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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
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2 Version 4.0.0b3
3 November 14, 2007
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98311e4b 5 Release Notes
72c7bd79 6
da411127 7 NEW FEATURES
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9The DHCP server in version 4.0.x of the ISC DHCP Distribution supports
10DHCPv6 in addition to DHCP for IPv4.
11
12Several new options have been added to the dhcpd executable, which are
13documented in the man page. Several changes have been made to the
14configuration file as well, which are also documented in the man
15pages.
16
45d545f0 17There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
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18release, which will be addressed shortly:
19
99fe695e 20- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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22- There is no DHCPv6 Relay Agent implementation. There are only DHCPv6
23 Server and Client implementations.
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39725d92 25- Only a single address is supported per IA.
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27- IA_TA addresses are not supported.
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98bd7ca0 29- IA_PD prefixes are not supported.
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31- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages. These
32 should be configurable, and probably localized via gettext() or the
33 like.
34
35- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
36
37- Dynamically allocated leases do not respond to Confirm messages.
38
98bd7ca0 39- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 40 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 41 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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43For information on how to install, configure and run this software,
44as well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult
45the README file.
46
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47ISC DHCP now uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please
48review the output of "./configure --help" to see what options are
49available.
50
51The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and
52may not work on other platforms. Please report any problems and
53suggested fixes to <dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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56 Changes since 4.0.0b3
57
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58- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
59 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
60 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
61 a requested address.
62
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63- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
64 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
65 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
66 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
67
68- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
69 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
70 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
71 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
72
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73- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
74 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
75 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
76
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77- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
78 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
79
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80- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
81
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82- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
83 codes through some conditions.
84
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85- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
86 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
87
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88- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
89 seemingly random values.
90
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91 Changes since 4.0.0b2
92
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93- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
94
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95- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
96 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
97 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
98 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
99 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
100
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101- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
102 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
103 new address.
104
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105 Changes since 4.0.0b1
106
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107- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
108 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
109 simultaneously on a single interface.
110
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111- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
112 of service under unusual server configurations
113
114- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
115
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116- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
117 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
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119- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
120 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
121 on every pool rebalance run.
122
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123- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
124 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
125
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126- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
127 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
128
ab3a540f 129 Changes since 4.0.0a3
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131- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
132 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
133
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134- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
135 point out the problem.
136
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137- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
138 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
139 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
140
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141- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
142 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
143
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144- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
145 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
146 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
147
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148- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
149
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150- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
151 fixed by Marcus Goller.
152
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153- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
154 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
155 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
156 regardless of the existence of bindings.
157
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158- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
159
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160- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
161 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
162 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
163 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
164 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
165
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166- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
167
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168 Changes since 4.0.0a2
169
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170- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
171 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
172
763cba6b 173- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
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175- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
176 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
177 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
178
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179- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
180
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181- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
182 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
183
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184- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
185 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
186 loaded from persistent storage.
187
45d545f0 188- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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189 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
190 necessary.
191
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192- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
193 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
194 rapid-commit option.
195
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196- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
197 non-128-bits in length were removed.
198
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199 Changes since 4.0.0a1
200
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201- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
202 and fix.
203
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204- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
205
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206- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
207
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208- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
209 for when loading configuration.
210
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211- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
212 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
213 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
214
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215- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
216 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
217 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
218 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
219
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220- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
221
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222- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
223 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 224
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225- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
226
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227- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
228
229- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
230 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
231
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232- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
233 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
234
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235- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
236
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237- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
238 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
239
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240 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
241
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242- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
243
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244- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
245 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
246
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247- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
248
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249- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
250 initialized.
251
252- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
253
254- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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255 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
256
257- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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259- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
260
261- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
262 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
263
264- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
265
8ea19a71 266- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 267 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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268
269- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
270 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
271
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272- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
273
274- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
275
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276- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
277
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278 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
279
280- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
281 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
282 no support currently for both.
283
284- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
285 IAADDR option.
286
287- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
288 options.
289
290- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
291
292- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
293 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
294
295- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
296 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
297 specifying type 1 or type 2).
298
299- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
300 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
301
302- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
303 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
304 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
305 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
306 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
307 differently, they both use the same code here).
