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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
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2 Version 4.2.0
3 21 December 2012
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0171be2d 5 Release Notes
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0171be2d 7 NEW FEATURES
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9ISC DHCP 4.2.x includes features that were not included in DHCP 4.1.x.
10These include:
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12There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
13release, which will be addressed in the future:
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01a54c17 15- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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17- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages, in
18 English. A method to reconfigure or support other languages would
19 be preferrable.
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20
21- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
22
98bd7ca0 23- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 24 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 25 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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27For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as
28well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the
29README file.
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31ISC DHCP uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please review the
32output of "./configure --help" to see what options are available.
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34The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and may not
35work on other platforms. Please report any problems and suggested fixes to
36<dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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39 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
40
41
42
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43 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
44
45- Validate the argument to the -p option.
46
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47- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
48 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
49 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
50 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
51 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
52
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53- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
54
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55- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
56 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
57 had been deleted from configuration.
58
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59- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
60 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
61 AC_USE_SYSTME_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
62 were being ignored.
63
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64- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
65
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66- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
67 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
68 Nordahl.
69
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70- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
71 dhcpv6 disabled.
72
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75- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
76 be recognized.
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78 Changes since 4.1.0a2
79
80- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
81 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
82 "abandoned".
83
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84- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
85
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86- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
87 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
88
89- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
90 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
91
92- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 93 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
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95- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
96
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97- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
98 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
99 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
100 in future releases.
101
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102- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
103 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
104
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105- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
106 'dhclient -6' support.
107
7d6180be 108 Changes since 4.1.0a1
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109
110- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
111
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112- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
113
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114- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
115 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
116 only the latter. Fixed.
117
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118- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
119
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120- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
121 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
122
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123- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
124
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125- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
126
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127- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
128 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
129 --enable-early-chroot.
130
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131- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
132 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
133
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134- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
135 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
136 parameter.
137
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138- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
139 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
140
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141- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
142 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
143
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144- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
145
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146- Merged IA_XX related structures.
147
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148- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
149
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150- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
151
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152- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
153 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
154 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
155
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156- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
157 support.
158
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159- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
160 repaired.
161
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162- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
163
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164- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
165
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166- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
167 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
168
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169- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
170 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
171
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172- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
173 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
174
175- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
176 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
177 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
178 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
179 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
180 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
181 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
182 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
183 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
184 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
185 shared-network.
186
187- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
188 configured option values.
189
190- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
191 support class statements.
192
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193- Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
194 selection were repaired.
195
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196- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
197 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
198 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
199 by the OS.
200
201- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
202 address.
203
204- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
205 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
206
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207- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
208
209- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
210
211- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
212 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
213
01a54c17 214 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
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216- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
217
4cafb815 218- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 219 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
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221- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
222 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
223 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
224
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225- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
226 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
227
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228- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
229
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230- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
231 reserved IDs avoided).
232
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233- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
234
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235- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
236 carries a rapid-commit option.
237
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238- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
239 an empty active lease.
240
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241- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
242
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243- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
244 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
245 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
246 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
247
248- MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
249
250- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
251 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
252 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
253 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
254 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
255 Christof Chen.
256
257 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
258
259- DHCP now builds on AIX.
260
261- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
262 config file but -6 is not specified.
263
264- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
265
266- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
267 be more helpful.
268
269- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
270 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
271 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
272
273- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
274 was repaired.
275
276- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
277 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
278 been repaired.
279
280- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
281 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
282 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
283
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284- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
285 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
286
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287- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
288 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
289 IPv4 address.
290
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291- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
292 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
293 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
294 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
295 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
296
297- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
298 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
299 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
300
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301- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
302
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303- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
304
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305- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
306 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
307 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
308 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
309 unnecessary logging.
310
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311- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
312 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
313
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314- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
315 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
316 is incompatible is printed.
317
318- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
319 a previously undefined option code.
320
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321- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
322 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
323
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324- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
325 than the year 2000.
326
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327- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
328
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329- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
330
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331- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
332
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333 Changes since 4.0.0b3
334
335- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
336 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
337 configuration.
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339- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
340 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
341
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342- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
343 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
344 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
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346- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
347 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
348 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
349 a requested address.
