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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
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2 Version 4.2.0
3 21 December 2012
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0171be2d 5 Release Notes
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0171be2d 7 NEW FEATURES
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9ISC DHCP 4.2.x includes features that were not included in DHCP 4.1.x.
10These include:
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12There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
13release, which will be addressed in the future:
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01a54c17 15- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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17- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages, in
18 English. A method to reconfigure or support other languages would
19 be preferrable.
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20
21- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
22
98bd7ca0 23- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 24 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 25 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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27For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as
28well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the
29README file.
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31ISC DHCP uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please review the
32output of "./configure --help" to see what options are available.
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34The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and may not
35work on other platforms. Please report any problems and suggested fixes to
36<dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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39 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
40
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41- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
42 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 43 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
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45- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
46 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
47 Cantrell at Red Hat.
48
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49- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
50 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
51
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52- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
53
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54- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
55 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
56 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
57 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
58 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
59 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
60
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61 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
62
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63- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
64
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65- Validate the argument to the -p option.
66
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67- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
68 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
69 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
70 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
71 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
72
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73- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
74
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75- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
76 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
77 had been deleted from configuration.
78
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79- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
80 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
81 AC_USE_SYSTME_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
82 were being ignored.
83
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84- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
85
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86- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
87 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
88 Nordahl.
89
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90- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
91 dhcpv6 disabled.
92
8d7dca58 93- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 94 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
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96- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
97 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
98
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99- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
100 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
101 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
102
103- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
104 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
105 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
106 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
107 fewer system calls.
108
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109- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
110 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
111 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
112 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
113 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
114 Christof Chen.
115
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116- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
117 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
118 and in normal state.
119
120- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
121 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
122
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123- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
124
125- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
126 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
127 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
128
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129- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
130 rather than restarting the listener.
131
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132- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
133 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
134
135- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
136 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
137 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
138
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139- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
140 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
141 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
142 timeouts).
143
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144- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
145 in failover state records.
146
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147! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
148 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
149 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
150 option.
151
adbef119 152 Changes since 4.1.0b1
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154- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
155 be recognized.
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157 Changes since 4.1.0a2
158
159- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
160 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
161 "abandoned".
162
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163- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
164
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165- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
166 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
167
168- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
169 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
170
171- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 172 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
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174- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
175
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176- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
177 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
178 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
179 in future releases.
180
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181- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
182 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
183
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184- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
185 'dhclient -6' support.
186
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187- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
188 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
189 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
190 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
191
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193
194- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
195
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196- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
197
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198- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
199 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
200 only the latter. Fixed.
201
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202- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
203
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204- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
205 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
206
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207- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
208
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209- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
210
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211- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
212 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
213 --enable-early-chroot.
214
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215- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
216 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
217
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218- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
219 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
220 parameter.
221
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222- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
223 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
224
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225- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
226 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
227
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228- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
229
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230- Merged IA_XX related structures.
231
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232- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
233
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234- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
235
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236- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
237 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
238 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
239
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240- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
241 support.
242
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243- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
244 repaired.
245
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246- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
247
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248- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
249
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250- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
251 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
252
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253- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
254 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
255
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256- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
257 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
258
259- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
260 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
261 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
262 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
263 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
264 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
265 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
266 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
267 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
268 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
269 shared-network.
270
271- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
272 configured option values.
273
274- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
275 support class statements.
276
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277- Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
278 selection were repaired.
279
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280- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
281 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
282 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
283 by the OS.
284
285- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
286 address.
287
288- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
289 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
290
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291- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
292
293- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
294
295- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
296 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
297
01a54c17 298 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
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300- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
301
4cafb815 302- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 303 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
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305- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
306 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
307 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
308
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309- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
310 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
311
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312- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
313
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314- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
315 reserved IDs avoided).
316
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317- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
318
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319- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
320 carries a rapid-commit option.
321
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322- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
323 an empty active lease.
324
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325- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
326
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327- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
328 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
329 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
330 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
331
332- MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
333
334- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
335 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
336 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
337 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
338 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
339 Christof Chen.
340
341 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
342
343- DHCP now builds on AIX.
344
345- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
346 config file but -6 is not specified.
347
348- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
349
350- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
351 be more helpful.
352
353- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
354 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
355 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
356
357- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
358 was repaired.
