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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
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2 Version 4.0.0a3
3 September 5, 2007
72c7bd79 4
98311e4b 5 Release Notes
72c7bd79 6
da411127 7 NEW FEATURES
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9The DHCP server in version 4.0.x of the ISC DHCP Distribution supports
10DHCPv6 in addition to DHCP for IPv4.
11
12Several new options have been added to the dhcpd executable, which are
13documented in the man page. Several changes have been made to the
14configuration file as well, which are also documented in the man
15pages.
16
45d545f0 17There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
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18release, which will be addressed shortly:
19
99fe695e 20- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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22- There is no DHCPv6 Relay Agent implementation. There are only DHCPv6
23 Server and Client implementations.
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39725d92 25- Only a single address is supported per IA.
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26
27- IA_TA addresses are not supported.
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98bd7ca0 29- IA_PD prefixes are not supported.
29d5553a 30
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31- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages. These
32 should be configurable, and probably localized via gettext() or the
33 like.
34
35- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
36
37- Dynamically allocated leases do not respond to Confirm messages.
38
98bd7ca0 39- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 40 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 41 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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43For information on how to install, configure and run this software,
44as well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult
45the README file.
46
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47ISC DHCP now uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please
48review the output of "./configure --help" to see what options are
49available.
50
51The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and
52may not work on other platforms. Please report any problems and
53suggested fixes to <dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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ab3a540f 56 Changes since 4.0.0a3
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58- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
59 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
60
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61- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
62 point out the problem.
63
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64- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
65 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
66 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
67
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68- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
69 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
70
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71- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
72 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
73 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
74
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75- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
76
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77- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
78 fixed by Marcus Goller.
79
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80- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
81 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
82 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
83 regardless of the existence of bindings.
84
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85 Changes since 4.0.0a2
86
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87- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
88 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
89
763cba6b 90- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
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92- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
93 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
94 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
95
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96- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
97
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98- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
99 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
100
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101- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
102 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
103 loaded from persistent storage.
104
45d545f0 105- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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106 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
107 necessary.
108
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109- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
110 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
111 rapid-commit option.
112
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113- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
114 non-128-bits in length were removed.
115
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116 Changes since 4.0.0a1
117
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118- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
119 and fix.
120
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121- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
122
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123- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
124
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125- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
126 for when loading configuration.
127
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128- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
129 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
130 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
131
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132- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
133 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
134 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
135 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
136
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137- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
138
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139- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
140 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
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142- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
143
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144- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
145
146- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
147 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
148
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149- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
150 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
151
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152- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
153
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154- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
155 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
156
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157 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
158
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159- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
160
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161- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
162 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
163
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164- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
165
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166- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
167 initialized.
168
169- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
170
171- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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172 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
173
174- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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176- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
177
178- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
179 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
180
181- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
182
8ea19a71 183- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 184 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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185
186- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
187 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
188
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189- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
190
191- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
192
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193- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
194
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195 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
196
197- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
198 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
199 no support currently for both.
200
201- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
202 IAADDR option.
203
204- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
205 options.
206
207- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
208
209- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
210 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
211
212- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
213 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
214 specifying type 1 or type 2).
215
216- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
217 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
218
219- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
220 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
221 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
222 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
223 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
224 differently, they both use the same code here).
225
226- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
227 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
228 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
229
230- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
231
232- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
233 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
234 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
235 it should not intercept.
236
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237 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
238
239- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
240 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
241 between primary and secondary.
242
243- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
244 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
245 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
246
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247- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
248
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249- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
250 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
251 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
252 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
253 or REQUEST messages.
254
255- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
256 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
257
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258- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
259
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260 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
261
262- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
263 failover protected subnets was removed.
264
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265 Changes since 3.1.0b2
266
267- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
268 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
269 odd number of leases).
270
271- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
272 rebalance run, and one after.
273
274- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
275 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
276 processing these messages.
277
fe5b0fdd 278 Changes since 3.1.0b1
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280- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
281 objects.
282
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283- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
284 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
285 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
286 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
287 at Allianz.