308
309- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
310 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
311 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
312
313- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
314
315- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
316 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
317 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
318 it should not intercept.
319
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320 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
321
322- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
323 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
324 between primary and secondary.
325
326- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
327 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
328 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
329
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330- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
331
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332- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
333 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
334 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
335 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
336 or REQUEST messages.
337
338- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
339 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
340
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341- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
342
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343 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
344
345- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
346 failover protected subnets was removed.
347
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348 Changes since 3.1.0b2
349
350- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
351 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
352 odd number of leases).
353
354- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
355 rebalance run, and one after.
356
357- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
358 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
359 processing these messages.
360
fe5b0fdd 361 Changes since 3.1.0b1
27837f95 362
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363- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
364 objects.
365
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366- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
367 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
368 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
369 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
370 at Allianz.
371
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372- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
373 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
374
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375- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
376 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
377
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378- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
379 caused the server to abort.
380
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381- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
382 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
383 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
384
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385- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
386 by empty spaces would not get included.
387
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388- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
389 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
390
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391- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
392 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
393
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394- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
395 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
396
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397- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
398 on the parameter request list.
399
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400 Changes since 3.1.0a3
401
402- Some spelling fixes.
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404 Changes since 3.1.0a2
405
406- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
407 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
408
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409- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
410 domain-search option syntax.
411
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412 Changes since 3.1.0a1
413
414- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
415 hash table was repaired.
416
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417- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
418 entering normal state.
419
420- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
421 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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422 'xid mismatch' log messages.
423
424- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
425 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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427- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
428 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
429 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
430 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
431
45d545f0 432- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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433 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
434 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
435 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
436 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
437 to their needs.
438
439- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
440 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
441 run will attempt balance.
442
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443- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
444
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445 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
446
447- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
448 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
449 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
450 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
451
98bd7ca0 452- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 453 was introduced.
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455- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
456 via OMAPI.
457
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458- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
459 the protocol draft.
460
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461- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
462 one does not already exist on the system.
463
b43c87ad 464- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 465
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466- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
467 matches RFC 3074.
468
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469- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
470 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 471 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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473- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
474 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 475 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 476
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477- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
478 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
479 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
480 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
481
482- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
483 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
484 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
485 priority over the client's parameter request list.
486
f7fdb216 487- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 488 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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489 DHCPv6 support.
490
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491- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
492 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
493 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
494
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495- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
496 have been incorporated.
497
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498- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
499 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
500 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
501 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
502 that belong to the peer in need.
503
504- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
505 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
506
507- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
508 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
509 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
510
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511- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
512 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
513
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514- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
515 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
516 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
517 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
518 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
519
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520- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
521 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
522 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
523 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
524
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525- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
526 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
527 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
528 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
529 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
530 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
531 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
532 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
533 ignoring this aspect of their request.
534
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535- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
536 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
537
41e45067 538- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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539 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
540 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
541 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
542
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543- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
544 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
545 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
546 hardware and funding the development.
6d103865 547
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548- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
549 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
550 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
551 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
552 via Robin Breathe.
553
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554- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
555 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
556 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
557 from Christof Chen.
558
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559- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
560 formally supported.
561
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562 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
563
564- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
565 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
566
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567 Changes since 3.0.5
568
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569- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
570 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
571 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 572 they actually received.
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573
574- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
575
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576- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
577 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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578 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
579 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
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581- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
582
d69fb6a8 583- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 584 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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586- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
587 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
588 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
589 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
590 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
591 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
592 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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593 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
594
595- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
596 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
597 'file' field.
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599- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
600 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
601
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602- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
603 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
604 a patch from Kevin Steves.
605
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606- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
607 from Chris Wagner.
608
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609- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
610 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
611 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
612
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613- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
614 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
615 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
616 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
617 was set.
618
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619- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
620 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
621
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622- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
623 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
624 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
625 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
626 active ones.
627
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901306d5 630- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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631 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
632 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
633 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
634 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
635
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636- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
637 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
638
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639 Changes since 3.0.4
640
641- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
642 scopes are actually global has been added.
643
644- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
645 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
646 known to be damaging.
647
648- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
649 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
650 balancing).
651
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652- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
653 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
654 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
655
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656- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
657 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
658 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
659
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660- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
661 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
662 more clear now.