350
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351- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
352 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
353 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
354 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
355
356- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
357 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
358 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
359 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
360
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361- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
362 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
363 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
364
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365- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
366 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
367
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368- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
369
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370- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
371 codes through some conditions.
372
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373- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
374 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
375
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376- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
377 seemingly random values.
378
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379- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
380
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381- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
382 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
383 one ever has.
384
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385- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
386 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
387 to a REQUEST.
388
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389- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
390 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
391 level.
392
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393 Changes since 4.0.0b2
394
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395- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
396
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397- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
398 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
399 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
400 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
401 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
402
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403- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
404 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
405 new address.
406
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407 Changes since 4.0.0b1
408
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409- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
410 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
411 simultaneously on a single interface.
412
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413- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
414 of service under unusual server configurations
415
416- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
417
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418- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
419 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
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421- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
422 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
423 on every pool rebalance run.
424
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425- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
426 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
427
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428- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
429 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
430
ab3a540f 431 Changes since 4.0.0a3
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433- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
434 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
435
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436- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
437 point out the problem.
438
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439- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
440 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
441 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
442
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443- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
444 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
445
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446- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
447 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
448 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
449
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450- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
451
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452- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
453 fixed by Marcus Goller.
454
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455- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
456 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
457 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
458 regardless of the existence of bindings.
459
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460- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
461
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462- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
463 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
464 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
465 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
466 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
467
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468- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
469
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470 Changes since 4.0.0a2
471
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472- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
473 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
474
763cba6b 475- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
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477- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
478 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
479 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
480
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481- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
482
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483- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
484 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
485
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486- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
487 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
488 loaded from persistent storage.
489
45d545f0 490- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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491 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
492 necessary.
493
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494- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
495 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
496 rapid-commit option.
497
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498- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
499 non-128-bits in length were removed.
500
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501 Changes since 4.0.0a1
502
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503- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
504 and fix.
505
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506- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
507
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508- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
509
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510- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
511 for when loading configuration.
512
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513- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
514 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
515 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
516
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517- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
518 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
519 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
520 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
521
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522- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
523
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524- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
525 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
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527- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
528
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529- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
530
531- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
532 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
533
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534- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
535 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
536
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537- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
538
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539- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
540 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
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542 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
543
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544- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
545
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546- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
547 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
548
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549- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
550
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551- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
552 initialized.
553
554- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
555
556- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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557 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
558
559- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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561- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
562
563- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
564 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
565
566- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
567
8ea19a71 568- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 569 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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571- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
572 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
573
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574- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
575
576- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
577
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578- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
579
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580 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
581
582- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
583 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
584 no support currently for both.
585
586- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
587 IAADDR option.
588
589- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
590 options.
591
592- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
593
594- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
595 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
596
597- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
598 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
599 specifying type 1 or type 2).
600
601- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
602 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
603
604- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
605 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
606 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
607 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
608 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
609 differently, they both use the same code here).
610
611- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
612 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
613 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
614
615- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
616
617- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
618 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
619 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
620 it should not intercept.
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622 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
623
624- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
625 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
626 between primary and secondary.
627
628- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
629 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
630 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
631
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632- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
633
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634- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
635 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
636 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
637 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
638 or REQUEST messages.
639
640- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
641 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
642
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643- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
644
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645 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
646
647- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
648 failover protected subnets was removed.
649
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650 Changes since 3.1.0b2
651
652- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
653 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
654 odd number of leases).
655
656- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
657 rebalance run, and one after.
658
659- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
660 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
661 processing these messages.
662
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665- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
666 objects.
667
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668- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
669 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
670 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
671 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
672 at Allianz.
673
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674- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
675 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
676
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677- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
678 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
679
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680- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
681 caused the server to abort.
682
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683- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
684 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
685 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
686
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687- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
688 by empty spaces would not get included.
689
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690- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
691 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
692
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693- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
694 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
695
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696- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
697 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
698
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699- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
700 on the parameter request list.
701
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702 Changes since 3.1.0a3
703
704- Some spelling fixes.
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706 Changes since 3.1.0a2
707
708- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
709 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
710
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711- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
712 domain-search option syntax.
