]> git.ipfire.org Git - thirdparty/dhcp.git/blame - RELNOTES
- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
[thirdparty/dhcp.git] / RELNOTES
CommitLineData
98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
c76a506e 2 Version 4.0.0rc1
b947f983 3 December 10, 2007
72c7bd79 4
98311e4b 5 Release Notes
72c7bd79 6
da411127 7 NEW FEATURES
16449d9c 8
98bd7ca0
DH
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
98bd7ca0
DH
18release, which will be addressed shortly:
19
99fe695e 20- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
98bd7ca0 21
39725d92
DH
22- There is no DHCPv6 Relay Agent implementation. There are only DHCPv6
23 Server and Client implementations.
98bd7ca0 24
39725d92 25- Only a single address is supported per IA.
98bd7ca0
DH
26
27- IA_TA addresses are not supported.
3a16098f 28
98bd7ca0 29- IA_PD prefixes are not supported.
29d5553a 30
98bd7ca0
DH
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.
4ff4053b 42
ca4606b5
TL
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
fe5b0fdd
DH
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>.
98bd7ca0 54
61d75ea2 55
3c12f746
DH
56 Chagnes since 4.0.0
57
58- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
59 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
60 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
61
00638355
DH
62- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
63 be more helpful.
64
61d75ea2
DH
65 Changes since 4.0.0b3
66
67- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
68 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
69 configuration.
76db44f9 70
e32529a5
EH
71- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
72 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
73
76db44f9
SK
74- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
75 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
76 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
e4a6be15 77
6f76de58
SK
78- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
79 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
80 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
81 a requested address.
82
703873ab
DH
83- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
84 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
85 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
86 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
87
88- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
89 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
90 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
91 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
92
b024480e
DH
93- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
94 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
95 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
96
c0216cb7
DH
97- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
98 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
99
1ac57173
FD
100- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
101
83835822
DH
102- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
103 codes through some conditions.
104
c54db708
FD
105- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
106 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
107
e5d83524
DH
108- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
109 seemingly random values.
110
821f2dda
DH
111- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
112
f8b3c6f4
DH
113- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
114 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
115 one ever has.
116
b9137d42
SK
117- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
118 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
119 to a REQUEST.
120
9f1d5a2f
DH
121- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
122 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
123 level.
124
e4a6be15
DH
125 Changes since 4.0.0b2
126
65cf86d7
EH
127- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
128
b1d3778c
DH
129- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
130 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
131 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
132 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
133 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
134
bead14ea
DH
135- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
136 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
137 new address.
138
f765ec36
SK
139 Changes since 4.0.0b1
140
75135a3f
EH
141- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
142 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
143 simultaneously on a single interface.
144
5c2d55c7
EH
145- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
146 of service under unusual server configurations
147
148- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
149
f765ec36
SK
150- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
151 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
fa9b593d 152
edb1283e
DH
153- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
154 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
155 on every pool rebalance run.
156
c71c6399
DH
157- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
158 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
159
5279b8f3
DH
160- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
161 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
162
ab3a540f 163 Changes since 4.0.0a3
763cba6b 164
884a458f
SK
165- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
166 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
167
fa9b593d
DH
168- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
169 point out the problem.
170
1b5053b5
SK
171- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
172 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
173 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
174
c886c298
SK
175- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
176 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
177
eaf7eb17
DH
178- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
179 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
180 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
181
109e00db
DH
182- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
183
3ad9d48f
SK
184- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
185 fixed by Marcus Goller.
186
8eab95f2
DH
187- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
188 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
189 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
190 regardless of the existence of bindings.
191
07b9a351
DH
192- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
193
7285af30
DH
194- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
195 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
196 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
197 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
198 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
199
2394b26b
DH
200- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
201
ab3a540f
SK
202 Changes since 4.0.0a2
203
97050349
SK
204- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
205 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
206
763cba6b 207- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
e889ded1 208
237f8d3a
SK
209- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
210 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
211 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
212
28868515
SK
213- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
214
d00d373a
SK
215- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
216 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
217
8dfd5744
DH
218- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
219 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
220 loaded from persistent storage.
221
45d545f0 222- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
0c20eab3
DH
223 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
224 necessary.
225
f800f4f6
SK
226- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
227 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
228 rapid-commit option.
229
845e9677
DH
230- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
231 non-128-bits in length were removed.
232
76c944da
SK
233 Changes since 4.0.0a1
234
71765b58
SK
235- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
236 and fix.
