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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
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2 Version 4.0.0a3
3 September 5, 2007
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98311e4b 5 Release Notes
72c7bd79 6
da411127 7 NEW FEATURES
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9The DHCP server in version 4.0.x of the ISC DHCP Distribution supports
10DHCPv6 in addition to DHCP for IPv4.
11
12Several new options have been added to the dhcpd executable, which are
13documented in the man page. Several changes have been made to the
14configuration file as well, which are also documented in the man
15pages.
16
45d545f0 17There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
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18release, which will be addressed shortly:
19
99fe695e 20- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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22- There is no DHCPv6 Relay Agent implementation. There are only DHCPv6
23 Server and Client implementations.
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39725d92 25- Only a single address is supported per IA.
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26
27- IA_TA addresses are not supported.
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98bd7ca0 29- IA_PD prefixes are not supported.
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31- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages. These
32 should be configurable, and probably localized via gettext() or the
33 like.
34
35- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
36
37- Dynamically allocated leases do not respond to Confirm messages.
38
98bd7ca0 39- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 40 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 41 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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43For information on how to install, configure and run this software,
44as well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult
45the README file.
46
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47ISC DHCP now uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please
48review the output of "./configure --help" to see what options are
49available.
50
51The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and
52may not work on other platforms. Please report any problems and
53suggested fixes to <dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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ab3a540f 56 Changes since 4.0.0a3
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58- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
59 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
60
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61- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
62 point out the problem.
63
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64 Changes since 4.0.0a2
65
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66- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
67 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
68
763cba6b 69- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
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71- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
72 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
73 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
74
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75- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
76
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77- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
78 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
79
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80- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
81 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
82 loaded from persistent storage.
83
45d545f0 84- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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85 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
86 necessary.
87
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88- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
89 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
90 rapid-commit option.
91
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92- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
93 non-128-bits in length were removed.
94
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95 Changes since 4.0.0a1
96
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97- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
98 and fix.
99
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100- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
101
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102- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
103
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104- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
105 for when loading configuration.
106
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107- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
108 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
109 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
110
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111- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
112 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
113 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
114 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
115
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116- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
117
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118- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
119 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 120
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121- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
122
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123- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
124
125- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
126 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
127
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128- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
129 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
130
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131- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
132
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133- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
134 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
135
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136 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
137
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138- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
139
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140- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
141 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
142
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143- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
144
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145- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
146 initialized.
147
148- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
149
150- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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151 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
152
153- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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155- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
156
157- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
158 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
159
160- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
161
8ea19a71 162- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 163 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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164
165- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
166 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
167
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168- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
169
170- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
171
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172- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
173
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174 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
175
176- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
177 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
178 no support currently for both.
179
180- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
181 IAADDR option.
182
183- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
184 options.
185
186- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
187
188- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
189 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
190
191- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
192 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
193 specifying type 1 or type 2).
194
195- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
196 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
197
198- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
199 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
200 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
201 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
202 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
203 differently, they both use the same code here).
204
205- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
206 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
207 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
208
209- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
210
211- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
212 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
213 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
214 it should not intercept.
215
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216 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
217
218- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
219 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
220 between primary and secondary.
221
222- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
223 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
224 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
225
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226 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
227
228- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
229 failover protected subnets was removed.
230
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231 Changes since 3.1.0b2
232
233- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
234 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
235 odd number of leases).
236
237- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
238 rebalance run, and one after.
239
240- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
241 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
242 processing these messages.
243
fe5b0fdd 244 Changes since 3.1.0b1
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246- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
247 objects.
248
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249- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
250 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
251 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
252 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
253 at Allianz.
254
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255- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
256 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
257
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258- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
259 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
260
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261- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
262 caused the server to abort.
263
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264- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
265 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
266 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
267
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268- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
269 by empty spaces would not get included.
270
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271- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
272 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
273
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274- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
275 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
276
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277- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
278 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
279
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280- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
281 on the parameter request list.
282
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283 Changes since 3.1.0a3
284
285- Some spelling fixes.