288
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289- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
290 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
291
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292- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
293 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
294
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295- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
296 caused the server to abort.
297
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298- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
299 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
300 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
301
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302- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
303 by empty spaces would not get included.
304
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305- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
306 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
307
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308- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
309 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
310
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311- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
312 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
313
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314- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
315 on the parameter request list.
316
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317 Changes since 3.1.0a3
318
319- Some spelling fixes.
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321 Changes since 3.1.0a2
322
323- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
324 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
325
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326- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
327 domain-search option syntax.
328
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329 Changes since 3.1.0a1
330
331- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
332 hash table was repaired.
333
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334- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
335 entering normal state.
336
337- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
338 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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339 'xid mismatch' log messages.
340
341- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
342 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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344- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
345 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
346 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
347 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
348
45d545f0 349- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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350 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
351 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
352 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
353 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
354 to their needs.
355
356- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
357 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
358 run will attempt balance.
359
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360- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
361
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362 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
363
364- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
365 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
366 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
367 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
368
98bd7ca0 369- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 370 was introduced.
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371
372- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
373 via OMAPI.
374
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375- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
376 the protocol draft.
377
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378- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
379 one does not already exist on the system.
380
b43c87ad 381- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 382
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383- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
384 matches RFC 3074.
385
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386- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
387 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 388 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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390- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
391 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 392 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 393
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394- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
395 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
396 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
397 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
398
399- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
400 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
401 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
402 priority over the client's parameter request list.
403
f7fdb216 404- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 405 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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406 DHCPv6 support.
407
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408- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
409 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
410 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
411
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412- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
413 have been incorporated.
414
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415- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
416 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
417 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
418 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
419 that belong to the peer in need.
420
421- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
422 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
423
424- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
425 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
426 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
427
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428- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
429 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
430
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431- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
432 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
433 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
434 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
435 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
436
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437- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
438 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
439 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
440 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
441
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442- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
443 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
444 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
445 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
446 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
447 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
448 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
449 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
450 ignoring this aspect of their request.
451
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452- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
453 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
454
41e45067 455- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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456 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
457 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
458 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
459
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460- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
461 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
462 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
463 hardware and funding the development.
6d103865 464
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465- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
466 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
467 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
468 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
469 via Robin Breathe.
470
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471- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
472 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
473 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
474 from Christof Chen.
475
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476- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
477 formally supported.
478
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479 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
480
481- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
482 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
483
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484 Changes since 3.0.5
485
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486- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
487 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
488 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 489 they actually received.
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490
491- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
492
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493- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
494 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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495 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
496 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
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498- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
499
d69fb6a8 500- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 501 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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503- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
504 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
505 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
506 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
507 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
508 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
509 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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510 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
511
512- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
513 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
514 'file' field.
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516- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
517 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
518
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519- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
520 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
521 a patch from Kevin Steves.
522
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523- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
524 from Chris Wagner.
525
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526- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
527 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
528 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
529
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530- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
531 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
532 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
533 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
534 was set.
535
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536- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
537 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
538
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539- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
540 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
541 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
542 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
543 active ones.
544
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901306d5 547- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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548 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
549 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
550 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
551 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
552
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553- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
554 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
555
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556 Changes since 3.0.4
557
558- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
559 scopes are actually global has been added.
560
561- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
562 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
563 known to be damaging.
564
565- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
566 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
567 balancing).
568
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569- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
570 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
571 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
572
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573- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
574 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
575 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
576
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577- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
578 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
579 more clear now.
580
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581- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
582 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
583 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
584 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
585 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 586 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
6cbc6629 587
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588- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
589 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
590
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591- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
592 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
593 made possible.
594
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595- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
596 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
597 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
598
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599- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
600 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
601
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602- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
603 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
604 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
605
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606- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
607 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
608 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
609 value with the later configured value).
610
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611- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
612 have been named and documented.
613
614- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
615 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
616 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
617 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
618 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
619 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
620 write new output.
621
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622 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
623
624- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
625 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
626
627 Changes since 3.0.4b3
628
629- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
630 mailing list.
