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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
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2 Version 4.2.0
3 21 December 2012
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0171be2d 5 Release Notes
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0171be2d 7 NEW FEATURES
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9ISC DHCP 4.2.x includes features that were not included in DHCP 4.1.x.
10These include:
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12There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
13release, which will be addressed in the future:
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01a54c17 15- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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17- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages, in
18 English. A method to reconfigure or support other languages would
19 be preferrable.
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20
21- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
22
98bd7ca0 23- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 24 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 25 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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27For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as
28well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the
29README file.
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31ISC DHCP uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please review the
32output of "./configure --help" to see what options are available.
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34The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and may not
35work on other platforms. Please report any problems and suggested fixes to
36<dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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39 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
40
41
42
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43 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
44
45- Validate the argument to the -p option.
46
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47- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
48 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
49 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
50 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
51 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
52
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53- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
54
adbef119 55 Changes since 4.1.0b1
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56
57- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
58 be recognized.
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60 Changes since 4.1.0a2
61
62- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
63 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
64 "abandoned".
65
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66- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
67
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68- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
69 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
70
71- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
72 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
73
74- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 75 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
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77- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
78
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79- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
80 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
81 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
82 in future releases.
83
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84- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
85 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
86
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87- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
88 'dhclient -6' support.
89
7d6180be 90 Changes since 4.1.0a1
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91
92- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
93
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94- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
95
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96- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
97 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
98 only the latter. Fixed.
99
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100- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
101
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102- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
103 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
104
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105- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
106
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107- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
108
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109- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
110 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
111 --enable-early-chroot.
112
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113- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
114 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
115
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116- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
117 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
118 parameter.
119
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120- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
121 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
122
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123- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
124 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
125
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126- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
127
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128- Merged IA_XX related structures.
129
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130- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
131
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132- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
133
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134- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
135 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
136 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
137
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138- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
139 support.
140
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141- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
142 repaired.
143
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144- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
145
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146- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
147
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148- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
149 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
150
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151- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
152 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
153
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154- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
155 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
156
157- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
158 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
159 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
160 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
161 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
162 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
163 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
164 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
165 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
166 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
167 shared-network.
168
169- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
170 configured option values.
171
172- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
173 support class statements.
174
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175- Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
176 selection were repaired.
177
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178- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
179 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
180 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
181 by the OS.
182
183- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
184 address.
185
186- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
187 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
188
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189- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
190
191- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
192
193- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
194 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
195
01a54c17 196 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
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198- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
199
4cafb815 200- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 201 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
4cafb815 202
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203- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
204 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
205 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
206
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207- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
208 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
209
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210- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
211
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212- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
213 reserved IDs avoided).
214
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215- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
216
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217- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
218 carries a rapid-commit option.
219
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220- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
221 an empty active lease.
222
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223- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
224
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225- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
226 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
227 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
228 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
229
230- MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
231
232- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
233 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
234 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
235 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
236 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
237 Christof Chen.
238
239 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
240
241- DHCP now builds on AIX.
242
243- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
244 config file but -6 is not specified.
245
246- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
247
248- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
249 be more helpful.
250
251- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
252 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
253 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
254
255- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
256 was repaired.
257
258- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
259 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
260 been repaired.
261
262- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
263 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
264 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
265
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266- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
267 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
268
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269- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
270 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
271 IPv4 address.
272
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273- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
274 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
275 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
276 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
277 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
278
279- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
280 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
281 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
282
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283- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
284
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285- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
286
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287- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
288 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
289 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
290 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
291 unnecessary logging.
292
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293- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
294 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
295
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296- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
297 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
298 is incompatible is printed.
299
300- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
301 a previously undefined option code.
302
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303- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
304 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
305
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306- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
307 than the year 2000.
308
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309- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
310
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311- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
312
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313- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
314
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315 Changes since 4.0.0b3
316
317- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
318 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
319 configuration.
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321- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
322 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
323
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324- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
325 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
326 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
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328- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
329 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
330 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
331 a requested address.
332
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333- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
334 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
335 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
336 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
337
338- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
339 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
340 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
341 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
342
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343- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
344 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
345 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
346
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347- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
348 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
349
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350- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
351
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352- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
353 codes through some conditions.
