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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
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2 Version 4.2.0
3 21 December 2012
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0171be2d 5 Release Notes
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0171be2d 7 NEW FEATURES
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9ISC DHCP 4.2.x includes features that were not included in DHCP 4.1.x.
10These include:
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12There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
13release, which will be addressed in the future:
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01a54c17 15- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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17- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages, in
18 English. A method to reconfigure or support other languages would
19 be preferrable.
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20
21- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
22
98bd7ca0 23- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 24 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 25 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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27For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as
28well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the
29README file.
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31ISC DHCP uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please review the
32output of "./configure --help" to see what options are available.
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34The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and may not
35work on other platforms. Please report any problems and suggested fixes to
36<dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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39 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
40
41
42
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43 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
44
45- Validate the argument to the -p option.
46
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47- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
48 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
49 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
50 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
51 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
52
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55- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
56 be recognized.
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58 Changes since 4.1.0a2
59
60- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
61 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
62 "abandoned".
63
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64- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
65
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66- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
67 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
68
69- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
70 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
71
72- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 73 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
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75- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
76
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77- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
78 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
79 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
80 in future releases.
81
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82- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
83 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
84
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85- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
86 'dhclient -6' support.
87
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90- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
91
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92- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
93
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94- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
95 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
96 only the latter. Fixed.
97
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98- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
99
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100- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
101 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
102
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103- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
104
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105- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
106
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107- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
108 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
109 --enable-early-chroot.
110
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111- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
112 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
113
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114- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
115 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
116 parameter.
117
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118- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
119 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
120
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121- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
122 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
123
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124- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
125
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126- Merged IA_XX related structures.
127
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128- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
129
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130- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
131
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132- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
133 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
134 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
135
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136- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
137 support.
138
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139- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
140 repaired.
141
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142- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
143
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144- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
145
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146- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
147 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
148
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149- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
150 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
151
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152- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
153 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
154
155- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
156 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
157 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
158 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
159 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
160 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
161 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
162 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
163 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
164 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
165 shared-network.
166
167- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
168 configured option values.
169
170- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
171 support class statements.
172
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173- Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
174 selection were repaired.
175
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176- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
177 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
178 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
179 by the OS.
180
181- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
182 address.
183
184- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
185 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
186
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187- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
188
189- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
190
191- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
192 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
193
01a54c17 194 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
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196- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
197
4cafb815 198- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 199 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
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201- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
202 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
203 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
204
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205- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
206 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
207
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208- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
209
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210- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
211 reserved IDs avoided).
212
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213- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
214
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215- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
216 carries a rapid-commit option.
217
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218- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
219 an empty active lease.
220
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221- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
222
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223- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
224 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
225 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
226 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
227
228- MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
229
230- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
231 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
232 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
233 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
234 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
235 Christof Chen.
236
237 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
238
239- DHCP now builds on AIX.
240
241- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
242 config file but -6 is not specified.
243
244- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
245
246- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
247 be more helpful.
248
249- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
250 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
251 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
252
253- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
254 was repaired.
255
256- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
257 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
258 been repaired.
259
260- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
261 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
262 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
263
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264- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
265 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
266
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267- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
268 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
269 IPv4 address.
270
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271- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
272 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
273 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
274 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
275 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
276
277- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
278 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
279 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
280
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281- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
282
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283- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
284
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285- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
286 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
287 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
288 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
289 unnecessary logging.
290
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291- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
292 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
293
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294- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
295 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
296 is incompatible is printed.
297
298- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
299 a previously undefined option code.
300
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301- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
302 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
303
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304- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
305 than the year 2000.
306
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307- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
308
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309- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
310
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311- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
312
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313 Changes since 4.0.0b3
314
315- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
316 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
317 configuration.
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319- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
320 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
321
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322- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
323 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
324 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
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326- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
327 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
328 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
329 a requested address.
330
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331- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
332 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
333 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
334 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
335
336- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
337 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
338 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
339 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
340
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341- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
342 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
343 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
344
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345- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
346 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
347
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348- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
349
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350- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
351 codes through some conditions.
