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1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
2 Version 3.1 - HEAD
3 March 3, 2005
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9XXX: Note need for care of ATSFP values when upgrading from 3.0.4+ to
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12Version 3 of the ISC DHCP Distribution includes the following features
13that are new since version 2.0:
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15 - DHCP Failover Protocol support
16 - OMAPI, an API for accessing and modifying the DHCP server and
17 client state.
18 - Conditional behaviour
19 - Storing arbitrary information on leases
20 - Address pools with access control
21 - Client classing
22 - Address allocation restriction by class
23 - Relay agent information option support
24 - Dynamic DNS updates
25 - Many bug fixes, performance enhancements, and minor new DHCP
26 protocol features.
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28The main bug fixed here is a bug in the subclass allocation code that
29could result in a memory smash. Any users of the ISC DHCP server who
30are using subclasses should seriously consider upgrading to 3.0.1.
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32If you are running 3.0 beta 1 and are doing dynamic DNS updates, the
33lease file is no longer forward-compatible to 3.0 final. A script
34has been provided to convert 3.0b1 lease files. This is in
35contrib/3.0b1-lease-convert.
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37For information on how to install, configure and run this software,
38as well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult
39the README file.
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41The Dynamic DNS Update support is a descendent of an implementation
42done by Lans Carstensen and Brian Dols at Rose-Hulman Institute of
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43Technology, Jim Watt at Applied Biosystems, Irina Goble at Integrated
44Measurement Systems, Igor Sharfmesser at Kazakh Telecom, and Brian
45Murrell at BC Tel Advanced Communications. I'd like to express my
46thanks to all of these good people here, both for working on the code
47and for prodding me into improving it.
48
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50 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
51
52- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
53 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
54 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
55 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
56
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57- Support for 'reserved' (psuedo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
58 was introduced.
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60- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
61 via OMAPI.
62
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63- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
64 the protocol draft.
65
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66- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
67 one does not already exist on the system.
68
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69- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
70 ||| THIS NEEDS TO BE SPELLED OUT IN THE NEW FEATURES LIST |||
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72- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
73 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
74 were tranmsitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
75 it should not intercept.
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77- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
78 matches RFC 3074.
79
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80- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
81 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
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84- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
85 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 86 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
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88- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
89 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
90 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
91 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
92
93- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
94 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
95 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
96 priority over the client's parameter request list.
97
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98- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
99 supported. This is a milestone in acheiving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
100 DHCPv6 support.
101
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102- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
103 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
104 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
105
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106- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
107 have been incorporated.
108
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109- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
110 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
111 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
112 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
113 that belong to the peer in need.
114
115- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
116 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
117
118- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
119 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
120 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
121
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122- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
123 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
124
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125- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
126 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
127 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
128 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
129 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
130
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131- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
132 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
133 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
134 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
135
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136- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
137 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
138 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
139 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
140 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
141 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
142 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
143 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
144 ignoring this aspect of their request.
145
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146 Changes since 3.0.4
147
148- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
149 scopes are actually global has been added.
150
151- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
152 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
153 known to be damaging.
154
155- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
156 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
157 balancing).
158
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159- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
160 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
161 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
162
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163- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
164 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
165 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
166
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167- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
168 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
169 more clear now.
170
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171- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
172 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
173 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
174 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
175 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 176 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
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178- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
179 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
180
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181- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
182 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
183 made possible.
184
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185- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
186 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
187 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
188
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189- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
190 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
191
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192- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
193 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
194 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
195
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196 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
197
198- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
199 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
200
201 Changes since 3.0.4b3
202
203- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
204 mailing list.
205
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206 Changes since 3.0.4b2
207
208- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunatley require
209 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
210
211- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
212 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
213
214- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
215 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
216 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
217 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
218
219- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
220 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
221 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
222 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
223 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
224 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
225 transition (properly).
226
227- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
228
229 Changes since 3.0.4b1
230
231- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
232 STDIN after reading one line.
233
234- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
235 descriptor it opened twice.
236
237- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
238 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
239 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
240
241 Changes since 3.0.3
242
243- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
244 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
245 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
246
247- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
248 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
249 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
250
251- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
252 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
253 wether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
254 leases to allocate.
255
256- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
257 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailng PAD option, rather
258 than the entire block of them.
259
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260! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
261 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
262 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
263 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
264 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
265 to a patch from infamous42md.
266
267! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
268 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
269 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
270 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
271 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
272 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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273
274- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
275 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
276 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
277
278- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
279 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
280
281- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
282 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
283 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
284 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
285 transitional states.
286
287- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
288 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
289 once it detects the old db does not exist.