354
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355- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
356 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
357
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358- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
359 seemingly random values.
360
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361- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
362
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363- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
364 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
365 one ever has.
366
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367- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
368 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
369 to a REQUEST.
370
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371- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
372 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
373 level.
374
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375 Changes since 4.0.0b2
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377- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
378
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379- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
380 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
381 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
382 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
383 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
384
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385- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
386 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
387 new address.
388
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389 Changes since 4.0.0b1
390
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391- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
392 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
393 simultaneously on a single interface.
394
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395- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
396 of service under unusual server configurations
397
398- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
399
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400- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
401 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
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403- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
404 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
405 on every pool rebalance run.
406
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407- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
408 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
409
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410- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
411 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
412
ab3a540f 413 Changes since 4.0.0a3
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415- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
416 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
417
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418- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
419 point out the problem.
420
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421- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
422 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
423 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
424
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425- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
426 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
427
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428- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
429 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
430 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
431
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432- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
433
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434- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
435 fixed by Marcus Goller.
436
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437- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
438 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
439 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
440 regardless of the existence of bindings.
441
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442- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
443
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444- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
445 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
446 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
447 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
448 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
449
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450- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
451
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452 Changes since 4.0.0a2
453
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454- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
455 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
456
763cba6b 457- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
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459- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
460 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
461 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
462
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463- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
464
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465- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
466 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
467
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468- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
469 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
470 loaded from persistent storage.
471
45d545f0 472- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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473 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
474 necessary.
475
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476- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
477 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
478 rapid-commit option.
479
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480- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
481 non-128-bits in length were removed.
482
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483 Changes since 4.0.0a1
484
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485- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
486 and fix.
487
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488- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
489
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490- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
491
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492- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
493 for when loading configuration.
494
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495- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
496 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
497 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
498
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499- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
500 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
501 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
502 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
503
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504- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
505
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506- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
507 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
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509- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
510
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511- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
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513- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
514 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
515
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516- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
517 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
518
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519- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
520
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521- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
522 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
523
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524 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
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526- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
527
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528- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
529 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
530
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531- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
532
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533- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
534 initialized.
535
536- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
537
538- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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539 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
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541- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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543- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
544
545- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
546 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
547
548- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
549
8ea19a71 550- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 551 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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552
553- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
554 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
555
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556- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
557
558- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
559
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560- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
561
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562 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
563
564- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
565 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
566 no support currently for both.
567
568- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
569 IAADDR option.
570
571- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
572 options.
573
574- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
575
576- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
577 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
578
579- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
580 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
581 specifying type 1 or type 2).
582
583- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
584 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
585
586- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
587 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
588 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
589 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
590 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
591 differently, they both use the same code here).
592
593- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
594 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
595 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
596
597- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
598
599- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
600 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
601 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
602 it should not intercept.
603
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604 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
605
606- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
607 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
608 between primary and secondary.
609
610- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
611 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
612 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
613
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614- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
615
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616- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
617 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
618 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
619 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
620 or REQUEST messages.
621
622- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
623 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
624
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625- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
626
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627 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
628
629- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
630 failover protected subnets was removed.
631
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632 Changes since 3.1.0b2
633
634- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
635 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
636 odd number of leases).
637
638- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
639 rebalance run, and one after.
640
641- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
642 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
643 processing these messages.
644
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647- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
648 objects.
649
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650- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
651 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
652 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
653 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
654 at Allianz.
655
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656- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
657 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
658
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659- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
660 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
661
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662- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
663 caused the server to abort.
664
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665- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
666 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
667 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
668
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669- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
670 by empty spaces would not get included.
671
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672- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
673 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
674
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675- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
676 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
677
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678- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
679 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
680
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681- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
682 on the parameter request list.
683
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684 Changes since 3.1.0a3
685
686- Some spelling fixes.
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688 Changes since 3.1.0a2
689
690- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
691 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
692
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693- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
694 domain-search option syntax.
695
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696 Changes since 3.1.0a1
697
698- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
699 hash table was repaired.