352
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353- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
354 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
355
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356- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
357 seemingly random values.
358
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359- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
360
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361- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
362 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
363 one ever has.
364
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365- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
366 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
367 to a REQUEST.
368
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369- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
370 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
371 level.
372
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373 Changes since 4.0.0b2
374
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375- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
376
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377- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
378 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
379 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
380 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
381 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
382
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383- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
384 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
385 new address.
386
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387 Changes since 4.0.0b1
388
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389- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
390 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
391 simultaneously on a single interface.
392
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393- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
394 of service under unusual server configurations
395
396- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
397
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398- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
399 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
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401- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
402 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
403 on every pool rebalance run.
404
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405- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
406 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
407
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408- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
409 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
410
ab3a540f 411 Changes since 4.0.0a3
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413- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
414 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
415
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416- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
417 point out the problem.
418
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419- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
420 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
421 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
422
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423- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
424 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
425
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426- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
427 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
428 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
429
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430- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
431
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432- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
433 fixed by Marcus Goller.
434
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435- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
436 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
437 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
438 regardless of the existence of bindings.
439
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440- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
441
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442- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
443 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
444 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
445 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
446 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
447
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448- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
449
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450 Changes since 4.0.0a2
451
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452- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
453 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
454
763cba6b 455- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
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457- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
458 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
459 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
460
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461- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
462
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463- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
464 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
465
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466- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
467 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
468 loaded from persistent storage.
469
45d545f0 470- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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471 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
472 necessary.
473
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474- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
475 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
476 rapid-commit option.
477
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478- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
479 non-128-bits in length were removed.
480
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481 Changes since 4.0.0a1
482
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483- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
484 and fix.
485
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486- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
487
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488- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
489
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490- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
491 for when loading configuration.
492
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493- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
494 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
495 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
496
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497- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
498 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
499 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
500 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
501
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502- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
503
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504- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
505 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
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507- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
508
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509- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
510
511- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
512 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
513
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514- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
515 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
516
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517- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
518
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519- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
520 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
521
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522 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
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524- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
525
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526- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
527 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
528
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529- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
530
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531- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
532 initialized.
533
534- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
535
536- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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537 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
538
539- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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541- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
542
543- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
544 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
545
546- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
547
8ea19a71 548- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 549 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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551- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
552 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
553
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554- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
555
556- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
557
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558- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
559
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560 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
561
562- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
563 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
564 no support currently for both.
565
566- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
567 IAADDR option.
568
569- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
570 options.
571
572- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
573
574- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
575 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
576
577- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
578 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
579 specifying type 1 or type 2).
580
581- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
582 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
583
584- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
585 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
586 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
587 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
588 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
589 differently, they both use the same code here).
590
591- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
592 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
593 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
594
595- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
596
597- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
598 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
599 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
600 it should not intercept.
601
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602 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
603
604- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
605 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
606 between primary and secondary.
607
608- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
609 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
610 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
611
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612- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
613
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614- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
615 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
616 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
617 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
618 or REQUEST messages.
619
620- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
621 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
622
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623- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
624
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625 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
626
627- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
628 failover protected subnets was removed.
629
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630 Changes since 3.1.0b2
631
632- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
633 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
634 odd number of leases).
635
636- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
637 rebalance run, and one after.
638
639- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
640 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
641 processing these messages.
642
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645- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
646 objects.
647
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648- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
649 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
650 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
651 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
652 at Allianz.
653
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654- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
655 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
656
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657- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
658 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
659
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660- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
661 caused the server to abort.
662
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663- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
664 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
665 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
666
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667- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
668 by empty spaces would not get included.
669
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670- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
671 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
672
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673- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
674 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
675
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676- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
677 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
678
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679- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
680 on the parameter request list.
681
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682 Changes since 3.1.0a3
683
684- Some spelling fixes.
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686 Changes since 3.1.0a2
687
688- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
689 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
690
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691- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
692 domain-search option syntax.
693
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694 Changes since 3.1.0a1
695
696- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
697 hash table was repaired.
698
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699- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
700 entering normal state.