359
360- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
361 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
362 been repaired.
363
364- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
365 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
366 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
367
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368- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
369 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
370
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371- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
372 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
373 IPv4 address.
374
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375- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
376 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
377 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
378 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
379 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
380
381- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
382 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
383 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
384
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385- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
386
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387- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
388
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389- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
390 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
391 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
392 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
393 unnecessary logging.
394
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395- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
396 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
397
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398- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
399 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
400 is incompatible is printed.
401
402- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
403 a previously undefined option code.
404
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405- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
406 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
407
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408- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
409 than the year 2000.
410
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411- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
412
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413- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
414
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415- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
416
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417 Changes since 4.0.0b3
418
419- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
420 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
421 configuration.
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423- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
424 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
425
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426- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
427 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
428 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
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430- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
431 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
432 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
433 a requested address.
434
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435- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
436 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
437 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
438 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
439
440- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
441 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
442 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
443 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
444
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445- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
446 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
447 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
448
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449- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
450 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
451
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452- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
453
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454- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
455 codes through some conditions.
456
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457- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
458 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
459
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460- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
461 seemingly random values.
462
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463- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
464
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465- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
466 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
467 one ever has.
468
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469- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
470 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
471 to a REQUEST.
472
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473- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
474 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
475 level.
476
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477 Changes since 4.0.0b2
478
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479- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
480
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481- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
482 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
483 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
484 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
485 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
486
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487- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
488 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
489 new address.
490
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491 Changes since 4.0.0b1
492
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493- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
494 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
495 simultaneously on a single interface.
496
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497- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
498 of service under unusual server configurations
499
500- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
501
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502- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
503 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
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505- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
506 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
507 on every pool rebalance run.
508
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509- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
510 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
511
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512- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
513 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
514
ab3a540f 515 Changes since 4.0.0a3
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517- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
518 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
519
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520- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
521 point out the problem.
522
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523- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
524 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
525 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
526
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527- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
528 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
529
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530- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
531 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
532 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
533
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534- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
535
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536- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
537 fixed by Marcus Goller.
538
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539- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
540 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
541 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
542 regardless of the existence of bindings.
543
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544- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
545
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546- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
547 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
548 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
549 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
550 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
551
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552- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
553
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554 Changes since 4.0.0a2
555
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556- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
557 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
558
763cba6b 559- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
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561- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
562 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
563 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
564
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565- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
566
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567- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
568 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
569
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570- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
571 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
572 loaded from persistent storage.
573
45d545f0 574- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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575 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
576 necessary.
577
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578- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
579 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
580 rapid-commit option.
581
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582- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
583 non-128-bits in length were removed.
584
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585 Changes since 4.0.0a1
586
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587- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
588 and fix.
589
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590- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
591
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592- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
593
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594- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
595 for when loading configuration.
596
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597- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
598 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
599 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
600
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601- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
602 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
603 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
604 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
605
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606- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
607
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608- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
609 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
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611- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
612
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613- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
614
615- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
616 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
617
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618- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
619 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
620
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621- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
622
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623- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
624 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
625
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626 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
627
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628- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
629
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630- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
631 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
632
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633- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
634
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635- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
636 initialized.
637
638- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
639
640- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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641 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
642
643- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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645- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
646
647- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
648 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
649
650- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
651
8ea19a71 652- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 653 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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654
655- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
656 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
657
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658- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
659
660- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
661
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662- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
663
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664 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
665
666- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
667 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
668 no support currently for both.
669
670- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
671 IAADDR option.
672
673- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
674 options.
675
676- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
677
678- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
679 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
680
681- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
682 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
683 specifying type 1 or type 2).
684
685- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
686 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
687
688- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
689 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
690 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
691 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
692 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
693 differently, they both use the same code here).
694
695- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
696 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
697 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
698
699- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
700
701- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
702 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
703 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
704 it should not intercept.
705
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706 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
707
708- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
709 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
710 between primary and secondary.
711
712- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
713 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
714 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
715
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716- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
717
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718- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
719 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
720 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
721 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
722 or REQUEST messages.
723
724- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
725 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
726
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727- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
728
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729 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
730
731- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
732 failover protected subnets was removed.
733
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734 Changes since 3.1.0b2
735
736- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
737 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
738 odd number of leases).
