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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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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- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
58 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
59 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
60
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61- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
62 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
63 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
64 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
65
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66- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
67
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68- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
69 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
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71- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
72
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73- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
74
75- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
76 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
77
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78- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
79 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
80
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81 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
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83- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
84
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85- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
86 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
87
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88- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
89
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90- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
91 initialized.
92
93- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
94
95- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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96 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
97
98- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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100- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
101
102- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
103 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
104
105- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
106
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107- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
108 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplised.
109
110- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
111 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
112
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113- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
114
115- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
116
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117- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
118
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119 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
120
121- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
122 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
123 no support currently for both.
124
125- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
126 IAADDR option.
127
128- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
129 options.
130
131- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
132
133- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
134 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
135
136- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
137 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
138 specifying type 1 or type 2).
139
140- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
141 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
142
143- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
144 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
145 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
146 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
147 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
148 differently, they both use the same code here).
149
150- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
151 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
152 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
153
154- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
155
156- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
157 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
158 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
159 it should not intercept.
160
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161 Changes since 3.1.0b2
162
163- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
164 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
165 odd number of leases).
166
167- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
168 rebalance run, and one after.
169
170- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
171 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
172 processing these messages.
173
fe5b0fdd 174 Changes since 3.1.0b1
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176- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
177 objects.
178
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179- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
180 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
181 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
182 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
183 at Allianz.
184
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185- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
186 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
187
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188- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
189 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
190
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191- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
192 caused the server to abort.
193
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194- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
195 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
196 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
197
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198- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
199 by empty spaces would not get included.
200
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201- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
202 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
203
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204- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
205 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
206
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207- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
208 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
209
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210- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
211 on the parameter request list.
212
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213 Changes since 3.1.0a3
214
215- Some spelling fixes.
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217 Changes since 3.1.0a2
218
219- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
220 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
221
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222- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
223 domain-search option syntax.
224
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225 Changes since 3.1.0a1
226
227- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
228 hash table was repaired.
229
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230- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
231 entering normal state.
232
233- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
234 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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235 'xid mismatch' log messages.
236
237- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
238 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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240- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
241 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
242 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
243 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
244
245- Lease structures appear in three spearate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
246 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
247 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
248 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
249 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
250 to their needs.
251
252- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
253 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
254 run will attempt balance.
255
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256- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
257
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258 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
259
260- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
261 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
262 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
263 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
264
98bd7ca0 265- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 266 was introduced.
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268- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
269 via OMAPI.
270
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271- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
272 the protocol draft.
273
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274- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
275 one does not already exist on the system.
276
b43c87ad 277- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
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279- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
280 matches RFC 3074.
281
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282- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
283 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 284 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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286- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
287 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 288 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
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290- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
291 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
292 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
293 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
294
295- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
296 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
297 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
298 priority over the client's parameter request list.
299
f7fdb216 300- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 301 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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302 DHCPv6 support.
303
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304- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
305 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
306 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
307
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308- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
309 have been incorporated.
310
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311- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
312 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
313 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
314 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
315 that belong to the peer in need.
316
317- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
318 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
319
320- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
321 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
322 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
323
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324- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
325 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
326
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327- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
328 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
329 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
330 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
331 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
332
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333- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
334 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
335 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
336 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
337
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338- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
339 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
340 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
341 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
342 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
343 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
344 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
345 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
346 ignoring this aspect of their request.
347
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348- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
349 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
350
41e45067 351- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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352 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
353 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
354 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
355
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356- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
357 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
358 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
359 hardware and funding the development.
6d103865 360
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361- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
362 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
363 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
364 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
365 via Robin Breathe.
366
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367- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
368 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
369 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
370 from Christof Chen.
371
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372- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
373 formally supported.
374
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375 Changes since 3.0.5
376
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377- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
378 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
379 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 380 they actually received.
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381
382- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
383
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384- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
385 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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386 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
387 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
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389- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
390
d69fb6a8 391- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 392 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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394- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
395 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
396 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
397 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
398 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
399 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
400 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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401 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
402
403- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
404 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
405 'file' field.
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407- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
408 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
409
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410- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
411 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
412 a patch from Kevin Steves.
413
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414- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
415 from Chris Wagner.
416
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417- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
418 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
419 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
420
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421- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
422 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
423 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
424 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
425 was set.