701
702- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
703 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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704 'xid mismatch' log messages.
705
706- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
707 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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709- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
710 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
711 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
712 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
713
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715 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
716 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
717 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
718 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
719 to their needs.
720
721- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
722 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
723 run will attempt balance.
724
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725- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
726
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727 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
728
729- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
730 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
731 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
732 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
733
98bd7ca0 734- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
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737- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
738 via OMAPI.
739
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740- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
741 the protocol draft.
742
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743- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
744 one does not already exist on the system.
745
b43c87ad 746- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
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748- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
749 matches RFC 3074.
750
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751- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
752 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 753 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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755- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
756 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 757 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
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759- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
760 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
761 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
762 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
763
764- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
765 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
766 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
767 priority over the client's parameter request list.
768
f7fdb216 769- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 770 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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771 DHCPv6 support.
772
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773- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
774 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
775 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
776
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777- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
778 have been incorporated.
779
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780- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
781 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
782 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
783 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
784 that belong to the peer in need.
785
786- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
787 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
788
789- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
790 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
791 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
792
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793- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
794 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
795
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796- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
797 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
798 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
799 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
800 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
801
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802- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
803 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
804 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
805 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
806
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807- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
808 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
809 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
810 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
811 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
812 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
813 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
814 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
815 ignoring this aspect of their request.
816
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817- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
818 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
819
41e45067 820- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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822 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
823 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
824
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825- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
826 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
827 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
828 hardware and funding the development.
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830- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
831 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
832 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
833 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
834 via Robin Breathe.
835
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836- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
837 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
838 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
839 from Christof Chen.
840
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841- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
842 formally supported.
843
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844 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
845
846- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
847 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
848
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849 Changes since 3.0.5
850
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851- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
852 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
853 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 854 they actually received.
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856- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
857
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858- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
859 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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860 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
861 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
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863- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
864
d69fb6a8 865- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 866 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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868- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
869 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
870 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
871 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
872 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
873 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
874 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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875 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
876
877- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
878 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
879 'file' field.
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881- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
882 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
883
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884- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
885 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
886 a patch from Kevin Steves.
887
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888- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
889 from Chris Wagner.
890
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891- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
892 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
893 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
894
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895- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
896 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
897 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
898 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
899 was set.
900
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901- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
902 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
903
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904- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
905 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
906 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
907 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
908 active ones.
909
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914 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
915 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
916 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
917
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918- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
919 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
920
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921 Changes since 3.0.4
922
923- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
924 scopes are actually global has been added.
925
926- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
927 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
928 known to be damaging.
929
930- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
931 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
932 balancing).
933
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934- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
935 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
936 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
937
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938- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
939 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
940 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
941
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942- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
943 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
944 more clear now.
945
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946- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
947 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
948 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
949 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
950 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 951 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
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953- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
954 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
955
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956- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
957 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
958 made possible.
959
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960- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
961 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
962 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
963
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964- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
965 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
966
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967- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
968 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
969 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
970
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971- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
972 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
973 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
974 value with the later configured value).
975
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977 have been named and documented.
978
979- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
980 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
981 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
982 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
983 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
984 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
985 write new output.
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987 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
988
989- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
990 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
991
992 Changes since 3.0.4b3
993
994- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
995 mailing list.
996
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997 Changes since 3.0.4b2
998
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1000 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
1001
1002- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
1003 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
1004
1005- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
1006 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
1007 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
1008 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
1009
1010- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
1011 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
1012 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
1013 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
1014 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
1015 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
1016 transition (properly).
1017
1018- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
1019
1020 Changes since 3.0.4b1
1021
1022- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
1023 STDIN after reading one line.
1024
1025- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
1026 descriptor it opened twice.
1027
1028- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
1029 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
1030 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
1031
1032 Changes since 3.0.3
1033
1034- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
1035 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
1036 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
1037
1038- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
1039 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
1040 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
1041
1042- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
1043 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 1044 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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1046
1047- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 1048 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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1049 than the entire block of them.
1050
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1051! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
1052 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
1053 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
1054 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
1055 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
1056 to a patch from infamous42md.
