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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
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2 Version 4.0.0a1
3 May 19, 2007
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98311e4b 5 Release Notes
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da411127 7 NEW FEATURES
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9The DHCP server in version 4.0.x of the ISC DHCP Distribution supports
10DHCPv6 in addition to DHCP for IPv4.
11
12Several new options have been added to the dhcpd executable, which are
13documented in the man page. Several changes have been made to the
14configuration file as well, which are also documented in the man
15pages.
16
17There are a number of DHCPv6 limitiations and features missing in this
18release, which will be addressed shortly:
19
99fe695e 20- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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21
22- There is no DHCPv6 Relay support.
23
24- Only a single fixed address is supported per IA.
25
26- IA_TA addresses are not supported.
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98bd7ca0 28- IA_PD prefixes are not supported.
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30- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages. These
31 should be configurable, and probably localized via gettext() or the
32 like.
33
34- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
35
36- Dynamically allocated leases do not respond to Confirm messages.
37
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38- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
39 not both, so two instances of the daemons are required with the
40 "-6" command line option.
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42For information on how to install, configure and run this software,
43as well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult
44the README file.
45
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46ISC DHCP now uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please
47review the output of "./configure --help" to see what options are
48available.
49
50The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and
51may not work on other platforms. Please report any problems and
52suggested fixes to <dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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55 Changes since 4.0.0a1
56
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57- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
58
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59- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
60
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61- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
62 for when loading configuration.
63
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64- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
65 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
66 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
67
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68- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
69 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
70 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
71 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
72
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73- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
74
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75- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
76 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
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78- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
79
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80- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
81
82- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
83 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
84
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85- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
86 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
87
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88 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
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90- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
91
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92- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
93 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
94
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95- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
96
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97- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
98 initialized.
99
100- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
101
102- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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103 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
104
105- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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107- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
108
109- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
110 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
111
112- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
113
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114- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
115 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplised.
116
117- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
118 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
119
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120- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
121
122- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
123
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124- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
125
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126 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
127
128- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
129 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
130 no support currently for both.
131
132- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
133 IAADDR option.
134
135- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
136 options.
137
138- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
139
140- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
141 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
142
143- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
144 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
145 specifying type 1 or type 2).
146
147- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
148 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
149
150- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
151 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
152 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
153 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
154 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
155 differently, they both use the same code here).
156
157- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
158 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
159 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
160
161- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
162
163- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
164 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
165 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
166 it should not intercept.
167
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168 Changes since 3.1.0b2
169
170- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
171 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
172 odd number of leases).
173
174- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
175 rebalance run, and one after.
176
177- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
178 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
179 processing these messages.
180
fe5b0fdd 181 Changes since 3.1.0b1
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183- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
184 objects.
185
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186- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
187 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
188 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
189 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
190 at Allianz.
191
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192- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
193 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
194
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195- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
196 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
197
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198- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
199 caused the server to abort.
200
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201- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
202 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
203 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
204
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205- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
206 by empty spaces would not get included.
207
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208- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
209 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
210
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211- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
212 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
213
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214- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
215 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
216
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217- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
218 on the parameter request list.
219
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220 Changes since 3.1.0a3
221
222- Some spelling fixes.
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224 Changes since 3.1.0a2
225
226- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
227 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
228
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229- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
230 domain-search option syntax.
231
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232 Changes since 3.1.0a1
233
234- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
235 hash table was repaired.
236
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237- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
238 entering normal state.
239
240- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
241 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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242 'xid mismatch' log messages.
243
244- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
245 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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247- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
248 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
249 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
250 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
251
252- Lease structures appear in three spearate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
253 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
254 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
255 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
256 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
257 to their needs.
258
259- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
260 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
261 run will attempt balance.
262
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263- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
264
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265 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
266
267- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
268 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
269 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
270 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
271
98bd7ca0 272- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 273 was introduced.
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275- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
276 via OMAPI.
277
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278- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
279 the protocol draft.
280
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281- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
282 one does not already exist on the system.
283
b43c87ad 284- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 285
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286- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
287 matches RFC 3074.
288
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289- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
290 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 291 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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293- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
294 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 295 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
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297- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
298 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
299 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
300 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
301
302- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
303 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
304 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
305 priority over the client's parameter request list.
306
f7fdb216 307- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 308 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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309 DHCPv6 support.
310
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311- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
312 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
313 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
314
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315- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
316 have been incorporated.
317
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318- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
319 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
320 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
321 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
322 that belong to the peer in need.
