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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
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2 Version 4.0.0b3
3 November 14, 2007
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98311e4b 5 Release Notes
72c7bd79 6
da411127 7 NEW FEATURES
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9The DHCP server in version 4.0.x of the ISC DHCP Distribution supports
10DHCPv6 in addition to DHCP for IPv4.
11
12Several new options have been added to the dhcpd executable, which are
13documented in the man page. Several changes have been made to the
14configuration file as well, which are also documented in the man
15pages.
16
45d545f0 17There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
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18release, which will be addressed shortly:
19
99fe695e 20- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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22- There is no DHCPv6 Relay Agent implementation. There are only DHCPv6
23 Server and Client implementations.
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39725d92 25- Only a single address is supported per IA.
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26
27- IA_TA addresses are not supported.
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98bd7ca0 29- IA_PD prefixes are not supported.
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31- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages. These
32 should be configurable, and probably localized via gettext() or the
33 like.
34
35- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
36
37- Dynamically allocated leases do not respond to Confirm messages.
38
98bd7ca0 39- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 40 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 41 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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43For information on how to install, configure and run this software,
44as well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult
45the README file.
46
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47ISC DHCP now uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please
48review the output of "./configure --help" to see what options are
49available.
50
51The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and
52may not work on other platforms. Please report any problems and
53suggested fixes to <dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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56 Changes since 4.0.0b3
57
58- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
59 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
60 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
61 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
62
63- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
64 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
65 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
66 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
67
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68- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
69 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
70 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
71
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72 Changes since 4.0.0b2
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74- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
75
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76- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
77 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
78 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
79 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
80 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
81
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82- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
83 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
84 new address.
85
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86 Changes since 4.0.0b1
87
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88- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
89 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
90 simultaneously on a single interface.
91
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92- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
93 of service under unusual server configurations
94
95- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
96
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97- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
98 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
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100- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
101 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
102 on every pool rebalance run.
103
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104- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
105 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
106
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107- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
108 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
109
ab3a540f 110 Changes since 4.0.0a3
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112- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
113 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
114
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115- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
116 point out the problem.
117
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118- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
119 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
120 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
121
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122- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
123 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
124
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125- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
126 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
127 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
128
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129- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
130
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131- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
132 fixed by Marcus Goller.
133
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134- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
135 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
136 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
137 regardless of the existence of bindings.
138
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139- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
140
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141- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
142 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
143 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
144 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
145 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
146
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147- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
148
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149 Changes since 4.0.0a2
150
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151- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
152 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
153
763cba6b 154- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
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156- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
157 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
158 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
159
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160- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
161
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162- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
163 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
164
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165- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
166 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
167 loaded from persistent storage.
168
45d545f0 169- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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170 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
171 necessary.
172
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173- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
174 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
175 rapid-commit option.
176
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177- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
178 non-128-bits in length were removed.
179
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180 Changes since 4.0.0a1
181
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182- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
183 and fix.
184
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185- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
186
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187- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
188
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189- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
190 for when loading configuration.
191
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192- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
193 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
194 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
195
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196- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
197 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
198 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
199 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
200
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201- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
202
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203- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
204 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 205
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206- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
207
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208- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
209
210- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
211 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
212
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213- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
214 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
215
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216- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
217
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218- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
219 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
220
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221 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
222
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223- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
224
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225- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
226 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
227
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228- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
229
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230- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
231 initialized.
232
233- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
234
235- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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236 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
237
238- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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240- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
241
242- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
243 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
244
245- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
246
8ea19a71 247- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 248 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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249
250- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
251 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
252
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253- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
254
255- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
256
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257- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
258
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259 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
260
261- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
262 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
263 no support currently for both.
264
265- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
266 IAADDR option.
267
268- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
269 options.
270
271- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
272
273- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
274 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
275
276- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
277 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
278 specifying type 1 or type 2).
279
280- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
281 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
282
283- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
284 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
285 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
286 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
287 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
288 differently, they both use the same code here).
289
290- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
291 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
292 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
293
294- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
295
296- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
297 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
298 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
299 it should not intercept.
300
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301 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
302
303- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
304 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
305 between primary and secondary.
