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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
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2 Version 4.0.0a1
3 May 19, 2007
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98311e4b 5 Release Notes
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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
17There are a number of DHCPv6 limitiations and features missing in this
18release, which will be addressed shortly:
19
99fe695e 20- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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21
22- There is no DHCPv6 Relay support.
23
24- Only a single fixed address is supported per IA.
25
26- IA_TA addresses are not supported.
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98bd7ca0 28- IA_PD prefixes are not supported.
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30- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages. These
31 should be configurable, and probably localized via gettext() or the
32 like.
33
34- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
35
36- Dynamically allocated leases do not respond to Confirm messages.
37
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38- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
39 not both, so two instances of the daemons are required with the
40 "-6" command line option.
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42For information on how to install, configure and run this software,
43as well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult
44the README file.
45
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46ISC DHCP now uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please
47review the output of "./configure --help" to see what options are
48available.
49
50The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and
51may not work on other platforms. Please report any problems and
52suggested fixes to <dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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55 Changes since 4.0.0a1
56
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57- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
58 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
59 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
60 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
61
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62- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
63
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64- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
65 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
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67- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
68
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69- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
70
71- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
72 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
73
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74- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
75 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
76
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77 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
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79- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
80
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81- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
82 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
83
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84- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
85
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86- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
87 initialized.
88
89- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
90
91- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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92 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
93
94- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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96- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
97
98- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
99 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
100
101- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
102
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103- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
104 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplised.
105
106- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
107 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
108
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109- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
110
111- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
112
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113- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
114
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115 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
116
117- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
118 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
119 no support currently for both.
120
121- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
122 IAADDR option.
123
124- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
125 options.
126
127- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
128
129- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
130 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
131
132- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
133 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
134 specifying type 1 or type 2).
135
136- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
137 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
138
139- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
140 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
141 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
142 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
143 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
144 differently, they both use the same code here).
145
146- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
147 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
148 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
149
150- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
151
152- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
153 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
154 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
155 it should not intercept.
156
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157 Changes since 3.1.0b2
158
159- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
160 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
161 odd number of leases).
162
163- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
164 rebalance run, and one after.
165
166- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
167 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
168 processing these messages.
169
fe5b0fdd 170 Changes since 3.1.0b1
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172- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
173 objects.
174
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175- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
176 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
177 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
178 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
179 at Allianz.
180
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181- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
182 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
183
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184- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
185 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
186
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187- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
188 caused the server to abort.
189
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190- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
191 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
192 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
193
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194- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
195 by empty spaces would not get included.
196
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197- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
198 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
199
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200- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
201 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
202
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203- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
204 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
205
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206- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
207 on the parameter request list.
208
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209 Changes since 3.1.0a3
210
211- Some spelling fixes.
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213 Changes since 3.1.0a2
214
215- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
216 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
217
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218- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
219 domain-search option syntax.
220
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221 Changes since 3.1.0a1
222
223- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
224 hash table was repaired.
225
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226- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
227 entering normal state.
228
229- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
230 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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231 'xid mismatch' log messages.
232
233- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
234 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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236- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
237 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
238 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
239 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
240
241- Lease structures appear in three spearate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
242 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
243 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
244 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
245 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
246 to their needs.
247
248- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
249 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
250 run will attempt balance.
251
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252- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
253
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254 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
255
256- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
257 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
258 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
259 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
260
98bd7ca0 261- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
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264- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
265 via OMAPI.
266
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267- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
268 the protocol draft.
269
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270- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
271 one does not already exist on the system.
272
b43c87ad 273- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
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275- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
276 matches RFC 3074.
277
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278- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
279 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 280 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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282- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
283 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 284 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
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286- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
287 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
288 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
289 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
290
291- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
292 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
293 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
294 priority over the client's parameter request list.
295
f7fdb216 296- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 297 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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298 DHCPv6 support.
299
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300- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
301 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
302 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
303
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304- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
305 have been incorporated.
306
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307- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
308 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
309 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
310 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
311 that belong to the peer in need.
312
313- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
314 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
315
316- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
317 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
318 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
319
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320- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
321 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
322
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323- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
324 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
325 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
326 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
327 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
328
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329- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
330 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
331 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
332 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
333
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334- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
335 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
336 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
337 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
338 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
339 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
340 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
341 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
342 ignoring this aspect of their request.
343
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344- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
345 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
346
41e45067 347- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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348 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
349 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
350 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
351
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352- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
353 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
354 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
355 hardware and funding the development.
