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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
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2 Version 4.0.0a2
3 July 10, 2007
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98311e4b 5 Release Notes
72c7bd79 6
da411127 7 NEW FEATURES
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9The DHCP server in version 4.0.x of the ISC DHCP Distribution supports
10DHCPv6 in addition to DHCP for IPv4.
11
12Several new options have been added to the dhcpd executable, which are
13documented in the man page. Several changes have been made to the
14configuration file as well, which are also documented in the man
15pages.
16
17There are a number of DHCPv6 limitiations and features missing in this
18release, which will be addressed shortly:
19
99fe695e 20- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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22- There is no DHCPv6 Relay support.
23
24- Only a single fixed address is supported per IA.
25
26- IA_TA addresses are not supported.
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98bd7ca0 28- IA_PD prefixes are not supported.
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30- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages. These
31 should be configurable, and probably localized via gettext() or the
32 like.
33
34- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
35
36- Dynamically allocated leases do not respond to Confirm messages.
37
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38- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
39 not both, so two instances of the daemons are required with the
40 "-6" command line option.
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42For information on how to install, configure and run this software,
43as well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult
44the README file.
45
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46ISC DHCP now uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please
47review the output of "./configure --help" to see what options are
48available.
49
50The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and
51may not work on other platforms. Please report any problems and
52suggested fixes to <dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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54 Changes since 4.0.0a2
55
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56- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
57 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
58
763cba6b 59- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
e889ded1 60
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61- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
62 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
63 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
64
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65- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
66
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67 Changes since 4.0.0a1
68
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69- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
70 and fix.
71
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72- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
73
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74- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
75
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76- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
77 for when loading configuration.
78
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79- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
80 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
81 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
82
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83- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
84 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
85 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
86 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
87
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88- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
89
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90- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
91 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
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93- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
94
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95- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
96
97- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
98 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
99
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100- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
101 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
102
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103- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
104
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105- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
106 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
107
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108 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
109
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110- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
111
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112- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
113 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
114
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115- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
116
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117- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
118 initialized.
119
120- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
121
122- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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123 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
124
125- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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127- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
128
129- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
130 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
131
132- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
133
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134- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
135 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplised.
136
137- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
138 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
139
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140- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
141
142- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
143
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144- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
145
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146 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
147
148- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
149 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
150 no support currently for both.
151
152- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
153 IAADDR option.
154
155- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
156 options.
157
158- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
159
160- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
161 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
162
163- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
164 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
165 specifying type 1 or type 2).
166
167- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
168 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
169
170- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
171 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
172 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
173 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
174 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
175 differently, they both use the same code here).
176
177- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
178 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
179 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
180
181- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
182
183- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
184 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
185 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
186 it should not intercept.
187
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188 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
189
190- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
191 failover protected subnets was removed.
192
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193 Changes since 3.1.0b2
194
195- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
196 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
197 odd number of leases).
198
199- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
200 rebalance run, and one after.
201
202- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
203 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
204 processing these messages.
205
fe5b0fdd 206 Changes since 3.1.0b1
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208- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
209 objects.
210
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211- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
212 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
213 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
214 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
215 at Allianz.
216
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217- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
218 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
219
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220- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
221 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
222
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223- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
224 caused the server to abort.
225
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226- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
227 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
228 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
229
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230- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
231 by empty spaces would not get included.
232
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233- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
234 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
235
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236- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
237 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
238
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239- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
240 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
241
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242- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
243 on the parameter request list.
244
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245 Changes since 3.1.0a3
246
247- Some spelling fixes.
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249 Changes since 3.1.0a2
250
251- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
252 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
253
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254- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
255 domain-search option syntax.
256
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257 Changes since 3.1.0a1
258
259- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
260 hash table was repaired.
261
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262- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
263 entering normal state.
264
265- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
266 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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267 'xid mismatch' log messages.
268
269- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
270 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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272- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
273 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
274 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
275 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
276
277- Lease structures appear in three spearate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
278 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
279 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
280 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
281 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
282 to their needs.