1057
1058! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
1059 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
1060 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
1061 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
1062 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
1063 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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1065- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
1066 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
1067 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
1068
1069- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
1070 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
1071
1072- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
1073 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
1074 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
1075 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
1076 transitional states.
1077
1078- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
1079 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
1080 once it detects the old db does not exist.
1081
1082- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
1083 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
1084 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
1085
1086- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 1087 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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1089- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
1090 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
1091
1092- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
1093 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
1094 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
1095
1096- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
1097 patch from 'infamous42md'.
1098
1099- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
1100 repaired.
1101
1102- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
1103 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
1104 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
1105 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
1106
1107- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
1108 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
1109 data.
1110
1111- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
1112 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
1113 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
1114 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
1115 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
1116
1117- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
1118 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
1119 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
1120 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
1121 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
1122
1123- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
1124 has been repaired.
1125
1126- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
1127 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
1128 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
1129 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
1130 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
1131
1132- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 1133 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
88cd8aca 1134
45d545f0 1135- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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1136 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
1137 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
1138 move to 3.[01].x.
1139
1140- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
1141 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
1142
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1143 Changes since 3.0.3b3
1144
1145- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
1146 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
1147
1148- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
1149 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
1150 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
1151 workaround.
1152
1153 Changes since 3.0.3b2
1154
1155- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
1156 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
1157
1158 Changes since 3.0.3b1
1159
1160- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
1161 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
1162 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
1163
1164- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
1165 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
1166 dynamic updates were also retouched.
1167
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1168 Changes since 3.0.2
1169
1170- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 1171 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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1172 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
1173
1174- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
1175 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
1176 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
1177 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
1178 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
1179
1180- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
1181 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
1182 Jason Vas Dias at Redhat.
1183
1184- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
1185 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
1186 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
1187
1188- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
1189 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
1190 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
1191 Peter Poeml.
1192
1193- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
1194 Dr. Peter Poeml.
1195
1196- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
1197 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
1198 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
1199 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
1200 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
1201 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
1202
1203- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
1204 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
1205 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
1206 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
1207
1208- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
1209 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
1210 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
1211 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
1212
1213- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
1214 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
1215
1216- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
1217 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
1218 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
1219
1220- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
1221 7 bytes, and failover.
1222
1223- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
1224 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
1225 at Redhat.
1226
1227- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
1228 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
1229 should work better.
1230
1231- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
1232 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
1233 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
1234
1235- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
1236 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
1237 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
1238
1239 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
1240
1241- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
1242 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
1243
1244 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
1245
45d545f0 1246- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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1247 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
1248 overloading. This was repaired.
1249
1250- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
1251 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
1252 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
1253 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
1254 three chunks to fit.
1255
1256- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
1257 were repaired.
1258
1259- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
1260 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
1261 leak).
1262
1263 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
1264
1265- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
1266 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
1267
1268 Changes since 3.0.2b1
1269
1270- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
1271
1272 Changes since 3.0.1
1273
1274- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
1275 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
1276 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
1277
1278- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
1279 name was not provided by the server.
1280
1281- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
1282 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
1283
1284- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
1285 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
1286
1287- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
1288 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
1289
1290- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
1291
1292- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
1293
1294- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
1295 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
1296 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
1297 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
1298 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
1299
1300- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
1301 the configuration be globally scoped.
1302
1303- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
1304 Farkas.
1305
1306- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
1307 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1308
1309- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
1310 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
1311
1312- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
1313 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
1314
1315- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
1316 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
1317 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
1318 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
1319
1320- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
1321 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
1322 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
1323 respond to POOLREQ messages.
1324
1325- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
1326 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
1327 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
1328
1329- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
1330
1331- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
1332 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
1333 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
1334
1335- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
1336 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
1337 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
1338 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
1339 Fjone and directconnect.no.
1340
1341- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
1342 to Andreas Gustafsson.
