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1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
2 Version 3.1 - HEAD
3 March 3, 2005
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9XXX: Note need for care of ATSFP values when upgrading from 3.0.4+ to
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12Version 3 of the ISC DHCP Distribution includes the following features
13that are new since version 2.0:
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15 - DHCP Failover Protocol support
16 - OMAPI, an API for accessing and modifying the DHCP server and
17 client state.
18 - Conditional behaviour
19 - Storing arbitrary information on leases
20 - Address pools with access control
21 - Client classing
22 - Address allocation restriction by class
23 - Relay agent information option support
24 - Dynamic DNS updates
25 - Many bug fixes, performance enhancements, and minor new DHCP
26 protocol features.
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28The main bug fixed here is a bug in the subclass allocation code that
29could result in a memory smash. Any users of the ISC DHCP server who
30are using subclasses should seriously consider upgrading to 3.0.1.
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32If you are running 3.0 beta 1 and are doing dynamic DNS updates, the
33lease file is no longer forward-compatible to 3.0 final. A script
34has been provided to convert 3.0b1 lease files. This is in
35contrib/3.0b1-lease-convert.
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37For information on how to install, configure and run this software,
38as well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult
39the README file.
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41The Dynamic DNS Update support is a descendent of an implementation
42done by Lans Carstensen and Brian Dols at Rose-Hulman Institute of
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43Technology, Jim Watt at Applied Biosystems, Irina Goble at Integrated
44Measurement Systems, Igor Sharfmesser at Kazakh Telecom, and Brian
45Murrell at BC Tel Advanced Communications. I'd like to express my
46thanks to all of these good people here, both for working on the code
47and for prodding me into improving it.
48
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50 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
51
52- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
53 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
54 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
55 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
56
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57- Support for 'reserved' (psuedo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
58 was introduced.
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60- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
61 via OMAPI.
62
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63- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
64 the protocol draft.
65
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66- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
67 one does not already exist on the system.
68
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69- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
70 ||| THIS NEEDS TO BE SPELLED OUT IN THE NEW FEATURES LIST |||
71
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72- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
73 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
74 were tranmsitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
75 it should not intercept.
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77- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
78 matches RFC 3074.
79
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80- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
81 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 82 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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84- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
85 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 86 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
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88- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
89 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
90 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
91 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
92
93- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
94 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
95 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
96 priority over the client's parameter request list.
97
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98- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
99 supported. This is a milestone in acheiving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
100 DHCPv6 support.
101
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102- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
103 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
104 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
105
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106- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
107 have been incorporated.
108
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109- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
110 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
111 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
112 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
113 that belong to the peer in need.
114
115- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
116 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
117
118- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
119 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
120 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
121
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122- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
123 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
124
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125 Changes since 3.0.4
126
127- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
128 scopes are actually global has been added.
129
130- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
131 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
132 known to be damaging.
133
134- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
135 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
136 balancing).
137
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138- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
139 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
140 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
141
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142- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
143 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
144 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
145
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146- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
147 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
148 more clear now.
149
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150- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
151 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
152 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
153 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
154 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 155 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
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157- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
158 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
159
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160- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
161 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
162 made possible.
163
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164- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
165 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
166 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
167
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168- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
169 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
170
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171 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
172
173- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
174 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
175
176 Changes since 3.0.4b3
177
178- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
179 mailing list.
180
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181 Changes since 3.0.4b2
182
183- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunatley require
184 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
185
186- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
187 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
188
189- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
190 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
191 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
192 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
193
194- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
195 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
196 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
197 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
198 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
199 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
200 transition (properly).
201
202- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
203
204 Changes since 3.0.4b1
205
206- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
207 STDIN after reading one line.
208
209- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
210 descriptor it opened twice.
211
212- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
213 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
214 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
215
216 Changes since 3.0.3
217
218- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
219 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
220 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
221
222- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
223 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
224 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
225
226- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
227 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
228 wether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
229 leases to allocate.
230
231- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
232 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailng PAD option, rather
233 than the entire block of them.
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235! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
236 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
237 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
238 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
239 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
240 to a patch from infamous42md.
241
242! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
243 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
244 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
245 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
246 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
247 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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249- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
250 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
251 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
252
253- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
254 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
255
256- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
257 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
258 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
259 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
260 transitional states.
261
262- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
263 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
264 once it detects the old db does not exist.
265
266- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
267 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
268 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
269
270- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
271 been doucmented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
272
273- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
274 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
275
276- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
277 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
278 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
279
280- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
281 patch from 'infamous42md'.
