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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
40ec5f38 2 Version 4.1.0a2
d104d45b 3 29 August 2008
72c7bd79 4
98311e4b 5 Release Notes
72c7bd79 6
da411127 7 NEW FEATURES
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9ISC DHCP 4.1.x includes several new DHCPv6 features that were not included
10in DHCP 4.0.x. These include:
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01a54c17 12- Support for the rapid-commit option on the client side
98bd7ca0 13
01a54c17 14- Prefix Delegation support
98bd7ca0 15
01a54c17 16- IA_TA address support
98bd7ca0 17
7de20a95 18- A basic DHCPv6 relay agent
98bd7ca0 19
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20- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support
21
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22There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
23release, which will be addressed in the future:
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01a54c17 25- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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01a54c17 27- Only a single address is supported per IA.
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29- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages. These
30 should be configurable, and probably localized via gettext() or the
31 like.
32
33- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
34
98bd7ca0 35- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 36 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 37 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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39For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as
40well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the
41README file.
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43ISC DHCP uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please review the
44output of "./configure --help" to see what options are available.
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46The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and may not
47work on other platforms. Please report any problems and suggested fixes to
48<dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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51 Changes since 4.1.0a2
52
53- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
54 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
55 "abandoned".
56
7d6180be 57 Changes since 4.1.0a1
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58
59- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
60
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61- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
62
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63- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
64 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
65 only the latter. Fixed.
66
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67- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
68
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69- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
70 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
71
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72- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
73
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74- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
75
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76- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
77 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
78 --enable-early-chroot.
79
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80- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
81 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
82
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83- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
84 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
85 parameter.
86
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87- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
88 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
89
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90- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
91 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
92
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93- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
94
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95- Merged IA_XX related structures.
96
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97- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
98
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99- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
100
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101- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
102 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
103 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
104
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105- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
106 support.
107
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108- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
109 repaired.
110
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111- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
112
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113- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
114
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115- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
116 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
117
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118- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
119 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
120
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121- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
122 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
123
124- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
125 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
126 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
127 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
128 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
129 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
130 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
131 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
132 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
133 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
134 shared-network.
135
136- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
137 configured option values.
138
139- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
140 support class statements.
141
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142- Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
143 selection were repaired.
144
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145- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
146 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
147 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
148 by the OS.
149
150- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
151 address.
152
153- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
154 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
155
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156- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
157
158- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
159
160- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
161 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
162
01a54c17 163 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
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165- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
166
4cafb815 167- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 168 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
4cafb815 169
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170- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
171 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
172 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
173
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174- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
175 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
176
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177- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
178
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179- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
180 reserved IDs avoided).
181
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182- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
183
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184- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
185 carries a rapid-commit option.
186
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187- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
188 an empty active lease.
189
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190- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
191
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192- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
193 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
194 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
195 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
196
197- MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
198
199- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
200 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
201 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
202 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
203 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
204 Christof Chen.
205
206 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
207
208- DHCP now builds on AIX.
209
210- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
211 config file but -6 is not specified.
212
213- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
214
215- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
216 be more helpful.
217
218- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
219 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
220 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
221
222- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
223 was repaired.
224
225- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
226 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
227 been repaired.
228
229- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
230 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
231 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
232
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233- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
234 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
235
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236- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
237 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
238 IPv4 address.
239
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240- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
241 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
242 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
243 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
244 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
245
246- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
247 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
248 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
249
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250- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
251
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252- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
253
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254- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
255 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
256 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
257 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
258 unnecessary logging.
259
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260- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
261 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
262
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263- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
264 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
265 is incompatible is printed.
266
267- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
268 a previously undefined option code.
269
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270- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
271 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
272
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273- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
274 than the year 2000.
275
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276- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
277
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278- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
279
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280- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
281
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282 Changes since 4.0.0b3
283
284- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
285 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
286 configuration.
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288- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
289 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
290
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291- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
292 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
293 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
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295- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
296 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
297 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
298 a requested address.
299
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300- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
301 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
302 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
303 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
304
305- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
306 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
307 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
308 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
309
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310- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
311 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
312 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
313
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314- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
315 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
316
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317- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
318
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319- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
320 codes through some conditions.
