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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
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2 Version 4.2.0
3 21 December 2012
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0171be2d 5 Release Notes
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0171be2d 7 NEW FEATURES
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9ISC DHCP 4.2.x includes features that were not included in DHCP 4.1.x.
10These include:
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12There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
13release, which will be addressed in the future:
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01a54c17 15- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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17- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages, in
18 English. A method to reconfigure or support other languages would
19 be preferrable.
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21- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
22
98bd7ca0 23- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 24 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 25 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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27For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as
28well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the
29README file.
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31ISC DHCP uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please review the
32output of "./configure --help" to see what options are available.
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34The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and may not
35work on other platforms. Please report any problems and suggested fixes to
36<dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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39 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
40
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41- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
42 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 43 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
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45- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
46 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
47 Cantrell at Red Hat.
48
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49- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
50 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
51
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52- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
53
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54- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
55 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
56 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
57 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
58 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
59 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
60
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61- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
62 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
63 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
64 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
65 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
66 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
67 FQDN options by default).
68
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69- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
70 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
71 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
72 determined lease time) are omitted.
73
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74 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
75
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76- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
77
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78- Validate the argument to the -p option.
79
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80- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
81 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
82 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
83 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
84 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
85
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86- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
87
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88- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
89 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
90 had been deleted from configuration.
91
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92- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
93 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
94 AC_USE_SYSTME_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
95 were being ignored.
96
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97- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
98
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99- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
100 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
101 Nordahl.
102
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103- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
104 dhcpv6 disabled.
105
8d7dca58 106- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 107 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
819186b7 108
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109- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
110 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
111
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112- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
113 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
114 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
115
116- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
117 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
118 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
119 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
120 fewer system calls.
121
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122- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
123 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
124 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
125 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
126 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
127 Christof Chen.
128
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129- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
130 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
131 and in normal state.
132
133- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
134 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
135
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136- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
137
138- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
139 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
140 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
141
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142- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
143 rather than restarting the listener.
144
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145- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
146 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
147
148- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
149 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
150 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
151
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152- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
153 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
154 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
155 timeouts).
156
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157- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
158 in failover state records.
159
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160! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
161 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
162 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 163 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
8a4e543b 164
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165- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
166 processing a DHCPINFORM.
167
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168- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
169 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
170 last option definition is used.
171
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172- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
173 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
174 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
175
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176- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
177 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
178
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179- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
180 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
181 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
182 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
183 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
184 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
185
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186- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
187 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
188 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
189 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
190
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191! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
192 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
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194- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
195 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
196
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197- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
198 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
199 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
200 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
201 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
202 over-riding vlaues were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
203 configuration.
204
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205- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
206 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
207
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208- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
209 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
210 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
211 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
212
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215- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
216 be recognized.
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218 Changes since 4.1.0a2
219
220- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
221 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
222 "abandoned".
223
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224- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
225
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226- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
227 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
228
229- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
230 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
231
232- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 233 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
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235- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
236
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237- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
238 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
239 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
240 in future releases.
241
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242- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
243 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
244
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245- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
246 'dhclient -6' support.
247
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248- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
249 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
250 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
251 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
252
7d6180be 253 Changes since 4.1.0a1
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254
255- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
256
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257- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
258
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259- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
260 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
261 only the latter. Fixed.
262
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263- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
264
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265- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
266 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
267
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268- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
269
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270- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
271
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272- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
273 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
274 --enable-early-chroot.
275
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276- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
277 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
278
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279- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
280 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
281 parameter.
282
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283- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
284 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
285
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286- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
287 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
288
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289- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
290
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291- Merged IA_XX related structures.
292
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293- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
294
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295- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
296
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297- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
298 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
299 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
300
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301- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
302 support.
303
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304- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
305 repaired.
306
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307- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
308
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309- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
310
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311- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
312 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
313
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314- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
315 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
316
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317- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
318 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
319
320- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
321 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
322 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
323 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
324 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
325 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
326 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
327 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
328 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
329 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
330 shared-network.
331
332- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
333 configured option values.
334
335- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
336 support class statements.
337
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338- Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
339 selection were repaired.
340
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341- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
342 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
343 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
344 by the OS.
345
346- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
347 address.
348
349- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
350 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
351
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352- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
353
354- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
355
356- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
357 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
358
01a54c17 359 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
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361- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
362
4cafb815 363- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 364 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
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366- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
367 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
368 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
369
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370- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
371 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
372
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373- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
374
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375- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
376 reserved IDs avoided).
