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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
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2 Version 4.0.0b3
3 November 14, 2007
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98311e4b 5 Release Notes
72c7bd79 6
da411127 7 NEW FEATURES
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9The DHCP server in version 4.0.x of the ISC DHCP Distribution supports
10DHCPv6 in addition to DHCP for IPv4.
11
12Several new options have been added to the dhcpd executable, which are
13documented in the man page. Several changes have been made to the
14configuration file as well, which are also documented in the man
15pages.
16
45d545f0 17There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
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18release, which will be addressed shortly:
19
99fe695e 20- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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22- There is no DHCPv6 Relay Agent implementation. There are only DHCPv6
23 Server and Client implementations.
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39725d92 25- Only a single address is supported per IA.
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27- IA_TA addresses are not supported.
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98bd7ca0 29- IA_PD prefixes are not supported.
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31- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages. These
32 should be configurable, and probably localized via gettext() or the
33 like.
34
35- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
36
37- Dynamically allocated leases do not respond to Confirm messages.
38
98bd7ca0 39- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 40 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 41 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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43For information on how to install, configure and run this software,
44as well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult
45the README file.
46
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47ISC DHCP now uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please
48review the output of "./configure --help" to see what options are
49available.
50
51The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and
52may not work on other platforms. Please report any problems and
53suggested fixes to <dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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56 Changes since 4.0.0b3
57
58- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
59 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
60 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
61 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
62
63- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
64 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
65 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
66 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
67
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68- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
69 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
70 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
71
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72- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
73 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
74
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75 Changes since 4.0.0b2
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77- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
78
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79- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
80 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
81 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
82 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
83 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
84
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85- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
86 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
87 new address.
88
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89 Changes since 4.0.0b1
90
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91- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
92 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
93 simultaneously on a single interface.
94
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95- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
96 of service under unusual server configurations
97
98- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
99
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100- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
101 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
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103- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
104 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
105 on every pool rebalance run.
106
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107- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
108 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
109
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110- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
111 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
112
ab3a540f 113 Changes since 4.0.0a3
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115- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
116 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
117
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118- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
119 point out the problem.
120
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121- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
122 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
123 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
124
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125- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
126 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
127
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128- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
129 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
130 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
131
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132- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
133
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134- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
135 fixed by Marcus Goller.
136
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137- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
138 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
139 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
140 regardless of the existence of bindings.
141
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142- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
143
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144- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
145 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
146 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
147 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
148 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
149
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150- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
151
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152 Changes since 4.0.0a2
153
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154- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
155 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
156
763cba6b 157- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
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159- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
160 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
161 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
162
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163- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
164
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165- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
166 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
167
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168- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
169 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
170 loaded from persistent storage.
171
45d545f0 172- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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173 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
174 necessary.
175
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176- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
177 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
178 rapid-commit option.
179
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180- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
181 non-128-bits in length were removed.
182
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183 Changes since 4.0.0a1
184
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185- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
186 and fix.
187
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188- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
189
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190- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
191
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192- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
193 for when loading configuration.
194
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195- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
196 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
197 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
198
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199- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
200 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
201 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
202 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
203
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204- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
205
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206- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
207 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 208
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209- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
210
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211- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
212
213- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
214 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
215
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216- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
217 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
218
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219- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
220
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221- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
222 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
223
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224 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
225
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226- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
227
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228- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
229 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
230
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231- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
232
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233- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
234 initialized.
235
236- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
237
238- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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239 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
240
241- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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243- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
244
245- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
246 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
247
248- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
249
8ea19a71 250- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 251 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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252
253- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
254 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
255
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256- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
257
258- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
259
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260- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
261
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262 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
263
264- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
265 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
266 no support currently for both.
267
268- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
269 IAADDR option.
270
271- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
272 options.
273
274- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
275
276- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
277 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
278
279- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
280 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
281 specifying type 1 or type 2).
282
283- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
284 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
285
286- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
287 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
288 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
289 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
290 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
291 differently, they both use the same code here).
292
293- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
294 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
295 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
296
297- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
298
299- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
300 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
301 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
302 it should not intercept.
303
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304 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
305
306- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
307 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
308 between primary and secondary.