631
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632 Changes since 3.0.4b2
633
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635 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
636
637- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
638 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
639
640- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
641 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
642 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
643 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
644
645- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
646 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
647 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
648 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
649 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
650 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
651 transition (properly).
652
653- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
654
655 Changes since 3.0.4b1
656
657- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
658 STDIN after reading one line.
659
660- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
661 descriptor it opened twice.
662
663- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
664 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
665 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
666
667 Changes since 3.0.3
668
669- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
670 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
671 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
672
673- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
674 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
675 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
676
677- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
678 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 679 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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680 leases to allocate.
681
682- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 683 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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684 than the entire block of them.
685
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686! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
687 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
688 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
689 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
690 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
691 to a patch from infamous42md.
692
693! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
694 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
695 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
696 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
697 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
698 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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700- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
701 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
702 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
703
704- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
705 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
706
707- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
708 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
709 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
710 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
711 transitional states.
712
713- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
714 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
715 once it detects the old db does not exist.
716
717- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
718 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
719 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
720
721- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 722 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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724- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
725 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
726
727- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
728 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
729 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
730
731- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
732 patch from 'infamous42md'.
733
734- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
735 repaired.
736
737- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
738 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
739 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
740 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
741
742- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
743 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
744 data.
745
746- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
747 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
748 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
749 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
750 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
751
752- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
753 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
754 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
755 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
756 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
757
758- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
759 has been repaired.
760
761- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
762 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
763 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
764 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
765 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
766
767- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 768 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
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771 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
772 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
773 move to 3.[01].x.
774
775- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
776 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
777
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778 Changes since 3.0.3b3
779
780- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
781 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
782
783- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
784 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
785 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
786 workaround.
787
788 Changes since 3.0.3b2
789
790- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
791 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
792
793 Changes since 3.0.3b1
794
795- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
796 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
797 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
798
799- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
800 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
801 dynamic updates were also retouched.
802
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803 Changes since 3.0.2
804
805- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
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807 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
808
809- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
810 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
811 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
812 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
813 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
814
815- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
816 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
817 Jason Vas Dias at Redhat.
818
819- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
820 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
821 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
822
823- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
824 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
825 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
826 Peter Poeml.
827
828- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
829 Dr. Peter Poeml.
830
831- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
832 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
833 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
834 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
835 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
836 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
837
838- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
839 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
840 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
841 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
842
843- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
844 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
845 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
846 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
847
848- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
849 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
850
851- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
852 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
853 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
854
855- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
856 7 bytes, and failover.
857
858- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
859 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
860 at Redhat.
861
862- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
863 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
864 should work better.
865
866- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
867 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
868 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
869
870- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
871 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
872 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
873
874 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
875
876- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
877 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
878
879 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
880
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882 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
883 overloading. This was repaired.
884
885- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
886 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
887 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
888 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
889 three chunks to fit.
890
891- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
892 were repaired.
893
894- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
895 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
896 leak).
897
898 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
899
900- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
901 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
902
903 Changes since 3.0.2b1
904
905- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
906
907 Changes since 3.0.1
908
909- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
910 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
911 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
912
913- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
914 name was not provided by the server.
915
916- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
917 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
918
919- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
920 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
921
922- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
923 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
924
925- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
926
927- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
928
929- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
930 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
931 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
932 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
933 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
934
935- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
936 the configuration be globally scoped.
937
938- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
939 Farkas.
940
941- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
942 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
943
944- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
945 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
946
947- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
948 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
949
950- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
951 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
952 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
953 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
954
955- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
956 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
957 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
958 respond to POOLREQ messages.
959
960- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
961 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
962 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
963
964- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
965
966- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
967 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
968 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
969
970- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
971 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
972 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
973 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
974 Fjone and directconnect.no.
975
976- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
977 to Andreas Gustafsson.
