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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
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2 Version 3.1.0a1
3 August 1, 2006
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da411127 7 NEW FEATURES
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9Version 3.1.x of the ISC DHCP Distribution includes the following major
10new features compared to its 3.0.x derivative:
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12 - Failover protocol 'MAC Address Affinity' to reduce pool churn.
13 - Support for the 'reserved' and 'bootp' failover flags, which
14 means in lay terms that static allocations can be made to
15 clients in which 'on events' can be supported.
16 - Several other failover optimizations and changes.
17 - Management of class and subclass statements via OMAPI.
18 - Many new configuration statement functions.
19 - Initial formal support for VIVCO/VIVSO options.
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21For a full list of new features added in this release, please observe
22the changes list directly following this section.
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24For information on how to install, configure and run this software,
25as well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult
26the README file.
27
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29 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
30
31- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
32 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
33 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
34 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
35
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36- Support for 'reserved' (psuedo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
37 was introduced.
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39- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
40 via OMAPI.
41
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42- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
43 the protocol draft.
44
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45- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
46 one does not already exist on the system.
47
b43c87ad 48- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
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50- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
51 matches RFC 3074.
52
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53- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
54 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 55 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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57- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
58 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 59 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
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61- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
62 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
63 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
64 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
65
66- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
67 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
68 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
69 priority over the client's parameter request list.
70
f7fdb216 71- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 72 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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73 DHCPv6 support.
74
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75- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
76 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
77 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
78
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79- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
80 have been incorporated.
81
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82- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
83 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
84 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
85 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
86 that belong to the peer in need.
87
88- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
89 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
90
91- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
92 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
93 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
94
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95- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
96 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
97
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98- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
99 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
100 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
101 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
102 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
103
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104- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
105 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
106 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
107 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
108
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109- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
110 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
111 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
112 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
113 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
114 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
115 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
116 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
117 ignoring this aspect of their request.
118
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119- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
120 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
121
41e45067 122- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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123 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
124 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
125 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
126
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127- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
128 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
129 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
130 hardware and funding the development.
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132- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
133 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
134 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
135 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
136 via Robin Breathe.
137
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138- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
139 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
140 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
141 from Christof Chen.
142
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143- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
144 formally supported.
145
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146 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
147
901306d5 148- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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149 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
150 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
151 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
152 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
153
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154- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
155 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
156
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157 Changes since 3.0.4
158
159- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
160 scopes are actually global has been added.
161
162- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
163 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
164 known to be damaging.
165
166- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
167 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
168 balancing).
169
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170- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
171 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
172 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
173
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174- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
175 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
176 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
177
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178- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
179 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
180 more clear now.
181
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182- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
183 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
184 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
185 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
186 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 187 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
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189- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
190 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
191
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192- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
193 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
194 made possible.
195
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196- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
197 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
198 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
199
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200- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
201 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
202
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203- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
204 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
205 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
206
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207- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
208 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
209 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
210 value with the later configured value).
211
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212- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
213 have been named and documented.
214
215- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
216 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
217 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
218 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
219 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
220 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
221 write new output.
222
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223 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
224
225- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
226 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
227
228 Changes since 3.0.4b3
229
230- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
231 mailing list.
232
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233- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
234 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
235
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236 Changes since 3.0.4b2
237
238- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunatley require
239 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
240
241- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
242 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
243
244- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
245 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
246 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
247 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
248
249- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
250 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
251 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
252 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
253 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
254 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
255 transition (properly).
256
257- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
258
259 Changes since 3.0.4b1
260
261- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
262 STDIN after reading one line.
263
264- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
265 descriptor it opened twice.
266
267- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
268 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
269 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
270
271 Changes since 3.0.3
272
273- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
274 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
275 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
276
277- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
278 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
279 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
280
281- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
282 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
283 wether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
284 leases to allocate.
285
286- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
287 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailng PAD option, rather
288 than the entire block of them.
289
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290! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
291 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
292 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
293 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
294 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
295 to a patch from infamous42md.
296
297! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
298 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
299 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
300 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
301 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
302 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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304- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
305 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
306 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
307
308- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
309 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
310
311- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
312 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
313 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
314 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
315 transitional states.
316
317- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
318 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
319 once it detects the old db does not exist.
320
321- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
322 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
323 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
324
325- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
326 been doucmented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
327
328- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
329 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
330
331- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
332 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
333 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
334
335- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
336 patch from 'infamous42md'.
337
338- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
339 repaired.
340
341- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
342 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
343 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
344 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
345
346- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
347 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
348 data.