309
310- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
311 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
312 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
313
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314- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
315
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316- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
317 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
318 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
319 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
320 or REQUEST messages.
321
322- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
323 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
324
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325- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
326
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327 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
328
329- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
330 failover protected subnets was removed.
331
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332 Changes since 3.1.0b2
333
334- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
335 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
336 odd number of leases).
337
338- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
339 rebalance run, and one after.
340
341- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
342 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
343 processing these messages.
344
fe5b0fdd 345 Changes since 3.1.0b1
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347- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
348 objects.
349
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350- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
351 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
352 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
353 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
354 at Allianz.
355
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356- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
357 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
358
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359- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
360 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
361
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362- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
363 caused the server to abort.
364
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365- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
366 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
367 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
368
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369- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
370 by empty spaces would not get included.
371
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372- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
373 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
374
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375- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
376 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
377
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378- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
379 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
380
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381- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
382 on the parameter request list.
383
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384 Changes since 3.1.0a3
385
386- Some spelling fixes.
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388 Changes since 3.1.0a2
389
390- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
391 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
392
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393- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
394 domain-search option syntax.
395
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396 Changes since 3.1.0a1
397
398- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
399 hash table was repaired.
400
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401- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
402 entering normal state.
403
404- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
405 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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406 'xid mismatch' log messages.
407
408- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
409 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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411- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
412 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
413 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
414 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
415
45d545f0 416- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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417 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
418 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
419 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
420 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
421 to their needs.
422
423- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
424 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
425 run will attempt balance.
426
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427- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
428
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429 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
430
431- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
432 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
433 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
434 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
435
98bd7ca0 436- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 437 was introduced.
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438
439- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
440 via OMAPI.
441
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442- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
443 the protocol draft.
444
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445- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
446 one does not already exist on the system.
447
b43c87ad 448- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 449
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450- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
451 matches RFC 3074.
452
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453- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
454 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 455 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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457- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
458 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 459 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 460
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461- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
462 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
463 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
464 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
465
466- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
467 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
468 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
469 priority over the client's parameter request list.
470
f7fdb216 471- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 472 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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473 DHCPv6 support.
474
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475- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
476 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
477 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
478
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479- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
480 have been incorporated.
481
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482- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
483 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
484 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
485 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
486 that belong to the peer in need.
487
488- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
489 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
490
491- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
492 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
493 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
494
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495- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
496 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
497
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498- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
499 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
500 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
501 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
502 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
503
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504- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
505 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
506 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
507 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
508
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509- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
510 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
511 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
512 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
513 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
514 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
515 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
516 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
517 ignoring this aspect of their request.
518
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519- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
520 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
521
41e45067 522- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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523 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
524 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
525 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
526
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527- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
528 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
529 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
530 hardware and funding the development.
6d103865 531
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532- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
533 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
534 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
535 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
536 via Robin Breathe.
537
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538- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
539 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
540 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
541 from Christof Chen.
542
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543- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
544 formally supported.
545
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546 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
547
548- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
549 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
550
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551 Changes since 3.0.5
552
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553- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
554 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
555 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 556 they actually received.
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558- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
559
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560- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
561 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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562 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
563 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
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565- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
566
d69fb6a8 567- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 568 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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570- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
571 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
572 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
573 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
574 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
575 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
576 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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577 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
578
579- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
580 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
581 'file' field.
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583- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
584 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
585
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586- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
587 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
588 a patch from Kevin Steves.
589
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590- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
591 from Chris Wagner.
592
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593- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
594 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
595 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
596
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597- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
598 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
599 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
600 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
601 was set.
602
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603- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
604 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
605
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606- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
607 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
608 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
609 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
610 active ones.
611
02428754 612 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
0a73b7b6 613
901306d5 614- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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615 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
616 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
617 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
618 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
619
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620- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
621 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
622
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623 Changes since 3.0.4
624
625- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
626 scopes are actually global has been added.
627
628- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
629 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
630 known to be damaging.
631
632- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
633 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
634 balancing).
635
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636- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
637 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
638 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
639
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640- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
641 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
642 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
643
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644- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
645 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
646 more clear now.
647
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648- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
649 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
650 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
651 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
652 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 653 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
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655- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
656 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
657
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658- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
659 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
660 made possible.