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287 Changes since 3.1.0a2
288
289- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
290 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
291
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292- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
293 domain-search option syntax.
294
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295 Changes since 3.1.0a1
296
297- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
298 hash table was repaired.
299
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300- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
301 entering normal state.
302
303- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
304 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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305 'xid mismatch' log messages.
306
307- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
308 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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310- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
311 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
312 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
313 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
314
45d545f0 315- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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316 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
317 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
318 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
319 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
320 to their needs.
321
322- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
323 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
324 run will attempt balance.
325
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326- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
327
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328 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
329
330- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
331 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
332 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
333 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
334
98bd7ca0 335- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 336 was introduced.
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338- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
339 via OMAPI.
340
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341- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
342 the protocol draft.
343
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344- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
345 one does not already exist on the system.
346
b43c87ad 347- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 348
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349- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
350 matches RFC 3074.
351
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352- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
353 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 354 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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356- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
357 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 358 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 359
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360- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
361 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
362 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
363 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
364
365- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
366 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
367 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
368 priority over the client's parameter request list.
369
f7fdb216 370- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 371 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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372 DHCPv6 support.
373
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374- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
375 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
376 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
377
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378- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
379 have been incorporated.
380
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381- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
382 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
383 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
384 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
385 that belong to the peer in need.
386
387- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
388 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
389
390- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
391 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
392 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
393
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394- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
395 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
396
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397- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
398 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
399 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
400 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
401 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
402
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403- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
404 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
405 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
406 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
407
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408- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
409 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
410 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
411 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
412 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
413 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
414 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
415 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
416 ignoring this aspect of their request.
417
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418- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
419 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
420
41e45067 421- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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422 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
423 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
424 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
425
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426- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
427 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
428 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
429 hardware and funding the development.
6d103865 430
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431- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
432 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
433 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
434 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
435 via Robin Breathe.
436
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437- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
438 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
439 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
440 from Christof Chen.
441
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442- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
443 formally supported.
444
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445 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
446
447- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
448 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
449
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450 Changes since 3.0.5
451
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452- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
453 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
454 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 455 they actually received.
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456
457- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
458
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459- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
460 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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461 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
462 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
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464- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
465
d69fb6a8 466- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 467 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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469- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
470 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
471 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
472 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
473 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
474 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
475 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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476 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
477
478- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
479 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
480 'file' field.
02428754 481
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482- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
483 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
484
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485- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
486 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
487 a patch from Kevin Steves.
488
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489- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
490 from Chris Wagner.
491
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492- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
493 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
494 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
495
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496- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
497 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
498 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
499 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
500 was set.
501
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502- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
503 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
504
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505- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
506 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
507 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
508 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
509 active ones.
510
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901306d5 513- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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514 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
515 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
516 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
517 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
518
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519- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
520 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
521
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522 Changes since 3.0.4
523
524- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
525 scopes are actually global has been added.
526
527- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
528 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
529 known to be damaging.
530
531- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
532 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
533 balancing).
534
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535- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
536 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
537 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
538
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539- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
540 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
541 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
542
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543- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
544 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
545 more clear now.
546
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547- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
548 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
549 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
550 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
551 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 552 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
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554- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
555 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
556
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557- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
558 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
559 made possible.
560
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561- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
562 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
563 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
564
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565- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
566 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
567
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568- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
569 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
570 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
571
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572- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
573 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
574 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
575 value with the later configured value).
576
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577- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
578 have been named and documented.
579
580- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
581 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
582 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
583 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
584 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
585 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
586 write new output.
587
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588 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
589
590- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
591 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
592
593 Changes since 3.0.4b3
594
595- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
596 mailing list.
597
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598 Changes since 3.0.4b2
599
45d545f0 600- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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601 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
602
603- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
604 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
605
606- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
607 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
608 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
609 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
610
611- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
612 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
613 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
614 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
615 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
616 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
617 transition (properly).
618
619- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
620
621 Changes since 3.0.4b1
622
623- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
624 STDIN after reading one line.
625
626- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
627 descriptor it opened twice.