283
284- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
285 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
286 run will attempt balance.
287
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288- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
289
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290 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
291
292- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
293 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
294 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
295 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
296
98bd7ca0 297- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 298 was introduced.
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299
300- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
301 via OMAPI.
302
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303- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
304 the protocol draft.
305
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306- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
307 one does not already exist on the system.
308
b43c87ad 309- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 310
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311- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
312 matches RFC 3074.
313
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314- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
315 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 316 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2727c1cf 317
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318- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
319 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 320 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 321
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322- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
323 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
324 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
325 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
326
327- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
328 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
329 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
330 priority over the client's parameter request list.
331
f7fdb216 332- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 333 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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334 DHCPv6 support.
335
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336- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
337 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
338 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
339
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340- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
341 have been incorporated.
342
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343- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
344 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
345 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
346 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
347 that belong to the peer in need.
348
349- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
350 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
351
352- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
353 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
354 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
355
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356- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
357 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
358
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359- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
360 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
361 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
362 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
363 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
364
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365- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
366 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
367 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
368 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
369
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370- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
371 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
372 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
373 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
374 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
375 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
376 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
377 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
378 ignoring this aspect of their request.
379
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380- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
381 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
382
41e45067 383- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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384 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
385 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
386 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
387
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388- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
389 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
390 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
391 hardware and funding the development.
6d103865 392
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393- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
394 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
395 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
396 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
397 via Robin Breathe.
398
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399- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
400 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
401 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
402 from Christof Chen.
403
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404- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
405 formally supported.
406
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407 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
408
409- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
410 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
411
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412 Changes since 3.0.5
413
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414- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
415 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
416 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 417 they actually received.
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418
419- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
420
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421- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
422 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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423 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
424 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
c1e6c832 425
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426- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
427
d69fb6a8 428- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 429 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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431- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
432 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
433 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
434 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
435 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
436 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
437 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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438 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
439
440- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
441 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
442 'file' field.
02428754 443
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444- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
445 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
446
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447- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
448 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
449 a patch from Kevin Steves.
450
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451- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
452 from Chris Wagner.
453
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454- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
455 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
456 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
457
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458- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
459 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
460 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
461 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
462 was set.
463
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464- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
465 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
466
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467- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
468 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
469 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
470 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
471 active ones.
472
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901306d5 475- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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476 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
477 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
478 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
479 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
480
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481- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
482 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
483
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484 Changes since 3.0.4
485
486- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
487 scopes are actually global has been added.
488
489- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
490 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
491 known to be damaging.
492
493- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
494 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
495 balancing).
496
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497- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
498 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
499 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
500
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501- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
502 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
503 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
504
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505- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
506 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
507 more clear now.
508
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509- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
510 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
511 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
512 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
513 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 514 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
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516- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
517 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
518
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519- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
520 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
521 made possible.
522
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523- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
524 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
525 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
526
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527- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
528 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
529
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530- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
531 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
532 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
533
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534- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
535 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
536 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
537 value with the later configured value).
538
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539- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
540 have been named and documented.
541
542- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
543 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
544 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
545 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
546 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
547 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
548 write new output.
549
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550 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
551
552- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
553 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
554
555 Changes since 3.0.4b3
556
557- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
558 mailing list.
559
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560 Changes since 3.0.4b2
561
562- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunatley require
563 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
564
565- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
566 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
567
568- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
569 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
570 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
571 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
572
573- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
574 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
575 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
576 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
577 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
578 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
579 transition (properly).
580
581- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
582
583 Changes since 3.0.4b1
584
585- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
586 STDIN after reading one line.
587
588- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
589 descriptor it opened twice.
590
591- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
592 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
593 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
594
595 Changes since 3.0.3
596
597- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
598 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
599 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
600
601- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
602 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
603 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
604
605- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
606 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 607 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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608 leases to allocate.
609
610- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
611 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailng PAD option, rather
612 than the entire block of them.
