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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
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2 Version 4.0.0a2
3 July 10, 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
17There are a number of DHCPv6 limitiations and features missing in this
18release, which will be addressed shortly:
19
99fe695e 20- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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22- There is no DHCPv6 Relay support.
23
24- Only a single fixed address is supported per IA.
25
26- IA_TA addresses are not supported.
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98bd7ca0 28- IA_PD prefixes are not supported.
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30- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages. These
31 should be configurable, and probably localized via gettext() or the
32 like.
33
34- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
35
36- Dynamically allocated leases do not respond to Confirm messages.
37
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38- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
39 not both, so two instances of the daemons are required with the
40 "-6" command line option.
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42For information on how to install, configure and run this software,
43as well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult
44the README file.
45
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46ISC DHCP now uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please
47review the output of "./configure --help" to see what options are
48available.
49
50The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and
51may not work on other platforms. Please report any problems and
52suggested fixes to <dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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54 Changes since 4.0.0a2
55
56- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
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58 Changes since 4.0.0a2
59
60- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
61 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
62 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
63
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64 Changes since 4.0.0a1
65
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66- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
67 and fix.
68
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69- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
70
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71- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
72
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73- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
74 for when loading configuration.
75
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76- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
77 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
78 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
79
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80- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
81 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
82 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
83 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
84
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85- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
86
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87- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
88 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
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90- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
91
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92- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
93
94- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
95 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
96
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97- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
98 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
99
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100- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
101
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102- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
103 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
104
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105 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
106
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107- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
108
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109- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
110 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
111
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112- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
113
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114- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
115 initialized.
116
117- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
118
119- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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120 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
121
122- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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124- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
125
126- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
127 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
128
129- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
130
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131- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
132 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplised.
133
134- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
135 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
136
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137- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
138
139- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
140
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141- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
142
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143 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
144
145- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
146 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
147 no support currently for both.
148
149- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
150 IAADDR option.
151
152- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
153 options.
154
155- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
156
157- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
158 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
159
160- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
161 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
162 specifying type 1 or type 2).
163
164- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
165 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
166
167- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
168 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
169 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
170 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
171 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
172 differently, they both use the same code here).
173
174- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
175 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
176 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
177
178- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
179
180- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
181 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
182 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
183 it should not intercept.
184
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185 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
186
187- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
188 failover protected subnets was removed.
189
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190 Changes since 3.1.0b2
191
192- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
193 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
194 odd number of leases).
195
196- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
197 rebalance run, and one after.
198
199- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
200 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
201 processing these messages.
202
fe5b0fdd 203 Changes since 3.1.0b1
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205- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
206 objects.
207
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208- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
209 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
210 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
211 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
212 at Allianz.
213
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214- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
215 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
216
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217- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
218 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
219
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220- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
221 caused the server to abort.
222
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223- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
224 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
225 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
226
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227- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
228 by empty spaces would not get included.
229
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230- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
231 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
232
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233- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
234 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
235
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236- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
237 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
238
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239- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
240 on the parameter request list.
241
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242 Changes since 3.1.0a3
243
244- Some spelling fixes.
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246 Changes since 3.1.0a2
247
248- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
249 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
250
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251- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
252 domain-search option syntax.
253
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254 Changes since 3.1.0a1
255
256- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
257 hash table was repaired.
258
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259- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
260 entering normal state.
261
262- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
263 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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264 'xid mismatch' log messages.
265
266- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
267 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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269- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
270 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
271 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
272 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
273
274- Lease structures appear in three spearate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
275 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
276 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
277 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
278 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
279 to their needs.
280
281- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
282 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
283 run will attempt balance.
284
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285- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
286
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287 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
288
289- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
290 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
291 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
292 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
293
98bd7ca0 294- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 295 was introduced.
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296
297- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
298 via OMAPI.
299
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300- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
301 the protocol draft.
302
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303- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
304 one does not already exist on the system.
