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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
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2 Version 4.0.0a1
3 May 19, 2007
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98311e4b 5 Release Notes
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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55 Changes since 4.0.0a1
56
57- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
58
59
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60 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
61
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62- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
63
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64- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
65 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
66
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67- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
68
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69- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
70 initialized.
71
72- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
73
74- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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75 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
76
77- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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79- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
80
81- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
82 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
83
84- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
85
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86- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
87 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplised.
88
89- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
90 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
91
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92- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
93
94- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
95
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96- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
97
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98 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
99
100- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
101 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
102 no support currently for both.
103
104- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
105 IAADDR option.
106
107- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
108 options.
109
110- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
111
112- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
113 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
114
115- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
116 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
117 specifying type 1 or type 2).
118
119- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
120 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
121
122- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
123 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
124 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
125 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
126 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
127 differently, they both use the same code here).
128
129- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
130 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
131 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
132
133- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
134
135- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
136 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
137 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
138 it should not intercept.
139
fe5b0fdd 140 Changes since 3.1.0b1
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142- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
143 objects.
144
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145- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
146 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
147 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
148 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
149 at Allianz.
150
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151- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
152 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
153
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154- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
155 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
156
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157- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
158 caused the server to abort.
159
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160- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
161 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
162 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
163
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164- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
165 by empty spaces would not get included.
166
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167- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
168 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
169
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170- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
171 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
172
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173- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
174 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
175
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176- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
177 on the parameter request list.
178
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179 Changes since 3.1.0a3
180
181- Some spelling fixes.
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183 Changes since 3.1.0a2
184
185- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
186 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
187
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188- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
189 domain-search option syntax.
190
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191 Changes since 3.1.0a1
192
193- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
194 hash table was repaired.
195
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196- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
197 entering normal state.
198
199- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
200 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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201 'xid mismatch' log messages.
202
203- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
204 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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206- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
207 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
208 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
209 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
210
211- Lease structures appear in three spearate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
212 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
213 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
214 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
215 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
216 to their needs.
217
218- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
219 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
220 run will attempt balance.
221
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222- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
223
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224 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
225
226- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
227 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
228 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
229 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
230
98bd7ca0 231- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 232 was introduced.
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234- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
235 via OMAPI.
236
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237- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
238 the protocol draft.
239
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240- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
241 one does not already exist on the system.
242
b43c87ad 243- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
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245- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
246 matches RFC 3074.
247
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248- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
249 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 250 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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252- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
253 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 254 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
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256- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
257 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
258 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
259 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
260
261- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
262 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
263 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
264 priority over the client's parameter request list.
265
f7fdb216 266- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 267 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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268 DHCPv6 support.
269
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270- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
271 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
272 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
273
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274- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
275 have been incorporated.
276
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277- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
278 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
279 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
280 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
281 that belong to the peer in need.
282
283- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
284 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
285
286- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
287 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
288 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
289
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290- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
291 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
292
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293- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
294 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
295 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
296 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
297 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
298
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299- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
300 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
301 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
302 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
303
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304- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
305 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
306 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
307 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
308 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
309 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
310 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
311 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
312 ignoring this aspect of their request.
313
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314- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
315 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
316
41e45067 317- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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318 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
319 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
320 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
321
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322- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
323 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
324 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
325 hardware and funding the development.
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327- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
328 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
329 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
330 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
331 via Robin Breathe.
332
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333- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
334 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
335 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
336 from Christof Chen.
337
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338- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
339 formally supported.
340
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341 Changes since 3.0.5
342
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343- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
344 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
345 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 346 they actually received.
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347
348- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
349
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350- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
351 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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352 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
353 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
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355- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
356
d69fb6a8 357- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 358 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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360- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
361 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
362 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
363 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
364 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
365 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
366 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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367 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
368
369- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
370 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
371 'file' field.
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373- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
374 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
375
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376- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
377 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
378 a patch from Kevin Steves.
379
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380- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
381 from Chris Wagner.
382
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383- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
384 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
385 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
386
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387- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
388 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
389 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
390 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
391 was set.
392
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393- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
394 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
395
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396- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
397 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
398 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
399 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
400 active ones.