739
740- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
741 rebalance run, and one after.
742
743- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
744 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
745 processing these messages.
746
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749- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
750 objects.
751
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752- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
753 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
754 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
755 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
756 at Allianz.
757
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758- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
759 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
760
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761- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
762 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
763
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764- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
765 caused the server to abort.
766
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767- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
768 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
769 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
770
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771- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
772 by empty spaces would not get included.
773
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774- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
775 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
776
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777- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
778 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
779
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780- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
781 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
782
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783- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
784 on the parameter request list.
785
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786 Changes since 3.1.0a3
787
788- Some spelling fixes.
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790 Changes since 3.1.0a2
791
792- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
793 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
794
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795- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
796 domain-search option syntax.
797
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798 Changes since 3.1.0a1
799
800- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
801 hash table was repaired.
802
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803- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
804 entering normal state.
805
806- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
807 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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808 'xid mismatch' log messages.
809
810- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
811 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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813- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
814 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
815 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
816 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
817
45d545f0 818- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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819 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
820 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
821 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
822 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
823 to their needs.
824
825- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
826 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
827 run will attempt balance.
828
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829- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
830
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831 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
832
833- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
834 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
835 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
836 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
837
98bd7ca0 838- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 839 was introduced.
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840
841- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
842 via OMAPI.
843
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844- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
845 the protocol draft.
846
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847- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
848 one does not already exist on the system.
849
b43c87ad 850- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 851
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852- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
853 matches RFC 3074.
854
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855- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
856 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 857 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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859- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
860 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 861 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
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863- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
864 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
865 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
866 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
867
868- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
869 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
870 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
871 priority over the client's parameter request list.
872
f7fdb216 873- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 874 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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875 DHCPv6 support.
876
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877- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
878 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
879 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
880
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881- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
882 have been incorporated.
883
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884- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
885 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
886 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
887 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
888 that belong to the peer in need.
889
890- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
891 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
892
893- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
894 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
895 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
896
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897- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
898 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
899
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900- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
901 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
902 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
903 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
904 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
905
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906- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
907 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
908 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
909 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
910
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911- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
912 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
913 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
914 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
915 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
916 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
917 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
918 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
919 ignoring this aspect of their request.
920
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921- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
922 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
923
41e45067 924- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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925 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
926 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
927 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
928
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929- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
930 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
931 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
932 hardware and funding the development.
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934- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
935 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
936 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
937 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
938 via Robin Breathe.
939
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940- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
941 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
942 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
943 from Christof Chen.
944
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945- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
946 formally supported.
947
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948 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
949
950- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
951 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
952
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953 Changes since 3.0.5
954
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955- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
956 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
957 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 958 they actually received.
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959
960- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
961
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962- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
963 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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964 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
965 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
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967- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
968
d69fb6a8 969- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 970 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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972- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
973 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
974 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
975 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
976 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
977 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
978 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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979 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
980
981- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
982 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
983 'file' field.
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985- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
986 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
987
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988- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
989 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
990 a patch from Kevin Steves.
991
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992- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
993 from Chris Wagner.
994
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995- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
996 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
997 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
998
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999- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
1000 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
1001 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
1002 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
1003 was set.
1004
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1005- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
1006 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
1007
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1008- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
1009 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
1010 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
1011 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
1012 active ones.
1013
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901306d5 1016- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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1017 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
1018 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
1019 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
1020 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
1021
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1022- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
1023 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
1024
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1025 Changes since 3.0.4
1026
1027- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
1028 scopes are actually global has been added.
1029
1030- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
1031 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
1032 known to be damaging.
1033
1034- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
1035 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
1036 balancing).
1037
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1038- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
1039 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
1040 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
1041
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1042- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
1043 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
1044 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
1045
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1046- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
1047 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
1048 more clear now.
1049
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1050- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
1051 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
1052 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
1053 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
1054 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 1055 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
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1057- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
1058 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
1059
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1060- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
1061 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
1062 made possible.
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1064- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
1065 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
1066 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
1067
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1068- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
1069 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
1070
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1071- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
1072 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
1073 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
1074
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1075- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
1076 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
1077 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
1078 value with the later configured value).
1079
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1080- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
1081 have been named and documented.