661
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662- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
663 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
664 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
665
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666- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
667 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
668
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669- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
670 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
671 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
672
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673- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
674 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
675 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
676 value with the later configured value).
677
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679 have been named and documented.
680
681- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
682 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
683 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
684 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
685 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
686 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
687 write new output.
688
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689 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
690
691- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
692 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
693
694 Changes since 3.0.4b3
695
696- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
697 mailing list.
698
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699 Changes since 3.0.4b2
700
45d545f0 701- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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702 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
703
704- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
705 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
706
707- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
708 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
709 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
710 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
711
712- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
713 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
714 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
715 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
716 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
717 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
718 transition (properly).
719
720- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
721
722 Changes since 3.0.4b1
723
724- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
725 STDIN after reading one line.
726
727- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
728 descriptor it opened twice.
729
730- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
731 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
732 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
733
734 Changes since 3.0.3
735
736- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
737 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
738 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
739
740- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
741 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
742 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
743
744- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
745 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 746 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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747 leases to allocate.
748
749- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 750 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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751 than the entire block of them.
752
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753! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
754 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
755 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
756 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
757 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
758 to a patch from infamous42md.
759
760! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
761 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
762 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
763 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
764 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
765 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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767- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
768 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
769 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
770
771- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
772 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
773
774- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
775 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
776 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
777 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
778 transitional states.
779
780- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
781 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
782 once it detects the old db does not exist.
783
784- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
785 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
786 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
787
788- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 789 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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791- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
792 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
793
794- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
795 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
796 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
797
798- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
799 patch from 'infamous42md'.
800
801- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
802 repaired.
803
804- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
805 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
806 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
807 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
808
809- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
810 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
811 data.
812
813- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
814 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
815 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
816 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
817 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
818
819- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
820 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
821 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
822 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
823 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
824
825- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
826 has been repaired.
827
828- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
829 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
830 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
831 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
832 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
833
834- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 835 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
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838 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
839 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
840 move to 3.[01].x.
841
842- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
843 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
844
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845 Changes since 3.0.3b3
846
847- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
848 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
849
850- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
851 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
852 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
853 workaround.
854
855 Changes since 3.0.3b2
856
857- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
858 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
859
860 Changes since 3.0.3b1
861
862- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
863 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
864 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
865
866- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
867 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
868 dynamic updates were also retouched.
869
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870 Changes since 3.0.2
871
872- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
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874 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
875
876- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
877 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
878 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
879 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
880 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
881
882- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
883 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
884 Jason Vas Dias at Redhat.
885
886- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
887 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
888 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
889
890- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
891 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
892 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
893 Peter Poeml.
894
895- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
896 Dr. Peter Poeml.
897
898- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
899 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
900 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
901 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
902 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
903 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
904
905- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
906 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
907 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
908 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
909
910- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
911 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
912 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
913 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
914
915- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
916 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
917
918- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
919 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
920 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
921
922- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
923 7 bytes, and failover.
924
925- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
926 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
927 at Redhat.
928
929- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
930 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
931 should work better.
932
933- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
934 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
935 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
936
937- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
938 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
939 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
940
941 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
942
943- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
944 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
945
946 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
947
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949 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
950 overloading. This was repaired.
951
952- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
953 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
954 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
955 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
956 three chunks to fit.
957
958- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
959 were repaired.
960
961- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
962 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
963 leak).
964
965 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
966
967- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
968 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
969
970 Changes since 3.0.2b1
971
972- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
973
974 Changes since 3.0.1
975
976- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
977 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
978 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
979
980- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
981 name was not provided by the server.
982
983- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
984 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
985
986- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
987 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
988
989- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
990 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
991
992- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
993
994- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
995
996- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
997 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
998 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
999 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
1000 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
1001
1002- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
1003 the configuration be globally scoped.
1004
1005- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
1006 Farkas.
1007
1008- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
1009 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1010
1011- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
1012 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
1013
1014- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
1015 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
1016
1017- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
1018 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
1019 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
1020 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
1021
1022- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
1023 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
1024 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
1025 respond to POOLREQ messages.