401
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901306d5 404- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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405 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
406 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
407 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
408 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
409
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410- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
411 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
412
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413 Changes since 3.0.4
414
415- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
416 scopes are actually global has been added.
417
418- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
419 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
420 known to be damaging.
421
422- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
423 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
424 balancing).
425
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426- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
427 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
428 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
429
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430- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
431 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
432 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
433
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434- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
435 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
436 more clear now.
437
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438- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
439 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
440 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
441 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
442 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 443 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
6cbc6629 444
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445- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
446 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
447
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448- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
449 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
450 made possible.
451
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452- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
453 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
454 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
455
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456- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
457 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
458
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459- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
460 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
461 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
462
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463- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
464 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
465 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
466 value with the later configured value).
467
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468- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
469 have been named and documented.
470
471- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
472 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
473 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
474 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
475 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
476 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
477 write new output.
478
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479 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
480
481- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
482 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
483
484 Changes since 3.0.4b3
485
486- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
487 mailing list.
488
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489 Changes since 3.0.4b2
490
491- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunatley require
492 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
493
494- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
495 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
496
497- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
498 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
499 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
500 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
501
502- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
503 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
504 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
505 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
506 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
507 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
508 transition (properly).
509
510- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
511
512 Changes since 3.0.4b1
513
514- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
515 STDIN after reading one line.
516
517- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
518 descriptor it opened twice.
519
520- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
521 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
522 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
523
524 Changes since 3.0.3
525
526- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
527 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
528 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
529
530- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
531 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
532 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
533
534- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
535 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 536 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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537 leases to allocate.
538
539- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
540 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailng PAD option, rather
541 than the entire block of them.
542
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543! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
544 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
545 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
546 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
547 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
548 to a patch from infamous42md.
549
550! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
551 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
552 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
553 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
554 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
555 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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557- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
558 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
559 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
560
561- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
562 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
563
564- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
565 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
566 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
567 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
568 transitional states.
569
570- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
571 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
572 once it detects the old db does not exist.
573
574- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
575 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
576 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
577
578- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
579 been doucmented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
580
581- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
582 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
583
584- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
585 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
586 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
587
588- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
589 patch from 'infamous42md'.
590
591- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
592 repaired.
593
594- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
595 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
596 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
597 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
598
599- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
600 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
601 data.
602
603- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
604 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
605 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
606 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
607 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
608
609- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
610 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
611 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
612 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
613 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
614
615- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
616 has been repaired.
617
618- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
619 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
620 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
621 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
622 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
623
624- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 625 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
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626
627- The linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
628 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
629 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
630 move to 3.[01].x.
631
632- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
633 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
634
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635 Changes since 3.0.3b3
636
637- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
638 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
639
640- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
641 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
642 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
643 workaround.
644
645 Changes since 3.0.3b2
646
647- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
648 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
649
650 Changes since 3.0.3b1
651
652- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
653 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
654 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
655
656- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
657 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
658 dynamic updates were also retouched.
659
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660 Changes since 3.0.2
661
662- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
663 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceeding DISCOVER.
664 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
665
666- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
667 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
668 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
669 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
670 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
671
672- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
673 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
674 Jason Vas Dias at Redhat.
675
676- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
677 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
678 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
679
680- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
681 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
682 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
683 Peter Poeml.
684
685- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
686 Dr. Peter Poeml.
687
688- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
689 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
690 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
691 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
692 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
693 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
694
695- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
696 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
697 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
698 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
699
700- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
701 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
702 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
703 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
704
705- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
706 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
707
708- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
709 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
710 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
711
712- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
713 7 bytes, and failover.
714
715- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
716 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
717 at Redhat.
718
719- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
720 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
721 should work better.
722
723- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
724 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
725 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
726
727- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
728 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
729 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
730
731 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
732
733- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
734 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
735
736 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
737
738- Two varaibles introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
739 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
740 overloading. This was repaired.
741
742- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
743 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
744 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
745 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
746 three chunks to fit.
747
748- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
749 were repaired.
750
751- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
752 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
753 leak).
754
755 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
756
757- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
758 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
759
760 Changes since 3.0.2b1
761
762- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
763
764 Changes since 3.0.1
765
766- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
767 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
768 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
769
770- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
771 name was not provided by the server.