1343
1344- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
1345 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
1346
1347- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
1348 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
1349 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
1350 DISCOVER timeout handling.
1351
1352- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
1353 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
1354
1355- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
1356 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
1357 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
1358
1359- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
1360 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
1361 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
1362 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
1363 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
1364 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
1365
1366- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
1367 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
1368 Infoblox.
1369
1370- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
1371
1372- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
1373 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
1374 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
1375 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
1376 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
1377 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
1378 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
1379
1380- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
1381 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
1382 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
1383
1384- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
1385 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
1386 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
1387
1388- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
1389
1390 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
1391
1392- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
1393 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
1394 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
1395 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
1396 systems either.
1397
1398- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
1399
1400- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
1401 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
1402 is false.
1403
1404- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
1405 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
1406
1407- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
1408
1409 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
1410
1411! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
1412 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
1413 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
1414 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
1415 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
1416 both finding and solving the problem.
1417
1418! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
45d545f0 1419 in log_*() functions was evidenced, on some specific platforms where
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1420 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
1421 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
1422 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
1423 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
1424 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
1425 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
1426 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
1427 published version of ISC DHCP.
1428
1429- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
1430
1431- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
1432
1433 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
1434
1435- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
1436 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
1437 Richard Hirst.
1438
1439- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
1440 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
1441 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
1442
1443- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
1444
1445- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
1446 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
1447 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
1448 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
1449
1450- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 1451 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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1452
1453- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
1454 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
1455
1456- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
1457
1458 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
1459
1460- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
1461 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
1462
1463- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
1464 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
1465 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
1466
1467- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
1468 by name was fixed.
1469
45d545f0 1470- Declaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
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1471 longer result in error.
1472
1473- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
1474
1475- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
1476 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
1477 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
1478
1479- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
1480 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
1481
1482- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
1483 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
1484 Blapp.
1485
1486- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
1487 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
1488 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
1489 Martin Blapp.
1490
1491- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
1492 expiry times in failover configurations.
1493
1494- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
1495 Steve G.
1496
1497- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
1498 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
1499
1500- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
1501 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
1502 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
1503 now "unknown-144".
1504
1505- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
1506 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
1507
1508 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
1509
1510- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
1511
1512- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
1513 not be bash.
1514
1515- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1516
1517- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
1518 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
1519 that errored before will now work properly.
1520
1521- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
1522 names was repaired.
1523
1524- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
1525 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
1526 configuration file.
1527
1528- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
1529 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1530
1531- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
1532 error rather than a null dereference.
1533
1534 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
1535
1536- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
1537
1538- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
1539
1540- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
1541 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
1542
1543- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
1544
1545- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
1546
1547- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
1548 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
1549 self-corrupting lease databases.
1550
1551- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
1552
1553- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
1554 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
1555
1556- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
1557
1558- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
1559
1560- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
1561 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
1562 Ling Gou.
1563
1564- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
1565 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1566
1567- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
1568 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
1569 Ted Lemon for the patch.
1570
1571- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
1572 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
1573
1574 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
1575
1576- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
1577 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
1578
1579- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
1580
1581- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
1582 a memory leak.
1583
1584- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
1585 script.
1586
1587- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
1588
1589- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
1590
1591- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
1592
1593- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
1594
1595- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
1596
1597- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
1598
1599- Increment the hop count when relaying.
1600
1601- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
1602
1603- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
1604
1605- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
1606
1607- Change the type of rbuf_max.
1608
1609- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
1610
1611 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
1612
1613- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
1614 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
1615 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
1616
1617 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
1618
1619- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
1620 to be renewed.
1621
1622- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
1623 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
1624
1625- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
1626 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
1627
1628- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
1629 that two permit lists matched.
1630
1631- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
1632 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
1633
1634- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
1635
1636- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
1637 requested it, contrary to the standard.
1638
1639- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
1640
1641- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
1642
1643- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
1644 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
1645 going to update its A record.
1646
1647- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
1648 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
1649 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
1650 DNS server.
1651
1652- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
1653
1654- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
1655
1656- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
1657 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
1658 NetBSD project).
1659
1660- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
1661 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
1662
1663- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
1664 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
1665
1666- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
1667
1668- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
1669
1670- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
1671 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
1672 failover protocol standard.