6d103865 356
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357- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
358 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
359 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
360 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
361 via Robin Breathe.
362
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363- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
364 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
365 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
366 from Christof Chen.
367
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368- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
369 formally supported.
370
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371 Changes since 3.0.5
372
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373- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
374 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
375 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 376 they actually received.
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377
378- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
379
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380- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
381 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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382 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
383 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
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385- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
386
d69fb6a8 387- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 388 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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390- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
391 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
392 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
393 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
394 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
395 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
396 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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397 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
398
399- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
400 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
401 'file' field.
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403- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
404 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
405
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406- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
407 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
408 a patch from Kevin Steves.
409
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410- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
411 from Chris Wagner.
412
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413- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
414 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
415 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
416
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417- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
418 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
419 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
420 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
421 was set.
422
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423- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
424 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
425
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426- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
427 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
428 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
429 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
430 active ones.
431
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901306d5 434- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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435 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
436 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
437 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
438 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
439
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440- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
441 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
442
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443 Changes since 3.0.4
444
445- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
446 scopes are actually global has been added.
447
448- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
449 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
450 known to be damaging.
451
452- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
453 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
454 balancing).
455
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456- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
457 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
458 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
459
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460- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
461 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
462 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
463
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464- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
465 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
466 more clear now.
467
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468- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
469 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
470 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
471 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
472 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 473 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
6cbc6629 474
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475- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
476 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
477
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478- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
479 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
480 made possible.
481
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482- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
483 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
484 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
485
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486- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
487 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
488
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489- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
490 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
491 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
492
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493- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
494 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
495 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
496 value with the later configured value).
497
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498- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
499 have been named and documented.
500
501- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
502 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
503 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
504 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
505 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
506 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
507 write new output.
508
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509 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
510
511- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
512 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
513
514 Changes since 3.0.4b3
515
516- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
517 mailing list.
518
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519 Changes since 3.0.4b2
520
521- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunatley require
522 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
523
524- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
525 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
526
527- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
528 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
529 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
530 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
531
532- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
533 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
534 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
535 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
536 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
537 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
538 transition (properly).
539
540- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
541
542 Changes since 3.0.4b1
543
544- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
545 STDIN after reading one line.
546
547- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
548 descriptor it opened twice.
549
550- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
551 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
552 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
553
554 Changes since 3.0.3
555
556- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
557 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
558 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
559
560- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
561 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
562 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
563
564- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
565 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
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568
569- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
570 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailng PAD option, rather
571 than the entire block of them.
572
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573! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
574 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
575 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
576 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
577 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
578 to a patch from infamous42md.
579
580! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
581 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
582 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
583 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
584 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
585 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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587- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
588 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
589 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
590
591- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
592 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
593
594- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
595 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
596 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
597 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
598 transitional states.
599
600- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
601 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
602 once it detects the old db does not exist.
603
604- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
605 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
606 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
607
608- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
609 been doucmented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
610
611- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
612 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
613
614- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
615 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
616 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
617
618- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
619 patch from 'infamous42md'.
620
621- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
622 repaired.
623
624- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
625 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
626 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
627 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
628
629- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
630 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
631 data.
632
633- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
634 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
635 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
636 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
637 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
638
639- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
640 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
641 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
642 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
643 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
644
645- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
646 has been repaired.
647
648- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
649 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
650 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
651 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
652 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
653
654- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 655 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
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657- The linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
658 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
659 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
660 move to 3.[01].x.
661
662- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
663 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
664
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665 Changes since 3.0.3b3
666
667- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
668 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
669
670- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
671 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
672 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
673 workaround.
674
675 Changes since 3.0.3b2
676
677- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
678 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
679
680 Changes since 3.0.3b1
681
682- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
683 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
684 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
685
686- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
687 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
688 dynamic updates were also retouched.
689
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690 Changes since 3.0.2
691
692- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
693 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceeding DISCOVER.
694 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
695
696- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
697 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
698 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
699 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
700 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
701
702- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
703 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
704 Jason Vas Dias at Redhat.
705
706- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
707 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
708 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
709
710- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
711 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
712 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
713 Peter Poeml.
714
715- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
716 Dr. Peter Poeml.
717
718- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
719 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
720 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
721 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
722 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
723 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
724
725- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
726 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
727 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
728 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
729
730- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
731 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
732 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
733 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
734
735- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
736 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
737
738- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
739 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
740 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
741
742- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
743 7 bytes, and failover.