349
350- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
351 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
352 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
353 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
354 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
355
356- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
357 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
358 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
359 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
360 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
361
362- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
363 has been repaired.
364
365- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
366 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
367 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
368 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
369 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
370
371- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
372 be treated consistently, regardless of wether TRACING is defined or not.
373
374- The linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
375 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
376 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
377 move to 3.[01].x.
378
379- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
380 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
381
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382 Changes since 3.0.3b3
383
384- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
385 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
386
387- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
388 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
389 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
390 workaround.
391
392 Changes since 3.0.3b2
393
394- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
395 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
396
397 Changes since 3.0.3b1
398
399- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
400 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
401 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
402
403- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
404 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
405 dynamic updates were also retouched.
406
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407 Changes since 3.0.2
408
409- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
410 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceeding DISCOVER.
411 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
412
413- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
414 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
415 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
416 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
417 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
418
419- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
420 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
421 Jason Vas Dias at Redhat.
422
423- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
424 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
425 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
426
427- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
428 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
429 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
430 Peter Poeml.
431
432- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
433 Dr. Peter Poeml.
434
435- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
436 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
437 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
438 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
439 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
440 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
441
442- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
443 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
444 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
445 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
446
447- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
448 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
449 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
450 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
451
452- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
453 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
454
455- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
456 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
457 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
458
459- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
460 7 bytes, and failover.
461
462- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
463 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
464 at Redhat.
465
466- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
467 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
468 should work better.
469
470- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
471 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
472 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
473
474- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
475 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
476 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
477
478 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
479
480- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
481 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
482
483 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
484
485- Two varaibles introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
486 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
487 overloading. This was repaired.
488
489- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
490 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
491 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
492 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
493 three chunks to fit.
494
495- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
496 were repaired.
497
498- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
499 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
500 leak).
501
502 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
503
504- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
505 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
506
507 Changes since 3.0.2b1
508
509- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
510
511 Changes since 3.0.1
512
513- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
514 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
515 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
516
517- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
518 name was not provided by the server.
519
520- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
521 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
522
523- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
524 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
525
526- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
527 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
528
529- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
530
531- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
532
533- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
534 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
535 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
536 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
537 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
538
539- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
540 the configuration be globally scoped.
541
542- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
543 Farkas.
544
545- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
546 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
547
548- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
549 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
550
551- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
552 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
553
554- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
555 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
556 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
557 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
558
559- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
560 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
561 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
562 respond to POOLREQ messages.
563
564- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
565 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
566 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
567
568- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
569
570- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
571 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
572 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
573
574- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
575 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
576 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
577 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
578 Fjone and directconnect.no.
579
580- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
581 to Andreas Gustafsson.
582
583- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
584 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
585
586- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
587 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
588 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
589 DISCOVER timeout handling.
590
591- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
592 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
593
594- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
595 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
596 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
597
598- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
599 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
600 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
601 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
602 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
603 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
604
605- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
606 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
607 Infoblox.
608
609- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
610
611- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
612 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
613 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
614 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
615 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
616 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
617 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
618
619- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
620 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
621 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
622
623- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
624 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
625 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
626
627- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
628
629 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
630
631- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
632 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
633 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
634 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
635 systems either.
636
637- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
638
639- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
640 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
641 is false.
642
643- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
644 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
645
646- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
647
648 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
649
650! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
651 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
652 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
653 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
654 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
655 both finding and solving the problem.
656
657! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
658 in log_*() functions was evidented, on some specific platforms where
659 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
660 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
661 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
662 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
663 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
664 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
665 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
666 published version of ISC DHCP.
667
668- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
669
670- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
671
672 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
673
674- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
675 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
676 Richard Hirst.
677
678- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
679 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
680 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
681
682- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
683
684- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
685 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
686 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
687 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
688
689- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
690 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on solaris platforms.
691
692- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
693 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
694
695- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
696
697 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
698
699- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
700 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
701
702- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
703 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
704 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
705
706- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
707 by name was fixed.
708
709- Delcaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
710 longer result in error.
711
712- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
713
714- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
715 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
716 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
717
718- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
719 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
720
721- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
722 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
723 Blapp.
724
725- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
726 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
727 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
728 Martin Blapp.
729
730- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
731 expiry times in failover configurations.
732
733- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
734 Steve G.
735
736- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
737 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
738
739- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
740 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
741 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
742 now "unknown-144".
743
744- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
745 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
746
747 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
748
749- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
750
751- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
752 not be bash.
753
754- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
755
756- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
757 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
758 that errored before will now work properly.
