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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
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2 Version 4.0.0a3
3 September 5, 2007
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98311e4b 5 Release Notes
72c7bd79 6
da411127 7 NEW FEATURES
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9The DHCP server in version 4.0.x of the ISC DHCP Distribution supports
10DHCPv6 in addition to DHCP for IPv4.
11
12Several new options have been added to the dhcpd executable, which are
13documented in the man page. Several changes have been made to the
14configuration file as well, which are also documented in the man
15pages.
16
17There are a number of DHCPv6 limitiations and features missing in this
18release, which will be addressed shortly:
19
99fe695e 20- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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22- There is no DHCPv6 Relay Agent implementation. There are only DHCPv6
23 Server and Client implementations.
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39725d92 25- Only a single address is supported per IA.
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27- IA_TA addresses are not supported.
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98bd7ca0 29- IA_PD prefixes are not supported.
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31- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages. These
32 should be configurable, and probably localized via gettext() or the
33 like.
34
35- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
36
37- Dynamically allocated leases do not respond to Confirm messages.
38
98bd7ca0 39- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
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40 not both. To use both protcols simultaneously, two instances of the
41 relevant daemon is required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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43For information on how to install, configure and run this software,
44as well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult
45the README file.
46
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47ISC DHCP now uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please
48review the output of "./configure --help" to see what options are
49available.
50
51The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and
52may not work on other platforms. Please report any problems and
53suggested fixes to <dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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56 Changes since 4.0.0a2
57
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58- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
59 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
60
763cba6b 61- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
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63- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
64 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
65 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
66
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67- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
68
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69- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
70 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
71
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72- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
73 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
74 loaded from persistent storage.
75
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76- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accomodate
77 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
78 necessary.
79
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80- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
81 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
82 rapid-commit option.
83
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84 Changes since 4.0.0a1
85
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86- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
87 and fix.
88
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89- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
90
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91- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
92
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93- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
94 for when loading configuration.
95
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96- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
97 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
98 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
99
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100- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
101 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
102 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
103 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
104
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105- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
106
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107- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
108 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
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110- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
111
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112- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
113
114- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
115 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
116
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117- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
118 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
119
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120- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
121
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122- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
123 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
124
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125 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
126
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127- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
128
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129- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
130 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
131
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132- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
133
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134- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
135 initialized.
136
137- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
138
139- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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140 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
141
142- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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144- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
145
146- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
147 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
148
149- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
150
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151- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
152 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplised.
153
154- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
155 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
156
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157- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
158
159- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
160
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161- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
162
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163 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
164
165- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
166 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
167 no support currently for both.
168
169- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
170 IAADDR option.
171
172- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
173 options.
174
175- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
176
177- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
178 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
179
180- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
181 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
182 specifying type 1 or type 2).
183
184- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
185 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
186
187- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
188 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
189 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
190 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
191 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
192 differently, they both use the same code here).
193
194- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
195 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
196 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
197
198- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
199
200- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
201 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
202 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
203 it should not intercept.
204
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205 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
206
207- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
208 failover protected subnets was removed.
209
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210 Changes since 3.1.0b2
211
212- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
213 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
214 odd number of leases).
215
216- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
217 rebalance run, and one after.
218
219- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
220 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
221 processing these messages.
222
fe5b0fdd 223 Changes since 3.1.0b1
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225- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
226 objects.
227
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228- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
229 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
230 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
231 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
232 at Allianz.
233
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234- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
235 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
236
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237- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
238 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
239
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240- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
241 caused the server to abort.
242
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243- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
244 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
245 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
246
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247- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
248 by empty spaces would not get included.
249
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250- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
251 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
252
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253- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
254 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
255
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256- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
257 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
258
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259- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
260 on the parameter request list.
261
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262 Changes since 3.1.0a3
263
264- Some spelling fixes.
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266 Changes since 3.1.0a2
267
268- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
269 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
270
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271- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
272 domain-search option syntax.
273
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274 Changes since 3.1.0a1
275
276- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
277 hash table was repaired.