305
b43c87ad 306- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 307
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308- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
309 matches RFC 3074.
310
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311- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
312 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 313 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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315- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
316 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 317 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 318
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319- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
320 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
321 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
322 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
323
324- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
325 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
326 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
327 priority over the client's parameter request list.
328
f7fdb216 329- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 330 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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331 DHCPv6 support.
332
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333- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
334 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
335 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
336
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337- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
338 have been incorporated.
339
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340- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
341 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
342 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
343 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
344 that belong to the peer in need.
345
346- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
347 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
348
349- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
350 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
351 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
352
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353- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
354 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
355
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356- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
357 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
358 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
359 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
360 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
361
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362- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
363 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
364 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
365 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
366
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367- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
368 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
369 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
370 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
371 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
372 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
373 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
374 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
375 ignoring this aspect of their request.
376
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377- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
378 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
379
41e45067 380- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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381 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
382 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
383 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
384
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385- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
386 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
387 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
388 hardware and funding the development.
6d103865 389
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390- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
391 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
392 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
393 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
394 via Robin Breathe.
395
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396- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
397 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
398 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
399 from Christof Chen.
400
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401- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
402 formally supported.
403
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404 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
405
406- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
407 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
408
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409 Changes since 3.0.5
410
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411- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
412 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
413 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 414 they actually received.
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415
416- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
417
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418- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
419 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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420 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
421 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
c1e6c832 422
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423- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
424
d69fb6a8 425- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 426 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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428- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
429 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
430 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
431 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
432 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
433 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
434 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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435 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
436
437- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
438 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
439 'file' field.
02428754 440
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441- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
442 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
443
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444- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
445 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
446 a patch from Kevin Steves.
447
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448- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
449 from Chris Wagner.
450
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451- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
452 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
453 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
454
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455- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
456 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
457 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
458 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
459 was set.
460
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461- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
462 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
463
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464- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
465 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
466 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
467 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
468 active ones.
469
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901306d5 472- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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473 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
474 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
475 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
476 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
477
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478- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
479 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
480
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481 Changes since 3.0.4
482
483- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
484 scopes are actually global has been added.
485
486- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
487 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
488 known to be damaging.
489
490- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
491 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
492 balancing).
493
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494- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
495 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
496 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
497
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498- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
499 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
500 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
501
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502- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
503 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
504 more clear now.
505
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506- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
507 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
508 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
509 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
510 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 511 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
6cbc6629 512
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513- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
514 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
515
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516- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
517 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
518 made possible.
519
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520- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
521 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
522 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
523
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524- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
525 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
526
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527- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
528 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
529 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
530
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531- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
532 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
533 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
534 value with the later configured value).
535
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536- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
537 have been named and documented.
538
539- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
540 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
541 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
542 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
543 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
544 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
545 write new output.
546
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547 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
548
549- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
550 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
551
552 Changes since 3.0.4b3
553
554- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
555 mailing list.
556
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557 Changes since 3.0.4b2
558
559- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunatley require
560 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
561
562- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
563 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
564
565- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
566 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
567 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
568 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
569
570- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
571 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
572 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
573 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
574 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
575 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
576 transition (properly).
577
578- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
579
580 Changes since 3.0.4b1
581
582- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
583 STDIN after reading one line.
584
585- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
586 descriptor it opened twice.
587
588- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
589 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
590 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
591
592 Changes since 3.0.3
593
594- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
595 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
596 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
597
598- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
599 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
600 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
601
602- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
603 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 604 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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605 leases to allocate.
606
607- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
608 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailng PAD option, rather
609 than the entire block of them.
610
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611! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
612 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
613 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
614 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
615 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
616 to a patch from infamous42md.
617
618! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
619 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
620 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
621 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
622 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
623 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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624
625- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
626 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
627 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
628
629- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
630 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
631
632- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
633 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
634 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
635 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
636 transitional states.