628
629- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
630 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
631 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
632
633 Changes since 3.0.3
634
635- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
636 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
637 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
638
639- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
640 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
641 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
642
643- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
644 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 645 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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646 leases to allocate.
647
648- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 649 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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650 than the entire block of them.
651
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652! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
653 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
654 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
655 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
656 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
657 to a patch from infamous42md.
658
659! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
660 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
661 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
662 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
663 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
664 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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666- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
667 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
668 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
669
670- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
671 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
672
673- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
674 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
675 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
676 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
677 transitional states.
678
679- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
680 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
681 once it detects the old db does not exist.
682
683- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
684 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
685 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
686
687- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 688 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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690- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
691 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
692
693- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
694 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
695 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
696
697- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
698 patch from 'infamous42md'.
699
700- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
701 repaired.
702
703- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
704 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
705 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
706 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
707
708- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
709 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
710 data.
711
712- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
713 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
714 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
715 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
716 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
717
718- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
719 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
720 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
721 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
722 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
723
724- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
725 has been repaired.
726
727- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
728 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
729 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
730 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
731 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
732
733- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 734 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
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737 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
738 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
739 move to 3.[01].x.
740
741- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
742 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
743
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744 Changes since 3.0.3b3
745
746- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
747 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
748
749- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
750 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
751 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
752 workaround.
753
754 Changes since 3.0.3b2
755
756- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
757 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
758
759 Changes since 3.0.3b1
760
761- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
762 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
763 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
764
765- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
766 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
767 dynamic updates were also retouched.
768
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769 Changes since 3.0.2
770
771- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 772 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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773 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
774
775- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
776 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
777 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
778 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
779 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
780
781- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
782 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
783 Jason Vas Dias at Redhat.
784
785- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
786 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
787 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
788
789- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
790 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
791 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
792 Peter Poeml.
793
794- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
795 Dr. Peter Poeml.
796
797- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
798 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
799 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
800 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
801 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
802 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
803
804- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
805 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
806 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
807 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
808
809- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
810 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
811 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
812 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
813
814- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
815 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
816
817- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
818 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
819 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
820
821- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
822 7 bytes, and failover.
823
824- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
825 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
826 at Redhat.
827
828- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
829 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
830 should work better.
831
832- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
833 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
834 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
835
836- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
837 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
838 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
839
840 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
841
842- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
843 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
844
845 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
846
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848 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
849 overloading. This was repaired.
850
851- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
852 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
853 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
854 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
855 three chunks to fit.
856
857- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
858 were repaired.
859
860- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
861 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
862 leak).
863
864 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
865
866- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
867 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
868
869 Changes since 3.0.2b1
870
871- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
872
873 Changes since 3.0.1
874
875- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
876 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
877 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
878
879- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
880 name was not provided by the server.
881
882- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
883 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
884
885- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
886 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
887
888- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
889 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
890
891- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
892
893- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
894
895- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
896 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
897 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
898 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
899 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
900
901- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
902 the configuration be globally scoped.
903
904- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
905 Farkas.
906
907- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
908 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
909
910- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
911 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
912
913- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
914 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
915
916- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
917 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
918 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
919 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
920
921- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
922 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
923 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
924 respond to POOLREQ messages.
925
926- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
927 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
928 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
929
930- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
931
932- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
933 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
934 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
935
936- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
937 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
938 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
939 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
940 Fjone and directconnect.no.
941
942- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
943 to Andreas Gustafsson.
944
945- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
946 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
947
948- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
949 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
950 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
951 DISCOVER timeout handling.
952
953- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
954 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
955
956- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
957 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
958 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
959
960- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
961 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
962 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
963 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
964 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
965 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
966
967- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
968 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
969 Infoblox.
970
971- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
972
973- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
974 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
975 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
976 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
977 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
978 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
979 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
980
981- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
982 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
983 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
984
985- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
986 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
987 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
988
989- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
990
991 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
992
993- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
994 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
995 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
996 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
997 systems either.