613
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614! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
615 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
616 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
617 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
618 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
619 to a patch from infamous42md.
620
621! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
622 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
623 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
624 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
625 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
626 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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628- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
629 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
630 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
631
632- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
633 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
634
635- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
636 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
637 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
638 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
639 transitional states.
640
641- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
642 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
643 once it detects the old db does not exist.
644
645- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
646 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
647 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
648
649- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
650 been doucmented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
651
652- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
653 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
654
655- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
656 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
657 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
658
659- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
660 patch from 'infamous42md'.
661
662- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
663 repaired.
664
665- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
666 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
667 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
668 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
669
670- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
671 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
672 data.
673
674- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
675 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
676 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
677 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
678 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
679
680- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
681 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
682 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
683 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
684 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
685
686- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
687 has been repaired.
688
689- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
690 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
691 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
692 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
693 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
694
695- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 696 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
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698- The linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
699 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
700 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
701 move to 3.[01].x.
702
703- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
704 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
705
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706 Changes since 3.0.3b3
707
708- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
709 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
710
711- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
712 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
713 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
714 workaround.
715
716 Changes since 3.0.3b2
717
718- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
719 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
720
721 Changes since 3.0.3b1
722
723- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
724 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
725 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
726
727- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
728 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
729 dynamic updates were also retouched.
730
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731 Changes since 3.0.2
732
733- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
734 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceeding DISCOVER.
735 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
736
737- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
738 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
739 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
740 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
741 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
742
743- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
744 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
745 Jason Vas Dias at Redhat.
746
747- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
748 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
749 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
750
751- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
752 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
753 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
754 Peter Poeml.
755
756- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
757 Dr. Peter Poeml.
758
759- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
760 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
761 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
762 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
763 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
764 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
765
766- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
767 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
768 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
769 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
770
771- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
772 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
773 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
774 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
775
776- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
777 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
778
779- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
780 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
781 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
782
783- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
784 7 bytes, and failover.
785
786- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
787 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
788 at Redhat.
789
790- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
791 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
792 should work better.
793
794- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
795 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
796 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
797
798- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
799 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
800 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
801
802 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
803
804- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
805 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
806
807 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
808
809- Two varaibles introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
810 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
811 overloading. This was repaired.
812
813- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
814 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
815 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
816 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
817 three chunks to fit.
818
819- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
820 were repaired.
821
822- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
823 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
824 leak).
825
826 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
827
828- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
829 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
830
831 Changes since 3.0.2b1
832
833- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
834
835 Changes since 3.0.1
836
837- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
838 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
839 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
840
841- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
842 name was not provided by the server.
843
844- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
845 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
846
847- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
848 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
849
850- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
851 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
852
853- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
854
855- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
856
857- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
858 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
859 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
860 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
861 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
862
863- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
864 the configuration be globally scoped.
865
866- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
867 Farkas.
868
869- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
870 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
871
872- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
873 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
874
875- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
876 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
877
878- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
879 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
880 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
881 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
882
883- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
884 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
885 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
886 respond to POOLREQ messages.
887
888- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
889 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
890 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
891
892- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
893
894- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
895 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
896 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
897
898- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
899 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
900 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
901 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
902 Fjone and directconnect.no.
903
904- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
905 to Andreas Gustafsson.
906
907- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
908 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
909
910- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
911 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
912 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
913 DISCOVER timeout handling.
914
915- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
916 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
917
918- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
919 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
920 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
921
922- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
923 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
924 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
925 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
926 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
927 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
928
929- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
930 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
931 Infoblox.
932
933- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
934
935- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
936 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
937 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
938 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
939 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
940 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
941 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
942
943- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
944 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
945 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
946
947- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
948 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
949 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
950
951- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
952
953 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
954
955- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
956 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
957 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
958 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
959 systems either.
960
961- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
962
963- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
964 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
965 is false.