1026
1027- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
1028 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
1029 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
1030
1031- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
1032
1033- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
1034 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
1035 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
1036
1037- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
1038 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
1039 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
1040 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
1041 Fjone and directconnect.no.
1042
1043- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
1044 to Andreas Gustafsson.
1045
1046- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
1047 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
1048
1049- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
1050 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
1051 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
1052 DISCOVER timeout handling.
1053
1054- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
1055 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
1056
1057- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
1058 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
1059 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
1060
1061- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
1062 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
1063 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
1064 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
1065 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
1066 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
1067
1068- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
1069 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
1070 Infoblox.
1071
1072- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
1073
1074- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
1075 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
1076 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
1077 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
1078 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
1079 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
1080 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
1081
1082- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
1083 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
1084 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
1085
1086- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
1087 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
1088 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
1089
1090- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
1091
1092 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
1093
1094- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
1095 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
1096 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
1097 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
1098 systems either.
1099
1100- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
1101
1102- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
1103 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
1104 is false.
1105
1106- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
1107 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
1108
1109- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
1110
1111 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
1112
1113! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
1114 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
1115 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
1116 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
1117 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
1118 both finding and solving the problem.
1119
1120! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
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1122 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
1123 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
1124 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
1125 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
1126 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
1127 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
1128 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
1129 published version of ISC DHCP.
1130
1131- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
1132
1133- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
1134
1135 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
1136
1137- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
1138 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
1139 Richard Hirst.
1140
1141- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
1142 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
1143 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
1144
1145- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
1146
1147- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
1148 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
1149 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
1150 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
1151
1152- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 1153 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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1155- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
1156 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
1157
1158- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
1159
1160 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
1161
1162- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
1163 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
1164
1165- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
1166 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
1167 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
1168
1169- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
1170 by name was fixed.
1171
45d545f0 1172- Declaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
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1173 longer result in error.
1174
1175- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
1176
1177- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
1178 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
1179 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
1180
1181- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
1182 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
1183
1184- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
1185 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
1186 Blapp.
1187
1188- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
1189 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
1190 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
1191 Martin Blapp.
1192
1193- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
1194 expiry times in failover configurations.
1195
1196- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
1197 Steve G.
1198
1199- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
1200 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
1201
1202- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
1203 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
1204 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
1205 now "unknown-144".
1206
1207- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
1208 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
1209
1210 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
1211
1212- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
1213
1214- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
1215 not be bash.
1216
1217- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1218
1219- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
1220 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
1221 that errored before will now work properly.
1222
1223- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
1224 names was repaired.
1225
1226- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
1227 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
1228 configuration file.
1229
1230- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
1231 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1232
1233- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
1234 error rather than a null dereference.
1235
1236 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
1237
1238- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
1239
1240- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
1241
1242- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
1243 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
1244
1245- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
1246
1247- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
1248
1249- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
1250 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
1251 self-corrupting lease databases.
1252
1253- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
1254
1255- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
1256 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
1257
1258- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
1259
1260- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
1261
1262- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
1263 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
1264 Ling Gou.
1265
1266- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
1267 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1268
1269- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
1270 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
1271 Ted Lemon for the patch.
1272
1273- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
1274 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
1275
1276 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
1277
1278- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
1279 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
1280
1281- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
1282
1283- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
1284 a memory leak.
1285
1286- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
1287 script.
1288
1289- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
1290
1291- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
1292
1293- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
1294
1295- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
1296
1297- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
1298
1299- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
1300
1301- Increment the hop count when relaying.
1302
1303- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
1304
1305- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
1306
1307- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
1308
1309- Change the type of rbuf_max.
1310
1311- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
1312
1313 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
1314
1315- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
1316 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
1317 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
1318
1319 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
1320
1321- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
1322 to be renewed.
1323
1324- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
1325 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
1326
1327- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
1328 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
1329
1330- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
1331 that two permit lists matched.
1332
1333- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
1334 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
1335
1336- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
1337
1338- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
1339 requested it, contrary to the standard.
1340
1341- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
1342
1343- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
1344
1345- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
1346 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
1347 going to update its A record.
1348
1349- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
1350 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
1351 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
1352 DNS server.
1353
1354- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
1355
1356- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
1357
1358- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
1359 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
1360 NetBSD project).
1361
1362- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
1363 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
1364
1365- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
1366 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
1367
1368- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
1369
1370- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
1371
1372- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
1373 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
1374 failover protocol standard.