323
324- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
325 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
326
327- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
328 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
329 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
330
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331- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
332 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
333
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334- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
335 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
336 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
337 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
338 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
339
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340- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
341 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
342 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
343 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
344
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345- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
346 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
347 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
348 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
349 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
350 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
351 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
352 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
353 ignoring this aspect of their request.
354
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355- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
356 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
357
41e45067 358- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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359 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
360 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
361 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
362
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363- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
364 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
365 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
366 hardware and funding the development.
6d103865 367
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368- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
369 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
370 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
371 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
372 via Robin Breathe.
373
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374- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
375 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
376 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
377 from Christof Chen.
378
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379- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
380 formally supported.
381
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382 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
383
384- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
385 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
386
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387 Changes since 3.0.5
388
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389- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
390 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
391 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 392 they actually received.
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393
394- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
395
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396- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
397 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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398 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
399 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
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401- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
402
d69fb6a8 403- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 404 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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406- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
407 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
408 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
409 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
410 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
411 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
412 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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413 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
414
415- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
416 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
417 'file' field.
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419- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
420 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
421
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422- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
423 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
424 a patch from Kevin Steves.
425
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426- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
427 from Chris Wagner.
428
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429- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
430 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
431 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
432
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433- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
434 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
435 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
436 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
437 was set.
438
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439- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
440 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
441
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442- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
443 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
444 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
445 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
446 active ones.
447
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901306d5 450- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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451 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
452 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
453 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
454 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
455
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456- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
457 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
458
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459 Changes since 3.0.4
460
461- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
462 scopes are actually global has been added.
463
464- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
465 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
466 known to be damaging.
467
468- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
469 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
470 balancing).
471
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472- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
473 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
474 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
475
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476- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
477 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
478 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
479
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480- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
481 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
482 more clear now.
483
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484- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
485 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
486 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
487 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
488 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 489 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
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491- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
492 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
493
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494- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
495 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
496 made possible.
497
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498- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
499 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
500 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
501
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502- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
503 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
504
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505- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
506 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
507 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
508
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509- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
510 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
511 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
512 value with the later configured value).
513
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514- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
515 have been named and documented.
516
517- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
518 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
519 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
520 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
521 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
522 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
523 write new output.
524
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525 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
526
527- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
528 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
529
530 Changes since 3.0.4b3
531
532- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
533 mailing list.
534
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535 Changes since 3.0.4b2
536
537- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunatley require
538 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
539
540- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
541 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
542
543- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
544 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
545 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
546 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
547
548- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
549 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
550 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
551 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
552 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
553 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
554 transition (properly).
555
556- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
557
558 Changes since 3.0.4b1
559
560- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
561 STDIN after reading one line.
562
563- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
564 descriptor it opened twice.
565
566- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
567 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
568 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
569
570 Changes since 3.0.3
571
572- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
573 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
574 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
575
576- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
577 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
578 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
579
580- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
581 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 582 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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584
585- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
586 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailng PAD option, rather
587 than the entire block of them.
588
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589! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
590 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
591 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
592 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
593 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
594 to a patch from infamous42md.
595
596! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
597 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
598 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
599 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
600 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
601 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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602
603- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
604 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
605 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
606
607- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
608 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
609
610- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
611 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
612 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
613 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
614 transitional states.
615
616- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
617 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
618 once it detects the old db does not exist.
619
620- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
621 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
622 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
623
624- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
625 been doucmented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
626
627- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
628 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
629
630- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
631 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
632 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
633
634- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
635 patch from 'infamous42md'.
636
637- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
638 repaired.
639
640- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
641 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
642 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
643 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
644
645- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
646 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
647 data.
648
649- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
650 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
651 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
652 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
653 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
654
655- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
656 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
657 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
658 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
659 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
660
661- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
662 has been repaired.
663
664- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
665 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
666 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
667 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
668 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
669
670- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 671 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
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673- The linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
674 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
675 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
676 move to 3.[01].x.
677
678- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
679 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
680
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681 Changes since 3.0.3b3
682
683- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
684 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
685
686- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
687 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
688 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
689 workaround.
690
691 Changes since 3.0.3b2
692
693- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
694 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
695
696 Changes since 3.0.3b1
697
698- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
699 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
700 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
701
702- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
703 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
704 dynamic updates were also retouched.
705
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706 Changes since 3.0.2
707
708- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
709 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceeding DISCOVER.
