]> git.ipfire.org Git - thirdparty/dhcp.git/blame - RELNOTES
- Code cleanup: remove obsolete PROTO, KandR, INLINE and ANSI_DECL macros
[thirdparty/dhcp.git] / RELNOTES
CommitLineData
98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
adbef119
DH
2 Version 4.2.0
3 21 December 2012
72c7bd79 4
0171be2d 5 Release Notes
72c7bd79 6
0171be2d 7 NEW FEATURES
16449d9c 8
adbef119
DH
9ISC DHCP 4.2.x includes features that were not included in DHCP 4.1.x.
10These include:
37ec5845 11
98bf1607
SR
12Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
13The DHCP server or client can now continue with it's processing while
14awaiting replies from the DNS server.
15
01a54c17
EH
16There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
17release, which will be addressed in the future:
98bd7ca0 18
01a54c17 19- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
3a16098f 20
adbef119
DH
21- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages, in
22 English. A method to reconfigure or support other languages would
23 be preferrable.
98bd7ca0
DH
24
25- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
26
98bd7ca0 27- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 28 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 29 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
4ff4053b 30
01a54c17
EH
31For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as
32well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the
33README file.
ca4606b5 34
01a54c17
EH
35ISC DHCP uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please review the
36output of "./configure --help" to see what options are available.
fe5b0fdd 37
01a54c17
EH
38The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and may not
39work on other platforms. Please report any problems and suggested fixes to
40<dhcp-users@isc.org>.
98bd7ca0 41
bea17697
SR
42 Changes since 4.2.1
43
44! In dhclient check the data for some string options for
45 reasonableness before passing it along to the script that
46 interfaces with the OS.
47 [ISC-Bugs #23722]
48 CVE: CVE-2011-0997
c7aa4dd4
TM
49
50- DHCPv6 server now responds properly if client asks for a prefix that
51 is already assigned to a different client. [ISC-Bugs #23948]
4a5bfeac
SR
52
53- Add the option "--no-pid" to the client, relay and server code,
54 to disable writing a pid file. Add the option "-pf pidfile"
55 to the relay to allow the user to supply the pidfile name at
56 runtime. Add the "with-relay6-pid-file" option to configure
57 to allow the user to supply the pidfile name for the relay
58 in v6 mode at configure time.
59 [ISC-Bugs #23351] [ISC-Bugs #17541]
5d082abd
TM
60
61- 'dhclient' no longer waits a random interval after first starting up to
62 begin in the INIT state. This conforms to RFC 2131, but elects not to
63 implement a 'SHOULD' direction in section 4.1. The goal of this change
73c83820 64 is to start up faster. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
5d082abd
TM
65
66- Added 'initial-delay' parameter that specifies maximum amount of time
67 before client goes to the INIT state. The default value is 0. In previous
68 versions of the code client could wait up to 5 seconds. The old behavior
69 may be restored by using 'initial-delay 5;' in the client config file.
73c83820 70 [ISC-Bugs #19660]
5d082abd
TM
71
72- ICMP ping-check should now sit closer to precisely the number of seconds
73 configured (or default 1), due to making use of the new microsecond
74 scale timer internally to dhcpd. This corrects a bug where the server
75 may immediately timeout an ICMP ping-check if it was made late in the
73c83820 76 current second. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
5d082abd
TM
77
78- The DHCP client will schedule renewal and rebinding events in
79 microseconds if the DHCP server provided a lease-time that would result
80 in sub-1-second timers. This corrects a bug where a 2-second or lower
81 lease-time would cause the DHCP client to enter an infinite loop by
73c83820 82 scheduling renewal at zero seconds. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
5d082abd
TM
83
84- Client lease records are recorded at most once every 15 seconds. This
85 keeps the client from filling the lease database disk quickly on very small
73c83820 86 lease times. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
5d082abd
TM
87
88- To defend against RFC 2131 non-compliant DHCP servers which fail to
89 advertise a lease-time (either mangled, or zero in value) the DHCP
90 client now adds the server to the reject list ACL and returns to INIT
91 state to hopefully find an RFC 2131 compliant server (or retry in INIT
73c83820 92 forever). [ISC-Bugs #19660]
023fbaa0
TM
93
94- Parameters configured to evaluate from user defined function calls can
95 now be correctly written to dhcpd.leases (as on 'on events' or dynamic
96 host records inserted via OMAPI). [ISC-Bugs #22266]
97
98- If a 'next-server' parameter is configured in a dynamic host record via
99 OMAPI as a domain name, the syntax written to disk is now correctly parsed
100 upon restart. [ISC-Bugs #22266]
656b1ece
TM
101
102- The DHCP server now responds to DHCPLEASEQUERY messages from agents using
103 IP addresses not covered by a subnet in configuration. Whether or not to
104 respond to such an agent is still governed by the 'allow leasequery;'
105 configuration parameter, in the case of an agent not covered by a configured
106 subnet the root configuration area is examined. Server now also returns
107 vendor-class-id option, if client sent it. [ISC-Bugs #21094]
bea17697 108
fc06ee4f
SR
109- Documentation fixes
110 [ISC-Bugs #17959] add text to AIX section describing how to have it send
111 responses to the all-ones address.
112 [ISC-Bugs #19615] update the includes in dhcpctl/dhcpctl.3 to be more correct
113 [ISC-Bugs #20676] update dhcpd.conf.5 to include the RFC numbers for DDNS
114
1185c766
TM
115- Relay no longer crashes, when DHCP packet is received over interface without
116 any IPv4 address assigned. Also extended logging message about discarding
117 packets with invalid hlen with information about relevant interface name.
118 [ISC-Bugs #22409]
119
c6455252
TM
120- Relay now properly logs that packet was received over interface without
121 global IPv6 address [ISC-Bugs #24070]
122
9369bdc1
TM
123- Linux Packet Filter interface improvement. sockaddr_pkt structure is used,
124 rather than sockaddr. Packet ethertype is now forced to ETH_P_IP.
125 [ISC-Bugs #18975]
126
fb30f3fc
SR
127- Minor code cleanups - but note port change for #23196
128 [ISC-Bugs #23470] - Modify when an ignore return macro is defined to
129 handle unsed error return warnings for more versions of gcc.
130 [ISC-Bugs #23196] - Modify the reply handling in the server code to
131 send to a specified port rather than to the source port for the incoming
132 message. Sending to the source port was test code that should have
133 been removed. The previous functionality may be restored by defining
134 REPLY_TO_SOURCE_PORT in the includes/site.h file. We suggest you don't
135 enable this except for testing purposes.
136 [ISC-Bugs #22695] - Close a file descriptor in an error path.
137 [ISC-Bugs #19368] - Tidy up variable types in validate_port.
138
a34feb7d
TM
139- Code cleanup
140 [ISC-Bugs #13151] - remove obsolete PROTO, KandR, INLINE and ANSI_DECL macros
141
5a38e43f
SR
142 Changes since 4.2.0
143
144- Documentation cleanup covering multiple tickets
145 [ISC-Bugs #20265] [ISC-Bugs #20259] minor cleanup
146 [ISC-Bugs #20263] add text describing some default values
147 [ISC-Bugs #20193] single quotes at the start of a line indicate a control
148 line to nroff, escape them if we actually want a quote.