282
283- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
284 repaired.
285
286- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
287 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
288 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
289 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
290
291- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
292 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
293 data.
294
295- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
296 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
297 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
298 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
299 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
300
301- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
302 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
303 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
304 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
305 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
306
307- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
308 has been repaired.
309
310- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
311 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
312 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
313 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
314 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
315
316- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
317 be treated consistently, regardless of wether TRACING is defined or not.
318
319- The linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
320 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
321 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
322 move to 3.[01].x.
323
324- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
325 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
326
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327 Changes since 3.0.3b3
328
329- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
330 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
331
332- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
333 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
334 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
335 workaround.
336
337 Changes since 3.0.3b2
338
339- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
340 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
341
342 Changes since 3.0.3b1
343
344- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
345 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
346 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
347
348- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
349 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
350 dynamic updates were also retouched.
351
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352 Changes since 3.0.2
353
354- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
355 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceeding DISCOVER.
356 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
357
358- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
359 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
360 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
361 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
362 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
363
364- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
365 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
366 Jason Vas Dias at Redhat.
367
368- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
369 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
370 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
371
372- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
373 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
374 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
375 Peter Poeml.
376
377- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
378 Dr. Peter Poeml.
379
380- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
381 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
382 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
383 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
384 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
385 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
386
387- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
388 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
389 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
390 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
391
392- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
393 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
394 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
395 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
396
397- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
398 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
399
400- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
401 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
402 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
403
404- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
405 7 bytes, and failover.
406
407- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
408 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
409 at Redhat.
410
411- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
412 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
413 should work better.
414
415- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
416 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
417 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
418
419- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
420 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
421 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
422
423 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
424
425- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
426 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
427
428 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
429
430- Two varaibles introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
431 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
432 overloading. This was repaired.
433
434- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
435 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
436 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
437 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
438 three chunks to fit.
439
440- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
441 were repaired.
442
443- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
444 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
445 leak).
446
447 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
448
449- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
450 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
451
452 Changes since 3.0.2b1
453
454- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
455
456 Changes since 3.0.1
457
458- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
459 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
460 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
461
462- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
463 name was not provided by the server.
464
465- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
466 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
467
468- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
469 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
470
471- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
472 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
473
474- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
475
476- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
477
478- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
479 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
480 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
481 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
482 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
483
484- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
485 the configuration be globally scoped.
486
487- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
488 Farkas.
489
490- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
491 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
492
493- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
494 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
495
496- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
497 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
498
499- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
500 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
501 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
502 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
503
504- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
505 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
506 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
507 respond to POOLREQ messages.
508
509- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
510 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
511 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
512
513- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
514
515- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
516 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
517 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
518
519- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
520 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
521 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
522 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
523 Fjone and directconnect.no.
524
525- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
526 to Andreas Gustafsson.
527
528- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
529 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
530
531- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
532 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
533 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
534 DISCOVER timeout handling.
535
536- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
537 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
538
539- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
540 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
541 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
542
543- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
544 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
545 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
546 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
547 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
548 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
549
550- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
551 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
552 Infoblox.
553
554- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
555
556- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
557 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
558 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
559 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
560 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
561 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
562 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
563
564- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
565 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
566 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
567
568- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
569 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
570 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
571
572- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
573
574 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
575
576- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
577 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
578 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
579 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
580 systems either.
581
582- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
583
584- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
585 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
586 is false.
587
588- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
589 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
590
591- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
592
593 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
594
595! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
596 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
597 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
598 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
599 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
600 both finding and solving the problem.
601
602! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
603 in log_*() functions was evidented, on some specific platforms where
604 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
605 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
606 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
607 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
608 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
609 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
610 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
611 published version of ISC DHCP.
612
613- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
614
615- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
616
617 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
618
619- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
620 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
621 Richard Hirst.
622
623- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
624 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
625 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
626
627- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
628
629- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
630 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
631 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
632 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
633
634- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
635 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on solaris platforms.
636
637- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
638 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
639
640- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
641
642 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
643
644- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
645 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
646
647- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
648 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
649 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
650
651- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
652 by name was fixed.
653
654- Delcaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
655 longer result in error.
656
657- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
658
659- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
660 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
661 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
662
663- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
664 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
665
666- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
667 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
668 Blapp.
669
670- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
671 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
672 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
673 Martin Blapp.
674
675- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
676 expiry times in failover configurations.
677
678- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
679 Steve G.
680
681- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
682 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
683
684- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
685 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
686 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
687 now "unknown-144".