1082
1083- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
1084 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
1085 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
1086 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
1087 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
1088 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
1089 write new output.
1090
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1091 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
1092
1093- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
1094 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
1095
1096 Changes since 3.0.4b3
1097
1098- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
1099 mailing list.
1100
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1101 Changes since 3.0.4b2
1102
45d545f0 1103- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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1104 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
1105
1106- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
1107 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
1108
1109- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
1110 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
1111 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
1112 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
1113
1114- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
1115 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
1116 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
1117 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
1118 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
1119 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
1120 transition (properly).
1121
1122- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
1123
1124 Changes since 3.0.4b1
1125
1126- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
1127 STDIN after reading one line.
1128
1129- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
1130 descriptor it opened twice.
1131
1132- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
1133 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
1134 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
1135
1136 Changes since 3.0.3
1137
1138- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
1139 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
1140 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
1141
1142- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
1143 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
1144 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
1145
1146- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
1147 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 1148 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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1149 leases to allocate.
1150
1151- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 1152 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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1153 than the entire block of them.
1154
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1155! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
1156 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
1157 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
1158 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
1159 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
1160 to a patch from infamous42md.
1161
1162! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
1163 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
1164 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
1165 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
1166 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
1167 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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1168
1169- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
1170 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
1171 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
1172
1173- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 1174 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1175
1176- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
1177 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
1178 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
1179 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
1180 transitional states.
1181
1182- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
1183 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
1184 once it detects the old db does not exist.
1185
1186- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
1187 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
1188 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
1189
1190- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 1191 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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1192
1193- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
1194 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
1195
1196- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
1197 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
1198 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
1199
1200- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
1201 patch from 'infamous42md'.
1202
1203- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
1204 repaired.
1205
1206- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
1207 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
1208 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
1209 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
1210
1211- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
1212 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
1213 data.
1214
1215- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
1216 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
1217 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
1218 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
1219 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
1220
1221- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
1222 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
1223 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
1224 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
1225 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
1226
1227- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
1228 has been repaired.
1229
1230- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
1231 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
1232 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
1233 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 1234 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1235
1236- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 1237 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
88cd8aca 1238
45d545f0 1239- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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1240 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
1241 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
1242 move to 3.[01].x.
1243
1244- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
1245 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
1246
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1247 Changes since 3.0.3b3
1248
1249- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
1250 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
1251
1252- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
1253 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
1254 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
1255 workaround.
1256
1257 Changes since 3.0.3b2
1258
1259- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
1260 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
1261
1262 Changes since 3.0.3b1
1263
1264- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
1265 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
1266 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
1267
1268- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
1269 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
1270 dynamic updates were also retouched.
1271
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1272 Changes since 3.0.2
1273
1274- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 1275 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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1276 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
1277
1278- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
1279 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
1280 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
1281 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
1282 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
1283
1284- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
1285 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 1286 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1287
1288- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
1289 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 1290 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1291
1292- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
1293 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
1294 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
1295 Peter Poeml.
1296
1297- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
1298 Dr. Peter Poeml.
1299
1300- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
1301 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
1302 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
1303 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
1304 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
1305 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
1306
1307- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
1308 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
1309 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
1310 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
1311
1312- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
1313 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
1314 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
1315 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
1316
1317- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
1318 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
1319
1320- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
1321 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
1322 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
1323
1324- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
1325 7 bytes, and failover.
1326
1327- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
1328 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 1329 at Red Hat.
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1330
1331- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
1332 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
1333 should work better.
1334
1335- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
1336 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
1337 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
1338
1339- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
1340 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
1341 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
1342
1343 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
1344
1345- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
1346 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
1347
1348 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
1349
45d545f0 1350- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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1351 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
1352 overloading. This was repaired.
1353
1354- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
1355 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
1356 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
1357 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
1358 three chunks to fit.
1359
1360- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
1361 were repaired.
1362
1363- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
1364 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
1365 leak).
1366
1367 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
1368
1369- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
1370 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
1371
1372 Changes since 3.0.2b1
1373
1374- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
1375
1376 Changes since 3.0.1
1377
1378- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
1379 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
1380 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
1381
1382- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
1383 name was not provided by the server.
1384
1385- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
1386 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
1387
1388- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
1389 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
1390
1391- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
1392 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
1393
1394- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
1395
1396- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
1397
1398- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
1399 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
1400 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
1401 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
1402 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
1403
1404- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
1405 the configuration be globally scoped.