966
967- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
968 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
969
970- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
971
972 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
973
974! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
975 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
976 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
977 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
978 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
979 both finding and solving the problem.
980
981! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
982 in log_*() functions was evidented, on some specific platforms where
983 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
984 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
985 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
986 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
987 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
988 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
989 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
990 published version of ISC DHCP.
991
992- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
993
994- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
995
996 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
997
998- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
999 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
1000 Richard Hirst.
1001
1002- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
1003 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
1004 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
1005
1006- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
1007
1008- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
1009 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
1010 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
1011 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
1012
1013- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
1014 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on solaris platforms.
1015
1016- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
1017 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
1018
1019- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
1020
1021 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
1022
1023- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
1024 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
1025
1026- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
1027 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
1028 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
1029
1030- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
1031 by name was fixed.
1032
1033- Delcaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
1034 longer result in error.
1035
1036- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
1037
1038- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
1039 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
1040 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
1041
1042- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
1043 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
1044
1045- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
1046 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
1047 Blapp.
1048
1049- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
1050 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
1051 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
1052 Martin Blapp.
1053
1054- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
1055 expiry times in failover configurations.
1056
1057- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
1058 Steve G.
1059
1060- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
1061 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
1062
1063- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
1064 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
1065 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
1066 now "unknown-144".
1067
1068- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
1069 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
1070
1071 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
1072
1073- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
1074
1075- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
1076 not be bash.
1077
1078- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1079
1080- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
1081 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
1082 that errored before will now work properly.
1083
1084- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
1085 names was repaired.
1086
1087- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
1088 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
1089 configuration file.
1090
1091- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
1092 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1093
1094- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
1095 error rather than a null dereference.
1096
1097 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
1098
1099- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
1100
1101- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
1102
1103- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
1104 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
1105
1106- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
1107
1108- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
1109
1110- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
1111 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
1112 self-corrupting lease databases.
1113
1114- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
1115
1116- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
1117 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
1118
1119- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
1120
1121- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
1122
1123- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
1124 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
1125 Ling Gou.
1126
1127- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
1128 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1129
1130- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
1131 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
1132 Ted Lemon for the patch.
1133
1134- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
1135 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
1136
1137 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
1138
1139- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
1140 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
1141
1142- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
1143
1144- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
1145 a memory leak.
1146
1147- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
1148 script.
1149
1150- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
1151
1152- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
1153
1154- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
1155
1156- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
1157
1158- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
1159
1160- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
1161
1162- Increment the hop count when relaying.
1163
1164- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
1165
1166- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
1167
1168- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
1169
1170- Change the type of rbuf_max.
1171
1172- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
1173
1174 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
1175
1176- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
1177 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
1178 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
1179
1180 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
1181
1182- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
1183 to be renewed.
1184
1185- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
1186 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
1187
1188- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
1189 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
1190
1191- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
1192 that two permit lists matched.
1193
1194- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
1195 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
1196
1197- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
1198
1199- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
1200 requested it, contrary to the standard.
1201
1202- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
1203
1204- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
1205
1206- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
1207 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
1208 going to update its A record.
1209
1210- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
1211 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
1212 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
1213 DNS server.
1214
1215- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
1216
1217- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
1218
1219- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
1220 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
1221 NetBSD project).
1222
1223- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
1224 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
1225
1226- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
1227 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
1228
1229- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
1230
1231- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
1232
1233- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
1234 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
1235 failover protocol standard.
1236
1237- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
1238 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
1239 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
1240
1241- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
1242 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
1243 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
1244 do so.
1245
1246- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
1247
1248 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
1249
1250- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
1251
1252- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
1253 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
1254
1255- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
1256 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
1257
1258- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
1259 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
1260 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
1261
1262- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
1263 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
1264 network, merge the two pools.
1265
1266- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
1267 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
1268 fix this bug.
1269
1270 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
1271
1272- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
1273 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
1274
1275- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
1276 the same case.
1277
1278- Additional documentation.
