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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
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2 Version 4.0.0b1
3 October 5, 2007
72c7bd79 4
98311e4b 5 Release Notes
72c7bd79 6
da411127 7 NEW FEATURES
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9The DHCP server in version 4.0.x of the ISC DHCP Distribution supports
10DHCPv6 in addition to DHCP for IPv4.
11
12Several new options have been added to the dhcpd executable, which are
13documented in the man page. Several changes have been made to the
14configuration file as well, which are also documented in the man
15pages.
16
45d545f0 17There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
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18release, which will be addressed shortly:
19
99fe695e 20- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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22- There is no DHCPv6 Relay Agent implementation. There are only DHCPv6
23 Server and Client implementations.
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39725d92 25- Only a single address is supported per IA.
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26
27- IA_TA addresses are not supported.
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98bd7ca0 29- IA_PD prefixes are not supported.
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31- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages. These
32 should be configurable, and probably localized via gettext() or the
33 like.
34
35- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
36
37- Dynamically allocated leases do not respond to Confirm messages.
38
98bd7ca0 39- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 40 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 41 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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43For information on how to install, configure and run this software,
44as well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult
45the README file.
46
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47ISC DHCP now uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please
48review the output of "./configure --help" to see what options are
49available.
50
51The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and
52may not work on other platforms. Please report any problems and
53suggested fixes to <dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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ab3a540f 56 Changes since 4.0.0a3
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58- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
59 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
60
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61- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
62 point out the problem.
63
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64- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
65 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
66 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
67
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68- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
69 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
70
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71- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
72 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
73 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
74
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75- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
76
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77- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
78 fixed by Marcus Goller.
79
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80- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
81 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
82 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
83 regardless of the existence of bindings.
84
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85- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
86
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87 Changes since 4.0.0a2
88
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89- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
90 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
91
763cba6b 92- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
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94- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
95 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
96 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
97
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98- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
99
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100- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
101 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
102
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103- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
104 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
105 loaded from persistent storage.
106
45d545f0 107- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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108 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
109 necessary.
110
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111- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
112 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
113 rapid-commit option.
114
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115- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
116 non-128-bits in length were removed.
117
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118 Changes since 4.0.0a1
119
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120- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
121 and fix.
122
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123- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
124
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125- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
126
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127- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
128 for when loading configuration.
129
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130- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
131 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
132 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
133
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134- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
135 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
136 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
137 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
138
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139- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
140
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141- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
142 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
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144- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
145
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146- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
147
148- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
149 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
150
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151- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
152 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
153
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154- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
155
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156- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
157 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
158
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159 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
160
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161- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
162
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163- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
164 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
165
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166- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
167
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168- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
169 initialized.
170
171- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
172
173- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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174 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
175
176- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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178- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
179
180- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
181 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
182
183- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
184
8ea19a71 185- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 186 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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187
188- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
189 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
190
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191- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
192
193- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
194
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195- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
196
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197 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
198
199- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
200 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
201 no support currently for both.
202
203- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
204 IAADDR option.
205
206- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
207 options.
208
209- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
210
211- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
212 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
213
214- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
215 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
216 specifying type 1 or type 2).
217
218- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
219 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
220
221- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
222 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
223 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
224 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
225 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
226 differently, they both use the same code here).
227
228- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
229 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
230 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
231
232- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
233
234- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
235 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
236 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
237 it should not intercept.
238
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239 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
240
241- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
242 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
243 between primary and secondary.
244
245- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
246 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
247 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
248
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249- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
250
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251- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
252 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
253 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
254 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
255 or REQUEST messages.
256
257- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
258 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
259
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260- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
261
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262 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
263
264- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
265 failover protected subnets was removed.
266
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267 Changes since 3.1.0b2
268
269- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
270 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
271 odd number of leases).
272
273- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
274 rebalance run, and one after.
275
276- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
277 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
278 processing these messages.
279
fe5b0fdd 280 Changes since 3.1.0b1
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282- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
283 objects.
284
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285- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
286 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
287 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
288 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
289 at Allianz.
