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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
c76a506e 2 Version 4.0.0rc1
b947f983 3 December 10, 2007
72c7bd79 4
98311e4b 5 Release Notes
72c7bd79 6
da411127 7 NEW FEATURES
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9The DHCP server in version 4.0.x of the ISC DHCP Distribution supports
10DHCPv6 in addition to DHCP for IPv4.
11
12Several new options have been added to the dhcpd executable, which are
13documented in the man page. Several changes have been made to the
14configuration file as well, which are also documented in the man
15pages.
16
45d545f0 17There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
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18release, which will be addressed shortly:
19
99fe695e 20- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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22- There is no DHCPv6 Relay Agent implementation. There are only DHCPv6
23 Server and Client implementations.
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39725d92 25- Only a single address is supported per IA.
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26
27- IA_TA addresses are not supported.
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98bd7ca0 29- IA_PD prefixes are not supported.
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31- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages. These
32 should be configurable, and probably localized via gettext() or the
33 like.
34
35- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
36
37- Dynamically allocated leases do not respond to Confirm messages.
38
98bd7ca0 39- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 40 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 41 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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43For information on how to install, configure and run this software,
44as well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult
45the README file.
46
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47ISC DHCP now uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please
48review the output of "./configure --help" to see what options are
49available.
50
51The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and
52may not work on other platforms. Please report any problems and
53suggested fixes to <dhcp-users@isc.org>.
98bd7ca0 54
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1dcc3612 56 Changes since 4.0.0
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58- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
59 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
60 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
61
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62- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
63 be more helpful.
64
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65- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
66 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
67 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
68
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69- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
70 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
71
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72- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
73 was repaired.
74
75- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
76 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
77 been repaired.
78
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79- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
80
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81- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
82 reserved IDs avoided).
83
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84- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
85
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86- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
87 carries a rapid-commit option.
88
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89- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
90 an empty active lease.
91
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92- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
93
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94- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
95 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
96
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97 Changes since 4.0.0b3
98
99- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
100 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
101 configuration.
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103- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
104 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
105
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106- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
107 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
108 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
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110- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
111 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
112 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
113 a requested address.
114
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115- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
116 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
117 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
118 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
119
120- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
121 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
122 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
123 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
124
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125- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
126 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
127 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
128
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129- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
130 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
131
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132- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
133
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134- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
135 codes through some conditions.
136
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137- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
138 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
139
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140- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
141 seemingly random values.
142
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143- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
144
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145- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
146 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
147 one ever has.
148
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149- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
150 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
151 to a REQUEST.
152
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153- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
154 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
155 level.
156
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157 Changes since 4.0.0b2
158
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159- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
160
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161- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
162 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
163 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
164 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
165 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
166
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167- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
168 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
169 new address.
170
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171 Changes since 4.0.0b1
172
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173- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
174 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
175 simultaneously on a single interface.
176
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177- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
178 of service under unusual server configurations
179
180- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
181
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182- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
183 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
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185- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
186 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
187 on every pool rebalance run.
188
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189- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
190 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
191
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192- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
193 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
194
ab3a540f 195 Changes since 4.0.0a3
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197- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
198 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
199
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200- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
201 point out the problem.
202
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203- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
204 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
205 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
206
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207- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
208 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
209
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210- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
211 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
212 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
213
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214- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
215
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216- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
217 fixed by Marcus Goller.
218
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219- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
220 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
221 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
222 regardless of the existence of bindings.
223
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224- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
225
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226- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
227 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
228 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
229 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
230 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
231
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232- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
233
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234 Changes since 4.0.0a2
235
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236- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
237 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
238
763cba6b 239- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
e889ded1 240
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241- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
242 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
243 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
244
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245- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
246
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247- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
248 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
249
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250- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
251 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
252 loaded from persistent storage.
253
45d545f0 254- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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255 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
256 necessary.
257
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258- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
259 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
260 rapid-commit option.
261
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262- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
263 non-128-bits in length were removed.
264
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265 Changes since 4.0.0a1
266
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267- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
268 and fix.
269
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270- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
271
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272- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
273
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274- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
275 for when loading configuration.
276
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277- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
278 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
279 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
280
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281- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
282 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
283 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
284 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
285
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286- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
287
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288- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
289 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 290
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291- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
292
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293- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
294
295- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
296 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
297
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298- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
299 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
300
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301- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
302
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303- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
304 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
305
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306 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
307
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308- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
309
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310- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
311 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
312
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313- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
314
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315- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
316 initialized.