713
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714 Changes since 3.1.0a1
715
716- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
717 hash table was repaired.
718
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719- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
720 entering normal state.
721
722- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
723 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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724 'xid mismatch' log messages.
725
726- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
727 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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729- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
730 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
731 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
732 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
733
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735 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
736 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
737 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
738 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
739 to their needs.
740
741- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
742 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
743 run will attempt balance.
744
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745- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
746
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747 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
748
749- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
750 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
751 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
752 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
753
98bd7ca0 754- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
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756
757- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
758 via OMAPI.
759
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760- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
761 the protocol draft.
762
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763- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
764 one does not already exist on the system.
765
b43c87ad 766- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
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768- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
769 matches RFC 3074.
770
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771- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
772 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 773 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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775- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
776 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 777 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
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779- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
780 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
781 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
782 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
783
784- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
785 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
786 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
787 priority over the client's parameter request list.
788
f7fdb216 789- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 790 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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791 DHCPv6 support.
792
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793- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
794 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
795 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
796
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797- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
798 have been incorporated.
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800- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
801 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
802 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
803 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
804 that belong to the peer in need.
805
806- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
807 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
808
809- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
810 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
811 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
812
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813- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
814 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
815
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816- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
817 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
818 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
819 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
820 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
821
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822- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
823 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
824 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
825 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
826
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827- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
828 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
829 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
830 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
831 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
832 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
833 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
834 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
835 ignoring this aspect of their request.
836
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837- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
838 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
839
41e45067 840- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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841 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
842 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
843 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
844
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845- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
846 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
847 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
848 hardware and funding the development.
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850- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
851 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
852 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
853 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
854 via Robin Breathe.
855
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856- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
857 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
858 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
859 from Christof Chen.
860
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861- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
862 formally supported.
863
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864 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
865
866- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
867 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
868
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869 Changes since 3.0.5
870
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871- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
872 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
873 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 874 they actually received.
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875
876- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
877
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878- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
879 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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880 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
881 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
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883- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
884
d69fb6a8 885- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 886 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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888- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
889 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
890 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
891 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
892 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
893 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
894 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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895 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
896
897- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
898 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
899 'file' field.
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901- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
902 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
903
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904- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
905 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
906 a patch from Kevin Steves.
907
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908- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
909 from Chris Wagner.
910
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911- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
912 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
913 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
914
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915- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
916 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
917 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
918 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
919 was set.
920
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921- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
922 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
923
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924- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
925 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
926 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
927 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
928 active ones.
929
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901306d5 932- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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933 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
934 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
935 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
936 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
937
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938- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
939 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
940
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941 Changes since 3.0.4
942
943- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
944 scopes are actually global has been added.
945
946- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
947 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
948 known to be damaging.
949
950- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
951 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
952 balancing).
953
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954- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
955 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
956 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
957
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958- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
959 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
960 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
961
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962- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
963 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
964 more clear now.
965
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966- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
967 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
968 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
969 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
970 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 971 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
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973- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
974 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
975
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976- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
977 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
978 made possible.
979
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980- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
981 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
982 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
983
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984- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
985 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
986
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987- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
988 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
989 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
990
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991- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
992 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
993 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
994 value with the later configured value).
995
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996- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
997 have been named and documented.
998
999- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
1000 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
1001 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
1002 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
1003 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
1004 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
1005 write new output.
1006
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1007 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
1008
1009- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
1010 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
1011
1012 Changes since 3.0.4b3
1013
1014- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
1015 mailing list.
1016
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1017 Changes since 3.0.4b2
1018
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1020 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
1021
1022- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
1023 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
1024
1025- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
1026 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
1027 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
1028 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
1029
1030- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
1031 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
1032 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
1033 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
1034 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
1035 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
1036 transition (properly).
1037
1038- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
1039
1040 Changes since 3.0.4b1
1041
1042- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
1043 STDIN after reading one line.
1044
1045- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
1046 descriptor it opened twice.
1047
1048- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
1049 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
1050 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
1051
1052 Changes since 3.0.3
1053
1054- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
1055 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
1056 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
1057
1058- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
1059 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
1060 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
1061
1062- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
1063 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 1064 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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1065 leases to allocate.