149 [ISC-Bugs #18916] sync the pointer to web pages amongst the different docs
150
524705e5
DH
151- 'get-host-names true;' now also works even if 'use-host-decl-names true;'
152 was also configured. The nature of this repair also fixes another
153 error; the host-name supplied by a client is no longer overridden by a
154 reverse lookup of the lease address. Thanks to a patch from Wilco Baan
155 Hofman supplied to us by the Debian package maintenance team.
156 [ISC-Bugs #21691] {Debian Bug#509445}
157
f07d0fb5
DH
158- The .TH tag for the dhcp-options manpage was typo repaired
159 thanks to a report from jidanni and the Debian package maintenance
160 team. [ISC-Bugs #21676] {Debian Bug#563613}
161
d6645f56
SR
162- More documentation changes - primarily to put the options in the dhclient
163 and dhcpd man pages into the standard form. Thanks in part to a patch
164 from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
165 [ISC-Bugs #20264] and parts of [ISC-Bugs #17744] dhclient.8 changes
166
4a5098e9
SR
167- Add code to clear the pointer to an object in an OMAPI handle when the
168 object is freed due to a dereference. [ISC-Bugs #21306]
169
ea75d544
DH
170- Fixed a bug that leaks host record references onto lease structures,
171 causing the server to apply configuration intended for one host to any
172 other innocent clients that come along later. [ISC-Bugs #22018]
173
66be0ad1
SR
174- Minor code fixes
175 [ISC-Bugs #19566] When trying to find the zone for a name for ddns allow
176 the name to be at the apex of the zone.
177 [ISC-Bugs #19617] Restrict length of interface name read from command line
178 in dhcpd - based on a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
179 [ISC-Bugs #20039] Correct some error messages in dhcpd.c
180 [ISC-Bugs #20070] Better range check on values when creating a DHCID.
181 [ISC-Bugs #20198] Avoid writing past the end of the field when adding
182 overly long file or server names to a packet and add a log message
183 if the configuration supplied overly long names for these fields.
184 Thanks to Martin Pala.
185 [ISC-Bugs #21497] Add a little more randomness to rng seed in client
186 thanks to a patch from Jeremiah Jinno.
187
57fbc772
SR
188- Correct error handling in DLPI [ISC-Bugs #20378]
189
190- Remove __sun__ and __hpux__ typedefs in osdep.h as they are now being
191 checked in configure. [ISC-Bugs #20443]
192
193- Modify how the cmsg header is allocated the v6 send and received routines
194 to compile on more compilers. [ISC-Bugs #20524]
195
196- When parsing a domain name free the memory for the name after we are
197 done with it. [ISC-Bugs #20824]
198
197c917e
SR
199- Add an elapsed time option to the release message and refactor the
200 code to move most of the common code to a single routine.
201 [ISC-Bugs #21171].
202
8bd445a1
DH
203- Two identical log messages for commit_leases() have been disambiguated.
204 [ISC-Bugs #18915]
205
83d409ae
SR
206- Parse date strings more properly - the code now handles semi-colons in
207 date strings correctly. Thanks to a patch from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
208 [ISC-Bugs #21501, #20598]
209
6aaaf6a4
SR
210- Fixes to lease input and output.
211 [ISC-Bugs #20418] - Some systems don't support the "%s" argument to
212 strftime, paste together the same string using mktime instead.
213 [ISC-Bugs #19596] - When parsing iaid values accept printable
214 characters.
215 [ISC-Bugs #21585] - Always print time values in omshell as hex
216 instead of ascii if the values happen to be printable characters.
217
4e0997c6
SR
218- Minor changes for scripts, configure.ac and Makefiles
219 [ISC-Bugs #19147] Use domain-search instead of domain-name in manual and
220 example conf file. Thanks to a patch from David Cantrell
221 at Red Hat.
222 [ISC-Bugs #19761] Restore address when doing a rebind in DHCPv6
223 [ISC-Bugs #19945] Properly close the quote on some arguments.
224 [ISC-Bugs #20952] Add 64 bit types to configure.ac
225 [ISC-Bugs #21308] Add "PATH=" to CLIENT_PATH envrionment variable
226
ad59838e
SR
227- Update the code to parse dhcpv6 lease files to accept a semi-colon at
228 the end of the max-life and preferred-life clauses. In order to be
229 backwards compatible with older lease files not finding a semi-colon
230 is also accepted. [ISC-Bugs #22303].
231
4dc5a6b1
SR
232! Handle a relay forward message with an unspecified address in the
233 link address field. Previously such a message would cause the
f33dc722
SR
234 server to crash. Thanks to a report from John Gibbons. [ISC-Bugs #21992]
235 CERT: VU#102047 CVE: CVE-2010-3611
236
8d50c721
DH
237- ./configure on longer searches for -lcrypto to explicitly link against.
238 This fixes a bug where 'dhclient' would have shared library dependencies
239 on '/usr/lib'. [ISC-Bugs #21967]
4dc5a6b1 240
3004baba
SR
241- Handle pipe failures more gracefully. Some OSes pass a SIGPIPE
242 signal to a process and will kill the process if the signal isn't
243 caught. This patch adds code to turn off the SIGPIPE signal via
244 a setsockopt() call. The signal is already being ignored as part
245 of the ISC library. [ISC-Bugs #22269]
246
42cbff63
SR
247- Restore printing of values in omshell to the style pre 21585. For
248 21585 we changed the print routines to always display time values
39196512
SR
249 as a hex list. This had a side effect of printing all data strings
250 as a hex list. We shall investigate other ways of displaying time
251 values more usefully. [ISC-Bugs #22626]
3004baba 252
9d97e644
SR
253! Fix the handling of connection requests on the failover port.
254 Previously a connection request from a source that wasn't
255 listed as a failover peer would cause the server to become
dbaa902c
SR
256 non-responsive. Thanks to a report from Brad Bendily, brad@bendily.com.
257 [ISC-Bugs #22679]
9d97e644
SR
258 CERT: VU#159528 CVE: CVE-2010-3616
259
23d39ae2
SR
260- Don't pass the ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to the omapi signal handlers.
261 Passing it through to the handlers caused the omshell program to fail
262 to connect to the server. [ISC-Bugs #21839]
263
264- Fix the paranthesis in the code to process configuration statements
265 beginning with "auth". The previous arrangement caused
266 "auto-partner-down" to be processed incorrectly. [ISC-Bugs #21854]
267
0c9d3a81
SR
268- Limit the timeout period allowed in the dispatch code to 2^^32-1 seconds.
269 Thanks to a report from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
270 [ISC-Bugs #22033], [Red Hat Bug #628258]
271
e1a40211
SR
272- When processing the format flags for a given option consume the
273 flag indicating an optional value correctly. A symptom of this
274 bug was an infinite loop when trying to parse the slp-service-scope
275 option. Thanks to a patch from Marius Tomaschewski.
276 [ISC-Bugs #22055]
277
e7e17397
SR
278- Disable the use of kqueue in the ISC library. This avoids a problem
279 between the fork and socket code that caused the dhcpd process to
280 use all available cpu if the program daemonized itself.
281 [ISC-Bugs #21911]
282
c8b189f1 283! When processing a request in the DHCPv6 server code that specifies
45918d36 284 an address that is tagged as abandoned (meaning we received a
c8b189f1
SR
285 decline request for it previously) don't attempt to move it from
286 the inactive to active pool as doing so can result in the server
e8f330a1 287 crashing on an assert failure. Also retag the lease as active
c8b189f1
SR
288 and reset it's timeout value.
289 [ISC-Bugs #21921]
290
ef86959b
SR
291- Removed the restriction on using IPv6 addresses in IPv4 mode. This
292 allows IPv4 options which contain IPv6 addresses to be specified. For
293 example the 6rd option can be specified and used like this:
294 [ISC-Bugs #23039]
295
296 option 6rd code 212 = { integer 8, integer 8,
297 ip6-address, array of ip-address };
298 option 6rd 16 10 2001:: 1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8;
299
919f1407
SR
300- Handle some DDNS corner cases better. Maintain the DDNS transaction
301 information when updating a lease and cancel any existing transactions
302 when removing the ddns information.
303 [ISC-Bugs #23103]
304
8a0d9ca4
SR
305- Some fixes for LDAP
306 [ISC-Bugs #21783] - Include lber library when building ldap
307 [ISC-Bugs #22888] - Enable the ldap code when buidling common
308 The above fixes are from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
309
17a8f0e2
SR
310- Modify the dlpi code to accept getmsg() returning a positive value.
