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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
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2 Version 4.0.0a1
3 May 19, 2007
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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
17There are a number of DHCPv6 limitiations and features missing in this
18release, which will be addressed shortly:
19
99fe695e 20- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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21
22- There is no DHCPv6 Relay support.
23
24- Only a single fixed address is supported per IA.
25
26- IA_TA addresses are not supported.
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98bd7ca0 28- IA_PD prefixes are not supported.
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30- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages. These
31 should be configurable, and probably localized via gettext() or the
32 like.
33
34- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
35
36- Dynamically allocated leases do not respond to Confirm messages.
37
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38- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
39 not both, so two instances of the daemons are required with the
40 "-6" command line option.
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42For information on how to install, configure and run this software,
43as well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult
44the README file.
45
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46ISC DHCP now uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please
47review the output of "./configure --help" to see what options are
48available.
49
50The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and
51may not work on other platforms. Please report any problems and
52suggested fixes to <dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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55 Changes since 4.0.0a1
56
57- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
58
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59- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
60 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
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62 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
63
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64- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
65
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66- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
67 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
68
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69- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
70
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71- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
72 initialized.
73
74- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
75
76- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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77 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
78
79- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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81- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
82
83- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
84 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
85
86- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
87
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88- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
89 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplised.
90
91- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
92 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
93
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94- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
95
96- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
97
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98- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
99
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100 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
101
102- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
103 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
104 no support currently for both.
105
106- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
107 IAADDR option.
108
109- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
110 options.
111
112- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
113
114- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
115 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
116
117- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
118 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
119 specifying type 1 or type 2).
120
121- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
122 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
123
124- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
125 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
126 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
127 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
128 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
129 differently, they both use the same code here).
130
131- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
132 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
133 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
134
135- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
136
137- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
138 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
139 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
140 it should not intercept.
141
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142 Changes since 3.1.0b2
143
144- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
145 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
146 odd number of leases).
147
148- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
149 rebalance run, and one after.
150
151- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
152 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
153 processing these messages.
154
fe5b0fdd 155 Changes since 3.1.0b1
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157- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
158 objects.
159
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160- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
161 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
162 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
163 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
164 at Allianz.
165
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166- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
167 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
168
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169- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
170 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
171
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172- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
173 caused the server to abort.
174
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175- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
176 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
177 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
178
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179- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
180 by empty spaces would not get included.
181
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182- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
183 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
184
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185- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
186 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
187
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188- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
189 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
190
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191- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
192 on the parameter request list.
193
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194 Changes since 3.1.0a3
195
196- Some spelling fixes.
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198 Changes since 3.1.0a2
199
200- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
201 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
202
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203- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
204 domain-search option syntax.
205
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206 Changes since 3.1.0a1
207
208- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
209 hash table was repaired.
210
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211- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
212 entering normal state.
213
214- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
215 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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216 'xid mismatch' log messages.
217
218- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
219 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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221- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
222 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
223 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
224 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
225
226- Lease structures appear in three spearate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
227 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
228 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
229 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
230 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
231 to their needs.
232
233- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
234 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
235 run will attempt balance.
236
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237- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
238
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239 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
240
241- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
242 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
243 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
244 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
245
98bd7ca0 246- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 247 was introduced.
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248
249- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
250 via OMAPI.
251
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252- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
253 the protocol draft.
254
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255- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
256 one does not already exist on the system.
257
b43c87ad 258- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 259
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260- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
261 matches RFC 3074.
262
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263- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
264 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 265 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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267- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
268 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 269 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
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271- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
272 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
273 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
274 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
275
276- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
277 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
278 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
279 priority over the client's parameter request list.
280
f7fdb216 281- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 282 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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283 DHCPv6 support.
284
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285- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
286 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
287 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
288
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289- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
290 have been incorporated.
291
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292- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
293 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
294 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
295 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
296 that belong to the peer in need.
297
298- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
299 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
300
301- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
302 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
303 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
304
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305- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
306 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
307
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308- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
309 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
310 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
311 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
312 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
313
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314- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
315 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
316 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
317 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
318
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319- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
320 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
321 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
322 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
323 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
324 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
325 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
326 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
327 ignoring this aspect of their request.
328
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329- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
330 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
331
41e45067 332- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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333 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
334 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
335 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
336
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337- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
338 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
339 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
340 hardware and funding the development.
6d103865 341
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342- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
343 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
344 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
345 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
346 via Robin Breathe.
