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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
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2 Version 4.0.0b2
3 October 24, 2007
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98311e4b 5 Release Notes
72c7bd79 6
da411127 7 NEW FEATURES
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9The DHCP server in version 4.0.x of the ISC DHCP Distribution supports
10DHCPv6 in addition to DHCP for IPv4.
11
12Several new options have been added to the dhcpd executable, which are
13documented in the man page. Several changes have been made to the
14configuration file as well, which are also documented in the man
15pages.
16
45d545f0 17There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
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18release, which will be addressed shortly:
19
99fe695e 20- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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22- There is no DHCPv6 Relay Agent implementation. There are only DHCPv6
23 Server and Client implementations.
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39725d92 25- Only a single address is supported per IA.
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26
27- IA_TA addresses are not supported.
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98bd7ca0 29- IA_PD prefixes are not supported.
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31- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages. These
32 should be configurable, and probably localized via gettext() or the
33 like.
34
35- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
36
37- Dynamically allocated leases do not respond to Confirm messages.
38
98bd7ca0 39- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 40 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 41 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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43For information on how to install, configure and run this software,
44as well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult
45the README file.
46
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47ISC DHCP now uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please
48review the output of "./configure --help" to see what options are
49available.
50
51The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and
52may not work on other platforms. Please report any problems and
53suggested fixes to <dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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55 Changes since 4.0.0b1
56
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57- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
58 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
59 simultaneously on a single interface.
60
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61- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
62 of service under unusual server configurations
63
64- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
65
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66- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
67 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
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69- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
70 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
71 on every pool rebalance run.
72
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73- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
74 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
75
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76- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
77 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
78
ab3a540f 79 Changes since 4.0.0a3
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81- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
82 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
83
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84- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
85 point out the problem.
86
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87- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
88 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
89 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
90
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91- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
92 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
93
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94- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
95 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
96 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
97
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98- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
99
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100- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
101 fixed by Marcus Goller.
102
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103- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
104 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
105 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
106 regardless of the existence of bindings.
107
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108- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
109
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110- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
111 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
112 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
113 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
114 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
115
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116- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
117
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118 Changes since 4.0.0a2
119
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120- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
121 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
122
763cba6b 123- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
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125- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
126 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
127 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
128
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129- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
130
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131- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
132 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
133
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134- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
135 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
136 loaded from persistent storage.
137
45d545f0 138- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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139 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
140 necessary.
141
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142- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
143 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
144 rapid-commit option.
145
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146- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
147 non-128-bits in length were removed.
148
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149 Changes since 4.0.0a1
150
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151- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
152 and fix.
153
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154- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
155
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156- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
157
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158- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
159 for when loading configuration.
160
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161- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
162 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
163 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
164
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165- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
166 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
167 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
168 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
169
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170- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
171
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172- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
173 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 174
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175- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
176
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177- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
178
179- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
180 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
181
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182- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
183 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
184
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185- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
186
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187- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
188 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
189
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190 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
191
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192- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
193
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194- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
195 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
196
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197- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
198
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199- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
200 initialized.
201
202- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
203
204- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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205 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
206
207- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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209- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
210
211- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
212 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
213
214- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
215
8ea19a71 216- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 217 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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218
219- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
220 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
221
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222- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
223
224- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
225
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226- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
227
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228 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
229
230- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
231 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
232 no support currently for both.
233
234- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
235 IAADDR option.
236
237- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
238 options.
239
240- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
241
242- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
243 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
244
245- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
246 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
247 specifying type 1 or type 2).
248
249- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
250 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
251
252- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
253 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
254 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
255 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
256 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
257 differently, they both use the same code here).
258
259- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
260 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
261 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
262
263- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
264
265- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
266 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
267 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
268 it should not intercept.
269
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270 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
271
272- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
273 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
274 between primary and secondary.
275
276- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
277 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
278 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
279
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280- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
281
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282- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
283 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
284 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
285 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
286 or REQUEST messages.
287
288- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
289 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
290
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291- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
292
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293 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
294
295- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
296 failover protected subnets was removed.
297
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298 Changes since 3.1.0b2
299
300- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
301 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
302 odd number of leases).