306
307- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
308 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
309 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
310
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311- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
312
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313- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
314 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
315 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
316 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
317 or REQUEST messages.
318
319- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
320 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
321
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322- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
323
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324 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
325
326- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
327 failover protected subnets was removed.
328
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329 Changes since 3.1.0b2
330
331- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
332 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
333 odd number of leases).
334
335- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
336 rebalance run, and one after.
337
338- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
339 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
340 processing these messages.
341
fe5b0fdd 342 Changes since 3.1.0b1
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344- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
345 objects.
346
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347- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
348 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
349 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
350 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
351 at Allianz.
352
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353- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
354 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
355
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356- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
357 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
358
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359- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
360 caused the server to abort.
361
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362- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
363 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
364 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
365
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366- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
367 by empty spaces would not get included.
368
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369- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
370 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
371
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372- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
373 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
374
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375- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
376 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
377
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378- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
379 on the parameter request list.
380
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381 Changes since 3.1.0a3
382
383- Some spelling fixes.
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385 Changes since 3.1.0a2
386
387- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
388 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
389
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390- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
391 domain-search option syntax.
392
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393 Changes since 3.1.0a1
394
395- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
396 hash table was repaired.
397
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398- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
399 entering normal state.
400
401- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
402 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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403 'xid mismatch' log messages.
404
405- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
406 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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408- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
409 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
410 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
411 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
412
45d545f0 413- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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414 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
415 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
416 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
417 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
418 to their needs.
419
420- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
421 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
422 run will attempt balance.
423
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424- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
425
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426 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
427
428- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
429 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
430 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
431 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
432
98bd7ca0 433- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 434 was introduced.
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435
436- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
437 via OMAPI.
438
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439- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
440 the protocol draft.
441
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442- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
443 one does not already exist on the system.
444
b43c87ad 445- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 446
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447- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
448 matches RFC 3074.
449
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450- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
451 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 452 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2727c1cf 453
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454- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
455 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 456 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
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458- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
459 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
460 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
461 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
462
463- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
464 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
465 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
466 priority over the client's parameter request list.
467
f7fdb216 468- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 469 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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470 DHCPv6 support.
471
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472- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
473 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
474 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
475
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476- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
477 have been incorporated.
478
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479- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
480 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
481 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
482 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
483 that belong to the peer in need.
484
485- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
486 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
487
488- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
489 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
490 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
491
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492- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
493 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
494
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495- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
496 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
497 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
498 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
499 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
500
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501- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
502 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
503 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
504 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
505
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506- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
507 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
508 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
509 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
510 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
511 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
512 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
513 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
514 ignoring this aspect of their request.
515
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516- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
517 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
518
41e45067 519- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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520 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
521 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
522 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
523
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524- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
525 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
526 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
527 hardware and funding the development.
6d103865 528
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529- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
530 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
531 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
532 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
533 via Robin Breathe.
534
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535- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
536 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
537 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
538 from Christof Chen.
539
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540- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
541 formally supported.
542
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543 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
544
545- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
546 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
547
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548 Changes since 3.0.5
549
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550- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
551 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
552 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 553 they actually received.
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555- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
556
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557- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
558 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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559 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
560 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
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562- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
563
d69fb6a8 564- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 565 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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567- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
568 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
569 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
570 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
571 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
572 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
573 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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574 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
575
576- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
577 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
578 'file' field.
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580- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
581 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
582
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583- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
584 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
585 a patch from Kevin Steves.
586
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587- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
588 from Chris Wagner.
589
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590- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
591 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
592 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
593
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594- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
595 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
596 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
597 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
598 was set.
599
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600- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
601 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
602
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603- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
604 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
605 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
606 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
607 active ones.
608
02428754 609 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
0a73b7b6 610
901306d5 611- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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612 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
613 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
614 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
615 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
616
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617- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
618 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
619
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620 Changes since 3.0.4
621
622- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
623 scopes are actually global has been added.
624
625- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
626 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
627 known to be damaging.
628
629- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
630 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
631 balancing).
632
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633- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
634 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
635 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
636
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637- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
638 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
639 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
640
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641- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
642 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
643 more clear now.