290
291- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
292 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
293 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
294
295- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
296 been doucmented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
297
298- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
299 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
300
301- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
302 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
303 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
304
305- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
306 patch from 'infamous42md'.
307
308- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
309 repaired.
310
311- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
312 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
313 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
314 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
315
316- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
317 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
318 data.
319
320- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
321 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
322 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
323 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
324 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
325
326- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
327 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
328 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
329 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
330 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
331
332- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
333 has been repaired.
334
335- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
336 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
337 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
338 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
339 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
340
341- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
342 be treated consistently, regardless of wether TRACING is defined or not.
343
344- The linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
345 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
346 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
347 move to 3.[01].x.
348
349- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
350 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
351
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352 Changes since 3.0.3b3
353
354- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
355 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
356
357- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
358 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
359 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
360 workaround.
361
362 Changes since 3.0.3b2
363
364- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
365 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
366
367 Changes since 3.0.3b1
368
369- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
370 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
371 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
372
373- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
374 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
375 dynamic updates were also retouched.
376
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377 Changes since 3.0.2
378
379- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
380 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceeding DISCOVER.
381 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
382
383- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
384 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
385 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
386 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
387 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
388
389- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
390 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
391 Jason Vas Dias at Redhat.
392
393- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
394 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
395 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
396
397- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
398 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
399 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
400 Peter Poeml.
401
402- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
403 Dr. Peter Poeml.
404
405- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
406 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
407 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
408 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
409 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
410 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
411
412- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
413 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
414 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
415 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
416
417- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
418 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
419 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
420 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
421
422- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
423 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
424
425- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
426 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
427 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
428
429- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
430 7 bytes, and failover.
431
432- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
433 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
434 at Redhat.
435
436- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
437 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
438 should work better.
439
440- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
441 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
442 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
443
444- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
445 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
446 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
447
448 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
449
450- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
451 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
452
453 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
454
455- Two varaibles introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
456 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
457 overloading. This was repaired.
458
459- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
460 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
461 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
462 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
463 three chunks to fit.
464
465- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
466 were repaired.
467
468- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
469 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
470 leak).
471
472 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
473
474- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
475 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
476
477 Changes since 3.0.2b1
478
479- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
480
481 Changes since 3.0.1
482
483- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
484 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
485 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
486
487- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
488 name was not provided by the server.
489
490- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
491 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
492
493- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
494 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
495
496- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
497 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
498
499- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
500
501- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
502
503- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
504 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
505 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
506 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
507 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
508
509- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
510 the configuration be globally scoped.
511
512- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
513 Farkas.
514
515- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
516 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
517
518- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
519 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
520
521- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
522 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
523
524- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
525 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
526 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
527 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
528
529- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
530 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
531 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
532 respond to POOLREQ messages.
533
534- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
535 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
536 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
537
538- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
539
540- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
541 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
542 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
543
544- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
545 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
546 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
547 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
548 Fjone and directconnect.no.
549
550- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
551 to Andreas Gustafsson.
552
553- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
554 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
555
556- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
557 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
558 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
559 DISCOVER timeout handling.
560
561- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
562 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
563
564- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
565 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
566 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
567
568- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
569 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
570 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
571 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
572 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
573 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
574
575- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
576 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
577 Infoblox.
578
579- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
580
581- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
582 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
583 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
584 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
585 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
586 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
587 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
588
589- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
590 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
591 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
592
593- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
594 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
595 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
596
597- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
598
599 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
600
601- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
602 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
603 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
604 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
605 systems either.
606
607- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
608
609- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
610 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
611 is false.
612
613- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
614 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
615
616- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
617
618 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
619
620! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
621 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
622 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
623 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
624 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
625 both finding and solving the problem.
626
627! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
628 in log_*() functions was evidented, on some specific platforms where
629 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
630 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
631 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
632 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
633 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
634 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
635 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
636 published version of ISC DHCP.
637
638- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
639
640- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
641
642 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
643
644- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
645 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
646 Richard Hirst.
647
648- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
649 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
650 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
651
652- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
653
654- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
655 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
656 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
657 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
658
659- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
660 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on solaris platforms.
661
662- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
663 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
664
665- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
666
667 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
668
669- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
670 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
671
672- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
673 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
674 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
675
676- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
677 by name was fixed.
678
679- Delcaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
680 longer result in error.
681
682- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
683
684- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
685 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
686 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
687
688- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
689 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
690
691- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
692 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
693 Blapp.
694
695- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
696 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
697 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
698 Martin Blapp.
699
700- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
701 expiry times in failover configurations.
702
703- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
704 Steve G.
705
706- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
707 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
708
709- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
710 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
711 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
712 now "unknown-144".