744
745- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
746 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
747 at Redhat.
748
749- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
750 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
751 should work better.
752
753- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
754 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
755 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
756
757- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
758 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
759 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
760
761 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
762
763- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
764 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
765
766 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
767
768- Two varaibles introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
769 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
770 overloading. This was repaired.
771
772- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
773 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
774 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
775 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
776 three chunks to fit.
777
778- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
779 were repaired.
780
781- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
782 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
783 leak).
784
785 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
786
787- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
788 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
789
790 Changes since 3.0.2b1
791
792- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
793
794 Changes since 3.0.1
795
796- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
797 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
798 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
799
800- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
801 name was not provided by the server.
802
803- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
804 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
805
806- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
807 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
808
809- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
810 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
811
812- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
813
814- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
815
816- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
817 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
818 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
819 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
820 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
821
822- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
823 the configuration be globally scoped.
824
825- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
826 Farkas.
827
828- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
829 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
830
831- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
832 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
833
834- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
835 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
836
837- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
838 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
839 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
840 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
841
842- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
843 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
844 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
845 respond to POOLREQ messages.
846
847- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
848 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
849 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
850
851- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
852
853- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
854 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
855 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
856
857- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
858 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
859 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
860 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
861 Fjone and directconnect.no.
862
863- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
864 to Andreas Gustafsson.
865
866- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
867 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
868
869- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
870 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
871 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
872 DISCOVER timeout handling.
873
874- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
875 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
876
877- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
878 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
879 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
880
881- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
882 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
883 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
884 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
885 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
886 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
887
888- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
889 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
890 Infoblox.
891
892- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
893
894- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
895 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
896 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
897 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
898 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
899 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
900 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
901
902- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
903 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
904 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
905
906- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
907 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
908 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
909
910- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
911
912 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
913
914- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
915 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
916 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
917 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
918 systems either.
919
920- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
921
922- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
923 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
924 is false.
925
926- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
927 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
928
929- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
930
931 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
932
933! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
934 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
935 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
936 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
937 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
938 both finding and solving the problem.
939
940! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
941 in log_*() functions was evidented, on some specific platforms where
942 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
943 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
944 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
945 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
946 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
947 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
948 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
949 published version of ISC DHCP.
950
951- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
952
953- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
954
955 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
956
957- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
958 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
959 Richard Hirst.
960
961- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
962 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
963 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
964
965- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
966
967- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
968 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
969 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
970 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
971
972- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
973 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on solaris platforms.
974
975- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
976 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
977
978- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
979
980 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
981
982- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
983 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
984
985- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
986 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
987 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
988
989- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
990 by name was fixed.
991
992- Delcaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
993 longer result in error.
994
995- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
996
997- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
998 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
999 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
1000
1001- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
1002 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
1003
1004- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
1005 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
1006 Blapp.
1007
1008- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
1009 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
1010 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
1011 Martin Blapp.
1012
1013- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
1014 expiry times in failover configurations.
1015
1016- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
1017 Steve G.
1018
1019- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
1020 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
1021
1022- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
1023 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
1024 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
1025 now "unknown-144".
1026
1027- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
1028 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
1029
1030 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
1031
1032- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
1033
1034- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
1035 not be bash.
1036
1037- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1038
1039- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
1040 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
1041 that errored before will now work properly.
1042
1043- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
1044 names was repaired.
1045
1046- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
1047 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
1048 configuration file.
1049
1050- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
1051 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1052
1053- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
1054 error rather than a null dereference.
1055
1056 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
1057
1058- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
1059
1060- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
1061
1062- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
1063 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
1064
1065- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
1066
1067- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
1068
1069- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
1070 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
1071 self-corrupting lease databases.
1072
1073- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
1074
1075- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
1076 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
1077
1078- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
1079
1080- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
1081
1082- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
1083 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
1084 Ling Gou.
1085
1086- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
1087 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1088
1089- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
1090 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
1091 Ted Lemon for the patch.
1092
1093- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
1094 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
1095
1096 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
1097
1098- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
1099 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
1100
1101- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
1102
1103- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
1104 a memory leak.
1105
1106- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
1107 script.
1108
1109- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
1110
1111- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
1112
1113- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
1114
1115- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
1116
1117- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
1118
1119- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
1120
1121- Increment the hop count when relaying.