237
847e7000
SK
238- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
239
bda33169
SK
240- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
241
9b21e73e
SK
242- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
243 for when loading configuration.
244
8da06bb1
DH
245- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
246 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
247 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
248
dd328225
DH
249- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
250 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
251 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
252 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
253
76c944da
SK
254- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
255
f796f70a
DH
256- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
257 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 258
c11f349d
EH
259- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
260
af5fa176
EH
261- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
262
263- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
264 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
265
a546f2a7
EH
266- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
267 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
268
b55d0d5f
EH
269- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
270
26be82af
DH
271- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
272 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
273
98bd7ca0
DH
274 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
275
d9b43370
SK
276- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
277
8c1752d2
DH
278- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
279 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
280
98bd7ca0
DH
281- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
282
a512d11b
DH
283- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
284 initialized.
285
286- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
287
288- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
f66f02cc
DH
289 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
290
291- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
a512d11b 292
4ba58919
DH
293- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
294
295- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
296 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
297
298- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
299
8ea19a71 300- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 301 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
8ea19a71
DH
302
303- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
304 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
305
2cf8d0bd
DH
306- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
307
308- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
309
fe5b0fdd
DH
310- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
311
98bd7ca0
DH
312 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
313
314- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
315 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
316 no support currently for both.
317
318- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
319 IAADDR option.
320
321- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
322 options.
323
324- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
325
326- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
327 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
328
329- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
330 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
331 specifying type 1 or type 2).
332
333- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
334 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
335
336- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
337 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
338 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
339 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
340 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
341 differently, they both use the same code here).
342
343- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
344 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
345 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
346
347- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
348
349- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
350 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
351 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
352 it should not intercept.
353
1418fd11
DH
354 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
355
356- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
357 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
358 between primary and secondary.
359
360- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
361 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
362 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
363
aa3e348e
DH
364- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
365
e9c59645
DH
366- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
367 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
368 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
369 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
370 or REQUEST messages.
371
372- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
373 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
374
c104546d
DH
375- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
376
b9d0cc05
DH
377 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
378
379- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
380 failover protected subnets was removed.
381
a512cc3a
DH
382 Changes since 3.1.0b2
383
384- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
385 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
386 odd number of leases).
387
388- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
389 rebalance run, and one after.
390
391- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
392 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
393 processing these messages.
394
fe5b0fdd 395 Changes since 3.1.0b1
27837f95 396
74dc3e0b
EH
397- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
398 objects.
399
1ba87b37
EH
400- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
401 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
402 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
403 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
404 at Allianz.
405
a58da042
EH
406- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
407 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
408
61252edf
EH
409- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
410 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
411
27837f95
DH
412- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
413 caused the server to abort.
414
4d2eaafb
DH
415- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
416 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
417 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
418
06211b40
DH
419- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
420 by empty spaces would not get included.
421
d6614ea2
DH
422- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
423 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
424
132d38f2
DH
425- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
426 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
427
fc3b9c90
DH
428- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
429 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
430
c9feb859
DH
431- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
432 on the parameter request list.
433
c57db45c
SK
434 Changes since 3.1.0a3
435
436- Some spelling fixes.
98311e4b 437
bd2bc2fa
DH
438 Changes since 3.1.0a2
439
440- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
441 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
442
85edef5c
DH
443- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
444 domain-search option syntax.
445
bdddcb7d
DH
446 Changes since 3.1.0a1
447
448- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
449 hash table was repaired.
450
616d67cb
DH
451- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
452 entering normal state.
453
454- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
455 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
66c8f734
DH
456 'xid mismatch' log messages.
457
458- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
459 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
616d67cb 460
6708d944
DH
461- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
462 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
463 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
464 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
465
45d545f0 466- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
6708d944
DH
467 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
468 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
469 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
470 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
471 to their needs.
472
473- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
474 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
475 run will attempt balance.
476
a7ee93fe
DH
477- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
478
98311e4b
DH
479 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
480
481- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
482 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
483 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
484 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
485
98bd7ca0 486- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 487 was introduced.
98311e4b
DH
488
489- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
490 via OMAPI.
491
a55ccdd0
DH
492- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
493 the protocol draft.
494
98311e4b
DH
495- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
496 one does not already exist on the system.
497
b43c87ad 498- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 499
0b17f049
DH
500- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
501 matches RFC 3074.