311 [ISC-Bugs #22824]
312
badc999d
SR
313 Changes since 4.2.0b2
314
315- Add declaration for variable in debug code in alloc.c. [ISC-Bugs #21472]
0d8c3d6e 316
1e05d095
SR
317 Changes since 4.2.0b1
318
d122accf
SR
319- Prohibit including lease time information in a response to a DHCP INFORM.
320 [ISC-Bugs #21092]
1e05d095 321
1943bbf8
SR
322! Accept a client id of length 0 while hashing. Previously the server would
323 exit if it attempted to hash a zero length client id, providing attackers
d122accf 324 with a simple denial of service attack. [ISC-Bugs #21253]
63ff896a 325 CERT: VU#541921 - CVE: CVE-2010-2156
1943bbf8 326
8a513c43
DH
327- A memory leak in ddns processing was closed. [ISC-Bugs #21377]
328
d122accf
SR
329- Modify the exception handling for initial context creation. Previously
330 we would try and clean up before exiting. This could present problems
331 when the cleanup required part of the context that wasn't available. It
332 also didn't do much as we exited afterwards anyway. Now we simply log
333 the error and exit. [ISC-Bugs #21093]
334
0d8c3d6e
DH
335- A bug was fixed that could cause the DHCPv6 server to advertise/assign a
336 previously allocated (active) lease to a client that has changed subnets,
337 despite being on different shared networks. Dynamic prefixes specifically
338 allocated in shared networks also now are not offered if the client has
339 moved. [ISC-Bugs #21152]
340
590298e7
SR
341- Add some debugging output for use with the DDNS code. [ISC-Bugs #20916]
342
600ee619 343- Fix the trace code to handle timing events better and to truncate a file
2b58b865
SR
344 before using instead of overwriting it. [ISC-Bugs #20969]
345
346- Modify the determination of the default TTL to use for DDNS updates.
347 The user may still configure the ttl via ddns-ttl. The default for
348 both v4 and v6 is now 1/2 the (preferred) lease time with a limit. The
349 previous defaults (1/2 lease time without a limit for v4 and a default
350 value for v6) may be used by defining USE_OLD_DDNS_TTL in site.h
351 [ISC-Bugs #21126]
600ee619 352
a5c7bf77
DH
353- libisc/libdns is now brought up to version 9.7.1rc1. This corrects
354 three reported flaws in ISC DHCP;
355
356 o DHCP processes (dhcpd, dhclient) fail to start if one of either the
357 IPv4 or IPv6 address families is not present. [ISC-Bugs #21122]
358
359 o Assertion failure when attempting to cancel a previously running DDNS
360 update. [ISC-Bugs #21133]
361
362 o Compilation failure of libisc/libdns due to the use of a flexible
363 array member. [ISC-Bugs #21316]
364
0585235c
SR
365 Changes since 4.2.0a2
366
367- Update the fsync code to work with the changes to the DDNS code. It now
368 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
369
f4bc8261
SR
370- When constructing the DNS name structure from a text string append
371 the root to relative names. This satisfies a requirement in the DNS
372 library that names be absolute instead of relative and prevents DHCP
d122accf 373 from crashing. [ISC-Bugs #21054]
f4bc8261 374
33692791
DH
375- "The LDAP Patch" that has been circulating for some time, written by
376 Brian Masney and S.Kalyanasundraram and maintained for application to
377 the DHCP-4 sources by David Cantrell has been included. Please be
378 advised that these sources were contributed, and do not yet meet the
379 high standards we place on production sources we include by default.
380 As a result, the LDAP features are only included by using a compile-time
381 option which defaults off, and if you enable it you do so under your
382 own recognizance. We will be improving this software over time.
383 [ISC-Bugs #17741]
384
3c941d42 385 Changes since 4.2.0a1
928618dd
DH
386
387- When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
388 is no longer truncated to one octet.
389
3c941d42
DH
390- Cleaned up an unused hardware address variable in nak_lease().
391
bdd8e747
DH
392- Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
393 reflect support for prefix delegation.
394
3da71461
SR
395- Cleaned up some compiler warnings
396
fdfebedf
DH
397- An optimization described in the failover protocol draft is now included,
398 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
399 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
400 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
401 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
402 entry for each lease.
403
7aa153b8
SR
404- Fix the trace code which was broken by the changes to the DDNS code.
405
adbef119
DH
406 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
407
d340bc24
DH
408- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
409 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 410 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
adbef119 411
0829d595
DH
412- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
413 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
414 Cantrell at Red Hat.
415
8a3c1e33
PS
416- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
417 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
418
a41d7a25
PS
419- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
420
9e3eb22a
DH
421- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
422 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
423 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
424 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
425 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
426 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
427
33ea4622
DH
428- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
429 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
430 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
431 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
432 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
433 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
434 FQDN options by default).
435
5a671e87
DH
436- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
437 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
438 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
439 determined lease time) are omitted.
440
98bf1607
SR
441- Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
442 The DHCP server or client can now continue with it's processing while
443 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
c900c5b2
DH
444
445- The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
446 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
447 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
448
59112e84
SR
449 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
450
62f6843d
MA
451- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
452
59112e84
SR
453- Validate the argument to the -p option.
454
47e6eb82
DH
455- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
456 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
457 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
458 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
459 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
460
159c89d7
EH
461- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
462
1aa0fe5e
DH
463- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
464 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
465 had been deleted from configuration.
466
cd51403d
SR
467- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
468 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
571c38b0 469 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
cd51403d
SR
470 were being ignored.
471
64e1823d
DH
472- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
473
26e59ee9
DH
474- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
475 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
476 Nordahl.
477
70ea9345
PS
478- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
479 dhcpv6 disabled.
480
8d7dca58 481- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 482 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
819186b7 483
f4534b17
DH
484- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
485 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
486
f9453d21
DH
487- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
488 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
489 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
490
491- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
492 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
493 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
494 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
495 fewer system calls.
496
a3dcc0b1
DH
497- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
498 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
499 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
500 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
501 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
502 Christof Chen.
503
95fd7038
DH
504- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
505 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
506 and in normal state.
507
508- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
509 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
510
8a3c1e33
PS
511- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
512
513- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
514 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
515 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
516
dedde1ba
DH
517- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
518 rather than restarting the listener.
519
a57df74a
DH
520- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
521 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
522
523- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
524 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
525 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
526
350576c5
DH
527- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
528 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
529 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
530 timeouts).
531
792156a9
DH
532- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
533 in failover state records.
534
8a4e543b
DH
535! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
536 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
537 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 538 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
8a4e543b 539
a1308b64
DH
540- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
541 processing a DHCPINFORM.
542
1b12d999
DH
543- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
544 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
545 last option definition is used.
546
d453265f
PS
547- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
548 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
549 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
550
3e29af1e
PS
551- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
552 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
553
b8d45c67
DH
554- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
555 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
556 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
557 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
558 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
559 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
560
583c1c16
DH
561- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
562 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
563 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
564 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
565
e4e3a2ab
DH
566! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
567 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
95f5d38c 568
875e99dc
SR
569- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
570 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
571
2267da84
DH
572- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
573 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
574 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
575 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
576 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
571c38b0 577 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
2267da84
DH
578 configuration.
579
cd3f0b9b
DH
580- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
581 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
582
0493fdca
SR
583- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
584 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
585 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
586 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
587
95bba8b6
SR
588- Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
589 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
590 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
591 was always properly set.
592
adbef119 593 Changes since 4.1.0b1
ebf076fe
EH
594
595- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
596 be recognized.
61d75ea2 597
a4ffedd1
DH
598 Changes since 4.1.0a2
599
600- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
601 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
602 "abandoned".
603
6ff3b26d
FD
604- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
605
1387545f
DH
606- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
607 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
608
609- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
610 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
611
612- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 613 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
1387545f 614
399d3dbe
DH
615- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
616
fbcee149
DH
617- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
618 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
619 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
620 in future releases.
621
f1672d89
DH
622- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
623 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
624
236d3a99
DH
625- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
626 'dhclient -6' support.