426
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427- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
428 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
429
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430- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
431 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
432 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
433 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
434 active ones.
435
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901306d5 438- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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439 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
440 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
441 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
442 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
443
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444- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
445 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
446
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447 Changes since 3.0.4
448
449- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
450 scopes are actually global has been added.
451
452- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
453 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
454 known to be damaging.
455
456- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
457 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
458 balancing).
459
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460- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
461 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
462 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
463
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464- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
465 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
466 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
467
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468- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
469 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
470 more clear now.
471
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472- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
473 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
474 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
475 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
476 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 477 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
6cbc6629 478
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479- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
480 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
481
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482- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
483 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
484 made possible.
485
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486- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
487 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
488 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
489
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490- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
491 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
492
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493- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
494 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
495 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
496
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497- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
498 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
499 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
500 value with the later configured value).
501
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502- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
503 have been named and documented.
504
505- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
506 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
507 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
508 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
509 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
510 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
511 write new output.
512
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513 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
514
515- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
516 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
517
518 Changes since 3.0.4b3
519
520- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
521 mailing list.
522
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523 Changes since 3.0.4b2
524
525- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunatley require
526 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
527
528- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
529 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
530
531- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
532 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
533 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
534 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
535
536- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
537 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
538 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
539 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
540 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
541 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
542 transition (properly).
543
544- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
545
546 Changes since 3.0.4b1
547
548- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
549 STDIN after reading one line.
550
551- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
552 descriptor it opened twice.
553
554- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
555 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
556 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
557
558 Changes since 3.0.3
559
560- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
561 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
562 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
563
564- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
565 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
566 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
567
568- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
569 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 570 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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571 leases to allocate.
572
573- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
574 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailng PAD option, rather
575 than the entire block of them.
576
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577! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
578 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
579 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
580 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
581 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
582 to a patch from infamous42md.
583
584! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
585 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
586 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
587 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
588 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
589 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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590
591- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
592 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
593 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
594
595- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
596 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
597
598- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
599 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
600 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
601 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
602 transitional states.
603
604- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
605 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
606 once it detects the old db does not exist.
607
608- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
609 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
610 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
611
612- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
613 been doucmented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
614
615- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
616 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
617
618- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
619 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
620 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
621
622- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
623 patch from 'infamous42md'.
624
625- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
626 repaired.
627
628- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
629 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
630 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
631 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
632
633- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
634 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
635 data.
636
637- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
638 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
639 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
640 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
641 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
642
643- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
644 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
645 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
646 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
647 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
648
649- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
650 has been repaired.
651
652- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
653 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
654 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
655 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
656 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
657
658- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 659 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
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661- The linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
662 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
663 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
664 move to 3.[01].x.
665
666- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
667 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
668
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670
671- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
672 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
673
674- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
675 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
676 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
677 workaround.
678
679 Changes since 3.0.3b2
680
681- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
682 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
683
684 Changes since 3.0.3b1
685
686- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
687 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
688 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
689
690- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
691 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
692 dynamic updates were also retouched.
693
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694 Changes since 3.0.2
695
696- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
697 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceeding DISCOVER.
698 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
699
700- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
701 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
702 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
703 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
704 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
705
706- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
707 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
708 Jason Vas Dias at Redhat.
709
710- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
711 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
712 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
713
714- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
715 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
716 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
717 Peter Poeml.
718
719- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
720 Dr. Peter Poeml.
721
722- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
723 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
724 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
725 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
726 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
727 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
728
729- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
730 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
731 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
732 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
733
734- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
735 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
736 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
737 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
738
739- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
740 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
741
742- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
743 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
744 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
745
746- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
747 7 bytes, and failover.
748
749- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
750 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
751 at Redhat.
752
753- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
754 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
755 should work better.
756
757- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
758 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
759 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
760
761- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
762 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
763 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
764
765 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
766
767- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
768 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
769
770 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
771
772- Two varaibles introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
773 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
774 overloading. This was repaired.
775
776- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
777 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
778 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
779 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
780 three chunks to fit.
781
782- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
783 were repaired.
784
785- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
786 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
787 leak).
788
789 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
790
791- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
792 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
793
794 Changes since 3.0.2b1
795
796- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
797
798 Changes since 3.0.1
799
800- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
801 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
802 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
803
804- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
805 name was not provided by the server.