317
318- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
319
320- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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321 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
322
323- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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325- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
326
327- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
328 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
329
330- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
331
8ea19a71 332- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 333 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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334
335- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
336 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
337
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338- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
339
340- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
341
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342- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
343
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344 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
345
346- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
347 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
348 no support currently for both.
349
350- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
351 IAADDR option.
352
353- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
354 options.
355
356- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
357
358- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
359 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
360
361- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
362 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
363 specifying type 1 or type 2).
364
365- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
366 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
367
368- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
369 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
370 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
371 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
372 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
373 differently, they both use the same code here).
374
375- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
376 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
377 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
378
379- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
380
381- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
382 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
383 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
384 it should not intercept.
385
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386 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
387
388- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
389 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
390 between primary and secondary.
391
392- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
393 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
394 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
395
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396- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
397
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398- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
399 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
400 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
401 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
402 or REQUEST messages.
403
404- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
405 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
406
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407- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
408
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409 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
410
411- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
412 failover protected subnets was removed.
413
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414 Changes since 3.1.0b2
415
416- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
417 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
418 odd number of leases).
419
420- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
421 rebalance run, and one after.
422
423- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
424 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
425 processing these messages.
426
fe5b0fdd 427 Changes since 3.1.0b1
27837f95 428
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429- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
430 objects.
431
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432- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
433 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
434 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
435 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
436 at Allianz.
437
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438- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
439 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
440
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441- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
442 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
443
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444- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
445 caused the server to abort.
446
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447- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
448 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
449 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
450
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451- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
452 by empty spaces would not get included.
453
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454- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
455 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
456
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457- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
458 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
459
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460- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
461 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
462
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463- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
464 on the parameter request list.
465
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466 Changes since 3.1.0a3
467
468- Some spelling fixes.
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470 Changes since 3.1.0a2
471
472- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
473 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
474
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475- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
476 domain-search option syntax.
477
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478 Changes since 3.1.0a1
479
480- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
481 hash table was repaired.
482
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483- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
484 entering normal state.
485
486- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
487 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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488 'xid mismatch' log messages.
489
490- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
491 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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493- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
494 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
495 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
496 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
497
45d545f0 498- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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499 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
500 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
501 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
502 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
503 to their needs.
504
505- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
506 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
507 run will attempt balance.
508
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509- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
510
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511 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
512
513- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
514 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
515 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
516 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
517
98bd7ca0 518- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 519 was introduced.
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521- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
522 via OMAPI.
523
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524- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
525 the protocol draft.
526
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527- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
528 one does not already exist on the system.
529
b43c87ad 530- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 531
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532- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
533 matches RFC 3074.
534
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535- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
536 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 537 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2727c1cf 538
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539- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
540 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 541 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 542
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543- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
544 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
545 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
546 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
547
548- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
549 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
550 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
551 priority over the client's parameter request list.
552
f7fdb216 553- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 554 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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555 DHCPv6 support.
556
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557- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
558 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
559 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
560
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561- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
562 have been incorporated.
563
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564- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
565 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
566 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
567 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
568 that belong to the peer in need.
569
570- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
571 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
572
573- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
574 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
575 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
576
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577- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
578 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
579
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580- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
581 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
582 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
583 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
584 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
585
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586- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
587 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
588 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
589 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
590
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591- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
592 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
593 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
594 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
595 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
596 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
597 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
598 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
599 ignoring this aspect of their request.
600
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601- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
602 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
603
41e45067 604- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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605 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
606 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
607 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
608
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609- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
610 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
611 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
612 hardware and funding the development.
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614- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
615 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
616 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
617 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
618 via Robin Breathe.
619
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620- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
621 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
622 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
623 from Christof Chen.
624
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625- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
626 formally supported.
627
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628 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
629
630- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
631 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
632
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633 Changes since 3.0.5
634
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635- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
636 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
637 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 638 they actually received.
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639
640- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
641
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642- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
643 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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644 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
645 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
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647- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
648
d69fb6a8 649- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 650 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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652- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
653 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
654 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
655 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
656 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
657 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
658 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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659 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
660
661- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
662 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
663 'file' field.
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665- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
666 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
667
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668- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
669 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
670 a patch from Kevin Steves.