303
304- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
305 rebalance run, and one after.
306
307- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
308 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
309 processing these messages.
310
fe5b0fdd 311 Changes since 3.1.0b1
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313- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
314 objects.
315
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316- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
317 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
318 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
319 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
320 at Allianz.
321
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322- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
323 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
324
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325- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
326 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
327
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328- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
329 caused the server to abort.
330
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331- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
332 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
333 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
334
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335- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
336 by empty spaces would not get included.
337
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338- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
339 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
340
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341- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
342 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
343
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344- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
345 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
346
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347- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
348 on the parameter request list.
349
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350 Changes since 3.1.0a3
351
352- Some spelling fixes.
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354 Changes since 3.1.0a2
355
356- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
357 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
358
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359- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
360 domain-search option syntax.
361
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362 Changes since 3.1.0a1
363
364- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
365 hash table was repaired.
366
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367- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
368 entering normal state.
369
370- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
371 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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372 'xid mismatch' log messages.
373
374- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
375 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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377- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
378 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
379 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
380 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
381
45d545f0 382- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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383 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
384 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
385 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
386 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
387 to their needs.
388
389- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
390 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
391 run will attempt balance.
392
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393- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
394
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395 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
396
397- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
398 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
399 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
400 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
401
98bd7ca0 402- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 403 was introduced.
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405- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
406 via OMAPI.
407
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408- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
409 the protocol draft.
410
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411- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
412 one does not already exist on the system.
413
b43c87ad 414- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 415
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416- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
417 matches RFC 3074.
418
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419- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
420 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 421 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2727c1cf 422
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423- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
424 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 425 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 426
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427- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
428 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
429 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
430 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
431
432- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
433 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
434 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
435 priority over the client's parameter request list.
436
f7fdb216 437- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 438 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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439 DHCPv6 support.
440
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441- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
442 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
443 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
444
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445- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
446 have been incorporated.
447
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448- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
449 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
450 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
451 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
452 that belong to the peer in need.
453
454- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
455 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
456
457- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
458 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
459 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
460
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461- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
462 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
463
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464- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
465 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
466 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
467 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
468 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
469
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470- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
471 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
472 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
473 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
474
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475- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
476 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
477 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
478 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
479 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
480 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
481 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
482 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
483 ignoring this aspect of their request.
484
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485- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
486 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
487
41e45067 488- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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489 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
490 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
491 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
492
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493- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
494 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
495 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
496 hardware and funding the development.
6d103865 497
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498- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
499 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
500 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
501 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
502 via Robin Breathe.
503
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504- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
505 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
506 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
507 from Christof Chen.
508
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509- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
510 formally supported.
511
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512 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
513
514- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
515 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
516
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517 Changes since 3.0.5
518
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519- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
520 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
521 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 522 they actually received.
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523
524- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
525
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526- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
527 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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528 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
529 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
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531- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
532
d69fb6a8 533- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 534 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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536- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
537 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
538 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
539 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
540 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
541 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
542 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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543 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
544
545- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
546 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
547 'file' field.
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549- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
550 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
551
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552- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
553 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
554 a patch from Kevin Steves.
555
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556- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
557 from Chris Wagner.
558
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559- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
560 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
561 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
562
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563- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
564 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
565 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
566 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
567 was set.
568
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569- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
570 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
571
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572- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
573 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
574 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
575 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
576 active ones.
577
02428754 578 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
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901306d5 580- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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581 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
582 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
583 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
584 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
585
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586- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
587 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
588
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589 Changes since 3.0.4
590
591- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
592 scopes are actually global has been added.
593
594- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
595 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
596 known to be damaging.
597
598- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
599 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
600 balancing).
601
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602- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
603 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
604 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
605
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606- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
607 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
608 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
609
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610- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
611 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
612 more clear now.
613
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614- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
615 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
616 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
617 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
618 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 619 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
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621- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
622 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
623
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624- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
625 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
626 made possible.
627
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628- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
629 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
630 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
631
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632- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
633 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
634
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635- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
636 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
637 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
638
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639- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
640 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
641 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
642 value with the later configured value).