637
638- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
639 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
640 once it detects the old db does not exist.
641
642- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
643 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
644 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
645
646- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
647 been doucmented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
648
649- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
650 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
651
652- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
653 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
654 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
655
656- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
657 patch from 'infamous42md'.
658
659- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
660 repaired.
661
662- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
663 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
664 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
665 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
666
667- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
668 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
669 data.
670
671- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
672 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
673 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
674 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
675 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
676
677- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
678 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
679 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
680 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
681 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
682
683- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
684 has been repaired.
685
686- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
687 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
688 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
689 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
690 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
691
692- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 693 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
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695- The linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
696 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
697 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
698 move to 3.[01].x.
699
700- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
701 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
702
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703 Changes since 3.0.3b3
704
705- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
706 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
707
708- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
709 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
710 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
711 workaround.
712
713 Changes since 3.0.3b2
714
715- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
716 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
717
718 Changes since 3.0.3b1
719
720- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
721 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
722 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
723
724- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
725 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
726 dynamic updates were also retouched.
727
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728 Changes since 3.0.2
729
730- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
731 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceeding DISCOVER.
732 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
733
734- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
735 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
736 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
737 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
738 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
739
740- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
741 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
742 Jason Vas Dias at Redhat.
743
744- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
745 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
746 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
747
748- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
749 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
750 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
751 Peter Poeml.
752
753- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
754 Dr. Peter Poeml.
755
756- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
757 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
758 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
759 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
760 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
761 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
762
763- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
764 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
765 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
766 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
767
768- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
769 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
770 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
771 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
772
773- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
774 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
775
776- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
777 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
778 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
779
780- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
781 7 bytes, and failover.
782
783- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
784 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
785 at Redhat.
786
787- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
788 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
789 should work better.
790
791- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
792 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
793 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
794
795- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
796 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
797 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
798
799 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
800
801- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
802 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
803
804 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
805
806- Two varaibles introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
807 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
808 overloading. This was repaired.
809
810- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
811 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
812 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
813 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
814 three chunks to fit.
815
816- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
817 were repaired.
818
819- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
820 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
821 leak).
822
823 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
824
825- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
826 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
827
828 Changes since 3.0.2b1
829
830- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
831
832 Changes since 3.0.1
833
834- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
835 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
836 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
837
838- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
839 name was not provided by the server.
840
841- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
842 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
843
844- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
845 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
846
847- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
848 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
849
850- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
851
852- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
853
854- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
855 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
856 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
857 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
858 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
859
860- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
861 the configuration be globally scoped.
862
863- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
864 Farkas.
865
866- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
867 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
868
869- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
870 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
871
872- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
873 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
874
875- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
876 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
877 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
878 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
879
880- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
881 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
882 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
883 respond to POOLREQ messages.
884
885- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
886 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
887 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
888
889- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
890
891- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
892 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
893 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
894
895- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
896 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
897 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
898 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
899 Fjone and directconnect.no.
900
901- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
902 to Andreas Gustafsson.
903
904- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
905 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
906
907- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
908 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
909 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
910 DISCOVER timeout handling.
911
912- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
913 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
914
915- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
916 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
917 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
918
919- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
920 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
921 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
922 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
923 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
924 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
925
926- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
927 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
928 Infoblox.
929
930- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
931
932- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
933 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
934 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
935 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
936 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
937 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
938 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
939
940- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
941 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
942 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
943
944- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
945 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
946 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
947
948- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
949
950 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
951
952- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
953 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
954 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
955 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
956 systems either.
957
958- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
959
960- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
961 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
962 is false.
963
964- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
965 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
966
967- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
968
969 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
970
971! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
972 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
973 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
974 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
975 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
976 both finding and solving the problem.
977
978! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
979 in log_*() functions was evidented, on some specific platforms where
980 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
981 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
982 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
983 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
984 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
985 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
986 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
987 published version of ISC DHCP.