671
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672- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
673 from Chris Wagner.
674
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675- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
676 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
677 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
678
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679- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
680 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
681 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
682 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
683 was set.
684
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685- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
686 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
687
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688- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
689 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
690 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
691 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
692 active ones.
693
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697 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
698 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
699 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
700 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
701
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702- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
703 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
704
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705 Changes since 3.0.4
706
707- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
708 scopes are actually global has been added.
709
710- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
711 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
712 known to be damaging.
713
714- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
715 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
716 balancing).
717
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718- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
719 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
720 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
721
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722- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
723 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
724 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
725
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726- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
727 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
728 more clear now.
729
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730- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
731 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
732 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
733 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
734 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 735 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
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737- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
738 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
739
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740- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
741 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
742 made possible.
743
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744- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
745 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
746 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
747
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748- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
749 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
750
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751- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
752 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
753 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
754
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755- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
756 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
757 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
758 value with the later configured value).
759
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760- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
761 have been named and documented.
762
763- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
764 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
765 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
766 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
767 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
768 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
769 write new output.
770
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771 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
772
773- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
774 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
775
776 Changes since 3.0.4b3
777
778- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
779 mailing list.
780
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781 Changes since 3.0.4b2
782
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784 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
785
786- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
787 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
788
789- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
790 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
791 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
792 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
793
794- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
795 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
796 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
797 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
798 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
799 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
800 transition (properly).
801
802- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
803
804 Changes since 3.0.4b1
805
806- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
807 STDIN after reading one line.
808
809- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
810 descriptor it opened twice.
811
812- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
813 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
814 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
815
816 Changes since 3.0.3
817
818- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
819 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
820 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
821
822- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
823 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
824 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
825
826- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
827 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 828 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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830
831- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 832 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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833 than the entire block of them.
834
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835! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
836 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
837 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
838 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
839 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
840 to a patch from infamous42md.
841
842! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
843 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
844 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
845 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
846 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
847 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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849- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
850 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
851 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
852
853- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
854 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
855
856- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
857 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
858 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
859 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
860 transitional states.
861
862- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
863 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
864 once it detects the old db does not exist.
865
866- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
867 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
868 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
869
870- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 871 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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873- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
874 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
875
876- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
877 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
878 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
879
880- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
881 patch from 'infamous42md'.
882
883- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
884 repaired.
885
886- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
887 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
888 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
889 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
890
891- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
892 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
893 data.
894
895- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
896 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
897 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
898 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
899 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
900
901- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
902 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
903 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
904 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
905 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
906
907- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
908 has been repaired.
909
910- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
911 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
912 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
913 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
914 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
915
916- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 917 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
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920 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
921 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
922 move to 3.[01].x.
923
924- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
925 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
926
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927 Changes since 3.0.3b3
928
929- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
930 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
931
932- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
933 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
934 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
935 workaround.
936
937 Changes since 3.0.3b2
938
939- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
940 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
941
942 Changes since 3.0.3b1
943
944- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
945 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
946 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
947
948- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
949 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
950 dynamic updates were also retouched.
951
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952 Changes since 3.0.2
953
954- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
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957
958- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
959 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
960 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
961 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
962 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
963
964- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
965 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
966 Jason Vas Dias at Redhat.
967
968- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
969 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
970 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
971
972- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
973 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
974 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
975 Peter Poeml.
976
977- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
978 Dr. Peter Poeml.
979
980- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
981 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
982 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
983 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
984 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
985 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
986
987- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
988 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
989 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
990 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
991
992- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
993 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
994 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
995 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
996
997- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
998 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
999
1000- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
1001 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
1002 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
1003
1004- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
1005 7 bytes, and failover.
1006
1007- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
1008 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
1009 at Redhat.
1010
1011- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
1012 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
1013 should work better.
1014
1015- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
1016 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
1017 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
1018
1019- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
1020 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
1021 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
1022
1023 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
1024
1025- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
1026 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
1027
1028 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
1029
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1031 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
1032 overloading. This was repaired.
1033
1034- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
1035 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
1036 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
1037 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
1038 three chunks to fit.
1039
1040- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
1041 were repaired.
1042
1043- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
1044 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
1045 leak).
1046
1047 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
1048
1049- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
1050 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
1051
1052 Changes since 3.0.2b1
1053
1054- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
1055
1056 Changes since 3.0.1
1057
1058- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
1059 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
1060 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
1061
1062- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
1063 name was not provided by the server.