643
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644- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
645 have been named and documented.
646
647- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
648 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
649 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
650 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
651 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
652 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
653 write new output.
654
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655 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
656
657- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
658 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
659
660 Changes since 3.0.4b3
661
662- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
663 mailing list.
664
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665 Changes since 3.0.4b2
666
45d545f0 667- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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668 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
669
670- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
671 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
672
673- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
674 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
675 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
676 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
677
678- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
679 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
680 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
681 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
682 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
683 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
684 transition (properly).
685
686- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
687
688 Changes since 3.0.4b1
689
690- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
691 STDIN after reading one line.
692
693- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
694 descriptor it opened twice.
695
696- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
697 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
698 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
699
700 Changes since 3.0.3
701
702- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
703 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
704 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
705
706- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
707 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
708 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
709
710- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
711 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 712 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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713 leases to allocate.
714
715- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 716 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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717 than the entire block of them.
718
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719! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
720 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
721 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
722 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
723 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
724 to a patch from infamous42md.
725
726! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
727 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
728 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
729 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
730 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
731 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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733- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
734 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
735 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
736
737- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
738 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
739
740- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
741 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
742 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
743 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
744 transitional states.
745
746- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
747 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
748 once it detects the old db does not exist.
749
750- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
751 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
752 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
753
754- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 755 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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757- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
758 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
759
760- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
761 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
762 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
763
764- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
765 patch from 'infamous42md'.
766
767- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
768 repaired.
769
770- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
771 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
772 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
773 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
774
775- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
776 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
777 data.
778
779- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
780 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
781 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
782 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
783 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
784
785- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
786 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
787 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
788 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
789 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
790
791- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
792 has been repaired.
793
794- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
795 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
796 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
797 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
798 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
799
800- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 801 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
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804 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
805 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
806 move to 3.[01].x.
807
808- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
809 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
810
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811 Changes since 3.0.3b3
812
813- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
814 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
815
816- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
817 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
818 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
819 workaround.
820
821 Changes since 3.0.3b2
822
823- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
824 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
825
826 Changes since 3.0.3b1
827
828- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
829 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
830 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
831
832- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
833 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
834 dynamic updates were also retouched.
835
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836 Changes since 3.0.2
837
838- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
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840 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
841
842- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
843 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
844 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
845 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
846 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
847
848- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
849 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
850 Jason Vas Dias at Redhat.
851
852- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
853 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
854 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
855
856- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
857 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
858 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
859 Peter Poeml.
860
861- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
862 Dr. Peter Poeml.
863
864- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
865 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
866 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
867 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
868 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
869 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
870
871- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
872 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
873 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
874 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
875
876- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
877 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
878 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
879 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
880
881- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
882 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
883
884- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
885 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
886 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
887
888- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
889 7 bytes, and failover.
890
891- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
892 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
893 at Redhat.
894
895- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
896 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
897 should work better.
898
899- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
900 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
901 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
902
903- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
904 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
905 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
906
907 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
908
909- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
910 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
911
912 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
913
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915 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
916 overloading. This was repaired.
917
918- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
919 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
920 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
921 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
922 three chunks to fit.
923
924- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
925 were repaired.
926
927- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
928 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
929 leak).
930
931 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
932
933- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
934 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
935
936 Changes since 3.0.2b1
937
938- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
939
940 Changes since 3.0.1
941
942- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
943 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
944 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
945
946- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
947 name was not provided by the server.
948
949- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
950 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
951
952- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
953 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
954
955- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
956 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
957
958- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
959
960- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
961
962- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
963 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
964 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
965 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
966 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
967
968- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
969 the configuration be globally scoped.
970
971- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
972 Farkas.
973
974- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
975 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
976
977- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
978 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
979
980- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
981 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
982
983- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
984 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
985 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
986 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
987
988- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
989 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
990 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
991 respond to POOLREQ messages.
992
993- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
994 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
995 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
996
997- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
998
999- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
1000 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
1001 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
1002
1003- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
1004 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
1005 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
1006 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
1007 Fjone and directconnect.no.
1008
1009- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
1010 to Andreas Gustafsson.