663
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664- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
665 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
666 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
667 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
668 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 669 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
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671- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
672 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
673
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674- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
675 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
676 made possible.
677
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678- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
679 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
680 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
681
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682- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
683 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
684
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685- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
686 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
687 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
688
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689- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
690 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
691 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
692 value with the later configured value).
693
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695 have been named and documented.
696
697- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
698 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
699 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
700 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
701 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
702 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
703 write new output.
704
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705 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
706
707- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
708 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
709
710 Changes since 3.0.4b3
711
712- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
713 mailing list.
714
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715 Changes since 3.0.4b2
716
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718 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
719
720- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
721 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
722
723- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
724 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
725 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
726 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
727
728- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
729 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
730 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
731 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
732 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
733 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
734 transition (properly).
735
736- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
737
738 Changes since 3.0.4b1
739
740- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
741 STDIN after reading one line.
742
743- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
744 descriptor it opened twice.
745
746- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
747 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
748 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
749
750 Changes since 3.0.3
751
752- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
753 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
754 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
755
756- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
757 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
758 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
759
760- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
761 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 762 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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763 leases to allocate.
764
765- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 766 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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767 than the entire block of them.
768
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770 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
771 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
772 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
773 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
774 to a patch from infamous42md.
775
776! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
777 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
778 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
779 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
780 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
781 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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783- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
784 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
785 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
786
787- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
788 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
789
790- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
791 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
792 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
793 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
794 transitional states.
795
796- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
797 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
798 once it detects the old db does not exist.
799
800- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
801 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
802 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
803
804- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 805 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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807- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
808 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
809
810- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
811 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
812 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
813
814- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
815 patch from 'infamous42md'.
816
817- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
818 repaired.
819
820- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
821 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
822 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
823 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
824
825- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
826 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
827 data.
828
829- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
830 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
831 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
832 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
833 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
834
835- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
836 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
837 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
838 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
839 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
840
841- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
842 has been repaired.
843
844- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
845 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
846 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
847 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
848 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
849
850- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 851 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
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854 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
855 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
856 move to 3.[01].x.
857
858- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
859 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
860
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861 Changes since 3.0.3b3
862
863- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
864 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
865
866- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
867 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
868 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
869 workaround.
870
871 Changes since 3.0.3b2
872
873- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
874 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
875
876 Changes since 3.0.3b1
877
878- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
879 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
880 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
881
882- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
883 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
884 dynamic updates were also retouched.
885
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887
888- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
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890 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
891
892- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
893 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
894 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
895 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
896 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
897
898- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
899 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
900 Jason Vas Dias at Redhat.
901
902- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
903 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
904 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
905
906- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
907 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
908 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
909 Peter Poeml.
910
911- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
912 Dr. Peter Poeml.
913
914- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
915 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
916 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
917 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
918 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
919 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
920
921- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
922 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
923 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
924 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
925
926- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
927 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
928 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
929 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
930
931- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
932 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
933
934- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
935 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
936 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
937
938- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
939 7 bytes, and failover.
940
941- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
942 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
943 at Redhat.
944
945- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
946 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
947 should work better.
948
949- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
950 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
951 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
952
953- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
954 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
955 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
956
957 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
958
959- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
960 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
961
962 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
963
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965 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
966 overloading. This was repaired.
967
968- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
969 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
970 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
971 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
972 three chunks to fit.
973
974- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
975 were repaired.
976
977- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
978 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
979 leak).
980
981 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
982
983- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
984 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
985
986 Changes since 3.0.2b1
987
988- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
989
990 Changes since 3.0.1
991
992- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
993 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
994 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
995
996- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
997 name was not provided by the server.
998
999- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
1000 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
1001
1002- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
1003 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
1004
1005- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
1006 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
1007
1008- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
1009
1010- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
1011
1012- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
1013 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
1014 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
1015 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
1016 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
1017
1018- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
1019 the configuration be globally scoped.
1020
1021- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
1022 Farkas.
1023
1024- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
1025 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1026
1027- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
1028 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
1029
1030- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
1031 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
1032
1033- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
1034 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
1035 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
1036 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
1037
1038- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
1039 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
1040 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
1041 respond to POOLREQ messages.