1064
1065- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
1066 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
1067
1068- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
1069 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
1070
1071- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
1072 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
1073
1074- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
1075
1076- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
1077
1078- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
1079 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
1080 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
1081 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
1082 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
1083
1084- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
1085 the configuration be globally scoped.
1086
1087- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
1088 Farkas.
1089
1090- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
1091 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1092
1093- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
1094 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
1095
1096- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
1097 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
1098
1099- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
1100 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
1101 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
1102 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
1103
1104- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
1105 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
1106 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
1107 respond to POOLREQ messages.
1108
1109- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
1110 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
1111 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
1112
1113- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
1114
1115- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
1116 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
1117 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
1118
1119- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
1120 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
1121 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
1122 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
1123 Fjone and directconnect.no.
1124
1125- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
1126 to Andreas Gustafsson.
1127
1128- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
1129 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
1130
1131- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
1132 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
1133 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
1134 DISCOVER timeout handling.
1135
1136- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
1137 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
1138
1139- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
1140 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
1141 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
1142
1143- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
1144 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
1145 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
1146 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
1147 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
1148 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
1149
1150- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
1151 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
1152 Infoblox.
1153
1154- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
1155
1156- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
1157 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
1158 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
1159 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
1160 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
1161 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
1162 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
1163
1164- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
1165 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
1166 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
1167
1168- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
1169 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
1170 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
1171
1172- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
1173
1174 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
1175
1176- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
1177 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
1178 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
1179 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
1180 systems either.
1181
1182- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
1183
1184- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
1185 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
1186 is false.
1187
1188- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
1189 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
1190
1191- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
1192
1193 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
1194
1195! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
1196 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
1197 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
1198 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
1199 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
1200 both finding and solving the problem.
1201
1202! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
45d545f0 1203 in log_*() functions was evidenced, on some specific platforms where
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1204 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
1205 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
1206 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
1207 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
1208 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
1209 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
1210 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
1211 published version of ISC DHCP.
1212
1213- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
1214
1215- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
1216
1217 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
1218
1219- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
1220 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
1221 Richard Hirst.
1222
1223- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
1224 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
1225 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
1226
1227- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
1228
1229- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
1230 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
1231 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
1232 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
1233
1234- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 1235 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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1236
1237- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
1238 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
1239
1240- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
1241
1242 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
1243
1244- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
1245 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
1246
1247- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
1248 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
1249 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
1250
1251- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
1252 by name was fixed.
1253
45d545f0 1254- Declaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
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1255 longer result in error.
1256
1257- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
1258
1259- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
1260 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
1261 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
1262
1263- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
1264 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
1265
1266- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
1267 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
1268 Blapp.
1269
1270- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
1271 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
1272 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
1273 Martin Blapp.
1274
1275- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
1276 expiry times in failover configurations.
1277
1278- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
1279 Steve G.
1280
1281- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
1282 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
1283
1284- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
1285 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
1286 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
1287 now "unknown-144".
1288
1289- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
1290 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
1291
1292 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
1293
1294- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
1295
1296- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
1297 not be bash.
1298
1299- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1300
1301- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
1302 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
1303 that errored before will now work properly.
1304
1305- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
1306 names was repaired.
1307
1308- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
1309 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
1310 configuration file.
1311
1312- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
1313 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1314
1315- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
1316 error rather than a null dereference.
1317
1318 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
1319
1320- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
1321
1322- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
1323
1324- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
1325 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
1326
1327- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
1328
1329- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
1330
1331- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
1332 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
1333 self-corrupting lease databases.
1334
1335- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
1336
1337- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
1338 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
1339
1340- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
1341
1342- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
1343
1344- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
1345 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
1346 Ling Gou.
1347
1348- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
1349 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1350
1351- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
1352 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
1353 Ted Lemon for the patch.
1354
1355- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
1356 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
1357
1358 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
1359
1360- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
1361 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
1362
1363- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
1364
1365- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
1366 a memory leak.
1367
1368- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
1369 script.
1370
1371- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
1372
1373- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
1374
1375- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
1376
1377- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
1378
1379- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
1380
1381- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
1382
1383- Increment the hop count when relaying.
1384
1385- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
1386
1387- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
1388
1389- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
1390
1391- Change the type of rbuf_max.