988
989- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
990
991- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
992
993 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
994
995- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
996 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
997 Richard Hirst.
998
999- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
1000 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
1001 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
1002
1003- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
1004
1005- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
1006 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
1007 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
1008 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
1009
1010- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
1011 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on solaris platforms.
1012
1013- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
1014 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
1015
1016- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
1017
1018 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
1019
1020- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
1021 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
1022
1023- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
1024 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
1025 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
1026
1027- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
1028 by name was fixed.
1029
1030- Delcaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
1031 longer result in error.
1032
1033- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
1034
1035- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
1036 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
1037 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
1038
1039- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
1040 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
1041
1042- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
1043 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
1044 Blapp.
1045
1046- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
1047 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
1048 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
1049 Martin Blapp.
1050
1051- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
1052 expiry times in failover configurations.
1053
1054- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
1055 Steve G.
1056
1057- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
1058 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
1059
1060- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
1061 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
1062 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
1063 now "unknown-144".
1064
1065- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
1066 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
1067
1068 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
1069
1070- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
1071
1072- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
1073 not be bash.
1074
1075- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1076
1077- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
1078 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
1079 that errored before will now work properly.
1080
1081- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
1082 names was repaired.
1083
1084- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
1085 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
1086 configuration file.
1087
1088- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
1089 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1090
1091- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
1092 error rather than a null dereference.
1093
1094 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
1095
1096- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
1097
1098- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
1099
1100- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
1101 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
1102
1103- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
1104
1105- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
1106
1107- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
1108 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
1109 self-corrupting lease databases.
1110
1111- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
1112
1113- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
1114 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
1115
1116- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
1117
1118- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
1119
1120- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
1121 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
1122 Ling Gou.
1123
1124- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
1125 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1126
1127- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
1128 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
1129 Ted Lemon for the patch.
1130
1131- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
1132 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
1133
1134 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
1135
1136- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
1137 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
1138
1139- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
1140
1141- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
1142 a memory leak.
1143
1144- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
1145 script.
1146
1147- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
1148
1149- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
1150
1151- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
1152
1153- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
1154
1155- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
1156
1157- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
1158
1159- Increment the hop count when relaying.
1160
1161- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
1162
1163- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
1164
1165- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
1166
1167- Change the type of rbuf_max.
1168
1169- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
1170
1171 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
1172
1173- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
1174 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
1175 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
1176
1177 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
1178
1179- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
1180 to be renewed.
1181
1182- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
1183 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
1184
1185- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
1186 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
1187
1188- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
1189 that two permit lists matched.
1190
1191- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
1192 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
1193
1194- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
1195
1196- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
1197 requested it, contrary to the standard.
1198
1199- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
1200
1201- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
1202
1203- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
1204 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
1205 going to update its A record.
1206
1207- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
1208 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
1209 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
1210 DNS server.
1211
1212- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
1213
1214- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
1215
1216- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
1217 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
1218 NetBSD project).
1219
1220- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
1221 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
1222
1223- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
1224 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
1225
1226- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
1227
1228- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
1229
1230- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
1231 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
1232 failover protocol standard.
1233
1234- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
1235 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
1236 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
1237
1238- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
1239 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
1240 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
1241 do so.
1242
1243- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
1244
1245 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
1246
1247- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
1248
1249- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
1250 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
1251
1252- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
1253 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
1254
1255- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
1256 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
1257 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
1258
1259- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
1260 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
1261 network, merge the two pools.
1262
1263- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
1264 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
1265 fix this bug.
1266
1267 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
1268
1269- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
1270 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
1271
1272- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
1273 the same case.
1274
1275- Additional documentation.
1276
1277- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
1278 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
1279
1280 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
1281
1282- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
1283- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
1284
1285 Changes since 3.0.1rc2
1286
1287- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
1288 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
1289 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
1290 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
1291 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
1292
1293 Changes since 3.0.1rc1
1294
1295- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
1296 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
1297 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
1298 wasn't the one that removed it.