321
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322- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
323 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
324
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325- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
326 seemingly random values.
327
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328- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
329
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330- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
331 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
332 one ever has.
333
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334- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
335 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
336 to a REQUEST.
337
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338- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
339 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
340 level.
341
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342 Changes since 4.0.0b2
343
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344- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
345
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346- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
347 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
348 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
349 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
350 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
351
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352- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
353 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
354 new address.
355
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356 Changes since 4.0.0b1
357
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358- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
359 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
360 simultaneously on a single interface.
361
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362- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
363 of service under unusual server configurations
364
365- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
366
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367- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
368 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
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370- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
371 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
372 on every pool rebalance run.
373
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374- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
375 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
376
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377- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
378 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
379
ab3a540f 380 Changes since 4.0.0a3
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382- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
383 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
384
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385- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
386 point out the problem.
387
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388- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
389 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
390 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
391
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392- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
393 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
394
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395- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
396 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
397 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
398
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399- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
400
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401- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
402 fixed by Marcus Goller.
403
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404- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
405 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
406 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
407 regardless of the existence of bindings.
408
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409- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
410
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411- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
412 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
413 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
414 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
415 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
416
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417- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
418
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419 Changes since 4.0.0a2
420
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421- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
422 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
423
763cba6b 424- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
e889ded1 425
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426- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
427 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
428 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
429
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430- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
431
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432- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
433 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
434
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435- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
436 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
437 loaded from persistent storage.
438
45d545f0 439- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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440 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
441 necessary.
442
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443- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
444 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
445 rapid-commit option.
446
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447- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
448 non-128-bits in length were removed.
449
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450 Changes since 4.0.0a1
451
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452- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
453 and fix.
454
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455- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
456
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457- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
458
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459- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
460 for when loading configuration.
461
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462- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
463 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
464 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
465
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466- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
467 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
468 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
469 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
470
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471- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
472
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473- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
474 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 475
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476- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
477
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478- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
479
480- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
481 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
482
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483- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
484 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
485
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486- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
487
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488- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
489 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
490
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491 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
492
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493- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
494
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495- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
496 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
497
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498- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
499
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500- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
501 initialized.
502
503- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
504
505- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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506 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
507
508- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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510- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
511
512- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
513 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
514
515- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
516
8ea19a71 517- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 518 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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519
520- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
521 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
522
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523- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
524
525- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
526
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527- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
528
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529 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
530
531- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
532 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
533 no support currently for both.
534
535- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
536 IAADDR option.
537
538- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
539 options.
540
541- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
542
543- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
544 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
545
546- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
547 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
548 specifying type 1 or type 2).
549
550- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
551 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
552
553- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
554 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
555 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
556 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
557 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
558 differently, they both use the same code here).
559
560- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
561 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
562 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
563
564- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
565
566- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
567 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
568 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
569 it should not intercept.
570
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571 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
572
573- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
574 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
575 between primary and secondary.
576
577- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
578 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
579 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
580
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581- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
582
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583- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
584 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
585 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
586 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
587 or REQUEST messages.
588
589- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
590 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
591
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592- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
593
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594 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
595
596- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
597 failover protected subnets was removed.
598
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599 Changes since 3.1.0b2
600
601- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
602 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
603 odd number of leases).
604
605- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
606 rebalance run, and one after.
607
608- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
609 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
610 processing these messages.
611
fe5b0fdd 612 Changes since 3.1.0b1
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614- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
615 objects.
616
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617- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
618 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
619 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
620 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
621 at Allianz.
622
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623- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
624 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
625
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626- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
627 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
628
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629- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
630 caused the server to abort.
631
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632- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
633 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
634 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
635
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636- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
637 by empty spaces would not get included.
638
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639- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
640 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
641
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642- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
643 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
644
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645- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
646 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
647
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648- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
649 on the parameter request list.
650
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651 Changes since 3.1.0a3
652
653- Some spelling fixes.
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655 Changes since 3.1.0a2
656
657- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
658 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
659
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660- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
661 domain-search option syntax.