1042
1043- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
1044 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
1045 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
1046
1047- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
1048
1049- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
1050 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
1051 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
1052
1053- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
1054 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
1055 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
1056 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
1057 Fjone and directconnect.no.
1058
1059- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
1060 to Andreas Gustafsson.
1061
1062- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
1063 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
1064
1065- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
1066 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
1067 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
1068 DISCOVER timeout handling.
1069
1070- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
1071 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
1072
1073- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
1074 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
1075 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
1076
1077- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
1078 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
1079 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
1080 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
1081 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
1082 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
1083
1084- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
1085 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
1086 Infoblox.
1087
1088- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
1089
1090- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
1091 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
1092 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
1093 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
1094 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
1095 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
1096 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
1097
1098- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
1099 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
1100 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
1101
1102- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
1103 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
1104 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
1105
1106- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
1107
1108 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
1109
1110- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
1111 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
1112 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
1113 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
1114 systems either.
1115
1116- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
1117
1118- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
1119 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
1120 is false.
1121
1122- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
1123 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
1124
1125- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
1126
1127 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
1128
1129! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
1130 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
1131 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
1132 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
1133 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
1134 both finding and solving the problem.
1135
1136! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
45d545f0 1137 in log_*() functions was evidenced, on some specific platforms where
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1138 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
1139 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
1140 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
1141 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
1142 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
1143 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
1144 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
1145 published version of ISC DHCP.
1146
1147- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
1148
1149- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
1150
1151 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
1152
1153- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
1154 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
1155 Richard Hirst.
1156
1157- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
1158 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
1159 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
1160
1161- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
1162
1163- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
1164 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
1165 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
1166 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
1167
1168- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 1169 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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1170
1171- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
1172 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
1173
1174- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
1175
1176 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
1177
1178- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
1179 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
1180
1181- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
1182 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
1183 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
1184
1185- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
1186 by name was fixed.
1187
45d545f0 1188- Declaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
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1189 longer result in error.
1190
1191- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
1192
1193- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
1194 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
1195 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
1196
1197- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
1198 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
1199
1200- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
1201 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
1202 Blapp.
1203
1204- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
1205 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
1206 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
1207 Martin Blapp.
1208
1209- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
1210 expiry times in failover configurations.
1211
1212- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
1213 Steve G.
1214
1215- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
1216 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
1217
1218- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
1219 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
1220 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
1221 now "unknown-144".
1222
1223- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
1224 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
1225
1226 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
1227
1228- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
1229
1230- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
1231 not be bash.
1232
1233- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1234
1235- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
1236 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
1237 that errored before will now work properly.
1238
1239- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
1240 names was repaired.
1241
1242- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
1243 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
1244 configuration file.
1245
1246- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
1247 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1248
1249- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
1250 error rather than a null dereference.
1251
1252 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
1253
1254- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
1255
1256- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
1257
1258- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
1259 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
1260
1261- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
1262
1263- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
1264
1265- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
1266 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
1267 self-corrupting lease databases.
1268
1269- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
1270
1271- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
1272 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
1273
1274- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
1275
1276- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
1277
1278- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
1279 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
1280 Ling Gou.
1281
1282- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
1283 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1284
1285- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
1286 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
1287 Ted Lemon for the patch.
1288
1289- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
1290 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
1291
1292 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
1293
1294- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
1295 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
1296
1297- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
1298
1299- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
1300 a memory leak.
1301
1302- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
1303 script.
1304
1305- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
1306
1307- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
1308
1309- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
1310
1311- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
1312
1313- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
1314
1315- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
1316
1317- Increment the hop count when relaying.
1318
1319- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
1320
1321- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
1322
1323- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
1324
1325- Change the type of rbuf_max.
1326
1327- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
1328
1329 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
1330
1331- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
1332 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
1333 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
1334
1335 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
1336
1337- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
1338 to be renewed.
1339
1340- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
1341 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
1342
1343- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
1344 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
1345
1346- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
1347 that two permit lists matched.
1348
1349- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
1350 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
1351
1352- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
1353
1354- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
1355 requested it, contrary to the standard.
1356
1357- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
1358
1359- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
1360
1361- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
1362 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
1363 going to update its A record.