627
efa5e6b9
DH
628- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
629 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
630 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
631 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
632
7d6180be 633 Changes since 4.1.0a1
edcb5c46
EH
634
635- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
636
51e7687f
EH
637- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
638
20210a7b
EH
639- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
640 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
641 only the latter. Fixed.
642
535485df
EH
643- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
644
8fbb55ff
DH
645- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
646 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
647
61220a00
EH
648- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
649
c40e954c
EH
650- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
651
63971a83
DH
652- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
653 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
654 --enable-early-chroot.
655
66cebfcb
DH
656- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
657 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
658
f8cbf390
DH
659- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
660 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
661 parameter.
662
8269561d
DH
663- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
664 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
665
b445a411
DH
666- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
667 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
668
bd72740e
FD
669- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
670
9322442f
FD
671- Merged IA_XX related structures.
672
8dea7ba7
FD
673- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
674
4619c0a2
DH
675- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
676
9ac4206a
DH
677- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
678 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
679 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
680
420d8b3f
FD
681- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
682 support.
683
40ec5f38
DH
684- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
685 repaired.
686
80097764
FD
687- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
688
ffbaa880
FD
689- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
690
7de20a95
EH
691- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
692 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
693
d352732e
EH
694- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
695 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
696
7d6180be
DH
697- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
698 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
699
700- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
701 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
702 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
703 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
704 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
705 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
706 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
707 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
708 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
709 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
710 shared-network.
711
712- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
713 configured option values.
714
715- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
716 support class statements.
717
dd484ced
DH
718- Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
719 selection were repaired.
720
ecddae64
DH
721- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
722 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
723 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
724 by the OS.
725
726- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
727 address.
728
729- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
730 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
731
d104d45b
DH
732- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
733
734- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
735
736- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
737 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
738
01a54c17 739 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
3c12f746 740
6d7f9584
FD
741- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
742
4cafb815 743- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 744 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
4cafb815 745
022fe95e
EH
746- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
747 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
748 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
749
1dcc3612
SK
750- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
751 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
752
aabfa4de
FD
753- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
754
0674055a
FD
755- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
756 reserved IDs avoided).
757
b51c785f
FD
758- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
759
900405e9
FD
760- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
761 carries a rapid-commit option.
762
96b620e5
FD
763- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
764 an empty active lease.
765
be62cf06
FD
766- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
767
01a54c17
EH
768- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
769 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
770 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
771 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
772
773- MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
774
775- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
776 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
777 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
778 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
779 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
780 Christof Chen.
781
782 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
783
784- DHCP now builds on AIX.
785
786- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
787 config file but -6 is not specified.
788
789- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
790
791- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
792 be more helpful.
793
794- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
795 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
796 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
797
798- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
799 was repaired.
800
801- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
802 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
803 been repaired.
804
805- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
806 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
807 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
808
49f61135
DH
809- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
810 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
811
41d4652f
DH
812- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
813 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
814 IPv4 address.
815
2c9bf1f4
DH
816- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
817 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
818 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
819 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
820 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
821
822- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
823 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
824 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
825
cff9b78f
SK
826- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
827
c4d29896
SK
828- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
829
57fcb8d9
SK
830- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
831 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
832 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
833 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
834 unnecessary logging.
835
219a65eb
DH
836- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
837 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
838
ffdf3c8c
DH
839- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
840 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
841 is incompatible is printed.
842
843- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
844 a previously undefined option code.
845
00a002fc
MA
846- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
847 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
848
7e9f7a1b
FD
849- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
850 than the year 2000.
851
e2cfde76
FD
852- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
853
cabdb9b1
FD
854- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
855
5d89d60f
FD
856- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
857
61d75ea2
DH
858 Changes since 4.0.0b3
859
860- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
861 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
862 configuration.
76db44f9 863
e32529a5
EH
864- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
865 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
866
76db44f9
SK
867- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
868 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
869 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
e4a6be15 870
6f76de58
SK
871- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
872 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
873 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
874 a requested address.
875
703873ab
DH
876- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
877 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
878 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
879 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
880
881- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
882 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
883 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
884 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
885
b024480e
DH
886- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
887 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
888 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
889
c0216cb7
DH
890- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
891 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
892
1ac57173
FD
893- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
894
83835822
DH
895- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
896 codes through some conditions.
897
c54db708
FD
898- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
899 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
900
e5d83524
DH
901- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
902 seemingly random values.
903
821f2dda
DH
904- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
905
f8b3c6f4
DH
906- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
907 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
908 one ever has.
909
b9137d42
SK
910- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
911 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
912 to a REQUEST.
913
9f1d5a2f
DH
914- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
915 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
916 level.
917
e4a6be15
DH
918 Changes since 4.0.0b2
919
65cf86d7
EH
920- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
921
b1d3778c
DH
922- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
923 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
924 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
925 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
926 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
927
bead14ea
DH
928- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
929 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
930 new address.
931
f765ec36
SK
932 Changes since 4.0.0b1
933
75135a3f
EH
934- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
935 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
936 simultaneously on a single interface.
937
5c2d55c7
EH
938- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
939 of service under unusual server configurations
940
941- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
942
f765ec36
SK
943- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
944 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
fa9b593d 945
edb1283e
DH
946- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
947 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
948 on every pool rebalance run.
949
c71c6399
DH
950- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
951 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
952
5279b8f3
DH
953- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
954 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
955
ab3a540f 956 Changes since 4.0.0a3
763cba6b 957
884a458f
SK
958- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
959 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
960
fa9b593d
DH
961- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
962 point out the problem.
963
1b5053b5
SK
964- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
965 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
966 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
967
c886c298
SK
968- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
969 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
970
eaf7eb17
DH
971- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
972 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
973 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
974
109e00db
DH
975- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
976
3ad9d48f
SK
977- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
978 fixed by Marcus Goller.
979
8eab95f2
DH
980- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
981 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
982 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
983 regardless of the existence of bindings.
984
07b9a351
DH
985- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
986
7285af30
DH
987- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
988 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
989 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
990 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
991 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
992
2394b26b
DH
993- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
994
ab3a540f
SK
995 Changes since 4.0.0a2
996
97050349
SK
997- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
998 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
999
763cba6b 1000- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
e889ded1 1001
237f8d3a
SK
1002- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
1003 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
1004 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
1005
28868515
SK
1006- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
1007
d00d373a
SK
1008- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
1009 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
1010
8dfd5744
DH
1011- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
1012 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
1013 loaded from persistent storage.
1014
45d545f0 1015- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
0c20eab3
DH
1016 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
1017 necessary.
1018
f800f4f6
SK
1019- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
1020 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
1021 rapid-commit option.
1022
845e9677
DH
1023- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
1024 non-128-bits in length were removed.
1025
76c944da
SK
1026 Changes since 4.0.0a1
1027
71765b58
SK
1028- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
1029 and fix.
1030
847e7000
SK
1031- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
1032
bda33169
SK
1033- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
1034
9b21e73e
SK
1035- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
1036 for when loading configuration.
1037
8da06bb1
DH
1038- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
1039 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
1040 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
1041
dd328225
DH
1042- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
1043 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
1044 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
1045 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
1046
76c944da
SK
1047- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
1048
f796f70a
DH
1049- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
1050 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 1051
c11f349d
EH
1052- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
1053
af5fa176
EH
1054- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
1055
1056- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
1057 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
1058
a546f2a7
EH
1059- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
1060 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
1061
b55d0d5f
EH
1062- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
1063
26be82af
DH
1064- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
1065 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
1066
98bd7ca0
DH
1067 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
1068
d9b43370
SK
1069- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
1070
8c1752d2
DH
1071- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
1072 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
1073
98bd7ca0
DH
1074- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
1075
a512d11b
DH
1076- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
1077 initialized.
1078
1079- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
1080
1081- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
f66f02cc
DH
1082 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
1083
1084- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
a512d11b 1085
4ba58919
DH
1086- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
1087
1088- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
1089 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
1090
1091- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
1092
8ea19a71 1093- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 1094 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
8ea19a71
DH
1095
1096- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
1097 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
1098
2cf8d0bd
DH
1099- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
1100
1101- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
1102
fe5b0fdd
DH
1103- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
1104
98bd7ca0
DH
1105 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
1106
1107- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
1108 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
1109 no support currently for both.