278
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279- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
280 entering normal state.
281
282- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
283 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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284 'xid mismatch' log messages.
285
286- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
287 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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289- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
290 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
291 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
292 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
293
294- Lease structures appear in three spearate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
295 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
296 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
297 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
298 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
299 to their needs.
300
301- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
302 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
303 run will attempt balance.
304
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305- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
306
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307 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
308
309- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
310 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
311 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
312 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
313
98bd7ca0 314- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
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317- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
318 via OMAPI.
319
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320- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
321 the protocol draft.
322
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323- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
324 one does not already exist on the system.
325
b43c87ad 326- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
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328- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
329 matches RFC 3074.
330
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331- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
332 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 333 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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335- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
336 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 337 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
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339- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
340 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
341 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
342 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
343
344- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
345 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
346 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
347 priority over the client's parameter request list.
348
f7fdb216 349- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 350 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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351 DHCPv6 support.
352
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353- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
354 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
355 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
356
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357- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
358 have been incorporated.
359
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360- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
361 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
362 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
363 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
364 that belong to the peer in need.
365
366- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
367 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
368
369- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
370 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
371 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
372
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373- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
374 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
375
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376- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
377 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
378 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
379 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
380 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
381
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382- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
383 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
384 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
385 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
386
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387- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
388 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
389 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
390 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
391 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
392 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
393 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
394 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
395 ignoring this aspect of their request.
396
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397- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
398 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
399
41e45067 400- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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401 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
402 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
403 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
404
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405- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
406 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
407 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
408 hardware and funding the development.
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410- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
411 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
412 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
413 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
414 via Robin Breathe.
415
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416- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
417 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
418 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
419 from Christof Chen.
420
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421- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
422 formally supported.
423
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424 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
425
426- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
427 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
428
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429 Changes since 3.0.5
430
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431- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
432 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
433 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 434 they actually received.
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435
436- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
437
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438- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
439 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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440 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
441 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
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443- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
444
d69fb6a8 445- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 446 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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448- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
449 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
450 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
451 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
452 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
453 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
454 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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455 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
456
457- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
458 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
459 'file' field.
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461- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
462 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
463
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464- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
465 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
466 a patch from Kevin Steves.
467
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468- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
469 from Chris Wagner.
470
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471- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
472 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
473 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
474
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475- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
476 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
477 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
478 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
479 was set.
480
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481- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
482 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
483
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484- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
485 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
486 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
487 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
488 active ones.
489
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901306d5 492- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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493 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
494 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
495 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
496 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
497
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498- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
499 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
500
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501 Changes since 3.0.4
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503- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
504 scopes are actually global has been added.
505
506- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
507 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
508 known to be damaging.
509
510- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
511 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
512 balancing).
513
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514- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
515 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
516 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
517
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518- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
519 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
520 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
521
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522- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
523 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
524 more clear now.
525
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526- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
527 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
528 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
529 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
530 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 531 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
6cbc6629 532
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533- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
534 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
535
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536- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
537 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
538 made possible.
539
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540- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
541 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
542 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
543
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544- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
545 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
546
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547- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
548 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
549 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
550
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551- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
552 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
553 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
554 value with the later configured value).
555
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556- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
557 have been named and documented.
558
559- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
560 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
561 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
562 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
563 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
564 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
565 write new output.
566
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567 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
568
569- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
570 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
571
572 Changes since 3.0.4b3
573
574- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
575 mailing list.
576
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577 Changes since 3.0.4b2
578
579- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunatley require
580 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
581
582- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
583 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
584
585- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
586 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
587 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
588 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
589
590- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
591 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
592 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
593 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
594 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
595 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
596 transition (properly).
597
598- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
599
600 Changes since 3.0.4b1
601
602- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
603 STDIN after reading one line.
604
605- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
606 descriptor it opened twice.
607
608- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
609 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
610 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
611
612 Changes since 3.0.3
613
614- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
615 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
616 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
617
618- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
619 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
620 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
621
622- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
623 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 624 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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625 leases to allocate.