1375
1376- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
1377 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
1378 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
1379
1380- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
1381 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
1382 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
1383 do so.
1384
1385- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
1386
1387 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
1388
1389- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
1390
1391- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
1392 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
1393
1394- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
1395 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
1396
1397- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
1398 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
1399 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
1400
1401- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
1402 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
1403 network, merge the two pools.
1404
1405- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
1406 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
1407 fix this bug.
1408
1409 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
1410
1411- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
1412 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
1413
1414- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
1415 the same case.
1416
1417- Additional documentation.
1418
1419- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
1420 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
1421
1422 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
1423
1424- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
1425- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
1426
1427 Changes since 3.0.1rc2
1428
1429- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
1430 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
1431 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
1432 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
1433 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
1434
1435 Changes since 3.0.1rc1
1436
1437- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
1438 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
1439 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
1440 wasn't the one that removed it.
1441
1442- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
1443 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
1444 were not configured.
1445
1446- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
1447
1448- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
1449 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
1450 routing information.
1451
1452- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
1453 request being sent.
1454
1455- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
1456 done.
1457
1458- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
1459 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
1460 were pending.
1461
1462- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
1463 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
1464 problems with failover.
1465
1466- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
1467 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
1468 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
1469
1470 Changes since 3.0
1471
1472- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
1473 smash in the subclass allocation code.
1474
1475- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
1476 no object is open, it dumps core.
1477
1478- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
1479
1480- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
1481
1482- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
1483
1484- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
1485 a host object attribute with a null value.
1486
1487 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
1488
1489- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
1490
1491- Fix an obscure core dump.
1492
1493- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
1494 when crucial information is left out.
1495
1496- Log "no free leases" as an error.
1497
1498- Documentation updates.
1499
1500 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
1501
1502- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
1503
1504- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
1505 structure wasn't zeroed.
1506
1507- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
1508 incorrectly.
1509
1510- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
1511 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
1512 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
1513 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
1514 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
1515 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
1516 restarted.
1517
1518 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
1519
1520- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
1521 in failover-enabled pools.
1522
1523- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
1524 declarations).
1525
1526- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
1527 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
1528
1529- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
1530 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
1531
1532- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
1533
1534- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
1535 defined but not referenced by any pools.
1536
1537- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
1538
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1540
1541- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
1542
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1544
1545- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
1546
1547- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
1548
1549- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
1550
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1552
1553- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
1554 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
1555 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
1556
1557- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
1558 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
1559 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
1560 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
1561 string.
1562
1563- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
1564
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1566
1567- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
1568 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
1569
1570- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
1571 malformed packets.
1572
1573- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
1574
1575- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
1576 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
1577 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
1578
1579- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
1580
1581- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
1582
1583- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
1584
1585- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
1586 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
1587
1588- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
1589 tcp connections from being played back.
1590
1591- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
1592 on exit.
1593
1594- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
1595
1596- Add some configurability to the build system.
1597
1598- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
1599
1600- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
1601 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
1602 hadn't been noticed until now.
1603
1604 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
1605
1606- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
1607 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
1608
1609- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
1610 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
1611 conformant, but also didn't work).
1612
1613- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
1614 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
1615
1616- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
1617 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
1618
1619- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
1620 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
1621
1622- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
1623 variables to leases via OMAPI.
1624
1625- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
1626 doing failover.
1627
1628- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
1629 running on alpha processors.
1630
1631- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
1632 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
1633
1634- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
1635
1636- Install omshell (including new documentation).
1637
1638- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
1639 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
1640
1641- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
1642
1643- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
1644 actually named (key names are domain names).
1645
1646- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
1647
1648- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
1649 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
1650
1651- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
1652 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
1653
1654- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
1655 statements.
1656
1657- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
1658 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
1659
1660- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
1661 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
1662 operating.
1663
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1665
1666- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
1667 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
1668 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
1669 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
1670
1671- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
1672 using omapi to manipulate leases.
1673
1674- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
1675
1676
1677 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
1678
1679- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
1680 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
1681
1682- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
1683 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
1684 to the chain.