713
714- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
715 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
716
717 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
718
719- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
720
721- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
722 not be bash.
723
724- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
725
726- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
727 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
728 that errored before will now work properly.
729
730- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
731 names was repaired.
732
733- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
734 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
735 configuration file.
736
737- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
738 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
739
740- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
741 error rather than a null dereference.
742
743 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
744
745- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
746
747- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
748
749- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
750 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
751
752- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
753
754- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
755
756- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
757 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
758 self-corrupting lease databases.
759
760- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
761
762- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
763 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
764
765- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
766
767- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
768
769- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
770 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
771 Ling Gou.
772
773- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
774 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
775
776- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
777 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
778 Ted Lemon for the patch.
779
780- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
781 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
782
783 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
784
785- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
786 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
787
788- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
789
790- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
791 a memory leak.
792
793- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
794 script.
795
796- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
797
798- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
799
800- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
801
802- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
803
804- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
805
806- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
807
808- Increment the hop count when relaying.
809
810- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
811
812- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
813
814- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
815
816- Change the type of rbuf_max.
817
818- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
819
820 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
821
822- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
823 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
824 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
825
826 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
827
828- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
829 to be renewed.
830
831- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
832 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
833
834- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
835 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
836
837- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
838 that two permit lists matched.
839
840- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
841 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
842
843- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
844
845- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
846 requested it, contrary to the standard.
847
848- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
849
850- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
851
852- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
853 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
854 going to update its A record.
855
856- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
857 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
858 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
859 DNS server.
860
861- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
862
863- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
864
865- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
866 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
867 NetBSD project).
868
869- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
870 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
871
872- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
873 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
874
875- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
876
877- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
878
879- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
880 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
881 failover protocol standard.
882
883- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
884 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
885 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
886
887- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
888 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
889 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
890 do so.
891
892- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
893
894 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
895
896- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
897
898- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
899 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
900
901- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
902 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
903
904- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
905 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
906 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
907
908- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
909 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
910 network, merge the two pools.
911
912- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
913 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
914 fix this bug.
915
916 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
917
918- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
919 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
920
921- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
922 the same case.
923
924- Additional documentation.
925
926- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
927 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
928
929 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
930
931- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
932- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
933
934 Changes since 3.0.1rc2
935
936- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
937 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
938 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
939 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
940 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
941
942 Changes since 3.0.1rc1
943
944- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
945 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
946 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
947 wasn't the one that removed it.
948
949- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
950 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
951 were not configured.
952
953- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
954
955- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
956 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
957 routing information.
958
959- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
960 request being sent.
961
962- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
963 done.
964
965- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
966 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
967 were pending.
968
969- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
970 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
971 problems with failover.
972
973- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
974 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
975 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
976
977 Changes since 3.0
978
979- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
980 smash in the subclass allocation code.
981
982- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
983 no object is open, it dumps core.
984
985- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
986
987- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
988
989- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
990
991- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
992 a host object attribute with a null value.
993
994 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
995
996- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
997
998- Fix an obscure core dump.
999
1000- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
1001 when crucial information is left out.
1002
1003- Log "no free leases" as an error.
1004
1005- Documentation updates.
1006
1007 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
1008
1009- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
1010
1011- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
1012 structure wasn't zeroed.
1013
1014- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
1015 incorrectly.
1016
1017- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
1018 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
1019 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
1020 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
1021 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
1022 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
1023 restarted.
1024
1025 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
1026
1027- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
1028 in failover-enabled pools.
1029
1030- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
1031 declarations).
1032
1033- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
1034 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
1035
1036- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
1037 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
1038
1039- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
1040
1041- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
1042 defined but not referenced by any pools.
1043
1044- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
1045
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1047
1048- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
1049
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1051
1052- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
1053
1054- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
1055
1056- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
1057
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1059
1060- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
1061 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
1062 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
1063
1064- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
1065 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
1066 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
1067 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
1068 string.
1069
1070- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
1071
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1073
1074- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
1075 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
1076
1077- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
1078 malformed packets.
1079
1080- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
1081
1082- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
1083 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
1084 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
1085
1086- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
1087
1088- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
1089
1090- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
1091
1092- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
1093 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
1094
1095- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
1096 tcp connections from being played back.
1097
1098- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
1099 on exit.
1100
1101- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
1102
1103- Add some configurability to the build system.
1104
1105- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
1106
1107- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
1108 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
1109 hadn't been noticed until now.
1110
1111 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
1112
1113- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
1114 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
1115
1116- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
1117 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
1118 conformant, but also didn't work).