1066
1067- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 1068 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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1069 than the entire block of them.
1070
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1071! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
1072 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
1073 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
1074 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
1075 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
1076 to a patch from infamous42md.
1077
1078! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
1079 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
1080 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
1081 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
1082 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
1083 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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1085- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
1086 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
1087 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
1088
1089- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
1090 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
1091
1092- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
1093 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
1094 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
1095 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
1096 transitional states.
1097
1098- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
1099 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
1100 once it detects the old db does not exist.
1101
1102- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
1103 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
1104 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
1105
1106- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 1107 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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1108
1109- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
1110 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
1111
1112- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
1113 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
1114 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
1115
1116- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
1117 patch from 'infamous42md'.
1118
1119- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
1120 repaired.
1121
1122- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
1123 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
1124 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
1125 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
1126
1127- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
1128 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
1129 data.
1130
1131- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
1132 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
1133 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
1134 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
1135 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
1136
1137- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
1138 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
1139 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
1140 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
1141 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
1142
1143- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
1144 has been repaired.
1145
1146- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
1147 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
1148 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
1149 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
1150 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
1151
1152- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 1153 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
88cd8aca 1154
45d545f0 1155- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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1156 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
1157 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
1158 move to 3.[01].x.
1159
1160- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
1161 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
1162
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1163 Changes since 3.0.3b3
1164
1165- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
1166 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
1167
1168- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
1169 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
1170 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
1171 workaround.
1172
1173 Changes since 3.0.3b2
1174
1175- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
1176 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
1177
1178 Changes since 3.0.3b1
1179
1180- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
1181 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
1182 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
1183
1184- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
1185 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
1186 dynamic updates were also retouched.
1187
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1188 Changes since 3.0.2
1189
1190- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 1191 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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1192 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
1193
1194- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
1195 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
1196 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
1197 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
1198 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
1199
1200- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
1201 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
1202 Jason Vas Dias at Redhat.
1203
1204- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
1205 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
1206 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
1207
1208- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
1209 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
1210 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
1211 Peter Poeml.
1212
1213- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
1214 Dr. Peter Poeml.
1215
1216- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
1217 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
1218 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
1219 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
1220 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
1221 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
1222
1223- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
1224 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
1225 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
1226 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
1227
1228- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
1229 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
1230 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
1231 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
1232
1233- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
1234 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
1235
1236- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
1237 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
1238 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
1239
1240- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
1241 7 bytes, and failover.
1242
1243- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
1244 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
1245 at Redhat.
1246
1247- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
1248 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
1249 should work better.
1250
1251- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
1252 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
1253 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
1254
1255- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
1256 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
1257 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
1258
1259 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
1260
1261- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
1262 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
1263
1264 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
1265
45d545f0 1266- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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1267 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
1268 overloading. This was repaired.
1269
1270- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
1271 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
1272 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
1273 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
1274 three chunks to fit.
1275
1276- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
1277 were repaired.
1278
1279- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
1280 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
1281 leak).
1282
1283 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
1284
1285- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
1286 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
1287
1288 Changes since 3.0.2b1
1289
1290- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
1291
1292 Changes since 3.0.1
1293
1294- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
1295 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
1296 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
1297
1298- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
1299 name was not provided by the server.
1300
1301- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
1302 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
1303
1304- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
1305 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
1306
1307- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
1308 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
1309
1310- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
1311
1312- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
1313
1314- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
1315 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
1316 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
1317 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
1318 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
1319
1320- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
1321 the configuration be globally scoped.
1322
1323- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
1324 Farkas.
1325
1326- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
1327 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1328
1329- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
1330 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
1331
1332- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
1333 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
1334
1335- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
1336 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
1337 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
1338 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
1339
1340- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
1341 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
1342 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
1343 respond to POOLREQ messages.
1344
1345- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
1346 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
1347 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
1348
1349- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
1350
1351- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
1352 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
1353 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
1354
1355- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
1356 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
1357 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
1358 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
1359 Fjone and directconnect.no.
1360
1361- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
1362 to Andreas Gustafsson.
