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
1438 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
1439 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
1440 three chunks to fit.
1441
1442- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
1443 were repaired.
1444
1445- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
1446 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
1447 leak).
1448
1449 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
1450
1451- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
1452 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
1453
1454 Changes since 3.0.2b1
1455
1456- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
1457
1458 Changes since 3.0.1
1459
1460- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
1461 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
1462 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
1463
1464- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
1465 name was not provided by the server.
1466
1467- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
1468 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
1469
1470- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
1471 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
1472
1473- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
1474 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
1475
1476- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
1477
1478- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
1479
1480- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
1481 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
1482 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
1483 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
1484 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
1485
1486- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
1487 the configuration be globally scoped.
1488
1489- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
1490 Farkas.
1491
1492- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
1493 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1494
1495- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
1496 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
1497
1498- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
1499 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
1500
1501- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
1502 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
1503 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
1504 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
1505
1506- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
1507 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
1508 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
1509 respond to POOLREQ messages.
1510
1511- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
1512 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
1513 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
1514
1515- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
1516
1517- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
1518 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
1519 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
1520
1521- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
1522 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
1523 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
1524 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
1525 Fjone and directconnect.no.
1526
1527- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
1528 to Andreas Gustafsson.
1529
1530- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
1531 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
1532
1533- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
1534 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
1535 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
1536 DISCOVER timeout handling.
1537
1538- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
1539 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
1540
1541- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
1542 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
1543 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
1544
1545- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
1546 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
1547 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
1548 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
1549 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
1550 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
1551
1552- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
1553 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
1554 Infoblox.
1555
1556- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
1557
1558- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
1559 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
1560 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
1561 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
1562 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
1563 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
1564 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
1565
1566- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
1567 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
1568 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
1569
1570- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
1571 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
1572 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
1573
1574- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
1575
1576 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
1577
1578- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
1579 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
1580 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
1581 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
1582 systems either.
1583
1584- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
1585
1586- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
1587 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
1588 is false.
1589
1590- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
1591 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
1592
1593- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
1594
1595 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
1596
1597! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
1598 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
1599 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
1600 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
1601 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
1602 both finding and solving the problem.
1603
1604! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
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1606 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
1607 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
1608 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
1609 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
1610 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
1611 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
1612 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
1613 published version of ISC DHCP.
1614
1615- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
1616
1617- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
1618
1619 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
1620
1621- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
1622 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
1623 Richard Hirst.
1624
1625- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
1626 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
1627 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
1628
1629- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
1630
1631- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
1632 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
1633 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
1634 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
1635
1636- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
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1639- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
1640 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
1641
1642- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
1643
1644 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
1645
1646- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
1647 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
1648
1649- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
1650 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
1651 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
1652
1653- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
1654 by name was fixed.
1655
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1657 longer result in error.
1658
1659- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
1660
1661- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
1662 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
1663 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
1664
1665- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
1666 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
1667
1668- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
1669 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
1670 Blapp.
1671
1672- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
1673 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
1674 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
1675 Martin Blapp.
1676
1677- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
1678 expiry times in failover configurations.
1679
1680- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
1681 Steve G.
1682
1683- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
1684 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
1685
1686- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
1687 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
1688 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
1689 now "unknown-144".
1690
1691- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
1692 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
1693
1694 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
1695
1696- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
1697
1698- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
1699 not be bash.
1700
1701- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1702
1703- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
1704 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
1705 that errored before will now work properly.
1706
1707- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
1708 names was repaired.
1709
1710- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
1711 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
1712 configuration file.
1713
1714- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
1715 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1716
1717- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
1718 error rather than a null dereference.
1719
1720 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
1721
1722- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
1723
1724- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
1725
1726- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
1727 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
1728
1729- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
1730
1731- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
1732
1733- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
1734 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
1735 self-corrupting lease databases.
1736
1737- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
1738
1739- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
1740 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
1741
1742- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
1743
1744- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
1745
1746- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
1747 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
1748 Ling Gou.
1749
1750- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
1751 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1752
1753- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
1754 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
1755 Ted Lemon for the patch.
1756
1757- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
1758 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
1759
1760 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
1761
1762- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
1763 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
1764
1765- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
1766
1767- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
1768 a memory leak.
1769
1770- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
1771 script.
1772
1773- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
1774
1775- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
1776
1777- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
1778
1779- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
1780
1781- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
1782
1783- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
1784
1785- Increment the hop count when relaying.