1119
1120- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
1121 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
1122
1123- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
1124 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
1125
1126- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
1127 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
1128
1129- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
1130 variables to leases via OMAPI.
1131
1132- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
1133 doing failover.
1134
1135- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
1136 running on alpha processors.
1137
1138- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
1139 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
1140
1141- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
1142
1143- Install omshell (including new documentation).
1144
1145- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
1146 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
1147
1148- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
1149
1150- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
1151 actually named (key names are domain names).
1152
1153- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
1154
1155- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
1156 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
1157
1158- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
1159 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
1160
1161- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
1162 statements.
1163
1164- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
1165 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
1166
1167- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
1168 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
1169 operating.
1170
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1172
1173- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
1174 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
1175 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
1176 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
1177
1178- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
1179 using omapi to manipulate leases.
1180
1181- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
1182
1183
1184 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
1185
1186- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
1187 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
1188
1189- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
1190 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
1191 to the chain.
1192
1193- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
1194
1195- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
1196
1197- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
1198
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1201
98311e4b 1202- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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1204- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
1205
1206 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
1207
1208- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
1209 DHCPDECLINE.
1210
1211- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
1212
1213- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
1214 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
1215 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
1216
1217- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
1218
1219- Documentation fixes.
1220
1221- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
1222 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
1223
1224- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
1225 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
1226
1227- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
1228
1229- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
1230
1231- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
1232 case-insensitive.
1233
1234- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
1235
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1238 consistently.
1239
1240- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
1241 systems with the probe not working correctly.
1242
1243- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
1244
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1246
1247- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
1248 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
1249 result of duplicate leases.
1250
1251- Document OMAPI server objects.
1252
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1254
1255- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
1256 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
1257
1258- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
1259 core dumps.
1260
1261- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
1262 Friedrich.
1263
1264- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
1265
1266 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
1267
1268- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
1269 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 1270 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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1272
1273- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
1274 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
1275
1276- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
1277 trace file.
1278
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1282 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
1283 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
1284 e.g., Digital Unix.
1285
1286- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
1287 when no error had occurred.
1288
1289- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
1290 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
1291 non-communicating state.
1292
1293- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
1294
1295- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
1296 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
1297 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
1298
1299- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
1300 when the client lease expired.
1301
1302- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
1303 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
1304 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
1305 in testing.
1306
1307- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
1308 the command line, it would fail.
1309
1310- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
1311 user impact).
1312
1313- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
1314
1315- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
1316 they're executable.
1317
1318 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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1320- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
1321 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
1322 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
1323 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
1324
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1325- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
1326 Transmeta.
1327
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1328- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
1329 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
1330 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
1331 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
1332
1333- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
1334 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
1335
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1337
1338- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
1339 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
1340
1341- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
1342
1343- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
1344
1345- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
1346
1347- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
1348
1349- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
1350
1351- Update some parts of the README file.
1352
1353- Support GCC on SCO.
1354
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1356
1357- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
1358 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
1359
1360- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
1361 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
1362 unbill the old class.
1363
1364- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
1365 process the state transition immediately.
1366
1367- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
1368 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
1369
1370- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
1371
1372- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
1373
1374- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
1375
1376- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
1377
1378- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
1379 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
1380 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
1381
1382- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
1383 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
1384
1385- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
1386 lease file.
1387
1388- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
1389
1390- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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1393
1394- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
1395 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
1396
1397- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
1398
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1399 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 21
1400
1401- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
1402
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1404
1405- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
1406
1407- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
1408 pl19.
1409
1410- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
1411 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
1412 past the regression test.
1413
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1414 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 19
1415
1416- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
1417 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
1418
1419- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
1420 DHCPREQUEST.
1421
1422- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
1423
1424- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
1425
1426- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
1427
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1429
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1430- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
1431 (Damien Neil)
1432
1433- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
1434 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
1435
1436- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
1437 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
1438 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
1439
1440- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
1441 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
1442 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
1443 message.
1444
1445- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
1446 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
1447 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
1448
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1451 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
1452 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
1453 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
1454 this way will work.
1455
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1456- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
1457
1458- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
1459 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
1460 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
1461 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
1462
1463 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
1464
1465 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
1466
1467- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
1468 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
1469 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
1470
1471- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
1472 Hermann Lauer.
1473
1474- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
1475 messages.
1476
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1477- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
1478 it contained quoted strings.
1479
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1480 ** there was no pl17 **
1481
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1482 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 16
1483
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1484- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
1485 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
1486 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
1487 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
1488 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
1489 tracking down memory leaks.
1490
1491- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
1492 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
1493 Solaris.
1494
1495- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
1496 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
1497 corruption and core dumps.