688
689- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
690 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
691
692 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
693
694- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
695
696- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
697 not be bash.
698
699- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
700
701- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
702 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
703 that errored before will now work properly.
704
705- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
706 names was repaired.
707
708- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
709 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
710 configuration file.
711
712- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
713 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
714
715- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
716 error rather than a null dereference.
717
718 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
719
720- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
721
722- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
723
724- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
725 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
726
727- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
728
729- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
730
731- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
732 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
733 self-corrupting lease databases.
734
735- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
736
737- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
738 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
739
740- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
741
742- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
743
744- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
745 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
746 Ling Gou.
747
748- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
749 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
750
751- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
752 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
753 Ted Lemon for the patch.
754
755- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
756 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
757
758 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
759
760- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
761 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
762
763- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
764
765- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
766 a memory leak.
767
768- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
769 script.
770
771- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
772
773- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
774
775- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
776
777- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
778
779- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
780
781- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
782
783- Increment the hop count when relaying.
784
785- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
786
787- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
788
789- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
790
791- Change the type of rbuf_max.
792
793- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
794
795 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
796
797- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
798 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
799 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
800
801 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
802
803- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
804 to be renewed.
805
806- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
807 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
808
809- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
810 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
811
812- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
813 that two permit lists matched.
814
815- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
816 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
817
818- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
819
820- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
821 requested it, contrary to the standard.
822
823- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
824
825- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
826
827- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
828 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
829 going to update its A record.
830
831- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
832 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
833 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
834 DNS server.
835
836- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
837
838- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
839
840- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
841 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
842 NetBSD project).
843
844- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
845 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
846
847- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
848 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
849
850- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
851
852- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
853
854- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
855 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
856 failover protocol standard.
857
858- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
859 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
860 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
861
862- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
863 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
864 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
865 do so.
866
867- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
868
869 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
870
871- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
872
873- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
874 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
875
876- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
877 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
878
879- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
880 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
881 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
882
883- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
884 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
885 network, merge the two pools.
886
887- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
888 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
889 fix this bug.
890
891 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
892
893- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
894 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
895
896- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
897 the same case.
898
899- Additional documentation.
900
901- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
902 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
903
904 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
905
906- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
907- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
908
909 Changes since 3.0.1rc2
910
911- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
912 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
913 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
914 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
915 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
916
917 Changes since 3.0.1rc1
918
919- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
920 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
921 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
922 wasn't the one that removed it.
923
924- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
925 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
926 were not configured.
927
928- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
929
930- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
931 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
932 routing information.
933
934- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
935 request being sent.
936
937- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
938 done.
939
940- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
941 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
942 were pending.
943
944- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
945 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
946 problems with failover.
947
948- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
949 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
950 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
951
952 Changes since 3.0
953
954- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
955 smash in the subclass allocation code.
956
957- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
958 no object is open, it dumps core.
959
960- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
961
962- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
963
964- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
965
966- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
967 a host object attribute with a null value.
968
969 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
970
971- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
972
973- Fix an obscure core dump.
974
975- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
976 when crucial information is left out.
977
978- Log "no free leases" as an error.
979
980- Documentation updates.
981
982 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
983
984- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
985
986- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
987 structure wasn't zeroed.
988
989- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
990 incorrectly.
991
992- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
993 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
994 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
995 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
996 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
997 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
998 restarted.
999
1000 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
1001
1002- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
1003 in failover-enabled pools.
1004
1005- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
1006 declarations).
1007
1008- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
1009 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
1010
1011- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
1012 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
1013
1014- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
1015
1016- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
1017 defined but not referenced by any pools.
1018
1019- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
1020
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1022
1023- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
1024
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1026
1027- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
1028
1029- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
1030
1031- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
1032
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1034
1035- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
1036 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
1037 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
1038
1039- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
1040 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
1041 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
1042 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
1043 string.
1044
1045- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
1046
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1048
1049- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
1050 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
1051
1052- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
1053 malformed packets.
1054
1055- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
1056
1057- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
1058 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
1059 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
1060
1061- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
1062
1063- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
1064
1065- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
1066
1067- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
1068 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
1069
1070- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
1071 tcp connections from being played back.
1072
1073- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
1074 on exit.
1075
1076- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
1077
1078- Add some configurability to the build system.
1079
1080- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
1081
1082- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
1083 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
1084 hadn't been noticed until now.
1085
1086 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
1087
1088- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
1089 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
1090
1091- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
1092 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
1093 conformant, but also didn't work).