1299
1300- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
1301 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
1302 were not configured.
1303
1304- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
1305
1306- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
1307 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
1308 routing information.
1309
1310- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
1311 request being sent.
1312
1313- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
1314 done.
1315
1316- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
1317 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
1318 were pending.
1319
1320- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
1321 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
1322 problems with failover.
1323
1324- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
1325 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
1326 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
1327
1328 Changes since 3.0
1329
1330- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
1331 smash in the subclass allocation code.
1332
1333- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
1334 no object is open, it dumps core.
1335
1336- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
1337
1338- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
1339
1340- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
1341
1342- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
1343 a host object attribute with a null value.
1344
1345 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
1346
1347- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
1348
1349- Fix an obscure core dump.
1350
1351- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
1352 when crucial information is left out.
1353
1354- Log "no free leases" as an error.
1355
1356- Documentation updates.
1357
1358 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
1359
1360- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
1361
1362- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
1363 structure wasn't zeroed.
1364
1365- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
1366 incorrectly.
1367
1368- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
1369 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
1370 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
1371 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
1372 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
1373 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
1374 restarted.
1375
1376 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
1377
1378- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
1379 in failover-enabled pools.
1380
1381- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
1382 declarations).
1383
1384- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
1385 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
1386
1387- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
1388 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
1389
1390- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
1391
1392- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
1393 defined but not referenced by any pools.
1394
1395- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
1396
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1398
1399- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
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1402
1403- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
1404
1405- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
1406
1407- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
1408
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1410
1411- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
1412 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
1413 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
1414
1415- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
1416 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
1417 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
1418 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
1419 string.
1420
1421- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
1422
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1424
1425- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
1426 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
1427
1428- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
1429 malformed packets.
1430
1431- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
1432
1433- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
1434 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
1435 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
1436
1437- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
1438
1439- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
1440
1441- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
1442
1443- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
1444 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
1445
1446- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
1447 tcp connections from being played back.
1448
1449- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
1450 on exit.
1451
1452- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
1453
1454- Add some configurability to the build system.
1455
1456- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
1457
1458- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
1459 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
1460 hadn't been noticed until now.
1461
1462 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
1463
1464- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
1465 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
1466
1467- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
1468 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
1469 conformant, but also didn't work).
1470
1471- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
1472 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
1473
1474- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
1475 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
1476
1477- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
1478 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
1479
1480- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
1481 variables to leases via OMAPI.
1482
1483- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
1484 doing failover.
1485
1486- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
1487 running on alpha processors.
1488
1489- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
1490 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
1491
1492- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
1493
1494- Install omshell (including new documentation).
1495
1496- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
1497 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
1498
1499- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
1500
1501- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
1502 actually named (key names are domain names).
1503
1504- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
1505
1506- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
1507 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
1508
1509- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
1510 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
1511
1512- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
1513 statements.
1514
1515- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
1516 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
1517
1518- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
1519 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
1520 operating.
1521
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1523
1524- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
1525 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
1526 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
1527 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
1528
1529- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
1530 using omapi to manipulate leases.
1531
1532- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
1533
1534
1535 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
1536
1537- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
1538 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
1539
1540- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
1541 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
1542 to the chain.
1543
1544- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
1545
1546- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
1547
1548- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
1549
98311e4b 1550- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
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1552
98311e4b 1553- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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1555- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
1556
1557 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
1558
1559- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
1560 DHCPDECLINE.
1561
1562- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
1563
1564- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
1565 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
1566 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
1567
1568- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
1569
1570- Documentation fixes.
1571
1572- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
1573 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
1574
1575- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
1576 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
1577
1578- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
1579
1580- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
1581
1582- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
1583 case-insensitive.
1584
1585- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
1586
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1589 consistently.
1590
1591- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
1592 systems with the probe not working correctly.
1593
1594- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
1595
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1597
1598- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
1599 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
1600 result of duplicate leases.