700
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701- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
702 entering normal state.
703
704- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
705 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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706 'xid mismatch' log messages.
707
708- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
709 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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711- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
712 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
713 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
714 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
715
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717 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
718 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
719 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
720 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
721 to their needs.
722
723- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
724 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
725 run will attempt balance.
726
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727- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
728
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729 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
730
731- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
732 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
733 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
734 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
735
98bd7ca0 736- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
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739- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
740 via OMAPI.
741
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742- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
743 the protocol draft.
744
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745- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
746 one does not already exist on the system.
747
b43c87ad 748- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
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750- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
751 matches RFC 3074.
752
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753- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
754 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 755 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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757- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
758 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 759 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
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761- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
762 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
763 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
764 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
765
766- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
767 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
768 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
769 priority over the client's parameter request list.
770
f7fdb216 771- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 772 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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773 DHCPv6 support.
774
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775- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
776 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
777 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
778
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779- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
780 have been incorporated.
781
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782- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
783 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
784 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
785 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
786 that belong to the peer in need.
787
788- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
789 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
790
791- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
792 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
793 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
794
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795- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
796 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
797
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798- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
799 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
800 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
801 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
802 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
803
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804- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
805 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
806 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
807 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
808
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809- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
810 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
811 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
812 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
813 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
814 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
815 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
816 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
817 ignoring this aspect of their request.
818
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819- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
820 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
821
41e45067 822- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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824 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
825 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
826
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827- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
828 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
829 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
830 hardware and funding the development.
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832- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
833 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
834 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
835 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
836 via Robin Breathe.
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838- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
839 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
840 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
841 from Christof Chen.
842
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843- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
844 formally supported.
845
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846 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
847
848- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
849 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
850
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851 Changes since 3.0.5
852
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853- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
854 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
855 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 856 they actually received.
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858- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
859
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860- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
861 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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862 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
863 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
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865- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
866
d69fb6a8 867- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 868 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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870- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
871 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
872 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
873 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
874 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
875 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
876 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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877 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
878
879- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
880 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
881 'file' field.
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883- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
884 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
885
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886- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
887 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
888 a patch from Kevin Steves.
889
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890- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
891 from Chris Wagner.
892
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893- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
894 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
895 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
896
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897- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
898 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
899 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
900 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
901 was set.
902
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903- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
904 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
905
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906- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
907 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
908 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
909 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
910 active ones.
911
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901306d5 914- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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915 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
916 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
917 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
918 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
919
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920- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
921 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
922
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923 Changes since 3.0.4
924
925- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
926 scopes are actually global has been added.
927
928- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
929 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
930 known to be damaging.
931
932- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
933 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
934 balancing).
935
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936- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
937 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
938 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
939
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940- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
941 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
942 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
943
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944- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
945 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
946 more clear now.
947
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948- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
949 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
950 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
951 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
952 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 953 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
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955- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
956 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
957
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958- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
959 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
960 made possible.
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962- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
963 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
964 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
965
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966- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
967 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
968
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969- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
970 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
971 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
972
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973- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
974 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
975 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
976 value with the later configured value).
977
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978- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
979 have been named and documented.
980
981- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
982 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
983 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
984 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
985 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
986 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
987 write new output.
988
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989 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
990
991- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
992 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
993
994 Changes since 3.0.4b3
995
996- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
997 mailing list.
998
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999 Changes since 3.0.4b2
1000
45d545f0 1001- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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1002 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
1003
1004- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
1005 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
1006
1007- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
1008 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
1009 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
1010 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
1011
1012- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
1013 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
1014 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
1015 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
1016 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
1017 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
1018 transition (properly).
1019
1020- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
1021
1022 Changes since 3.0.4b1
1023
1024- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
1025 STDIN after reading one line.
1026
1027- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
1028 descriptor it opened twice.
1029
1030- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
1031 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
1032 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
1033
1034 Changes since 3.0.3
1035
1036- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
1037 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
1038 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
1039
1040- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
1041 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
1042 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
1043
1044- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
1045 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 1046 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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1047 leases to allocate.
1048
1049- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 1050 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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1051 than the entire block of them.