1363
1364- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
1365 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
1366
1367- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
1368 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
1369 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
1370 DISCOVER timeout handling.
1371
1372- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
1373 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
1374
1375- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
1376 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
1377 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
1378
1379- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
1380 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
1381 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
1382 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
1383 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
1384 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
1385
1386- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
1387 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
1388 Infoblox.
1389
1390- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
1391
1392- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
1393 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
1394 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
1395 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
1396 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
1397 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
1398 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
1399
1400- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
1401 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
1402 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
1403
1404- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
1405 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
1406 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
1407
1408- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
1409
1410 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
1411
1412- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
1413 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
1414 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
1415 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
1416 systems either.
1417
1418- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
1419
1420- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
1421 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
1422 is false.
1423
1424- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
1425 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
1426
1427- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
1428
1429 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
1430
1431! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
1432 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
1433 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
1434 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
1435 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
1436 both finding and solving the problem.
1437
1438! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
45d545f0 1439 in log_*() functions was evidenced, on some specific platforms where
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1440 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
1441 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
1442 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
1443 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
1444 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
1445 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
1446 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
1447 published version of ISC DHCP.
1448
1449- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
1450
1451- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
1452
1453 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
1454
1455- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
1456 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
1457 Richard Hirst.
1458
1459- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
1460 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
1461 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
1462
1463- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
1464
1465- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
1466 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
1467 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
1468 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
1469
1470- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 1471 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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1472
1473- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
1474 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
1475
1476- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
1477
1478 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
1479
1480- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
1481 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
1482
1483- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
1484 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
1485 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
1486
1487- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
1488 by name was fixed.
1489
45d545f0 1490- Declaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
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1491 longer result in error.
1492
1493- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
1494
1495- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
1496 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
1497 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
1498
1499- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
1500 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
1501
1502- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
1503 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
1504 Blapp.
1505
1506- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
1507 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
1508 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
1509 Martin Blapp.
1510
1511- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
1512 expiry times in failover configurations.
1513
1514- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
1515 Steve G.
1516
1517- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
1518 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
1519
1520- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
1521 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
1522 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
1523 now "unknown-144".
1524
1525- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
1526 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
1527
1528 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
1529
1530- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
1531
1532- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
1533 not be bash.
1534
1535- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1536
1537- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
1538 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
1539 that errored before will now work properly.
1540
1541- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
1542 names was repaired.
1543
1544- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
1545 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
1546 configuration file.
1547
1548- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
1549 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1550
1551- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
1552 error rather than a null dereference.
1553
1554 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
1555
1556- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
1557
1558- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
1559
1560- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
1561 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
1562
1563- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
1564
1565- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
1566
1567- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
1568 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
1569 self-corrupting lease databases.
1570
1571- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
1572
1573- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
1574 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
1575
1576- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
1577
1578- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
1579
1580- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
1581 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
1582 Ling Gou.
1583
1584- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
1585 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1586
1587- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
1588 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
1589 Ted Lemon for the patch.
1590
1591- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
1592 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
1593
1594 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
1595
1596- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
1597 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
1598
1599- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
1600
1601- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
1602 a memory leak.
1603
1604- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
1605 script.
1606
1607- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
1608
1609- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
1610
1611- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
1612
1613- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
1614
1615- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
1616
1617- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
1618
1619- Increment the hop count when relaying.
1620
1621- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
1622
1623- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
1624
1625- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
1626
1627- Change the type of rbuf_max.
1628
1629- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
1630
1631 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
1632
1633- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
1634 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
1635 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
1636
1637 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
1638
1639- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
1640 to be renewed.
1641
1642- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
1643 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
1644
1645- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
1646 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
1647
1648- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
1649 that two permit lists matched.
1650
1651- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
1652 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
1653
1654- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
1655
1656- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
1657 requested it, contrary to the standard.
1658
1659- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
1660
1661- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
1662
1663- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
1664 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
1665 going to update its A record.
1666
1667- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
1668 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
1669 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
1670 DNS server.
1671
1672- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
1673
1674- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
1675
1676- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
1677 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
1678 NetBSD project).
1679
1680- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
1681 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
1682
1683- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
1684 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
1685
1686- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
1687
1688- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
1689
1690- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
1691 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
1692 failover protocol standard.