662
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663 Changes since 3.1.0a1
664
665- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
666 hash table was repaired.
667
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668- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
669 entering normal state.
670
671- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
672 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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673 'xid mismatch' log messages.
674
675- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
676 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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678- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
679 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
680 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
681 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
682
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684 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
685 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
686 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
687 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
688 to their needs.
689
690- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
691 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
692 run will attempt balance.
693
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694- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
695
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696 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
697
698- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
699 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
700 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
701 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
702
98bd7ca0 703- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 704 was introduced.
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705
706- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
707 via OMAPI.
708
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709- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
710 the protocol draft.
711
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712- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
713 one does not already exist on the system.
714
b43c87ad 715- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
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717- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
718 matches RFC 3074.
719
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720- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
721 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 722 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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724- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
725 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 726 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
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728- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
729 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
730 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
731 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
732
733- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
734 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
735 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
736 priority over the client's parameter request list.
737
f7fdb216 738- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 739 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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740 DHCPv6 support.
741
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742- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
743 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
744 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
745
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746- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
747 have been incorporated.
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749- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
750 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
751 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
752 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
753 that belong to the peer in need.
754
755- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
756 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
757
758- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
759 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
760 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
761
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762- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
763 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
764
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765- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
766 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
767 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
768 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
769 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
770
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771- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
772 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
773 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
774 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
775
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776- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
777 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
778 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
779 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
780 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
781 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
782 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
783 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
784 ignoring this aspect of their request.
785
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786- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
787 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
788
41e45067 789- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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790 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
791 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
792 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
793
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794- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
795 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
796 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
797 hardware and funding the development.
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799- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
800 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
801 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
802 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
803 via Robin Breathe.
804
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805- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
806 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
807 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
808 from Christof Chen.
809
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810- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
811 formally supported.
812
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813 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
814
815- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
816 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
817
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818 Changes since 3.0.5
819
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820- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
821 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
822 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 823 they actually received.
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825- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
826
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827- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
828 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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829 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
830 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
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832- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
833
d69fb6a8 834- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 835 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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837- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
838 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
839 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
840 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
841 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
842 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
843 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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844 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
845
846- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
847 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
848 'file' field.
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850- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
851 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
852
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853- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
854 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
855 a patch from Kevin Steves.
856
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857- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
858 from Chris Wagner.
859
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860- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
861 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
862 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
863
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864- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
865 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
866 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
867 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
868 was set.
869
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870- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
871 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
872
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873- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
874 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
875 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
876 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
877 active ones.
878
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901306d5 881- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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882 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
883 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
884 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
885 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
886
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887- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
888 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
889
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890 Changes since 3.0.4
891
892- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
893 scopes are actually global has been added.
894
895- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
896 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
897 known to be damaging.
898
899- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
900 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
901 balancing).
902
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903- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
904 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
905 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
906
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907- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
908 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
909 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
910
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911- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
912 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
913 more clear now.
914
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915- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
916 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
917 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
918 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
919 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 920 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
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922- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
923 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
924
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925- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
926 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
927 made possible.
928
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929- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
930 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
931 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
932
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933- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
934 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
935
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936- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
937 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
938 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
939
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940- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
941 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
942 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
943 value with the later configured value).
944
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945- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
946 have been named and documented.
947
948- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
949 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
950 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
951 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
952 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
953 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
954 write new output.
955
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956 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
957
958- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
959 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
960
961 Changes since 3.0.4b3
962
963- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
964 mailing list.
965
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966 Changes since 3.0.4b2
967
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969 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
970
971- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
972 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
973
974- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
975 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
976 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
977 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
978
979- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
980 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
981 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
982 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
983 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
984 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
985 transition (properly).
986
987- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
988
989 Changes since 3.0.4b1
990
991- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
992 STDIN after reading one line.
993
994- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
995 descriptor it opened twice.
996
997- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
998 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
999 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
1000
1001 Changes since 3.0.3
1002
1003- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
1004 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
1005 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
1006
1007- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
1008 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
1009 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
1010
1011- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
1012 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 1013 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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1015
1016- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 1017 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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1019
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1020! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
1021 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
1022 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
1023 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
1024 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
1025 to a patch from infamous42md.