998
999- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
1000
1001- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
1002 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
1003 is false.
1004
1005- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
1006 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
1007
1008- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
1009
1010 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
1011
1012! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
1013 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
1014 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
1015 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
1016 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
1017 both finding and solving the problem.
1018
1019! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
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1021 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
1022 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
1023 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
1024 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
1025 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
1026 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
1027 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
1028 published version of ISC DHCP.
1029
1030- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
1031
1032- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
1033
1034 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
1035
1036- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
1037 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
1038 Richard Hirst.
1039
1040- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
1041 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
1042 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
1043
1044- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
1045
1046- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
1047 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
1048 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
1049 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
1050
1051- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 1052 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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1054- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
1055 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
1056
1057- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
1058
1059 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
1060
1061- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
1062 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
1063
1064- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
1065 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
1066 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
1067
1068- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
1069 by name was fixed.
1070
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1072 longer result in error.
1073
1074- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
1075
1076- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
1077 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
1078 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
1079
1080- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
1081 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
1082
1083- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
1084 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
1085 Blapp.
1086
1087- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
1088 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
1089 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
1090 Martin Blapp.
1091
1092- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
1093 expiry times in failover configurations.
1094
1095- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
1096 Steve G.
1097
1098- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
1099 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
1100
1101- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
1102 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
1103 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
1104 now "unknown-144".
1105
1106- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
1107 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
1108
1109 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
1110
1111- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
1112
1113- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
1114 not be bash.
1115
1116- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1117
1118- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
1119 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
1120 that errored before will now work properly.
1121
1122- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
1123 names was repaired.
1124
1125- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
1126 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
1127 configuration file.
1128
1129- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
1130 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1131
1132- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
1133 error rather than a null dereference.
1134
1135 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
1136
1137- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
1138
1139- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
1140
1141- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
1142 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
1143
1144- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
1145
1146- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
1147
1148- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
1149 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
1150 self-corrupting lease databases.
1151
1152- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
1153
1154- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
1155 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
1156
1157- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
1158
1159- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
1160
1161- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
1162 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
1163 Ling Gou.
1164
1165- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
1166 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1167
1168- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
1169 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
1170 Ted Lemon for the patch.
1171
1172- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
1173 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
1174
1175 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
1176
1177- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
1178 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
1179
1180- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
1181
1182- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
1183 a memory leak.
1184
1185- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
1186 script.
1187
1188- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
1189
1190- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
1191
1192- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
1193
1194- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
1195
1196- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
1197
1198- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
1199
1200- Increment the hop count when relaying.
1201
1202- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
1203
1204- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
1205
1206- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
1207
1208- Change the type of rbuf_max.
1209
1210- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
1211
1212 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
1213
1214- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
1215 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
1216 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
1217
1218 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
1219
1220- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
1221 to be renewed.
1222
1223- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
1224 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
1225
1226- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
1227 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
1228
1229- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
1230 that two permit lists matched.
1231
1232- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
1233 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
1234
1235- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
1236
1237- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
1238 requested it, contrary to the standard.
1239
1240- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
1241
1242- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
1243
1244- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
1245 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
1246 going to update its A record.
1247
1248- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
1249 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
1250 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
1251 DNS server.
1252
1253- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
1254
1255- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
1256
1257- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
1258 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
1259 NetBSD project).
1260
1261- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
1262 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
1263
1264- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
1265 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
1266
1267- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
1268
1269- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
1270
1271- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
1272 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
1273 failover protocol standard.
1274
1275- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
1276 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
1277 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
1278
1279- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
1280 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
1281 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
1282 do so.
1283
1284- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
1285
1286 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
1287
1288- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
1289
1290- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
1291 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
1292
1293- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
1294 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
1295
1296- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
1297 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
1298 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
1299
1300- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
1301 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
1302 network, merge the two pools.
1303
1304- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
1305 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
1306 fix this bug.
1307
1308 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
1309
1310- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
1311 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
1312
1313- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
1314 the same case.