502
2727c1cf
DH
503- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
504 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 505 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2727c1cf 506
febbd402
DH
507- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
508 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 509 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 510
ee912528
DH
511- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
512 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
513 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
514 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
515
516- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
517 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
518 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
519 priority over the client's parameter request list.
520
f7fdb216 521- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 522 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
f7fdb216
DH
523 DHCPv6 support.
524
5e864416
DH
525- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
526 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
527 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
528
b500bd4c
DH
529- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
530 have been incorporated.
531
2426234f
DH
532- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
533 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
534 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
535 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
536 that belong to the peer in need.
537
538- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
539 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
540
541- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
542 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
543 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
544
334bf491
DH
545- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
546 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
547
3004bebf
DH
548- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
549 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
550 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
551 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
552 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
553
567e8561
DH
554- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
555 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
556 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
557 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
558
a396d25f
DH
559- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
560 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
561 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
562 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
563 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
564 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
565 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
566 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
567 ignoring this aspect of their request.
568
dba5803b
DH
569- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
570 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
571
41e45067 572- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
6d103865
SK
573 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
574 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
575 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
576
41e45067
DH
577- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
578 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
579 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
580 hardware and funding the development.
6d103865 581
b543fea9
DH
582- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
583 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
584 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
585 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
586 via Robin Breathe.
587
b22de500
DH
588- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
589 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
590 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
591 from Christof Chen.
592
96bbe8c5
SK
593- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
594 formally supported.
595
b8221d95
DH
596 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
597
598- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
599 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
600
c1e6c832
DH
601 Changes since 3.0.5
602
f546c28b
DH
603- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
604 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
605 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 606 they actually received.
f546c28b
DH
607
608- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
609
c1e6c832
DH
610- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
611 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
23e10d37
DH
612 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
613 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
c1e6c832 614
75ab3070
DH
615- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
616
d69fb6a8 617- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 618 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
d69fb6a8 619
02428754
DH
620- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
621 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
622 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
623 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
624 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
625 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
626 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
23e10d37
DH
627 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
628
629- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
630 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
631 'file' field.
02428754 632
ecde99a3
DH
633- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
634 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
635
67674ffb
DH
636- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
637 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
638 a patch from Kevin Steves.
639
830ebc4c
DH
640- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
641 from Chris Wagner.
642
c759db75
DH
643- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
644 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
645 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
646
9aa3f3a5
DH
647- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
648 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
649 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
650 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
651 was set.
652
3d0c598a
DH
653- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
654 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
655
d5b6835f
DH
656- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
657 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
658 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
659 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
660 active ones.
661
02428754 662 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
0a73b7b6 663
901306d5 664- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
0a73b7b6
SK
665 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
666 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
667 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
668 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
669
87a08ccc
DH
670- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
671 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
672
6da113fb
DH
673 Changes since 3.0.4
674
675- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
676 scopes are actually global has been added.
677
678- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
679 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
680 known to be damaging.
681
682- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
683 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
684 balancing).
685
dcc557db
DH
686- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
687 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
688 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
689
1b2ab55f
DH
690- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
691 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
692 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
693
e48891e8
DH
694- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
695 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
696 more clear now.
697
6cbc6629
DH
698- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
699 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
700 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
701 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
702 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 703 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
6cbc6629 704
c5fec5fa
DH
705- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
706 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
707
33e1cb2b
DH
708- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
709 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
710 made possible.
711
2bddf829
DH
712- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
713 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
714 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
715
87578987
DH
716- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
717 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
718
e77c575f
DH
719- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
720 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
721 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
722
2178df03
DH
723- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
724 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
725 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
726 value with the later configured value).
727
d5341d9b
SK
728- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
729 have been named and documented.
730
731- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
732 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
733 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
734 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
735 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
736 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
737 write new output.
738
6da113fb
DH
739 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
740
741- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
742 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
743
744 Changes since 3.0.4b3
745
746- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
747 mailing list.
748
88cd8aca
DH
749 Changes since 3.0.4b2
750
45d545f0 751- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
88cd8aca
DH
752 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
753
754- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
755 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
756
757- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
758 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
759 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
760 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
761
762- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
763 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
764 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
765 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
766 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
767 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
768 transition (properly).
769
770- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
771
772 Changes since 3.0.4b1
773
774- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
775 STDIN after reading one line.
776
777- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
778 descriptor it opened twice.
779
780- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
781 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
782 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
783
784 Changes since 3.0.3
785
786- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
787 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
788 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
789
790- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
791 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
792 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
793
794- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
795 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 796 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
88cd8aca
DH
797 leases to allocate.