1279
1280- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
1281 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
1282
1283 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
1284
1285- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
1286- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
1287
1288 Changes since 3.0.1rc2
1289
1290- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
1291 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
1292 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
1293 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
1294 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
1295
1296 Changes since 3.0.1rc1
1297
1298- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
1299 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
1300 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
1301 wasn't the one that removed it.
1302
1303- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
1304 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
1305 were not configured.
1306
1307- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
1308
1309- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
1310 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
1311 routing information.
1312
1313- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
1314 request being sent.
1315
1316- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
1317 done.
1318
1319- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
1320 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
1321 were pending.
1322
1323- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
1324 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
1325 problems with failover.
1326
1327- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
1328 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
1329 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
1330
1331 Changes since 3.0
1332
1333- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
1334 smash in the subclass allocation code.
1335
1336- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
1337 no object is open, it dumps core.
1338
1339- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
1340
1341- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
1342
1343- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
1344
1345- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
1346 a host object attribute with a null value.
1347
1348 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
1349
1350- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
1351
1352- Fix an obscure core dump.
1353
1354- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
1355 when crucial information is left out.
1356
1357- Log "no free leases" as an error.
1358
1359- Documentation updates.
1360
1361 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
1362
1363- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
1364
1365- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
1366 structure wasn't zeroed.
1367
1368- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
1369 incorrectly.
1370
1371- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
1372 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
1373 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
1374 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
1375 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
1376 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
1377 restarted.
1378
1379 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
1380
1381- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
1382 in failover-enabled pools.
1383
1384- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
1385 declarations).
1386
1387- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
1388 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
1389
1390- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
1391 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
1392
1393- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
1394
1395- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
1396 defined but not referenced by any pools.
1397
1398- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
1399
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1401
1402- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
1403
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1405
1406- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
1407
1408- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
1409
1410- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
1411
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1413
1414- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
1415 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
1416 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
1417
1418- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
1419 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
1420 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
1421 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
1422 string.
1423
1424- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
1425
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1427
1428- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
1429 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
1430
1431- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
1432 malformed packets.
1433
1434- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
1435
1436- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
1437 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
1438 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
1439
1440- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
1441
1442- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
1443
1444- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
1445
1446- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
1447 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
1448
1449- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
1450 tcp connections from being played back.
1451
1452- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
1453 on exit.
1454
1455- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
1456
1457- Add some configurability to the build system.
1458
1459- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
1460
1461- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
1462 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
1463 hadn't been noticed until now.
1464
1465 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
1466
1467- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
1468 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
1469
1470- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
1471 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
1472 conformant, but also didn't work).
1473
1474- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
1475 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
1476
1477- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
1478 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
1479
1480- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
1481 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
1482
1483- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
1484 variables to leases via OMAPI.
1485
1486- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
1487 doing failover.
1488
1489- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
1490 running on alpha processors.
1491
1492- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
1493 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
1494
1495- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
1496
1497- Install omshell (including new documentation).
1498
1499- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
1500 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
1501
1502- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
1503
1504- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
1505 actually named (key names are domain names).
1506
1507- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
1508
1509- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
1510 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
1511
1512- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
1513 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
1514
1515- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
1516 statements.
1517
1518- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
1519 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
1520
1521- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
1522 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
1523 operating.
1524
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1526
1527- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
1528 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
1529 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
1530 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
1531
1532- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
1533 using omapi to manipulate leases.
1534
1535- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
1536
1537
1538 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
1539
1540- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
1541 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
1542
1543- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
1544 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
1545 to the chain.
1546
1547- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
1548
1549- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
1550
1551- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
1552
98311e4b 1553- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
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1555
98311e4b 1556- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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1558- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
1559
1560 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
1561
1562- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
1563 DHCPDECLINE.
1564
1565- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
1566
1567- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
1568 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
1569 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
1570
1571- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
1572
1573- Documentation fixes.
1574
1575- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
1576 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
1577
1578- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
1579 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
1580
1581- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
1582
1583- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
1584
1585- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
1586 case-insensitive.