710 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
711
712- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
713 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
714 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
715 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
716 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
717
718- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
719 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
720 Jason Vas Dias at Redhat.
721
722- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
723 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
724 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
725
726- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
727 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
728 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
729 Peter Poeml.
730
731- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
732 Dr. Peter Poeml.
733
734- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
735 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
736 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
737 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
738 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
739 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
740
741- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
742 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
743 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
744 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
745
746- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
747 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
748 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
749 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
750
751- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
752 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
753
754- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
755 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
756 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
757
758- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
759 7 bytes, and failover.
760
761- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
762 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
763 at Redhat.
764
765- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
766 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
767 should work better.
768
769- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
770 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
771 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
772
773- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
774 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
775 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
776
777 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
778
779- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
780 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
781
782 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
783
784- Two varaibles introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
785 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
786 overloading. This was repaired.
787
788- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
789 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
790 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
791 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
792 three chunks to fit.
793
794- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
795 were repaired.
796
797- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
798 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
799 leak).
800
801 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
802
803- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
804 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
805
806 Changes since 3.0.2b1
807
808- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
809
810 Changes since 3.0.1
811
812- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
813 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
814 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
815
816- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
817 name was not provided by the server.
818
819- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
820 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
821
822- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
823 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
824
825- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
826 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
827
828- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
829
830- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
831
832- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
833 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
834 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
835 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
836 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
837
838- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
839 the configuration be globally scoped.
840
841- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
842 Farkas.
843
844- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
845 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
846
847- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
848 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
849
850- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
851 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
852
853- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
854 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
855 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
856 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
857
858- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
859 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
860 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
861 respond to POOLREQ messages.
862
863- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
864 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
865 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
866
867- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
868
869- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
870 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
871 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
872
873- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
874 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
875 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
876 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
877 Fjone and directconnect.no.
878
879- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
880 to Andreas Gustafsson.
881
882- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
883 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
884
885- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
886 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
887 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
888 DISCOVER timeout handling.
889
890- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
891 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
892
893- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
894 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
895 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
896
897- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
898 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
899 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
900 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
901 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
902 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
903
904- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
905 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
906 Infoblox.
907
908- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
909
910- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
911 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
912 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
913 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
914 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
915 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
916 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
917
918- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
919 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
920 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
921
922- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
923 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
924 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
925
926- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
927
928 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
929
930- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
931 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
932 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
933 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
934 systems either.
935
936- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
937
938- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
939 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
940 is false.
941
942- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
943 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
944
945- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
946
947 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
948
949! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
950 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
951 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
952 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
953 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
954 both finding and solving the problem.
955
956! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
957 in log_*() functions was evidented, on some specific platforms where
958 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
959 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
960 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
961 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
962 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
963 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
964 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
965 published version of ISC DHCP.
966
967- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
968
969- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
970
971 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
972
973- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
974 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
975 Richard Hirst.
976
977- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
978 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
979 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
980
981- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
982
983- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
984 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
985 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
986 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
987
988- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
989 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on solaris platforms.
990
991- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
992 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
993
994- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
995
996 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
997
998- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
999 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
1000
1001- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
1002 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
1003 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
1004
1005- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
1006 by name was fixed.
1007
1008- Delcaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
1009 longer result in error.
1010
1011- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
1012
1013- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
1014 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
1015 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
1016
1017- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
1018 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
1019
1020- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
1021 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
1022 Blapp.
1023
1024- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
1025 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
1026 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
1027 Martin Blapp.
1028
1029- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
1030 expiry times in failover configurations.
1031
1032- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
1033 Steve G.
1034
1035- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
1036 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
1037
1038- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
1039 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
1040 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
1041 now "unknown-144".
1042
1043- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
1044 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
1045
1046 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
1047
1048- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
1049
1050- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
1051 not be bash.
1052
1053- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1054
1055- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
1056 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
1057 that errored before will now work properly.
1058
1059- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
1060 names was repaired.
1061
1062- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
1063 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
1064 configuration file.
1065
1066- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
1067 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1068
1069- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
1070 error rather than a null dereference.
1071
1072 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
1073
1074- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
1075
1076- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
1077
1078- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
1079 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
1080
1081- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
1082
1083- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
1084
1085- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
1086 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
1087 self-corrupting lease databases.
1088
1089- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
1090
1091- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
1092 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
1093
1094- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
1095
1096- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
1097
1098- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
1099 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
1100 Ling Gou.
1101
1102- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
1103 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1104
1105- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
1106 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
1107 Ted Lemon for the patch.
1108
1109- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
1110 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
1111
1112 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
1113
1114- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
1115 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
1116
1117- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
1118
1119- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
1120 a memory leak.