798
799- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 800 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
88cd8aca
DH
801 than the entire block of them.
802
3a16098f
DH
803! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
804 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
805 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
806 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
807 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
808 to a patch from infamous42md.
809
810! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
811 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
812 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
813 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
814 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
815 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
88cd8aca
DH
816
817- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
818 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
819 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
820
821- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
822 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
823
824- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
825 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
826 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
827 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
828 transitional states.
829
830- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
831 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
832 once it detects the old db does not exist.
833
834- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
835 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
836 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
837
838- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 839 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
88cd8aca
DH
840
841- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
842 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
843
844- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
845 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
846 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
847
848- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
849 patch from 'infamous42md'.
850
851- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
852 repaired.
853
854- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
855 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
856 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
857 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
858
859- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
860 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
861 data.
862
863- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
864 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
865 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
866 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
867 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
868
869- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
870 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
871 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
872 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
873 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
874
875- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
876 has been repaired.
877
878- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
879 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
880 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
881 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
882 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
883
884- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 885 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
88cd8aca 886
45d545f0 887- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
88cd8aca
DH
888 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
889 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
890 move to 3.[01].x.
891
892- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
893 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
894
c75473d8
DH
895 Changes since 3.0.3b3
896
897- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
898 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
899
900- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
901 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
902 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
903 workaround.
904
905 Changes since 3.0.3b2
906
907- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
908 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
909
910 Changes since 3.0.3b1
911
912- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
913 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
914 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
915
916- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
917 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
918 dynamic updates were also retouched.
919
98311e4b
DH
920 Changes since 3.0.2
921
922- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 923 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
98311e4b
DH
924 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
925
926- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
927 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
928 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
929 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
930 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
931
932- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
933 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
934 Jason Vas Dias at Redhat.
935
936- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
937 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
938 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
939
940- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
941 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
942 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
943 Peter Poeml.
944
945- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
946 Dr. Peter Poeml.
947
948- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
949 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
950 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
951 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
952 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
953 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
954
955- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
956 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
957 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
958 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
959
960- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
961 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
962 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
963 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
964
965- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
966 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
967
968- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
969 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
970 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
971
972- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
973 7 bytes, and failover.
974
975- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
976 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
977 at Redhat.
978
979- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
980 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
981 should work better.
982
983- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
984 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
985 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
986
987- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
988 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
989 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
990
991 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
992
993- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
994 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
995
996 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
997
45d545f0 998- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
98311e4b
DH
999 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
1000 overloading. This was repaired.
1001
1002- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
1003 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
1004 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
1005 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
1006 three chunks to fit.
1007
1008- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
1009 were repaired.
1010
1011- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
1012 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
1013 leak).
1014
1015 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
1016
1017- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
1018 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
1019
1020 Changes since 3.0.2b1
1021
1022- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
1023
1024 Changes since 3.0.1
1025
1026- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
1027 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
1028 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
1029
1030- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
1031 name was not provided by the server.
1032
1033- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
1034 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
1035
1036- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
1037 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
1038
1039- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
1040 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
1041
1042- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
1043
1044- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
1045
1046- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
1047 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
1048 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
1049 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
1050 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
1051
1052- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
1053 the configuration be globally scoped.
1054
1055- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
1056 Farkas.
1057
1058- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
1059 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1060
1061- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
1062 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
1063
1064- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
1065 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
1066
1067- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
1068 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
1069 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
1070 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
1071
1072- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
1073 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
1074 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
1075 respond to POOLREQ messages.
1076
1077- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
1078 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
1079 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
1080
1081- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
1082
1083- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
1084 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
1085 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
1086
1087- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
1088 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
1089 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
1090 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
1091 Fjone and directconnect.no.
1092
1093- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
1094 to Andreas Gustafsson.
1095
1096- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
1097 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
1098
1099- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
1100 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
1101 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
1102 DISCOVER timeout handling.
1103
1104- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
1105 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
1106
1107- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
1108 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
1109 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
1110
1111- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
1112 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
1113 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
1114 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
1115 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
1116 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
1117
1118- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
1119 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
1120 Infoblox.
1121
1122- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
1123
1124- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
1125 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
1126 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
1127 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
1128 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
1129 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
1130 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
1131
1132- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
1133 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
1134 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
1135
1136- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
1137 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
1138 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
1139
1140- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
1141
1142 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
1143
1144- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
1145 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
1146 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
1147 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
1148 systems either.
1149
1150- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
1151
1152- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
1153 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
1154 is false.