1110
1111- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
1112 IAADDR option.
1113
1114- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
1115 options.
1116
1117- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
1118
1119- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
1120 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
1121
1122- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
1123 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
1124 specifying type 1 or type 2).
1125
1126- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
1127 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
1128
1129- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
1130 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
1131 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
1132 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
1133 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
1134 differently, they both use the same code here).
1135
1136- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
1137 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
1138 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
1139
1140- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
1141
1142- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
1143 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
1144 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
1145 it should not intercept.
1146
1418fd11
DH
1147 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
1148
1149- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
1150 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
1151 between primary and secondary.
1152
1153- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
1154 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
1155 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
1156
aa3e348e
DH
1157- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
1158
e9c59645
DH
1159- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
1160 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
1161 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
1162 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
1163 or REQUEST messages.
1164
1165- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
1166 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
1167
c104546d
DH
1168- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
1169
b9d0cc05
DH
1170 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
1171
1172- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
1173 failover protected subnets was removed.
1174
a512cc3a
DH
1175 Changes since 3.1.0b2
1176
1177- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
1178 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
1179 odd number of leases).
1180
1181- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
1182 rebalance run, and one after.
1183
1184- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
1185 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
1186 processing these messages.
1187
fe5b0fdd 1188 Changes since 3.1.0b1
27837f95 1189
74dc3e0b
EH
1190- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
1191 objects.
1192
1ba87b37
EH
1193- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
1194 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
1195 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
1196 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
1197 at Allianz.
1198
a58da042
EH
1199- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
1200 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
1201
61252edf
EH
1202- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
1203 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
1204
27837f95
DH
1205- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
1206 caused the server to abort.
1207
4d2eaafb
DH
1208- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
1209 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
1210 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
1211
06211b40
DH
1212- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
1213 by empty spaces would not get included.
1214
d6614ea2
DH
1215- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
1216 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
1217
132d38f2
DH
1218- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
1219 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
1220
fc3b9c90
DH
1221- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
1222 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
1223
c9feb859
DH
1224- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
1225 on the parameter request list.
1226
c57db45c
SK
1227 Changes since 3.1.0a3
1228
1229- Some spelling fixes.
98311e4b 1230
bd2bc2fa
DH
1231 Changes since 3.1.0a2
1232
1233- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
1234 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
1235
85edef5c
DH
1236- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
1237 domain-search option syntax.
1238
bdddcb7d
DH
1239 Changes since 3.1.0a1
1240
1241- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
1242 hash table was repaired.
1243
616d67cb
DH
1244- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
1245 entering normal state.
1246
1247- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
1248 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
66c8f734
DH
1249 'xid mismatch' log messages.
1250
1251- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
1252 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
616d67cb 1253
6708d944
DH
1254- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
1255 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
1256 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
1257 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
1258
45d545f0 1259- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
6708d944
DH
1260 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
1261 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
1262 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
1263 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
1264 to their needs.
1265
1266- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
1267 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
1268 run will attempt balance.
1269
a7ee93fe
DH
1270- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
1271
98311e4b
DH
1272 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
1273
1274- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
1275 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
1276 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
1277 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
1278
98bd7ca0 1279- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 1280 was introduced.
98311e4b
DH
1281
1282- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
1283 via OMAPI.
1284
a55ccdd0
DH
1285- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
1286 the protocol draft.
1287
98311e4b
DH
1288- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
1289 one does not already exist on the system.
1290
b43c87ad 1291- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 1292
0b17f049
DH
1293- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
1294 matches RFC 3074.
1295
2727c1cf
DH
1296- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
1297 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 1298 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2727c1cf 1299
febbd402
DH
1300- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
1301 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 1302 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 1303
ee912528
DH
1304- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
1305 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
1306 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
1307 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
1308
1309- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
1310 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
1311 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
1312 priority over the client's parameter request list.
1313
f7fdb216 1314- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 1315 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
f7fdb216
DH
1316 DHCPv6 support.
1317
5e864416
DH
1318- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
1319 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
1320 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
1321
b500bd4c
DH
1322- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
1323 have been incorporated.
1324
2426234f
DH
1325- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
1326 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
1327 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
1328 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
1329 that belong to the peer in need.
1330
1331- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
1332 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
1333
1334- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
1335 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
1336 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
1337
334bf491
DH
1338- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
1339 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
1340
3004bebf
DH
1341- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
1342 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
1343 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
1344 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
1345 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
1346
567e8561
DH
1347- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
1348 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
1349 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
1350 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
1351
a396d25f
DH
1352- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
1353 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
1354 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
1355 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
1356 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
1357 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
1358 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
1359 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
1360 ignoring this aspect of their request.
1361
dba5803b
DH
1362- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
1363 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
1364
41e45067 1365- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
6d103865
SK
1366 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
1367 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
1368 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
1369
41e45067
DH
1370- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
1371 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
1372 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
1373 hardware and funding the development.
6d103865 1374
b543fea9
DH
1375- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
1376 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
1377 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
1378 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
1379 via Robin Breathe.
1380
b22de500
DH
1381- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
1382 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
1383 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
1384 from Christof Chen.
1385
96bbe8c5
SK
1386- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
1387 formally supported.
1388
b8221d95
DH
1389 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
1390
1391- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
1392 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
1393
c1e6c832
DH
1394 Changes since 3.0.5
1395
f546c28b
DH
1396- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
1397 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
1398 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 1399 they actually received.
f546c28b
DH
1400
1401- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
1402
c1e6c832
DH
1403- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
1404 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
23e10d37
DH
1405 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
1406 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
c1e6c832 1407
75ab3070
DH
1408- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
1409
d69fb6a8 1410- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 1411 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
d69fb6a8 1412
02428754
DH
1413- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
1414 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
1415 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
1416 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
1417 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
1418 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
1419 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
23e10d37
DH
1420 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
1421
1422- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
1423 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
1424 'file' field.
02428754 1425
ecde99a3
DH
1426- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
1427 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
1428
67674ffb
DH
1429- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
1430 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
1431 a patch from Kevin Steves.
1432
830ebc4c
DH
1433- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
1434 from Chris Wagner.
1435
c759db75
DH
1436- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
1437 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
1438 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
1439
9aa3f3a5
DH
1440- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
1441 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
1442 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
1443 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
1444 was set.
1445
3d0c598a
DH
1446- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
1447 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
1448
d5b6835f
DH
1449- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
1450 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
1451 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
1452 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
1453 active ones.
1454
02428754 1455 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
0a73b7b6 1456
901306d5 1457- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
0a73b7b6
SK
1458 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
1459 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
1460 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
1461 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
1462
87a08ccc
DH
1463- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
1464 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
1465
6da113fb
DH
1466 Changes since 3.0.4
1467
1468- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
1469 scopes are actually global has been added.
1470
1471- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
1472 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
1473 known to be damaging.
1474
1475- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
1476 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
1477 balancing).
1478
dcc557db
DH
1479- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
1480 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
1481 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
1482
1b2ab55f
DH
1483- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
1484 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
1485 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
1486
e48891e8
DH
1487- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
1488 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
1489 more clear now.
1490
6cbc6629
DH
1491- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
1492 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
1493 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
1494 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
1495 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 1496 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
6cbc6629 1497
c5fec5fa
DH
1498- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
1499 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
1500
33e1cb2b
DH
1501- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
1502 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
1503 made possible.
1504
2bddf829
DH
1505- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
1506 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
1507 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
1508
87578987
DH
1509- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
1510 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
1511
e77c575f
DH
1512- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
1513 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
1514 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
1515
2178df03
DH
1516- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
1517 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
1518 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
1519 value with the later configured value).
1520
d5341d9b
SK
1521- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
1522 have been named and documented.