1315
1316- Additional documentation.
1317
1318- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
1319 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
1320
1321 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
1322
1323- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
1324- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
1325
1326 Changes since 3.0.1rc2
1327
1328- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
1329 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
1330 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
1331 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
1332 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
1333
1334 Changes since 3.0.1rc1
1335
1336- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
1337 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
1338 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
1339 wasn't the one that removed it.
1340
1341- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
1342 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
1343 were not configured.
1344
1345- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
1346
1347- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
1348 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
1349 routing information.
1350
1351- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
1352 request being sent.
1353
1354- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
1355 done.
1356
1357- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
1358 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
1359 were pending.
1360
1361- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
1362 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
1363 problems with failover.
1364
1365- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
1366 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
1367 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
1368
1369 Changes since 3.0
1370
1371- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
1372 smash in the subclass allocation code.
1373
1374- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
1375 no object is open, it dumps core.
1376
1377- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
1378
1379- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
1380
1381- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
1382
1383- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
1384 a host object attribute with a null value.
1385
1386 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
1387
1388- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
1389
1390- Fix an obscure core dump.
1391
1392- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
1393 when crucial information is left out.
1394
1395- Log "no free leases" as an error.
1396
1397- Documentation updates.
1398
1399 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
1400
1401- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
1402
1403- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
1404 structure wasn't zeroed.
1405
1406- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
1407 incorrectly.
1408
1409- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
1410 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
1411 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
1412 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
1413 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
1414 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
1415 restarted.
1416
1417 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
1418
1419- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
1420 in failover-enabled pools.
1421
1422- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
1423 declarations).
1424
1425- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
1426 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
1427
1428- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
1429 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
1430
1431- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
1432
1433- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
1434 defined but not referenced by any pools.
1435
1436- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
1437
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1439
1440- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
1441
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1443
1444- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
1445
1446- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
1447
1448- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
1449
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1451
1452- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
1453 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
1454 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
1455
1456- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
1457 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
1458 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
1459 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
1460 string.
1461
1462- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
1463
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1465
1466- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
1467 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
1468
1469- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
1470 malformed packets.
1471
1472- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
1473
1474- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
1475 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
1476 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
1477
1478- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
1479
1480- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
1481
1482- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
1483
1484- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
1485 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
1486
1487- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
1488 tcp connections from being played back.
1489
1490- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
1491 on exit.
1492
1493- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
1494
1495- Add some configurability to the build system.
1496
1497- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
1498
1499- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
1500 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
1501 hadn't been noticed until now.
1502
1503 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
1504
1505- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
1506 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
1507
1508- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
1509 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
1510 conformant, but also didn't work).
1511
1512- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
1513 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
1514
1515- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
1516 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
1517
1518- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
1519 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
1520
1521- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
1522 variables to leases via OMAPI.
1523
1524- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
1525 doing failover.
1526
1527- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
1528 running on alpha processors.
1529
1530- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
1531 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
1532
1533- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
1534
1535- Install omshell (including new documentation).
1536
1537- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
1538 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
1539
1540- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
1541
1542- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
1543 actually named (key names are domain names).
1544
1545- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
1546
1547- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
1548 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
1549
1550- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
1551 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
1552
1553- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
1554 statements.
1555
1556- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
1557 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
1558
1559- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
1560 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
1561 operating.
1562
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1564
1565- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
1566 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
1567 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
1568 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
1569
1570- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
1571 using omapi to manipulate leases.
1572
1573- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
1574
1575
1576 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
1577
1578- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
1579 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
1580
1581- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
1582 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
1583 to the chain.
1584
1585- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
1586
1587- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
1588
1589- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
1590
98311e4b 1591- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
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1593
98311e4b 1594- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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1596- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
1597
1598 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
1599
1600- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
1601 DHCPDECLINE.
1602
1603- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
1604
1605- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
1606 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
1607 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
1608
1609- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
1610
1611- Documentation fixes.