1121
1122- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
1123 script.
1124
1125- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
1126
1127- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
1128
1129- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
1130
1131- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
1132
1133- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
1134
1135- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
1136
1137- Increment the hop count when relaying.
1138
1139- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
1140
1141- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
1142
1143- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
1144
1145- Change the type of rbuf_max.
1146
1147- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
1148
1149 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
1150
1151- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
1152 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
1153 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
1154
1155 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
1156
1157- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
1158 to be renewed.
1159
1160- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
1161 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
1162
1163- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
1164 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
1165
1166- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
1167 that two permit lists matched.
1168
1169- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
1170 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
1171
1172- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
1173
1174- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
1175 requested it, contrary to the standard.
1176
1177- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
1178
1179- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
1180
1181- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
1182 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
1183 going to update its A record.
1184
1185- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
1186 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
1187 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
1188 DNS server.
1189
1190- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
1191
1192- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
1193
1194- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
1195 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
1196 NetBSD project).
1197
1198- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
1199 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
1200
1201- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
1202 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
1203
1204- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
1205
1206- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
1207
1208- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
1209 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
1210 failover protocol standard.
1211
1212- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
1213 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
1214 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
1215
1216- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
1217 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
1218 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
1219 do so.
1220
1221- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
1222
1223 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
1224
1225- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
1226
1227- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
1228 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
1229
1230- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
1231 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
1232
1233- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
1234 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
1235 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
1236
1237- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
1238 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
1239 network, merge the two pools.
1240
1241- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
1242 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
1243 fix this bug.
1244
1245 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
1246
1247- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
1248 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
1249
1250- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
1251 the same case.
1252
1253- Additional documentation.
1254
1255- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
1256 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
1257
1258 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
1259
1260- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
1261- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
1262
1263 Changes since 3.0.1rc2
1264
1265- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
1266 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
1267 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
1268 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
1269 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
1270
1271 Changes since 3.0.1rc1
1272
1273- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
1274 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
1275 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
1276 wasn't the one that removed it.
1277
1278- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
1279 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
1280 were not configured.
1281
1282- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
1283
1284- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
1285 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
1286 routing information.
1287
1288- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
1289 request being sent.
1290
1291- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
1292 done.
1293
1294- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
1295 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
1296 were pending.
1297
1298- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
1299 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
1300 problems with failover.
1301
1302- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
1303 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
1304 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
1305
1306 Changes since 3.0
1307
1308- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
1309 smash in the subclass allocation code.
1310
1311- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
1312 no object is open, it dumps core.
1313
1314- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
1315
1316- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
1317
1318- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
1319
1320- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
1321 a host object attribute with a null value.
1322
1323 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
1324
1325- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
1326
1327- Fix an obscure core dump.
1328
1329- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
1330 when crucial information is left out.
1331
1332- Log "no free leases" as an error.
1333
1334- Documentation updates.
1335
1336 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
1337
1338- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
1339
1340- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
1341 structure wasn't zeroed.
1342
1343- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
1344 incorrectly.
1345
1346- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
1347 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
1348 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
1349 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
1350 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
1351 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
1352 restarted.
1353
1354 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
1355
1356- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
1357 in failover-enabled pools.
1358
1359- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
1360 declarations).
1361
1362- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
1363 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
1364
1365- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
1366 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
1367
1368- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
1369
1370- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
1371 defined but not referenced by any pools.
1372
1373- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
1374
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1376
1377- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
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1380
1381- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
1382
1383- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
1384
1385- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
1386
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1388
1389- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
1390 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
1391 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
1392
1393- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
1394 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
1395 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
1396 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
1397 string.
1398
1399- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
1400
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1402
1403- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
1404 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
1405
1406- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
1407 malformed packets.
1408
1409- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
1410
1411- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
1412 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
1413 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
1414
1415- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
1416
1417- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
1418
1419- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
1420
1421- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
1422 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
1423
1424- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
1425 tcp connections from being played back.
1426
1427- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
1428 on exit.
1429
1430- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
1431
1432- Add some configurability to the build system.
1433
1434- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
1435
1436- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
1437 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
1438 hadn't been noticed until now.
1439
1440 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
1441
1442- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
1443 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
1444
1445- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
1446 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
1447 conformant, but also didn't work).
1448
1449- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
1450 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
1451
1452- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
1453 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
1454
1455- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
1456 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
1457
1458- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
1459 variables to leases via OMAPI.