644
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645- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
646 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
647 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
648 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
649 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 650 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
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652- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
653 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
654
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655- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
656 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
657 made possible.
658
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659- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
660 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
661 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
662
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663- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
664 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
665
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666- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
667 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
668 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
669
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670- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
671 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
672 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
673 value with the later configured value).
674
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676 have been named and documented.
677
678- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
679 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
680 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
681 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
682 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
683 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
684 write new output.
685
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686 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
687
688- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
689 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
690
691 Changes since 3.0.4b3
692
693- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
694 mailing list.
695
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696 Changes since 3.0.4b2
697
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699 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
700
701- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
702 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
703
704- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
705 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
706 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
707 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
708
709- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
710 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
711 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
712 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
713 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
714 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
715 transition (properly).
716
717- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
718
719 Changes since 3.0.4b1
720
721- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
722 STDIN after reading one line.
723
724- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
725 descriptor it opened twice.
726
727- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
728 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
729 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
730
731 Changes since 3.0.3
732
733- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
734 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
735 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
736
737- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
738 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
739 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
740
741- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
742 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 743 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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744 leases to allocate.
745
746- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 747 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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749
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750! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
751 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
752 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
753 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
754 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
755 to a patch from infamous42md.
756
757! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
758 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
759 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
760 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
761 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
762 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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764- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
765 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
766 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
767
768- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
769 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
770
771- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
772 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
773 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
774 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
775 transitional states.
776
777- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
778 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
779 once it detects the old db does not exist.
780
781- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
782 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
783 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
784
785- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 786 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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788- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
789 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
790
791- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
792 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
793 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
794
795- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
796 patch from 'infamous42md'.
797
798- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
799 repaired.
800
801- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
802 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
803 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
804 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
805
806- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
807 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
808 data.
809
810- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
811 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
812 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
813 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
814 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
815
816- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
817 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
818 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
819 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
820 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
821
822- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
823 has been repaired.
824
825- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
826 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
827 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
828 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
829 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
830
831- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 832 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
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835 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
836 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
837 move to 3.[01].x.
838
839- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
840 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
841
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842 Changes since 3.0.3b3
843
844- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
845 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
846
847- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
848 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
849 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
850 workaround.
851
852 Changes since 3.0.3b2
853
854- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
855 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
856
857 Changes since 3.0.3b1
858
859- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
860 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
861 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
862
863- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
864 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
865 dynamic updates were also retouched.
866
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867 Changes since 3.0.2
868
869- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
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871 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
872
873- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
874 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
875 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
876 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
877 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
878
879- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
880 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
881 Jason Vas Dias at Redhat.
882
883- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
884 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
885 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
886
887- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
888 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
889 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
890 Peter Poeml.
891
892- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
893 Dr. Peter Poeml.
894
895- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
896 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
897 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
898 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
899 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
900 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
901
902- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
903 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
904 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
905 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
906
907- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
908 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
909 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
910 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
911
912- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
913 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
914
915- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
916 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
917 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
918
919- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
920 7 bytes, and failover.
921
922- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
923 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
924 at Redhat.
925
926- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
927 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
928 should work better.
929
930- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
931 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
932 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
933
934- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
935 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
936 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
937
938 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
939
940- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
941 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
942
943 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
944
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946 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
947 overloading. This was repaired.
948
949- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
950 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
951 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
952 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
953 three chunks to fit.
954
955- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
956 were repaired.
957
958- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
959 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
960 leak).
961
962 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
963
964- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
965 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
966
967 Changes since 3.0.2b1
968
969- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
970
971 Changes since 3.0.1
972
973- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
974 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
975 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
976
977- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
978 name was not provided by the server.
979
980- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
981 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
982
983- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
984 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
985
986- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
987 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
988
989- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
990
991- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
992
993- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
994 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
995 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
996 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
997 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
998
999- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
1000 the configuration be globally scoped.
1001
1002- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
1003 Farkas.
1004
1005- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
1006 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1007
1008- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
1009 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
1010
1011- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
1012 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
1013
1014- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
1015 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
1016 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
1017 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
1018
1019- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
1020 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
1021 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
1022 respond to POOLREQ messages.