1052
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1053! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
1054 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
1055 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
1056 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
1057 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
1058 to a patch from infamous42md.
1059
1060! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
1061 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
1062 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
1063 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
1064 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
1065 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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1067- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
1068 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
1069 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
1070
1071- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
1072 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
1073
1074- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
1075 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
1076 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
1077 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
1078 transitional states.
1079
1080- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
1081 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
1082 once it detects the old db does not exist.
1083
1084- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
1085 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
1086 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
1087
1088- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 1089 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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1091- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
1092 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
1093
1094- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
1095 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
1096 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
1097
1098- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
1099 patch from 'infamous42md'.
1100
1101- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
1102 repaired.
1103
1104- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
1105 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
1106 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
1107 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
1108
1109- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
1110 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
1111 data.
1112
1113- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
1114 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
1115 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
1116 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
1117 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
1118
1119- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
1120 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
1121 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
1122 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
1123 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
1124
1125- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
1126 has been repaired.
1127
1128- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
1129 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
1130 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
1131 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
1132 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
1133
1134- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 1135 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
88cd8aca 1136
45d545f0 1137- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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1138 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
1139 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
1140 move to 3.[01].x.
1141
1142- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
1143 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
1144
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1145 Changes since 3.0.3b3
1146
1147- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
1148 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
1149
1150- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
1151 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
1152 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
1153 workaround.
1154
1155 Changes since 3.0.3b2
1156
1157- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
1158 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
1159
1160 Changes since 3.0.3b1
1161
1162- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
1163 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
1164 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
1165
1166- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
1167 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
1168 dynamic updates were also retouched.
1169
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1170 Changes since 3.0.2
1171
1172- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 1173 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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1174 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
1175
1176- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
1177 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
1178 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
1179 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
1180 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
1181
1182- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
1183 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
1184 Jason Vas Dias at Redhat.
1185
1186- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
1187 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
1188 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
1189
1190- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
1191 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
1192 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
1193 Peter Poeml.
1194
1195- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
1196 Dr. Peter Poeml.
1197
1198- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
1199 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
1200 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
1201 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
1202 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
1203 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
1204
1205- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
1206 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
1207 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
1208 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
1209
1210- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
1211 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
1212 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
1213 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
1214
1215- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
1216 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
1217
1218- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
1219 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
1220 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
1221
1222- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
1223 7 bytes, and failover.
1224
1225- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
1226 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
1227 at Redhat.
1228
1229- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
1230 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
1231 should work better.
1232
1233- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
1234 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
1235 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
1236
1237- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
1238 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
1239 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
1240
1241 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
1242
1243- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
1244 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
1245
1246 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
1247
45d545f0 1248- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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1249 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
1250 overloading. This was repaired.
1251
1252- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
1253 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
1254 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
1255 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
1256 three chunks to fit.
1257
1258- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
1259 were repaired.
1260
1261- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
1262 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
1263 leak).
1264
1265 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
1266
1267- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
1268 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
1269
1270 Changes since 3.0.2b1
1271
1272- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
1273
1274 Changes since 3.0.1
1275
1276- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
1277 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
1278 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
1279
1280- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
1281 name was not provided by the server.
1282
1283- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
1284 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
1285
1286- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
1287 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
1288
1289- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
1290 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
1291
1292- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
1293
1294- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
1295
1296- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
1297 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
1298 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
1299 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
1300 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
1301
1302- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
1303 the configuration be globally scoped.
1304
1305- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
1306 Farkas.
1307
1308- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
1309 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1310
1311- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
1312 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
1313
1314- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
1315 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
1316
1317- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
1318 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
1319 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
1320 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
1321
1322- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
1323 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
1324 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
1325 respond to POOLREQ messages.
1326
1327- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
1328 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
1329 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
1330
1331- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
1332
1333- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
1334 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
1335 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
1336
1337- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
1338 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
1339 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
1340 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
1341 Fjone and directconnect.no.
1342
1343- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
1344 to Andreas Gustafsson.