1011
1012- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
1013 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
1014
1015- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
1016 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
1017 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
1018 DISCOVER timeout handling.
1019
1020- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
1021 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
1022
1023- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
1024 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
1025 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
1026
1027- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
1028 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
1029 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
1030 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
1031 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
1032 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
1033
1034- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
1035 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
1036 Infoblox.
1037
1038- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
1039
1040- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
1041 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
1042 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
1043 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
1044 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
1045 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
1046 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
1047
1048- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
1049 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
1050 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
1051
1052- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
1053 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
1054 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
1055
1056- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
1057
1058 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
1059
1060- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
1061 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
1062 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
1063 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
1064 systems either.
1065
1066- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
1067
1068- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
1069 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
1070 is false.
1071
1072- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
1073 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
1074
1075- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
1076
1077 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
1078
1079! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
1080 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
1081 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
1082 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
1083 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
1084 both finding and solving the problem.
1085
1086! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
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1088 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
1089 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
1090 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
1091 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
1092 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
1093 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
1094 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
1095 published version of ISC DHCP.
1096
1097- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
1098
1099- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
1100
1101 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
1102
1103- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
1104 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
1105 Richard Hirst.
1106
1107- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
1108 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
1109 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
1110
1111- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
1112
1113- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
1114 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
1115 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
1116 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
1117
1118- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
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1121- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
1122 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
1123
1124- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
1125
1126 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
1127
1128- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
1129 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
1130
1131- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
1132 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
1133 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
1134
1135- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
1136 by name was fixed.
1137
45d545f0 1138- Declaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
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1139 longer result in error.
1140
1141- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
1142
1143- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
1144 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
1145 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
1146
1147- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
1148 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
1149
1150- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
1151 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
1152 Blapp.
1153
1154- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
1155 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
1156 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
1157 Martin Blapp.
1158
1159- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
1160 expiry times in failover configurations.
1161
1162- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
1163 Steve G.
1164
1165- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
1166 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
1167
1168- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
1169 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
1170 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
1171 now "unknown-144".
1172
1173- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
1174 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
1175
1176 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
1177
1178- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
1179
1180- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
1181 not be bash.
1182
1183- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1184
1185- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
1186 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
1187 that errored before will now work properly.
1188
1189- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
1190 names was repaired.
1191
1192- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
1193 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
1194 configuration file.
1195
1196- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
1197 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1198
1199- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
1200 error rather than a null dereference.
1201
1202 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
1203
1204- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
1205
1206- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
1207
1208- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
1209 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
1210
1211- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
1212
1213- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
1214
1215- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
1216 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
1217 self-corrupting lease databases.
1218
1219- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
1220
1221- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
1222 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
1223
1224- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
1225
1226- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
1227
1228- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
1229 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
1230 Ling Gou.
1231
1232- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
1233 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1234
1235- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
1236 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
1237 Ted Lemon for the patch.
1238
1239- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
1240 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
1241
1242 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
1243
1244- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
1245 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
1246
1247- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
1248
1249- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
1250 a memory leak.
1251
1252- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
1253 script.
1254
1255- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
1256
1257- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
1258
1259- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
1260
1261- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
1262
1263- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
1264
1265- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
1266
1267- Increment the hop count when relaying.
1268
1269- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
1270
1271- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
1272
1273- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
1274
1275- Change the type of rbuf_max.
1276
1277- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
1278
1279 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
1280
1281- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
1282 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
1283 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
1284
1285 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
1286
1287- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
1288 to be renewed.
1289
1290- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
1291 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
1292
1293- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
1294 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
1295
1296- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
1297 that two permit lists matched.
1298
1299- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
1300 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
1301
1302- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
1303
1304- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
1305 requested it, contrary to the standard.
1306
1307- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
1308
1309- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
1310
1311- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
1312 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
1313 going to update its A record.
1314
1315- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
1316 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
1317 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
1318 DNS server.
1319
1320- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
1321
1322- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
1323
1324- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
1325 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
1326 NetBSD project).
1327
1328- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
1329 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
1330
1331- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
1332 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
1333
1334- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
1335
1336- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
1337
1338- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
1339 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
1340 failover protocol standard.