377
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378- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
379
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380- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
381 carries a rapid-commit option.
382
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383- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
384 an empty active lease.
385
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386- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
387
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388- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
389 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
390 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
391 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
392
393- MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
394
395- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
396 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
397 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
398 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
399 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
400 Christof Chen.
401
402 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
403
404- DHCP now builds on AIX.
405
406- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
407 config file but -6 is not specified.
408
409- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
410
411- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
412 be more helpful.
413
414- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
415 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
416 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
417
418- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
419 was repaired.
420
421- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
422 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
423 been repaired.
424
425- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
426 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
427 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
428
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429- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
430 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
431
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432- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
433 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
434 IPv4 address.
435
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436- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
437 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
438 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
439 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
440 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
441
442- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
443 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
444 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
445
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446- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
447
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448- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
449
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450- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
451 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
452 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
453 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
454 unnecessary logging.
455
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456- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
457 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
458
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459- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
460 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
461 is incompatible is printed.
462
463- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
464 a previously undefined option code.
465
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466- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
467 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
468
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469- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
470 than the year 2000.
471
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472- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
473
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474- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
475
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476- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
477
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478 Changes since 4.0.0b3
479
480- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
481 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
482 configuration.
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484- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
485 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
486
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487- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
488 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
489 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
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491- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
492 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
493 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
494 a requested address.
495
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496- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
497 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
498 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
499 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
500
501- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
502 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
503 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
504 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
505
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506- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
507 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
508 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
509
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510- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
511 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
512
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513- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
514
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515- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
516 codes through some conditions.
517
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518- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
519 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
520
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521- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
522 seemingly random values.
523
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524- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
525
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526- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
527 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
528 one ever has.
529
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530- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
531 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
532 to a REQUEST.
533
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534- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
535 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
536 level.
537
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538 Changes since 4.0.0b2
539
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540- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
541
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542- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
543 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
544 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
545 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
546 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
547
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548- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
549 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
550 new address.
551
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552 Changes since 4.0.0b1
553
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554- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
555 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
556 simultaneously on a single interface.
557
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558- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
559 of service under unusual server configurations
560
561- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
562
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563- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
564 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
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566- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
567 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
568 on every pool rebalance run.
569
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570- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
571 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
572
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573- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
574 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
575
ab3a540f 576 Changes since 4.0.0a3
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578- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
579 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
580
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581- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
582 point out the problem.
583
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584- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
585 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
586 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
587
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588- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
589 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
590
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591- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
592 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
593 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
594
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595- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
596
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597- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
598 fixed by Marcus Goller.
599
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600- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
601 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
602 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
603 regardless of the existence of bindings.
604
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605- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
606
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607- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
608 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
609 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
610 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
611 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
612
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613- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
614
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615 Changes since 4.0.0a2
616
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617- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
618 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
619
763cba6b 620- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
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622- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
623 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
624 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
625
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626- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
627
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628- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
629 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
630
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631- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
632 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
633 loaded from persistent storage.
634
45d545f0 635- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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636 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
637 necessary.
638
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639- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
640 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
641 rapid-commit option.
642
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643- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
644 non-128-bits in length were removed.
645
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646 Changes since 4.0.0a1
647
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648- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
649 and fix.
650
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651- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
652
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653- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
654
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655- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
656 for when loading configuration.
657
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658- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
659 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
660 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
661
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662- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
663 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
664 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
665 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
666
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667- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
668
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669- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
670 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
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672- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
673
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674- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
675
676- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
677 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
678
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679- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
680 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
681
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682- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
683
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684- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
685 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
686
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687 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
688
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689- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
690
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691- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
692 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
693
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694- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
695
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696- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
697 initialized.
698
699- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
700
701- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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702 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
703
704- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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706- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
707
708- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
709 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
710
711- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
712
8ea19a71 713- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 714 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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715
716- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
717 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
718
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719- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
720
721- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
722
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723- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
724
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725 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
726
727- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
728 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
729 no support currently for both.
730
731- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
732 IAADDR option.
733
734- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
735 options.
736
737- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
738
739- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
740 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
741
742- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
743 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
744 specifying type 1 or type 2).
745
746- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
747 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
748
749- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
750 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
751 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
752 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
753 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
754 differently, they both use the same code here).