1685
1686- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
1687
1688- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
1689
1690- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
1691
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1694
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1697- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
1698
1699 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
1700
1701- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
1702 DHCPDECLINE.
1703
1704- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
1705
1706- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
1707 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
1708 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
1709
1710- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
1711
1712- Documentation fixes.
1713
1714- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
1715 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
1716
1717- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
1718 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
1719
1720- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
1721
1722- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
1723
1724- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
1725 case-insensitive.
1726
1727- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
1728
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1731 consistently.
1732
1733- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
1734 systems with the probe not working correctly.
1735
1736- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
1737
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1739
1740- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
1741 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
1742 result of duplicate leases.
1743
1744- Document OMAPI server objects.
1745
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1747
1748- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
1749 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
1750
1751- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
1752 core dumps.
1753
1754- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
1755 Friedrich.
1756
1757- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
1758
1759 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
1760
1761- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
1762 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 1763 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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1765
1766- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
1767 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
1768
1769- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
1770 trace file.
1771
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1774- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
1775 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
1776 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
1777 e.g., Digital Unix.
1778
1779- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
1780 when no error had occurred.
1781
1782- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
1783 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
1784 non-communicating state.
1785
1786- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
1787
1788- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
1789 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
1790 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
1791
1792- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
1793 when the client lease expired.
1794
1795- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
1796 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
1797 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
1798 in testing.
1799
1800- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
1801 the command line, it would fail.
1802
1803- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
1804 user impact).
1805
1806- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
1807
1808- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
1809 they're executable.
1810
1811 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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1813- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
1814 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
1815 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
1816 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
1817
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1819 Transmeta.
1820
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1821- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
1822 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
1823 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
1824 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
1825
1826- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
1827 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
1828
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1829 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 24
1830
1831- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
1832 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
1833
1834- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
1835
1836- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
1837
1838- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
1839
1840- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
1841
1842- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
1843
1844- Update some parts of the README file.
1845
1846- Support GCC on SCO.
1847
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1848 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 23
1849
1850- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
1851 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
1852
1853- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
1854 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
1855 unbill the old class.
1856
1857- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
1858 process the state transition immediately.
1859
1860- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
1861 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
1862
1863- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
1864
1865- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
1866
1867- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
1868
1869- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
1870
1871- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
1872 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
1873 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
1874
1875- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
1876 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
1877
1878- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
1879 lease file.
1880
1881- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
1882
1883- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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1886
1887- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
1888 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
1889
1890- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
1891
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1892 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 21
1893
1894- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
1895
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1896 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 20
1897
1898- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
1899
1900- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
1901 pl19.
1902
1903- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
1904 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
1905 past the regression test.
1906
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1908
1909- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
1910 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
1911
1912- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
1913 DHCPREQUEST.
1914
1915- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
1916
1917- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
1918
1919- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
1920
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1921 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 18
1922
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1923- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
1924 (Damien Neil)
1925
1926- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
1927 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
1928
1929- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
1930 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
1931 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
1932
1933- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
1934 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
1935 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
1936 message.
1937
1938- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
1939 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
1940 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
1941
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1944 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
1945 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
1946 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
1947 this way will work.
1948
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1949- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
1950
1951- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
1952 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
1953 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
1954 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
1955
1956 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
1957
1958 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
1959
1960- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
1961 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
1962 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
1963
1964- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
1965 Hermann Lauer.
1966
1967- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
1968 messages.
1969
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1970- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
1971 it contained quoted strings.
1972
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1973 ** there was no pl17 **
1974
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1975 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 16
1976
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1977- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
1978 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
1979 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
1980 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
1981 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
1982 tracking down memory leaks.
1983
1984- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
1985 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
1986 Solaris.
1987
1988- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
1989 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
1990 corruption and core dumps.
1991
1992- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
1993 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
1994
1995- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
1996
1997- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
1998 and implemented by Damien Neil.
1999
2000- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
2001 name and version to standard output.
2002
2003- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
2004
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2005- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
2006 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
2007
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2008- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
2009
2010- Lots of documentation updates.
2011
2012- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
2013 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
2014
2015- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
2016
2017- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
2018 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
2019
2020
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2021 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 15
2022
2023- Some documentation tweaks.