806
807- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
808 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
809
810- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
811 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
812
813- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
814 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
815
816- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
817
818- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
819
820- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
821 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
822 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
823 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
824 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
825
826- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
827 the configuration be globally scoped.
828
829- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
830 Farkas.
831
832- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
833 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
834
835- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
836 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
837
838- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
839 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
840
841- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
842 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
843 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
844 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
845
846- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
847 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
848 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
849 respond to POOLREQ messages.
850
851- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
852 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
853 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
854
855- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
856
857- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
858 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
859 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
860
861- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
862 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
863 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
864 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
865 Fjone and directconnect.no.
866
867- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
868 to Andreas Gustafsson.
869
870- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
871 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
872
873- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
874 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
875 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
876 DISCOVER timeout handling.
877
878- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
879 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
880
881- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
882 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
883 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
884
885- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
886 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
887 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
888 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
889 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
890 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
891
892- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
893 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
894 Infoblox.
895
896- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
897
898- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
899 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
900 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
901 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
902 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
903 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
904 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
905
906- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
907 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
908 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
909
910- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
911 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
912 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
913
914- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
915
916 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
917
918- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
919 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
920 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
921 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
922 systems either.
923
924- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
925
926- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
927 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
928 is false.
929
930- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
931 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
932
933- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
934
935 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
936
937! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
938 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
939 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
940 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
941 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
942 both finding and solving the problem.
943
944! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
945 in log_*() functions was evidented, on some specific platforms where
946 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
947 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
948 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
949 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
950 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
951 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
952 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
953 published version of ISC DHCP.
954
955- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
956
957- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
958
959 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
960
961- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
962 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
963 Richard Hirst.
964
965- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
966 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
967 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
968
969- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
970
971- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
972 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
973 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
974 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
975
976- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
977 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on solaris platforms.
978
979- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
980 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
981
982- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
983
984 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
985
986- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
987 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
988
989- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
990 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
991 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
992
993- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
994 by name was fixed.
995
996- Delcaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
997 longer result in error.
998
999- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
1000
1001- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
1002 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
1003 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
1004
1005- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
1006 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
1007
1008- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
1009 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
1010 Blapp.
1011
1012- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
1013 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
1014 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
1015 Martin Blapp.
1016
1017- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
1018 expiry times in failover configurations.
1019
1020- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
1021 Steve G.
1022
1023- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
1024 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
1025
1026- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
1027 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
1028 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
1029 now "unknown-144".
1030
1031- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
1032 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
1033
1034 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
1035
1036- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
1037
1038- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
1039 not be bash.
1040
1041- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1042
1043- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
1044 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
1045 that errored before will now work properly.
1046
1047- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
1048 names was repaired.
1049
1050- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
1051 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
1052 configuration file.
1053
1054- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
1055 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1056
1057- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
1058 error rather than a null dereference.
1059
1060 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
1061
1062- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
1063
1064- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
1065
1066- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
1067 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
1068
1069- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
1070
1071- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
1072
1073- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
1074 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
1075 self-corrupting lease databases.
1076
1077- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
1078
1079- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
1080 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
1081
1082- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
1083
1084- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
1085
1086- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
1087 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
1088 Ling Gou.
1089
1090- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
1091 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1092
1093- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
1094 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
1095 Ted Lemon for the patch.
1096
1097- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
1098 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
1099
1100 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
1101
1102- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
1103 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
1104
1105- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
1106
1107- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
1108 a memory leak.
1109
1110- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
1111 script.
1112
1113- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
1114
1115- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
1116
1117- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
1118
1119- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
1120
1121- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
1122
1123- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
1124
1125- Increment the hop count when relaying.
1126
1127- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
1128
1129- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
1130
1131- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
1132
1133- Change the type of rbuf_max.
1134
1135- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
1136
1137 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
1138
1139- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
1140 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
1141 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
1142
1143 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
1144
1145- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
1146 to be renewed.
1147
1148- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
1149 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
1150
1151- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
1152 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
1153
1154- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
1155 that two permit lists matched.
1156
1157- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
1158 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
1159
1160- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
1161
1162- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
1163 requested it, contrary to the standard.