347
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348- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
349 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
350 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
351 from Christof Chen.
352
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353- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
354 formally supported.
355
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356 Changes since 3.0.5
357
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358- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
359 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
360 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 361 they actually received.
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362
363- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
364
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365- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
366 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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367 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
368 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
c1e6c832 369
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370- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
371
d69fb6a8 372- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 373 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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375- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
376 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
377 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
378 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
379 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
380 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
381 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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382 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
383
384- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
385 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
386 'file' field.
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388- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
389 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
390
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391- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
392 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
393 a patch from Kevin Steves.
394
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395- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
396 from Chris Wagner.
397
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398- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
399 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
400 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
401
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402- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
403 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
404 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
405 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
406 was set.
407
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408- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
409 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
410
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411- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
412 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
413 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
414 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
415 active ones.
416
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901306d5 419- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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420 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
421 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
422 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
423 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
424
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425- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
426 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
427
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428 Changes since 3.0.4
429
430- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
431 scopes are actually global has been added.
432
433- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
434 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
435 known to be damaging.
436
437- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
438 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
439 balancing).
440
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441- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
442 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
443 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
444
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445- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
446 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
447 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
448
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449- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
450 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
451 more clear now.
452
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453- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
454 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
455 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
456 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
457 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 458 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
6cbc6629 459
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460- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
461 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
462
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463- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
464 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
465 made possible.
466
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467- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
468 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
469 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
470
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471- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
472 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
473
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474- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
475 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
476 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
477
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478- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
479 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
480 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
481 value with the later configured value).
482
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483- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
484 have been named and documented.
485
486- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
487 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
488 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
489 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
490 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
491 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
492 write new output.
493
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494 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
495
496- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
497 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
498
499 Changes since 3.0.4b3
500
501- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
502 mailing list.
503
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504 Changes since 3.0.4b2
505
506- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunatley require
507 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
508
509- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
510 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
511
512- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
513 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
514 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
515 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
516
517- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
518 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
519 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
520 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
521 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
522 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
523 transition (properly).
524
525- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
526
527 Changes since 3.0.4b1
528
529- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
530 STDIN after reading one line.
531
532- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
533 descriptor it opened twice.
534
535- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
536 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
537 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
538
539 Changes since 3.0.3
540
541- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
542 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
543 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
544
545- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
546 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
547 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
548
549- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
550 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 551 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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552 leases to allocate.
553
554- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
555 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailng PAD option, rather
556 than the entire block of them.
557
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558! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
559 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
560 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
561 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
562 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
563 to a patch from infamous42md.
564
565! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
566 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
567 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
568 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
569 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
570 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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572- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
573 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
574 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
575
576- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
577 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
578
579- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
580 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
581 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
582 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
583 transitional states.
584
585- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
586 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
587 once it detects the old db does not exist.
588
589- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
590 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
591 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
592
593- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
594 been doucmented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
595
596- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
597 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
598
599- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
600 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
601 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
602
603- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
604 patch from 'infamous42md'.
605
606- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
607 repaired.
608
609- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
610 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
611 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
612 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
613
614- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
615 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
616 data.
617
618- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
619 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
620 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
621 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
622 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
623
624- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
625 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
626 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
627 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
628 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
629
630- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
631 has been repaired.
632
633- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
634 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
635 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
636 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
637 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
638
639- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
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642- The linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
643 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
644 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
645 move to 3.[01].x.
646
647- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
648 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
649
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650 Changes since 3.0.3b3
651
652- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
653 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
654
655- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
656 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
657 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
658 workaround.
659
660 Changes since 3.0.3b2
661
662- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
663 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
664
665 Changes since 3.0.3b1
666
667- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
668 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
669 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
670
671- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
672 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
673 dynamic updates were also retouched.
674
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675 Changes since 3.0.2
676
677- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
678 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceeding DISCOVER.
679 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
680
681- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
682 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
683 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
684 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
685 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
686
687- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
688 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
689 Jason Vas Dias at Redhat.
690
691- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
692 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
693 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
694
695- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
696 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
697 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
698 Peter Poeml.
699
700- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
701 Dr. Peter Poeml.
702
703- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
704 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
705 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
706 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
707 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
708 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
709
710- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
711 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
712 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
713 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
714
715- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
716 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
717 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
718 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
719
720- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
721 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
722
723- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
724 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
725 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
726
727- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
728 7 bytes, and failover.