1094
1095- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
1096 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
1097
1098- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
1099 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
1100
1101- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
1102 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
1103
1104- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
1105 variables to leases via OMAPI.
1106
1107- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
1108 doing failover.
1109
1110- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
1111 running on alpha processors.
1112
1113- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
1114 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
1115
1116- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
1117
1118- Install omshell (including new documentation).
1119
1120- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
1121 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
1122
1123- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
1124
1125- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
1126 actually named (key names are domain names).
1127
1128- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
1129
1130- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
1131 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
1132
1133- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
1134 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
1135
1136- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
1137 statements.
1138
1139- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
1140 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
1141
1142- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
1143 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
1144 operating.
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1147
1148- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
1149 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
1150 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
1151 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
1152
1153- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
1154 using omapi to manipulate leases.
1155
1156- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
1157
1158
1159 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
1160
1161- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
1162 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
1163
1164- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
1165 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
1166 to the chain.
1167
1168- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
1169
1170- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
1171
1172- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
1173
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1176
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1179- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
1180
1181 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
1182
1183- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
1184 DHCPDECLINE.
1185
1186- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
1187
1188- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
1189 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
1190 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
1191
1192- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
1193
1194- Documentation fixes.
1195
1196- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
1197 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
1198
1199- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
1200 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
1201
1202- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
1203
1204- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
1205
1206- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
1207 case-insensitive.
1208
1209- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
1210
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1213 consistently.
1214
1215- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
1216 systems with the probe not working correctly.
1217
1218- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
1219
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1221
1222- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
1223 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
1224 result of duplicate leases.
1225
1226- Document OMAPI server objects.
1227
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1229
1230- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
1231 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
1232
1233- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
1234 core dumps.
1235
1236- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
1237 Friedrich.
1238
1239- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
1240
1241 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
1242
1243- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
1244 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
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1247
1248- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
1249 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
1250
1251- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
1252 trace file.
1253
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1257 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
1258 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
1259 e.g., Digital Unix.
1260
1261- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
1262 when no error had occurred.
1263
1264- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
1265 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
1266 non-communicating state.
1267
1268- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
1269
1270- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
1271 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
1272 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
1273
1274- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
1275 when the client lease expired.
1276
1277- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
1278 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
1279 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
1280 in testing.
1281
1282- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
1283 the command line, it would fail.
1284
1285- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
1286 user impact).
1287
1288- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
1289
1290- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
1291 they're executable.
1292
1293 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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1295- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
1296 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
1297 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
1298 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
1299
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1301 Transmeta.
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1304 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
1305 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
1306 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
1307
1308- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
1309 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
1310
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1312
1313- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
1314 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
1315
1316- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
1317
1318- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
1319
1320- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
1321
1322- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
1323
1324- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
1325
1326- Update some parts of the README file.
1327
1328- Support GCC on SCO.
1329
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1331
1332- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
1333 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
1334
1335- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
1336 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
1337 unbill the old class.
1338
1339- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
1340 process the state transition immediately.
1341
1342- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
1343 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
1344
1345- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
1346
1347- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
1348
1349- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
1350
1351- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
1352
1353- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
1354 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
1355 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
1356
1357- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
1358 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
1359
1360- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
1361 lease file.
1362
1363- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
1364
1365- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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1368
1369- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
1370 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
1371
1372- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
1373
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1374 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 21
1375
1376- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
1377
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1378 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 20
1379
1380- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
1381
1382- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
1383 pl19.
1384
1385- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
1386 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
1387 past the regression test.
1388
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1390
1391- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
1392 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
1393
1394- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
1395 DHCPREQUEST.
1396
1397- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
1398
1399- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
1400
1401- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
1402
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1404
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1405- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
1406 (Damien Neil)
1407
1408- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
1409 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
1410
1411- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
1412 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
1413 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
1414
1415- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
1416 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
1417 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
1418 message.
1419
1420- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
1421 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
1422 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
1423
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1426 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
1427 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
1428 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
1429 this way will work.
1430
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1431- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
1432
1433- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
1434 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
1435 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
1436 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
1437
1438 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
1439
1440 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
1441
1442- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
1443 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
1444 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
1445
1446- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
1447 Hermann Lauer.
1448
1449- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
1450 messages.
1451
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1452- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
1453 it contained quoted strings.
1454
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1455 ** there was no pl17 **
1456
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1458
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1459- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
1460 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
1461 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
1462 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
1463 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
1464 tracking down memory leaks.
1465
1466- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
1467 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
1468 Solaris.
1469
1470- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
1471 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
1472 corruption and core dumps.