1612
1613- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
1614 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
1615
1616- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
1617 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
1618
1619- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
1620
1621- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
1622
1623- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
1624 case-insensitive.
1625
1626- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
1627
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1630 consistently.
1631
1632- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
1633 systems with the probe not working correctly.
1634
1635- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
1636
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1638
1639- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
1640 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
1641 result of duplicate leases.
1642
1643- Document OMAPI server objects.
1644
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1646
1647- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
1648 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
1649
1650- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
1651 core dumps.
1652
1653- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
1654 Friedrich.
1655
1656- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
1657
1658 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
1659
1660- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
1661 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 1662 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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1664
1665- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
1666 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
1667
1668- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
1669 trace file.
1670
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1673- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
1674 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
1675 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
1676 e.g., Digital Unix.
1677
1678- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
1679 when no error had occurred.
1680
1681- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
1682 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
1683 non-communicating state.
1684
1685- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
1686
1687- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
1688 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
1689 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
1690
1691- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
1692 when the client lease expired.
1693
1694- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
1695 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
1696 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
1697 in testing.
1698
1699- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
1700 the command line, it would fail.
1701
1702- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
1703 user impact).
1704
1705- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
1706
1707- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
1708 they're executable.
1709
1710 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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1712- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
1713 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
1714 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
1715 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
1716
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1718 Transmeta.
1719
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1721 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
1722 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
1723 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
1724
1725- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
1726 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
1727
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1729
1730- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
1731 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
1732
1733- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
1734
1735- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
1736
1737- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
1738
1739- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
1740
1741- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
1742
1743- Update some parts of the README file.
1744
1745- Support GCC on SCO.
1746
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1748
1749- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
1750 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
1751
1752- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
1753 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
1754 unbill the old class.
1755
1756- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
1757 process the state transition immediately.
1758
1759- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
1760 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
1761
1762- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
1763
1764- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
1765
1766- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
1767
1768- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
1769
1770- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
1771 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
1772 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
1773
1774- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
1775 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
1776
1777- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
1778 lease file.
1779
1780- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
1781
1782- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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1785
1786- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
1787 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
1788
1789- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
1790
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1792
1793- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
1794
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1796
1797- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
1798
1799- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
1800 pl19.
1801
1802- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
1803 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
1804 past the regression test.
1805
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1807
1808- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
1809 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
1810
1811- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
1812 DHCPREQUEST.
1813
1814- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
1815
1816- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
1817
1818- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
1819
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1821
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1822- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
1823 (Damien Neil)
1824
1825- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
1826 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
1827
1828- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
1829 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
1830 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
1831
1832- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
1833 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
1834 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
1835 message.
1836
1837- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
1838 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
1839 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
1840
98311e4b 1841- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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1843 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
1844 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
1845 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
1846 this way will work.
1847
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1848- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
1849
1850- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
1851 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
1852 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
1853 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
1854
1855 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
1856
1857 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
1858
1859- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
1860 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
1861 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
1862
1863- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
1864 Hermann Lauer.
1865
1866- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
1867 messages.
1868
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1869- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
1870 it contained quoted strings.
1871
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1872 ** there was no pl17 **
1873
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1874 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 16
1875
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1876- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
1877 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
1878 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
1879 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
1880 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
1881 tracking down memory leaks.
1882
1883- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
1884 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
1885 Solaris.
1886
1887- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
1888 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
1889 corruption and core dumps.
1890
1891- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
1892 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
1893
1894- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
1895
1896- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
1897 and implemented by Damien Neil.
1898
1899- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
1900 name and version to standard output.
1901
1902- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
1903
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1904- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
1905 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
1906
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1907- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
1908
1909- Lots of documentation updates.
1910
1911- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
1912 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
1913
1914- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
1915
1916- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
1917 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
1918
1919
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1920 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 15
1921
1922- Some documentation tweaks.
1923
1924- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
1925
1926- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
1927
1928- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
1929 agent options into them.
1930
1931- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
1932
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1933- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
1934 options.