772
773- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
774 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
775
776- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
777 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
778
779- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
780 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
781
782- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
783
784- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
785
786- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
787 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
788 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
789 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
790 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
791
792- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
793 the configuration be globally scoped.
794
795- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
796 Farkas.
797
798- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
799 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
800
801- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
802 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
803
804- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
805 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
806
807- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
808 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
809 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
810 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
811
812- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
813 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
814 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
815 respond to POOLREQ messages.
816
817- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
818 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
819 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
820
821- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
822
823- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
824 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
825 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
826
827- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
828 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
829 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
830 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
831 Fjone and directconnect.no.
832
833- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
834 to Andreas Gustafsson.
835
836- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
837 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
838
839- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
840 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
841 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
842 DISCOVER timeout handling.
843
844- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
845 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
846
847- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
848 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
849 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
850
851- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
852 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
853 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
854 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
855 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
856 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
857
858- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
859 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
860 Infoblox.
861
862- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
863
864- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
865 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
866 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
867 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
868 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
869 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
870 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
871
872- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
873 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
874 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
875
876- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
877 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
878 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
879
880- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
881
882 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
883
884- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
885 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
886 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
887 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
888 systems either.
889
890- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
891
892- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
893 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
894 is false.
895
896- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
897 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
898
899- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
900
901 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
902
903! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
904 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
905 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
906 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
907 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
908 both finding and solving the problem.
909
910! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
911 in log_*() functions was evidented, on some specific platforms where
912 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
913 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
914 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
915 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
916 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
917 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
918 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
919 published version of ISC DHCP.
920
921- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
922
923- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
924
925 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
926
927- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
928 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
929 Richard Hirst.
930
931- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
932 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
933 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
934
935- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
936
937- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
938 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
939 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
940 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
941
942- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
943 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on solaris platforms.
944
945- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
946 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
947
948- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
949
950 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
951
952- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
953 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
954
955- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
956 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
957 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
958
959- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
960 by name was fixed.
961
962- Delcaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
963 longer result in error.
964
965- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
966
967- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
968 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
969 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
970
971- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
972 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
973
974- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
975 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
976 Blapp.
977
978- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
979 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
980 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
981 Martin Blapp.
982
983- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
984 expiry times in failover configurations.
985
986- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
987 Steve G.
988
989- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
990 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
991
992- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
993 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
994 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
995 now "unknown-144".
996
997- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
998 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
999
1000 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
1001
1002- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
1003
1004- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
1005 not be bash.
1006
1007- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1008
1009- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
1010 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
1011 that errored before will now work properly.
1012
1013- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
1014 names was repaired.
1015
1016- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
1017 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
1018 configuration file.
1019
1020- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
1021 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1022
1023- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
1024 error rather than a null dereference.
1025
1026 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
1027
1028- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
1029
1030- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
1031
1032- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
1033 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
1034
1035- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
1036
1037- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
1038
1039- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
1040 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
1041 self-corrupting lease databases.
1042
1043- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
1044
1045- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
1046 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
1047
1048- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
1049
1050- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
1051
1052- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
1053 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
1054 Ling Gou.
1055
1056- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
1057 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1058
1059- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
1060 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
1061 Ted Lemon for the patch.
1062
1063- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
1064 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
1065
1066 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
1067
1068- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
1069 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
1070
1071- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
1072
1073- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
1074 a memory leak.
1075
1076- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
1077 script.
1078
1079- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
1080
1081- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
1082
1083- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
1084
1085- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
1086
1087- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
1088
1089- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
1090
1091- Increment the hop count when relaying.
1092
1093- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
1094
1095- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
1096
1097- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
1098
1099- Change the type of rbuf_max.
1100
1101- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
1102
1103 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
1104
1105- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
1106 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
1107 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
1108
1109 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
1110
1111- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
1112 to be renewed.
1113
1114- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
1115 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
1116
1117- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
1118 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
1119
1120- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
1121 that two permit lists matched.
1122
1123- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
1124 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
1125
1126- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
1127
1128- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
1129 requested it, contrary to the standard.
1130
1131- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
1132
1133- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
1134
1135- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
1136 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
1137 going to update its A record.