1406
1407- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
1408 Farkas.
1409
1410- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
1411 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1412
1413- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
1414 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
1415
1416- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
1417 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
1418
1419- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
1420 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
1421 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
1422 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
1423
1424- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
1425 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
1426 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
1427 respond to POOLREQ messages.
1428
1429- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
1430 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
1431 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
1432
1433- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
1434
1435- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
1436 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
1437 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
1438
1439- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
1440 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
1441 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
1442 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
1443 Fjone and directconnect.no.
1444
1445- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
1446 to Andreas Gustafsson.
1447
1448- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
1449 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
1450
1451- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
1452 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
1453 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
1454 DISCOVER timeout handling.
1455
1456- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
1457 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
1458
1459- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
1460 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
1461 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
1462
1463- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
1464 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
1465 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
1466 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
1467 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
1468 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
1469
1470- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
1471 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
1472 Infoblox.
1473
1474- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
1475
1476- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
1477 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
1478 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
1479 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
1480 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
1481 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
1482 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
1483
1484- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
1485 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
1486 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
1487
1488- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
1489 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
1490 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
1491
1492- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
1493
1494 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
1495
1496- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
1497 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
1498 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
1499 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
1500 systems either.
1501
1502- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
1503
1504- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
1505 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
1506 is false.
1507
1508- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
1509 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
1510
1511- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
1512
1513 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
1514
1515! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
1516 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
1517 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
1518 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
1519 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
1520 both finding and solving the problem.
1521
1522! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
45d545f0 1523 in log_*() functions was evidenced, on some specific platforms where
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1524 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
1525 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
1526 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
1527 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
1528 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
1529 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
1530 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
1531 published version of ISC DHCP.
1532
1533- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
1534
1535- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
1536
1537 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
1538
1539- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
1540 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
1541 Richard Hirst.
1542
1543- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
1544 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
1545 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
1546
1547- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
1548
1549- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
1550 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
1551 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
1552 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
1553
1554- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 1555 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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1556
1557- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
1558 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
1559
1560- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
1561
1562 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
1563
1564- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
1565 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
1566
1567- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
1568 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
1569 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
1570
1571- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
1572 by name was fixed.
1573
45d545f0 1574- Declaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
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1575 longer result in error.
1576
1577- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
1578
1579- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
1580 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
1581 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
1582
1583- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
1584 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
1585
1586- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
1587 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
1588 Blapp.
1589
1590- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
1591 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
1592 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
1593 Martin Blapp.
1594
1595- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
1596 expiry times in failover configurations.
1597
1598- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
1599 Steve G.
1600
1601- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
1602 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
1603
1604- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
1605 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
1606 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
1607 now "unknown-144".
1608
1609- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
1610 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
1611
1612 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
1613
1614- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
1615
1616- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
1617 not be bash.
1618
1619- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1620
1621- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
1622 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
1623 that errored before will now work properly.
1624
1625- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
1626 names was repaired.
1627
1628- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
1629 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
1630 configuration file.
1631
1632- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
1633 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1634
1635- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
1636 error rather than a null dereference.
1637
1638 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
1639
1640- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
1641
1642- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
1643
1644- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
1645 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
1646
1647- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
1648
1649- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
1650
1651- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
1652 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
1653 self-corrupting lease databases.
1654
1655- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
1656
1657- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
1658 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
1659
1660- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
1661
1662- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
1663
1664- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
1665 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
1666 Ling Gou.
1667
1668- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
1669 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1670
1671- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
1672 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
1673 Ted Lemon for the patch.
1674
1675- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
1676 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
1677
1678 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
1679
1680- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
1681 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
1682
1683- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
1684
1685- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
1686 a memory leak.
1687
1688- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
1689 script.
1690
1691- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
1692
1693- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
1694
1695- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
1696
1697- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
1698
1699- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
1700
1701- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
1702
1703- Increment the hop count when relaying.
1704
1705- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
1706
1707- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
1708
1709- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
1710
1711- Change the type of rbuf_max.
1712
1713- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
1714
1715 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
1716
1717- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
1718 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
1719 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
1720
1721 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
1722
1723- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
1724 to be renewed.