1122
1123- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
1124
1125- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
1126
1127- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
1128
1129- Change the type of rbuf_max.
1130
1131- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
1132
1133 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
1134
1135- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
1136 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
1137 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
1138
1139 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
1140
1141- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
1142 to be renewed.
1143
1144- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
1145 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
1146
1147- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
1148 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
1149
1150- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
1151 that two permit lists matched.
1152
1153- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
1154 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
1155
1156- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
1157
1158- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
1159 requested it, contrary to the standard.
1160
1161- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
1162
1163- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
1164
1165- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
1166 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
1167 going to update its A record.
1168
1169- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
1170 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
1171 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
1172 DNS server.
1173
1174- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
1175
1176- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
1177
1178- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
1179 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
1180 NetBSD project).
1181
1182- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
1183 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
1184
1185- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
1186 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
1187
1188- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
1189
1190- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
1191
1192- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
1193 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
1194 failover protocol standard.
1195
1196- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
1197 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
1198 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
1199
1200- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
1201 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
1202 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
1203 do so.
1204
1205- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
1206
1207 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
1208
1209- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
1210
1211- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
1212 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
1213
1214- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
1215 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
1216
1217- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
1218 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
1219 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
1220
1221- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
1222 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
1223 network, merge the two pools.
1224
1225- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
1226 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
1227 fix this bug.
1228
1229 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
1230
1231- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
1232 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
1233
1234- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
1235 the same case.
1236
1237- Additional documentation.
1238
1239- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
1240 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
1241
1242 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
1243
1244- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
1245- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
1246
1247 Changes since 3.0.1rc2
1248
1249- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
1250 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
1251 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
1252 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
1253 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
1254
1255 Changes since 3.0.1rc1
1256
1257- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
1258 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
1259 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
1260 wasn't the one that removed it.
1261
1262- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
1263 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
1264 were not configured.
1265
1266- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
1267
1268- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
1269 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
1270 routing information.
1271
1272- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
1273 request being sent.
1274
1275- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
1276 done.
1277
1278- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
1279 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
1280 were pending.
1281
1282- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
1283 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
1284 problems with failover.
1285
1286- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
1287 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
1288 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
1289
1290 Changes since 3.0
1291
1292- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
1293 smash in the subclass allocation code.
1294
1295- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
1296 no object is open, it dumps core.
1297
1298- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
1299
1300- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
1301
1302- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
1303
1304- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
1305 a host object attribute with a null value.
1306
1307 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
1308
1309- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
1310
1311- Fix an obscure core dump.
1312
1313- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
1314 when crucial information is left out.
1315
1316- Log "no free leases" as an error.
1317
1318- Documentation updates.
1319
1320 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
1321
1322- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
1323
1324- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
1325 structure wasn't zeroed.
1326
1327- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
1328 incorrectly.
1329
1330- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
1331 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
1332 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
1333 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
1334 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
1335 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
1336 restarted.
1337
1338 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
1339
1340- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
1341 in failover-enabled pools.
1342
1343- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
1344 declarations).
1345
1346- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
1347 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
1348
1349- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
1350 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
1351
1352- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
1353
1354- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
1355 defined but not referenced by any pools.
1356
1357- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
1358
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1360
1361- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
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1364
1365- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
1366
1367- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
1368
1369- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
1370
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1372
1373- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
1374 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
1375 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
1376
1377- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
1378 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
1379 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
1380 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
1381 string.
1382
1383- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
1384
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1386
1387- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
1388 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
1389
1390- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
1391 malformed packets.
1392
1393- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
1394
1395- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
1396 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
1397 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
1398
1399- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
1400
1401- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
1402
1403- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
1404
1405- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
1406 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
1407
1408- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
1409 tcp connections from being played back.
1410
1411- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
1412 on exit.
1413
1414- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
1415
1416- Add some configurability to the build system.
1417
1418- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
1419
1420- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
1421 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
1422 hadn't been noticed until now.
1423
1424 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
1425
1426- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
1427 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
1428
1429- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
1430 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
1431 conformant, but also didn't work).
1432
1433- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
1434 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
1435
1436- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
1437 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
1438
1439- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
1440 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
1441
1442- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
1443 variables to leases via OMAPI.
1444
1445- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
1446 doing failover.
1447
1448- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
1449 running on alpha processors.
1450
1451- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
1452 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
1453
1454- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
1455
1456- Install omshell (including new documentation).
1457
1458- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
1459 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
1460
1461- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
1462
1463- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
1464 actually named (key names are domain names).