1023
1024- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
1025 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
1026 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
1027
1028- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
1029
1030- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
1031 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
1032 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
1033
1034- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
1035 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
1036 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
1037 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
1038 Fjone and directconnect.no.
1039
1040- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
1041 to Andreas Gustafsson.
1042
1043- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
1044 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
1045
1046- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
1047 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
1048 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
1049 DISCOVER timeout handling.
1050
1051- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
1052 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
1053
1054- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
1055 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
1056 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
1057
1058- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
1059 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
1060 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
1061 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
1062 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
1063 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
1064
1065- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
1066 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
1067 Infoblox.
1068
1069- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
1070
1071- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
1072 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
1073 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
1074 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
1075 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
1076 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
1077 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
1078
1079- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
1080 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
1081 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
1082
1083- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
1084 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
1085 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
1086
1087- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
1088
1089 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
1090
1091- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
1092 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
1093 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
1094 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
1095 systems either.
1096
1097- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
1098
1099- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
1100 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
1101 is false.
1102
1103- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
1104 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
1105
1106- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
1107
1108 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
1109
1110! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
1111 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
1112 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
1113 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
1114 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
1115 both finding and solving the problem.
1116
1117! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
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1119 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
1120 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
1121 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
1122 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
1123 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
1124 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
1125 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
1126 published version of ISC DHCP.
1127
1128- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
1129
1130- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
1131
1132 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
1133
1134- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
1135 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
1136 Richard Hirst.
1137
1138- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
1139 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
1140 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
1141
1142- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
1143
1144- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
1145 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
1146 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
1147 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
1148
1149- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 1150 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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1152- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
1153 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
1154
1155- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
1156
1157 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
1158
1159- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
1160 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
1161
1162- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
1163 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
1164 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
1165
1166- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
1167 by name was fixed.
1168
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1170 longer result in error.
1171
1172- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
1173
1174- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
1175 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
1176 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
1177
1178- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
1179 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
1180
1181- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
1182 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
1183 Blapp.
1184
1185- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
1186 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
1187 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
1188 Martin Blapp.
1189
1190- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
1191 expiry times in failover configurations.
1192
1193- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
1194 Steve G.
1195
1196- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
1197 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
1198
1199- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
1200 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
1201 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
1202 now "unknown-144".
1203
1204- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
1205 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
1206
1207 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
1208
1209- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
1210
1211- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
1212 not be bash.
1213
1214- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1215
1216- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
1217 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
1218 that errored before will now work properly.
1219
1220- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
1221 names was repaired.
1222
1223- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
1224 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
1225 configuration file.
1226
1227- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
1228 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1229
1230- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
1231 error rather than a null dereference.
1232
1233 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
1234
1235- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
1236
1237- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
1238
1239- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
1240 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
1241
1242- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
1243
1244- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
1245
1246- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
1247 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
1248 self-corrupting lease databases.
1249
1250- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
1251
1252- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
1253 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
1254
1255- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
1256
1257- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
1258
1259- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
1260 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
1261 Ling Gou.
1262
1263- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
1264 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1265
1266- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
1267 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
1268 Ted Lemon for the patch.
1269
1270- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
1271 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
1272
1273 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
1274
1275- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
1276 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
1277
1278- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
1279
1280- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
1281 a memory leak.
1282
1283- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
1284 script.
1285
1286- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
1287
1288- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
1289
1290- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
1291
1292- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
1293
1294- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
1295
1296- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
1297
1298- Increment the hop count when relaying.
1299
1300- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
1301
1302- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
1303
1304- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
1305
1306- Change the type of rbuf_max.
1307
1308- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
1309
1310 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
1311
1312- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
1313 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
1314 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
1315
1316 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
1317
1318- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
1319 to be renewed.
1320
1321- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
1322 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
1323
1324- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
1325 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
1326
1327- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
1328 that two permit lists matched.
1329
1330- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
1331 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
1332
1333- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
1334
1335- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
1336 requested it, contrary to the standard.
1337
1338- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
1339
1340- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
1341
1342- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
1343 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
1344 going to update its A record.
1345
1346- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
1347 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
1348 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
1349 DNS server.
1350
1351- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
1352
1353- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
1354
1355- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
1356 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
1357 NetBSD project).
1358
1359- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
1360 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
1361
1362- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
1363 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
1364
1365- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
1366
1367- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
1368
1369- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
1370 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
1371 failover protocol standard.