729
730- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
731 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
732 at Redhat.
733
734- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
735 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
736 should work better.
737
738- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
739 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
740 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
741
742- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
743 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
744 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
745
746 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
747
748- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
749 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
750
751 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
752
753- Two varaibles introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
754 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
755 overloading. This was repaired.
756
757- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
758 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
759 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
760 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
761 three chunks to fit.
762
763- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
764 were repaired.
765
766- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
767 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
768 leak).
769
770 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
771
772- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
773 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
774
775 Changes since 3.0.2b1
776
777- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
778
779 Changes since 3.0.1
780
781- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
782 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
783 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
784
785- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
786 name was not provided by the server.
787
788- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
789 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
790
791- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
792 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
793
794- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
795 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
796
797- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
798
799- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
800
801- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
802 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
803 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
804 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
805 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
806
807- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
808 the configuration be globally scoped.
809
810- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
811 Farkas.
812
813- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
814 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
815
816- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
817 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
818
819- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
820 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
821
822- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
823 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
824 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
825 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
826
827- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
828 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
829 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
830 respond to POOLREQ messages.
831
832- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
833 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
834 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
835
836- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
837
838- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
839 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
840 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
841
842- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
843 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
844 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
845 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
846 Fjone and directconnect.no.
847
848- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
849 to Andreas Gustafsson.
850
851- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
852 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
853
854- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
855 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
856 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
857 DISCOVER timeout handling.
858
859- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
860 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
861
862- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
863 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
864 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
865
866- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
867 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
868 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
869 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
870 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
871 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
872
873- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
874 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
875 Infoblox.
876
877- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
878
879- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
880 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
881 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
882 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
883 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
884 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
885 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
886
887- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
888 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
889 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
890
891- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
892 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
893 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
894
895- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
896
897 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
898
899- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
900 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
901 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
902 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
903 systems either.
904
905- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
906
907- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
908 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
909 is false.
910
911- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
912 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
913
914- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
915
916 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
917
918! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
919 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
920 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
921 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
922 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
923 both finding and solving the problem.
924
925! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
926 in log_*() functions was evidented, on some specific platforms where
927 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
928 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
929 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
930 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
931 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
932 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
933 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
934 published version of ISC DHCP.
935
936- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
937
938- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
939
940 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
941
942- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
943 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
944 Richard Hirst.
945
946- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
947 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
948 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
949
950- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
951
952- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
953 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
954 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
955 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
956
957- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
958 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on solaris platforms.
959
960- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
961 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
962
963- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
964
965 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
966
967- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
968 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
969
970- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
971 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
972 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
973
974- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
975 by name was fixed.
976
977- Delcaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
978 longer result in error.
979
980- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
981
982- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
983 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
984 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
985
986- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
987 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
988
989- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
990 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
991 Blapp.
992
993- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
994 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
995 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
996 Martin Blapp.
997
998- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
999 expiry times in failover configurations.
1000
1001- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
1002 Steve G.
1003
1004- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
1005 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
1006
1007- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
1008 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
1009 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
1010 now "unknown-144".
1011
1012- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
1013 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
1014
1015 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
1016
1017- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
1018
1019- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
1020 not be bash.
1021
1022- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1023
1024- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
1025 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
1026 that errored before will now work properly.
1027
1028- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
1029 names was repaired.
1030
1031- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
1032 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
1033 configuration file.
1034
1035- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
1036 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1037
1038- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
1039 error rather than a null dereference.
1040
1041 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
1042
1043- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
1044
1045- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
1046
1047- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
1048 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
1049
1050- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
1051
1052- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
1053
1054- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
1055 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
1056 self-corrupting lease databases.
1057
1058- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
1059
1060- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
1061 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
1062
1063- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
1064
1065- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
1066
1067- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
1068 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
1069 Ling Gou.
1070
1071- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
1072 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1073
1074- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
1075 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
1076 Ted Lemon for the patch.
1077
1078- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
1079 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
1080
1081 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
1082
1083- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
1084 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
1085
1086- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
1087
1088- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
1089 a memory leak.
1090
1091- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
1092 script.
1093
1094- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
1095
1096- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
1097
1098- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
1099
1100- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
1101
1102- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
1103
1104- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
1105
1106- Increment the hop count when relaying.
1107
1108- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
1109
1110- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
1111
1112- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
1113
1114- Change the type of rbuf_max.