1155
1156- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
1157 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
1158
1159- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
1160
1161 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
1162
1163! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
1164 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
1165 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
1166 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
1167 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
1168 both finding and solving the problem.
1169
1170! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
45d545f0 1171 in log_*() functions was evidenced, on some specific platforms where
98311e4b
DH
1172 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
1173 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
1174 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
1175 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
1176 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
1177 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
1178 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
1179 published version of ISC DHCP.
1180
1181- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
1182
1183- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
1184
1185 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
1186
1187- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
1188 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
1189 Richard Hirst.
1190
1191- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
1192 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
1193 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
1194
1195- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
1196
1197- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
1198 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
1199 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
1200 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
1201
1202- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 1203 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
98311e4b
DH
1204
1205- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
1206 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
1207
1208- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
1209
1210 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
1211
1212- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
1213 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
1214
1215- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
1216 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
1217 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
1218
1219- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
1220 by name was fixed.
1221
45d545f0 1222- Declaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
98311e4b
DH
1223 longer result in error.
1224
1225- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
1226
1227- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
1228 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
1229 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
1230
1231- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
1232 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
1233
1234- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
1235 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
1236 Blapp.
1237
1238- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
1239 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
1240 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
1241 Martin Blapp.
1242
1243- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
1244 expiry times in failover configurations.
1245
1246- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
1247 Steve G.
1248
1249- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
1250 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
1251
1252- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
1253 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
1254 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
1255 now "unknown-144".
1256
1257- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
1258 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
1259
1260 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
1261
1262- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
1263
1264- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
1265 not be bash.
1266
1267- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1268
1269- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
1270 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
1271 that errored before will now work properly.
1272
1273- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
1274 names was repaired.
1275
1276- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
1277 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
1278 configuration file.
1279
1280- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
1281 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1282
1283- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
1284 error rather than a null dereference.
1285
1286 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
1287
1288- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
1289
1290- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
1291
1292- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
1293 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
1294
1295- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
1296
1297- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
1298
1299- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
1300 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
1301 self-corrupting lease databases.
1302
1303- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
1304
1305- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
1306 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
1307
1308- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
1309
1310- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
1311
1312- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
1313 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
1314 Ling Gou.
1315
1316- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
1317 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1318
1319- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
1320 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
1321 Ted Lemon for the patch.
1322
1323- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
1324 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
1325
1326 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
1327
1328- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
1329 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
1330
1331- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
1332
1333- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
1334 a memory leak.
1335
1336- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
1337 script.
1338
1339- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
1340
1341- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
1342
1343- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
1344
1345- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
1346
1347- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
1348
1349- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
1350
1351- Increment the hop count when relaying.
1352
1353- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
1354
1355- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
1356
1357- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
1358
1359- Change the type of rbuf_max.
1360
1361- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
1362
1363 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
1364
1365- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
1366 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
1367 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
1368
1369 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
1370
1371- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
1372 to be renewed.
1373
1374- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
1375 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
1376
1377- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
1378 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
1379
1380- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
1381 that two permit lists matched.
1382
1383- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
1384 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
1385
1386- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
1387
1388- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
1389 requested it, contrary to the standard.
1390
1391- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
1392
1393- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
1394
1395- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
1396 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
1397 going to update its A record.
1398
1399- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
1400 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
1401 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
1402 DNS server.
1403
1404- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
1405
1406- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
1407
1408- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
1409 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
1410 NetBSD project).
1411
1412- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
1413 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
1414
1415- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
1416 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
1417
1418- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
1419
1420- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
1421
1422- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
1423 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
1424 failover protocol standard.
1425
1426- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
1427 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
1428 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
1429
1430- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
1431 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
1432 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
1433 do so.
1434
1435- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
1436
1437 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
1438
1439- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
1440
1441- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
1442 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
1443
1444- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
1445 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
1446
1447- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
1448 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
1449 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
1450
1451- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
1452 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
1453 network, merge the two pools.
1454
1455- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
1456 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
1457 fix this bug.
1458
1459 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
1460
1461- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
1462 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
1463
1464- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
1465 the same case.
1466
1467- Additional documentation.
1468
1469- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
1470 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
1471
1472 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
1473
1474- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
1475- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
1476
1477 Changes since 3.0.1rc2
1478
1479- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
1480 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
1481 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
1482 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
1483 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
1484
1485 Changes since 3.0.1rc1
1486
1487- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
1488 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
1489 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
1490 wasn't the one that removed it.