1601
1602- Document OMAPI server objects.
1603
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1605
1606- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
1607 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
1608
1609- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
1610 core dumps.
1611
1612- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
1613 Friedrich.
1614
1615- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
1616
1617 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
1618
1619- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
1620 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 1621 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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1623
1624- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
1625 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
1626
1627- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
1628 trace file.
1629
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1633 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
1634 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
1635 e.g., Digital Unix.
1636
1637- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
1638 when no error had occurred.
1639
1640- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
1641 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
1642 non-communicating state.
1643
1644- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
1645
1646- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
1647 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
1648 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
1649
1650- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
1651 when the client lease expired.
1652
1653- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
1654 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
1655 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
1656 in testing.
1657
1658- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
1659 the command line, it would fail.
1660
1661- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
1662 user impact).
1663
1664- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
1665
1666- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
1667 they're executable.
1668
1669 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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1671- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
1672 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
1673 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
1674 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
1675
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1677 Transmeta.
1678
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1679- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
1680 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
1681 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
1682 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
1683
1684- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
1685 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
1686
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1688
1689- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
1690 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
1691
1692- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
1693
1694- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
1695
1696- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
1697
1698- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
1699
1700- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
1701
1702- Update some parts of the README file.
1703
1704- Support GCC on SCO.
1705
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1707
1708- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
1709 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
1710
1711- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
1712 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
1713 unbill the old class.
1714
1715- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
1716 process the state transition immediately.
1717
1718- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
1719 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
1720
1721- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
1722
1723- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
1724
1725- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
1726
1727- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
1728
1729- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
1730 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
1731 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
1732
1733- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
1734 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
1735
1736- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
1737 lease file.
1738
1739- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
1740
1741- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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1744
1745- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
1746 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
1747
1748- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
1749
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1751
1752- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
1753
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1755
1756- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
1757
1758- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
1759 pl19.
1760
1761- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
1762 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
1763 past the regression test.
1764
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1766
1767- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
1768 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
1769
1770- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
1771 DHCPREQUEST.
1772
1773- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
1774
1775- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
1776
1777- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
1778
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1779 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 18
1780
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1781- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
1782 (Damien Neil)
1783
1784- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
1785 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
1786
1787- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
1788 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
1789 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
1790
1791- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
1792 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
1793 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
1794 message.
1795
1796- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
1797 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
1798 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
1799
98311e4b 1800- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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1802 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
1803 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
1804 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
1805 this way will work.
1806
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1808
1809- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
1810 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
1811 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
1812 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
1813
1814 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
1815
1816 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
1817
1818- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
1819 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
1820 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
1821
1822- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
1823 Hermann Lauer.
1824
1825- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
1826 messages.
1827
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1829 it contained quoted strings.
1830
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1831 ** there was no pl17 **
1832
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1834
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1835- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
1836 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
1837 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
1838 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
1839 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
1840 tracking down memory leaks.
1841
1842- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
1843 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
1844 Solaris.
1845
1846- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
1847 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
1848 corruption and core dumps.
1849
1850- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
1851 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
1852
1853- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
1854
1855- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
1856 and implemented by Damien Neil.
1857
1858- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
1859 name and version to standard output.
1860
1861- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
1862
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1864 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
1865
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1866- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
1867
1868- Lots of documentation updates.
1869
1870- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
1871 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
1872
1873- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
1874
1875- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
1876 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
1877
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1879 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 15
1880
1881- Some documentation tweaks.
1882
1883- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
1884
1885- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
1886
1887- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
1888 agent options into them.
1889
1890- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
1891
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1892- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
1893 options.
1894
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1895 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 14
1896
1897- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
1898 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
1899 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
1900 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
1901 used in class statements to control address allocation.
1902
1903- Fix up documentation.
1904
1905- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
1906 significantly in a high-demand situation.
1907
1908- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
1909
1910- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
1911
1912- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
1913 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
1914 practical use otherwise.