1372
1373- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
1374 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
1375 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
1376
1377- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
1378 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
1379 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
1380 do so.
1381
1382- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
1383
1384 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
1385
1386- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
1387
1388- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
1389 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
1390
1391- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
1392 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
1393
1394- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
1395 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
1396 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
1397
1398- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
1399 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
1400 network, merge the two pools.
1401
1402- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
1403 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
1404 fix this bug.
1405
1406 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
1407
1408- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
1409 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
1410
1411- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
1412 the same case.
1413
1414- Additional documentation.
1415
1416- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
1417 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
1418
1419 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
1420
1421- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
1422- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
1423
1424 Changes since 3.0.1rc2
1425
1426- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
1427 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
1428 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
1429 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
1430 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
1431
1432 Changes since 3.0.1rc1
1433
1434- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
1435 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
1436 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
1437 wasn't the one that removed it.
1438
1439- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
1440 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
1441 were not configured.
1442
1443- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
1444
1445- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
1446 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
1447 routing information.
1448
1449- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
1450 request being sent.
1451
1452- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
1453 done.
1454
1455- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
1456 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
1457 were pending.
1458
1459- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
1460 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
1461 problems with failover.
1462
1463- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
1464 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
1465 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
1466
1467 Changes since 3.0
1468
1469- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
1470 smash in the subclass allocation code.
1471
1472- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
1473 no object is open, it dumps core.
1474
1475- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
1476
1477- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
1478
1479- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
1480
1481- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
1482 a host object attribute with a null value.
1483
1484 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
1485
1486- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
1487
1488- Fix an obscure core dump.
1489
1490- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
1491 when crucial information is left out.
1492
1493- Log "no free leases" as an error.
1494
1495- Documentation updates.
1496
1497 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
1498
1499- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
1500
1501- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
1502 structure wasn't zeroed.
1503
1504- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
1505 incorrectly.
1506
1507- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
1508 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
1509 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
1510 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
1511 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
1512 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
1513 restarted.
1514
1515 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
1516
1517- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
1518 in failover-enabled pools.
1519
1520- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
1521 declarations).
1522
1523- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
1524 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
1525
1526- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
1527 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
1528
1529- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
1530
1531- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
1532 defined but not referenced by any pools.
1533
1534- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
1535
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1537
1538- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
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1541
1542- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
1543
1544- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
1545
1546- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
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1549
1550- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
1551 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
1552 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
1553
1554- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
1555 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
1556 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
1557 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
1558 string.
1559
1560- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
1561
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1563
1564- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
1565 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
1566
1567- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
1568 malformed packets.
1569
1570- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
1571
1572- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
1573 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
1574 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
1575
1576- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
1577
1578- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
1579
1580- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
1581
1582- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
1583 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
1584
1585- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
1586 tcp connections from being played back.
1587
1588- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
1589 on exit.
1590
1591- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
1592
1593- Add some configurability to the build system.
1594
1595- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
1596
1597- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
1598 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
1599 hadn't been noticed until now.
1600
1601 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
1602
1603- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
1604 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
1605
1606- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
1607 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
1608 conformant, but also didn't work).
1609
1610- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
1611 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
1612
1613- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
1614 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
1615
1616- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
1617 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
1618
1619- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
1620 variables to leases via OMAPI.
1621
1622- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
1623 doing failover.
1624
1625- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
1626 running on alpha processors.
1627
1628- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
1629 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
1630
1631- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
1632
1633- Install omshell (including new documentation).
1634
1635- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
1636 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
1637
1638- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
1639
1640- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
1641 actually named (key names are domain names).
1642
1643- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
1644
1645- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
1646 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
1647
1648- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
1649 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
1650
1651- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
1652 statements.
1653
1654- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
1655 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
1656
1657- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
1658 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
1659 operating.
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1662
1663- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
1664 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
1665 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
1666 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
1667
1668- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
1669 using omapi to manipulate leases.
1670
1671- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
1672
1673
1674 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
1675
1676- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
1677 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
1678
1679- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
1680 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
1681 to the chain.