1115
1116- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
1117
1118 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
1119
1120- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
1121 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
1122 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
1123
1124 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
1125
1126- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
1127 to be renewed.
1128
1129- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
1130 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
1131
1132- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
1133 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
1134
1135- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
1136 that two permit lists matched.
1137
1138- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
1139 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
1140
1141- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
1142
1143- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
1144 requested it, contrary to the standard.
1145
1146- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
1147
1148- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
1149
1150- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
1151 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
1152 going to update its A record.
1153
1154- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
1155 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
1156 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
1157 DNS server.
1158
1159- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
1160
1161- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
1162
1163- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
1164 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
1165 NetBSD project).
1166
1167- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
1168 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
1169
1170- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
1171 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
1172
1173- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
1174
1175- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
1176
1177- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
1178 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
1179 failover protocol standard.
1180
1181- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
1182 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
1183 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
1184
1185- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
1186 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
1187 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
1188 do so.
1189
1190- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
1191
1192 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
1193
1194- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
1195
1196- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
1197 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
1198
1199- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
1200 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
1201
1202- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
1203 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
1204 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
1205
1206- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
1207 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
1208 network, merge the two pools.
1209
1210- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
1211 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
1212 fix this bug.
1213
1214 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
1215
1216- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
1217 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
1218
1219- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
1220 the same case.
1221
1222- Additional documentation.
1223
1224- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
1225 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
1226
1227 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
1228
1229- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
1230- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
1231
1232 Changes since 3.0.1rc2
1233
1234- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
1235 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
1236 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
1237 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
1238 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
1239
1240 Changes since 3.0.1rc1
1241
1242- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
1243 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
1244 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
1245 wasn't the one that removed it.
1246
1247- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
1248 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
1249 were not configured.
1250
1251- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
1252
1253- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
1254 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
1255 routing information.
1256
1257- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
1258 request being sent.
1259
1260- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
1261 done.
1262
1263- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
1264 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
1265 were pending.
1266
1267- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
1268 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
1269 problems with failover.
1270
1271- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
1272 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
1273 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
1274
1275 Changes since 3.0
1276
1277- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
1278 smash in the subclass allocation code.
1279
1280- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
1281 no object is open, it dumps core.
1282
1283- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
1284
1285- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
1286
1287- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
1288
1289- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
1290 a host object attribute with a null value.
1291
1292 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
1293
1294- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
1295
1296- Fix an obscure core dump.
1297
1298- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
1299 when crucial information is left out.
1300
1301- Log "no free leases" as an error.
1302
1303- Documentation updates.
1304
1305 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
1306
1307- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
1308
1309- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
1310 structure wasn't zeroed.
1311
1312- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
1313 incorrectly.
1314
1315- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
1316 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
1317 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
1318 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
1319 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
1320 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
1321 restarted.
1322
1323 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
1324
1325- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
1326 in failover-enabled pools.
1327
1328- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
1329 declarations).
1330
1331- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
1332 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
1333
1334- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
1335 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
1336
1337- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
1338
1339- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
1340 defined but not referenced by any pools.
1341
1342- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
1343
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1345
1346- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
1347
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1349
1350- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
1351
1352- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
1353
1354- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
1355
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1357
1358- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
1359 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
1360 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
1361
1362- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
1363 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
1364 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
1365 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
1366 string.
1367
1368- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
1369
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1371
1372- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
1373 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
1374
1375- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
1376 malformed packets.
1377
1378- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
1379
1380- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
1381 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
1382 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
1383
1384- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
1385
1386- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
1387
1388- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
1389
1390- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
1391 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
1392
1393- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
1394 tcp connections from being played back.
1395
1396- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
1397 on exit.
1398
1399- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
1400
1401- Add some configurability to the build system.
1402
1403- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
1404
1405- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
1406 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
1407 hadn't been noticed until now.
1408
1409 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
1410
1411- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
1412 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
1413
1414- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
1415 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
1416 conformant, but also didn't work).
1417
1418- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
1419 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
1420
1421- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
1422 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
1423
1424- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
1425 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
1426
1427- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
1428 variables to leases via OMAPI.
1429
1430- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
1431 doing failover.
1432
1433- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
1434 running on alpha processors.
1435
1436- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
1437 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
1438
1439- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
1440
1441- Install omshell (including new documentation).
1442
1443- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
1444 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
1445
1446- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
1447
1448- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
1449 actually named (key names are domain names).