1341
1342- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
1343 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
1344 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
1345
1346- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
1347 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
1348 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
1349 do so.
1350
1351- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
1352
1353 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
1354
1355- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
1356
1357- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
1358 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
1359
1360- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
1361 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
1362
1363- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
1364 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
1365 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
1366
1367- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
1368 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
1369 network, merge the two pools.
1370
1371- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
1372 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
1373 fix this bug.
1374
1375 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
1376
1377- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
1378 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
1379
1380- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
1381 the same case.
1382
1383- Additional documentation.
1384
1385- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
1386 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
1387
1388 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
1389
1390- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
1391- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
1392
1393 Changes since 3.0.1rc2
1394
1395- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
1396 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
1397 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
1398 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
1399 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
1400
1401 Changes since 3.0.1rc1
1402
1403- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
1404 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
1405 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
1406 wasn't the one that removed it.
1407
1408- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
1409 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
1410 were not configured.
1411
1412- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
1413
1414- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
1415 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
1416 routing information.
1417
1418- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
1419 request being sent.
1420
1421- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
1422 done.
1423
1424- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
1425 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
1426 were pending.
1427
1428- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
1429 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
1430 problems with failover.
1431
1432- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
1433 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
1434 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
1435
1436 Changes since 3.0
1437
1438- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
1439 smash in the subclass allocation code.
1440
1441- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
1442 no object is open, it dumps core.
1443
1444- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
1445
1446- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
1447
1448- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
1449
1450- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
1451 a host object attribute with a null value.
1452
1453 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
1454
1455- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
1456
1457- Fix an obscure core dump.
1458
1459- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
1460 when crucial information is left out.
1461
1462- Log "no free leases" as an error.
1463
1464- Documentation updates.
1465
1466 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
1467
1468- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
1469
1470- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
1471 structure wasn't zeroed.
1472
1473- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
1474 incorrectly.
1475
1476- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
1477 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
1478 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
1479 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
1480 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
1481 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
1482 restarted.
1483
1484 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
1485
1486- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
1487 in failover-enabled pools.
1488
1489- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
1490 declarations).
1491
1492- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
1493 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
1494
1495- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
1496 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
1497
1498- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
1499
1500- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
1501 defined but not referenced by any pools.
1502
1503- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
1504
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1506
1507- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
1508
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1510
1511- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
1512
1513- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
1514
1515- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
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1518
1519- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
1520 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
1521 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
1522
1523- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
1524 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
1525 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
1526 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
1527 string.
1528
1529- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
1530
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1532
1533- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
1534 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
1535
1536- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
1537 malformed packets.
1538
1539- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
1540
1541- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
1542 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
1543 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
1544
1545- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
1546
1547- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
1548
1549- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
1550
1551- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
1552 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
1553
1554- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
1555 tcp connections from being played back.
1556
1557- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
1558 on exit.
1559
1560- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
1561
1562- Add some configurability to the build system.
1563
1564- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
1565
1566- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
1567 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
1568 hadn't been noticed until now.
1569
1570 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
1571
1572- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
1573 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
1574
1575- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
1576 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
1577 conformant, but also didn't work).
1578
1579- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
1580 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
1581
1582- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
1583 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
1584
1585- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
1586 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
1587
1588- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
1589 variables to leases via OMAPI.
1590
1591- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
1592 doing failover.
1593
1594- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
1595 running on alpha processors.
1596
1597- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
1598 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
1599
1600- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
1601
1602- Install omshell (including new documentation).
1603
1604- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
1605 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
1606
1607- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
1608
1609- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
1610 actually named (key names are domain names).
1611
1612- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
1613
1614- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
1615 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
1616
1617- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
1618 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
1619
1620- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
1621 statements.
1622
1623- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
1624 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
1625
1626- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
1627 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
1628 operating.
1629
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1631
1632- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
1633 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
1634 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
1635 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
1636
1637- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
1638 using omapi to manipulate leases.
1639
1640- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
1641
1642
1643 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
1644
1645- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
1646 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
1647
1648- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
1649 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
1650 to the chain.