1465
1466- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
1467
1468- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
1469 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
1470
1471- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
1472 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
1473
1474- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
1475 statements.
1476
1477- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
1478 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
1479
1480- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
1481 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
1482 operating.
1483
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1485
1486- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
1487 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
1488 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
1489 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
1490
1491- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
1492 using omapi to manipulate leases.
1493
1494- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
1495
1496
1497 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
1498
1499- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
1500 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
1501
1502- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
1503 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
1504 to the chain.
1505
1506- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
1507
1508- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
1509
1510- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
1511
98311e4b 1512- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
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1514
98311e4b 1515- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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1517- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
1518
1519 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
1520
1521- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
1522 DHCPDECLINE.
1523
1524- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
1525
1526- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
1527 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
1528 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
1529
1530- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
1531
1532- Documentation fixes.
1533
1534- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
1535 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
1536
1537- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
1538 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
1539
1540- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
1541
1542- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
1543
1544- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
1545 case-insensitive.
1546
1547- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
1548
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1551 consistently.
1552
1553- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
1554 systems with the probe not working correctly.
1555
1556- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
1557
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1559
1560- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
1561 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
1562 result of duplicate leases.
1563
1564- Document OMAPI server objects.
1565
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1567
1568- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
1569 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
1570
1571- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
1572 core dumps.
1573
1574- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
1575 Friedrich.
1576
1577- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
1578
1579 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
1580
1581- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
1582 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 1583 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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1585
1586- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
1587 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
1588
1589- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
1590 trace file.
1591
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1594- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
1595 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
1596 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
1597 e.g., Digital Unix.
1598
1599- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
1600 when no error had occurred.
1601
1602- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
1603 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
1604 non-communicating state.
1605
1606- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
1607
1608- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
1609 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
1610 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
1611
1612- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
1613 when the client lease expired.
1614
1615- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
1616 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
1617 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
1618 in testing.
1619
1620- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
1621 the command line, it would fail.
1622
1623- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
1624 user impact).
1625
1626- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
1627
1628- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
1629 they're executable.
1630
1631 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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1633- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
1634 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
1635 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
1636 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
1637
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1639 Transmeta.
1640
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1641- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
1642 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
1643 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
1644 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
1645
1646- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
1647 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
1648
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1650
1651- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
1652 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
1653
1654- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
1655
1656- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
1657
1658- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
1659
1660- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
1661
1662- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
1663
1664- Update some parts of the README file.
1665
1666- Support GCC on SCO.
1667
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1669
1670- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
1671 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
1672
1673- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
1674 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
1675 unbill the old class.
1676
1677- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
1678 process the state transition immediately.
1679
1680- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
1681 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
1682
1683- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
1684
1685- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
1686
1687- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
1688
1689- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
1690
1691- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
1692 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
1693 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
1694
1695- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
1696 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
1697
1698- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
1699 lease file.
1700
1701- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
1702
1703- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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1706
1707- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
1708 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
1709
1710- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
1711
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1713
1714- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
1715
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1717
1718- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
1719
1720- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
1721 pl19.
1722
1723- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
1724 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
1725 past the regression test.
1726
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1728
1729- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
1730 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
1731
1732- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
1733 DHCPREQUEST.
1734
1735- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
1736
1737- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
1738
1739- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
1740
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1741 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 18
1742
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1743- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
1744 (Damien Neil)
1745
1746- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
1747 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
1748
1749- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
1750 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
1751 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
1752
1753- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
1754 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
1755 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
1756 message.
1757
1758- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
1759 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
1760 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
1761
98311e4b 1762- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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1764 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
1765 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
1766 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
1767 this way will work.
1768
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1769- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
1770
1771- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
1772 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
1773 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
1774 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
1775
1776 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
1777
1778 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
1779
1780- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
1781 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
1782 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
1783
1784- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
1785 Hermann Lauer.
1786
1787- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
1788 messages.
1789
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1791 it contained quoted strings.
1792
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1793 ** there was no pl17 **
1794
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1795 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 16
1796
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1797- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
1798 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
1799 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
1800 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
1801 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
1802 tracking down memory leaks.
1803
1804- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
1805 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
1806 Solaris.
1807
1808- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
1809 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
1810 corruption and core dumps.
1811
1812- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
1813 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
1814
1815- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
1816
1817- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
1818 and implemented by Damien Neil.
1819
1820- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
1821 name and version to standard output.