1026
1027! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
1028 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
1029 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
1030 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
1031 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
1032 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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1034- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
1035 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
1036 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
1037
1038- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
1039 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
1040
1041- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
1042 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
1043 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
1044 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
1045 transitional states.
1046
1047- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
1048 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
1049 once it detects the old db does not exist.
1050
1051- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
1052 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
1053 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
1054
1055- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 1056 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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1058- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
1059 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
1060
1061- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
1062 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
1063 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
1064
1065- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
1066 patch from 'infamous42md'.
1067
1068- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
1069 repaired.
1070
1071- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
1072 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
1073 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
1074 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
1075
1076- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
1077 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
1078 data.
1079
1080- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
1081 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
1082 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
1083 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
1084 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
1085
1086- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
1087 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
1088 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
1089 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
1090 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
1091
1092- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
1093 has been repaired.
1094
1095- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
1096 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
1097 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
1098 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
1099 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
1100
1101- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 1102 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
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45d545f0 1104- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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1105 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
1106 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
1107 move to 3.[01].x.
1108
1109- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
1110 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
1111
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1112 Changes since 3.0.3b3
1113
1114- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
1115 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
1116
1117- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
1118 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
1119 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
1120 workaround.
1121
1122 Changes since 3.0.3b2
1123
1124- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
1125 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
1126
1127 Changes since 3.0.3b1
1128
1129- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
1130 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
1131 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
1132
1133- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
1134 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
1135 dynamic updates were also retouched.
1136
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1137 Changes since 3.0.2
1138
1139- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 1140 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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1141 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
1142
1143- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
1144 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
1145 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
1146 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
1147 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
1148
1149- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
1150 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
1151 Jason Vas Dias at Redhat.
1152
1153- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
1154 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
1155 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
1156
1157- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
1158 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
1159 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
1160 Peter Poeml.
1161
1162- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
1163 Dr. Peter Poeml.
1164
1165- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
1166 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
1167 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
1168 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
1169 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
1170 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
1171
1172- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
1173 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
1174 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
1175 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
1176
1177- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
1178 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
1179 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
1180 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
1181
1182- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
1183 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
1184
1185- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
1186 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
1187 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
1188
1189- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
1190 7 bytes, and failover.
1191
1192- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
1193 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
1194 at Redhat.
1195
1196- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
1197 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
1198 should work better.
1199
1200- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
1201 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
1202 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
1203
1204- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
1205 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
1206 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
1207
1208 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
1209
1210- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
1211 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
1212
1213 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
1214
45d545f0 1215- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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1216 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
1217 overloading. This was repaired.
1218
1219- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
1220 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
1221 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
1222 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
1223 three chunks to fit.
1224
1225- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
1226 were repaired.
1227
1228- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
1229 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
1230 leak).
1231
1232 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
1233
1234- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
1235 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
1236
1237 Changes since 3.0.2b1
1238
1239- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
1240
1241 Changes since 3.0.1
1242
1243- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
1244 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
1245 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
1246
1247- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
1248 name was not provided by the server.
1249
1250- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
1251 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
1252
1253- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
1254 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
1255
1256- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
1257 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
1258
1259- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
1260
1261- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
1262
1263- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
1264 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
1265 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
1266 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
1267 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
1268
1269- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
1270 the configuration be globally scoped.
1271
1272- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
1273 Farkas.
1274
1275- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
1276 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1277
1278- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
1279 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
1280
1281- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
1282 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
1283
1284- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
1285 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
1286 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
1287 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
1288
1289- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
1290 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
1291 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
1292 respond to POOLREQ messages.
1293
1294- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
1295 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
1296 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
1297
1298- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
1299
1300- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
1301 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
1302 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
1303
1304- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
1305 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
1306 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
1307 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
1308 Fjone and directconnect.no.
1309
1310- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
1311 to Andreas Gustafsson.