759
760- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
761 names was repaired.
762
763- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
764 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
765 configuration file.
766
767- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
768 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
769
770- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
771 error rather than a null dereference.
772
773 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
774
775- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
776
777- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
778
779- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
780 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
781
782- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
783
784- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
785
786- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
787 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
788 self-corrupting lease databases.
789
790- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
791
792- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
793 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
794
795- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
796
797- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
798
799- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
800 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
801 Ling Gou.
802
803- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
804 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
805
806- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
807 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
808 Ted Lemon for the patch.
809
810- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
811 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
812
813 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
814
815- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
816 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
817
818- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
819
820- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
821 a memory leak.
822
823- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
824 script.
825
826- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
827
828- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
829
830- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
831
832- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
833
834- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
835
836- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
837
838- Increment the hop count when relaying.
839
840- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
841
842- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
843
844- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
845
846- Change the type of rbuf_max.
847
848- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
849
850 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
851
852- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
853 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
854 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
855
856 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
857
858- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
859 to be renewed.
860
861- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
862 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
863
864- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
865 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
866
867- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
868 that two permit lists matched.
869
870- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
871 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
872
873- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
874
875- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
876 requested it, contrary to the standard.
877
878- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
879
880- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
881
882- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
883 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
884 going to update its A record.
885
886- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
887 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
888 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
889 DNS server.
890
891- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
892
893- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
894
895- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
896 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
897 NetBSD project).
898
899- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
900 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
901
902- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
903 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
904
905- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
906
907- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
908
909- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
910 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
911 failover protocol standard.
912
913- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
914 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
915 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
916
917- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
918 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
919 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
920 do so.
921
922- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
923
924 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
925
926- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
927
928- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
929 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
930
931- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
932 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
933
934- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
935 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
936 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
937
938- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
939 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
940 network, merge the two pools.
941
942- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
943 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
944 fix this bug.
945
946 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
947
948- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
949 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
950
951- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
952 the same case.
953
954- Additional documentation.
955
956- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
957 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
958
959 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
960
961- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
962- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
963
964 Changes since 3.0.1rc2
965
966- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
967 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
968 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
969 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
970 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
971
972 Changes since 3.0.1rc1
973
974- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
975 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
976 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
977 wasn't the one that removed it.
978
979- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
980 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
981 were not configured.
982
983- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
984
985- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
986 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
987 routing information.
988
989- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
990 request being sent.
991
992- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
993 done.
994
995- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
996 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
997 were pending.
998
999- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
1000 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
1001 problems with failover.
1002
1003- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
1004 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
1005 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
1006
1007 Changes since 3.0
1008
1009- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
1010 smash in the subclass allocation code.
1011
1012- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
1013 no object is open, it dumps core.
1014
1015- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
1016
1017- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
1018
1019- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
1020
1021- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
1022 a host object attribute with a null value.
1023
1024 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
1025
1026- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
1027
1028- Fix an obscure core dump.
1029
1030- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
1031 when crucial information is left out.
1032
1033- Log "no free leases" as an error.
1034
1035- Documentation updates.
1036
1037 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
1038
1039- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
1040
1041- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
1042 structure wasn't zeroed.
1043
1044- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
1045 incorrectly.
1046
1047- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
1048 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
1049 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
1050 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
1051 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
1052 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
1053 restarted.
1054
1055 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
1056
1057- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
1058 in failover-enabled pools.
1059
1060- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
1061 declarations).
1062
1063- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
1064 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
1065
1066- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
1067 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
1068
1069- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
1070
1071- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
1072 defined but not referenced by any pools.
1073
1074- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
1075
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1077
1078- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
1079
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1081
1082- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
1083
1084- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
1085
1086- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
1087
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1089
1090- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
1091 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
1092 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
1093
1094- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
1095 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
1096 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
1097 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
1098 string.
1099
1100- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
1101
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1103
1104- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
1105 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
1106
1107- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
1108 malformed packets.
1109
1110- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
1111
1112- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
1113 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
1114 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
1115
1116- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
1117
1118- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
1119
1120- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
1121
1122- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
1123 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
1124
1125- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
1126 tcp connections from being played back.
1127
1128- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
1129 on exit.
1130
1131- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
1132
1133- Add some configurability to the build system.
1134
1135- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
1136
1137- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
1138 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
1139 hadn't been noticed until now.
1140
1141 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
1142
1143- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
1144 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
1145
1146- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
1147 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
1148 conformant, but also didn't work).