1364
1365- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
1366 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
1367 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
1368 DNS server.
1369
1370- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
1371
1372- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
1373
1374- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
1375 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
1376 NetBSD project).
1377
1378- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
1379 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
1380
1381- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
1382 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
1383
1384- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
1385
1386- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
1387
1388- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
1389 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
1390 failover protocol standard.
1391
1392- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
1393 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
1394 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
1395
1396- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
1397 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
1398 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
1399 do so.
1400
1401- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
1402
1403 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
1404
1405- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
1406
1407- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
1408 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
1409
1410- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
1411 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
1412
1413- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
1414 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
1415 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
1416
1417- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
1418 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
1419 network, merge the two pools.
1420
1421- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
1422 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
1423 fix this bug.
1424
1425 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
1426
1427- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
1428 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
1429
1430- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
1431 the same case.
1432
1433- Additional documentation.
1434
1435- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
1436 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
1437
1438 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
1439
1440- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
1441- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
1442
1443 Changes since 3.0.1rc2
1444
1445- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
1446 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
1447 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
1448 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
1449 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
1450
1451 Changes since 3.0.1rc1
1452
1453- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
1454 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
1455 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
1456 wasn't the one that removed it.
1457
1458- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
1459 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
1460 were not configured.
1461
1462- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
1463
1464- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
1465 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
1466 routing information.
1467
1468- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
1469 request being sent.
1470
1471- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
1472 done.
1473
1474- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
1475 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
1476 were pending.
1477
1478- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
1479 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
1480 problems with failover.
1481
1482- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
1483 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
1484 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
1485
1486 Changes since 3.0
1487
1488- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
1489 smash in the subclass allocation code.
1490
1491- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
1492 no object is open, it dumps core.
1493
1494- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
1495
1496- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
1497
1498- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
1499
1500- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
1501 a host object attribute with a null value.
1502
1503 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
1504
1505- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
1506
1507- Fix an obscure core dump.
1508
1509- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
1510 when crucial information is left out.
1511
1512- Log "no free leases" as an error.
1513
1514- Documentation updates.
1515
1516 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
1517
1518- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
1519
1520- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
1521 structure wasn't zeroed.
1522
1523- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
1524 incorrectly.
1525
1526- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
1527 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
1528 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
1529 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
1530 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
1531 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
1532 restarted.
1533
1534 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
1535
1536- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
1537 in failover-enabled pools.
1538
1539- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
1540 declarations).
1541
1542- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
1543 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
1544
1545- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
1546 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
1547
1548- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
1549
1550- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
1551 defined but not referenced by any pools.
1552
1553- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
1554
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1556
1557- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
1558
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1560
1561- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
1562
1563- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
1564
1565- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
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1568
1569- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
1570 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
1571 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
1572
1573- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
1574 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
1575 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
1576 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
1577 string.
1578
1579- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
1580
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1582
1583- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
1584 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
1585
1586- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
1587 malformed packets.
1588
1589- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
1590
1591- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
1592 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
1593 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
1594
1595- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
1596
1597- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
1598
1599- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
1600
1601- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
1602 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
1603
1604- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
1605 tcp connections from being played back.
1606
1607- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
1608 on exit.
1609
1610- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
1611
1612- Add some configurability to the build system.
1613
1614- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
1615
1616- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
1617 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
1618 hadn't been noticed until now.
1619
1620 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
1621
1622- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
1623 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
1624
1625- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
1626 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
1627 conformant, but also didn't work).
1628
1629- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
1630 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
1631
1632- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
1633 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
1634
1635- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
1636 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
1637
1638- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
1639 variables to leases via OMAPI.
1640
1641- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
1642 doing failover.
1643
1644- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
1645 running on alpha processors.
1646
1647- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
1648 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
1649
1650- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
1651
1652- Install omshell (including new documentation).
1653
1654- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
1655 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
1656
1657- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
1658
1659- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
1660 actually named (key names are domain names).
1661
1662- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
1663
1664- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
1665 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
1666
1667- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
1668 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
1669
1670- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
1671 statements.
1672
1673- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
1674 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
1675
1676- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
1677 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
1678 operating.
1679
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1681
1682- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
1683 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
1684 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
1685 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
1686
1687- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
1688 using omapi to manipulate leases.