1138
1139- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
1140 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
1141 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
1142 DNS server.
1143
1144- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
1145
1146- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
1147
1148- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
1149 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
1150 NetBSD project).
1151
1152- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
1153 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
1154
1155- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
1156 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
1157
1158- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
1159
1160- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
1161
1162- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
1163 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
1164 failover protocol standard.
1165
1166- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
1167 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
1168 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
1169
1170- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
1171 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
1172 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
1173 do so.
1174
1175- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
1176
1177 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
1178
1179- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
1180
1181- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
1182 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
1183
1184- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
1185 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
1186
1187- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
1188 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
1189 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
1190
1191- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
1192 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
1193 network, merge the two pools.
1194
1195- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
1196 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
1197 fix this bug.
1198
1199 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
1200
1201- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
1202 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
1203
1204- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
1205 the same case.
1206
1207- Additional documentation.
1208
1209- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
1210 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
1211
1212 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
1213
1214- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
1215- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
1216
1217 Changes since 3.0.1rc2
1218
1219- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
1220 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
1221 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
1222 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
1223 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
1224
1225 Changes since 3.0.1rc1
1226
1227- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
1228 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
1229 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
1230 wasn't the one that removed it.
1231
1232- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
1233 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
1234 were not configured.
1235
1236- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
1237
1238- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
1239 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
1240 routing information.
1241
1242- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
1243 request being sent.
1244
1245- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
1246 done.
1247
1248- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
1249 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
1250 were pending.
1251
1252- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
1253 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
1254 problems with failover.
1255
1256- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
1257 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
1258 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
1259
1260 Changes since 3.0
1261
1262- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
1263 smash in the subclass allocation code.
1264
1265- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
1266 no object is open, it dumps core.
1267
1268- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
1269
1270- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
1271
1272- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
1273
1274- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
1275 a host object attribute with a null value.
1276
1277 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
1278
1279- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
1280
1281- Fix an obscure core dump.
1282
1283- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
1284 when crucial information is left out.
1285
1286- Log "no free leases" as an error.
1287
1288- Documentation updates.
1289
1290 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
1291
1292- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
1293
1294- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
1295 structure wasn't zeroed.
1296
1297- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
1298 incorrectly.
1299
1300- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
1301 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
1302 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
1303 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
1304 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
1305 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
1306 restarted.
1307
1308 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
1309
1310- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
1311 in failover-enabled pools.
1312
1313- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
1314 declarations).
1315
1316- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
1317 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
1318
1319- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
1320 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
1321
1322- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
1323
1324- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
1325 defined but not referenced by any pools.
1326
1327- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
1328
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1330
1331- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
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1334
1335- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
1336
1337- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
1338
1339- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
1340
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1342
1343- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
1344 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
1345 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
1346
1347- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
1348 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
1349 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
1350 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
1351 string.
1352
1353- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
1354
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1356
1357- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
1358 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
1359
1360- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
1361 malformed packets.
1362
1363- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
1364
1365- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
1366 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
1367 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
1368
1369- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
1370
1371- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
1372
1373- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
1374
1375- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
1376 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
1377
1378- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
1379 tcp connections from being played back.
1380
1381- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
1382 on exit.
1383
1384- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
1385
1386- Add some configurability to the build system.
1387
1388- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
1389
1390- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
1391 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
1392 hadn't been noticed until now.
1393
1394 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
1395
1396- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
1397 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
1398
1399- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
1400 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
1401 conformant, but also didn't work).
1402
1403- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
1404 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
1405
1406- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
1407 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
1408
1409- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
1410 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
1411
1412- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
1413 variables to leases via OMAPI.
1414
1415- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
1416 doing failover.
1417
1418- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
1419 running on alpha processors.
1420
1421- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
1422 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
1423
1424- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
1425
1426- Install omshell (including new documentation).
1427
1428- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
1429 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
1430
1431- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
1432
1433- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
1434 actually named (key names are domain names).
1435
1436- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
1437
1438- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
1439 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
1440
1441- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
1442 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
1443
1444- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
1445 statements.
1446
1447- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
1448 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
1449
1450- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
1451 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
1452 operating.
1453
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1455
1456- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
1457 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
1458 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
1459 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
1460
1461- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
1462 using omapi to manipulate leases.