1345
1346- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
1347 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
1348
1349- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
1350 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
1351 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
1352 DISCOVER timeout handling.
1353
1354- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
1355 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
1356
1357- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
1358 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
1359 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
1360
1361- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
1362 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
1363 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
1364 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
1365 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
1366 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
1367
1368- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
1369 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
1370 Infoblox.
1371
1372- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
1373
1374- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
1375 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
1376 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
1377 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
1378 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
1379 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
1380 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
1381
1382- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
1383 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
1384 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
1385
1386- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
1387 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
1388 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
1389
1390- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
1391
1392 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
1393
1394- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
1395 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
1396 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
1397 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
1398 systems either.
1399
1400- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
1401
1402- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
1403 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
1404 is false.
1405
1406- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
1407 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
1408
1409- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
1410
1411 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
1412
1413! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
1414 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
1415 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
1416 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
1417 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
1418 both finding and solving the problem.
1419
1420! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
45d545f0 1421 in log_*() functions was evidenced, on some specific platforms where
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1422 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
1423 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
1424 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
1425 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
1426 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
1427 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
1428 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
1429 published version of ISC DHCP.
1430
1431- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
1432
1433- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
1434
1435 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
1436
1437- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
1438 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
1439 Richard Hirst.
1440
1441- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
1442 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
1443 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
1444
1445- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
1446
1447- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
1448 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
1449 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
1450 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
1451
1452- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 1453 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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1454
1455- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
1456 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
1457
1458- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
1459
1460 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
1461
1462- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
1463 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
1464
1465- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
1466 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
1467 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
1468
1469- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
1470 by name was fixed.
1471
45d545f0 1472- Declaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
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1473 longer result in error.
1474
1475- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
1476
1477- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
1478 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
1479 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
1480
1481- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
1482 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
1483
1484- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
1485 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
1486 Blapp.
1487
1488- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
1489 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
1490 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
1491 Martin Blapp.
1492
1493- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
1494 expiry times in failover configurations.
1495
1496- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
1497 Steve G.
1498
1499- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
1500 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
1501
1502- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
1503 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
1504 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
1505 now "unknown-144".
1506
1507- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
1508 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
1509
1510 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
1511
1512- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
1513
1514- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
1515 not be bash.
1516
1517- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1518
1519- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
1520 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
1521 that errored before will now work properly.
1522
1523- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
1524 names was repaired.
1525
1526- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
1527 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
1528 configuration file.
1529
1530- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
1531 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1532
1533- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
1534 error rather than a null dereference.
1535
1536 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
1537
1538- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
1539
1540- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
1541
1542- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
1543 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
1544
1545- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
1546
1547- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
1548
1549- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
1550 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
1551 self-corrupting lease databases.
1552
1553- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
1554
1555- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
1556 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
1557
1558- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
1559
1560- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
1561
1562- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
1563 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
1564 Ling Gou.
1565
1566- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
1567 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1568
1569- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
1570 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
1571 Ted Lemon for the patch.
1572
1573- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
1574 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
1575
1576 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
1577
1578- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
1579 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
1580
1581- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
1582
1583- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
1584 a memory leak.
1585
1586- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
1587 script.
1588
1589- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
1590
1591- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
1592
1593- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
1594
1595- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
1596
1597- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
1598
1599- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
1600
1601- Increment the hop count when relaying.
1602
1603- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
1604
1605- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
1606
1607- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
1608
1609- Change the type of rbuf_max.
1610
1611- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
1612
1613 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
1614
1615- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
1616 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
1617 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
1618
1619 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
1620
1621- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
1622 to be renewed.
1623
1624- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
1625 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
1626
1627- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
1628 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
1629
1630- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
1631 that two permit lists matched.
1632
1633- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
1634 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
1635
1636- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
1637
1638- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
1639 requested it, contrary to the standard.
1640
1641- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
1642
1643- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
1644
1645- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
1646 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
1647 going to update its A record.
1648
1649- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
1650 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
1651 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
1652 DNS server.
1653
1654- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
1655
1656- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
1657
1658- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
1659 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
1660 NetBSD project).
1661
1662- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
1663 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
1664
1665- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
1666 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
1667
1668- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
1669
1670- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
1671
1672- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
1673 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
1674 failover protocol standard.