1651
1652- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
1653
1654- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
1655
1656- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
1657
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1660
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1663- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
1664
1665 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
1666
1667- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
1668 DHCPDECLINE.
1669
1670- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
1671
1672- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
1673 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
1674 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
1675
1676- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
1677
1678- Documentation fixes.
1679
1680- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
1681 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
1682
1683- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
1684 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
1685
1686- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
1687
1688- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
1689
1690- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
1691 case-insensitive.
1692
1693- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
1694
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1697 consistently.
1698
1699- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
1700 systems with the probe not working correctly.
1701
1702- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
1703
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1705
1706- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
1707 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
1708 result of duplicate leases.
1709
1710- Document OMAPI server objects.
1711
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1713
1714- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
1715 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
1716
1717- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
1718 core dumps.
1719
1720- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
1721 Friedrich.
1722
1723- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
1724
1725 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
1726
1727- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
1728 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 1729 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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1731
1732- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
1733 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
1734
1735- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
1736 trace file.
1737
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1741 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
1742 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
1743 e.g., Digital Unix.
1744
1745- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
1746 when no error had occurred.
1747
1748- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
1749 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
1750 non-communicating state.
1751
1752- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
1753
1754- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
1755 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
1756 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
1757
1758- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
1759 when the client lease expired.
1760
1761- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
1762 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
1763 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
1764 in testing.
1765
1766- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
1767 the command line, it would fail.
1768
1769- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
1770 user impact).
1771
1772- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
1773
1774- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
1775 they're executable.
1776
1777 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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1779- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
1780 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
1781 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
1782 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
1783
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1785 Transmeta.
1786
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1788 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
1789 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
1790 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
1791
1792- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
1793 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
1794
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1796
1797- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
1798 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
1799
1800- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
1801
1802- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
1803
1804- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
1805
1806- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
1807
1808- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
1809
1810- Update some parts of the README file.
1811
1812- Support GCC on SCO.
1813
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1815
1816- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
1817 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
1818
1819- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
1820 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
1821 unbill the old class.
1822
1823- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
1824 process the state transition immediately.
1825
1826- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
1827 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
1828
1829- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
1830
1831- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
1832
1833- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
1834
1835- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
1836
1837- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
1838 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
1839 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
1840
1841- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
1842 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
1843
1844- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
1845 lease file.
1846
1847- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
1848
1849- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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1852
1853- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
1854 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
1855
1856- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
1857
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1859
1860- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
1861
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1863
1864- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
1865
1866- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
1867 pl19.
1868
1869- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
1870 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
1871 past the regression test.
1872
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1874
1875- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
1876 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
1877
1878- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
1879 DHCPREQUEST.
1880
1881- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
1882
1883- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
1884
1885- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
1886
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1888
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1889- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
1890 (Damien Neil)
1891
1892- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
1893 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
1894
1895- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
1896 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
1897 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
1898
1899- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
1900 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
1901 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
1902 message.
1903
1904- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
1905 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
1906 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
1907
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1910 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
1911 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
1912 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
1913 this way will work.
1914
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1915- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
1916
1917- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
1918 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
1919 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
1920 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
1921
1922 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
1923
1924 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
1925
1926- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
1927 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
1928 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
1929
1930- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
1931 Hermann Lauer.
1932
1933- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
1934 messages.
1935
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1936- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
1937 it contained quoted strings.
1938
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1939 ** there was no pl17 **
1940
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1941 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 16
1942
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1943- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
1944 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
1945 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
1946 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
1947 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
1948 tracking down memory leaks.
1949
1950- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
1951 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
1952 Solaris.
1953
1954- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
1955 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
1956 corruption and core dumps.
1957
1958- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
1959 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
1960
1961- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
1962
1963- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
1964 and implemented by Damien Neil.
1965
1966- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
1967 name and version to standard output.
1968
1969- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
1970
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1971- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
1972 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
1973
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1974- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
1975
1976- Lots of documentation updates.
1977
1978- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
1979 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
1980
1981- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
1982
1983- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
1984 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
1985
1986
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1988
1989- Some documentation tweaks.