1786
1787- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
1788
1789- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
1790
1791- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
1792
1793- Change the type of rbuf_max.
1794
1795- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
1796
1797 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
1798
1799- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
1800 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
1801 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
1802
1803 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
1804
1805- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
1806 to be renewed.
1807
1808- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
1809 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
1810
1811- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
1812 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
1813
1814- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
1815 that two permit lists matched.
1816
1817- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
1818 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
1819
1820- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
1821
1822- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
1823 requested it, contrary to the standard.
1824
1825- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
1826
1827- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
1828
1829- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
1830 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
1831 going to update its A record.
1832
1833- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
1834 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
1835 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
1836 DNS server.
1837
1838- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
1839
1840- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
1841
1842- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
1843 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
1844 NetBSD project).
1845
1846- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
1847 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
1848
1849- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
1850 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
1851
1852- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
1853
1854- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
1855
1856- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
1857 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
1858 failover protocol standard.
1859
1860- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
1861 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
1862 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
1863
1864- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
1865 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
1866 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
1867 do so.
1868
1869- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
1870
1871 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
1872
1873- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
1874
1875- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
1876 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
1877
1878- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
1879 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
1880
1881- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
1882 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
1883 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
1884
1885- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
1886 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
1887 network, merge the two pools.
1888
1889- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
1890 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
1891 fix this bug.
1892
1893 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
1894
1895- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
1896 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
1897
1898- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
1899 the same case.
1900
1901- Additional documentation.
1902
1903- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
1904 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
1905
1906 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
1907
1908- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
1909- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
1910
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1912
1913- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
1914 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
1915 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
1916 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
1917 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
1918
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1920
1921- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
1922 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
1923 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
1924 wasn't the one that removed it.
1925
1926- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
1927 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
1928 were not configured.
1929
1930- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
1931
1932- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
1933 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
1934 routing information.
1935
1936- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
1937 request being sent.
1938
1939- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
1940 done.
1941
1942- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
1943 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
1944 were pending.
1945
1946- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
1947 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
1948 problems with failover.
1949
1950- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
1951 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
1952 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
1953
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1955
1956- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
1957 smash in the subclass allocation code.
1958
1959- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
1960 no object is open, it dumps core.
1961
1962- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
1963
1964- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
1965
1966- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
1967
1968- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
1969 a host object attribute with a null value.
1970
1971 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
1972
1973- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
1974
1975- Fix an obscure core dump.
1976
1977- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
1978 when crucial information is left out.
1979
1980- Log "no free leases" as an error.
1981
1982- Documentation updates.
1983
1984 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
1985
1986- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
1987
1988- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
1989 structure wasn't zeroed.
1990
1991- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
1992 incorrectly.
1993
1994- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
1995 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
1996 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
1997 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
1998 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
1999 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
2000 restarted.
2001
2002 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
2003
2004- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
2005 in failover-enabled pools.
2006
2007- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
2008 declarations).
2009
2010- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
2011 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
2012
2013- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
2014 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
2015
2016- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
2017
2018- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
2019 defined but not referenced by any pools.
2020
2021- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
2022
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2024
2025- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
2026
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2028
2029- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
2030
2031- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
2032
2033- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
2034
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2036
2037- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
2038 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
2039 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
2040
2041- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
2042 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
2043 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
2044 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
2045 string.
2046
2047- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
2048
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2050
2051- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
2052 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
2053
2054- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
2055 malformed packets.
2056
2057- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
2058
2059- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
2060 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
2061 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
2062
2063- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
2064
2065- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
2066
2067- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
2068
2069- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
2070 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
2071
2072- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
2073 tcp connections from being played back.
2074
2075- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
2076 on exit.
2077
2078- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
2079
2080- Add some configurability to the build system.
2081
2082- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
2083
2084- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
2085 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
2086 hadn't been noticed until now.
2087
2088 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
2089
2090- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
2091 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
2092
2093- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
2094 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
2095 conformant, but also didn't work).
2096
2097- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
2098 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
2099
2100- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
2101 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
2102
2103- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
2104 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
2105
2106- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
2107 variables to leases via OMAPI.
2108
2109- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
2110 doing failover.
2111
2112- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
2113 running on alpha processors.
2114
2115- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
2116 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
2117
2118- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
2119
2120- Install omshell (including new documentation).