1450
1451- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
1452
1453- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
1454 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
1455
1456- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
1457 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
1458
1459- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
1460 statements.
1461
1462- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
1463 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
1464
1465- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
1466 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
1467 operating.
1468
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1470
1471- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
1472 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
1473 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
1474 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
1475
1476- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
1477 using omapi to manipulate leases.
1478
1479- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
1480
1481
1482 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
1483
1484- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
1485 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
1486
1487- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
1488 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
1489 to the chain.
1490
1491- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
1492
1493- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
1494
1495- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
1496
98311e4b 1497- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
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1499
98311e4b 1500- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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1502- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
1503
1504 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
1505
1506- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
1507 DHCPDECLINE.
1508
1509- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
1510
1511- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
1512 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
1513 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
1514
1515- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
1516
1517- Documentation fixes.
1518
1519- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
1520 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
1521
1522- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
1523 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
1524
1525- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
1526
1527- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
1528
1529- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
1530 case-insensitive.
1531
1532- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
1533
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1536 consistently.
1537
1538- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
1539 systems with the probe not working correctly.
1540
1541- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
1542
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1544
1545- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
1546 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
1547 result of duplicate leases.
1548
1549- Document OMAPI server objects.
1550
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1552
1553- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
1554 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
1555
1556- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
1557 core dumps.
1558
1559- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
1560 Friedrich.
1561
1562- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
1563
1564 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
1565
1566- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
1567 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 1568 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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1570
1571- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
1572 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
1573
1574- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
1575 trace file.
1576
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1579- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
1580 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
1581 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
1582 e.g., Digital Unix.
1583
1584- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
1585 when no error had occurred.
1586
1587- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
1588 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
1589 non-communicating state.
1590
1591- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
1592
1593- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
1594 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
1595 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
1596
1597- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
1598 when the client lease expired.
1599
1600- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
1601 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
1602 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
1603 in testing.
1604
1605- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
1606 the command line, it would fail.
1607
1608- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
1609 user impact).
1610
1611- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
1612
1613- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
1614 they're executable.
1615
1616 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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1618- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
1619 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
1620 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
1621 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
1622
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1624 Transmeta.
1625
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1627 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
1628 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
1629 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
1630
1631- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
1632 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
1633
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1635
1636- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
1637 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
1638
1639- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
1640
1641- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
1642
1643- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
1644
1645- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
1646
1647- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
1648
1649- Update some parts of the README file.
1650
1651- Support GCC on SCO.
1652
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1653 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 23
1654
1655- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
1656 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
1657
1658- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
1659 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
1660 unbill the old class.
1661
1662- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
1663 process the state transition immediately.
1664
1665- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
1666 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
1667
1668- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
1669
1670- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
1671
1672- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
1673
1674- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
1675
1676- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
1677 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
1678 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
1679
1680- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
1681 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
1682
1683- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
1684 lease file.
1685
1686- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
1687
1688- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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1691
1692- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
1693 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
1694
1695- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
1696
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1698
1699- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
1700
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1702
1703- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
1704
1705- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
1706 pl19.
1707
1708- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
1709 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
1710 past the regression test.
1711
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1713
1714- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
1715 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
1716
1717- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
1718 DHCPREQUEST.
1719
1720- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
1721
1722- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
1723
1724- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
1725
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1726 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 18
1727
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1728- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
1729 (Damien Neil)
1730
1731- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
1732 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
1733
1734- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
1735 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
1736 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
1737
1738- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
1739 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
1740 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
1741 message.
1742
1743- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
1744 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
1745 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
1746
98311e4b 1747- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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1749 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
1750 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
1751 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
1752 this way will work.
1753
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1754- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
1755
1756- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
1757 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
1758 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
1759 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
1760
1761 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
1762
1763 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
1764
1765- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
1766 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
1767 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
1768
1769- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
1770 Hermann Lauer.
1771
1772- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
1773 messages.
1774
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1776 it contained quoted strings.
1777
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1778 ** there was no pl17 **
1779
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1780 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 16
1781
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1782- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
1783 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
1784 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
1785 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
1786 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
1787 tracking down memory leaks.
1788
1789- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
1790 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
1791 Solaris.
1792
1793- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
1794 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
1795 corruption and core dumps.
1796
1797- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
1798 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
1799
1800- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
1801
1802- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
1803 and implemented by Damien Neil.
1804
1805- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
1806 name and version to standard output.