1463
1464- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
1465
1466
1467 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
1468
1469- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
1470 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
1471
1472- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
1473 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
1474 to the chain.
1475
1476- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
1477
1478- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
1479
1480- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
1481
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1484
98311e4b 1485- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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1487- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
1488
1489 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
1490
1491- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
1492 DHCPDECLINE.
1493
1494- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
1495
1496- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
1497 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
1498 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
1499
1500- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
1501
1502- Documentation fixes.
1503
1504- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
1505 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
1506
1507- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
1508 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
1509
1510- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
1511
1512- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
1513
1514- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
1515 case-insensitive.
1516
1517- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
1518
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1521 consistently.
1522
1523- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
1524 systems with the probe not working correctly.
1525
1526- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
1527
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1529
1530- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
1531 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
1532 result of duplicate leases.
1533
1534- Document OMAPI server objects.
1535
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1537
1538- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
1539 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
1540
1541- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
1542 core dumps.
1543
1544- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
1545 Friedrich.
1546
1547- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
1548
1549 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
1550
1551- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
1552 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 1553 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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1555
1556- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
1557 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
1558
1559- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
1560 trace file.
1561
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1565 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
1566 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
1567 e.g., Digital Unix.
1568
1569- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
1570 when no error had occurred.
1571
1572- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
1573 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
1574 non-communicating state.
1575
1576- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
1577
1578- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
1579 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
1580 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
1581
1582- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
1583 when the client lease expired.
1584
1585- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
1586 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
1587 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
1588 in testing.
1589
1590- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
1591 the command line, it would fail.
1592
1593- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
1594 user impact).
1595
1596- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
1597
1598- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
1599 they're executable.
1600
1601 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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1603- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
1604 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
1605 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
1606 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
1607
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1609 Transmeta.
1610
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1611- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
1612 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
1613 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
1614 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
1615
1616- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
1617 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
1618
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1620
1621- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
1622 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
1623
1624- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
1625
1626- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
1627
1628- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
1629
1630- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
1631
1632- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
1633
1634- Update some parts of the README file.
1635
1636- Support GCC on SCO.
1637
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1639
1640- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
1641 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
1642
1643- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
1644 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
1645 unbill the old class.
1646
1647- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
1648 process the state transition immediately.
1649
1650- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
1651 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
1652
1653- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
1654
1655- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
1656
1657- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
1658
1659- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
1660
1661- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
1662 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
1663 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
1664
1665- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
1666 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
1667
1668- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
1669 lease file.
1670
1671- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
1672
1673- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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1676
1677- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
1678 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
1679
1680- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
1681
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1683
1684- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
1685
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1687
1688- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
1689
1690- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
1691 pl19.
1692
1693- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
1694 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
1695 past the regression test.
1696
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1698
1699- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
1700 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
1701
1702- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
1703 DHCPREQUEST.
1704
1705- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
1706
1707- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
1708
1709- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
1710
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1712
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1713- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
1714 (Damien Neil)
1715
1716- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
1717 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
1718
1719- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
1720 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
1721 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
1722
1723- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
1724 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
1725 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
1726 message.
1727
1728- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
1729 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
1730 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
1731
98311e4b 1732- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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1734 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
1735 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
1736 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
1737 this way will work.
1738
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1739- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
1740
1741- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
1742 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
1743 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
1744 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
1745
1746 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
1747
1748 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
1749
1750- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
1751 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
1752 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
1753
1754- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
1755 Hermann Lauer.
1756
1757- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
1758 messages.
1759
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1761 it contained quoted strings.
1762
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1764
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1766
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1767- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
1768 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
1769 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
1770 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
1771 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
1772 tracking down memory leaks.
1773
1774- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
1775 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
1776 Solaris.
1777
1778- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
1779 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
1780 corruption and core dumps.
1781
1782- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
1783 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
1784
1785- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
1786
1787- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
1788 and implemented by Damien Neil.
1789
1790- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
1791 name and version to standard output.
1792
1793- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
1794
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1796 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
1797
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1798- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
1799
1800- Lots of documentation updates.
1801
1802- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
1803 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
1804
1805- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
1806
1807- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
1808 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
1809
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1812
1813- Some documentation tweaks.