978
979- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
980 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
981
982- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
983 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
984 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
985 DISCOVER timeout handling.
986
987- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
988 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
989
990- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
991 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
992 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
993
994- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
995 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
996 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
997 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
998 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
999 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
1000
1001- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
1002 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
1003 Infoblox.
1004
1005- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
1006
1007- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
1008 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
1009 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
1010 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
1011 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
1012 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
1013 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
1014
1015- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
1016 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
1017 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
1018
1019- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
1020 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
1021 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
1022
1023- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
1024
1025 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
1026
1027- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
1028 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
1029 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
1030 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
1031 systems either.
1032
1033- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
1034
1035- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
1036 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
1037 is false.
1038
1039- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
1040 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
1041
1042- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
1043
1044 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
1045
1046! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
1047 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
1048 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
1049 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
1050 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
1051 both finding and solving the problem.
1052
1053! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
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1055 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
1056 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
1057 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
1058 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
1059 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
1060 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
1061 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
1062 published version of ISC DHCP.
1063
1064- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
1065
1066- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
1067
1068 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
1069
1070- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
1071 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
1072 Richard Hirst.
1073
1074- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
1075 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
1076 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
1077
1078- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
1079
1080- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
1081 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
1082 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
1083 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
1084
1085- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 1086 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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1088- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
1089 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
1090
1091- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
1092
1093 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
1094
1095- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
1096 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
1097
1098- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
1099 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
1100 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
1101
1102- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
1103 by name was fixed.
1104
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1106 longer result in error.
1107
1108- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
1109
1110- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
1111 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
1112 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
1113
1114- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
1115 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
1116
1117- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
1118 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
1119 Blapp.
1120
1121- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
1122 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
1123 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
1124 Martin Blapp.
1125
1126- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
1127 expiry times in failover configurations.
1128
1129- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
1130 Steve G.
1131
1132- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
1133 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
1134
1135- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
1136 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
1137 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
1138 now "unknown-144".
1139
1140- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
1141 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
1142
1143 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
1144
1145- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
1146
1147- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
1148 not be bash.
1149
1150- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1151
1152- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
1153 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
1154 that errored before will now work properly.
1155
1156- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
1157 names was repaired.
1158
1159- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
1160 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
1161 configuration file.
1162
1163- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
1164 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1165
1166- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
1167 error rather than a null dereference.
1168
1169 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
1170
1171- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
1172
1173- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
1174
1175- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
1176 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
1177
1178- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
1179
1180- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
1181
1182- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
1183 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
1184 self-corrupting lease databases.
1185
1186- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
1187
1188- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
1189 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
1190
1191- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
1192
1193- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
1194
1195- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
1196 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
1197 Ling Gou.
1198
1199- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
1200 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1201
1202- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
1203 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
1204 Ted Lemon for the patch.
1205
1206- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
1207 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
1208
1209 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
1210
1211- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
1212 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
1213
1214- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
1215
1216- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
1217 a memory leak.
1218
1219- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
1220 script.
1221
1222- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
1223
1224- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
1225
1226- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
1227
1228- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
1229
1230- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
1231
1232- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
1233
1234- Increment the hop count when relaying.
1235
1236- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
1237
1238- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
1239
1240- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
1241
1242- Change the type of rbuf_max.
1243
1244- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
1245
1246 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
1247
1248- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
1249 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
1250 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
1251
1252 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
1253
1254- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
1255 to be renewed.
1256
1257- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
1258 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
1259
1260- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
1261 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
1262
1263- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
1264 that two permit lists matched.
1265
1266- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
1267 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
1268
1269- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
1270
1271- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
1272 requested it, contrary to the standard.
1273
1274- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
1275
1276- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
1277
1278- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
1279 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
1280 going to update its A record.
1281
1282- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
1283 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
1284 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
1285 DNS server.
1286
1287- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
1288
1289- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
1290
1291- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
1292 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
1293 NetBSD project).
1294
1295- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
1296 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
1297
1298- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
1299 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
1300
1301- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
1302
1303- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
1304
1305- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
1306 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
1307 failover protocol standard.
1308
1309- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
1310 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
1311 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
1312
1313- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
1314 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
1315 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
1316 do so.