1807
1808- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
1809
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1811 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
1812
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1813- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
1814
1815- Lots of documentation updates.
1816
1817- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
1818 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
1819
1820- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
1821
1822- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
1823 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
1824
1825
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1827
1828- Some documentation tweaks.
1829
1830- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
1831
1832- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
1833
1834- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
1835 agent options into them.
1836
1837- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
1838
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1840 options.
1841
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1843
1844- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
1845 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
1846 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
1847 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
1848 used in class statements to control address allocation.
1849
1850- Fix up documentation.
1851
1852- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
1853 significantly in a high-demand situation.
1854
1855- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
1856
1857- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
1858
1859- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
1860 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
1861 practical use otherwise.
1862
1863- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
1864 for debugging.
1865
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1867
1868- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
1869 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
1870 dump on some systems.
1871
1872- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
1873 option.
1874
1875- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
1876 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
1877
1878- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
1879 that were not printing enough information.
1880
1881- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
1882 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
1883
1884- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
1885 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
1886 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
1887 were answering.
1888
1889- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
1890 the transition.
1891
1892
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1894
1895- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
1896
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1897 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
1898
1899- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
1900 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
1901 representation from working correctly.
1902
1903- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
1904 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
1905 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
1906 could spin.
1907
1908- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
1909 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
1910
1911- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
1912 interface name on the command line.
1913
1914- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
1915 client state.
1916
1917- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
1918 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
1919 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
1920 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
1921 added by Ted Lemon.
1922
1923- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
1924 be made to log debugging information and other information.
1925
1926- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
1927 end option.
1928
1929- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
1930 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
1931 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
1932
1933- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
1934 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
1935 face of a null hardware address on input.
1936
1937- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
1938 specified unqualified.
1939
1940- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
1941 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
1942
1943- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
1944 RFC.
1945
1946- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
1947
1948- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
1949
1950- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
1951 it works.
1952
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1953 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
1954
1955- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
1956 to CVS.
1957
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1958 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
1959
1960- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
1961
1962- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
1963 in patchlevel 9.
1964
1965- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
1966 options at renewal time.
1967
1968- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
1969 configuration language.
1970
1971- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
1972
1973- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
1974 done when no client hostname was received.
1975
1976- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
1977
1978- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
1979 the DHCP option space.
1980
1981- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
1982
1983- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
1984 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
1985
1986- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
1987 silently dropped.
1988
1989- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
1990 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
1991
1992- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
1993 will be correctly updated.
1994
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1995 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
1996
1997- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
1998 bounds-checking.
1999
2000 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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2001
2002- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
2003
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2006- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
2007 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
2008 possible to exploit it any further than that.
2009
2010- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
2011 option.
2012
2013- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
2014 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
2015 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
2016 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
2017 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
2018 meaningfully.
2019
2020- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
2021 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
2022 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
2023
2024- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
2025 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
2026 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
2027 this one down!
2028
2029- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
2030 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
2031 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
2032 down and fixing this problem.
2033
2034 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
2035
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2036- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
2037 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
2038
2039- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
2040 environment.
2041
2042- Fix suffix operator.
2043
2044- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
2045
2046- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
2047 connection code.
2048
2049- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
2050
2051- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
2052
2053- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
2054 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
2055
2056- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
2057
2058- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
2059
2060- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
2061 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
2062
2063- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
2064 spawn with.
2065
2066- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
2067 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
2068
2069- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
2070 for OMAPI.
2071
2072- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
2073 can install in host declarations.
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2076
2077- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
2078 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
2079 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
2080 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
2081 comments)!
2082
2083- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
2084
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2085- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
2086 request for help on this with patches!
2087
2088- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
2089 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
2090 lost, they never reconnect.
2091
2092- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
2093 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
2094
2095- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
2096 dump.
2097
2098- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
2099 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
2100 catching this one.
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2103
2104- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
2105 of options, so that the client configuration can overried, e.g., the
2106 lease renewal time.
2107
2108- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
2109 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
2110 declared without a key.
2111
2112- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
2113
2114- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
2115 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
2116
2117- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
2118 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
2119 determine the maximum size of the response.
2120
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2122
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2123- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
2124 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
2125
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2126- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
2127 RENEWING client.
2128
2129- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
2130
2131- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
2132 using memcmp().
2133
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2135
2136- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
2137 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
2138 pointing this out.
2139
2140- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
2141 exit.
2142
2143- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
2144
2145- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
2146 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.