1498
1499- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
1500 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
1501
1502- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
1503
1504- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
1505 and implemented by Damien Neil.
1506
1507- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
1508 name and version to standard output.
1509
1510- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
1511
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1512- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
1513 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
1514
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1515- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
1516
1517- Lots of documentation updates.
1518
1519- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
1520 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
1521
1522- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
1523
1524- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
1525 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
1526
1527
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1528 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 15
1529
1530- Some documentation tweaks.
1531
1532- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
1533
1534- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
1535
1536- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
1537 agent options into them.
1538
1539- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
1540
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1541- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
1542 options.
1543
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1544 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 14
1545
1546- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
1547 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
1548 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
1549 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
1550 used in class statements to control address allocation.
1551
1552- Fix up documentation.
1553
1554- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
1555 significantly in a high-demand situation.
1556
1557- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
1558
1559- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
1560
1561- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
1562 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
1563 practical use otherwise.
1564
1565- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
1566 for debugging.
1567
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1569
1570- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
1571 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
1572 dump on some systems.
1573
1574- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
1575 option.
1576
1577- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
1578 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
1579
1580- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
1581 that were not printing enough information.
1582
1583- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
1584 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
1585
1586- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
1587 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
1588 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
1589 were answering.
1590
1591- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
1592 the transition.
1593
1594
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1596
1597- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
1598
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1600
1601- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
1602 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
1603 representation from working correctly.
1604
1605- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
1606 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
1607 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
1608 could spin.
1609
1610- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
1611 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
1612
1613- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
1614 interface name on the command line.
1615
1616- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
1617 client state.
1618
1619- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
1620 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
1621 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
1622 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
1623 added by Ted Lemon.
1624
1625- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
1626 be made to log debugging information and other information.
1627
1628- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
1629 end option.
1630
1631- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
1632 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
1633 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
1634
1635- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
1636 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
1637 face of a null hardware address on input.
1638
1639- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
1640 specified unqualified.
1641
1642- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
1643 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
1644
1645- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
1646 RFC.
1647
1648- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
1649
1650- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
1651
1652- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
1653 it works.
1654
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1656
1657- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
1658 to CVS.
1659
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1660 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
1661
1662- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
1663
1664- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
1665 in patchlevel 9.
1666
1667- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
1668 options at renewal time.
1669
1670- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
1671 configuration language.
1672
1673- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
1674
1675- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
1676 done when no client hostname was received.
1677
1678- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
1679
1680- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
1681 the DHCP option space.
1682
1683- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
1684
1685- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
1686 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
1687
1688- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
1689 silently dropped.
1690
1691- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
1692 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
1693
1694- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
1695 will be correctly updated.
1696
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1698
1699- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
1700 bounds-checking.
1701
1702 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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1704- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
1705
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1708- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
1709 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
1710 possible to exploit it any further than that.
1711
1712- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
1713 option.
1714
1715- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
1716 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
1717 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
1718 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
1719 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
1720 meaningfully.
1721
1722- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
1723 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
1724 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
1725
1726- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
1727 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
1728 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
1729 this one down!
1730
1731- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
1732 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
1733 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
1734 down and fixing this problem.
1735
1736 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
1737
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1738- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
1739 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
1740
1741- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
1742 environment.
1743
1744- Fix suffix operator.
1745
1746- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
1747
1748- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
1749 connection code.
1750
1751- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
1752
1753- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
1754
1755- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
1756 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
1757
1758- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
1759
1760- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
1761
1762- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
1763 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
1764
1765- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
1766 spawn with.
1767
1768- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
1769 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
1770
1771- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
1772 for OMAPI.
1773
1774- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
1775 can install in host declarations.
1776
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1778
1779- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
1780 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
1781 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
1782 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
1783 comments)!
1784
1785- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
1786
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1787- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
1788 request for help on this with patches!
1789
1790- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
1791 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
1792 lost, they never reconnect.
1793
1794- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
1795 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
1796
1797- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
1798 dump.
1799
1800- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
1801 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
1802 catching this one.
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1805
1806- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
1807 of options, so that the client configuration can overried, e.g., the
1808 lease renewal time.
1809
1810- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
1811 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
1812 declared without a key.
1813
1814- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
1815
1816- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
1817 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
1818
1819- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
1820 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
1821 determine the maximum size of the response.
1822
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1824
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1825- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
1826 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
1827
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1828- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
1829 RENEWING client.
1830
1831- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
1832
1833- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
1834 using memcmp().
1835
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1837
1838- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
1839 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
1840 pointing this out.
1841
1842- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
1843 exit.
1844
1845- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
1846
1847- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
1848 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.