1682
1683- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
1684
1685- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
1686
1687- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
1688
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1691
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1694- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
1695
1696 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
1697
1698- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
1699 DHCPDECLINE.
1700
1701- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
1702
1703- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
1704 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
1705 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
1706
1707- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
1708
1709- Documentation fixes.
1710
1711- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
1712 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
1713
1714- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
1715 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
1716
1717- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
1718
1719- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
1720
1721- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
1722 case-insensitive.
1723
1724- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
1725
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1728 consistently.
1729
1730- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
1731 systems with the probe not working correctly.
1732
1733- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
1734
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1736
1737- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
1738 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
1739 result of duplicate leases.
1740
1741- Document OMAPI server objects.
1742
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1744
1745- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
1746 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
1747
1748- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
1749 core dumps.
1750
1751- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
1752 Friedrich.
1753
1754- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
1755
1756 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
1757
1758- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
1759 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
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1762
1763- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
1764 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
1765
1766- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
1767 trace file.
1768
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1772 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
1773 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
1774 e.g., Digital Unix.
1775
1776- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
1777 when no error had occurred.
1778
1779- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
1780 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
1781 non-communicating state.
1782
1783- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
1784
1785- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
1786 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
1787 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
1788
1789- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
1790 when the client lease expired.
1791
1792- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
1793 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
1794 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
1795 in testing.
1796
1797- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
1798 the command line, it would fail.
1799
1800- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
1801 user impact).
1802
1803- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
1804
1805- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
1806 they're executable.
1807
1808 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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1810- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
1811 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
1812 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
1813 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
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1815- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
1816 Transmeta.
1817
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1818- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
1819 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
1820 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
1821 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
1822
1823- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
1824 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
1825
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1826 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 24
1827
1828- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
1829 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
1830
1831- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
1832
1833- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
1834
1835- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
1836
1837- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
1838
1839- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
1840
1841- Update some parts of the README file.
1842
1843- Support GCC on SCO.
1844
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1845 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 23
1846
1847- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
1848 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
1849
1850- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
1851 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
1852 unbill the old class.
1853
1854- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
1855 process the state transition immediately.
1856
1857- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
1858 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
1859
1860- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
1861
1862- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
1863
1864- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
1865
1866- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
1867
1868- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
1869 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
1870 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
1871
1872- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
1873 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
1874
1875- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
1876 lease file.
1877
1878- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
1879
1880- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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1883
1884- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
1885 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
1886
1887- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
1888
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1889 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 21
1890
1891- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
1892
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1893 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 20
1894
1895- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
1896
1897- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
1898 pl19.
1899
1900- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
1901 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
1902 past the regression test.
1903
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1905
1906- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
1907 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
1908
1909- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
1910 DHCPREQUEST.
1911
1912- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
1913
1914- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
1915
1916- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
1917
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1919
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1920- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
1921 (Damien Neil)
1922
1923- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
1924 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
1925
1926- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
1927 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
1928 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
1929
1930- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
1931 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
1932 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
1933 message.
1934
1935- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
1936 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
1937 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
1938
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1940 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
1941 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
1942 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
1943 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
1944 this way will work.
1945
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1946- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
1947
1948- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
1949 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
1950 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
1951 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
1952
1953 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
1954
1955 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
1956
1957- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
1958 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
1959 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
1960
1961- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
1962 Hermann Lauer.
1963
1964- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
1965 messages.
1966
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1967- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
1968 it contained quoted strings.
1969
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1970 ** there was no pl17 **
1971
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1972 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 16
1973
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1974- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
1975 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
1976 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
1977 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
1978 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
1979 tracking down memory leaks.
1980
1981- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
1982 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
1983 Solaris.
1984
1985- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
1986 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
1987 corruption and core dumps.
1988
1989- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
1990 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
1991
1992- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
1993
1994- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
1995 and implemented by Damien Neil.
1996
1997- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
1998 name and version to standard output.
1999
2000- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
2001
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2002- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
2003 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
2004
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2005- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
2006
2007- Lots of documentation updates.
2008
2009- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
2010 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
2011
2012- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
2013
2014- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
2015 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
2016
2017
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2019
2020- Some documentation tweaks.