1460
1461- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
1462 doing failover.
1463
1464- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
1465 running on alpha processors.
1466
1467- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
1468 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
1469
1470- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
1471
1472- Install omshell (including new documentation).
1473
1474- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
1475 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
1476
1477- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
1478
1479- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
1480 actually named (key names are domain names).
1481
1482- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
1483
1484- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
1485 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
1486
1487- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
1488 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
1489
1490- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
1491 statements.
1492
1493- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
1494 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
1495
1496- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
1497 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
1498 operating.
1499
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1501
1502- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
1503 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
1504 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
1505 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
1506
1507- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
1508 using omapi to manipulate leases.
1509
1510- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
1511
1512
1513 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
1514
1515- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
1516 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
1517
1518- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
1519 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
1520 to the chain.
1521
1522- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
1523
1524- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
1525
1526- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
1527
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1530
98311e4b 1531- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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1533- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
1534
1535 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
1536
1537- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
1538 DHCPDECLINE.
1539
1540- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
1541
1542- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
1543 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
1544 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
1545
1546- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
1547
1548- Documentation fixes.
1549
1550- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
1551 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
1552
1553- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
1554 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
1555
1556- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
1557
1558- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
1559
1560- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
1561 case-insensitive.
1562
1563- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
1564
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1567 consistently.
1568
1569- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
1570 systems with the probe not working correctly.
1571
1572- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
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1575
1576- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
1577 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
1578 result of duplicate leases.
1579
1580- Document OMAPI server objects.
1581
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1583
1584- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
1585 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
1586
1587- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
1588 core dumps.
1589
1590- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
1591 Friedrich.
1592
1593- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
1594
1595 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
1596
1597- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
1598 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
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1601
1602- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
1603 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
1604
1605- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
1606 trace file.
1607
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1610- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
1611 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
1612 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
1613 e.g., Digital Unix.
1614
1615- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
1616 when no error had occurred.
1617
1618- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
1619 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
1620 non-communicating state.
1621
1622- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
1623
1624- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
1625 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
1626 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
1627
1628- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
1629 when the client lease expired.
1630
1631- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
1632 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
1633 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
1634 in testing.
1635
1636- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
1637 the command line, it would fail.
1638
1639- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
1640 user impact).
1641
1642- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
1643
1644- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
1645 they're executable.
1646
1647 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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1649- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
1650 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
1651 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
1652 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
1653
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1654- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
1655 Transmeta.
1656
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1657- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
1658 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
1659 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
1660 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
1661
1662- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
1663 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
1664
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1666
1667- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
1668 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
1669
1670- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
1671
1672- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
1673
1674- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
1675
1676- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
1677
1678- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
1679
1680- Update some parts of the README file.
1681
1682- Support GCC on SCO.
1683
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1685
1686- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
1687 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
1688
1689- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
1690 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
1691 unbill the old class.
1692
1693- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
1694 process the state transition immediately.
1695
1696- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
1697 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
1698
1699- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
1700
1701- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
1702
1703- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
1704
1705- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
1706
1707- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
1708 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
1709 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
1710
1711- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
1712 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
1713
1714- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
1715 lease file.
1716
1717- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
1718
1719- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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1722
1723- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
1724 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
1725
1726- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
1727
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1729
1730- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
1731
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1733
1734- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
1735
1736- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
1737 pl19.
1738
1739- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
1740 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
1741 past the regression test.
1742
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1744
1745- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
1746 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
1747
1748- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
1749 DHCPREQUEST.
1750
1751- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
1752
1753- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
1754
1755- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
1756
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1758
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1759- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
1760 (Damien Neil)
1761
1762- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
1763 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
1764
1765- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
1766 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
1767 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
1768
1769- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
1770 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
1771 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
1772 message.
1773
1774- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
1775 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
1776 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
1777
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1780 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
1781 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
1782 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
1783 this way will work.
1784
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1785- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
1786
1787- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
1788 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
1789 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
1790 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
1791
1792 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
1793
1794 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
1795
1796- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
1797 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
1798 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
1799
1800- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
1801 Hermann Lauer.
1802
1803- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
1804 messages.
1805
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1807 it contained quoted strings.
1808
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1810
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1812
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1813- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
1814 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
1815 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
1816 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
1817 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
1818 tracking down memory leaks.
1819
1820- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
1821 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
1822 Solaris.
1823
1824- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
1825 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
1826 corruption and core dumps.
1827
1828- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
1829 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
1830
1831- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
1832
1833- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
1834 and implemented by Damien Neil.