290
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291- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
292 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
293
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294- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
295 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
296
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297- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
298 caused the server to abort.
299
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300- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
301 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
302 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
303
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304- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
305 by empty spaces would not get included.
306
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307- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
308 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
309
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310- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
311 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
312
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313- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
314 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
315
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316- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
317 on the parameter request list.
318
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319 Changes since 3.1.0a3
320
321- Some spelling fixes.
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323 Changes since 3.1.0a2
324
325- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
326 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
327
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328- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
329 domain-search option syntax.
330
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331 Changes since 3.1.0a1
332
333- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
334 hash table was repaired.
335
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336- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
337 entering normal state.
338
339- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
340 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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341 'xid mismatch' log messages.
342
343- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
344 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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346- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
347 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
348 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
349 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
350
45d545f0 351- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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352 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
353 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
354 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
355 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
356 to their needs.
357
358- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
359 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
360 run will attempt balance.
361
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362- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
363
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364 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
365
366- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
367 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
368 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
369 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
370
98bd7ca0 371- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 372 was introduced.
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373
374- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
375 via OMAPI.
376
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377- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
378 the protocol draft.
379
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380- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
381 one does not already exist on the system.
382
b43c87ad 383- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 384
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385- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
386 matches RFC 3074.
387
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388- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
389 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 390 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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392- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
393 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 394 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 395
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396- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
397 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
398 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
399 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
400
401- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
402 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
403 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
404 priority over the client's parameter request list.
405
f7fdb216 406- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 407 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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408 DHCPv6 support.
409
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410- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
411 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
412 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
413
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414- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
415 have been incorporated.
416
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417- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
418 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
419 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
420 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
421 that belong to the peer in need.
422
423- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
424 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
425
426- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
427 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
428 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
429
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430- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
431 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
432
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433- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
434 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
435 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
436 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
437 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
438
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439- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
440 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
441 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
442 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
443
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444- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
445 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
446 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
447 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
448 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
449 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
450 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
451 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
452 ignoring this aspect of their request.
453
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454- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
455 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
456
41e45067 457- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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458 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
459 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
460 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
461
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462- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
463 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
464 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
465 hardware and funding the development.
6d103865 466
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467- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
468 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
469 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
470 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
471 via Robin Breathe.
472
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473- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
474 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
475 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
476 from Christof Chen.
477
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478- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
479 formally supported.
480
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481 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
482
483- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
484 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
485
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486 Changes since 3.0.5
487
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488- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
489 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
490 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 491 they actually received.
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492
493- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
494
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495- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
496 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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497 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
498 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
c1e6c832 499
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500- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
501
d69fb6a8 502- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 503 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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505- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
506 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
507 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
508 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
509 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
510 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
511 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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512 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
513
514- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
515 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
516 'file' field.
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518- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
519 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
520
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521- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
522 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
523 a patch from Kevin Steves.
524
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525- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
526 from Chris Wagner.
527
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528- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
529 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
530 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
531
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532- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
533 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
534 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
535 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
536 was set.
537
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538- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
539 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
540
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541- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
542 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
543 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
544 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
545 active ones.
546
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901306d5 549- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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550 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
551 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
552 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
553 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
554
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555- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
556 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
557
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558 Changes since 3.0.4
559
560- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
561 scopes are actually global has been added.
562
563- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
564 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
565 known to be damaging.
566
567- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
568 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
569 balancing).
570
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571- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
572 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
573 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
574
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575- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
576 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
577 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
578
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579- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
580 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
581 more clear now.
582
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583- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
584 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
585 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
586 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
587 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 588 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
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590- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
591 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
592
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593- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
594 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
595 made possible.
596
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597- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
598 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
599 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
600
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601- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
602 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
603
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604- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
605 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
606 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
607
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608- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
609 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
610 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
611 value with the later configured value).
612
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613- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
614 have been named and documented.
615
616- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
617 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
618 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
619 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
620 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
621 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
622 write new output.
623
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624 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
625
626- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
627 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
628
629 Changes since 3.0.4b3
630
631- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
632 mailing list.