1673
1674- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
1675 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
1676 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
1677
1678- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
1679 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
1680 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
1681 do so.
1682
1683- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
1684
1685 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
1686
1687- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
1688
1689- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
1690 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
1691
1692- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
1693 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
1694
1695- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
1696 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
1697 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
1698
1699- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
1700 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
1701 network, merge the two pools.
1702
1703- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
1704 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
1705 fix this bug.
1706
1707 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
1708
1709- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
1710 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
1711
1712- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
1713 the same case.
1714
1715- Additional documentation.
1716
1717- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
1718 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
1719
1720 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
1721
1722- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
1723- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
1724
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1726
1727- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
1728 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
1729 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
1730 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
1731 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
1732
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1734
1735- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
1736 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
1737 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
1738 wasn't the one that removed it.
1739
1740- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
1741 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
1742 were not configured.
1743
1744- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
1745
1746- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
1747 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
1748 routing information.
1749
1750- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
1751 request being sent.
1752
1753- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
1754 done.
1755
1756- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
1757 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
1758 were pending.
1759
1760- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
1761 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
1762 problems with failover.
1763
1764- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
1765 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
1766 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
1767
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1769
1770- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
1771 smash in the subclass allocation code.
1772
1773- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
1774 no object is open, it dumps core.
1775
1776- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
1777
1778- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
1779
1780- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
1781
1782- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
1783 a host object attribute with a null value.
1784
1785 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
1786
1787- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
1788
1789- Fix an obscure core dump.
1790
1791- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
1792 when crucial information is left out.
1793
1794- Log "no free leases" as an error.
1795
1796- Documentation updates.
1797
1798 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
1799
1800- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
1801
1802- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
1803 structure wasn't zeroed.
1804
1805- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
1806 incorrectly.
1807
1808- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
1809 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
1810 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
1811 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
1812 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
1813 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
1814 restarted.
1815
1816 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
1817
1818- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
1819 in failover-enabled pools.
1820
1821- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
1822 declarations).
1823
1824- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
1825 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
1826
1827- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
1828 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
1829
1830- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
1831
1832- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
1833 defined but not referenced by any pools.
1834
1835- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
1836
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1838
1839- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
1840
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1842
1843- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
1844
1845- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
1846
1847- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
1848
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1850
1851- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
1852 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
1853 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
1854
1855- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
1856 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
1857 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
1858 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
1859 string.
1860
1861- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
1862
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1864
1865- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
1866 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
1867
1868- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
1869 malformed packets.
1870
1871- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
1872
1873- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
1874 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
1875 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
1876
1877- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
1878
1879- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
1880
1881- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
1882
1883- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
1884 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
1885
1886- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
1887 tcp connections from being played back.
1888
1889- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
1890 on exit.
1891
1892- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
1893
1894- Add some configurability to the build system.
1895
1896- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
1897
1898- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
1899 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
1900 hadn't been noticed until now.
1901
1902 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
1903
1904- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
1905 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
1906
1907- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
1908 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
1909 conformant, but also didn't work).
1910
1911- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
1912 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
1913
1914- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
1915 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
1916
1917- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
1918 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
1919
1920- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
1921 variables to leases via OMAPI.
1922
1923- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
1924 doing failover.
1925
1926- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
1927 running on alpha processors.
1928
1929- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
1930 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
1931
1932- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
1933
1934- Install omshell (including new documentation).
1935
1936- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
1937 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
1938
1939- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
1940
1941- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
1942 actually named (key names are domain names).
1943
1944- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
1945
1946- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
1947 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
1948
1949- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
1950 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
1951
1952- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
1953 statements.
1954
1955- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
1956 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
1957
1958- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
1959 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
1960 operating.
1961
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1963
1964- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
1965 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
1966 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
1967 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
1968
1969- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
1970 using omapi to manipulate leases.
1971
1972- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
1973
1974
1975 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
1976
1977- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
1978 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
1979
1980- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
1981 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
1982 to the chain.