626
627- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
628 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailng PAD option, rather
629 than the entire block of them.
630
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631! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
632 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
633 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
634 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
635 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
636 to a patch from infamous42md.
637
638! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
639 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
640 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
641 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
642 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
643 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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645- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
646 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
647 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
648
649- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
650 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
651
652- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
653 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
654 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
655 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
656 transitional states.
657
658- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
659 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
660 once it detects the old db does not exist.
661
662- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
663 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
664 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
665
666- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
667 been doucmented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
668
669- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
670 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
671
672- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
673 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
674 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
675
676- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
677 patch from 'infamous42md'.
678
679- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
680 repaired.
681
682- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
683 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
684 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
685 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
686
687- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
688 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
689 data.
690
691- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
692 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
693 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
694 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
695 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
696
697- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
698 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
699 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
700 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
701 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
702
703- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
704 has been repaired.
705
706- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
707 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
708 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
709 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
710 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
711
712- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 713 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
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715- The linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
716 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
717 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
718 move to 3.[01].x.
719
720- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
721 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
722
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723 Changes since 3.0.3b3
724
725- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
726 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
727
728- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
729 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
730 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
731 workaround.
732
733 Changes since 3.0.3b2
734
735- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
736 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
737
738 Changes since 3.0.3b1
739
740- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
741 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
742 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
743
744- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
745 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
746 dynamic updates were also retouched.
747
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748 Changes since 3.0.2
749
750- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
751 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceeding DISCOVER.
752 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
753
754- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
755 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
756 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
757 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
758 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
759
760- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
761 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
762 Jason Vas Dias at Redhat.
763
764- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
765 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
766 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
767
768- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
769 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
770 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
771 Peter Poeml.
772
773- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
774 Dr. Peter Poeml.
775
776- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
777 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
778 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
779 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
780 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
781 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
782
783- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
784 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
785 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
786 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
787
788- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
789 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
790 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
791 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
792
793- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
794 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
795
796- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
797 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
798 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
799
800- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
801 7 bytes, and failover.
802
803- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
804 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
805 at Redhat.
806
807- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
808 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
809 should work better.
810
811- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
812 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
813 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
814
815- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
816 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
817 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
818
819 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
820
821- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
822 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
823
824 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
825
826- Two varaibles introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
827 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
828 overloading. This was repaired.
829
830- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
831 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
832 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
833 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
834 three chunks to fit.
835
836- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
837 were repaired.
838
839- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
840 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
841 leak).
842
843 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
844
845- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
846 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
847
848 Changes since 3.0.2b1
849
850- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
851
852 Changes since 3.0.1
853
854- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
855 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
856 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
857
858- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
859 name was not provided by the server.
860
861- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
862 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
863
864- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
865 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
866
867- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
868 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
869
870- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
871
872- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
873
874- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
875 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
876 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
877 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
878 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
879
880- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
881 the configuration be globally scoped.
882
883- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
884 Farkas.
885
886- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
887 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
888
889- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
890 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
891
892- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
893 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
894
895- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
896 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
897 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
898 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
899
900- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
901 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
902 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
903 respond to POOLREQ messages.
904
905- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
906 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
907 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
908
909- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
910
911- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
912 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
913 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
914
915- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
916 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
917 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
918 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
919 Fjone and directconnect.no.
920
921- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
922 to Andreas Gustafsson.
923
924- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
925 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
926
927- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
928 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
929 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
930 DISCOVER timeout handling.
931
932- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
933 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
934
935- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
936 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
937 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
938
939- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
940 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
941 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
942 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
943 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
944 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
945
946- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
947 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
948 Infoblox.
949
950- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
951
952- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
953 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
954 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
955 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
956 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
957 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
958 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
959
960- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
961 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
962 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
963
964- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
965 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
966 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
967
968- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
969
970 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
971
972- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
973 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
974 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
975 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
976 systems either.