1164
1165- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
1166
1167- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
1168
1169- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
1170 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
1171 going to update its A record.
1172
1173- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
1174 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
1175 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
1176 DNS server.
1177
1178- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
1179
1180- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
1181
1182- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
1183 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
1184 NetBSD project).
1185
1186- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
1187 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
1188
1189- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
1190 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
1191
1192- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
1193
1194- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
1195
1196- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
1197 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
1198 failover protocol standard.
1199
1200- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
1201 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
1202 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
1203
1204- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
1205 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
1206 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
1207 do so.
1208
1209- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
1210
1211 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
1212
1213- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
1214
1215- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
1216 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
1217
1218- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
1219 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
1220
1221- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
1222 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
1223 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
1224
1225- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
1226 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
1227 network, merge the two pools.
1228
1229- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
1230 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
1231 fix this bug.
1232
1233 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
1234
1235- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
1236 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
1237
1238- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
1239 the same case.
1240
1241- Additional documentation.
1242
1243- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
1244 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
1245
1246 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
1247
1248- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
1249- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
1250
1251 Changes since 3.0.1rc2
1252
1253- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
1254 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
1255 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
1256 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
1257 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
1258
1259 Changes since 3.0.1rc1
1260
1261- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
1262 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
1263 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
1264 wasn't the one that removed it.
1265
1266- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
1267 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
1268 were not configured.
1269
1270- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
1271
1272- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
1273 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
1274 routing information.
1275
1276- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
1277 request being sent.
1278
1279- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
1280 done.
1281
1282- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
1283 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
1284 were pending.
1285
1286- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
1287 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
1288 problems with failover.
1289
1290- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
1291 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
1292 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
1293
1294 Changes since 3.0
1295
1296- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
1297 smash in the subclass allocation code.
1298
1299- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
1300 no object is open, it dumps core.
1301
1302- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
1303
1304- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
1305
1306- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
1307
1308- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
1309 a host object attribute with a null value.
1310
1311 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
1312
1313- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
1314
1315- Fix an obscure core dump.
1316
1317- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
1318 when crucial information is left out.
1319
1320- Log "no free leases" as an error.
1321
1322- Documentation updates.
1323
1324 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
1325
1326- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
1327
1328- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
1329 structure wasn't zeroed.
1330
1331- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
1332 incorrectly.
1333
1334- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
1335 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
1336 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
1337 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
1338 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
1339 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
1340 restarted.
1341
1342 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
1343
1344- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
1345 in failover-enabled pools.
1346
1347- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
1348 declarations).
1349
1350- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
1351 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
1352
1353- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
1354 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
1355
1356- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
1357
1358- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
1359 defined but not referenced by any pools.
1360
1361- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
1362
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1364
1365- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
1366
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1368
1369- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
1370
1371- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
1372
1373- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
1374
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1376
1377- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
1378 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
1379 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
1380
1381- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
1382 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
1383 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
1384 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
1385 string.
1386
1387- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
1388
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1390
1391- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
1392 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
1393
1394- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
1395 malformed packets.
1396
1397- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
1398
1399- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
1400 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
1401 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
1402
1403- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
1404
1405- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
1406
1407- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
1408
1409- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
1410 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
1411
1412- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
1413 tcp connections from being played back.
1414
1415- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
1416 on exit.
1417
1418- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
1419
1420- Add some configurability to the build system.
1421
1422- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
1423
1424- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
1425 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
1426 hadn't been noticed until now.
1427
1428 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
1429
1430- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
1431 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
1432
1433- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
1434 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
1435 conformant, but also didn't work).
1436
1437- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
1438 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
1439
1440- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
1441 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
1442
1443- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
1444 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
1445
1446- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
1447 variables to leases via OMAPI.
1448
1449- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
1450 doing failover.
1451
1452- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
1453 running on alpha processors.
1454
1455- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
1456 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
1457
1458- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
1459
1460- Install omshell (including new documentation).
1461
1462- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
1463 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
1464
1465- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
1466
1467- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
1468 actually named (key names are domain names).
1469
1470- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
1471
1472- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
1473 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
1474
1475- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
1476 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
1477
1478- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
1479 statements.
1480
1481- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
1482 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
1483
1484- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
1485 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
1486 operating.