1491
1492- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
1493 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
1494 were not configured.
1495
1496- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
1497
1498- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
1499 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
1500 routing information.
1501
1502- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
1503 request being sent.
1504
1505- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
1506 done.
1507
1508- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
1509 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
1510 were pending.
1511
1512- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
1513 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
1514 problems with failover.
1515
1516- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
1517 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
1518 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
1519
1520 Changes since 3.0
1521
1522- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
1523 smash in the subclass allocation code.
1524
1525- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
1526 no object is open, it dumps core.
1527
1528- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
1529
1530- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
1531
1532- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
1533
1534- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
1535 a host object attribute with a null value.
1536
1537 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
1538
1539- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
1540
1541- Fix an obscure core dump.
1542
1543- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
1544 when crucial information is left out.
1545
1546- Log "no free leases" as an error.
1547
1548- Documentation updates.
1549
1550 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
1551
1552- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
1553
1554- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
1555 structure wasn't zeroed.
1556
1557- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
1558 incorrectly.
1559
1560- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
1561 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
1562 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
1563 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
1564 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
1565 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
1566 restarted.
1567
1568 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
1569
1570- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
1571 in failover-enabled pools.
1572
1573- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
1574 declarations).
1575
1576- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
1577 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
1578
1579- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
1580 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
1581
1582- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
1583
1584- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
1585 defined but not referenced by any pools.
1586
1587- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
1588
eaf0b302
TL
1589 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 9
1590
1591- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
1592
0db87765
TL
1593 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 2
1594
1595- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
1596
1597- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
1598
1599- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
1600
d758ad8c
TL
1601 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 1
1602
1603- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
1604 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
1605 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
1606
1607- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
1608 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
1609 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
1610 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
1611 string.
1612
1613- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
1614
d758ad8c
TL
1615 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8
1616
1617- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
1618 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
1619
1620- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
1621 malformed packets.
1622
1623- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
1624
1625- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
1626 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
1627 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
1628
1629- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
1630
1631- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
1632
1633- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
1634
1635- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
1636 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
1637
1638- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
1639 tcp connections from being played back.
1640
1641- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
1642 on exit.
1643
1644- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
1645
1646- Add some configurability to the build system.
1647
1648- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
1649
1650- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
1651 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
1652 hadn't been noticed until now.
1653
1654 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
1655
1656- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
1657 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
1658
1659- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
1660 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
1661 conformant, but also didn't work).
1662
1663- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
1664 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
1665
1666- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
1667 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
1668
1669- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
1670 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
1671
1672- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
1673 variables to leases via OMAPI.
1674
1675- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
1676 doing failover.
1677
1678- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
1679 running on alpha processors.
1680
1681- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
1682 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
1683
1684- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
1685
1686- Install omshell (including new documentation).
1687
1688- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
1689 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
1690
1691- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
1692
1693- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
1694 actually named (key names are domain names).
1695
1696- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
1697
1698- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
1699 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
1700
1701- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
1702 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
1703
1704- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
1705 statements.
1706
1707- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
1708 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
1709
1710- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
1711 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
1712 operating.
1713
eaf0b302
TL
1714 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 6
1715
1716- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
1717 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
1718 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
1719 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
1720
1721- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
1722 using omapi to manipulate leases.
1723
1724- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
1725
1726
1727 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
1728
1729- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
1730 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
1731
1732- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
1733 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
1734 to the chain.
1735
1736- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
1737
1738- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
1739
1740- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
1741
98311e4b 1742- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
eaf0b302
TL
1743 attribute values in omshell.
1744
98311e4b 1745- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
eaf0b302
TL
1746
1747- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
1748
1749 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
1750
1751- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
1752 DHCPDECLINE.
1753
1754- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
1755
1756- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
1757 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
1758 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
1759
1760- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
1761
1762- Documentation fixes.
1763
1764- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
1765 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
1766
1767- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
1768 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
1769
1770- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
1771
1772- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
1773
1774- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
1775 case-insensitive.
1776
1777- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
1778
98311e4b 1779- If a signature algorithm is not terminated with '.', terminate it so
eaf0b302
TL
1780 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
1781 consistently.
1782
1783- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
1784 systems with the probe not working correctly.
1785
1786- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
1787
0596b051
TL
1788 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 3
1789
1790- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
1791 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
1792 result of duplicate leases.
1793
1794- Document OMAPI server objects.