2021
2022- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
2023
2024- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
2025
2026- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
2027 agent options into them.
2028
2029- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
2030
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2031- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
2032 options.
2033
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2034 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 14
2035
2036- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
2037 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
2038 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
2039 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
2040 used in class statements to control address allocation.
2041
2042- Fix up documentation.
2043
2044- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
2045 significantly in a high-demand situation.
2046
2047- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
2048
2049- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
2050
2051- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
2052 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
2053 practical use otherwise.
2054
2055- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
2056 for debugging.
2057
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2059
2060- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
2061 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
2062 dump on some systems.
2063
2064- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
2065 option.
2066
2067- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
2068 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
2069
2070- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
2071 that were not printing enough information.
2072
2073- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
2074 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
2075
2076- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
2077 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
2078 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
2079 were answering.
2080
2081- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
2082 the transition.
2083
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2085 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 12
2086
2087- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
2088
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2089 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
2090
2091- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
2092 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
2093 representation from working correctly.
2094
2095- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
2096 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
2097 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
2098 could spin.
2099
2100- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
2101 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
2102
2103- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
2104 interface name on the command line.
2105
2106- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
2107 client state.
2108
2109- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
2110 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
2111 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
2112 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
2113 added by Ted Lemon.
2114
2115- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
2116 be made to log debugging information and other information.
2117
2118- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
2119 end option.
2120
2121- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
2122 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
2123 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
2124
2125- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
2126 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
2127 face of a null hardware address on input.
2128
2129- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
2130 specified unqualified.
2131
2132- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
2133 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
2134
2135- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
2136 RFC.
2137
2138- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
2139
2140- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
2141
2142- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
2143 it works.
2144
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2146
2147- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
2148 to CVS.
2149
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2150 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
2151
2152- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
2153
2154- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
2155 in patchlevel 9.
2156
2157- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
2158 options at renewal time.
2159
2160- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
2161 configuration language.
2162
2163- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
2164
2165- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
2166 done when no client hostname was received.
2167
2168- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
2169
2170- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
2171 the DHCP option space.
2172
2173- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
2174
2175- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
2176 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
2177
2178- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
2179 silently dropped.
2180
2181- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
2182 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
2183
2184- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
2185 will be correctly updated.
2186
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2188
2189- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
2190 bounds-checking.
2191
2192 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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2194- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
2195
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2198- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
2199 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
2200 possible to exploit it any further than that.
2201
2202- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
2203 option.
2204
2205- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
2206 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
2207 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
2208 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
2209 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
2210 meaningfully.
2211
2212- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
2213 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
2214 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
2215
2216- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
2217 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
2218 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
2219 this one down!
2220
2221- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
2222 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
2223 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
2224 down and fixing this problem.
2225
2226 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
2227
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2228- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
2229 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
2230
2231- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
2232 environment.
2233
2234- Fix suffix operator.
2235
2236- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
2237
2238- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
2239 connection code.
2240
2241- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
2242
2243- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
2244
2245- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
2246 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
2247
2248- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
2249
2250- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
2251
2252- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
2253 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
2254
2255- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
2256 spawn with.
2257
2258- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
2259 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
2260
2261- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
2262 for OMAPI.
2263
2264- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
2265 can install in host declarations.
2266
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2268
2269- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
2270 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
2271 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
2272 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
2273 comments)!
2274
2275- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
2276
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2277- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
2278 request for help on this with patches!
2279
2280- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
2281 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
2282 lost, they never reconnect.
2283
2284- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
2285 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
2286
2287- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
2288 dump.
2289
2290- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
2291 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
2292 catching this one.
2293
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2295
2296- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
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2299
2300- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
2301 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
2302 declared without a key.
2303
2304- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
2305
2306- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
2307 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
2308
2309- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
2310 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
2311 determine the maximum size of the response.
2312
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2314
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2315- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
2316 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
2317
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2318- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
2319 RENEWING client.
2320
2321- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
2322
2323- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
2324 using memcmp().
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2327
2328- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
2329 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
2330 pointing this out.
2331
2332- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
2333 exit.
2334
2335- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
2336
2337- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
2338 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.