1915
1916- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
1917 for debugging.
1918
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1919 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 13
1920
1921- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
1922 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
1923 dump on some systems.
1924
1925- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
1926 option.
1927
1928- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
1929 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
1930
1931- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
1932 that were not printing enough information.
1933
1934- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
1935 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
1936
1937- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
1938 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
1939 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
1940 were answering.
1941
1942- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
1943 the transition.
1944
1945
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1946 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 12
1947
1948- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
1949
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1950 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
1951
1952- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
1953 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
1954 representation from working correctly.
1955
1956- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
1957 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
1958 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
1959 could spin.
1960
1961- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
1962 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
1963
1964- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
1965 interface name on the command line.
1966
1967- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
1968 client state.
1969
1970- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
1971 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
1972 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
1973 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
1974 added by Ted Lemon.
1975
1976- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
1977 be made to log debugging information and other information.
1978
1979- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
1980 end option.
1981
1982- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
1983 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
1984 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
1985
1986- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
1987 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
1988 face of a null hardware address on input.
1989
1990- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
1991 specified unqualified.
1992
1993- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
1994 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
1995
1996- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
1997 RFC.
1998
1999- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
2000
2001- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
2002
2003- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
2004 it works.
2005
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2006 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
2007
2008- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
2009 to CVS.
2010
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2011 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
2012
2013- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
2014
2015- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
2016 in patchlevel 9.
2017
2018- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
2019 options at renewal time.
2020
2021- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
2022 configuration language.
2023
2024- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
2025
2026- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
2027 done when no client hostname was received.
2028
2029- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
2030
2031- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
2032 the DHCP option space.
2033
2034- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
2035
2036- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
2037 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
2038
2039- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
2040 silently dropped.
2041
2042- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
2043 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
2044
2045- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
2046 will be correctly updated.
2047
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2048 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
2049
2050- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
2051 bounds-checking.
2052
2053 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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2054
2055- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
2056
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2059- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
2060 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
2061 possible to exploit it any further than that.
2062
2063- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
2064 option.
2065
2066- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
2067 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
2068 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
2069 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
2070 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
2071 meaningfully.
2072
2073- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
2074 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
2075 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
2076
2077- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
2078 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
2079 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
2080 this one down!
2081
2082- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
2083 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
2084 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
2085 down and fixing this problem.
2086
2087 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
2088
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2089- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
2090 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
2091
2092- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
2093 environment.
2094
2095- Fix suffix operator.
2096
2097- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
2098
2099- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
2100 connection code.
2101
2102- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
2103
2104- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
2105
2106- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
2107 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
2108
2109- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
2110
2111- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
2112
2113- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
2114 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
2115
2116- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
2117 spawn with.
2118
2119- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
2120 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
2121
2122- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
2123 for OMAPI.
2124
2125- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
2126 can install in host declarations.
2127
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2128 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
2129
2130- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
2131 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
2132 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
2133 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
2134 comments)!
2135
2136- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
2137
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2138- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
2139 request for help on this with patches!
2140
2141- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
2142 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
2143 lost, they never reconnect.
2144
2145- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
2146 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
2147
2148- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
2149 dump.
2150
2151- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
2152 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
2153 catching this one.
2154
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2155 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
2156
2157- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
2158 of options, so that the client configuration can overried, e.g., the
2159 lease renewal time.
2160
2161- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
2162 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
2163 declared without a key.
2164
2165- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
2166
2167- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
2168 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
2169
2170- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
2171 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
2172 determine the maximum size of the response.
2173
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2174 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
2175
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2176- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
2177 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
2178
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2179- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
2180 RENEWING client.
2181
2182- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
2183
2184- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
2185 using memcmp().
2186
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2187 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
2188
2189- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
2190 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
2191 pointing this out.
2192
2193- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
2194 exit.
2195
2196- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
2197
2198- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
2199 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.