1693
1694- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
1695 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
1696 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
1697
1698- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
1699 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
1700 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
1701 do so.
1702
1703- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
1704
1705 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
1706
1707- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
1708
1709- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
1710 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
1711
1712- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
1713 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
1714
1715- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
1716 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
1717 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
1718
1719- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
1720 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
1721 network, merge the two pools.
1722
1723- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
1724 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
1725 fix this bug.
1726
1727 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
1728
1729- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
1730 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
1731
1732- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
1733 the same case.
1734
1735- Additional documentation.
1736
1737- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
1738 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
1739
1740 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
1741
1742- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
1743- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
1744
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1746
1747- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
1748 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
1749 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
1750 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
1751 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
1752
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1754
1755- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
1756 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
1757 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
1758 wasn't the one that removed it.
1759
1760- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
1761 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
1762 were not configured.
1763
1764- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
1765
1766- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
1767 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
1768 routing information.
1769
1770- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
1771 request being sent.
1772
1773- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
1774 done.
1775
1776- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
1777 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
1778 were pending.
1779
1780- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
1781 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
1782 problems with failover.
1783
1784- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
1785 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
1786 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
1787
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1789
1790- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
1791 smash in the subclass allocation code.
1792
1793- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
1794 no object is open, it dumps core.
1795
1796- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
1797
1798- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
1799
1800- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
1801
1802- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
1803 a host object attribute with a null value.
1804
1805 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
1806
1807- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
1808
1809- Fix an obscure core dump.
1810
1811- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
1812 when crucial information is left out.
1813
1814- Log "no free leases" as an error.
1815
1816- Documentation updates.
1817
1818 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
1819
1820- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
1821
1822- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
1823 structure wasn't zeroed.
1824
1825- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
1826 incorrectly.
1827
1828- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
1829 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
1830 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
1831 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
1832 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
1833 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
1834 restarted.
1835
1836 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
1837
1838- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
1839 in failover-enabled pools.
1840
1841- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
1842 declarations).
1843
1844- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
1845 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
1846
1847- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
1848 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
1849
1850- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
1851
1852- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
1853 defined but not referenced by any pools.
1854
1855- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
1856
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1858
1859- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
1860
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1862
1863- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
1864
1865- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
1866
1867- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
1868
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1870
1871- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
1872 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
1873 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
1874
1875- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
1876 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
1877 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
1878 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
1879 string.
1880
1881- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
1882
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1884
1885- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
1886 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
1887
1888- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
1889 malformed packets.
1890
1891- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
1892
1893- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
1894 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
1895 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
1896
1897- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
1898
1899- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
1900
1901- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
1902
1903- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
1904 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
1905
1906- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
1907 tcp connections from being played back.
1908
1909- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
1910 on exit.
1911
1912- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
1913
1914- Add some configurability to the build system.
1915
1916- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
1917
1918- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
1919 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
1920 hadn't been noticed until now.
1921
1922 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
1923
1924- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
1925 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
1926
1927- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
1928 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
1929 conformant, but also didn't work).
1930
1931- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
1932 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
1933
1934- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
1935 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
1936
1937- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
1938 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
1939
1940- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
1941 variables to leases via OMAPI.
1942
1943- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
1944 doing failover.
1945
1946- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
1947 running on alpha processors.
1948
1949- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
1950 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
1951
1952- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
1953
1954- Install omshell (including new documentation).
1955
1956- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
1957 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
1958
1959- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
1960
1961- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
1962 actually named (key names are domain names).
1963
1964- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
1965
1966- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
1967 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
1968
1969- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
1970 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
1971
1972- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
1973 statements.
1974
1975- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
1976 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
1977
1978- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
1979 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
1980 operating.
1981
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1983
1984- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
1985 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
1986 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
1987 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
1988
1989- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
1990 using omapi to manipulate leases.
1991
1992- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
1993
1994
1995 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
1996
1997- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
1998 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
1999
2000- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
2001 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
2002 to the chain.
2003
2004- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
2005
2006- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
2007
2008- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
2009
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2011 attribute values in omshell.