977
978- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
979
980- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
981 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
982 is false.
983
984- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
985 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
986
987- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
988
989 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
990
991! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
992 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
993 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
994 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
995 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
996 both finding and solving the problem.
997
998! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
999 in log_*() functions was evidented, on some specific platforms where
1000 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
1001 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
1002 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
1003 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
1004 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
1005 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
1006 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
1007 published version of ISC DHCP.
1008
1009- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
1010
1011- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
1012
1013 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
1014
1015- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
1016 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
1017 Richard Hirst.
1018
1019- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
1020 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
1021 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
1022
1023- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
1024
1025- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
1026 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
1027 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
1028 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
1029
1030- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
1031 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on solaris platforms.
1032
1033- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
1034 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
1035
1036- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
1037
1038 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
1039
1040- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
1041 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
1042
1043- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
1044 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
1045 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
1046
1047- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
1048 by name was fixed.
1049
1050- Delcaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
1051 longer result in error.
1052
1053- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
1054
1055- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
1056 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
1057 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
1058
1059- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
1060 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
1061
1062- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
1063 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
1064 Blapp.
1065
1066- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
1067 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
1068 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
1069 Martin Blapp.
1070
1071- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
1072 expiry times in failover configurations.
1073
1074- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
1075 Steve G.
1076
1077- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
1078 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
1079
1080- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
1081 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
1082 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
1083 now "unknown-144".
1084
1085- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
1086 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
1087
1088 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
1089
1090- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
1091
1092- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
1093 not be bash.
1094
1095- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1096
1097- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
1098 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
1099 that errored before will now work properly.
1100
1101- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
1102 names was repaired.
1103
1104- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
1105 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
1106 configuration file.
1107
1108- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
1109 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1110
1111- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
1112 error rather than a null dereference.
1113
1114 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
1115
1116- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
1117
1118- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
1119
1120- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
1121 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
1122
1123- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
1124
1125- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
1126
1127- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
1128 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
1129 self-corrupting lease databases.
1130
1131- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
1132
1133- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
1134 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
1135
1136- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
1137
1138- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
1139
1140- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
1141 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
1142 Ling Gou.
1143
1144- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
1145 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1146
1147- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
1148 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
1149 Ted Lemon for the patch.
1150
1151- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
1152 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
1153
1154 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
1155
1156- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
1157 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
1158
1159- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
1160
1161- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
1162 a memory leak.
1163
1164- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
1165 script.
1166
1167- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
1168
1169- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
1170
1171- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
1172
1173- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
1174
1175- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
1176
1177- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
1178
1179- Increment the hop count when relaying.
1180
1181- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
1182
1183- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
1184
1185- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
1186
1187- Change the type of rbuf_max.
1188
1189- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
1190
1191 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
1192
1193- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
1194 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
1195 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
1196
1197 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
1198
1199- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
1200 to be renewed.
1201
1202- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
1203 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
1204
1205- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
1206 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
1207
1208- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
1209 that two permit lists matched.
1210
1211- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
1212 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
1213
1214- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
1215
1216- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
1217 requested it, contrary to the standard.
1218
1219- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
1220
1221- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
1222
1223- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
1224 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
1225 going to update its A record.
1226
1227- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
1228 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
1229 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
1230 DNS server.
1231
1232- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
1233
1234- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
1235
1236- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
1237 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
1238 NetBSD project).
1239
1240- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
1241 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
1242
1243- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
1244 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
1245
1246- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
1247
1248- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
1249
1250- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
1251 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
1252 failover protocol standard.
1253
1254- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
1255 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
1256 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
1257
1258- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
1259 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
1260 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
1261 do so.
1262
1263- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
1264
1265 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
1266
1267- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
1268
1269- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
1270 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
1271
1272- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
1273 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
1274
1275- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
1276 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
1277 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
1278
1279- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
1280 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
1281 network, merge the two pools.
1282
1283- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
1284 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
1285 fix this bug.
1286
1287 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
1288
1289- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
1290 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
1291
1292- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
1293 the same case.