633
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634 Changes since 3.0.4b2
635
45d545f0 636- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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637 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
638
639- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
640 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
641
642- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
643 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
644 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
645 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
646
647- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
648 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
649 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
650 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
651 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
652 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
653 transition (properly).
654
655- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
656
657 Changes since 3.0.4b1
658
659- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
660 STDIN after reading one line.
661
662- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
663 descriptor it opened twice.
664
665- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
666 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
667 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
668
669 Changes since 3.0.3
670
671- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
672 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
673 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
674
675- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
676 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
677 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
678
679- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
680 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 681 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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682 leases to allocate.
683
684- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 685 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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686 than the entire block of them.
687
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688! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
689 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
690 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
691 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
692 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
693 to a patch from infamous42md.
694
695! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
696 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
697 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
698 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
699 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
700 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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702- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
703 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
704 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
705
706- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
707 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
708
709- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
710 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
711 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
712 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
713 transitional states.
714
715- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
716 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
717 once it detects the old db does not exist.
718
719- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
720 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
721 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
722
723- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 724 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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726- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
727 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
728
729- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
730 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
731 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
732
733- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
734 patch from 'infamous42md'.
735
736- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
737 repaired.
738
739- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
740 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
741 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
742 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
743
744- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
745 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
746 data.
747
748- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
749 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
750 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
751 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
752 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
753
754- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
755 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
756 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
757 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
758 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
759
760- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
761 has been repaired.
762
763- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
764 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
765 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
766 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
767 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
768
769- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 770 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
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773 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
774 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
775 move to 3.[01].x.
776
777- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
778 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
779
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780 Changes since 3.0.3b3
781
782- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
783 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
784
785- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
786 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
787 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
788 workaround.
789
790 Changes since 3.0.3b2
791
792- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
793 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
794
795 Changes since 3.0.3b1
796
797- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
798 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
799 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
800
801- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
802 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
803 dynamic updates were also retouched.
804
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805 Changes since 3.0.2
806
807- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 808 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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809 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
810
811- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
812 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
813 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
814 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
815 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
816
817- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
818 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
819 Jason Vas Dias at Redhat.
820
821- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
822 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
823 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
824
825- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
826 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
827 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
828 Peter Poeml.
829
830- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
831 Dr. Peter Poeml.
832
833- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
834 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
835 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
836 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
837 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
838 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
839
840- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
841 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
842 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
843 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
844
845- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
846 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
847 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
848 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
849
850- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
851 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
852
853- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
854 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
855 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
856
857- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
858 7 bytes, and failover.
859
860- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
861 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
862 at Redhat.
863
864- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
865 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
866 should work better.
867
868- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
869 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
870 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
871
872- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
873 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
874 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
875
876 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
877
878- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
879 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
880
881 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
882
45d545f0 883- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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884 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
885 overloading. This was repaired.
886
887- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
888 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
889 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
890 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
891 three chunks to fit.
892
893- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
894 were repaired.
895
896- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
897 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
898 leak).
899
900 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
901
902- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
903 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
904
905 Changes since 3.0.2b1
906
907- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
908
909 Changes since 3.0.1
910
911- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
912 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
913 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
914
915- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
916 name was not provided by the server.
917
918- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
919 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
920
921- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
922 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
923
924- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
925 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
926
927- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
928
929- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
930
931- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
932 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
933 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
934 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
935 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
936
937- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
938 the configuration be globally scoped.
939
940- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
941 Farkas.
942
943- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
944 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
945
946- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
947 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
948
949- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
950 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
951
952- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
953 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
954 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
955 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
956
957- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
958 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
959 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
960 respond to POOLREQ messages.
961
962- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
963 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
964 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
965
966- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
967
968- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
969 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
970 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
971
972- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
973 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
974 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
975 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
976 Fjone and directconnect.no.
977
978- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
979 to Andreas Gustafsson.