1523
1524- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
1525 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
1526 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
1527 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
1528 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
1529 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
1530 write new output.
1531
6da113fb
DH
1532 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
1533
1534- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
1535 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
1536
1537 Changes since 3.0.4b3
1538
1539- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
1540 mailing list.
1541
88cd8aca
DH
1542 Changes since 3.0.4b2
1543
45d545f0 1544- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
88cd8aca
DH
1545 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
1546
1547- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
1548 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
1549
1550- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
1551 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
1552 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
1553 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
1554
1555- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
1556 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
1557 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
1558 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
1559 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
1560 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
1561 transition (properly).
1562
1563- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
1564
1565 Changes since 3.0.4b1
1566
1567- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
1568 STDIN after reading one line.
1569
1570- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
1571 descriptor it opened twice.
1572
1573- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
1574 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
1575 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
1576
1577 Changes since 3.0.3
1578
1579- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
1580 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
1581 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
1582
1583- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
1584 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
1585 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
1586
1587- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
1588 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 1589 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
88cd8aca
DH
1590 leases to allocate.
1591
1592- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 1593 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
88cd8aca
DH
1594 than the entire block of them.
1595
3a16098f
DH
1596! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
1597 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
1598 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
1599 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
1600 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
1601 to a patch from infamous42md.
1602
1603! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
1604 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
1605 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
1606 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
1607 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
1608 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
88cd8aca
DH
1609
1610- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
1611 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
1612 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
1613
1614- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 1615 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
88cd8aca
DH
1616
1617- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
1618 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
1619 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
1620 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
1621 transitional states.
1622
1623- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
1624 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
1625 once it detects the old db does not exist.
1626
1627- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
1628 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
1629 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
1630
1631- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 1632 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
88cd8aca
DH
1633
1634- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
1635 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
1636
1637- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
1638 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
1639 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
1640
1641- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
1642 patch from 'infamous42md'.
1643
1644- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
1645 repaired.
1646
1647- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
1648 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
1649 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
1650 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
1651
1652- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
1653 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
1654 data.
1655
1656- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
1657 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
1658 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
1659 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
1660 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
1661
1662- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
1663 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
1664 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
1665 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
1666 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
1667
1668- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
1669 has been repaired.
1670
1671- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
1672 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
1673 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
1674 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 1675 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
88cd8aca
DH
1676
1677- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 1678 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
88cd8aca 1679
45d545f0 1680- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
88cd8aca
DH
1681 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
1682 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
1683 move to 3.[01].x.
1684
1685- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
1686 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
1687
c75473d8
DH
1688 Changes since 3.0.3b3
1689
1690- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
1691 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
1692
1693- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
1694 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
1695 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
1696 workaround.
1697
1698 Changes since 3.0.3b2
1699
1700- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
1701 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
1702
1703 Changes since 3.0.3b1
1704
1705- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
1706 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
1707 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
1708
1709- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
1710 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
1711 dynamic updates were also retouched.
1712
98311e4b
DH
1713 Changes since 3.0.2
1714
1715- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 1716 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
98311e4b
DH
1717 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
1718
1719- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
1720 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
1721 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
1722 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
1723 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
1724
1725- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
1726 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 1727 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
98311e4b
DH
1728
1729- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
1730 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 1731 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
98311e4b
DH
1732
1733- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
1734 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
1735 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
1736 Peter Poeml.
1737
1738- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
1739 Dr. Peter Poeml.
1740
1741- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
1742 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
1743 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
1744 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
1745 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
1746 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
1747
1748- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
1749 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
1750 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
1751 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
1752
1753- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
1754 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
1755 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
1756 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
1757
1758- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
1759 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
1760
1761- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
1762 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
1763 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
1764
1765- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
1766 7 bytes, and failover.
1767
1768- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
1769 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 1770 at Red Hat.
98311e4b
DH
1771
1772- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
1773 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
1774 should work better.
1775
1776- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
1777 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
1778 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
1779
1780- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
1781 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
1782 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
1783
1784 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
1785
1786- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
1787 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
1788
1789 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
1790
45d545f0 1791- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
98311e4b
DH
1792 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
1793 overloading. This was repaired.
1794
1795- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
1796 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
1797 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
1798 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
1799 three chunks to fit.
1800
1801- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
1802 were repaired.
1803
1804- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
1805 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
1806 leak).
1807
1808 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
1809
1810- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
1811 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
1812
1813 Changes since 3.0.2b1
1814
1815- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
1816
1817 Changes since 3.0.1
1818
1819- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
1820 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
1821 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
1822
1823- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
1824 name was not provided by the server.
1825
1826- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
1827 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
1828
1829- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
1830 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
1831
1832- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
1833 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
1834
1835- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
1836
1837- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
1838
1839- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
1840 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
1841 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
1842 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
1843 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
1844
1845- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
1846 the configuration be globally scoped.
1847
1848- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
1849 Farkas.
1850
1851- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
1852 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1853
1854- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
1855 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
1856
1857- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
1858 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
1859
1860- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
1861 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
1862 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
1863 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
1864
1865- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
1866 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
1867 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
1868 respond to POOLREQ messages.
1869
1870- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
1871 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
1872 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
1873
1874- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
1875
1876- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
1877 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
1878 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
1879
1880- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
1881 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
1882 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
1883 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
1884 Fjone and directconnect.no.
1885
1886- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
1887 to Andreas Gustafsson.
1888
1889- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
1890 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
1891
1892- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
1893 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
1894 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
1895 DISCOVER timeout handling.
1896
1897- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
1898 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
1899
1900- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
1901 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
1902 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
1903
1904- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
1905 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
1906 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
1907 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
1908 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
1909 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
1910
1911- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
1912 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
1913 Infoblox.
1914
1915- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
1916
1917- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
1918 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
1919 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
1920 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
1921 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
1922 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
1923 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
1924
1925- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
1926 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
1927 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
1928
1929- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
1930 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
1931 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
1932
1933- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
1934
1935 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
1936
1937- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
1938 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
1939 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
1940 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
1941 systems either.
1942
1943- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
1944
1945- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
1946 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
1947 is false.
1948
1949- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
1950 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
1951
1952- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
1953
1954 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
1955
1956! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
1957 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
1958 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
1959 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
1960 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
1961 both finding and solving the problem.
1962
1963! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
45d545f0 1964 in log_*() functions was evidenced, on some specific platforms where
98311e4b
DH
1965 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
1966 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
1967 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
1968 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
1969 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
1970 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
1971 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
1972 published version of ISC DHCP.
1973
1974- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
1975
1976- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
1977
1978 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
1979
1980- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
1981 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
1982 Richard Hirst.
1983
1984- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
1985 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
1986 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
1987
1988- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
1989
1990- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
1991 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
1992 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
1993 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
1994
1995- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 1996 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
98311e4b
DH
1997
1998- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
1999 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
2000
2001- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
2002
2003 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
2004
2005- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
2006 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
2007
2008- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
2009 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
2010 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
2011
2012- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
2013 by name was fixed.
2014
45d545f0 2015- Declaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
98311e4b
DH
2016 longer result in error.
2017
2018- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
2019
2020- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
2021 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
2022 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
2023
2024- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
2025 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
2026
2027- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
2028 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
2029 Blapp.
2030
2031- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
2032 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
2033 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
2034 Martin Blapp.
2035
2036- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
2037 expiry times in failover configurations.
2038
2039- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
2040 Steve G.
2041
2042- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
2043 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
2044
2045- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
2046 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
2047 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
2048 now "unknown-144".
2049
2050- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
2051 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
2052
2053 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
2054
2055- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
2056
2057- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
2058 not be bash.
2059
2060- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
2061
2062- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
2063 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
2064 that errored before will now work properly.
2065
2066- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
2067 names was repaired.
2068
2069- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
2070 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
2071 configuration file.
2072
2073- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
2074 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2075
2076- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
2077 error rather than a null dereference.