1587
1588- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
1589
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1592 consistently.
1593
1594- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
1595 systems with the probe not working correctly.
1596
1597- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
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1600
1601- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
1602 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
1603 result of duplicate leases.
1604
1605- Document OMAPI server objects.
1606
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1608
1609- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
1610 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
1611
1612- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
1613 core dumps.
1614
1615- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
1616 Friedrich.
1617
1618- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
1619
1620 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
1621
1622- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
1623 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 1624 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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1626
1627- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
1628 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
1629
1630- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
1631 trace file.
1632
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1636 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
1637 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
1638 e.g., Digital Unix.
1639
1640- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
1641 when no error had occurred.
1642
1643- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
1644 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
1645 non-communicating state.
1646
1647- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
1648
1649- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
1650 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
1651 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
1652
1653- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
1654 when the client lease expired.
1655
1656- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
1657 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
1658 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
1659 in testing.
1660
1661- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
1662 the command line, it would fail.
1663
1664- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
1665 user impact).
1666
1667- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
1668
1669- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
1670 they're executable.
1671
1672 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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1674- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
1675 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
1676 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
1677 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
1678
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1680 Transmeta.
1681
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1682- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
1683 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
1684 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
1685 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
1686
1687- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
1688 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
1689
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1691
1692- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
1693 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
1694
1695- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
1696
1697- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
1698
1699- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
1700
1701- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
1702
1703- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
1704
1705- Update some parts of the README file.
1706
1707- Support GCC on SCO.
1708
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1710
1711- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
1712 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
1713
1714- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
1715 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
1716 unbill the old class.
1717
1718- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
1719 process the state transition immediately.
1720
1721- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
1722 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
1723
1724- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
1725
1726- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
1727
1728- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
1729
1730- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
1731
1732- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
1733 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
1734 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
1735
1736- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
1737 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
1738
1739- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
1740 lease file.
1741
1742- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
1743
1744- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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1747
1748- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
1749 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
1750
1751- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
1752
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1754
1755- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
1756
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1758
1759- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
1760
1761- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
1762 pl19.
1763
1764- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
1765 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
1766 past the regression test.
1767
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1769
1770- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
1771 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
1772
1773- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
1774 DHCPREQUEST.
1775
1776- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
1777
1778- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
1779
1780- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
1781
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1783
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1784- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
1785 (Damien Neil)
1786
1787- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
1788 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
1789
1790- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
1791 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
1792 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
1793
1794- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
1795 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
1796 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
1797 message.
1798
1799- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
1800 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
1801 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
1802
98311e4b 1803- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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1805 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
1806 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
1807 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
1808 this way will work.
1809
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1811
1812- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
1813 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
1814 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
1815 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
1816
1817 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
1818
1819 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
1820
1821- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
1822 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
1823 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
1824
1825- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
1826 Hermann Lauer.
1827
1828- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
1829 messages.
1830
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1832 it contained quoted strings.
1833
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1835
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1837
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1838- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
1839 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
1840 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
1841 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
1842 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
1843 tracking down memory leaks.
1844
1845- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
1846 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
1847 Solaris.
1848
1849- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
1850 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
1851 corruption and core dumps.
1852
1853- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
1854 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
1855
1856- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
1857
1858- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
1859 and implemented by Damien Neil.
1860
1861- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
1862 name and version to standard output.
1863
1864- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
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1866- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
1867 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
1868
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1869- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
1870
1871- Lots of documentation updates.
1872
1873- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
1874 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
1875
1876- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
1877
1878- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
1879 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
1880
1881
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1882 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 15
1883
1884- Some documentation tweaks.
1885
1886- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
1887
1888- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
1889
1890- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
1891 agent options into them.
1892
1893- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
1894
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1895- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
1896 options.
1897
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1898 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 14
1899
1900- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
1901 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
1902 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
1903 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
1904 used in class statements to control address allocation.
1905
1906- Fix up documentation.