1149
1150- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
1151 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
1152
1153- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
1154 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
1155
1156- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
1157 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
1158
1159- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
1160 variables to leases via OMAPI.
1161
1162- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
1163 doing failover.
1164
1165- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
1166 running on alpha processors.
1167
1168- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
1169 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
1170
1171- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
1172
1173- Install omshell (including new documentation).
1174
1175- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
1176 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
1177
1178- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
1179
1180- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
1181 actually named (key names are domain names).
1182
1183- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
1184
1185- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
1186 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
1187
1188- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
1189 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
1190
1191- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
1192 statements.
1193
1194- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
1195 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
1196
1197- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
1198 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
1199 operating.
1200
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1202
1203- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
1204 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
1205 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
1206 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
1207
1208- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
1209 using omapi to manipulate leases.
1210
1211- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
1212
1213
1214 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
1215
1216- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
1217 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
1218
1219- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
1220 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
1221 to the chain.
1222
1223- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
1224
1225- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
1226
1227- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
1228
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1231
98311e4b 1232- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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1234- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
1235
1236 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
1237
1238- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
1239 DHCPDECLINE.
1240
1241- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
1242
1243- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
1244 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
1245 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
1246
1247- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
1248
1249- Documentation fixes.
1250
1251- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
1252 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
1253
1254- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
1255 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
1256
1257- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
1258
1259- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
1260
1261- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
1262 case-insensitive.
1263
1264- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
1265
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1268 consistently.
1269
1270- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
1271 systems with the probe not working correctly.
1272
1273- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
1274
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1276
1277- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
1278 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
1279 result of duplicate leases.
1280
1281- Document OMAPI server objects.
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1283 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Patchlevel 1
1284
1285- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
1286 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
1287
1288- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
1289 core dumps.
1290
1291- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
1292 Friedrich.
1293
1294- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
1295
1296 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
1297
1298- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
1299 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
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1301 billing class code.
1302
1303- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
1304 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
1305
1306- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
1307 trace file.
1308
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1312 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
1313 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
1314 e.g., Digital Unix.
1315
1316- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
1317 when no error had occurred.
1318
1319- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
1320 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
1321 non-communicating state.
1322
1323- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
1324
1325- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
1326 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
1327 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
1328
1329- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
1330 when the client lease expired.
1331
1332- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
1333 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
1334 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
1335 in testing.
1336
1337- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
1338 the command line, it would fail.
1339
1340- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
1341 user impact).
1342
1343- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
1344
1345- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
1346 they're executable.
1347
1348 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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1350- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
1351 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
1352 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
1353 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
1354
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1355- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
1356 Transmeta.
1357
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1358- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
1359 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
1360 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
1361 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
1362
1363- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
1364 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
1365
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1367
1368- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
1369 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
1370
1371- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
1372
1373- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
1374
1375- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
1376
1377- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
1378
1379- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
1380
1381- Update some parts of the README file.
1382
1383- Support GCC on SCO.
1384
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1386
1387- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
1388 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
1389
1390- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
1391 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
1392 unbill the old class.
1393
1394- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
1395 process the state transition immediately.
1396
1397- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
1398 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
1399
1400- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
1401
1402- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
1403
1404- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
1405
1406- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
1407
1408- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
1409 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
1410 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
1411
1412- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
1413 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
1414
1415- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
1416 lease file.
1417
1418- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
1419
1420- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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1423
1424- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
1425 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
1426
1427- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
1428
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1430
1431- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
1432
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1434
1435- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
1436
1437- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
1438 pl19.
1439
1440- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
1441 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
1442 past the regression test.
1443
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1445
1446- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
1447 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
1448
1449- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
1450 DHCPREQUEST.
1451
1452- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
1453
1454- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
1455
1456- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
1457
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1459
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1460- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
1461 (Damien Neil)
1462
1463- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
1464 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
1465
1466- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
1467 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
1468 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
1469
1470- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
1471 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
1472 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
1473 message.
1474
1475- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
1476 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
1477 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
1478
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1481 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
1482 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
1483 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
1484 this way will work.
1485
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1487
1488- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
1489 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
1490 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
1491 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
1492
1493 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
1494
1495 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
1496
1497- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
1498 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
1499 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
1500
1501- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
1502 Hermann Lauer.
1503
1504- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
1505 messages.
1506
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1508 it contained quoted strings.
1509
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1511
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1513
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1514- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
1515 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
1516 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
1517 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
1518 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
1519 tracking down memory leaks.
1520
1521- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
1522 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
1523 Solaris.
1524
1525- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
1526 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
1527 corruption and core dumps.