755
756- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
757 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
758 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
759
760- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
761
762- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
763 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
764 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
765 it should not intercept.
766
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767 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
768
769- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
770 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
771 between primary and secondary.
772
773- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
774 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
775 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
776
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777- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
778
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779- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
780 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
781 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
782 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
783 or REQUEST messages.
784
785- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
786 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
787
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788- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
789
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790 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
791
792- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
793 failover protected subnets was removed.
794
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795 Changes since 3.1.0b2
796
797- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
798 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
799 odd number of leases).
800
801- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
802 rebalance run, and one after.
803
804- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
805 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
806 processing these messages.
807
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810- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
811 objects.
812
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813- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
814 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
815 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
816 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
817 at Allianz.
818
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819- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
820 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
821
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822- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
823 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
824
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825- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
826 caused the server to abort.
827
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828- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
829 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
830 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
831
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832- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
833 by empty spaces would not get included.
834
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835- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
836 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
837
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838- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
839 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
840
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841- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
842 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
843
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844- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
845 on the parameter request list.
846
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847 Changes since 3.1.0a3
848
849- Some spelling fixes.
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851 Changes since 3.1.0a2
852
853- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
854 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
855
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856- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
857 domain-search option syntax.
858
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859 Changes since 3.1.0a1
860
861- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
862 hash table was repaired.
863
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864- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
865 entering normal state.
866
867- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
868 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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869 'xid mismatch' log messages.
870
871- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
872 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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874- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
875 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
876 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
877 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
878
45d545f0 879- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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880 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
881 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
882 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
883 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
884 to their needs.
885
886- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
887 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
888 run will attempt balance.
889
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890- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
891
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892 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
893
894- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
895 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
896 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
897 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
898
98bd7ca0 899- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 900 was introduced.
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901
902- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
903 via OMAPI.
904
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905- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
906 the protocol draft.
907
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908- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
909 one does not already exist on the system.
910
b43c87ad 911- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 912
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913- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
914 matches RFC 3074.
915
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916- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
917 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 918 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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920- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
921 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 922 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 923
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924- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
925 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
926 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
927 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
928
929- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
930 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
931 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
932 priority over the client's parameter request list.
933
f7fdb216 934- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 935 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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936 DHCPv6 support.
937
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938- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
939 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
940 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
941
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942- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
943 have been incorporated.
944
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945- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
946 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
947 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
948 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
949 that belong to the peer in need.
950
951- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
952 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
953
954- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
955 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
956 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
957
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958- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
959 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
960
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961- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
962 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
963 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
964 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
965 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
966
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967- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
968 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
969 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
970 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
971
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972- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
973 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
974 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
975 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
976 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
977 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
978 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
979 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
980 ignoring this aspect of their request.
981
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982- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
983 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
984
41e45067 985- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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986 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
987 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
988 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
989
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990- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
991 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
992 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
993 hardware and funding the development.
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995- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
996 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
997 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
998 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
999 via Robin Breathe.
1000
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1001- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
1002 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
1003 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
1004 from Christof Chen.
1005
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1006- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
1007 formally supported.
1008
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1009 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
1010
1011- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
1012 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
1013
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1014 Changes since 3.0.5
1015
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1016- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
1017 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
1018 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 1019 they actually received.
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1020
1021- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
1022
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1023- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
1024 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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1025 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
1026 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
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1028- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
1029
d69fb6a8 1030- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 1031 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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1033- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
1034 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
1035 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
1036 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
1037 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
1038 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
1039 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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1040 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
1041
1042- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
1043 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
1044 'file' field.
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1046- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
1047 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
1048
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1049- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
1050 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
1051 a patch from Kevin Steves.
1052
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1053- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
1054 from Chris Wagner.
1055
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1056- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
1057 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
1058 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
1059
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1060- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
1061 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
1062 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
1063 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
1064 was set.
1065
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1066- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
1067 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
1068
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1069- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
1070 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
1071 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
1072 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
1073 active ones.
1074
02428754 1075 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
0a73b7b6 1076
901306d5 1077- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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1078 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
1079 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
1080 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
1081 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
1082
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1083- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
1084 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
1085
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1086 Changes since 3.0.4
1087
1088- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
1089 scopes are actually global has been added.
1090
1091- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
1092 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
1093 known to be damaging.
1094
1095- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
1096 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
1097 balancing).
1098
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1099- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
1100 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
1101 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
1102
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1103- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
1104 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
1105 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
1106
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1107- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
1108 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
1109 more clear now.