1312
1313- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
1314 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
1315
1316- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
1317 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
1318 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
1319 DISCOVER timeout handling.
1320
1321- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
1322 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
1323
1324- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
1325 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
1326 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
1327
1328- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
1329 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
1330 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
1331 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
1332 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
1333 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
1334
1335- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
1336 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
1337 Infoblox.
1338
1339- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
1340
1341- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
1342 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
1343 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
1344 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
1345 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
1346 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
1347 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
1348
1349- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
1350 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
1351 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
1352
1353- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
1354 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
1355 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
1356
1357- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
1358
1359 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
1360
1361- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
1362 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
1363 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
1364 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
1365 systems either.
1366
1367- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
1368
1369- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
1370 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
1371 is false.
1372
1373- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
1374 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
1375
1376- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
1377
1378 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
1379
1380! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
1381 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
1382 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
1383 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
1384 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
1385 both finding and solving the problem.
1386
1387! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
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1389 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
1390 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
1391 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
1392 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
1393 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
1394 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
1395 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
1396 published version of ISC DHCP.
1397
1398- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
1399
1400- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
1401
1402 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
1403
1404- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
1405 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
1406 Richard Hirst.
1407
1408- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
1409 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
1410 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
1411
1412- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
1413
1414- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
1415 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
1416 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
1417 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
1418
1419- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 1420 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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1421
1422- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
1423 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
1424
1425- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
1426
1427 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
1428
1429- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
1430 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
1431
1432- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
1433 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
1434 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
1435
1436- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
1437 by name was fixed.
1438
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1440 longer result in error.
1441
1442- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
1443
1444- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
1445 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
1446 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
1447
1448- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
1449 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
1450
1451- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
1452 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
1453 Blapp.
1454
1455- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
1456 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
1457 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
1458 Martin Blapp.
1459
1460- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
1461 expiry times in failover configurations.
1462
1463- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
1464 Steve G.
1465
1466- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
1467 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
1468
1469- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
1470 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
1471 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
1472 now "unknown-144".
1473
1474- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
1475 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
1476
1477 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
1478
1479- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
1480
1481- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
1482 not be bash.
1483
1484- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1485
1486- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
1487 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
1488 that errored before will now work properly.
1489
1490- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
1491 names was repaired.
1492
1493- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
1494 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
1495 configuration file.
1496
1497- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
1498 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1499
1500- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
1501 error rather than a null dereference.
1502
1503 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
1504
1505- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
1506
1507- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
1508
1509- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
1510 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
1511
1512- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
1513
1514- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
1515
1516- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
1517 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
1518 self-corrupting lease databases.
1519
1520- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
1521
1522- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
1523 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
1524
1525- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
1526
1527- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
1528
1529- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
1530 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
1531 Ling Gou.
1532
1533- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
1534 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1535
1536- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
1537 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
1538 Ted Lemon for the patch.
1539
1540- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
1541 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
1542
1543 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
1544
1545- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
1546 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
1547
1548- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
1549
1550- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
1551 a memory leak.
1552
1553- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
1554 script.
1555
1556- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
1557
1558- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
1559
1560- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
1561
1562- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
1563
1564- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
1565
1566- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
1567
1568- Increment the hop count when relaying.
1569
1570- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
1571
1572- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
1573
1574- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
1575
1576- Change the type of rbuf_max.
1577
1578- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
1579
1580 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
1581
1582- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
1583 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
1584 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
1585
1586 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
1587
1588- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
1589 to be renewed.
1590
1591- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
1592 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
1593
1594- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
1595 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
1596
1597- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
1598 that two permit lists matched.
1599
1600- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
1601 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
1602
1603- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
1604
1605- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
1606 requested it, contrary to the standard.
1607
1608- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
1609
1610- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
1611
1612- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
1613 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
1614 going to update its A record.
1615
1616- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
1617 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
1618 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
1619 DNS server.
1620
1621- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
1622
1623- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
1624
1625- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
1626 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
1627 NetBSD project).
1628
1629- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
1630 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
1631
1632- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
1633 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
1634
1635- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
1636
1637- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
1638
1639- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
1640 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
1641 failover protocol standard.
1642
1643- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
1644 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
1645 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
1646
1647- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
1648 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
1649 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
1650 do so.