2012
98311e4b 2013- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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2014
2015- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
2016
2017 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
2018
2019- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
2020 DHCPDECLINE.
2021
2022- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
2023
2024- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
2025 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
2026 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
2027
2028- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
2029
2030- Documentation fixes.
2031
2032- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
2033 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
2034
2035- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
2036 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
2037
2038- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
2039
2040- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
2041
2042- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
2043 case-insensitive.
2044
2045- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
2046
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2048 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
2049 consistently.
2050
2051- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
2052 systems with the probe not working correctly.
2053
2054- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
2055
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2056 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 3
2057
2058- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
2059 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
2060 result of duplicate leases.
2061
2062- Document OMAPI server objects.
2063
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2064 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Patchlevel 1
2065
2066- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
2067 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
2068
2069- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
2070 core dumps.
2071
2072- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
2073 Friedrich.
2074
2075- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
2076
2077 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
2078
2079- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
2080 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
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2082 billing class code.
2083
2084- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
2085 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
2086
2087- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
2088 trace file.
2089
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2092- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
2093 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
2094 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
2095 e.g., Digital Unix.
2096
2097- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
2098 when no error had occurred.
2099
2100- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
2101 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
2102 non-communicating state.
2103
2104- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
2105
2106- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
2107 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
2108 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
2109
2110- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
2111 when the client lease expired.
2112
2113- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
2114 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
2115 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
2116 in testing.
2117
2118- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
2119 the command line, it would fail.
2120
2121- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
2122 user impact).
2123
2124- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
2125
2126- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
2127 they're executable.
2128
2129 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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2131- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
2132 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
2133 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
2134 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
2135
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2136- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
2137 Transmeta.
2138
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2139- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
2140 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
2141 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
2142 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
2143
2144- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
2145 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
2146
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2148
2149- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
2150 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
2151
2152- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
2153
2154- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
2155
2156- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
2157
2158- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
2159
2160- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
2161
2162- Update some parts of the README file.
2163
2164- Support GCC on SCO.
2165
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2167
2168- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
2169 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
2170
2171- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
2172 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
2173 unbill the old class.
2174
2175- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
2176 process the state transition immediately.
2177
2178- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
2179 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
2180
2181- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
2182
2183- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
2184
2185- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
2186
2187- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
2188
2189- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
2190 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
2191 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
2192
2193- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
2194 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
2195
2196- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
2197 lease file.
2198
2199- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
2200
2201- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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2205- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
2206 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
2207
2208- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
2209
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2212- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
2213
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2215
2216- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
2217
2218- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
2219 pl19.
2220
2221- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
2222 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
2223 past the regression test.
2224
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2226
2227- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
2228 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
2229
2230- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
2231 DHCPREQUEST.
2232
2233- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
2234
2235- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
2236
2237- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
2238
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2241- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
2242 (Damien Neil)
2243
2244- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
2245 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
2246
2247- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
2248 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
2249 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
2250
2251- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
2252 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
2253 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
2254 message.
2255
2256- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
2257 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
2258 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
2259
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2262 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
2263 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
2264 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
2265 this way will work.
2266
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2268
2269- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
2270 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
2271 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
2272 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
2273
2274 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
2275
2276 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
2277
2278- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
2279 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
2280 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
2281
2282- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
2283 Hermann Lauer.
2284
2285- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
2286 messages.
2287
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2288- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
2289 it contained quoted strings.
2290
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2291 ** there was no pl17 **
2292
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2295- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
2296 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
2297 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
2298 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
2299 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
2300 tracking down memory leaks.
2301
2302- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
2303 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
2304 Solaris.
2305
2306- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
2307 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
2308 corruption and core dumps.
2309
2310- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
2311 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
2312
2313- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
2314
2315- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
2316 and implemented by Damien Neil.
2317
2318- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
2319 name and version to standard output.
2320
2321- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
2322
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2324 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
2325
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2326- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
2327
2328- Lots of documentation updates.
2329
2330- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
2331 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
2332
2333- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
2334
2335- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
2336 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
2337
2338
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2341- Some documentation tweaks.
2342
2343- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
2344
2345- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
2346
2347- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
2348 agent options into them.