1110
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1111- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
1112 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
1113 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
1114 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
1115 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 1116 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
6cbc6629 1117
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1118- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
1119 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
1120
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1121- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
1122 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
1123 made possible.
1124
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1125- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
1126 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
1127 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
1128
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1129- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
1130 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
1131
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1132- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
1133 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
1134 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
1135
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1136- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
1137 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
1138 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
1139 value with the later configured value).
1140
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1141- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
1142 have been named and documented.
1143
1144- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
1145 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
1146 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
1147 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
1148 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
1149 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
1150 write new output.
1151
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1152 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
1153
1154- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
1155 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
1156
1157 Changes since 3.0.4b3
1158
1159- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
1160 mailing list.
1161
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1162 Changes since 3.0.4b2
1163
45d545f0 1164- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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1165 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
1166
1167- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
1168 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
1169
1170- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
1171 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
1172 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
1173 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
1174
1175- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
1176 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
1177 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
1178 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
1179 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
1180 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
1181 transition (properly).
1182
1183- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
1184
1185 Changes since 3.0.4b1
1186
1187- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
1188 STDIN after reading one line.
1189
1190- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
1191 descriptor it opened twice.
1192
1193- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
1194 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
1195 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
1196
1197 Changes since 3.0.3
1198
1199- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
1200 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
1201 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
1202
1203- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
1204 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
1205 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
1206
1207- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
1208 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 1209 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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1210 leases to allocate.
1211
1212- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 1213 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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1214 than the entire block of them.
1215
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1216! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
1217 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
1218 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
1219 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
1220 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
1221 to a patch from infamous42md.
1222
1223! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
1224 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
1225 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
1226 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
1227 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
1228 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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1229
1230- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
1231 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
1232 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
1233
1234- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 1235 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1236
1237- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
1238 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
1239 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
1240 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
1241 transitional states.
1242
1243- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
1244 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
1245 once it detects the old db does not exist.
1246
1247- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
1248 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
1249 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
1250
1251- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 1252 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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1253
1254- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
1255 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
1256
1257- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
1258 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
1259 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
1260
1261- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
1262 patch from 'infamous42md'.
1263
1264- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
1265 repaired.
1266
1267- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
1268 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
1269 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
1270 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
1271
1272- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
1273 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
1274 data.
1275
1276- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
1277 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
1278 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
1279 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
1280 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
1281
1282- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
1283 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
1284 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
1285 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
1286 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
1287
1288- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
1289 has been repaired.
1290
1291- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
1292 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
1293 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
1294 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 1295 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1296
1297- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 1298 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
88cd8aca 1299
45d545f0 1300- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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1301 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
1302 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
1303 move to 3.[01].x.
1304
1305- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
1306 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
1307
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1308 Changes since 3.0.3b3
1309
1310- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
1311 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
1312
1313- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
1314 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
1315 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
1316 workaround.
1317
1318 Changes since 3.0.3b2
1319
1320- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
1321 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
1322
1323 Changes since 3.0.3b1
1324
1325- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
1326 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
1327 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
1328
1329- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
1330 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
1331 dynamic updates were also retouched.
1332
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1333 Changes since 3.0.2
1334
1335- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
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1337 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
1338
1339- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
1340 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
1341 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
1342 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
1343 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
1344
1345- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
1346 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 1347 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1348
1349- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
1350 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 1351 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1352
1353- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
1354 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
1355 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
1356 Peter Poeml.
1357
1358- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
1359 Dr. Peter Poeml.
1360
1361- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
1362 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
1363 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
1364 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
1365 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
1366 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
1367
1368- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
1369 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
1370 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
1371 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
1372
1373- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
1374 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
1375 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
1376 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
1377
1378- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
1379 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
1380
1381- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
1382 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
1383 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
1384
1385- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
1386 7 bytes, and failover.
1387
1388- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
1389 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 1390 at Red Hat.
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1391
1392- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
1393 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
1394 should work better.
1395
1396- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
1397 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
1398 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
1399
1400- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
1401 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
1402 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
1403
1404 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
1405
1406- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
1407 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
1408
1409 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
1410
45d545f0 1411- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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1412 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
1413 overloading. This was repaired.
1414
1415- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
1416 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
1417 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
1418 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
1419 three chunks to fit.
1420
1421- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
1422 were repaired.