1675
1676- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
1677 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
1678 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
1679
1680- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
1681 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
1682 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
1683 do so.
1684
1685- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
1686
1687 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
1688
1689- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
1690
1691- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
1692 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
1693
1694- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
1695 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
1696
1697- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
1698 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
1699 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
1700
1701- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
1702 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
1703 network, merge the two pools.
1704
1705- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
1706 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
1707 fix this bug.
1708
1709 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
1710
1711- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
1712 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
1713
1714- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
1715 the same case.
1716
1717- Additional documentation.
1718
1719- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
1720 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
1721
1722 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
1723
1724- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
1725- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
1726
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1728
1729- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
1730 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
1731 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
1732 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
1733 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
1734
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1736
1737- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
1738 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
1739 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
1740 wasn't the one that removed it.
1741
1742- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
1743 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
1744 were not configured.
1745
1746- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
1747
1748- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
1749 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
1750 routing information.
1751
1752- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
1753 request being sent.
1754
1755- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
1756 done.
1757
1758- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
1759 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
1760 were pending.
1761
1762- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
1763 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
1764 problems with failover.
1765
1766- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
1767 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
1768 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
1769
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1771
1772- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
1773 smash in the subclass allocation code.
1774
1775- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
1776 no object is open, it dumps core.
1777
1778- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
1779
1780- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
1781
1782- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
1783
1784- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
1785 a host object attribute with a null value.
1786
1787 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
1788
1789- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
1790
1791- Fix an obscure core dump.
1792
1793- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
1794 when crucial information is left out.
1795
1796- Log "no free leases" as an error.
1797
1798- Documentation updates.
1799
1800 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
1801
1802- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
1803
1804- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
1805 structure wasn't zeroed.
1806
1807- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
1808 incorrectly.
1809
1810- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
1811 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
1812 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
1813 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
1814 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
1815 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
1816 restarted.
1817
1818 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
1819
1820- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
1821 in failover-enabled pools.
1822
1823- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
1824 declarations).
1825
1826- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
1827 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
1828
1829- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
1830 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
1831
1832- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
1833
1834- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
1835 defined but not referenced by any pools.
1836
1837- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
1838
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1840
1841- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
1842
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1844
1845- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
1846
1847- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
1848
1849- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
1850
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1852
1853- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
1854 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
1855 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
1856
1857- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
1858 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
1859 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
1860 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
1861 string.
1862
1863- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
1864
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1866
1867- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
1868 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
1869
1870- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
1871 malformed packets.
1872
1873- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
1874
1875- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
1876 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
1877 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
1878
1879- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
1880
1881- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
1882
1883- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
1884
1885- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
1886 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
1887
1888- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
1889 tcp connections from being played back.
1890
1891- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
1892 on exit.
1893
1894- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
1895
1896- Add some configurability to the build system.
1897
1898- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
1899
1900- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
1901 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
1902 hadn't been noticed until now.
1903
1904 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
1905
1906- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
1907 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
1908
1909- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
1910 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
1911 conformant, but also didn't work).
1912
1913- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
1914 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
1915
1916- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
1917 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
1918
1919- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
1920 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
1921
1922- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
1923 variables to leases via OMAPI.
1924
1925- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
1926 doing failover.
1927
1928- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
1929 running on alpha processors.
1930
1931- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
1932 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
1933
1934- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
1935
1936- Install omshell (including new documentation).
1937
1938- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
1939 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
1940
1941- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
1942
1943- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
1944 actually named (key names are domain names).
1945
1946- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
1947
1948- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
1949 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
1950
1951- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
1952 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
1953
1954- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
1955 statements.
1956
1957- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
1958 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
1959
1960- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
1961 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
1962 operating.
1963
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1965
1966- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
1967 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
1968 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
1969 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
1970
1971- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
1972 using omapi to manipulate leases.
1973
1974- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
1975
1976
1977 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
1978
1979- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
1980 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
1981
1982- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
1983 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
1984 to the chain.