1651
1652- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
1653
1654 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
1655
1656- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
1657
1658- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
1659 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
1660
1661- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
1662 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
1663
1664- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
1665 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
1666 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
1667
1668- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
1669 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
1670 network, merge the two pools.
1671
1672- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
1673 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
1674 fix this bug.
1675
1676 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
1677
1678- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
1679 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
1680
1681- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
1682 the same case.
1683
1684- Additional documentation.
1685
1686- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
1687 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
1688
1689 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
1690
1691- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
1692- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
1693
1694 Changes since 3.0.1rc2
1695
1696- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
1697 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
1698 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
1699 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
1700 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
1701
1702 Changes since 3.0.1rc1
1703
1704- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
1705 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
1706 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
1707 wasn't the one that removed it.
1708
1709- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
1710 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
1711 were not configured.
1712
1713- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
1714
1715- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
1716 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
1717 routing information.
1718
1719- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
1720 request being sent.
1721
1722- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
1723 done.
1724
1725- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
1726 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
1727 were pending.
1728
1729- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
1730 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
1731 problems with failover.
1732
1733- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
1734 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
1735 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
1736
1737 Changes since 3.0
1738
1739- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
1740 smash in the subclass allocation code.
1741
1742- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
1743 no object is open, it dumps core.
1744
1745- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
1746
1747- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
1748
1749- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
1750
1751- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
1752 a host object attribute with a null value.
1753
1754 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
1755
1756- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
1757
1758- Fix an obscure core dump.
1759
1760- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
1761 when crucial information is left out.
1762
1763- Log "no free leases" as an error.
1764
1765- Documentation updates.
1766
1767 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
1768
1769- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
1770
1771- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
1772 structure wasn't zeroed.
1773
1774- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
1775 incorrectly.
1776
1777- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
1778 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
1779 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
1780 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
1781 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
1782 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
1783 restarted.
1784
1785 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
1786
1787- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
1788 in failover-enabled pools.
1789
1790- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
1791 declarations).
1792
1793- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
1794 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
1795
1796- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
1797 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
1798
1799- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
1800
1801- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
1802 defined but not referenced by any pools.
1803
1804- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
1805
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1807
1808- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
1809
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1811
1812- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
1813
1814- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
1815
1816- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
1817
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1819
1820- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
1821 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
1822 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
1823
1824- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
1825 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
1826 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
1827 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
1828 string.
1829
1830- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
1831
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1833
1834- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
1835 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
1836
1837- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
1838 malformed packets.
1839
1840- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
1841
1842- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
1843 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
1844 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
1845
1846- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
1847
1848- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
1849
1850- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
1851
1852- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
1853 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
1854
1855- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
1856 tcp connections from being played back.
1857
1858- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
1859 on exit.
1860
1861- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
1862
1863- Add some configurability to the build system.
1864
1865- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
1866
1867- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
1868 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
1869 hadn't been noticed until now.
1870
1871 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
1872
1873- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
1874 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
1875
1876- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
1877 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
1878 conformant, but also didn't work).
1879
1880- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
1881 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
1882
1883- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
1884 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
1885
1886- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
1887 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
1888
1889- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
1890 variables to leases via OMAPI.
1891
1892- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
1893 doing failover.
1894
1895- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
1896 running on alpha processors.
1897
1898- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
1899 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
1900
1901- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
1902
1903- Install omshell (including new documentation).
1904
1905- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
1906 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
1907
1908- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
1909
1910- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
1911 actually named (key names are domain names).
1912
1913- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
1914
1915- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
1916 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
1917
1918- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
1919 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
1920
1921- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
1922 statements.
1923
1924- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
1925 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
1926
1927- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
1928 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
1929 operating.
1930
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1932
1933- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
1934 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
1935 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
1936 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
1937
1938- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
1939 using omapi to manipulate leases.
1940
1941- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
1942
1943
1944 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
1945
1946- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
1947 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
1948
1949- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
1950 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
1951 to the chain.
1952
1953- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
1954
1955- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
1956
1957- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
1958
98311e4b 1959- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
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1961
98311e4b 1962- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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1964- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
1965
1966 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
1967
1968- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
1969 DHCPDECLINE.
1970
1971- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
1972
1973- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
1974 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
1975 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
1976
1977- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
1978
1979- Documentation fixes.