1294
1295- Additional documentation.
1296
1297- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
1298 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
1299
1300 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
1301
1302- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
1303- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
1304
1305 Changes since 3.0.1rc2
1306
1307- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
1308 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
1309 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
1310 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
1311 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
1312
1313 Changes since 3.0.1rc1
1314
1315- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
1316 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
1317 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
1318 wasn't the one that removed it.
1319
1320- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
1321 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
1322 were not configured.
1323
1324- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
1325
1326- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
1327 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
1328 routing information.
1329
1330- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
1331 request being sent.
1332
1333- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
1334 done.
1335
1336- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
1337 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
1338 were pending.
1339
1340- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
1341 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
1342 problems with failover.
1343
1344- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
1345 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
1346 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
1347
1348 Changes since 3.0
1349
1350- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
1351 smash in the subclass allocation code.
1352
1353- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
1354 no object is open, it dumps core.
1355
1356- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
1357
1358- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
1359
1360- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
1361
1362- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
1363 a host object attribute with a null value.
1364
1365 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
1366
1367- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
1368
1369- Fix an obscure core dump.
1370
1371- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
1372 when crucial information is left out.
1373
1374- Log "no free leases" as an error.
1375
1376- Documentation updates.
1377
1378 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
1379
1380- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
1381
1382- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
1383 structure wasn't zeroed.
1384
1385- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
1386 incorrectly.
1387
1388- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
1389 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
1390 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
1391 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
1392 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
1393 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
1394 restarted.
1395
1396 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
1397
1398- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
1399 in failover-enabled pools.
1400
1401- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
1402 declarations).
1403
1404- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
1405 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
1406
1407- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
1408 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
1409
1410- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
1411
1412- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
1413 defined but not referenced by any pools.
1414
1415- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
1416
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1418
1419- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
1420
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1422
1423- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
1424
1425- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
1426
1427- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
1428
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1430
1431- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
1432 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
1433 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
1434
1435- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
1436 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
1437 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
1438 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
1439 string.
1440
1441- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
1442
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1444
1445- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
1446 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
1447
1448- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
1449 malformed packets.
1450
1451- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
1452
1453- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
1454 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
1455 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
1456
1457- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
1458
1459- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
1460
1461- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
1462
1463- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
1464 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
1465
1466- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
1467 tcp connections from being played back.
1468
1469- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
1470 on exit.
1471
1472- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
1473
1474- Add some configurability to the build system.
1475
1476- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
1477
1478- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
1479 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
1480 hadn't been noticed until now.
1481
1482 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
1483
1484- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
1485 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
1486
1487- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
1488 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
1489 conformant, but also didn't work).
1490
1491- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
1492 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
1493
1494- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
1495 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
1496
1497- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
1498 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
1499
1500- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
1501 variables to leases via OMAPI.
1502
1503- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
1504 doing failover.
1505
1506- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
1507 running on alpha processors.
1508
1509- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
1510 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
1511
1512- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
1513
1514- Install omshell (including new documentation).
1515
1516- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
1517 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
1518
1519- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
1520
1521- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
1522 actually named (key names are domain names).
1523
1524- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
1525
1526- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
1527 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
1528
1529- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
1530 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
1531
1532- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
1533 statements.
1534
1535- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
1536 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
1537
1538- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
1539 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
1540 operating.
1541
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1543
1544- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
1545 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
1546 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
1547 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
1548
1549- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
1550 using omapi to manipulate leases.
1551
1552- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
1553
1554
1555 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
1556
1557- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
1558 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
1559
1560- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
1561 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
1562 to the chain.
1563
1564- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
1565
1566- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
1567
1568- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
1569
98311e4b 1570- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
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1572
98311e4b 1573- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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1575- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
1576
1577 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
1578
1579- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
1580 DHCPDECLINE.
1581
1582- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
1583
1584- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
1585 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
1586 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
1587
1588- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
1589
1590- Documentation fixes.