1423
1424- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
1425 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
1426 leak).
1427
1428 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
1429
1430- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
1431 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
1432
1433 Changes since 3.0.2b1
1434
1435- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
1436
1437 Changes since 3.0.1
1438
1439- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
1440 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
1441 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
1442
1443- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
1444 name was not provided by the server.
1445
1446- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
1447 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
1448
1449- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
1450 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
1451
1452- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
1453 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
1454
1455- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
1456
1457- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
1458
1459- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
1460 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
1461 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
1462 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
1463 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
1464
1465- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
1466 the configuration be globally scoped.
1467
1468- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
1469 Farkas.
1470
1471- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
1472 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1473
1474- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
1475 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
1476
1477- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
1478 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
1479
1480- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
1481 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
1482 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
1483 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
1484
1485- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
1486 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
1487 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
1488 respond to POOLREQ messages.
1489
1490- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
1491 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
1492 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
1493
1494- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
1495
1496- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
1497 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
1498 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
1499
1500- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
1501 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
1502 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
1503 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
1504 Fjone and directconnect.no.
1505
1506- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
1507 to Andreas Gustafsson.
1508
1509- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
1510 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
1511
1512- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
1513 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
1514 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
1515 DISCOVER timeout handling.
1516
1517- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
1518 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
1519
1520- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
1521 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
1522 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
1523
1524- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
1525 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
1526 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
1527 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
1528 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
1529 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
1530
1531- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
1532 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
1533 Infoblox.
1534
1535- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
1536
1537- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
1538 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
1539 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
1540 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
1541 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
1542 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
1543 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
1544
1545- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
1546 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
1547 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
1548
1549- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
1550 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
1551 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
1552
1553- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
1554
1555 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
1556
1557- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
1558 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
1559 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
1560 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
1561 systems either.
1562
1563- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
1564
1565- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
1566 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
1567 is false.
1568
1569- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
1570 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
1571
1572- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
1573
1574 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
1575
1576! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
1577 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
1578 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
1579 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
1580 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
1581 both finding and solving the problem.
1582
1583! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
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1585 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
1586 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
1587 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
1588 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
1589 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
1590 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
1591 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
1592 published version of ISC DHCP.
1593
1594- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
1595
1596- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
1597
1598 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
1599
1600- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
1601 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
1602 Richard Hirst.
1603
1604- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
1605 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
1606 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
1607
1608- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
1609
1610- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
1611 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
1612 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
1613 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
1614
1615- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 1616 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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1617
1618- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
1619 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
1620
1621- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
1622
1623 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
1624
1625- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
1626 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
1627
1628- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
1629 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
1630 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
1631
1632- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
1633 by name was fixed.
1634
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1636 longer result in error.
1637
1638- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
1639
1640- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
1641 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
1642 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
1643
1644- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
1645 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
1646
1647- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
1648 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
1649 Blapp.
1650
1651- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
1652 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
1653 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
1654 Martin Blapp.
1655
1656- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
1657 expiry times in failover configurations.
1658
1659- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
1660 Steve G.
1661
1662- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
1663 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
1664
1665- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
1666 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
1667 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
1668 now "unknown-144".
1669
1670- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
1671 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
1672
1673 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
1674
1675- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
1676
1677- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
1678 not be bash.
1679
1680- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1681
1682- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
1683 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
1684 that errored before will now work properly.
1685
1686- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
1687 names was repaired.
1688
1689- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
1690 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
1691 configuration file.
1692
1693- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
1694 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1695
1696- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
1697 error rather than a null dereference.
1698
1699 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
1700
1701- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
1702
1703- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
1704
1705- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
1706 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
1707
1708- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
1709
1710- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
1711
1712- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
1713 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
1714 self-corrupting lease databases.
1715
1716- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
1717
1718- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
1719 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
1720
1721- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
1722
1723- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
1724
1725- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
1726 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
1727 Ling Gou.
1728
1729- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
1730 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1731
1732- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
1733 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
1734 Ted Lemon for the patch.
1735
1736- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
1737 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
1738
1739 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
1740
1741- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
1742 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
1743
1744- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
1745
1746- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
1747 a memory leak.
1748
1749- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
1750 script.
1751
1752- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
1753
1754- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
1755
1756- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
1757
1758- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
1759
1760- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
1761
1762- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
1763
1764- Increment the hop count when relaying.