1980
1981- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
1982 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
1983
1984- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
1985 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
1986
1987- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
1988
1989- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
1990
1991- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
1992 case-insensitive.
1993
1994- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
1995
98311e4b 1996- If a signature algorithm is not terminated with '.', terminate it so
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1998 consistently.
1999
2000- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
2001 systems with the probe not working correctly.
2002
2003- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
2004
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2006
2007- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
2008 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
2009 result of duplicate leases.
2010
2011- Document OMAPI server objects.
2012
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2014
2015- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
2016 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
2017
2018- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
2019 core dumps.
2020
2021- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
2022 Friedrich.
2023
2024- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
2025
2026 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
2027
2028- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
2029 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 2030 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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2031 billing class code.
2032
2033- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
2034 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
2035
2036- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
2037 trace file.
2038
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2041- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
2042 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
2043 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
2044 e.g., Digital Unix.
2045
2046- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
2047 when no error had occurred.
2048
2049- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
2050 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
2051 non-communicating state.
2052
2053- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
2054
2055- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
2056 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
2057 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
2058
2059- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
2060 when the client lease expired.
2061
2062- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
2063 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
2064 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
2065 in testing.
2066
2067- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
2068 the command line, it would fail.
2069
2070- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
2071 user impact).
2072
2073- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
2074
2075- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
2076 they're executable.
2077
2078 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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2080- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
2081 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
2082 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
2083 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
2084
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2085- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
2086 Transmeta.
2087
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2088- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
2089 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
2090 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
2091 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
2092
2093- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
2094 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
2095
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2097
2098- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
2099 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
2100
2101- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
2102
2103- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
2104
2105- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
2106
2107- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
2108
2109- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
2110
2111- Update some parts of the README file.
2112
2113- Support GCC on SCO.
2114
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2116
2117- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
2118 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
2119
2120- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
2121 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
2122 unbill the old class.
2123
2124- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
2125 process the state transition immediately.
2126
2127- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
2128 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
2129
2130- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
2131
2132- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
2133
2134- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
2135
2136- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
2137
2138- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
2139 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
2140 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
2141
2142- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
2143 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
2144
2145- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
2146 lease file.
2147
2148- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
2149
2150- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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2153
2154- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
2155 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
2156
2157- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
2158
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2159 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 21
2160
2161- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
2162
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2164
2165- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
2166
2167- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
2168 pl19.
2169
2170- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
2171 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
2172 past the regression test.
2173
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2175
2176- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
2177 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
2178
2179- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
2180 DHCPREQUEST.
2181
2182- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
2183
2184- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
2185
2186- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
2187
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2188 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 18
2189
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2190- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
2191 (Damien Neil)
2192
2193- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
2194 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
2195
2196- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
2197 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
2198 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
2199
2200- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
2201 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
2202 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
2203 message.
2204
2205- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
2206 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
2207 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
2208
98311e4b 2209- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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2211 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
2212 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
2213 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
2214 this way will work.
2215
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2216- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
2217
2218- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
2219 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
2220 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
2221 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
2222
2223 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
2224
2225 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
2226
2227- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
2228 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
2229 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
2230
2231- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
2232 Hermann Lauer.
2233
2234- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
2235 messages.
2236
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2238 it contained quoted strings.
2239
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2240 ** there was no pl17 **
2241
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2242 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 16
2243
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2244- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
2245 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
2246 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
2247 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
2248 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
2249 tracking down memory leaks.
2250
2251- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
2252 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
2253 Solaris.
2254
2255- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
2256 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
2257 corruption and core dumps.
2258
2259- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
2260 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
2261
2262- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
2263
2264- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
2265 and implemented by Damien Neil.
2266
2267- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
2268 name and version to standard output.
2269
2270- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
2271
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2273 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
2274
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2275- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
2276
2277- Lots of documentation updates.
2278
2279- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
2280 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
2281
2282- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
2283
2284- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
2285 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
2286
2287
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2289
2290- Some documentation tweaks.
2291
2292- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
2293
2294- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
2295
2296- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
2297 agent options into them.