1814
1815- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
1816
1817- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
1818
1819- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
1820 agent options into them.
1821
1822- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
1823
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1825 options.
1826
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1828
1829- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
1830 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
1831 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
1832 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
1833 used in class statements to control address allocation.
1834
1835- Fix up documentation.
1836
1837- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
1838 significantly in a high-demand situation.
1839
1840- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
1841
1842- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
1843
1844- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
1845 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
1846 practical use otherwise.
1847
1848- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
1849 for debugging.
1850
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1852
1853- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
1854 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
1855 dump on some systems.
1856
1857- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
1858 option.
1859
1860- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
1861 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
1862
1863- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
1864 that were not printing enough information.
1865
1866- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
1867 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
1868
1869- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
1870 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
1871 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
1872 were answering.
1873
1874- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
1875 the transition.
1876
1877
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1879
1880- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
1881
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1882 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
1883
1884- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
1885 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
1886 representation from working correctly.
1887
1888- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
1889 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
1890 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
1891 could spin.
1892
1893- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
1894 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
1895
1896- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
1897 interface name on the command line.
1898
1899- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
1900 client state.
1901
1902- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
1903 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
1904 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
1905 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
1906 added by Ted Lemon.
1907
1908- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
1909 be made to log debugging information and other information.
1910
1911- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
1912 end option.
1913
1914- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
1915 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
1916 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
1917
1918- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
1919 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
1920 face of a null hardware address on input.
1921
1922- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
1923 specified unqualified.
1924
1925- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
1926 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
1927
1928- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
1929 RFC.
1930
1931- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
1932
1933- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
1934
1935- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
1936 it works.
1937
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1939
1940- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
1941 to CVS.
1942
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1943 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
1944
1945- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
1946
1947- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
1948 in patchlevel 9.
1949
1950- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
1951 options at renewal time.
1952
1953- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
1954 configuration language.
1955
1956- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
1957
1958- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
1959 done when no client hostname was received.
1960
1961- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
1962
1963- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
1964 the DHCP option space.
1965
1966- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
1967
1968- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
1969 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
1970
1971- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
1972 silently dropped.
1973
1974- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
1975 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
1976
1977- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
1978 will be correctly updated.
1979
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1981
1982- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
1983 bounds-checking.
1984
1985 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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1986
1987- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
1988
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1991- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
1992 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
1993 possible to exploit it any further than that.
1994
1995- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
1996 option.
1997
1998- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
1999 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
2000 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
2001 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
2002 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
2003 meaningfully.
2004
2005- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
2006 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
2007 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
2008
2009- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
2010 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
2011 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
2012 this one down!
2013
2014- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
2015 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
2016 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
2017 down and fixing this problem.
2018
2019 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
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2021- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
2022 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
2023
2024- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
2025 environment.
2026
2027- Fix suffix operator.
2028
2029- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
2030
2031- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
2032 connection code.
2033
2034- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
2035
2036- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
2037
2038- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
2039 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
2040
2041- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
2042
2043- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
2044
2045- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
2046 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
2047
2048- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
2049 spawn with.
2050
2051- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
2052 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
2053
2054- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
2055 for OMAPI.
2056
2057- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
2058 can install in host declarations.
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2061
2062- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
2063 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
2064 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
2065 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
2066 comments)!
2067
2068- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
2069
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2070- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
2071 request for help on this with patches!
2072
2073- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
2074 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
2075 lost, they never reconnect.
2076
2077- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
2078 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
2079
2080- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
2081 dump.
2082
2083- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
2084 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
2085 catching this one.
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2088
2089- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
2090 of options, so that the client configuration can overried, e.g., the
2091 lease renewal time.
2092
2093- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
2094 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
2095 declared without a key.
2096
2097- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
2098
2099- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
2100 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
2101
2102- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
2103 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
2104 determine the maximum size of the response.
2105
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2107
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2108- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
2109 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
2110
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2111- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
2112 RENEWING client.
2113
2114- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
2115
2116- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
2117 using memcmp().
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2120
2121- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
2122 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
2123 pointing this out.
2124
2125- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
2126 exit.
2127
2128- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
2129
2130- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
2131 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.