1765
1766- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
1767
1768- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
1769
1770- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
1771
1772- Change the type of rbuf_max.
1773
1774- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
1775
1776 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
1777
1778- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
1779 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
1780 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
1781
1782 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
1783
1784- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
1785 to be renewed.
1786
1787- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
1788 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
1789
1790- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
1791 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
1792
1793- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
1794 that two permit lists matched.
1795
1796- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
1797 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
1798
1799- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
1800
1801- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
1802 requested it, contrary to the standard.
1803
1804- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
1805
1806- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
1807
1808- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
1809 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
1810 going to update its A record.
1811
1812- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
1813 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
1814 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
1815 DNS server.
1816
1817- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
1818
1819- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
1820
1821- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
1822 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
1823 NetBSD project).
1824
1825- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
1826 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
1827
1828- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
1829 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
1830
1831- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
1832
1833- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
1834
1835- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
1836 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
1837 failover protocol standard.
1838
1839- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
1840 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
1841 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
1842
1843- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
1844 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
1845 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
1846 do so.
1847
1848- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
1849
1850 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
1851
1852- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
1853
1854- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
1855 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
1856
1857- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
1858 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
1859
1860- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
1861 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
1862 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
1863
1864- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
1865 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
1866 network, merge the two pools.
1867
1868- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
1869 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
1870 fix this bug.
1871
1872 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
1873
1874- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
1875 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
1876
1877- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
1878 the same case.
1879
1880- Additional documentation.
1881
1882- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
1883 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
1884
1885 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
1886
1887- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
1888- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
1889
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1891
1892- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
1893 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
1894 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
1895 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
1896 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
1897
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1899
1900- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
1901 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
1902 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
1903 wasn't the one that removed it.
1904
1905- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
1906 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
1907 were not configured.
1908
1909- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
1910
1911- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
1912 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
1913 routing information.
1914
1915- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
1916 request being sent.
1917
1918- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
1919 done.
1920
1921- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
1922 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
1923 were pending.
1924
1925- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
1926 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
1927 problems with failover.
1928
1929- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
1930 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
1931 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
1932
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1934
1935- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
1936 smash in the subclass allocation code.
1937
1938- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
1939 no object is open, it dumps core.
1940
1941- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
1942
1943- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
1944
1945- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
1946
1947- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
1948 a host object attribute with a null value.
1949
1950 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
1951
1952- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
1953
1954- Fix an obscure core dump.
1955
1956- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
1957 when crucial information is left out.
1958
1959- Log "no free leases" as an error.
1960
1961- Documentation updates.
1962
1963 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
1964
1965- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
1966
1967- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
1968 structure wasn't zeroed.
1969
1970- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
1971 incorrectly.
1972
1973- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
1974 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
1975 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
1976 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
1977 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
1978 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
1979 restarted.
1980
1981 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
1982
1983- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
1984 in failover-enabled pools.
1985
1986- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
1987 declarations).
1988
1989- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
1990 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
1991
1992- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
1993 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
1994
1995- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
1996
1997- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
1998 defined but not referenced by any pools.
1999
2000- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
2001
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2003
2004- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
2005
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2006 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 2
2007
2008- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
2009
2010- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
2011
2012- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
2013
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2014 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 1
2015
2016- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
2017 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
2018 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
2019
2020- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
2021 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
2022 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
2023 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
2024 string.
2025
2026- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
2027
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2029
2030- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
2031 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
2032
2033- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
2034 malformed packets.
2035
2036- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
2037
2038- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
2039 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
2040 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
2041
2042- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
2043
2044- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
2045
2046- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
2047
2048- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
2049 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
2050
2051- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
2052 tcp connections from being played back.
2053
2054- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
2055 on exit.
2056
2057- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
2058
2059- Add some configurability to the build system.
2060
2061- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
2062
2063- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
2064 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
2065 hadn't been noticed until now.
2066
2067 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
2068
2069- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
2070 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
2071
2072- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
2073 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
2074 conformant, but also didn't work).
2075
2076- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
2077 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
2078
2079- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
2080 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
2081
2082- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
2083 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
2084
2085- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
2086 variables to leases via OMAPI.
2087
2088- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
2089 doing failover.
2090
2091- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
2092 running on alpha processors.
2093
2094- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
2095 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
2096
2097- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
2098
2099- Install omshell (including new documentation).
2100
2101- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
2102 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
2103
2104- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
2105
2106- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
2107 actually named (key names are domain names).