1392
1393- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
1394
1395 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
1396
1397- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
1398 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
1399 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
1400
1401 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
1402
1403- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
1404 to be renewed.
1405
1406- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
1407 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
1408
1409- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
1410 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
1411
1412- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
1413 that two permit lists matched.
1414
1415- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
1416 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
1417
1418- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
1419
1420- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
1421 requested it, contrary to the standard.
1422
1423- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
1424
1425- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
1426
1427- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
1428 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
1429 going to update its A record.
1430
1431- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
1432 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
1433 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
1434 DNS server.
1435
1436- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
1437
1438- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
1439
1440- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
1441 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
1442 NetBSD project).
1443
1444- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
1445 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
1446
1447- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
1448 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
1449
1450- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
1451
1452- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
1453
1454- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
1455 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
1456 failover protocol standard.
1457
1458- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
1459 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
1460 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
1461
1462- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
1463 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
1464 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
1465 do so.
1466
1467- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
1468
1469 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
1470
1471- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
1472
1473- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
1474 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
1475
1476- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
1477 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
1478
1479- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
1480 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
1481 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
1482
1483- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
1484 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
1485 network, merge the two pools.
1486
1487- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
1488 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
1489 fix this bug.
1490
1491 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
1492
1493- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
1494 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
1495
1496- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
1497 the same case.
1498
1499- Additional documentation.
1500
1501- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
1502 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
1503
1504 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
1505
1506- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
1507- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
1508
1509 Changes since 3.0.1rc2
1510
1511- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
1512 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
1513 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
1514 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
1515 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
1516
1517 Changes since 3.0.1rc1
1518
1519- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
1520 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
1521 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
1522 wasn't the one that removed it.
1523
1524- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
1525 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
1526 were not configured.
1527
1528- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
1529
1530- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
1531 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
1532 routing information.
1533
1534- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
1535 request being sent.
1536
1537- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
1538 done.
1539
1540- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
1541 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
1542 were pending.
1543
1544- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
1545 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
1546 problems with failover.
1547
1548- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
1549 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
1550 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
1551
1552 Changes since 3.0
1553
1554- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
1555 smash in the subclass allocation code.
1556
1557- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
1558 no object is open, it dumps core.
1559
1560- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
1561
1562- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
1563
1564- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
1565
1566- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
1567 a host object attribute with a null value.
1568
1569 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
1570
1571- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
1572
1573- Fix an obscure core dump.
1574
1575- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
1576 when crucial information is left out.
1577
1578- Log "no free leases" as an error.
1579
1580- Documentation updates.
1581
1582 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
1583
1584- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
1585
1586- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
1587 structure wasn't zeroed.
1588
1589- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
1590 incorrectly.
1591
1592- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
1593 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
1594 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
1595 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
1596 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
1597 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
1598 restarted.
1599
1600 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
1601
1602- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
1603 in failover-enabled pools.
1604
1605- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
1606 declarations).
1607
1608- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
1609 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
1610
1611- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
1612 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
1613
1614- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
1615
1616- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
1617 defined but not referenced by any pools.
1618
1619- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
1620
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1622
1623- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
1624
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1626
1627- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
1628
1629- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
1630
1631- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
1632
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1634
1635- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
1636 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
1637 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
1638
1639- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
1640 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
1641 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
1642 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
1643 string.
1644
1645- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
1646
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1648
1649- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
1650 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
1651
1652- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
1653 malformed packets.
1654
1655- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
1656
1657- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
1658 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
1659 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
1660
1661- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
1662
1663- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
1664
1665- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
1666
1667- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
1668 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
1669
1670- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
1671 tcp connections from being played back.
1672
1673- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
1674 on exit.
1675
1676- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
1677
1678- Add some configurability to the build system.
1679
1680- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
1681
1682- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
1683 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
1684 hadn't been noticed until now.
1685
1686 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
1687
1688- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
1689 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
1690
1691- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
1692 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
1693 conformant, but also didn't work).
1694
1695- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
1696 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
1697
1698- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
1699 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
1700
1701- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
1702 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
1703
1704- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
1705 variables to leases via OMAPI.
1706
1707- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
1708 doing failover.
1709
1710- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
1711 running on alpha processors.
1712
1713- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
1714 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
1715
1716- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
1717
1718- Install omshell (including new documentation).
1719
1720- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
1721 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
1722
1723- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
1724
1725- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
1726 actually named (key names are domain names).