1725
1726- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
1727 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
1728
1729- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
1730 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
1731
1732- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
1733 that two permit lists matched.
1734
1735- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
1736 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
1737
1738- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
1739
1740- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
1741 requested it, contrary to the standard.
1742
1743- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
1744
1745- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
1746
1747- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
1748 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
1749 going to update its A record.
1750
1751- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
1752 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
1753 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
1754 DNS server.
1755
1756- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
1757
1758- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
1759
1760- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
1761 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
1762 NetBSD project).
1763
1764- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
1765 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
1766
1767- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
1768 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
1769
1770- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
1771
1772- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
1773
1774- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
1775 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
1776 failover protocol standard.
1777
1778- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
1779 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
1780 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
1781
1782- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
1783 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
1784 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
1785 do so.
1786
1787- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
1788
1789 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
1790
1791- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
1792
1793- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
1794 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
1795
1796- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
1797 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
1798
1799- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
1800 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
1801 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
1802
1803- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
1804 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
1805 network, merge the two pools.
1806
1807- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
1808 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
1809 fix this bug.
1810
1811 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
1812
1813- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
1814 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
1815
1816- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
1817 the same case.
1818
1819- Additional documentation.
1820
1821- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
1822 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
1823
1824 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
1825
1826- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
1827- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
1828
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1830
1831- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
1832 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
1833 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
1834 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
1835 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
1836
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1838
1839- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
1840 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
1841 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
1842 wasn't the one that removed it.
1843
1844- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
1845 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
1846 were not configured.
1847
1848- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
1849
1850- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
1851 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
1852 routing information.
1853
1854- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
1855 request being sent.
1856
1857- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
1858 done.
1859
1860- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
1861 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
1862 were pending.
1863
1864- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
1865 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
1866 problems with failover.
1867
1868- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
1869 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
1870 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
1871
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1873
1874- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
1875 smash in the subclass allocation code.
1876
1877- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
1878 no object is open, it dumps core.
1879
1880- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
1881
1882- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
1883
1884- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
1885
1886- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
1887 a host object attribute with a null value.
1888
1889 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
1890
1891- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
1892
1893- Fix an obscure core dump.
1894
1895- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
1896 when crucial information is left out.
1897
1898- Log "no free leases" as an error.
1899
1900- Documentation updates.
1901
1902 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
1903
1904- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
1905
1906- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
1907 structure wasn't zeroed.
1908
1909- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
1910 incorrectly.
1911
1912- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
1913 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
1914 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
1915 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
1916 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
1917 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
1918 restarted.
1919
1920 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
1921
1922- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
1923 in failover-enabled pools.
1924
1925- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
1926 declarations).
1927
1928- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
1929 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
1930
1931- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
1932 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
1933
1934- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
1935
1936- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
1937 defined but not referenced by any pools.
1938
1939- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
1940
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1942
1943- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
1944
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1946
1947- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
1948
1949- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
1950
1951- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
1952
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1954
1955- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
1956 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
1957 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
1958
1959- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
1960 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
1961 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
1962 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
1963 string.
1964
1965- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
1966
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1968
1969- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
1970 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
1971
1972- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
1973 malformed packets.
1974
1975- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
1976
1977- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
1978 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
1979 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
1980
1981- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
1982
1983- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
1984
1985- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
1986
1987- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
1988 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
1989
1990- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
1991 tcp connections from being played back.
1992
1993- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
1994 on exit.
1995
1996- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
1997
1998- Add some configurability to the build system.
1999
2000- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
2001
2002- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
2003 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
2004 hadn't been noticed until now.
2005
2006 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
2007
2008- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
2009 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
2010
2011- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
2012 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
2013 conformant, but also didn't work).
2014
2015- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
2016 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
2017
2018- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
2019 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
2020
2021- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
2022 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
2023
2024- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
2025 variables to leases via OMAPI.
2026
2027- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
2028 doing failover.
2029
2030- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
2031 running on alpha processors.
2032
2033- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
2034 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
2035
2036- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
2037
2038- Install omshell (including new documentation).
2039
2040- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
2041 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
2042
2043- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
2044
2045- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
2046 actually named (key names are domain names).
2047
2048- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
2049
2050- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
2051 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
2052
2053- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
2054 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
2055
2056- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
2057 statements.