1689
1690- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
1691
1692
1693 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
1694
1695- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
1696 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
1697
1698- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
1699 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
1700 to the chain.
1701
1702- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
1703
1704- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
1705
1706- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
1707
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1710
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1713- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
1714
1715 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
1716
1717- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
1718 DHCPDECLINE.
1719
1720- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
1721
1722- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
1723 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
1724 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
1725
1726- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
1727
1728- Documentation fixes.
1729
1730- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
1731 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
1732
1733- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
1734 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
1735
1736- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
1737
1738- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
1739
1740- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
1741 case-insensitive.
1742
1743- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
1744
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1747 consistently.
1748
1749- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
1750 systems with the probe not working correctly.
1751
1752- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
1753
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1755
1756- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
1757 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
1758 result of duplicate leases.
1759
1760- Document OMAPI server objects.
1761
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1763
1764- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
1765 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
1766
1767- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
1768 core dumps.
1769
1770- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
1771 Friedrich.
1772
1773- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
1774
1775 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
1776
1777- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
1778 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 1779 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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1781
1782- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
1783 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
1784
1785- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
1786 trace file.
1787
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1790- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
1791 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
1792 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
1793 e.g., Digital Unix.
1794
1795- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
1796 when no error had occurred.
1797
1798- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
1799 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
1800 non-communicating state.
1801
1802- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
1803
1804- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
1805 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
1806 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
1807
1808- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
1809 when the client lease expired.
1810
1811- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
1812 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
1813 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
1814 in testing.
1815
1816- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
1817 the command line, it would fail.
1818
1819- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
1820 user impact).
1821
1822- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
1823
1824- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
1825 they're executable.
1826
1827 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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1829- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
1830 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
1831 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
1832 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
1833
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1834- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
1835 Transmeta.
1836
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1837- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
1838 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
1839 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
1840 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
1841
1842- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
1843 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
1844
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1846
1847- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
1848 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
1849
1850- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
1851
1852- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
1853
1854- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
1855
1856- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
1857
1858- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
1859
1860- Update some parts of the README file.
1861
1862- Support GCC on SCO.
1863
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1865
1866- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
1867 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
1868
1869- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
1870 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
1871 unbill the old class.
1872
1873- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
1874 process the state transition immediately.
1875
1876- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
1877 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
1878
1879- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
1880
1881- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
1882
1883- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
1884
1885- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
1886
1887- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
1888 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
1889 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
1890
1891- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
1892 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
1893
1894- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
1895 lease file.
1896
1897- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
1898
1899- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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1902
1903- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
1904 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
1905
1906- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
1907
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1908 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 21
1909
1910- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
1911
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1912 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 20
1913
1914- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
1915
1916- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
1917 pl19.
1918
1919- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
1920 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
1921 past the regression test.
1922
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1924
1925- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
1926 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
1927
1928- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
1929 DHCPREQUEST.
1930
1931- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
1932
1933- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
1934
1935- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
1936
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1937 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 18
1938
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1939- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
1940 (Damien Neil)
1941
1942- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
1943 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
1944
1945- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
1946 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
1947 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
1948
1949- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
1950 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
1951 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
1952 message.
1953
1954- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
1955 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
1956 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
1957
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1959 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
1960 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
1961 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
1962 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
1963 this way will work.
1964
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1965- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
1966
1967- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
1968 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
1969 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
1970 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
1971
1972 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
1973
1974 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
1975
1976- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
1977 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
1978 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
1979
1980- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
1981 Hermann Lauer.
1982
1983- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
1984 messages.
1985
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1986- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
1987 it contained quoted strings.
1988
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1989 ** there was no pl17 **
1990
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1991 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 16
1992
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1993- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
1994 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
1995 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
1996 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
1997 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
1998 tracking down memory leaks.
1999
2000- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
2001 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
2002 Solaris.
2003
2004- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
2005 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
2006 corruption and core dumps.
2007
2008- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
2009 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
2010
2011- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
2012
2013- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
2014 and implemented by Damien Neil.
2015
2016- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
2017 name and version to standard output.
2018
2019- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
2020
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2021- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
2022 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
2023
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2024- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
2025
2026- Lots of documentation updates.
2027
2028- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
2029 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
2030
2031- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
2032
2033- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
2034 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
2035
2036
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2037 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 15
2038
2039- Some documentation tweaks.