2108
2109- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
2110
2111- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
2112 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
2113
2114- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
2115 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
2116
2117- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
2118 statements.
2119
2120- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
2121 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
2122
2123- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
2124 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
2125 operating.
2126
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2128
2129- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
2130 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
2131 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
2132 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
2133
2134- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
2135 using omapi to manipulate leases.
2136
2137- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
2138
2139
2140 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
2141
2142- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
2143 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
2144
2145- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
2146 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
2147 to the chain.
2148
2149- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
2150
2151- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
2152
2153- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
2154
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2156 attribute values in omshell.
2157
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2160- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
2161
2162 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
2163
2164- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
2165 DHCPDECLINE.
2166
2167- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
2168
2169- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
2170 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
2171 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
2172
2173- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
2174
2175- Documentation fixes.
2176
2177- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
2178 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
2179
2180- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
2181 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
2182
2183- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
2184
2185- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
2186
2187- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
2188 case-insensitive.
2189
2190- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
2191
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2194 consistently.
2195
2196- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
2197 systems with the probe not working correctly.
2198
2199- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
2200
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2202
2203- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
2204 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
2205 result of duplicate leases.
2206
2207- Document OMAPI server objects.
2208
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2210
2211- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
2212 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
2213
2214- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
2215 core dumps.
2216
2217- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
2218 Friedrich.
2219
2220- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
2221
2222 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
2223
2224- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
2225 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
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2228
2229- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
2230 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
2231
2232- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
2233 trace file.
2234
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2237- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
2238 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
2239 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
2240 e.g., Digital Unix.
2241
2242- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
2243 when no error had occurred.
2244
2245- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
2246 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
2247 non-communicating state.
2248
2249- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
2250
2251- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
2252 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
2253 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
2254
2255- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
2256 when the client lease expired.
2257
2258- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
2259 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
2260 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
2261 in testing.
2262
2263- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
2264 the command line, it would fail.
2265
2266- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
2267 user impact).
2268
2269- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
2270
2271- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
2272 they're executable.
2273
2274 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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2276- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
2277 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
2278 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
2279 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
2280
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2281- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
2282 Transmeta.
2283
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2284- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
2285 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
2286 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
2287 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
2288
2289- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
2290 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
2291
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2293
2294- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
2295 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
2296
2297- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
2298
2299- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
2300
2301- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
2302
2303- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
2304
2305- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
2306
2307- Update some parts of the README file.
2308
2309- Support GCC on SCO.
2310
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2313- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
2314 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
2315
2316- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
2317 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
2318 unbill the old class.
2319
2320- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
2321 process the state transition immediately.
2322
2323- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
2324 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
2325
2326- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
2327
2328- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
2329
2330- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
2331
2332- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
2333
2334- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
2335 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
2336 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
2337
2338- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
2339 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
2340
2341- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
2342 lease file.
2343
2344- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
2345
2346- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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2349
2350- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
2351 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
2352
2353- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
2354
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2356
2357- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
2358
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2360
2361- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
2362
2363- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
2364 pl19.
2365
2366- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
2367 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
2368 past the regression test.
2369
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2371
2372- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
2373 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
2374
2375- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
2376 DHCPREQUEST.
2377
2378- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
2379
2380- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
2381
2382- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
2383
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2386- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
2387 (Damien Neil)
2388
2389- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
2390 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
2391
2392- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
2393 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
2394 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
2395
2396- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
2397 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
2398 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
2399 message.
2400
2401- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
2402 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
2403 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
2404
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2406 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
2407 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
2408 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
2409 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
2410 this way will work.
2411
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2412- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
2413
2414- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
2415 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
2416 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
2417 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
2418
2419 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
2420
2421 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
2422
2423- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
2424 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
2425 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
2426
2427- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
2428 Hermann Lauer.
2429
2430- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
2431 messages.
2432
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2433- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
2434 it contained quoted strings.
2435
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2436 ** there was no pl17 **
2437
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2440- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
2441 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
2442 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
2443 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
2444 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
2445 tracking down memory leaks.
2446
2447- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
2448 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
2449 Solaris.
2450
2451- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
2452 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
2453 corruption and core dumps.
2454
2455- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
2456 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
2457
2458- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
2459
2460- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
2461 and implemented by Damien Neil.
2462
2463- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
2464 name and version to standard output.
2465
2466- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
2467
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2468- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
2469 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
2470
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2471- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
2472
2473- Lots of documentation updates.