1473
1474- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
1475 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
1476
1477- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
1478
1479- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
1480 and implemented by Damien Neil.
1481
1482- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
1483 name and version to standard output.
1484
1485- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
1486
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1487- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
1488 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
1489
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1490- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
1491
1492- Lots of documentation updates.
1493
1494- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
1495 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
1496
1497- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
1498
1499- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
1500 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
1501
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1504
1505- Some documentation tweaks.
1506
1507- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
1508
1509- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
1510
1511- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
1512 agent options into them.
1513
1514- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
1515
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1516- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
1517 options.
1518
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1519 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 14
1520
1521- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
1522 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
1523 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
1524 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
1525 used in class statements to control address allocation.
1526
1527- Fix up documentation.
1528
1529- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
1530 significantly in a high-demand situation.
1531
1532- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
1533
1534- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
1535
1536- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
1537 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
1538 practical use otherwise.
1539
1540- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
1541 for debugging.
1542
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1544
1545- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
1546 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
1547 dump on some systems.
1548
1549- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
1550 option.
1551
1552- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
1553 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
1554
1555- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
1556 that were not printing enough information.
1557
1558- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
1559 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
1560
1561- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
1562 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
1563 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
1564 were answering.
1565
1566- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
1567 the transition.
1568
1569
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1571
1572- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
1573
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1575
1576- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
1577 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
1578 representation from working correctly.
1579
1580- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
1581 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
1582 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
1583 could spin.
1584
1585- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
1586 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
1587
1588- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
1589 interface name on the command line.
1590
1591- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
1592 client state.
1593
1594- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
1595 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
1596 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
1597 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
1598 added by Ted Lemon.
1599
1600- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
1601 be made to log debugging information and other information.
1602
1603- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
1604 end option.
1605
1606- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
1607 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
1608 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
1609
1610- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
1611 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
1612 face of a null hardware address on input.
1613
1614- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
1615 specified unqualified.
1616
1617- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
1618 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
1619
1620- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
1621 RFC.
1622
1623- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
1624
1625- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
1626
1627- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
1628 it works.
1629
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1631
1632- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
1633 to CVS.
1634
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1635 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
1636
1637- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
1638
1639- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
1640 in patchlevel 9.
1641
1642- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
1643 options at renewal time.
1644
1645- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
1646 configuration language.
1647
1648- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
1649
1650- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
1651 done when no client hostname was received.
1652
1653- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
1654
1655- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
1656 the DHCP option space.
1657
1658- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
1659
1660- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
1661 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
1662
1663- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
1664 silently dropped.
1665
1666- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
1667 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
1668
1669- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
1670 will be correctly updated.
1671
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1673
1674- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
1675 bounds-checking.
1676
1677 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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1679- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
1680
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1683- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
1684 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
1685 possible to exploit it any further than that.
1686
1687- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
1688 option.
1689
1690- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
1691 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
1692 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
1693 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
1694 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
1695 meaningfully.
1696
1697- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
1698 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
1699 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
1700
1701- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
1702 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
1703 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
1704 this one down!
1705
1706- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
1707 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
1708 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
1709 down and fixing this problem.
1710
1711 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
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1713- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
1714 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
1715
1716- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
1717 environment.
1718
1719- Fix suffix operator.
1720
1721- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
1722
1723- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
1724 connection code.
1725
1726- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
1727
1728- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
1729
1730- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
1731 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
1732
1733- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
1734
1735- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
1736
1737- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
1738 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
1739
1740- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
1741 spawn with.
1742
1743- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
1744 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
1745
1746- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
1747 for OMAPI.
1748
1749- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
1750 can install in host declarations.
1751
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1753
1754- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
1755 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
1756 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
1757 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
1758 comments)!
1759
1760- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
1761
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1762- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
1763 request for help on this with patches!
1764
1765- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
1766 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
1767 lost, they never reconnect.
1768
1769- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
1770 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
1771
1772- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
1773 dump.
1774
1775- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
1776 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
1777 catching this one.
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1780
1781- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
1782 of options, so that the client configuration can overried, e.g., the
1783 lease renewal time.
1784
1785- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
1786 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
1787 declared without a key.
1788
1789- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
1790
1791- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
1792 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
1793
1794- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
1795 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
1796 determine the maximum size of the response.
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1799
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1800- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
1801 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
1802
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1804 RENEWING client.
1805
1806- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
1807
1808- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
1809 using memcmp().
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1812
1813- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
1814 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
1815 pointing this out.
1816
1817- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
1818 exit.
1819
1820- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
1821
1822- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
1823 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.