2040
2041- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
2042
2043- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
2044
2045- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
2046 agent options into them.
2047
2048- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
2049
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2050- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
2051 options.
2052
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2053 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 14
2054
2055- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
2056 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
2057 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
2058 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
2059 used in class statements to control address allocation.
2060
2061- Fix up documentation.
2062
2063- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
2064 significantly in a high-demand situation.
2065
2066- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
2067
2068- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
2069
2070- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
2071 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
2072 practical use otherwise.
2073
2074- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
2075 for debugging.
2076
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2077 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 13
2078
2079- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
2080 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
2081 dump on some systems.
2082
2083- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
2084 option.
2085
2086- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
2087 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
2088
2089- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
2090 that were not printing enough information.
2091
2092- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
2093 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
2094
2095- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
2096 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
2097 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
2098 were answering.
2099
2100- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
2101 the transition.
2102
2103
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2104 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 12
2105
2106- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
2107
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2108 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
2109
2110- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
2111 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
2112 representation from working correctly.
2113
2114- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
2115 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
2116 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
2117 could spin.
2118
2119- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
2120 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
2121
2122- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
2123 interface name on the command line.
2124
2125- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
2126 client state.
2127
2128- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
2129 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
2130 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
2131 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
2132 added by Ted Lemon.
2133
2134- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
2135 be made to log debugging information and other information.
2136
2137- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
2138 end option.
2139
2140- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
2141 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
2142 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
2143
2144- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
2145 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
2146 face of a null hardware address on input.
2147
2148- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
2149 specified unqualified.
2150
2151- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
2152 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
2153
2154- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
2155 RFC.
2156
2157- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
2158
2159- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
2160
2161- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
2162 it works.
2163
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2165
2166- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
2167 to CVS.
2168
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2169 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
2170
2171- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
2172
2173- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
2174 in patchlevel 9.
2175
2176- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
2177 options at renewal time.
2178
2179- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
2180 configuration language.
2181
2182- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
2183
2184- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
2185 done when no client hostname was received.
2186
2187- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
2188
2189- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
2190 the DHCP option space.
2191
2192- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
2193
2194- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
2195 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
2196
2197- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
2198 silently dropped.
2199
2200- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
2201 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
2202
2203- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
2204 will be correctly updated.
2205
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2207
2208- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
2209 bounds-checking.
2210
2211 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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2213- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
2214
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2217- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
2218 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
2219 possible to exploit it any further than that.
2220
2221- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
2222 option.
2223
2224- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
2225 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
2226 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
2227 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
2228 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
2229 meaningfully.
2230
2231- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
2232 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
2233 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
2234
2235- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
2236 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
2237 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
2238 this one down!
2239
2240- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
2241 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
2242 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
2243 down and fixing this problem.
2244
2245 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
2246
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2247- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
2248 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
2249
2250- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
2251 environment.
2252
2253- Fix suffix operator.
2254
2255- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
2256
2257- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
2258 connection code.
2259
2260- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
2261
2262- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
2263
2264- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
2265 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
2266
2267- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
2268
2269- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
2270
2271- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
2272 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
2273
2274- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
2275 spawn with.
2276
2277- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
2278 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
2279
2280- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
2281 for OMAPI.
2282
2283- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
2284 can install in host declarations.
2285
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2287
2288- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
2289 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
2290 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
2291 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
2292 comments)!
2293
2294- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
2295
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2296- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
2297 request for help on this with patches!
2298
2299- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
2300 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
2301 lost, they never reconnect.
2302
2303- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
2304 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
2305
2306- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
2307 dump.
2308
2309- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
2310 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
2311 catching this one.
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2314
2315- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
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2318
2319- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
2320 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
2321 declared without a key.
2322
2323- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
2324
2325- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
2326 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
2327
2328- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
2329 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
2330 determine the maximum size of the response.
2331
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2333
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2334- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
2335 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
2336
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2337- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
2338 RENEWING client.
2339
2340- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
2341
2342- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
2343 using memcmp().
2344
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2346
2347- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
2348 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
2349 pointing this out.
2350
2351- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
2352 exit.
2353
2354- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
2355
2356- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
2357 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.