1591
1592- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
1593 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
1594
1595- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
1596 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
1597
1598- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
1599
1600- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
1601
1602- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
1603 case-insensitive.
1604
1605- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
1606
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1609 consistently.
1610
1611- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
1612 systems with the probe not working correctly.
1613
1614- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
1615
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1617
1618- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
1619 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
1620 result of duplicate leases.
1621
1622- Document OMAPI server objects.
1623
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1625
1626- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
1627 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
1628
1629- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
1630 core dumps.
1631
1632- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
1633 Friedrich.
1634
1635- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
1636
1637 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
1638
1639- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
1640 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 1641 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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1643
1644- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
1645 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
1646
1647- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
1648 trace file.
1649
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1653 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
1654 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
1655 e.g., Digital Unix.
1656
1657- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
1658 when no error had occurred.
1659
1660- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
1661 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
1662 non-communicating state.
1663
1664- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
1665
1666- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
1667 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
1668 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
1669
1670- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
1671 when the client lease expired.
1672
1673- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
1674 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
1675 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
1676 in testing.
1677
1678- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
1679 the command line, it would fail.
1680
1681- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
1682 user impact).
1683
1684- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
1685
1686- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
1687 they're executable.
1688
1689 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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1691- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
1692 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
1693 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
1694 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
1695
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1697 Transmeta.
1698
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1699- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
1700 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
1701 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
1702 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
1703
1704- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
1705 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
1706
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1708
1709- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
1710 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
1711
1712- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
1713
1714- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
1715
1716- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
1717
1718- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
1719
1720- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
1721
1722- Update some parts of the README file.
1723
1724- Support GCC on SCO.
1725
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1727
1728- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
1729 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
1730
1731- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
1732 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
1733 unbill the old class.
1734
1735- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
1736 process the state transition immediately.
1737
1738- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
1739 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
1740
1741- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
1742
1743- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
1744
1745- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
1746
1747- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
1748
1749- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
1750 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
1751 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
1752
1753- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
1754 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
1755
1756- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
1757 lease file.
1758
1759- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
1760
1761- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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1764
1765- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
1766 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
1767
1768- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
1769
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1771
1772- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
1773
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1775
1776- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
1777
1778- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
1779 pl19.
1780
1781- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
1782 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
1783 past the regression test.
1784
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1786
1787- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
1788 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
1789
1790- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
1791 DHCPREQUEST.
1792
1793- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
1794
1795- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
1796
1797- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
1798
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1800
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1801- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
1802 (Damien Neil)
1803
1804- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
1805 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
1806
1807- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
1808 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
1809 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
1810
1811- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
1812 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
1813 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
1814 message.
1815
1816- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
1817 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
1818 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
1819
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1822 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
1823 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
1824 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
1825 this way will work.
1826
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1828
1829- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
1830 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
1831 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
1832 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
1833
1834 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
1835
1836 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
1837
1838- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
1839 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
1840 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
1841
1842- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
1843 Hermann Lauer.
1844
1845- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
1846 messages.
1847
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1849 it contained quoted strings.
1850
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1852
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1854
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1856 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
1857 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
1858 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
1859 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
1860 tracking down memory leaks.
1861
1862- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
1863 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
1864 Solaris.
1865
1866- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
1867 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
1868 corruption and core dumps.
1869
1870- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
1871 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
1872
1873- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
1874
1875- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
1876 and implemented by Damien Neil.
1877
1878- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
1879 name and version to standard output.
1880
1881- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
1882
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1883- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
1884 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
1885
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1886- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
1887
1888- Lots of documentation updates.
1889
1890- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
1891 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
1892
1893- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
1894
1895- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
1896 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
1897
1898
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1900
1901- Some documentation tweaks.
1902
1903- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
1904
1905- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
1906
1907- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
1908 agent options into them.
1909
1910- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
1911
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1912- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
1913 options.
1914
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1915 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 14
1916
1917- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
1918 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
1919 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
1920 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
1921 used in class statements to control address allocation.
1922
1923- Fix up documentation.