1317
1318- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
1319
1320 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
1321
1322- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
1323
1324- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
1325 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
1326
1327- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
1328 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
1329
1330- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
1331 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
1332 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
1333
1334- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
1335 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
1336 network, merge the two pools.
1337
1338- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
1339 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
1340 fix this bug.
1341
1342 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
1343
1344- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
1345 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
1346
1347- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
1348 the same case.
1349
1350- Additional documentation.
1351
1352- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
1353 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
1354
1355 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
1356
1357- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
1358- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
1359
1360 Changes since 3.0.1rc2
1361
1362- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
1363 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
1364 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
1365 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
1366 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
1367
1368 Changes since 3.0.1rc1
1369
1370- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
1371 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
1372 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
1373 wasn't the one that removed it.
1374
1375- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
1376 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
1377 were not configured.
1378
1379- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
1380
1381- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
1382 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
1383 routing information.
1384
1385- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
1386 request being sent.
1387
1388- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
1389 done.
1390
1391- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
1392 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
1393 were pending.
1394
1395- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
1396 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
1397 problems with failover.
1398
1399- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
1400 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
1401 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
1402
1403 Changes since 3.0
1404
1405- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
1406 smash in the subclass allocation code.
1407
1408- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
1409 no object is open, it dumps core.
1410
1411- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
1412
1413- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
1414
1415- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
1416
1417- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
1418 a host object attribute with a null value.
1419
1420 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
1421
1422- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
1423
1424- Fix an obscure core dump.
1425
1426- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
1427 when crucial information is left out.
1428
1429- Log "no free leases" as an error.
1430
1431- Documentation updates.
1432
1433 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
1434
1435- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
1436
1437- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
1438 structure wasn't zeroed.
1439
1440- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
1441 incorrectly.
1442
1443- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
1444 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
1445 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
1446 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
1447 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
1448 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
1449 restarted.
1450
1451 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
1452
1453- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
1454 in failover-enabled pools.
1455
1456- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
1457 declarations).
1458
1459- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
1460 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
1461
1462- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
1463 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
1464
1465- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
1466
1467- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
1468 defined but not referenced by any pools.
1469
1470- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
1471
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1473
1474- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
1475
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1477
1478- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
1479
1480- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
1481
1482- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
1483
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1485
1486- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
1487 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
1488 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
1489
1490- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
1491 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
1492 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
1493 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
1494 string.
1495
1496- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
1497
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1499
1500- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
1501 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
1502
1503- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
1504 malformed packets.
1505
1506- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
1507
1508- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
1509 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
1510 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
1511
1512- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
1513
1514- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
1515
1516- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
1517
1518- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
1519 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
1520
1521- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
1522 tcp connections from being played back.
1523
1524- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
1525 on exit.
1526
1527- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
1528
1529- Add some configurability to the build system.
1530
1531- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
1532
1533- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
1534 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
1535 hadn't been noticed until now.
1536
1537 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
1538
1539- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
1540 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
1541
1542- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
1543 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
1544 conformant, but also didn't work).
1545
1546- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
1547 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
1548
1549- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
1550 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
1551
1552- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
1553 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
1554
1555- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
1556 variables to leases via OMAPI.
1557
1558- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
1559 doing failover.
1560
1561- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
1562 running on alpha processors.
1563
1564- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
1565 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
1566
1567- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
1568
1569- Install omshell (including new documentation).
1570
1571- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
1572 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
1573
1574- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
1575
1576- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
1577 actually named (key names are domain names).
1578
1579- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
1580
1581- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
1582 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
1583
1584- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
1585 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
1586
1587- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
1588 statements.
1589
1590- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
1591 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
1592
1593- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
1594 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
1595 operating.
1596
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1598
1599- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
1600 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
1601 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
1602 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
1603
1604- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
1605 using omapi to manipulate leases.
1606
1607- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
1608
1609
1610 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
1611
1612- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
1613 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
1614
1615- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
1616 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
1617 to the chain.
1618
1619- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
1620
1621- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
1622
1623- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
1624
98311e4b 1625- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
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1627
98311e4b 1628- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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1630- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
1631
1632 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
1633
1634- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
1635 DHCPDECLINE.
1636
1637- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
1638
1639- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
1640 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
1641 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
1642
1643- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
1644
1645- Documentation fixes.