2058
2059- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
2060 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
2061
2062- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
2063 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
2064 operating.
2065
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2067
2068- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
2069 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
2070 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
2071 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
2072
2073- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
2074 using omapi to manipulate leases.
2075
2076- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
2077
2078
2079 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
2080
2081- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
2082 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
2083
2084- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
2085 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
2086 to the chain.
2087
2088- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
2089
2090- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
2091
2092- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
2093
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2095 attribute values in omshell.
2096
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2098
2099- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
2100
2101 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
2102
2103- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
2104 DHCPDECLINE.
2105
2106- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
2107
2108- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
2109 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
2110 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
2111
2112- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
2113
2114- Documentation fixes.
2115
2116- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
2117 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
2118
2119- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
2120 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
2121
2122- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
2123
2124- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
2125
2126- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
2127 case-insensitive.
2128
2129- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
2130
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2133 consistently.
2134
2135- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
2136 systems with the probe not working correctly.
2137
2138- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
2139
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2141
2142- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
2143 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
2144 result of duplicate leases.
2145
2146- Document OMAPI server objects.
2147
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2149
2150- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
2151 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
2152
2153- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
2154 core dumps.
2155
2156- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
2157 Friedrich.
2158
2159- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
2160
2161 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
2162
2163- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
2164 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
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2167
2168- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
2169 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
2170
2171- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
2172 trace file.
2173
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2176- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
2177 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
2178 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
2179 e.g., Digital Unix.
2180
2181- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
2182 when no error had occurred.
2183
2184- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
2185 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
2186 non-communicating state.
2187
2188- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
2189
2190- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
2191 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
2192 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
2193
2194- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
2195 when the client lease expired.
2196
2197- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
2198 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
2199 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
2200 in testing.
2201
2202- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
2203 the command line, it would fail.
2204
2205- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
2206 user impact).
2207
2208- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
2209
2210- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
2211 they're executable.
2212
2213 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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2215- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
2216 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
2217 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
2218 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
2219
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2221 Transmeta.
2222
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2223- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
2224 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
2225 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
2226 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
2227
2228- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
2229 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
2230
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2232
2233- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
2234 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
2235
2236- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
2237
2238- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
2239
2240- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
2241
2242- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
2243
2244- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
2245
2246- Update some parts of the README file.
2247
2248- Support GCC on SCO.
2249
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2251
2252- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
2253 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
2254
2255- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
2256 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
2257 unbill the old class.
2258
2259- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
2260 process the state transition immediately.
2261
2262- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
2263 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
2264
2265- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
2266
2267- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
2268
2269- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
2270
2271- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
2272
2273- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
2274 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
2275 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
2276
2277- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
2278 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
2279
2280- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
2281 lease file.
2282
2283- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
2284
2285- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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2289- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
2290 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
2291
2292- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
2293
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2296- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
2297
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2299
2300- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
2301
2302- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
2303 pl19.
2304
2305- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
2306 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
2307 past the regression test.
2308
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2310
2311- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
2312 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
2313
2314- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
2315 DHCPREQUEST.
2316
2317- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
2318
2319- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
2320
2321- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
2322
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2325- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
2326 (Damien Neil)
2327
2328- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
2329 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
2330
2331- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
2332 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
2333 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
2334
2335- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
2336 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
2337 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
2338 message.
2339
2340- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
2341 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
2342 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
2343
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2346 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
2347 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
2348 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
2349 this way will work.
2350
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2352
2353- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
2354 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
2355 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
2356 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
2357
2358 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
2359
2360 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
2361
2362- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
2363 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
2364 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
2365
2366- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
2367 Hermann Lauer.
2368
2369- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
2370 messages.
2371
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2372- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
2373 it contained quoted strings.
2374
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2375 ** there was no pl17 **
2376
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2379- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
2380 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
2381 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
2382 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
2383 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
2384 tracking down memory leaks.
2385
2386- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
2387 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
2388 Solaris.
2389
2390- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
2391 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
2392 corruption and core dumps.
2393
2394- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
2395 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
2396
2397- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
2398
2399- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
2400 and implemented by Damien Neil.
2401
2402- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
2403 name and version to standard output.
2404
2405- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
2406
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2407- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
2408 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
2409
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2410- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
2411
2412- Lots of documentation updates.