1487
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1489
1490- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
1491 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
1492 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
1493 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
1494
1495- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
1496 using omapi to manipulate leases.
1497
1498- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
1499
1500
1501 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
1502
1503- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
1504 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
1505
1506- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
1507 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
1508 to the chain.
1509
1510- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
1511
1512- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
1513
1514- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
1515
98311e4b 1516- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
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1518
98311e4b 1519- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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1521- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
1522
1523 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
1524
1525- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
1526 DHCPDECLINE.
1527
1528- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
1529
1530- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
1531 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
1532 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
1533
1534- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
1535
1536- Documentation fixes.
1537
1538- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
1539 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
1540
1541- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
1542 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
1543
1544- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
1545
1546- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
1547
1548- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
1549 case-insensitive.
1550
1551- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
1552
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1555 consistently.
1556
1557- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
1558 systems with the probe not working correctly.
1559
1560- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
1561
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1563
1564- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
1565 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
1566 result of duplicate leases.
1567
1568- Document OMAPI server objects.
1569
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1571
1572- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
1573 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
1574
1575- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
1576 core dumps.
1577
1578- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
1579 Friedrich.
1580
1581- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
1582
1583 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
1584
1585- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
1586 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 1587 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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1589
1590- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
1591 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
1592
1593- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
1594 trace file.
1595
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1598- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
1599 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
1600 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
1601 e.g., Digital Unix.
1602
1603- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
1604 when no error had occurred.
1605
1606- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
1607 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
1608 non-communicating state.
1609
1610- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
1611
1612- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
1613 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
1614 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
1615
1616- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
1617 when the client lease expired.
1618
1619- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
1620 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
1621 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
1622 in testing.
1623
1624- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
1625 the command line, it would fail.
1626
1627- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
1628 user impact).
1629
1630- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
1631
1632- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
1633 they're executable.
1634
1635 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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1637- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
1638 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
1639 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
1640 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
1641
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1642- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
1643 Transmeta.
1644
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1645- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
1646 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
1647 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
1648 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
1649
1650- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
1651 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
1652
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1654
1655- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
1656 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
1657
1658- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
1659
1660- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
1661
1662- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
1663
1664- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
1665
1666- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
1667
1668- Update some parts of the README file.
1669
1670- Support GCC on SCO.
1671
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1673
1674- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
1675 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
1676
1677- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
1678 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
1679 unbill the old class.
1680
1681- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
1682 process the state transition immediately.
1683
1684- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
1685 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
1686
1687- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
1688
1689- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
1690
1691- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
1692
1693- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
1694
1695- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
1696 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
1697 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
1698
1699- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
1700 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
1701
1702- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
1703 lease file.
1704
1705- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
1706
1707- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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1710
1711- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
1712 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
1713
1714- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
1715
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1717
1718- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
1719
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1721
1722- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
1723
1724- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
1725 pl19.
1726
1727- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
1728 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
1729 past the regression test.
1730
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1732
1733- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
1734 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
1735
1736- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
1737 DHCPREQUEST.
1738
1739- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
1740
1741- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
1742
1743- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
1744
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1745 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 18
1746
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1747- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
1748 (Damien Neil)
1749
1750- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
1751 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
1752
1753- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
1754 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
1755 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
1756
1757- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
1758 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
1759 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
1760 message.
1761
1762- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
1763 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
1764 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
1765
98311e4b 1766- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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1768 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
1769 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
1770 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
1771 this way will work.
1772
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1773- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
1774
1775- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
1776 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
1777 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
1778 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
1779
1780 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
1781
1782 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
1783
1784- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
1785 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
1786 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
1787
1788- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
1789 Hermann Lauer.
1790
1791- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
1792 messages.
1793
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1795 it contained quoted strings.
1796
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1798
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1800
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1801- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
1802 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
1803 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
1804 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
1805 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
1806 tracking down memory leaks.
1807
1808- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
1809 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
1810 Solaris.
1811
1812- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
1813 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
1814 corruption and core dumps.
1815
1816- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
1817 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
1818
1819- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
1820
1821- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
1822 and implemented by Damien Neil.
1823
1824- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
1825 name and version to standard output.
1826
1827- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
1828
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1830 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
1831
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1832- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
1833
1834- Lots of documentation updates.