980
981- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
982 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
983
984- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
985 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
986 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
987 DISCOVER timeout handling.
988
989- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
990 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
991
992- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
993 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
994 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
995
996- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
997 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
998 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
999 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
1000 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
1001 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
1002
1003- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
1004 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
1005 Infoblox.
1006
1007- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
1008
1009- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
1010 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
1011 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
1012 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
1013 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
1014 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
1015 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
1016
1017- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
1018 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
1019 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
1020
1021- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
1022 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
1023 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
1024
1025- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
1026
1027 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
1028
1029- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
1030 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
1031 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
1032 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
1033 systems either.
1034
1035- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
1036
1037- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
1038 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
1039 is false.
1040
1041- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
1042 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
1043
1044- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
1045
1046 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
1047
1048! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
1049 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
1050 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
1051 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
1052 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
1053 both finding and solving the problem.
1054
1055! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
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1057 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
1058 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
1059 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
1060 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
1061 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
1062 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
1063 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
1064 published version of ISC DHCP.
1065
1066- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
1067
1068- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
1069
1070 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
1071
1072- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
1073 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
1074 Richard Hirst.
1075
1076- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
1077 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
1078 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
1079
1080- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
1081
1082- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
1083 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
1084 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
1085 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
1086
1087- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 1088 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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1090- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
1091 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
1092
1093- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
1094
1095 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
1096
1097- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
1098 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
1099
1100- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
1101 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
1102 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
1103
1104- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
1105 by name was fixed.
1106
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1109
1110- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
1111
1112- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
1113 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
1114 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
1115
1116- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
1117 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
1118
1119- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
1120 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
1121 Blapp.
1122
1123- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
1124 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
1125 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
1126 Martin Blapp.
1127
1128- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
1129 expiry times in failover configurations.
1130
1131- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
1132 Steve G.
1133
1134- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
1135 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
1136
1137- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
1138 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
1139 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
1140 now "unknown-144".
1141
1142- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
1143 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
1144
1145 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
1146
1147- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
1148
1149- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
1150 not be bash.
1151
1152- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1153
1154- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
1155 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
1156 that errored before will now work properly.
1157
1158- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
1159 names was repaired.
1160
1161- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
1162 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
1163 configuration file.
1164
1165- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
1166 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1167
1168- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
1169 error rather than a null dereference.
1170
1171 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
1172
1173- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
1174
1175- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
1176
1177- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
1178 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
1179
1180- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
1181
1182- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
1183
1184- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
1185 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
1186 self-corrupting lease databases.
1187
1188- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
1189
1190- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
1191 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
1192
1193- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
1194
1195- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
1196
1197- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
1198 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
1199 Ling Gou.
1200
1201- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
1202 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1203
1204- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
1205 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
1206 Ted Lemon for the patch.
1207
1208- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
1209 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
1210
1211 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
1212
1213- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
1214 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
1215
1216- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
1217
1218- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
1219 a memory leak.
1220
1221- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
1222 script.
1223
1224- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
1225
1226- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
1227
1228- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
1229
1230- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
1231
1232- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
1233
1234- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
1235
1236- Increment the hop count when relaying.
1237
1238- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
1239
1240- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
1241
1242- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
1243
1244- Change the type of rbuf_max.
1245
1246- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
1247
1248 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
1249
1250- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
1251 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
1252 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
1253
1254 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
1255
1256- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
1257 to be renewed.
1258
1259- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
1260 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
1261
1262- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
1263 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
1264
1265- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
1266 that two permit lists matched.
1267
1268- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
1269 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
1270
1271- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
1272
1273- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
1274 requested it, contrary to the standard.
1275
1276- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
1277
1278- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
1279
1280- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
1281 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
1282 going to update its A record.
1283
1284- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
1285 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
1286 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
1287 DNS server.
1288
1289- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
1290
1291- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
1292
1293- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
1294 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
1295 NetBSD project).
1296
1297- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
1298 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
1299
1300- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
1301 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
1302
1303- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
1304
1305- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
1306
1307- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
1308 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
1309 failover protocol standard.
1310
1311- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
1312 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
1313 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
1314
1315- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
1316 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
1317 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
1318 do so.