2078
2079 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
2080
2081- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
2082
2083- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
2084
2085- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
2086 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
2087
2088- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
2089
2090- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
2091
2092- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
2093 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
2094 self-corrupting lease databases.
2095
2096- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
2097
2098- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
2099 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
2100
2101- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
2102
2103- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
2104
2105- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
2106 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
2107 Ling Gou.
2108
2109- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
2110 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2111
2112- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
2113 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
2114 Ted Lemon for the patch.
2115
2116- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
2117 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
2118
2119 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
2120
2121- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
2122 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
2123
2124- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
2125
2126- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
2127 a memory leak.
2128
2129- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
2130 script.
2131
2132- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
2133
2134- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
2135
2136- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
2137
2138- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
2139
2140- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
2141
2142- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
2143
2144- Increment the hop count when relaying.
2145
2146- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
2147
2148- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
2149
2150- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
2151
2152- Change the type of rbuf_max.
2153
2154- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
2155
2156 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
2157
2158- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
2159 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
2160 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
2161
2162 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
2163
2164- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
2165 to be renewed.
2166
2167- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
2168 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
2169
2170- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
2171 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
2172
2173- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
2174 that two permit lists matched.
2175
2176- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
2177 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
2178
2179- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
2180
2181- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
2182 requested it, contrary to the standard.
2183
2184- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
2185
2186- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
2187
2188- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
2189 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
2190 going to update its A record.
2191
2192- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
2193 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
2194 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
2195 DNS server.
2196
2197- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
2198
2199- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
2200
2201- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
2202 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
2203 NetBSD project).
2204
2205- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
2206 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
2207
2208- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
2209 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
2210
2211- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
2212
2213- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
2214
2215- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
2216 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
2217 failover protocol standard.
2218
2219- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
2220 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
2221 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
2222
2223- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
2224 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
2225 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
2226 do so.
2227
2228- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
2229
2230 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
2231
2232- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
2233
2234- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
2235 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
2236
2237- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
2238 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
2239
2240- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
2241 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
2242 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
2243
2244- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
2245 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
2246 network, merge the two pools.
2247
2248- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
2249 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
2250 fix this bug.
2251
2252 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
2253
2254- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
2255 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
2256
2257- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
2258 the same case.
2259
2260- Additional documentation.
2261
2262- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
2263 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
2264
2265 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
2266
2267- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
2268- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
2269
adbef119 2270 Changes since 3.0.1rc2
98311e4b
DH
2271
2272- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
2273 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
2274 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
2275 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
2276 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
2277
adbef119 2278 Changes since 3.0.1rc1
98311e4b
DH
2279
2280- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
2281 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
2282 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
2283 wasn't the one that removed it.
2284
2285- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
2286 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
2287 were not configured.
2288
2289- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
2290
2291- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
2292 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
2293 routing information.
2294
2295- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
2296 request being sent.
2297
2298- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
2299 done.
2300
2301- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
2302 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
2303 were pending.
2304
2305- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
2306 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
2307 problems with failover.
2308
2309- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
2310 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
2311 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
2312
adbef119 2313 Changes since 3.0
98311e4b
DH
2314
2315- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
2316 smash in the subclass allocation code.
2317
2318- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
2319 no object is open, it dumps core.
2320
2321- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
2322
2323- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
2324
2325- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
2326
2327- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
2328 a host object attribute with a null value.
2329
2330 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
2331
2332- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
2333
2334- Fix an obscure core dump.
2335
2336- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
2337 when crucial information is left out.
2338
2339- Log "no free leases" as an error.
2340
2341- Documentation updates.
2342
2343 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
2344
2345- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
2346
2347- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
2348 structure wasn't zeroed.
2349
2350- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
2351 incorrectly.
2352
2353- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
2354 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
2355 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
2356 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
2357 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
2358 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
2359 restarted.
2360
2361 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
2362
2363- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
2364 in failover-enabled pools.
2365
2366- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
2367 declarations).
2368
2369- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
2370 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
2371
2372- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
2373 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
2374
2375- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
2376
2377- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
2378 defined but not referenced by any pools.
2379
2380- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
2381
eaf0b302
TL
2382 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 9
2383
2384- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
2385
0db87765
TL
2386 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 2
2387
2388- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
2389
2390- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
2391
2392- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
2393
d758ad8c
TL
2394 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 1
2395
2396- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
2397 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
2398 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
2399
2400- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
2401 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
2402 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
2403 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
2404 string.
2405
2406- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
2407
d758ad8c
TL
2408 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8
2409
2410- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
2411 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
2412
2413- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
2414 malformed packets.
2415
2416- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
2417
2418- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
2419 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
2420 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
2421
2422- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
2423
2424- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
2425
2426- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
2427
2428- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
2429 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
2430
2431- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
2432 tcp connections from being played back.
2433
2434- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
2435 on exit.
2436
2437- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
2438
2439- Add some configurability to the build system.
2440
2441- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
2442
2443- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
2444 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
2445 hadn't been noticed until now.
2446
2447 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
2448
2449- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
2450 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
2451
2452- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
2453 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
2454 conformant, but also didn't work).
2455
2456- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
2457 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
2458
2459- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
2460 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
2461
2462- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
2463 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
2464
2465- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
2466 variables to leases via OMAPI.
2467
2468- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
2469 doing failover.
2470
2471- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
2472 running on alpha processors.
2473
2474- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
2475 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
2476
2477- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
2478
2479- Install omshell (including new documentation).
2480
2481- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
2482 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
2483
2484- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
2485
2486- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
2487 actually named (key names are domain names).
2488
2489- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
2490
2491- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
2492 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
2493
2494- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
2495 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
2496
2497- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
2498 statements.
2499
2500- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
2501 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
2502
2503- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
2504 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
2505 operating.
2506
eaf0b302
TL
2507 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 6
2508
2509- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
2510 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
2511 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
2512 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
2513
2514- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
2515 using omapi to manipulate leases.
2516
2517- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
2518
eaf0b302
TL
2519 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
2520
2521- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
2522 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
2523
2524- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
2525 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
2526 to the chain.
2527
2528- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
2529
2530- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
2531
2532- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
2533
98311e4b 2534- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
eaf0b302
TL
2535 attribute values in omshell.
2536
98311e4b 2537- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
eaf0b302
TL
2538
2539- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
2540
2541 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
2542
2543- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
2544 DHCPDECLINE.
2545
2546- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
2547
2548- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
2549 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
2550 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
2551
2552- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
2553
2554- Documentation fixes.
2555
2556- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
2557 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
2558
2559- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
2560 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
2561
2562- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
2563
2564- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
2565
2566- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
2567 case-insensitive.
2568
2569- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
2570
98311e4b 2571- If a signature algorithm is not terminated with '.', terminate it so
eaf0b302
TL
2572 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
2573 consistently.
2574
2575- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
2576 systems with the probe not working correctly.
2577
2578- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
2579
0596b051
TL
2580 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 3
2581
2582- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
2583 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
2584 result of duplicate leases.
2585
2586- Document OMAPI server objects.
2587
892fe689
TL
2588 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Patchlevel 1
2589
2590- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
2591 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
2592
2593- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
2594 core dumps.
2595
2596- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
2597 Friedrich.
2598
2599- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
2600
2601 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
2602
2603- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
2604 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 2605 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
892fe689
TL
2606 billing class code.
2607
2608- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
2609 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
2610
2611- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
2612 trace file.
2613
79ea3de8 2614 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1 Patchlevel 1
87784777 2615
79ea3de8
TL
2616- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
2617 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
2618 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
2619 e.g., Digital Unix.
2620
2621- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
2622 when no error had occurred.
2623
2624- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
2625 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
2626 non-communicating state.
2627
2628- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
2629
2630- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
2631 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
2632 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
2633
2634- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
2635 when the client lease expired.
2636
2637- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
2638 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
2639 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
2640 in testing.
2641
2642- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
2643 the command line, it would fail.
2644
2645- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
2646 user impact).
2647
2648- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
2649
2650- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
2651 they're executable.