1822
1823- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
1824
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1826 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
1827
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1829
1830- Lots of documentation updates.
1831
1832- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
1833 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
1834
1835- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
1836
1837- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
1838 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
1839
1840
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1842
1843- Some documentation tweaks.
1844
1845- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
1846
1847- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
1848
1849- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
1850 agent options into them.
1851
1852- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
1853
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1855 options.
1856
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1858
1859- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
1860 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
1861 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
1862 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
1863 used in class statements to control address allocation.
1864
1865- Fix up documentation.
1866
1867- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
1868 significantly in a high-demand situation.
1869
1870- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
1871
1872- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
1873
1874- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
1875 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
1876 practical use otherwise.
1877
1878- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
1879 for debugging.
1880
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1882
1883- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
1884 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
1885 dump on some systems.
1886
1887- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
1888 option.
1889
1890- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
1891 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
1892
1893- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
1894 that were not printing enough information.
1895
1896- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
1897 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
1898
1899- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
1900 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
1901 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
1902 were answering.
1903
1904- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
1905 the transition.
1906
1907
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1909
1910- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
1911
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1913
1914- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
1915 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
1916 representation from working correctly.
1917
1918- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
1919 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
1920 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
1921 could spin.
1922
1923- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
1924 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
1925
1926- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
1927 interface name on the command line.
1928
1929- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
1930 client state.
1931
1932- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
1933 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
1934 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
1935 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
1936 added by Ted Lemon.
1937
1938- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
1939 be made to log debugging information and other information.
1940
1941- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
1942 end option.
1943
1944- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
1945 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
1946 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
1947
1948- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
1949 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
1950 face of a null hardware address on input.
1951
1952- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
1953 specified unqualified.
1954
1955- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
1956 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
1957
1958- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
1959 RFC.
1960
1961- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
1962
1963- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
1964
1965- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
1966 it works.
1967
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1968 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
1969
1970- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
1971 to CVS.
1972
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1973 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
1974
1975- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
1976
1977- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
1978 in patchlevel 9.
1979
1980- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
1981 options at renewal time.
1982
1983- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
1984 configuration language.
1985
1986- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
1987
1988- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
1989 done when no client hostname was received.
1990
1991- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
1992
1993- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
1994 the DHCP option space.
1995
1996- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
1997
1998- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
1999 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
2000
2001- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
2002 silently dropped.
2003
2004- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
2005 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
2006
2007- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
2008 will be correctly updated.
2009
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2010 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
2011
2012- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
2013 bounds-checking.
2014
2015 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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2017- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
2018
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2021- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
2022 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
2023 possible to exploit it any further than that.
2024
2025- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
2026 option.
2027
2028- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
2029 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
2030 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
2031 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
2032 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
2033 meaningfully.
2034
2035- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
2036 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
2037 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
2038
2039- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
2040 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
2041 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
2042 this one down!
2043
2044- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
2045 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
2046 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
2047 down and fixing this problem.
2048
2049 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
2050
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2051- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
2052 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
2053
2054- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
2055 environment.
2056
2057- Fix suffix operator.
2058
2059- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
2060
2061- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
2062 connection code.
2063
2064- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
2065
2066- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
2067
2068- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
2069 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
2070
2071- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
2072
2073- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
2074
2075- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
2076 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
2077
2078- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
2079 spawn with.
2080
2081- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
2082 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
2083
2084- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
2085 for OMAPI.
2086
2087- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
2088 can install in host declarations.
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2091
2092- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
2093 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
2094 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
2095 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
2096 comments)!
2097
2098- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
2099
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2100- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
2101 request for help on this with patches!
2102
2103- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
2104 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
2105 lost, they never reconnect.
2106
2107- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
2108 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
2109
2110- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
2111 dump.
2112
2113- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
2114 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
2115 catching this one.
2116
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2118
2119- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
2120 of options, so that the client configuration can overried, e.g., the
2121 lease renewal time.
2122
2123- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
2124 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
2125 declared without a key.
2126
2127- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
2128
2129- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
2130 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
2131
2132- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
2133 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
2134 determine the maximum size of the response.
2135
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2137
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2138- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
2139 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
2140
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2141- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
2142 RENEWING client.
2143
2144- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
2145
2146- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
2147 using memcmp().
2148
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2150
2151- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
2152 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
2153 pointing this out.
2154
2155- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
2156 exit.
2157
2158- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
2159
2160- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
2161 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.