1319
1320- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
1321
1322 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
1323
1324- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
1325
1326- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
1327 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
1328
1329- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
1330 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
1331
1332- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
1333 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
1334 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
1335
1336- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
1337 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
1338 network, merge the two pools.
1339
1340- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
1341 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
1342 fix this bug.
1343
1344 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
1345
1346- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
1347 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
1348
1349- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
1350 the same case.
1351
1352- Additional documentation.
1353
1354- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
1355 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
1356
1357 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
1358
1359- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
1360- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
1361
1362 Changes since 3.0.1rc2
1363
1364- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
1365 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
1366 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
1367 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
1368 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
1369
1370 Changes since 3.0.1rc1
1371
1372- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
1373 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
1374 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
1375 wasn't the one that removed it.
1376
1377- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
1378 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
1379 were not configured.
1380
1381- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
1382
1383- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
1384 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
1385 routing information.
1386
1387- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
1388 request being sent.
1389
1390- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
1391 done.
1392
1393- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
1394 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
1395 were pending.
1396
1397- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
1398 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
1399 problems with failover.
1400
1401- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
1402 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
1403 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
1404
1405 Changes since 3.0
1406
1407- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
1408 smash in the subclass allocation code.
1409
1410- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
1411 no object is open, it dumps core.
1412
1413- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
1414
1415- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
1416
1417- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
1418
1419- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
1420 a host object attribute with a null value.
1421
1422 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
1423
1424- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
1425
1426- Fix an obscure core dump.
1427
1428- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
1429 when crucial information is left out.
1430
1431- Log "no free leases" as an error.
1432
1433- Documentation updates.
1434
1435 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
1436
1437- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
1438
1439- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
1440 structure wasn't zeroed.
1441
1442- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
1443 incorrectly.
1444
1445- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
1446 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
1447 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
1448 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
1449 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
1450 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
1451 restarted.
1452
1453 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
1454
1455- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
1456 in failover-enabled pools.
1457
1458- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
1459 declarations).
1460
1461- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
1462 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
1463
1464- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
1465 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
1466
1467- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
1468
1469- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
1470 defined but not referenced by any pools.
1471
1472- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
1473
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1475
1476- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
1477
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1479
1480- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
1481
1482- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
1483
1484- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
1485
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1487
1488- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
1489 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
1490 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
1491
1492- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
1493 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
1494 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
1495 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
1496 string.
1497
1498- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
1499
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1501
1502- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
1503 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
1504
1505- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
1506 malformed packets.
1507
1508- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
1509
1510- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
1511 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
1512 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
1513
1514- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
1515
1516- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
1517
1518- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
1519
1520- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
1521 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
1522
1523- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
1524 tcp connections from being played back.
1525
1526- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
1527 on exit.
1528
1529- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
1530
1531- Add some configurability to the build system.
1532
1533- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
1534
1535- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
1536 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
1537 hadn't been noticed until now.
1538
1539 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
1540
1541- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
1542 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
1543
1544- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
1545 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
1546 conformant, but also didn't work).
1547
1548- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
1549 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
1550
1551- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
1552 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
1553
1554- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
1555 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
1556
1557- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
1558 variables to leases via OMAPI.
1559
1560- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
1561 doing failover.
1562
1563- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
1564 running on alpha processors.
1565
1566- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
1567 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
1568
1569- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
1570
1571- Install omshell (including new documentation).
1572
1573- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
1574 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
1575
1576- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
1577
1578- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
1579 actually named (key names are domain names).
1580
1581- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
1582
1583- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
1584 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
1585
1586- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
1587 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
1588
1589- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
1590 statements.
1591
1592- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
1593 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
1594
1595- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
1596 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
1597 operating.
1598
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1600
1601- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
1602 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
1603 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
1604 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
1605
1606- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
1607 using omapi to manipulate leases.
1608
1609- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
1610
1611
1612 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
1613
1614- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
1615 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
1616
1617- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
1618 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
1619 to the chain.
1620
1621- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
1622
1623- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
1624
1625- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
1626
98311e4b 1627- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
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1629
98311e4b 1630- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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1632- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
1633
1634 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
1635
1636- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
1637 DHCPDECLINE.
1638
1639- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
1640
1641- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
1642 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
1643 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
1644
1645- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
1646
1647- Documentation fixes.