1907
1908- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
1909 significantly in a high-demand situation.
1910
1911- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
1912
1913- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
1914
1915- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
1916 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
1917 practical use otherwise.
1918
1919- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
1920 for debugging.
1921
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1923
1924- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
1925 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
1926 dump on some systems.
1927
1928- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
1929 option.
1930
1931- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
1932 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
1933
1934- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
1935 that were not printing enough information.
1936
1937- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
1938 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
1939
1940- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
1941 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
1942 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
1943 were answering.
1944
1945- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
1946 the transition.
1947
1948
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1949 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 12
1950
1951- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
1952
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1953 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
1954
1955- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
1956 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
1957 representation from working correctly.
1958
1959- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
1960 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
1961 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
1962 could spin.
1963
1964- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
1965 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
1966
1967- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
1968 interface name on the command line.
1969
1970- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
1971 client state.
1972
1973- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
1974 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
1975 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
1976 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
1977 added by Ted Lemon.
1978
1979- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
1980 be made to log debugging information and other information.
1981
1982- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
1983 end option.
1984
1985- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
1986 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
1987 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
1988
1989- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
1990 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
1991 face of a null hardware address on input.
1992
1993- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
1994 specified unqualified.
1995
1996- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
1997 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
1998
1999- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
2000 RFC.
2001
2002- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
2003
2004- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
2005
2006- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
2007 it works.
2008
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2009 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
2010
2011- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
2012 to CVS.
2013
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2014 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
2015
2016- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
2017
2018- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
2019 in patchlevel 9.
2020
2021- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
2022 options at renewal time.
2023
2024- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
2025 configuration language.
2026
2027- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
2028
2029- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
2030 done when no client hostname was received.
2031
2032- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
2033
2034- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
2035 the DHCP option space.
2036
2037- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
2038
2039- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
2040 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
2041
2042- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
2043 silently dropped.
2044
2045- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
2046 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
2047
2048- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
2049 will be correctly updated.
2050
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2051 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
2052
2053- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
2054 bounds-checking.
2055
2056 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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2057
2058- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
2059
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2062- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
2063 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
2064 possible to exploit it any further than that.
2065
2066- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
2067 option.
2068
2069- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
2070 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
2071 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
2072 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
2073 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
2074 meaningfully.
2075
2076- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
2077 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
2078 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
2079
2080- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
2081 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
2082 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
2083 this one down!
2084
2085- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
2086 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
2087 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
2088 down and fixing this problem.
2089
2090 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
2091
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2092- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
2093 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
2094
2095- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
2096 environment.
2097
2098- Fix suffix operator.
2099
2100- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
2101
2102- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
2103 connection code.
2104
2105- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
2106
2107- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
2108
2109- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
2110 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
2111
2112- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
2113
2114- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
2115
2116- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
2117 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
2118
2119- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
2120 spawn with.
2121
2122- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
2123 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
2124
2125- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
2126 for OMAPI.
2127
2128- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
2129 can install in host declarations.
2130
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2132
2133- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
2134 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
2135 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
2136 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
2137 comments)!
2138
2139- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
2140
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2141- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
2142 request for help on this with patches!
2143
2144- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
2145 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
2146 lost, they never reconnect.
2147
2148- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
2149 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
2150
2151- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
2152 dump.
2153
2154- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
2155 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
2156 catching this one.
2157
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2158 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
2159
2160- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
2161 of options, so that the client configuration can overried, e.g., the
2162 lease renewal time.
2163
2164- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
2165 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
2166 declared without a key.
2167
2168- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
2169
2170- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
2171 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
2172
2173- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
2174 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
2175 determine the maximum size of the response.
2176
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2179- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
2180 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
2181
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2182- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
2183 RENEWING client.
2184
2185- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
2186
2187- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
2188 using memcmp().
2189
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2190 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
2191
2192- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
2193 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
2194 pointing this out.
2195
2196- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
2197 exit.
2198
2199- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
2200
2201- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
2202 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.