1646
1647- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
1648 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
1649
1650- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
1651 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
1652
1653- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
1654
1655- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
1656
1657- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
1658 case-insensitive.
1659
1660- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
1661
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1664 consistently.
1665
1666- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
1667 systems with the probe not working correctly.
1668
1669- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
1670
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1672
1673- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
1674 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
1675 result of duplicate leases.
1676
1677- Document OMAPI server objects.
1678
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1680
1681- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
1682 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
1683
1684- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
1685 core dumps.
1686
1687- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
1688 Friedrich.
1689
1690- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
1691
1692 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
1693
1694- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
1695 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 1696 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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1698
1699- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
1700 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
1701
1702- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
1703 trace file.
1704
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1708 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
1709 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
1710 e.g., Digital Unix.
1711
1712- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
1713 when no error had occurred.
1714
1715- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
1716 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
1717 non-communicating state.
1718
1719- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
1720
1721- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
1722 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
1723 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
1724
1725- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
1726 when the client lease expired.
1727
1728- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
1729 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
1730 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
1731 in testing.
1732
1733- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
1734 the command line, it would fail.
1735
1736- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
1737 user impact).
1738
1739- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
1740
1741- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
1742 they're executable.
1743
1744 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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1746- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
1747 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
1748 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
1749 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
1750
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1752 Transmeta.
1753
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1755 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
1756 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
1757 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
1758
1759- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
1760 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
1761
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1763
1764- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
1765 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
1766
1767- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
1768
1769- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
1770
1771- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
1772
1773- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
1774
1775- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
1776
1777- Update some parts of the README file.
1778
1779- Support GCC on SCO.
1780
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1782
1783- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
1784 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
1785
1786- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
1787 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
1788 unbill the old class.
1789
1790- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
1791 process the state transition immediately.
1792
1793- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
1794 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
1795
1796- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
1797
1798- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
1799
1800- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
1801
1802- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
1803
1804- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
1805 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
1806 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
1807
1808- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
1809 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
1810
1811- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
1812 lease file.
1813
1814- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
1815
1816- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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1819
1820- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
1821 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
1822
1823- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
1824
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1826
1827- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
1828
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1830
1831- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
1832
1833- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
1834 pl19.
1835
1836- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
1837 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
1838 past the regression test.
1839
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1841
1842- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
1843 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
1844
1845- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
1846 DHCPREQUEST.
1847
1848- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
1849
1850- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
1851
1852- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
1853
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1855
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1856- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
1857 (Damien Neil)
1858
1859- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
1860 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
1861
1862- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
1863 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
1864 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
1865
1866- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
1867 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
1868 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
1869 message.
1870
1871- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
1872 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
1873 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
1874
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1877 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
1878 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
1879 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
1880 this way will work.
1881
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1882- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
1883
1884- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
1885 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
1886 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
1887 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
1888
1889 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
1890
1891 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
1892
1893- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
1894 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
1895 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
1896
1897- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
1898 Hermann Lauer.
1899
1900- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
1901 messages.
1902
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1903- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
1904 it contained quoted strings.
1905
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1906 ** there was no pl17 **
1907
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1908 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 16
1909
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1910- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
1911 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
1912 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
1913 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
1914 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
1915 tracking down memory leaks.
1916
1917- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
1918 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
1919 Solaris.
1920
1921- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
1922 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
1923 corruption and core dumps.
1924
1925- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
1926 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
1927
1928- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
1929
1930- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
1931 and implemented by Damien Neil.
1932
1933- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
1934 name and version to standard output.
1935
1936- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
1937
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1938- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
1939 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
1940
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1941- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
1942
1943- Lots of documentation updates.
1944
1945- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
1946 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
1947
1948- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
1949
1950- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
1951 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
1952
1953
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1955
1956- Some documentation tweaks.
1957
1958- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
1959
1960- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
1961
1962- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
1963 agent options into them.