1648
1649- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
1650 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
1651
1652- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
1653 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
1654
1655- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
1656
1657- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
1658
1659- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
1660 case-insensitive.
1661
1662- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
1663
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1666 consistently.
1667
1668- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
1669 systems with the probe not working correctly.
1670
1671- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
1672
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1674
1675- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
1676 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
1677 result of duplicate leases.
1678
1679- Document OMAPI server objects.
1680
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1682
1683- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
1684 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
1685
1686- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
1687 core dumps.
1688
1689- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
1690 Friedrich.
1691
1692- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
1693
1694 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
1695
1696- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
1697 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 1698 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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1700
1701- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
1702 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
1703
1704- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
1705 trace file.
1706
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1710 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
1711 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
1712 e.g., Digital Unix.
1713
1714- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
1715 when no error had occurred.
1716
1717- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
1718 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
1719 non-communicating state.
1720
1721- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
1722
1723- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
1724 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
1725 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
1726
1727- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
1728 when the client lease expired.
1729
1730- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
1731 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
1732 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
1733 in testing.
1734
1735- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
1736 the command line, it would fail.
1737
1738- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
1739 user impact).
1740
1741- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
1742
1743- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
1744 they're executable.
1745
1746 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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1748- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
1749 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
1750 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
1751 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
1752
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1754 Transmeta.
1755
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1757 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
1758 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
1759 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
1760
1761- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
1762 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
1763
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1765
1766- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
1767 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
1768
1769- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
1770
1771- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
1772
1773- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
1774
1775- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
1776
1777- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
1778
1779- Update some parts of the README file.
1780
1781- Support GCC on SCO.
1782
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1784
1785- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
1786 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
1787
1788- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
1789 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
1790 unbill the old class.
1791
1792- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
1793 process the state transition immediately.
1794
1795- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
1796 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
1797
1798- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
1799
1800- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
1801
1802- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
1803
1804- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
1805
1806- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
1807 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
1808 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
1809
1810- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
1811 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
1812
1813- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
1814 lease file.
1815
1816- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
1817
1818- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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1821
1822- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
1823 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
1824
1825- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
1826
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1828
1829- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
1830
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1832
1833- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
1834
1835- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
1836 pl19.
1837
1838- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
1839 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
1840 past the regression test.
1841
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1843
1844- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
1845 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
1846
1847- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
1848 DHCPREQUEST.
1849
1850- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
1851
1852- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
1853
1854- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
1855
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1856 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 18
1857
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1858- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
1859 (Damien Neil)
1860
1861- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
1862 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
1863
1864- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
1865 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
1866 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
1867
1868- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
1869 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
1870 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
1871 message.
1872
1873- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
1874 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
1875 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
1876
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1879 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
1880 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
1881 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
1882 this way will work.
1883
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1884- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
1885
1886- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
1887 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
1888 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
1889 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
1890
1891 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
1892
1893 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
1894
1895- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
1896 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
1897 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
1898
1899- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
1900 Hermann Lauer.
1901
1902- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
1903 messages.
1904
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1905- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
1906 it contained quoted strings.
1907
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1908 ** there was no pl17 **
1909
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1910 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 16
1911
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1912- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
1913 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
1914 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
1915 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
1916 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
1917 tracking down memory leaks.
1918
1919- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
1920 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
1921 Solaris.
1922
1923- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
1924 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
1925 corruption and core dumps.
1926
1927- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
1928 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
1929
1930- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
1931
1932- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
1933 and implemented by Damien Neil.
1934
1935- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
1936 name and version to standard output.
1937
1938- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
1939
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1940- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
1941 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
1942
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1943- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
1944
1945- Lots of documentation updates.
1946
1947- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
1948 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
1949
1950- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
1951
1952- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
1953 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
1954
1955
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1957
1958- Some documentation tweaks.
1959
1960- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
1961
1962- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
1963
1964- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
1965 agent options into them.