1983
1984- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
1985
1986- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
1987
1988- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
1989
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1992
98311e4b 1993- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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1994
1995- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
1996
1997 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
1998
1999- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
2000 DHCPDECLINE.
2001
2002- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
2003
2004- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
2005 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
2006 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
2007
2008- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
2009
2010- Documentation fixes.
2011
2012- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
2013 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
2014
2015- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
2016 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
2017
2018- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
2019
2020- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
2021
2022- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
2023 case-insensitive.
2024
2025- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
2026
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2028 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
2029 consistently.
2030
2031- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
2032 systems with the probe not working correctly.
2033
2034- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
2035
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2036 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 3
2037
2038- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
2039 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
2040 result of duplicate leases.
2041
2042- Document OMAPI server objects.
2043
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2044 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Patchlevel 1
2045
2046- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
2047 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
2048
2049- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
2050 core dumps.
2051
2052- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
2053 Friedrich.
2054
2055- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
2056
2057 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
2058
2059- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
2060 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
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2062 billing class code.
2063
2064- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
2065 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
2066
2067- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
2068 trace file.
2069
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2072- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
2073 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
2074 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
2075 e.g., Digital Unix.
2076
2077- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
2078 when no error had occurred.
2079
2080- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
2081 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
2082 non-communicating state.
2083
2084- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
2085
2086- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
2087 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
2088 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
2089
2090- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
2091 when the client lease expired.
2092
2093- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
2094 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
2095 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
2096 in testing.
2097
2098- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
2099 the command line, it would fail.
2100
2101- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
2102 user impact).
2103
2104- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
2105
2106- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
2107 they're executable.
2108
2109 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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2111- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
2112 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
2113 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
2114 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
2115
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2116- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
2117 Transmeta.
2118
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2119- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
2120 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
2121 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
2122 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
2123
2124- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
2125 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
2126
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2128
2129- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
2130 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
2131
2132- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
2133
2134- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
2135
2136- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
2137
2138- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
2139
2140- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
2141
2142- Update some parts of the README file.
2143
2144- Support GCC on SCO.
2145
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2147
2148- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
2149 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
2150
2151- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
2152 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
2153 unbill the old class.
2154
2155- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
2156 process the state transition immediately.
2157
2158- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
2159 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
2160
2161- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
2162
2163- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
2164
2165- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
2166
2167- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
2168
2169- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
2170 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
2171 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
2172
2173- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
2174 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
2175
2176- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
2177 lease file.
2178
2179- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
2180
2181- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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2184
2185- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
2186 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
2187
2188- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
2189
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2191
2192- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
2193
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2195
2196- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
2197
2198- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
2199 pl19.
2200
2201- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
2202 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
2203 past the regression test.
2204
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2206
2207- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
2208 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
2209
2210- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
2211 DHCPREQUEST.
2212
2213- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
2214
2215- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
2216
2217- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
2218
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2221- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
2222 (Damien Neil)
2223
2224- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
2225 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
2226
2227- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
2228 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
2229 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
2230
2231- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
2232 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
2233 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
2234 message.
2235
2236- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
2237 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
2238 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
2239
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2242 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
2243 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
2244 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
2245 this way will work.
2246
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2248
2249- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
2250 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
2251 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
2252 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
2253
2254 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
2255
2256 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
2257
2258- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
2259 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
2260 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
2261
2262- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
2263 Hermann Lauer.
2264
2265- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
2266 messages.
2267
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2269 it contained quoted strings.
2270
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2271 ** there was no pl17 **
2272
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2275- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
2276 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
2277 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
2278 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
2279 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
2280 tracking down memory leaks.
2281
2282- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
2283 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
2284 Solaris.
2285
2286- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
2287 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
2288 corruption and core dumps.
2289
2290- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
2291 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
2292
2293- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
2294
2295- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
2296 and implemented by Damien Neil.
2297
2298- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
2299 name and version to standard output.
2300
2301- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
2302
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2304 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
2305
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2306- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
2307
2308- Lots of documentation updates.
2309
2310- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
2311 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
2312
2313- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
2314
2315- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
2316 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
2317
2318
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2320
2321- Some documentation tweaks.
2322
2323- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
2324
2325- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
2326
2327- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
2328 agent options into them.