2298
2299- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
2300
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2301- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
2302 options.
2303
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2305
2306- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
2307 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
2308 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
2309 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
2310 used in class statements to control address allocation.
2311
2312- Fix up documentation.
2313
2314- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
2315 significantly in a high-demand situation.
2316
2317- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
2318
2319- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
2320
2321- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
2322 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
2323 practical use otherwise.
2324
2325- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
2326 for debugging.
2327
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2329
2330- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
2331 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
2332 dump on some systems.
2333
2334- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
2335 option.
2336
2337- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
2338 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
2339
2340- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
2341 that were not printing enough information.
2342
2343- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
2344 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
2345
2346- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
2347 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
2348 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
2349 were answering.
2350
2351- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
2352 the transition.
2353
2354
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2356
2357- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
2358
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2360
2361- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
2362 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
2363 representation from working correctly.
2364
2365- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
2366 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
2367 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
2368 could spin.
2369
2370- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
2371 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
2372
2373- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
2374 interface name on the command line.
2375
2376- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
2377 client state.
2378
2379- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
2380 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
2381 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
2382 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
2383 added by Ted Lemon.
2384
2385- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
2386 be made to log debugging information and other information.
2387
2388- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
2389 end option.
2390
2391- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
2392 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
2393 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
2394
2395- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
2396 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
2397 face of a null hardware address on input.
2398
2399- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
2400 specified unqualified.
2401
2402- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
2403 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
2404
2405- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
2406 RFC.
2407
2408- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
2409
2410- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
2411
2412- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
2413 it works.
2414
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2415 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
2416
2417- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
2418 to CVS.
2419
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2420 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
2421
2422- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
2423
2424- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
2425 in patchlevel 9.
2426
2427- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
2428 options at renewal time.
2429
2430- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
2431 configuration language.
2432
2433- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
2434
2435- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
2436 done when no client hostname was received.
2437
2438- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
2439
2440- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
2441 the DHCP option space.
2442
2443- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
2444
2445- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
2446 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
2447
2448- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
2449 silently dropped.
2450
2451- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
2452 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
2453
2454- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
2455 will be correctly updated.
2456
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2457 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
2458
2459- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
2460 bounds-checking.
2461
2462 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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2463
2464- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
2465
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2468- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
2469 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
2470 possible to exploit it any further than that.
2471
2472- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
2473 option.
2474
2475- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
2476 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
2477 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
2478 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
2479 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
2480 meaningfully.
2481
2482- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
2483 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
2484 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
2485
2486- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
2487 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
2488 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
2489 this one down!
2490
2491- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
2492 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
2493 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
2494 down and fixing this problem.
2495
2496 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
2497
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2498- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
2499 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
2500
2501- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
2502 environment.
2503
2504- Fix suffix operator.
2505
2506- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
2507
2508- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
2509 connection code.
2510
2511- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
2512
2513- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
2514
2515- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
2516 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
2517
2518- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
2519
2520- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
2521
2522- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
2523 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
2524
2525- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
2526 spawn with.
2527
2528- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
2529 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
2530
2531- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
2532 for OMAPI.
2533
2534- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
2535 can install in host declarations.
2536
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2537 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
2538
2539- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
2540 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
2541 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
2542 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
2543 comments)!
2544
2545- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
2546
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2547- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
2548 request for help on this with patches!
2549
2550- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
2551 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
2552 lost, they never reconnect.
2553
2554- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
2555 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
2556
2557- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
2558 dump.
2559
2560- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
2561 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
2562 catching this one.
2563
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2564 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
2565
2566- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 2567 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
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2568 lease renewal time.
2569
2570- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
2571 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
2572 declared without a key.
2573
2574- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
2575
2576- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
2577 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
2578
2579- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
2580 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
2581 determine the maximum size of the response.
2582
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2583 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
2584
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2585- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
2586 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
2587
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2588- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
2589 RENEWING client.
2590
2591- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
2592
2593- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
2594 using memcmp().
2595
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2596 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
2597
2598- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
2599 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
2600 pointing this out.
2601
2602- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
2603 exit.
2604
2605- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
2606
2607- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
2608 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.