1727
1728- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
1729
1730- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
1731 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
1732
1733- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
1734 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
1735
1736- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
1737 statements.
1738
1739- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
1740 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
1741
1742- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
1743 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
1744 operating.
1745
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1747
1748- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
1749 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
1750 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
1751 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
1752
1753- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
1754 using omapi to manipulate leases.
1755
1756- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
1757
1758
1759 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
1760
1761- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
1762 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
1763
1764- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
1765 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
1766 to the chain.
1767
1768- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
1769
1770- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
1771
1772- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
1773
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1776
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1779- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
1780
1781 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
1782
1783- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
1784 DHCPDECLINE.
1785
1786- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
1787
1788- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
1789 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
1790 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
1791
1792- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
1793
1794- Documentation fixes.
1795
1796- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
1797 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
1798
1799- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
1800 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
1801
1802- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
1803
1804- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
1805
1806- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
1807 case-insensitive.
1808
1809- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
1810
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1813 consistently.
1814
1815- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
1816 systems with the probe not working correctly.
1817
1818- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
1819
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1821
1822- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
1823 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
1824 result of duplicate leases.
1825
1826- Document OMAPI server objects.
1827
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1829
1830- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
1831 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
1832
1833- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
1834 core dumps.
1835
1836- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
1837 Friedrich.
1838
1839- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
1840
1841 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
1842
1843- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
1844 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 1845 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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1847
1848- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
1849 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
1850
1851- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
1852 trace file.
1853
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1857 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
1858 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
1859 e.g., Digital Unix.
1860
1861- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
1862 when no error had occurred.
1863
1864- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
1865 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
1866 non-communicating state.
1867
1868- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
1869
1870- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
1871 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
1872 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
1873
1874- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
1875 when the client lease expired.
1876
1877- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
1878 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
1879 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
1880 in testing.
1881
1882- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
1883 the command line, it would fail.
1884
1885- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
1886 user impact).
1887
1888- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
1889
1890- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
1891 they're executable.
1892
1893 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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1895- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
1896 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
1897 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
1898 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
1899
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1900- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
1901 Transmeta.
1902
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1904 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
1905 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
1906 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
1907
1908- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
1909 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
1910
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1912
1913- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
1914 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
1915
1916- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
1917
1918- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
1919
1920- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
1921
1922- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
1923
1924- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
1925
1926- Update some parts of the README file.
1927
1928- Support GCC on SCO.
1929
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1931
1932- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
1933 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
1934
1935- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
1936 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
1937 unbill the old class.
1938
1939- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
1940 process the state transition immediately.
1941
1942- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
1943 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
1944
1945- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
1946
1947- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
1948
1949- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
1950
1951- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
1952
1953- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
1954 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
1955 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
1956
1957- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
1958 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
1959
1960- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
1961 lease file.
1962
1963- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
1964
1965- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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1968
1969- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
1970 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
1971
1972- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
1973
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1975
1976- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
1977
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1979
1980- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
1981
1982- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
1983 pl19.
1984
1985- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
1986 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
1987 past the regression test.
1988
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1990
1991- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
1992 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
1993
1994- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
1995 DHCPREQUEST.
1996
1997- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
1998
1999- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
2000
2001- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
2002
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2004
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2005- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
2006 (Damien Neil)
2007
2008- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
2009 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
2010
2011- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
2012 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
2013 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
2014
2015- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
2016 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
2017 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
2018 message.
2019
2020- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
2021 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
2022 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
2023
98311e4b 2024- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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2026 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
2027 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
2028 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
2029 this way will work.
2030
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2031- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
2032
2033- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
2034 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
2035 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
2036 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
2037
2038 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
2039
2040 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
2041
2042- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
2043 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
2044 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
2045
2046- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
2047 Hermann Lauer.
2048
2049- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
2050 messages.
2051
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2052- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
2053 it contained quoted strings.
2054
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2055 ** there was no pl17 **
2056
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2057 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 16
2058
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2059- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
2060 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
2061 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
2062 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
2063 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
2064 tracking down memory leaks.
2065
2066- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
2067 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
2068 Solaris.
2069
2070- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
2071 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
2072 corruption and core dumps.
2073
2074- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
2075 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
2076
2077- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
2078
2079- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
2080 and implemented by Damien Neil.
2081
2082- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
2083 name and version to standard output.