2413
2414- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
2415 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
2416
2417- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
2418
2419- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
2420 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
2421
2422
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2424
2425- Some documentation tweaks.
2426
2427- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
2428
2429- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
2430
2431- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
2432 agent options into them.
2433
2434- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
2435
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2436- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
2437 options.
2438
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2440
2441- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
2442 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
2443 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
2444 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
2445 used in class statements to control address allocation.
2446
2447- Fix up documentation.
2448
2449- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
2450 significantly in a high-demand situation.
2451
2452- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
2453
2454- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
2455
2456- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
2457 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
2458 practical use otherwise.
2459
2460- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
2461 for debugging.
2462
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2464
2465- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
2466 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
2467 dump on some systems.
2468
2469- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
2470 option.
2471
2472- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
2473 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
2474
2475- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
2476 that were not printing enough information.
2477
2478- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
2479 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
2480
2481- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
2482 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
2483 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
2484 were answering.
2485
2486- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
2487 the transition.
2488
2489
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2491
2492- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
2493
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2495
2496- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
2497 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
2498 representation from working correctly.
2499
2500- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
2501 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
2502 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
2503 could spin.
2504
2505- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
2506 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
2507
2508- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
2509 interface name on the command line.
2510
2511- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
2512 client state.
2513
2514- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
2515 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
2516 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
2517 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
2518 added by Ted Lemon.
2519
2520- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
2521 be made to log debugging information and other information.
2522
2523- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
2524 end option.
2525
2526- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
2527 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
2528 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
2529
2530- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
2531 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
2532 face of a null hardware address on input.
2533
2534- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
2535 specified unqualified.
2536
2537- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
2538 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
2539
2540- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
2541 RFC.
2542
2543- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
2544
2545- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
2546
2547- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
2548 it works.
2549
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2551
2552- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
2553 to CVS.
2554
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2555 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
2556
2557- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
2558
2559- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
2560 in patchlevel 9.
2561
2562- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
2563 options at renewal time.
2564
2565- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
2566 configuration language.
2567
2568- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
2569
2570- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
2571 done when no client hostname was received.
2572
2573- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
2574
2575- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
2576 the DHCP option space.
2577
2578- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
2579
2580- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
2581 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
2582
2583- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
2584 silently dropped.
2585
2586- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
2587 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
2588
2589- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
2590 will be correctly updated.
2591
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2593
2594- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
2595 bounds-checking.
2596
2597 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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2598
2599- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
2600
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2603- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
2604 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
2605 possible to exploit it any further than that.
2606
2607- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
2608 option.
2609
2610- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
2611 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
2612 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
2613 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
2614 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
2615 meaningfully.
2616
2617- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
2618 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
2619 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
2620
2621- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
2622 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
2623 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
2624 this one down!
2625
2626- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
2627 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
2628 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
2629 down and fixing this problem.
2630
2631 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
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2633- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
2634 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
2635
2636- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
2637 environment.
2638
2639- Fix suffix operator.
2640
2641- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
2642
2643- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
2644 connection code.
2645
2646- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
2647
2648- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
2649
2650- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
2651 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
2652
2653- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
2654
2655- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
2656
2657- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
2658 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
2659
2660- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
2661 spawn with.
2662
2663- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
2664 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
2665
2666- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
2667 for OMAPI.
2668
2669- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
2670 can install in host declarations.
2671
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2673
2674- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
2675 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
2676 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
2677 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
2678 comments)!
2679
2680- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
2681
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2682- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
2683 request for help on this with patches!
2684
2685- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
2686 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
2687 lost, they never reconnect.
2688
2689- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
2690 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
2691
2692- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
2693 dump.
2694
2695- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
2696 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
2697 catching this one.
2698
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2701- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
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2704
2705- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
2706 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
2707 declared without a key.
2708
2709- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
2710
2711- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
2712 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
2713
2714- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
2715 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
2716 determine the maximum size of the response.
2717
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2719
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2720- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
2721 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
2722
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2723- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
2724 RENEWING client.
2725
2726- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
2727
2728- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
2729 using memcmp().
2730
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2732
2733- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
2734 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
2735 pointing this out.
2736
2737- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
2738 exit.
2739
2740- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
2741
2742- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
2743 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.