1924
1925- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
1926 significantly in a high-demand situation.
1927
1928- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
1929
1930- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
1931
1932- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
1933 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
1934 practical use otherwise.
1935
1936- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
1937 for debugging.
1938
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1939 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 13
1940
1941- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
1942 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
1943 dump on some systems.
1944
1945- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
1946 option.
1947
1948- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
1949 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
1950
1951- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
1952 that were not printing enough information.
1953
1954- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
1955 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
1956
1957- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
1958 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
1959 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
1960 were answering.
1961
1962- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
1963 the transition.
1964
1965
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1966 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 12
1967
1968- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
1969
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1970 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
1971
1972- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
1973 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
1974 representation from working correctly.
1975
1976- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
1977 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
1978 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
1979 could spin.
1980
1981- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
1982 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
1983
1984- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
1985 interface name on the command line.
1986
1987- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
1988 client state.
1989
1990- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
1991 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
1992 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
1993 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
1994 added by Ted Lemon.
1995
1996- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
1997 be made to log debugging information and other information.
1998
1999- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
2000 end option.
2001
2002- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
2003 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
2004 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
2005
2006- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
2007 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
2008 face of a null hardware address on input.
2009
2010- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
2011 specified unqualified.
2012
2013- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
2014 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
2015
2016- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
2017 RFC.
2018
2019- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
2020
2021- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
2022
2023- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
2024 it works.
2025
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2026 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
2027
2028- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
2029 to CVS.
2030
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2031 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
2032
2033- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
2034
2035- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
2036 in patchlevel 9.
2037
2038- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
2039 options at renewal time.
2040
2041- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
2042 configuration language.
2043
2044- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
2045
2046- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
2047 done when no client hostname was received.
2048
2049- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
2050
2051- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
2052 the DHCP option space.
2053
2054- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
2055
2056- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
2057 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
2058
2059- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
2060 silently dropped.
2061
2062- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
2063 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
2064
2065- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
2066 will be correctly updated.
2067
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2068 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
2069
2070- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
2071 bounds-checking.
2072
2073 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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2074
2075- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
2076
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2079- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
2080 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
2081 possible to exploit it any further than that.
2082
2083- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
2084 option.
2085
2086- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
2087 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
2088 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
2089 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
2090 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
2091 meaningfully.
2092
2093- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
2094 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
2095 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
2096
2097- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
2098 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
2099 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
2100 this one down!
2101
2102- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
2103 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
2104 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
2105 down and fixing this problem.
2106
2107 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
2108
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2109- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
2110 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
2111
2112- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
2113 environment.
2114
2115- Fix suffix operator.
2116
2117- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
2118
2119- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
2120 connection code.
2121
2122- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
2123
2124- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
2125
2126- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
2127 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
2128
2129- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
2130
2131- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
2132
2133- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
2134 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
2135
2136- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
2137 spawn with.
2138
2139- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
2140 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
2141
2142- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
2143 for OMAPI.
2144
2145- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
2146 can install in host declarations.
2147
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2149
2150- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
2151 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
2152 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
2153 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
2154 comments)!
2155
2156- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
2157
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2158- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
2159 request for help on this with patches!
2160
2161- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
2162 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
2163 lost, they never reconnect.
2164
2165- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
2166 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
2167
2168- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
2169 dump.
2170
2171- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
2172 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
2173 catching this one.
2174
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2176
2177- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
2178 of options, so that the client configuration can overried, e.g., the
2179 lease renewal time.
2180
2181- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
2182 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
2183 declared without a key.
2184
2185- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
2186
2187- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
2188 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
2189
2190- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
2191 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
2192 determine the maximum size of the response.
2193
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2194 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
2195
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2196- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
2197 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
2198
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2199- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
2200 RENEWING client.
2201
2202- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
2203
2204- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
2205 using memcmp().
2206
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2208
2209- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
2210 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
2211 pointing this out.
2212
2213- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
2214 exit.
2215
2216- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
2217
2218- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
2219 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.