2121
2122- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
2123 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
2124
2125- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
2126
2127- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
2128 actually named (key names are domain names).
2129
2130- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
2131
2132- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
2133 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
2134
2135- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
2136 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
2137
2138- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
2139 statements.
2140
2141- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
2142 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
2143
2144- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
2145 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
2146 operating.
2147
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2149
2150- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
2151 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
2152 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
2153 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
2154
2155- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
2156 using omapi to manipulate leases.
2157
2158- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
2159
2160
2161 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
2162
2163- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
2164 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
2165
2166- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
2167 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
2168 to the chain.
2169
2170- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
2171
2172- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
2173
2174- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
2175
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2178
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2181- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
2182
2183 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
2184
2185- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
2186 DHCPDECLINE.
2187
2188- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
2189
2190- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
2191 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
2192 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
2193
2194- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
2195
2196- Documentation fixes.
2197
2198- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
2199 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
2200
2201- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
2202 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
2203
2204- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
2205
2206- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
2207
2208- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
2209 case-insensitive.
2210
2211- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
2212
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2215 consistently.
2216
2217- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
2218 systems with the probe not working correctly.
2219
2220- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
2221
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2223
2224- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
2225 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
2226 result of duplicate leases.
2227
2228- Document OMAPI server objects.
2229
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2231
2232- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
2233 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
2234
2235- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
2236 core dumps.
2237
2238- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
2239 Friedrich.
2240
2241- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
2242
2243 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
2244
2245- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
2246 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
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2249
2250- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
2251 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
2252
2253- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
2254 trace file.
2255
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2259 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
2260 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
2261 e.g., Digital Unix.
2262
2263- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
2264 when no error had occurred.
2265
2266- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
2267 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
2268 non-communicating state.
2269
2270- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
2271
2272- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
2273 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
2274 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
2275
2276- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
2277 when the client lease expired.
2278
2279- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
2280 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
2281 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
2282 in testing.
2283
2284- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
2285 the command line, it would fail.
2286
2287- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
2288 user impact).
2289
2290- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
2291
2292- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
2293 they're executable.
2294
2295 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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2297- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
2298 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
2299 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
2300 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
2301
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2303 Transmeta.
2304
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2306 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
2307 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
2308 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
2309
2310- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
2311 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
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2314
2315- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
2316 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
2317
2318- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
2319
2320- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
2321
2322- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
2323
2324- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
2325
2326- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
2327
2328- Update some parts of the README file.
2329
2330- Support GCC on SCO.
2331
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2333
2334- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
2335 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
2336
2337- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
2338 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
2339 unbill the old class.
2340
2341- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
2342 process the state transition immediately.
2343
2344- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
2345 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
2346
2347- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
2348
2349- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
2350
2351- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
2352
2353- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
2354
2355- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
2356 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
2357 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
2358
2359- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
2360 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
2361
2362- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
2363 lease file.
2364
2365- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
2366
2367- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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2370
2371- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
2372 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
2373
2374- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
2375
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2377
2378- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
2379
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2381
2382- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
2383
2384- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
2385 pl19.
2386
2387- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
2388 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
2389 past the regression test.
2390
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2392
2393- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
2394 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
2395
2396- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
2397 DHCPREQUEST.
2398
2399- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
2400
2401- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
2402
2403- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
2404
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2407- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
2408 (Damien Neil)
2409
2410- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
2411 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
2412
2413- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
2414 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
2415 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
2416
2417- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
2418 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
2419 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
2420 message.
2421
2422- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
2423 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
2424 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
2425
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2427 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
2428 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
2429 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
2430 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
2431 this way will work.
2432
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2433- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
2434
2435- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
2436 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
2437 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
2438 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
2439
2440 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
2441
2442 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
2443
2444- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
2445 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
2446 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
2447
2448- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
2449 Hermann Lauer.
2450
2451- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
2452 messages.
2453
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2454- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
2455 it contained quoted strings.
2456
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2457 ** there was no pl17 **
2458
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2461- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
2462 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
2463 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
2464 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
2465 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
2466 tracking down memory leaks.
2467
2468- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
2469 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
2470 Solaris.
2471
2472- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
2473 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
2474 corruption and core dumps.
2475
2476- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
2477 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
2478
2479- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
2480
2481- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
2482 and implemented by Damien Neil.
2483
2484- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
2485 name and version to standard output.