1990
1991- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
1992
1993- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
1994
1995- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
1996 agent options into them.
1997
1998- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
1999
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2000- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
2001 options.
2002
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2003 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 14
2004
2005- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
2006 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
2007 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
2008 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
2009 used in class statements to control address allocation.
2010
2011- Fix up documentation.
2012
2013- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
2014 significantly in a high-demand situation.
2015
2016- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
2017
2018- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
2019
2020- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
2021 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
2022 practical use otherwise.
2023
2024- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
2025 for debugging.
2026
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2027 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 13
2028
2029- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
2030 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
2031 dump on some systems.
2032
2033- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
2034 option.
2035
2036- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
2037 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
2038
2039- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
2040 that were not printing enough information.
2041
2042- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
2043 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
2044
2045- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
2046 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
2047 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
2048 were answering.
2049
2050- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
2051 the transition.
2052
2053
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2055
2056- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
2057
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2058 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
2059
2060- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
2061 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
2062 representation from working correctly.
2063
2064- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
2065 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
2066 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
2067 could spin.
2068
2069- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
2070 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
2071
2072- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
2073 interface name on the command line.
2074
2075- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
2076 client state.
2077
2078- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
2079 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
2080 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
2081 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
2082 added by Ted Lemon.
2083
2084- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
2085 be made to log debugging information and other information.
2086
2087- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
2088 end option.
2089
2090- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
2091 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
2092 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
2093
2094- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
2095 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
2096 face of a null hardware address on input.
2097
2098- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
2099 specified unqualified.
2100
2101- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
2102 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
2103
2104- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
2105 RFC.
2106
2107- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
2108
2109- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
2110
2111- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
2112 it works.
2113
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2115
2116- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
2117 to CVS.
2118
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2119 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
2120
2121- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
2122
2123- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
2124 in patchlevel 9.
2125
2126- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
2127 options at renewal time.
2128
2129- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
2130 configuration language.
2131
2132- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
2133
2134- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
2135 done when no client hostname was received.
2136
2137- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
2138
2139- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
2140 the DHCP option space.
2141
2142- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
2143
2144- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
2145 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
2146
2147- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
2148 silently dropped.
2149
2150- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
2151 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
2152
2153- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
2154 will be correctly updated.
2155
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2157
2158- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
2159 bounds-checking.
2160
2161 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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2163- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
2164
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2167- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
2168 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
2169 possible to exploit it any further than that.
2170
2171- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
2172 option.
2173
2174- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
2175 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
2176 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
2177 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
2178 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
2179 meaningfully.
2180
2181- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
2182 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
2183 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
2184
2185- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
2186 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
2187 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
2188 this one down!
2189
2190- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
2191 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
2192 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
2193 down and fixing this problem.
2194
2195 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
2196
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2197- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
2198 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
2199
2200- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
2201 environment.
2202
2203- Fix suffix operator.
2204
2205- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
2206
2207- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
2208 connection code.
2209
2210- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
2211
2212- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
2213
2214- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
2215 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
2216
2217- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
2218
2219- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
2220
2221- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
2222 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
2223
2224- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
2225 spawn with.
2226
2227- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
2228 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
2229
2230- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
2231 for OMAPI.
2232
2233- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
2234 can install in host declarations.
2235
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2237
2238- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
2239 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
2240 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
2241 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
2242 comments)!
2243
2244- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
2245
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2246- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
2247 request for help on this with patches!
2248
2249- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
2250 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
2251 lost, they never reconnect.
2252
2253- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
2254 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
2255
2256- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
2257 dump.
2258
2259- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
2260 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
2261 catching this one.
2262
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2264
2265- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
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2268
2269- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
2270 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
2271 declared without a key.
2272
2273- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
2274
2275- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
2276 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
2277
2278- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
2279 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
2280 determine the maximum size of the response.
2281
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2283
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2284- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
2285 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
2286
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2287- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
2288 RENEWING client.
2289
2290- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
2291
2292- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
2293 using memcmp().
2294
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2296
2297- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
2298 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
2299 pointing this out.
2300
2301- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
2302 exit.
2303
2304- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
2305
2306- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
2307 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.