1528
1529- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
1530 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
1531
1532- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
1533
1534- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
1535 and implemented by Damien Neil.
1536
1537- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
1538 name and version to standard output.
1539
1540- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
1541
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1543 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
1544
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1545- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
1546
1547- Lots of documentation updates.
1548
1549- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
1550 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
1551
1552- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
1553
1554- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
1555 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
1556
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1559
1560- Some documentation tweaks.
1561
1562- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
1563
1564- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
1565
1566- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
1567 agent options into them.
1568
1569- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
1570
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1571- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
1572 options.
1573
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1575
1576- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
1577 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
1578 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
1579 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
1580 used in class statements to control address allocation.
1581
1582- Fix up documentation.
1583
1584- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
1585 significantly in a high-demand situation.
1586
1587- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
1588
1589- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
1590
1591- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
1592 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
1593 practical use otherwise.
1594
1595- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
1596 for debugging.
1597
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1599
1600- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
1601 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
1602 dump on some systems.
1603
1604- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
1605 option.
1606
1607- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
1608 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
1609
1610- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
1611 that were not printing enough information.
1612
1613- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
1614 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
1615
1616- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
1617 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
1618 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
1619 were answering.
1620
1621- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
1622 the transition.
1623
1624
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1626
1627- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
1628
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1630
1631- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
1632 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
1633 representation from working correctly.
1634
1635- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
1636 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
1637 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
1638 could spin.
1639
1640- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
1641 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
1642
1643- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
1644 interface name on the command line.
1645
1646- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
1647 client state.
1648
1649- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
1650 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
1651 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
1652 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
1653 added by Ted Lemon.
1654
1655- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
1656 be made to log debugging information and other information.
1657
1658- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
1659 end option.
1660
1661- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
1662 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
1663 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
1664
1665- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
1666 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
1667 face of a null hardware address on input.
1668
1669- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
1670 specified unqualified.
1671
1672- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
1673 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
1674
1675- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
1676 RFC.
1677
1678- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
1679
1680- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
1681
1682- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
1683 it works.
1684
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1686
1687- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
1688 to CVS.
1689
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1691
1692- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
1693
1694- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
1695 in patchlevel 9.
1696
1697- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
1698 options at renewal time.
1699
1700- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
1701 configuration language.
1702
1703- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
1704
1705- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
1706 done when no client hostname was received.
1707
1708- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
1709
1710- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
1711 the DHCP option space.
1712
1713- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
1714
1715- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
1716 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
1717
1718- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
1719 silently dropped.
1720
1721- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
1722 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
1723
1724- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
1725 will be correctly updated.
1726
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1728
1729- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
1730 bounds-checking.
1731
1732 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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1734- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
1735
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1738- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
1739 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
1740 possible to exploit it any further than that.
1741
1742- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
1743 option.
1744
1745- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
1746 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
1747 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
1748 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
1749 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
1750 meaningfully.
1751
1752- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
1753 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
1754 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
1755
1756- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
1757 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
1758 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
1759 this one down!
1760
1761- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
1762 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
1763 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
1764 down and fixing this problem.
1765
1766 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
1767
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1768- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
1769 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
1770
1771- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
1772 environment.
1773
1774- Fix suffix operator.
1775
1776- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
1777
1778- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
1779 connection code.
1780
1781- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
1782
1783- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
1784
1785- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
1786 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
1787
1788- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
1789
1790- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
1791
1792- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
1793 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
1794
1795- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
1796 spawn with.
1797
1798- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
1799 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
1800
1801- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
1802 for OMAPI.
1803
1804- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
1805 can install in host declarations.
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1808
1809- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
1810 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
1811 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
1812 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
1813 comments)!
1814
1815- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
1816
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1818 request for help on this with patches!
1819
1820- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
1821 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
1822 lost, they never reconnect.
1823
1824- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
1825 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
1826
1827- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
1828 dump.
1829
1830- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
1831 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
1832 catching this one.
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1835
1836- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
1837 of options, so that the client configuration can overried, e.g., the
1838 lease renewal time.
1839
1840- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
1841 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
1842 declared without a key.
1843
1844- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
1845
1846- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
1847 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
1848
1849- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
1850 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
1851 determine the maximum size of the response.
1852
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1854
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1855- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
1856 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
1857
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1859 RENEWING client.
1860
1861- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
1862
1863- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
1864 using memcmp().
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1867
1868- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
1869 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
1870 pointing this out.
1871
1872- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
1873 exit.
1874
1875- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
1876
1877- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
1878 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.