2329
2330- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
2331
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2332- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
2333 options.
2334
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2336
2337- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
2338 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
2339 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
2340 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
2341 used in class statements to control address allocation.
2342
2343- Fix up documentation.
2344
2345- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
2346 significantly in a high-demand situation.
2347
2348- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
2349
2350- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
2351
2352- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
2353 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
2354 practical use otherwise.
2355
2356- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
2357 for debugging.
2358
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2360
2361- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
2362 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
2363 dump on some systems.
2364
2365- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
2366 option.
2367
2368- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
2369 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
2370
2371- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
2372 that were not printing enough information.
2373
2374- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
2375 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
2376
2377- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
2378 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
2379 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
2380 were answering.
2381
2382- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
2383 the transition.
2384
2385
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2388- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
2389
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2391
2392- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
2393 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
2394 representation from working correctly.
2395
2396- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
2397 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
2398 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
2399 could spin.
2400
2401- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
2402 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
2403
2404- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
2405 interface name on the command line.
2406
2407- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
2408 client state.
2409
2410- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
2411 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
2412 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
2413 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
2414 added by Ted Lemon.
2415
2416- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
2417 be made to log debugging information and other information.
2418
2419- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
2420 end option.
2421
2422- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
2423 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
2424 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
2425
2426- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
2427 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
2428 face of a null hardware address on input.
2429
2430- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
2431 specified unqualified.
2432
2433- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
2434 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
2435
2436- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
2437 RFC.
2438
2439- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
2440
2441- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
2442
2443- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
2444 it works.
2445
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2447
2448- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
2449 to CVS.
2450
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2451 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
2452
2453- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
2454
2455- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
2456 in patchlevel 9.
2457
2458- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
2459 options at renewal time.
2460
2461- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
2462 configuration language.
2463
2464- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
2465
2466- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
2467 done when no client hostname was received.
2468
2469- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
2470
2471- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
2472 the DHCP option space.
2473
2474- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
2475
2476- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
2477 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
2478
2479- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
2480 silently dropped.
2481
2482- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
2483 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
2484
2485- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
2486 will be correctly updated.
2487
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2489
2490- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
2491 bounds-checking.
2492
2493 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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2495- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
2496
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2499- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
2500 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
2501 possible to exploit it any further than that.
2502
2503- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
2504 option.
2505
2506- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
2507 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
2508 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
2509 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
2510 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
2511 meaningfully.
2512
2513- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
2514 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
2515 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
2516
2517- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
2518 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
2519 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
2520 this one down!
2521
2522- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
2523 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
2524 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
2525 down and fixing this problem.
2526
2527 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
2528
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2529- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
2530 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
2531
2532- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
2533 environment.
2534
2535- Fix suffix operator.
2536
2537- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
2538
2539- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
2540 connection code.
2541
2542- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
2543
2544- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
2545
2546- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
2547 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
2548
2549- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
2550
2551- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
2552
2553- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
2554 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
2555
2556- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
2557 spawn with.
2558
2559- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
2560 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
2561
2562- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
2563 for OMAPI.
2564
2565- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
2566 can install in host declarations.
2567
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2569
2570- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
2571 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
2572 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
2573 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
2574 comments)!
2575
2576- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
2577
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2578- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
2579 request for help on this with patches!
2580
2581- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
2582 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
2583 lost, they never reconnect.
2584
2585- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
2586 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
2587
2588- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
2589 dump.
2590
2591- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
2592 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
2593 catching this one.
2594
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2596
2597- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
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2599 lease renewal time.
2600
2601- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
2602 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
2603 declared without a key.
2604
2605- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
2606
2607- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
2608 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
2609
2610- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
2611 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
2612 determine the maximum size of the response.
2613
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2615
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2616- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
2617 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
2618
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2619- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
2620 RENEWING client.
2621
2622- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
2623
2624- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
2625 using memcmp().
2626
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2627 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
2628
2629- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
2630 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
2631 pointing this out.
2632
2633- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
2634 exit.
2635
2636- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
2637
2638- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
2639 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.