1795
892fe689
TL
1796 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Patchlevel 1
1797
1798- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
1799 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
1800
1801- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
1802 core dumps.
1803
1804- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
1805 Friedrich.
1806
1807- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
1808
1809 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
1810
1811- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
1812 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 1813 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
892fe689
TL
1814 billing class code.
1815
1816- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
1817 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
1818
1819- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
1820 trace file.
1821
79ea3de8 1822 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1 Patchlevel 1
87784777 1823
79ea3de8
TL
1824- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
1825 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
1826 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
1827 e.g., Digital Unix.
1828
1829- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
1830 when no error had occurred.
1831
1832- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
1833 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
1834 non-communicating state.
1835
1836- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
1837
1838- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
1839 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
1840 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
1841
1842- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
1843 when the client lease expired.
1844
1845- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
1846 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
1847 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
1848 in testing.
1849
1850- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
1851 the command line, it would fail.
1852
1853- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
1854 user impact).
1855
1856- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
1857
1858- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
1859 they're executable.
1860
1861 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
87784777
TL
1862
1863- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
1864 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
1865 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
1866 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
1867
79ea3de8
TL
1868- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
1869 Transmeta.
1870
87784777
TL
1871- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
1872 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
1873 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
1874 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
1875
1876- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
1877 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
1878
6d779c72
TL
1879 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 24
1880
1881- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
1882 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
1883
1884- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
1885
1886- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
1887
1888- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
1889
1890- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
1891
1892- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
1893
1894- Update some parts of the README file.
1895
1896- Support GCC on SCO.
1897
de57e64b
TL
1898 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 23
1899
1900- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
1901 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
1902
1903- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
1904 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
1905 unbill the old class.
1906
1907- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
1908 process the state transition immediately.
1909
1910- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
1911 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
1912
1913- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
1914
1915- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
1916
1917- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
1918
1919- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
1920
1921- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
1922 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
1923 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
1924
1925- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
1926 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
1927
1928- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
1929 lease file.
1930
1931- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
1932
1933- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
2aa36519 1934
140158d3
TL
1935 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 22
1936
1937- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
1938 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
1939
1940- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
1941
3a395e60
TL
1942 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 21
1943
1944- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
1945
fc74dd0c
TL
1946 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 20
1947
1948- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
1949
1950- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
1951 pl19.
1952
1953- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
1954 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
1955 past the regression test.
1956
ed5ee591
TL
1957 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 19
1958
1959- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
1960 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
1961
1962- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
1963 DHCPREQUEST.
1964
1965- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
1966
1967- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
1968
1969- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
1970
b3fad8ac
TL
1971 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 18
1972
3350f5b7
TL
1973- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
1974 (Damien Neil)
1975
1976- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
1977 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
1978
1979- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
1980 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
1981 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
1982
1983- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
1984 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
1985 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
1986 message.
1987
1988- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
1989 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
1990 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
1991
98311e4b 1992- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
3350f5b7
TL
1993 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
1994 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
1995 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
1996 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
1997 this way will work.
1998
b3fad8ac
TL
1999- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
2000
2001- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
2002 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
2003 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
2004 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
2005
2006 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
2007
2008 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
2009
2010- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
2011 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
2012 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
2013
2014- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
2015 Hermann Lauer.
2016
2017- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
2018 messages.
2019
3350f5b7
TL
2020- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
2021 it contained quoted strings.
2022
b3fad8ac
TL
2023 ** there was no pl17 **
2024
e6d30fd6
TL
2025 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 16
2026
6da9db9d
TL
2027- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
2028 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
2029 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
2030 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
2031 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
2032 tracking down memory leaks.
2033
2034- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
2035 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
2036 Solaris.
2037
2038- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
2039 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
2040 corruption and core dumps.
2041
2042- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
2043 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
2044
2045- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
2046
2047- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
2048 and implemented by Damien Neil.
2049
2050- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
2051 name and version to standard output.
2052
2053- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
2054
e6d30fd6
TL
2055- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
2056 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
2057
6da9db9d
TL
2058- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
2059
2060- Lots of documentation updates.
2061
2062- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
2063 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
2064
2065- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
2066
2067- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
2068 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
2069
2070
af49fdff
TL
2071 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 15
2072
2073- Some documentation tweaks.
2074
2075- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
2076
2077- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
2078
2079- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
2080 agent options into them.
2081
2082- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
2083
c5b569f8
TL
2084- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
2085 options.
2086
754ae3e9
TL
2087 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 14
2088
2089- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
2090 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
2091 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
2092 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
2093 used in class statements to control address allocation.