1985
1986- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
1987
1988- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
1989
1990- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
1991
98311e4b 1992- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
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1994
98311e4b 1995- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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1996
1997- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
1998
1999 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
2000
2001- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
2002 DHCPDECLINE.
2003
2004- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
2005
2006- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
2007 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
2008 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
2009
2010- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
2011
2012- Documentation fixes.
2013
2014- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
2015 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
2016
2017- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
2018 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
2019
2020- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
2021
2022- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
2023
2024- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
2025 case-insensitive.
2026
2027- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
2028
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2030 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
2031 consistently.
2032
2033- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
2034 systems with the probe not working correctly.
2035
2036- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
2037
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2038 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 3
2039
2040- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
2041 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
2042 result of duplicate leases.
2043
2044- Document OMAPI server objects.
2045
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2046 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Patchlevel 1
2047
2048- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
2049 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
2050
2051- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
2052 core dumps.
2053
2054- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
2055 Friedrich.
2056
2057- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
2058
2059 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
2060
2061- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
2062 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 2063 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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2064 billing class code.
2065
2066- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
2067 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
2068
2069- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
2070 trace file.
2071
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2074- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
2075 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
2076 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
2077 e.g., Digital Unix.
2078
2079- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
2080 when no error had occurred.
2081
2082- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
2083 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
2084 non-communicating state.
2085
2086- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
2087
2088- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
2089 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
2090 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
2091
2092- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
2093 when the client lease expired.
2094
2095- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
2096 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
2097 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
2098 in testing.
2099
2100- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
2101 the command line, it would fail.
2102
2103- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
2104 user impact).
2105
2106- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
2107
2108- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
2109 they're executable.
2110
2111 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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2113- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
2114 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
2115 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
2116 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
2117
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2118- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
2119 Transmeta.
2120
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2121- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
2122 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
2123 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
2124 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
2125
2126- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
2127 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
2128
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2129 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 24
2130
2131- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
2132 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
2133
2134- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
2135
2136- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
2137
2138- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
2139
2140- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
2141
2142- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
2143
2144- Update some parts of the README file.
2145
2146- Support GCC on SCO.
2147
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2149
2150- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
2151 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
2152
2153- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
2154 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
2155 unbill the old class.
2156
2157- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
2158 process the state transition immediately.
2159
2160- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
2161 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
2162
2163- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
2164
2165- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
2166
2167- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
2168
2169- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
2170
2171- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
2172 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
2173 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
2174
2175- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
2176 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
2177
2178- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
2179 lease file.
2180
2181- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
2182
2183- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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2186
2187- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
2188 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
2189
2190- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
2191
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2193
2194- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
2195
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2197
2198- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
2199
2200- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
2201 pl19.
2202
2203- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
2204 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
2205 past the regression test.
2206
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2208
2209- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
2210 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
2211
2212- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
2213 DHCPREQUEST.
2214
2215- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
2216
2217- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
2218
2219- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
2220
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2223- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
2224 (Damien Neil)
2225
2226- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
2227 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
2228
2229- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
2230 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
2231 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
2232
2233- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
2234 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
2235 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
2236 message.
2237
2238- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
2239 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
2240 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
2241
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2244 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
2245 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
2246 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
2247 this way will work.
2248
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2249- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
2250
2251- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
2252 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
2253 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
2254 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
2255
2256 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
2257
2258 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
2259
2260- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
2261 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
2262 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
2263
2264- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
2265 Hermann Lauer.
2266
2267- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
2268 messages.
2269
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2270- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
2271 it contained quoted strings.
2272
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2273 ** there was no pl17 **
2274
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2277- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
2278 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
2279 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
2280 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
2281 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
2282 tracking down memory leaks.
2283
2284- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
2285 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
2286 Solaris.
2287
2288- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
2289 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
2290 corruption and core dumps.
2291
2292- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
2293 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
2294
2295- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
2296
2297- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
2298 and implemented by Damien Neil.
2299
2300- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
2301 name and version to standard output.
2302
2303- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
2304
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2306 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
2307
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2308- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
2309
2310- Lots of documentation updates.
2311
2312- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
2313 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
2314
2315- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
2316
2317- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
2318 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
2319
2320
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2323- Some documentation tweaks.