1966
1967- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
1968
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1969- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
1970 options.
1971
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1972 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 14
1973
1974- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
1975 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
1976 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
1977 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
1978 used in class statements to control address allocation.
1979
1980- Fix up documentation.
1981
1982- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
1983 significantly in a high-demand situation.
1984
1985- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
1986
1987- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
1988
1989- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
1990 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
1991 practical use otherwise.
1992
1993- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
1994 for debugging.
1995
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1996 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 13
1997
1998- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
1999 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
2000 dump on some systems.
2001
2002- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
2003 option.
2004
2005- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
2006 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
2007
2008- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
2009 that were not printing enough information.
2010
2011- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
2012 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
2013
2014- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
2015 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
2016 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
2017 were answering.
2018
2019- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
2020 the transition.
2021
2022
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2023 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 12
2024
2025- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
2026
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2027 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
2028
2029- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
2030 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
2031 representation from working correctly.
2032
2033- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
2034 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
2035 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
2036 could spin.
2037
2038- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
2039 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
2040
2041- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
2042 interface name on the command line.
2043
2044- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
2045 client state.
2046
2047- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
2048 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
2049 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
2050 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
2051 added by Ted Lemon.
2052
2053- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
2054 be made to log debugging information and other information.
2055
2056- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
2057 end option.
2058
2059- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
2060 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
2061 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
2062
2063- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
2064 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
2065 face of a null hardware address on input.
2066
2067- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
2068 specified unqualified.
2069
2070- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
2071 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
2072
2073- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
2074 RFC.
2075
2076- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
2077
2078- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
2079
2080- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
2081 it works.
2082
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2084
2085- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
2086 to CVS.
2087
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2088 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
2089
2090- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
2091
2092- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
2093 in patchlevel 9.
2094
2095- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
2096 options at renewal time.
2097
2098- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
2099 configuration language.
2100
2101- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
2102
2103- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
2104 done when no client hostname was received.
2105
2106- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
2107
2108- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
2109 the DHCP option space.
2110
2111- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
2112
2113- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
2114 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
2115
2116- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
2117 silently dropped.
2118
2119- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
2120 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
2121
2122- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
2123 will be correctly updated.
2124
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2125 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
2126
2127- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
2128 bounds-checking.
2129
2130 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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2132- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
2133
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2136- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
2137 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
2138 possible to exploit it any further than that.
2139
2140- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
2141 option.
2142
2143- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
2144 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
2145 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
2146 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
2147 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
2148 meaningfully.
2149
2150- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
2151 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
2152 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
2153
2154- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
2155 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
2156 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
2157 this one down!
2158
2159- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
2160 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
2161 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
2162 down and fixing this problem.
2163
2164 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
2165
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2166- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
2167 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
2168
2169- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
2170 environment.
2171
2172- Fix suffix operator.
2173
2174- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
2175
2176- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
2177 connection code.
2178
2179- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
2180
2181- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
2182
2183- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
2184 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
2185
2186- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
2187
2188- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
2189
2190- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
2191 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
2192
2193- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
2194 spawn with.
2195
2196- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
2197 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
2198
2199- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
2200 for OMAPI.
2201
2202- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
2203 can install in host declarations.
2204
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2206
2207- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
2208 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
2209 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
2210 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
2211 comments)!
2212
2213- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
2214
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2215- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
2216 request for help on this with patches!
2217
2218- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
2219 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
2220 lost, they never reconnect.
2221
2222- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
2223 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
2224
2225- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
2226 dump.
2227
2228- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
2229 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
2230 catching this one.
2231
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2233
2234- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
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2237
2238- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
2239 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
2240 declared without a key.
2241
2242- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
2243
2244- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
2245 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
2246
2247- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
2248 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
2249 determine the maximum size of the response.
2250
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2252
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2253- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
2254 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
2255
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2256- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
2257 RENEWING client.
2258
2259- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
2260
2261- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
2262 using memcmp().
2263
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2265
2266- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
2267 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
2268 pointing this out.
2269
2270- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
2271 exit.
2272
2273- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
2274
2275- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
2276 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.