2094
2095- Fix up documentation.
2096
2097- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
2098 significantly in a high-demand situation.
2099
2100- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
2101
2102- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
2103
2104- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
2105 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
2106 practical use otherwise.
2107
2108- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
2109 for debugging.
2110
2f2e7960
TL
2111 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 13
2112
2113- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
2114 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
2115 dump on some systems.
2116
2117- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
2118 option.
2119
2120- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
2121 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
2122
2123- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
2124 that were not printing enough information.
2125
2126- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
2127 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
2128
2129- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
2130 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
2131 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
2132 were answering.
2133
2134- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
2135 the transition.
2136
2137
66e98927
TL
2138 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 12
2139
2140- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
2141
a1e2e3d6
TL
2142 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
2143
2144- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
2145 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
2146 representation from working correctly.
2147
2148- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
2149 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
2150 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
2151 could spin.
2152
2153- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
2154 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
2155
2156- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
2157 interface name on the command line.
2158
2159- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
2160 client state.
2161
2162- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
2163 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
2164 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
2165 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
2166 added by Ted Lemon.
2167
2168- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
2169 be made to log debugging information and other information.
2170
2171- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
2172 end option.
2173
2174- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
2175 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
2176 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
2177
2178- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
2179 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
2180 face of a null hardware address on input.
2181
2182- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
2183 specified unqualified.
2184
2185- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
2186 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
2187
2188- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
2189 RFC.
2190
2191- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
2192
2193- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
2194
2195- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
2196 it works.
2197
6c68ec36
TL
2198 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
2199
2200- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
2201 to CVS.
2202
9fd337e7
TL
2203 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
2204
2205- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
2206
2207- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
2208 in patchlevel 9.
2209
2210- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
2211 options at renewal time.
2212
2213- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
2214 configuration language.
2215
2216- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
2217
2218- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
2219 done when no client hostname was received.
2220
2221- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
2222
2223- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
2224 the DHCP option space.
2225
2226- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
2227
2228- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
2229 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
2230
2231- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
2232 silently dropped.
2233
2234- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
2235 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
2236
2237- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
2238 will be correctly updated.
2239
3922772a
TL
2240 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
2241
2242- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
2243 bounds-checking.
2244
2245 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
848c2547
TL
2246
2247- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
2248
3922772a 2249 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 6
0f6045f8 2250
f8572308
TL
2251- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
2252 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
2253 possible to exploit it any further than that.
2254
2255- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
2256 option.
2257
2258- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
2259 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
2260 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
2261 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
2262 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
2263 meaningfully.
2264
2265- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
2266 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
2267 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
2268
2269- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
2270 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
2271 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
2272 this one down!
2273
2274- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
2275 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
2276 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
2277 down and fixing this problem.
2278
2279 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
2280
0f6045f8
TL
2281- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
2282 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
2283
2284- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
2285 environment.
2286
2287- Fix suffix operator.
2288
2289- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
2290
2291- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
2292 connection code.
2293
2294- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
2295
2296- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
2297
2298- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
2299 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
2300
2301- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
2302
2303- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
2304
2305- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
2306 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
2307
2308- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
2309 spawn with.
2310
2311- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
2312 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
2313
2314- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
2315 for OMAPI.
2316
2317- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
2318 can install in host declarations.
2319
801de092
TL
2320 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
2321
2322- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
2323 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
2324 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
2325 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
2326 comments)!
2327
2328- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
2329
6ed7a93d
TL
2330- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
2331 request for help on this with patches!
2332
2333- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
2334 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
2335 lost, they never reconnect.
2336
2337- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
2338 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
2339
2340- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
2341 dump.
2342
2343- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
2344 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
2345 catching this one.
2346
490eb5e7
TL
2347 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
2348
2349- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 2350 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
490eb5e7
TL
2351 lease renewal time.
2352
2353- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
2354 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
2355 declared without a key.
2356
2357- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
2358
2359- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
2360 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
2361
2362- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
2363 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
2364 determine the maximum size of the response.
2365
592d8153
TL
2366 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
2367
359b023e
TL
2368- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
2369 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
2370
592d8153
TL
2371- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
2372 RENEWING client.
2373
2374- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
2375
2376- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
2377 using memcmp().
2378
2aa36519
TL
2379 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
2380
2381- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
2382 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
2383 pointing this out.
2384
2385- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
2386 exit.
2387
2388- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
2389
2390- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
2391 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.