2349
2350- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
2351
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2352- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
2353 options.
2354
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2356
2357- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
2358 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
2359 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
2360 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
2361 used in class statements to control address allocation.
2362
2363- Fix up documentation.
2364
2365- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
2366 significantly in a high-demand situation.
2367
2368- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
2369
2370- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
2371
2372- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
2373 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
2374 practical use otherwise.
2375
2376- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
2377 for debugging.
2378
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2381- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
2382 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
2383 dump on some systems.
2384
2385- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
2386 option.
2387
2388- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
2389 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
2390
2391- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
2392 that were not printing enough information.
2393
2394- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
2395 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
2396
2397- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
2398 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
2399 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
2400 were answering.
2401
2402- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
2403 the transition.
2404
2405
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2407
2408- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
2409
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2410 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
2411
2412- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
2413 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
2414 representation from working correctly.
2415
2416- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
2417 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
2418 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
2419 could spin.
2420
2421- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
2422 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
2423
2424- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
2425 interface name on the command line.
2426
2427- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
2428 client state.
2429
2430- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
2431 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
2432 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
2433 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
2434 added by Ted Lemon.
2435
2436- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
2437 be made to log debugging information and other information.
2438
2439- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
2440 end option.
2441
2442- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
2443 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
2444 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
2445
2446- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
2447 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
2448 face of a null hardware address on input.
2449
2450- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
2451 specified unqualified.
2452
2453- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
2454 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
2455
2456- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
2457 RFC.
2458
2459- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
2460
2461- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
2462
2463- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
2464 it works.
2465
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2466 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
2467
2468- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
2469 to CVS.
2470
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2471 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
2472
2473- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
2474
2475- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
2476 in patchlevel 9.
2477
2478- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
2479 options at renewal time.
2480
2481- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
2482 configuration language.
2483
2484- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
2485
2486- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
2487 done when no client hostname was received.
2488
2489- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
2490
2491- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
2492 the DHCP option space.
2493
2494- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
2495
2496- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
2497 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
2498
2499- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
2500 silently dropped.
2501
2502- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
2503 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
2504
2505- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
2506 will be correctly updated.
2507
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2508 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
2509
2510- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
2511 bounds-checking.
2512
2513 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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2514
2515- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
2516
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2519- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
2520 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
2521 possible to exploit it any further than that.
2522
2523- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
2524 option.
2525
2526- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
2527 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
2528 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
2529 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
2530 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
2531 meaningfully.
2532
2533- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
2534 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
2535 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
2536
2537- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
2538 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
2539 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
2540 this one down!
2541
2542- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
2543 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
2544 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
2545 down and fixing this problem.
2546
2547 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
2548
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2549- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
2550 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
2551
2552- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
2553 environment.
2554
2555- Fix suffix operator.
2556
2557- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
2558
2559- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
2560 connection code.
2561
2562- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
2563
2564- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
2565
2566- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
2567 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
2568
2569- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
2570
2571- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
2572
2573- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
2574 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
2575
2576- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
2577 spawn with.
2578
2579- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
2580 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
2581
2582- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
2583 for OMAPI.
2584
2585- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
2586 can install in host declarations.
2587
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2589
2590- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
2591 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
2592 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
2593 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
2594 comments)!
2595
2596- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
2597
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2598- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
2599 request for help on this with patches!
2600
2601- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
2602 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
2603 lost, they never reconnect.
2604
2605- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
2606 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
2607
2608- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
2609 dump.
2610
2611- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
2612 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
2613 catching this one.
2614
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2616
2617- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 2618 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
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2619 lease renewal time.
2620
2621- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
2622 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
2623 declared without a key.
2624
2625- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
2626
2627- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
2628 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
2629
2630- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
2631 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
2632 determine the maximum size of the response.
2633
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2634 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
2635
359b023e
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2636- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
2637 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
2638
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2639- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
2640 RENEWING client.
2641
2642- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
2643
2644- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
2645 using memcmp().
2646
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2647 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
2648
2649- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
2650 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
2651 pointing this out.
2652
2653- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
2654 exit.
2655
2656- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
2657
2658- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
2659 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.