2324
2325- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
2326
2327- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
2328
2329- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
2330 agent options into them.
2331
2332- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
2333
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2334- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
2335 options.
2336
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2338
2339- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
2340 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
2341 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
2342 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
2343 used in class statements to control address allocation.
2344
2345- Fix up documentation.
2346
2347- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
2348 significantly in a high-demand situation.
2349
2350- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
2351
2352- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
2353
2354- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
2355 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
2356 practical use otherwise.
2357
2358- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
2359 for debugging.
2360
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2362
2363- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
2364 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
2365 dump on some systems.
2366
2367- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
2368 option.
2369
2370- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
2371 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
2372
2373- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
2374 that were not printing enough information.
2375
2376- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
2377 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
2378
2379- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
2380 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
2381 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
2382 were answering.
2383
2384- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
2385 the transition.
2386
2387
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2390- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
2391
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2393
2394- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
2395 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
2396 representation from working correctly.
2397
2398- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
2399 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
2400 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
2401 could spin.
2402
2403- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
2404 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
2405
2406- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
2407 interface name on the command line.
2408
2409- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
2410 client state.
2411
2412- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
2413 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
2414 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
2415 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
2416 added by Ted Lemon.
2417
2418- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
2419 be made to log debugging information and other information.
2420
2421- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
2422 end option.
2423
2424- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
2425 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
2426 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
2427
2428- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
2429 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
2430 face of a null hardware address on input.
2431
2432- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
2433 specified unqualified.
2434
2435- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
2436 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
2437
2438- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
2439 RFC.
2440
2441- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
2442
2443- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
2444
2445- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
2446 it works.
2447
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2449
2450- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
2451 to CVS.
2452
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2453 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
2454
2455- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
2456
2457- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
2458 in patchlevel 9.
2459
2460- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
2461 options at renewal time.
2462
2463- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
2464 configuration language.
2465
2466- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
2467
2468- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
2469 done when no client hostname was received.
2470
2471- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
2472
2473- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
2474 the DHCP option space.
2475
2476- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
2477
2478- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
2479 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
2480
2481- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
2482 silently dropped.
2483
2484- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
2485 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
2486
2487- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
2488 will be correctly updated.
2489
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2491
2492- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
2493 bounds-checking.
2494
2495 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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2497- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
2498
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2501- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
2502 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
2503 possible to exploit it any further than that.
2504
2505- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
2506 option.
2507
2508- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
2509 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
2510 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
2511 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
2512 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
2513 meaningfully.
2514
2515- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
2516 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
2517 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
2518
2519- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
2520 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
2521 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
2522 this one down!
2523
2524- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
2525 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
2526 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
2527 down and fixing this problem.
2528
2529 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
2530
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2531- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
2532 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
2533
2534- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
2535 environment.
2536
2537- Fix suffix operator.
2538
2539- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
2540
2541- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
2542 connection code.
2543
2544- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
2545
2546- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
2547
2548- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
2549 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
2550
2551- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
2552
2553- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
2554
2555- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
2556 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
2557
2558- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
2559 spawn with.
2560
2561- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
2562 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
2563
2564- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
2565 for OMAPI.
2566
2567- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
2568 can install in host declarations.
2569
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2571
2572- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
2573 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
2574 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
2575 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
2576 comments)!
2577
2578- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
2579
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2580- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
2581 request for help on this with patches!
2582
2583- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
2584 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
2585 lost, they never reconnect.
2586
2587- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
2588 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
2589
2590- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
2591 dump.
2592
2593- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
2594 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
2595 catching this one.
2596
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2598
2599- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
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2601 lease renewal time.
2602
2603- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
2604 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
2605 declared without a key.
2606
2607- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
2608
2609- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
2610 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
2611
2612- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
2613 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
2614 determine the maximum size of the response.
2615
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2617
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2618- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
2619 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
2620
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2621- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
2622 RENEWING client.
2623
2624- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
2625
2626- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
2627 using memcmp().
2628
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2629 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
2630
2631- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
2632 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
2633 pointing this out.
2634
2635- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
2636 exit.
2637
2638- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
2639
2640- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
2641 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.