1964
1965- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
1966
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1967- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
1968 options.
1969
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1970 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 14
1971
1972- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
1973 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
1974 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
1975 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
1976 used in class statements to control address allocation.
1977
1978- Fix up documentation.
1979
1980- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
1981 significantly in a high-demand situation.
1982
1983- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
1984
1985- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
1986
1987- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
1988 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
1989 practical use otherwise.
1990
1991- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
1992 for debugging.
1993
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1994 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 13
1995
1996- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
1997 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
1998 dump on some systems.
1999
2000- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
2001 option.
2002
2003- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
2004 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
2005
2006- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
2007 that were not printing enough information.
2008
2009- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
2010 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
2011
2012- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
2013 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
2014 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
2015 were answering.
2016
2017- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
2018 the transition.
2019
2020
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2021 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 12
2022
2023- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
2024
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2025 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
2026
2027- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
2028 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
2029 representation from working correctly.
2030
2031- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
2032 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
2033 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
2034 could spin.
2035
2036- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
2037 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
2038
2039- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
2040 interface name on the command line.
2041
2042- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
2043 client state.
2044
2045- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
2046 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
2047 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
2048 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
2049 added by Ted Lemon.
2050
2051- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
2052 be made to log debugging information and other information.
2053
2054- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
2055 end option.
2056
2057- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
2058 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
2059 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
2060
2061- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
2062 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
2063 face of a null hardware address on input.
2064
2065- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
2066 specified unqualified.
2067
2068- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
2069 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
2070
2071- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
2072 RFC.
2073
2074- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
2075
2076- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
2077
2078- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
2079 it works.
2080
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2082
2083- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
2084 to CVS.
2085
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2086 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
2087
2088- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
2089
2090- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
2091 in patchlevel 9.
2092
2093- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
2094 options at renewal time.
2095
2096- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
2097 configuration language.
2098
2099- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
2100
2101- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
2102 done when no client hostname was received.
2103
2104- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
2105
2106- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
2107 the DHCP option space.
2108
2109- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
2110
2111- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
2112 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
2113
2114- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
2115 silently dropped.
2116
2117- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
2118 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
2119
2120- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
2121 will be correctly updated.
2122
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2123 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
2124
2125- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
2126 bounds-checking.
2127
2128 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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2130- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
2131
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2134- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
2135 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
2136 possible to exploit it any further than that.
2137
2138- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
2139 option.
2140
2141- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
2142 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
2143 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
2144 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
2145 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
2146 meaningfully.
2147
2148- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
2149 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
2150 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
2151
2152- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
2153 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
2154 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
2155 this one down!
2156
2157- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
2158 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
2159 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
2160 down and fixing this problem.
2161
2162 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
2163
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2164- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
2165 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
2166
2167- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
2168 environment.
2169
2170- Fix suffix operator.
2171
2172- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
2173
2174- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
2175 connection code.
2176
2177- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
2178
2179- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
2180
2181- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
2182 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
2183
2184- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
2185
2186- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
2187
2188- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
2189 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
2190
2191- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
2192 spawn with.
2193
2194- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
2195 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
2196
2197- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
2198 for OMAPI.
2199
2200- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
2201 can install in host declarations.
2202
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2204
2205- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
2206 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
2207 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
2208 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
2209 comments)!
2210
2211- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
2212
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2213- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
2214 request for help on this with patches!
2215
2216- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
2217 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
2218 lost, they never reconnect.
2219
2220- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
2221 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
2222
2223- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
2224 dump.
2225
2226- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
2227 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
2228 catching this one.
2229
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2231
2232- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
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2235
2236- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
2237 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
2238 declared without a key.
2239
2240- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
2241
2242- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
2243 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
2244
2245- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
2246 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
2247 determine the maximum size of the response.
2248
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2250
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2251- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
2252 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
2253
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2254- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
2255 RENEWING client.
2256
2257- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
2258
2259- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
2260 using memcmp().
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2263
2264- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
2265 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
2266 pointing this out.
2267
2268- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
2269 exit.
2270
2271- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
2272
2273- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
2274 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.