1935
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1936 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 14
1937
1938- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
1939 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
1940 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
1941 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
1942 used in class statements to control address allocation.
1943
1944- Fix up documentation.
1945
1946- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
1947 significantly in a high-demand situation.
1948
1949- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
1950
1951- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
1952
1953- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
1954 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
1955 practical use otherwise.
1956
1957- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
1958 for debugging.
1959
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1960 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 13
1961
1962- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
1963 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
1964 dump on some systems.
1965
1966- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
1967 option.
1968
1969- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
1970 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
1971
1972- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
1973 that were not printing enough information.
1974
1975- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
1976 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
1977
1978- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
1979 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
1980 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
1981 were answering.
1982
1983- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
1984 the transition.
1985
1986
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1987 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 12
1988
1989- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
1990
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1991 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
1992
1993- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
1994 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
1995 representation from working correctly.
1996
1997- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
1998 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
1999 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
2000 could spin.
2001
2002- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
2003 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
2004
2005- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
2006 interface name on the command line.
2007
2008- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
2009 client state.
2010
2011- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
2012 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
2013 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
2014 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
2015 added by Ted Lemon.
2016
2017- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
2018 be made to log debugging information and other information.
2019
2020- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
2021 end option.
2022
2023- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
2024 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
2025 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
2026
2027- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
2028 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
2029 face of a null hardware address on input.
2030
2031- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
2032 specified unqualified.
2033
2034- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
2035 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
2036
2037- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
2038 RFC.
2039
2040- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
2041
2042- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
2043
2044- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
2045 it works.
2046
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2047 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
2048
2049- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
2050 to CVS.
2051
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2052 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
2053
2054- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
2055
2056- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
2057 in patchlevel 9.
2058
2059- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
2060 options at renewal time.
2061
2062- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
2063 configuration language.
2064
2065- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
2066
2067- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
2068 done when no client hostname was received.
2069
2070- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
2071
2072- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
2073 the DHCP option space.
2074
2075- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
2076
2077- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
2078 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
2079
2080- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
2081 silently dropped.
2082
2083- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
2084 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
2085
2086- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
2087 will be correctly updated.
2088
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2089 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
2090
2091- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
2092 bounds-checking.
2093
2094 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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2096- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
2097
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2100- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
2101 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
2102 possible to exploit it any further than that.
2103
2104- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
2105 option.
2106
2107- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
2108 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
2109 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
2110 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
2111 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
2112 meaningfully.
2113
2114- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
2115 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
2116 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
2117
2118- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
2119 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
2120 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
2121 this one down!
2122
2123- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
2124 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
2125 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
2126 down and fixing this problem.
2127
2128 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
2129
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2130- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
2131 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
2132
2133- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
2134 environment.
2135
2136- Fix suffix operator.
2137
2138- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
2139
2140- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
2141 connection code.
2142
2143- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
2144
2145- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
2146
2147- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
2148 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
2149
2150- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
2151
2152- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
2153
2154- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
2155 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
2156
2157- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
2158 spawn with.
2159
2160- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
2161 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
2162
2163- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
2164 for OMAPI.
2165
2166- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
2167 can install in host declarations.
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2170
2171- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
2172 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
2173 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
2174 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
2175 comments)!
2176
2177- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
2178
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2179- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
2180 request for help on this with patches!
2181
2182- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
2183 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
2184 lost, they never reconnect.
2185
2186- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
2187 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
2188
2189- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
2190 dump.
2191
2192- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
2193 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
2194 catching this one.
2195
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2197
2198- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
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2201
2202- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
2203 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
2204 declared without a key.
2205
2206- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
2207
2208- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
2209 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
2210
2211- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
2212 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
2213 determine the maximum size of the response.
2214
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2215 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
2216
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2217- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
2218 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
2219
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2220- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
2221 RENEWING client.
2222
2223- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
2224
2225- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
2226 using memcmp().
2227
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2228 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
2229
2230- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
2231 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
2232 pointing this out.
2233
2234- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
2235 exit.
2236
2237- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
2238
2239- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
2240 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.