2486
2487- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
2488
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2489- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
2490 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
2491
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2492- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
2493
2494- Lots of documentation updates.
2495
2496- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
2497 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
2498
2499- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
2500
2501- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
2502 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
2503
2504
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2506
2507- Some documentation tweaks.
2508
2509- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
2510
2511- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
2512
2513- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
2514 agent options into them.
2515
2516- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
2517
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2518- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
2519 options.
2520
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2522
2523- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
2524 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
2525 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
2526 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
2527 used in class statements to control address allocation.
2528
2529- Fix up documentation.
2530
2531- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
2532 significantly in a high-demand situation.
2533
2534- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
2535
2536- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
2537
2538- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
2539 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
2540 practical use otherwise.
2541
2542- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
2543 for debugging.
2544
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2546
2547- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
2548 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
2549 dump on some systems.
2550
2551- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
2552 option.
2553
2554- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
2555 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
2556
2557- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
2558 that were not printing enough information.
2559
2560- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
2561 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
2562
2563- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
2564 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
2565 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
2566 were answering.
2567
2568- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
2569 the transition.
2570
2571
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2573
2574- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
2575
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2576 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
2577
2578- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
2579 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
2580 representation from working correctly.
2581
2582- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
2583 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
2584 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
2585 could spin.
2586
2587- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
2588 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
2589
2590- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
2591 interface name on the command line.
2592
2593- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
2594 client state.
2595
2596- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
2597 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
2598 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
2599 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
2600 added by Ted Lemon.
2601
2602- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
2603 be made to log debugging information and other information.
2604
2605- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
2606 end option.
2607
2608- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
2609 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
2610 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
2611
2612- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
2613 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
2614 face of a null hardware address on input.
2615
2616- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
2617 specified unqualified.
2618
2619- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
2620 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
2621
2622- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
2623 RFC.
2624
2625- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
2626
2627- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
2628
2629- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
2630 it works.
2631
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2633
2634- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
2635 to CVS.
2636
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2637 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
2638
2639- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
2640
2641- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
2642 in patchlevel 9.
2643
2644- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
2645 options at renewal time.
2646
2647- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
2648 configuration language.
2649
2650- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
2651
2652- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
2653 done when no client hostname was received.
2654
2655- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
2656
2657- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
2658 the DHCP option space.
2659
2660- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
2661
2662- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
2663 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
2664
2665- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
2666 silently dropped.
2667
2668- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
2669 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
2670
2671- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
2672 will be correctly updated.
2673
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2674 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
2675
2676- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
2677 bounds-checking.
2678
2679 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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2680
2681- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
2682
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2685- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
2686 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
2687 possible to exploit it any further than that.
2688
2689- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
2690 option.
2691
2692- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
2693 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
2694 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
2695 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
2696 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
2697 meaningfully.
2698
2699- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
2700 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
2701 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
2702
2703- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
2704 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
2705 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
2706 this one down!
2707
2708- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
2709 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
2710 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
2711 down and fixing this problem.
2712
2713 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
2714
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2715- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
2716 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
2717
2718- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
2719 environment.
2720
2721- Fix suffix operator.
2722
2723- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
2724
2725- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
2726 connection code.
2727
2728- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
2729
2730- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
2731
2732- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
2733 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
2734
2735- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
2736
2737- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
2738
2739- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
2740 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
2741
2742- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
2743 spawn with.
2744
2745- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
2746 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
2747
2748- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
2749 for OMAPI.
2750
2751- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
2752 can install in host declarations.
2753
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2754 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
2755
2756- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
2757 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
2758 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
2759 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
2760 comments)!
2761
2762- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
2763
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2764- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
2765 request for help on this with patches!
2766
2767- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
2768 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
2769 lost, they never reconnect.
2770
2771- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
2772 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
2773
2774- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
2775 dump.
2776
2777- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
2778 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
2779 catching this one.
2780
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2781 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
2782
2783- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
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2785 lease renewal time.
2786
2787- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
2788 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
2789 declared without a key.
2790
2791- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
2792
2793- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
2794 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
2795
2796- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
2797 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
2798 determine the maximum size of the response.
2799
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2801
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2802- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
2803 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
2804
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2805- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
2806 RENEWING client.
2807
2808- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
2809
2810- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
2811 using memcmp().
2812
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2814
2815- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
2816 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
2817 pointing this out.
2818
2819- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
2820 exit.
2821
2822- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
2823
2824- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
2825 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.