2084
2085- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
2086
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2087- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
2088 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
2089
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2090- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
2091
2092- Lots of documentation updates.
2093
2094- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
2095 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
2096
2097- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
2098
2099- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
2100 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
2101
2102
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2104
2105- Some documentation tweaks.
2106
2107- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
2108
2109- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
2110
2111- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
2112 agent options into them.
2113
2114- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
2115
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2116- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
2117 options.
2118
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2120
2121- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
2122 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
2123 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
2124 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
2125 used in class statements to control address allocation.
2126
2127- Fix up documentation.
2128
2129- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
2130 significantly in a high-demand situation.
2131
2132- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
2133
2134- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
2135
2136- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
2137 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
2138 practical use otherwise.
2139
2140- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
2141 for debugging.
2142
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2144
2145- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
2146 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
2147 dump on some systems.
2148
2149- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
2150 option.
2151
2152- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
2153 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
2154
2155- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
2156 that were not printing enough information.
2157
2158- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
2159 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
2160
2161- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
2162 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
2163 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
2164 were answering.
2165
2166- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
2167 the transition.
2168
2169
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2171
2172- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
2173
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2174 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
2175
2176- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
2177 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
2178 representation from working correctly.
2179
2180- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
2181 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
2182 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
2183 could spin.
2184
2185- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
2186 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
2187
2188- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
2189 interface name on the command line.
2190
2191- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
2192 client state.
2193
2194- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
2195 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
2196 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
2197 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
2198 added by Ted Lemon.
2199
2200- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
2201 be made to log debugging information and other information.
2202
2203- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
2204 end option.
2205
2206- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
2207 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
2208 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
2209
2210- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
2211 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
2212 face of a null hardware address on input.
2213
2214- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
2215 specified unqualified.
2216
2217- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
2218 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
2219
2220- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
2221 RFC.
2222
2223- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
2224
2225- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
2226
2227- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
2228 it works.
2229
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2231
2232- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
2233 to CVS.
2234
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2235 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
2236
2237- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
2238
2239- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
2240 in patchlevel 9.
2241
2242- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
2243 options at renewal time.
2244
2245- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
2246 configuration language.
2247
2248- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
2249
2250- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
2251 done when no client hostname was received.
2252
2253- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
2254
2255- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
2256 the DHCP option space.
2257
2258- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
2259
2260- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
2261 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
2262
2263- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
2264 silently dropped.
2265
2266- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
2267 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
2268
2269- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
2270 will be correctly updated.
2271
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2273
2274- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
2275 bounds-checking.
2276
2277 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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2279- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
2280
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2283- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
2284 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
2285 possible to exploit it any further than that.
2286
2287- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
2288 option.
2289
2290- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
2291 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
2292 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
2293 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
2294 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
2295 meaningfully.
2296
2297- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
2298 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
2299 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
2300
2301- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
2302 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
2303 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
2304 this one down!
2305
2306- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
2307 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
2308 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
2309 down and fixing this problem.
2310
2311 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
2312
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2313- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
2314 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
2315
2316- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
2317 environment.
2318
2319- Fix suffix operator.
2320
2321- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
2322
2323- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
2324 connection code.
2325
2326- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
2327
2328- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
2329
2330- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
2331 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
2332
2333- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
2334
2335- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
2336
2337- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
2338 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
2339
2340- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
2341 spawn with.
2342
2343- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
2344 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
2345
2346- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
2347 for OMAPI.
2348
2349- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
2350 can install in host declarations.
2351
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2353
2354- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
2355 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
2356 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
2357 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
2358 comments)!
2359
2360- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
2361
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2362- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
2363 request for help on this with patches!
2364
2365- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
2366 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
2367 lost, they never reconnect.
2368
2369- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
2370 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
2371
2372- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
2373 dump.
2374
2375- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
2376 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
2377 catching this one.
2378
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2380
2381- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
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2384
2385- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
2386 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
2387 declared without a key.
2388
2389- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
2390
2391- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
2392 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
2393
2394- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
2395 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
2396 determine the maximum size of the response.
2397
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2399
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2400- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
2401 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
2402
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2403- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
2404 RENEWING client.
2405
2406- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
2407
2408- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
2409 using memcmp().
2410
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2412
2413- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
2414 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
2415 pointing this out.
2416
2417- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
2418 exit.
2419
2420- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
2421
2422- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
2423 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.