2024
2025- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
2026
2027- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
2028
2029- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
2030 agent options into them.
2031
2032- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
2033
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2034- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
2035 options.
2036
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2037 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 14
2038
2039- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
2040 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
2041 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
2042 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
2043 used in class statements to control address allocation.
2044
2045- Fix up documentation.
2046
2047- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
2048 significantly in a high-demand situation.
2049
2050- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
2051
2052- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
2053
2054- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
2055 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
2056 practical use otherwise.
2057
2058- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
2059 for debugging.
2060
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2061 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 13
2062
2063- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
2064 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
2065 dump on some systems.
2066
2067- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
2068 option.
2069
2070- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
2071 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
2072
2073- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
2074 that were not printing enough information.
2075
2076- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
2077 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
2078
2079- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
2080 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
2081 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
2082 were answering.
2083
2084- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
2085 the transition.
2086
2087
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2088 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 12
2089
2090- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
2091
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2092 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
2093
2094- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
2095 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
2096 representation from working correctly.
2097
2098- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
2099 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
2100 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
2101 could spin.
2102
2103- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
2104 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
2105
2106- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
2107 interface name on the command line.
2108
2109- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
2110 client state.
2111
2112- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
2113 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
2114 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
2115 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
2116 added by Ted Lemon.
2117
2118- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
2119 be made to log debugging information and other information.
2120
2121- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
2122 end option.
2123
2124- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
2125 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
2126 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
2127
2128- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
2129 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
2130 face of a null hardware address on input.
2131
2132- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
2133 specified unqualified.
2134
2135- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
2136 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
2137
2138- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
2139 RFC.
2140
2141- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
2142
2143- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
2144
2145- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
2146 it works.
2147
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2149
2150- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
2151 to CVS.
2152
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2153 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
2154
2155- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
2156
2157- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
2158 in patchlevel 9.
2159
2160- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
2161 options at renewal time.
2162
2163- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
2164 configuration language.
2165
2166- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
2167
2168- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
2169 done when no client hostname was received.
2170
2171- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
2172
2173- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
2174 the DHCP option space.
2175
2176- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
2177
2178- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
2179 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
2180
2181- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
2182 silently dropped.
2183
2184- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
2185 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
2186
2187- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
2188 will be correctly updated.
2189
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2190 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
2191
2192- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
2193 bounds-checking.
2194
2195 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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2197- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
2198
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2201- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
2202 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
2203 possible to exploit it any further than that.
2204
2205- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
2206 option.
2207
2208- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
2209 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
2210 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
2211 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
2212 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
2213 meaningfully.
2214
2215- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
2216 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
2217 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
2218
2219- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
2220 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
2221 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
2222 this one down!
2223
2224- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
2225 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
2226 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
2227 down and fixing this problem.
2228
2229 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
2230
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2231- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
2232 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
2233
2234- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
2235 environment.
2236
2237- Fix suffix operator.
2238
2239- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
2240
2241- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
2242 connection code.
2243
2244- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
2245
2246- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
2247
2248- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
2249 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
2250
2251- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
2252
2253- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
2254
2255- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
2256 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
2257
2258- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
2259 spawn with.
2260
2261- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
2262 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
2263
2264- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
2265 for OMAPI.
2266
2267- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
2268 can install in host declarations.
2269
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2271
2272- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
2273 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
2274 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
2275 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
2276 comments)!
2277
2278- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
2279
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2280- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
2281 request for help on this with patches!
2282
2283- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
2284 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
2285 lost, they never reconnect.
2286
2287- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
2288 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
2289
2290- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
2291 dump.
2292
2293- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
2294 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
2295 catching this one.
2296
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2298
2299- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
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2302
2303- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
2304 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
2305 declared without a key.
2306
2307- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
2308
2309- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
2310 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
2311
2312- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
2313 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
2314 determine the maximum size of the response.
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2317
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2318- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
2319 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
2320
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2321- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
2322 RENEWING client.
2323
2324- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
2325
2326- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
2327 using memcmp().
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2330
2331- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
2332 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
2333 pointing this out.
2334
2335- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
2336 exit.
2337
2338- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
2339
2340- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
2341 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.