2652
2653 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
87784777
TL
2654
2655- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
2656 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
2657 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
2658 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
2659
79ea3de8
TL
2660- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
2661 Transmeta.
2662
87784777
TL
2663- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
2664 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
2665 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
2666 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
2667
2668- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
2669 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
2670
6d779c72
TL
2671 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 24
2672
2673- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
2674 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
2675
2676- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
2677
2678- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
2679
2680- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
2681
2682- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
2683
2684- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
2685
2686- Update some parts of the README file.
2687
2688- Support GCC on SCO.
2689
adbef119 2690 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 23
de57e64b
TL
2691
2692- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
2693 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
2694
2695- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
2696 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
2697 unbill the old class.
2698
2699- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
2700 process the state transition immediately.
2701
2702- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
2703 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
2704
2705- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
2706
2707- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
2708
2709- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
2710
2711- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
2712
2713- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
2714 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
2715 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
2716
2717- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
2718 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
2719
2720- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
2721 lease file.
2722
2723- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
2724
2725- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
2aa36519 2726
adbef119 2727 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 22
140158d3
TL
2728
2729- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
2730 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
2731
2732- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
2733
adbef119 2734 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 21
3a395e60
TL
2735
2736- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
2737
adbef119 2738 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 20
fc74dd0c
TL
2739
2740- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
2741
2742- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
2743 pl19.
2744
2745- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
2746 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
2747 past the regression test.
2748
adbef119 2749 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 19
ed5ee591
TL
2750
2751- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
2752 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
2753
2754- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
2755 DHCPREQUEST.
2756
2757- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
2758
2759- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
2760
2761- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
2762
adbef119 2763 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 18
b3fad8ac 2764
3350f5b7
TL
2765- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
2766 (Damien Neil)
2767
2768- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
2769 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
2770
2771- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
2772 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
2773 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
2774
2775- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
2776 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
2777 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
2778 message.
2779
2780- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
2781 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
2782 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
2783
98311e4b 2784- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
3350f5b7
TL
2785 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
2786 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
2787 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
2788 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
2789 this way will work.
2790
b3fad8ac
TL
2791- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
2792
2793- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
2794 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
2795 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
2796 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
2797
2798 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
2799
2800 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
2801
2802- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
2803 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
2804 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
2805
2806- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
2807 Hermann Lauer.
2808
2809- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
2810 messages.
2811
3350f5b7
TL
2812- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
2813 it contained quoted strings.
2814
b3fad8ac
TL
2815 ** there was no pl17 **
2816
adbef119 2817 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 16
e6d30fd6 2818
6da9db9d
TL
2819- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
2820 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
2821 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
2822 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
2823 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
2824 tracking down memory leaks.
2825
2826- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
2827 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
2828 Solaris.
2829
2830- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
2831 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
2832 corruption and core dumps.
2833
2834- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
2835 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
2836
2837- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
2838
2839- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
2840 and implemented by Damien Neil.
2841
2842- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
2843 name and version to standard output.
2844
2845- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
2846
e6d30fd6
TL
2847- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
2848 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
2849
6da9db9d
TL
2850- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
2851
2852- Lots of documentation updates.
2853
2854- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
2855 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
2856
2857- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
2858
2859- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
2860 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
2861
adbef119 2862 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 15
af49fdff
TL
2863
2864- Some documentation tweaks.
2865
2866- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
2867
2868- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
2869
2870- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
2871 agent options into them.
2872
2873- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
2874
c5b569f8
TL
2875- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
2876 options.
2877
adbef119 2878 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 14
754ae3e9
TL
2879
2880- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
2881 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
2882 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
2883 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
2884 used in class statements to control address allocation.
2885
2886- Fix up documentation.
2887
2888- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
2889 significantly in a high-demand situation.
2890
2891- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
2892
2893- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
2894
2895- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
2896 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
2897 practical use otherwise.
2898
2899- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
2900 for debugging.
2901
adbef119 2902 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 13
2f2e7960
TL
2903
2904- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
2905 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
2906 dump on some systems.
2907
2908- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
2909 option.
2910
2911- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
2912 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
2913
2914- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
2915 that were not printing enough information.
2916
2917- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
2918 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
2919
2920- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
2921 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
2922 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
2923 were answering.
2924
2925- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
2926 the transition.
2927
2928
adbef119 2929 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 12
66e98927
TL
2930
2931- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
2932
a1e2e3d6
TL
2933 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
2934
2935- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
2936 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
2937 representation from working correctly.
2938
2939- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
2940 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
2941 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
2942 could spin.
2943
2944- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
2945 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
2946
2947- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
2948 interface name on the command line.
2949
2950- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
2951 client state.
2952
2953- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
2954 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
2955 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
2956 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
2957 added by Ted Lemon.
2958
2959- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
2960 be made to log debugging information and other information.
2961
2962- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
2963 end option.
2964
2965- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
2966 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
2967 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
2968
2969- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
2970 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
2971 face of a null hardware address on input.
2972
2973- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
2974 specified unqualified.
2975
2976- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
2977 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
2978
2979- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
2980 RFC.
2981
2982- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
2983
2984- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
2985
2986- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
2987 it works.
2988
6c68ec36
TL
2989 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
2990
2991- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
2992 to CVS.
2993
9fd337e7
TL
2994 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
2995
2996- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
2997
2998- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
2999 in patchlevel 9.
3000
3001- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
3002 options at renewal time.
3003
3004- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
3005 configuration language.
3006
3007- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
3008
3009- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
3010 done when no client hostname was received.
3011
3012- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
3013
3014- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
3015 the DHCP option space.
3016
3017- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
3018
3019- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
3020 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
3021
3022- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
3023 silently dropped.
3024
3025- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
3026 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
3027
3028- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
3029 will be correctly updated.
3030
3922772a
TL
3031 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
3032
3033- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
3034 bounds-checking.
3035
3036 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
848c2547
TL
3037
3038- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
3039
3922772a 3040 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 6
0f6045f8 3041
f8572308
TL
3042- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
3043 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
3044 possible to exploit it any further than that.
3045
3046- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
3047 option.
3048
3049- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
3050 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
3051 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
3052 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
3053 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
3054 meaningfully.
3055
3056- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
3057 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
3058 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
3059
3060- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
3061 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
3062 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
3063 this one down!
3064
3065- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
3066 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
3067 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
3068 down and fixing this problem.
3069
3070 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
3071
0f6045f8
TL
3072- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
3073 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
3074
3075- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
3076 environment.
3077
3078- Fix suffix operator.
3079
3080- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
3081
3082- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
3083 connection code.
3084
3085- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
3086
3087- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
3088
3089- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
3090 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
3091
3092- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
3093
3094- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
3095
3096- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
3097 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
3098
3099- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
3100 spawn with.
3101
3102- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
3103 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
3104
3105- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
3106 for OMAPI.
3107
3108- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
3109 can install in host declarations.
3110
801de092
TL
3111 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
3112
3113- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
3114 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
3115 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
3116 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
3117 comments)!
3118
3119- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
3120
6ed7a93d
TL
3121- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
3122 request for help on this with patches!
3123
3124- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
3125 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
3126 lost, they never reconnect.
3127
3128- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
3129 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
3130
3131- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
3132 dump.
3133
3134- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
3135 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
3136 catching this one.
3137
490eb5e7
TL
3138 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
3139
3140- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 3141 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
490eb5e7
TL
3142 lease renewal time.
3143
3144- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
3145 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
3146 declared without a key.
3147
3148- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
3149
3150- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
3151 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
3152
3153- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
3154 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
3155 determine the maximum size of the response.
3156
592d8153
TL
3157 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
3158
359b023e
TL
3159- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
3160 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
3161
592d8153
TL
3162- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
3163 RENEWING client.
3164
3165- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
3166
3167- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
3168 using memcmp().
3169
2aa36519
TL
3170 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
3171
3172- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
3173 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
3174 pointing this out.
3175
3176- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
3177 exit.
3178
3179- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
3180
3181- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
3182 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.