1835
1836- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
1837 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
1838
1839- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
1840
1841- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
1842 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
1843
1844
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1846
1847- Some documentation tweaks.
1848
1849- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
1850
1851- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
1852
1853- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
1854 agent options into them.
1855
1856- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
1857
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1859 options.
1860
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1862
1863- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
1864 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
1865 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
1866 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
1867 used in class statements to control address allocation.
1868
1869- Fix up documentation.
1870
1871- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
1872 significantly in a high-demand situation.
1873
1874- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
1875
1876- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
1877
1878- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
1879 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
1880 practical use otherwise.
1881
1882- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
1883 for debugging.
1884
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1886
1887- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
1888 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
1889 dump on some systems.
1890
1891- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
1892 option.
1893
1894- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
1895 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
1896
1897- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
1898 that were not printing enough information.
1899
1900- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
1901 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
1902
1903- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
1904 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
1905 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
1906 were answering.
1907
1908- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
1909 the transition.
1910
1911
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1913
1914- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
1915
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1916 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
1917
1918- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
1919 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
1920 representation from working correctly.
1921
1922- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
1923 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
1924 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
1925 could spin.
1926
1927- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
1928 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
1929
1930- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
1931 interface name on the command line.
1932
1933- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
1934 client state.
1935
1936- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
1937 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
1938 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
1939 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
1940 added by Ted Lemon.
1941
1942- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
1943 be made to log debugging information and other information.
1944
1945- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
1946 end option.
1947
1948- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
1949 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
1950 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
1951
1952- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
1953 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
1954 face of a null hardware address on input.
1955
1956- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
1957 specified unqualified.
1958
1959- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
1960 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
1961
1962- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
1963 RFC.
1964
1965- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
1966
1967- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
1968
1969- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
1970 it works.
1971
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1973
1974- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
1975 to CVS.
1976
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1977 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
1978
1979- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
1980
1981- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
1982 in patchlevel 9.
1983
1984- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
1985 options at renewal time.
1986
1987- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
1988 configuration language.
1989
1990- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
1991
1992- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
1993 done when no client hostname was received.
1994
1995- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
1996
1997- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
1998 the DHCP option space.
1999
2000- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
2001
2002- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
2003 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
2004
2005- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
2006 silently dropped.
2007
2008- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
2009 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
2010
2011- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
2012 will be correctly updated.
2013
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2014 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
2015
2016- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
2017 bounds-checking.
2018
2019 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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2021- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
2022
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2025- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
2026 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
2027 possible to exploit it any further than that.
2028
2029- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
2030 option.
2031
2032- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
2033 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
2034 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
2035 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
2036 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
2037 meaningfully.
2038
2039- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
2040 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
2041 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
2042
2043- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
2044 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
2045 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
2046 this one down!
2047
2048- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
2049 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
2050 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
2051 down and fixing this problem.
2052
2053 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
2054
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2055- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
2056 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
2057
2058- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
2059 environment.
2060
2061- Fix suffix operator.
2062
2063- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
2064
2065- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
2066 connection code.
2067
2068- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
2069
2070- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
2071
2072- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
2073 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
2074
2075- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
2076
2077- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
2078
2079- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
2080 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
2081
2082- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
2083 spawn with.
2084
2085- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
2086 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
2087
2088- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
2089 for OMAPI.
2090
2091- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
2092 can install in host declarations.
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2095
2096- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
2097 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
2098 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
2099 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
2100 comments)!
2101
2102- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
2103
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2104- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
2105 request for help on this with patches!
2106
2107- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
2108 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
2109 lost, they never reconnect.
2110
2111- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
2112 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
2113
2114- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
2115 dump.
2116
2117- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
2118 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
2119 catching this one.
2120
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2122
2123- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
2124 of options, so that the client configuration can overried, e.g., the
2125 lease renewal time.
2126
2127- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
2128 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
2129 declared without a key.
2130
2131- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
2132
2133- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
2134 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
2135
2136- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
2137 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
2138 determine the maximum size of the response.
2139
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2141
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2142- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
2143 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
2144
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2145- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
2146 RENEWING client.
2147
2148- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
2149
2150- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
2151 using memcmp().
2152
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2154
2155- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
2156 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
2157 pointing this out.
2158
2159- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
2160 exit.
2161
2162- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
2163
2164- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
2165 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.