2474
2475- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
2476 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
2477
2478- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
2479
2480- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
2481 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
2482
2483
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2485
2486- Some documentation tweaks.
2487
2488- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
2489
2490- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
2491
2492- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
2493 agent options into them.
2494
2495- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
2496
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2497- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
2498 options.
2499
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2501
2502- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
2503 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
2504 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
2505 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
2506 used in class statements to control address allocation.
2507
2508- Fix up documentation.
2509
2510- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
2511 significantly in a high-demand situation.
2512
2513- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
2514
2515- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
2516
2517- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
2518 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
2519 practical use otherwise.
2520
2521- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
2522 for debugging.
2523
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2525
2526- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
2527 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
2528 dump on some systems.
2529
2530- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
2531 option.
2532
2533- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
2534 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
2535
2536- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
2537 that were not printing enough information.
2538
2539- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
2540 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
2541
2542- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
2543 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
2544 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
2545 were answering.
2546
2547- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
2548 the transition.
2549
2550
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2552
2553- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
2554
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2555 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
2556
2557- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
2558 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
2559 representation from working correctly.
2560
2561- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
2562 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
2563 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
2564 could spin.
2565
2566- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
2567 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
2568
2569- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
2570 interface name on the command line.
2571
2572- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
2573 client state.
2574
2575- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
2576 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
2577 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
2578 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
2579 added by Ted Lemon.
2580
2581- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
2582 be made to log debugging information and other information.
2583
2584- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
2585 end option.
2586
2587- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
2588 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
2589 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
2590
2591- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
2592 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
2593 face of a null hardware address on input.
2594
2595- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
2596 specified unqualified.
2597
2598- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
2599 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
2600
2601- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
2602 RFC.
2603
2604- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
2605
2606- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
2607
2608- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
2609 it works.
2610
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2611 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
2612
2613- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
2614 to CVS.
2615
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2616 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
2617
2618- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
2619
2620- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
2621 in patchlevel 9.
2622
2623- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
2624 options at renewal time.
2625
2626- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
2627 configuration language.
2628
2629- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
2630
2631- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
2632 done when no client hostname was received.
2633
2634- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
2635
2636- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
2637 the DHCP option space.
2638
2639- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
2640
2641- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
2642 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
2643
2644- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
2645 silently dropped.
2646
2647- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
2648 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
2649
2650- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
2651 will be correctly updated.
2652
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2653 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
2654
2655- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
2656 bounds-checking.
2657
2658 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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2659
2660- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
2661
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2664- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
2665 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
2666 possible to exploit it any further than that.
2667
2668- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
2669 option.
2670
2671- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
2672 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
2673 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
2674 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
2675 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
2676 meaningfully.
2677
2678- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
2679 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
2680 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
2681
2682- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
2683 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
2684 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
2685 this one down!
2686
2687- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
2688 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
2689 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
2690 down and fixing this problem.
2691
2692 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
2693
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2694- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
2695 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
2696
2697- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
2698 environment.
2699
2700- Fix suffix operator.
2701
2702- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
2703
2704- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
2705 connection code.
2706
2707- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
2708
2709- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
2710
2711- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
2712 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
2713
2714- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
2715
2716- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
2717
2718- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
2719 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
2720
2721- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
2722 spawn with.
2723
2724- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
2725 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
2726
2727- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
2728 for OMAPI.
2729
2730- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
2731 can install in host declarations.
2732
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2733 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
2734
2735- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
2736 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
2737 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
2738 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
2739 comments)!
2740
2741- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
2742
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2743- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
2744 request for help on this with patches!
2745
2746- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
2747 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
2748 lost, they never reconnect.
2749
2750- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
2751 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
2752
2753- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
2754 dump.
2755
2756- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
2757 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
2758 catching this one.
2759
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2761
2762- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
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2764 lease renewal time.
2765
2766- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
2767 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
2768 declared without a key.
2769
2770- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
2771
2772- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
2773 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
2774
2775- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
2776 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
2777 determine the maximum size of the response.
2778
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2780
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2781- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
2782 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
2783
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2784- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
2785 RENEWING client.
2786
2787- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
2788
2789- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
2790 using memcmp().
2791
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2792 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
2793
2794- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
2795 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
2796 pointing this out.
2797
2798- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
2799 exit.
2800
2801- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
2802
2803- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
2804 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.