1835
1836- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
1837 name and version to standard output.
1838
1839- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
1840
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1842 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
1843
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1844- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
1845
1846- Lots of documentation updates.
1847
1848- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
1849 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
1850
1851- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
1852
1853- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
1854 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
1855
1856
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1858
1859- Some documentation tweaks.
1860
1861- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
1862
1863- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
1864
1865- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
1866 agent options into them.
1867
1868- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
1869
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1871 options.
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1874
1875- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
1876 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
1877 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
1878 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
1879 used in class statements to control address allocation.
1880
1881- Fix up documentation.
1882
1883- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
1884 significantly in a high-demand situation.
1885
1886- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
1887
1888- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
1889
1890- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
1891 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
1892 practical use otherwise.
1893
1894- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
1895 for debugging.
1896
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1898
1899- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
1900 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
1901 dump on some systems.
1902
1903- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
1904 option.
1905
1906- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
1907 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
1908
1909- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
1910 that were not printing enough information.
1911
1912- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
1913 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
1914
1915- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
1916 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
1917 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
1918 were answering.
1919
1920- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
1921 the transition.
1922
1923
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1925
1926- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
1927
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1929
1930- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
1931 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
1932 representation from working correctly.
1933
1934- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
1935 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
1936 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
1937 could spin.
1938
1939- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
1940 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
1941
1942- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
1943 interface name on the command line.
1944
1945- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
1946 client state.
1947
1948- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
1949 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
1950 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
1951 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
1952 added by Ted Lemon.
1953
1954- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
1955 be made to log debugging information and other information.
1956
1957- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
1958 end option.
1959
1960- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
1961 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
1962 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
1963
1964- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
1965 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
1966 face of a null hardware address on input.
1967
1968- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
1969 specified unqualified.
1970
1971- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
1972 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
1973
1974- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
1975 RFC.
1976
1977- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
1978
1979- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
1980
1981- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
1982 it works.
1983
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1984 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
1985
1986- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
1987 to CVS.
1988
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1989 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
1990
1991- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
1992
1993- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
1994 in patchlevel 9.
1995
1996- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
1997 options at renewal time.
1998
1999- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
2000 configuration language.
2001
2002- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
2003
2004- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
2005 done when no client hostname was received.
2006
2007- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
2008
2009- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
2010 the DHCP option space.
2011
2012- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
2013
2014- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
2015 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
2016
2017- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
2018 silently dropped.
2019
2020- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
2021 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
2022
2023- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
2024 will be correctly updated.
2025
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2026 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
2027
2028- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
2029 bounds-checking.
2030
2031 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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2033- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
2034
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2037- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
2038 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
2039 possible to exploit it any further than that.
2040
2041- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
2042 option.
2043
2044- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
2045 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
2046 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
2047 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
2048 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
2049 meaningfully.
2050
2051- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
2052 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
2053 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
2054
2055- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
2056 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
2057 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
2058 this one down!
2059
2060- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
2061 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
2062 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
2063 down and fixing this problem.
2064
2065 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
2066
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2067- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
2068 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
2069
2070- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
2071 environment.
2072
2073- Fix suffix operator.
2074
2075- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
2076
2077- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
2078 connection code.
2079
2080- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
2081
2082- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
2083
2084- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
2085 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
2086
2087- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
2088
2089- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
2090
2091- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
2092 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
2093
2094- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
2095 spawn with.
2096
2097- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
2098 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
2099
2100- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
2101 for OMAPI.
2102
2103- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
2104 can install in host declarations.
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2107
2108- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
2109 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
2110 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
2111 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
2112 comments)!
2113
2114- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
2115
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2116- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
2117 request for help on this with patches!
2118
2119- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
2120 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
2121 lost, they never reconnect.
2122
2123- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
2124 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
2125
2126- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
2127 dump.
2128
2129- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
2130 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
2131 catching this one.
2132
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2134
2135- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
2136 of options, so that the client configuration can overried, e.g., the
2137 lease renewal time.
2138
2139- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
2140 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
2141 declared without a key.
2142
2143- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
2144
2145- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
2146 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
2147
2148- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
2149 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
2150 determine the maximum size of the response.
2151
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2153
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2154- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
2155 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
2156
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2157- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
2158 RENEWING client.
2159
2160- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
2161
2162- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
2163 using memcmp().
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2166
2167- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
2168 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
2169 pointing this out.
2170
2171- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
2172 exit.
2173
2174- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
2175
2176- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
2177 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.