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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- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
63
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64- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
65
66- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
67 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
68
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69- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
70 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
71
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72 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
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74- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
75
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76- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
77 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
78
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79- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
80
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81- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
82 initialized.
83
84- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
85
86- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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87 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
88
89- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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91- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
92
93- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
94 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
95
96- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
97
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98- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
99 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplised.
100
101- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
102 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
103
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104- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
105
106- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
107
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108- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
109
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110 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
111
112- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
113 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
114 no support currently for both.
115
116- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
117 IAADDR option.
118
119- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
120 options.
121
122- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
123
124- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
125 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
126
127- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
128 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
129 specifying type 1 or type 2).
130
131- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
132 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
133
134- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
135 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
136 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
137 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
138 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
139 differently, they both use the same code here).
140
141- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
142 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
143 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
144
145- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
146
147- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
148 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
149 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
150 it should not intercept.
151
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152 Changes since 3.1.0b2
153
154- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
155 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
156 odd number of leases).
157
158- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
159 rebalance run, and one after.
160
161- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
162 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
163 processing these messages.
164
fe5b0fdd 165 Changes since 3.1.0b1
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167- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
168 objects.
169
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170- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
171 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
172 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
173 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
174 at Allianz.
175
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176- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
177 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
178
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179- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
180 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
181
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182- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
183 caused the server to abort.
184
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185- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
186 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
187 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
188
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189- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
190 by empty spaces would not get included.
191
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192- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
193 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
194
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195- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
196 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
197
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198- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
199 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
200
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201- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
202 on the parameter request list.
203
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204 Changes since 3.1.0a3
205
206- Some spelling fixes.
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208 Changes since 3.1.0a2
209
210- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
211 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
212
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213- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
214 domain-search option syntax.
215
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216 Changes since 3.1.0a1
217
218- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
219 hash table was repaired.
220
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221- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
222 entering normal state.
223
224- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
225 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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226 'xid mismatch' log messages.
227
228- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
229 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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231- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
232 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
233 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
234 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
235
236- Lease structures appear in three spearate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
237 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
238 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
239 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
240 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
241 to their needs.
242
243- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
244 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
245 run will attempt balance.
246
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247- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
248
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249 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
250
251- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
252 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
253 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
254 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
255
98bd7ca0 256- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 257 was introduced.
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258
259- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
260 via OMAPI.
261
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262- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
263 the protocol draft.
264
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265- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
266 one does not already exist on the system.
267
b43c87ad 268- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
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270- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
271 matches RFC 3074.
272
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273- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
274 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 275 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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277- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
278 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 279 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
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281- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
282 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
283 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
284 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
285
286- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
287 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
288 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
289 priority over the client's parameter request list.
290
f7fdb216 291- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 292 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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293 DHCPv6 support.
294
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295- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
296 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
297 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
298
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299- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
300 have been incorporated.
301
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302- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
303 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
304 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
305 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
306 that belong to the peer in need.
307
308- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
309 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
310
311- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
312 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
313 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
314
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315- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
316 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
317
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318- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
319 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
320 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
321 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
322 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
323
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324- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
325 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
326 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
327 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
328
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329- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
330 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
331 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
332 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
333 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
334 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
335 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
336 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
337 ignoring this aspect of their request.
338
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339- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
340 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
341
41e45067 342- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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343 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
344 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
345 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
346
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347- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
348 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
349 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
350 hardware and funding the development.
6d103865 351
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352- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
353 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
354 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
355 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
356 via Robin Breathe.
357
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358- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
359 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
360 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
361 from Christof Chen.
362
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363- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
364 formally supported.
365
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366 Changes since 3.0.5
367
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368- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
369 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
370 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 371 they actually received.
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372
373- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
374
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375- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
376 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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377 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
378 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
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380- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
381
d69fb6a8 382- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 383 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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385- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
386 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
387 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
388 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
389 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
390 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
391 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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392 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
393
394- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
395 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
396 'file' field.
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398- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
399 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
400
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401- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
402 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
403 a patch from Kevin Steves.
404
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405- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
406 from Chris Wagner.
407
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408- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
409 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
410 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
411
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412- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
413 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
414 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
415 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
416 was set.
417
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418- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
419 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
420
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421- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
422 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
423 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
424 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
425 active ones.
426
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0a73b7b6 428
901306d5 429- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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430 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
431 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
432 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
433 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
434
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435- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
436 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
437
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438 Changes since 3.0.4
439
440- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
441 scopes are actually global has been added.
442
443- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
444 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
445 known to be damaging.
446
447- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
448 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
449 balancing).
450
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451- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
452 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
453 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
454
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455- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
456 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
457 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
458
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459- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
460 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
461 more clear now.
462
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463- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
464 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
465 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
466 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
467 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 468 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
6cbc6629 469
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470- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
471 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
472
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473- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
474 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
475 made possible.
476
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477- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
478 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
479 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
480
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481- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
482 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
483
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484- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
485 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
486 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
487
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488- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
489 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
490 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
491 value with the later configured value).
492
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493- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
494 have been named and documented.
495
496- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
497 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
498 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
499 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
500 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
501 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
502 write new output.
503
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504 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
505
506- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
507 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
508
509 Changes since 3.0.4b3
510
511- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
512 mailing list.
513
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514 Changes since 3.0.4b2
515
516- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunatley require
517 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
518
519- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
520 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
521
522- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
523 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
524 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
525 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
526
527- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
528 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
529 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
530 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
531 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
532 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
533 transition (properly).
534
535- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
536
537 Changes since 3.0.4b1
538
539- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
540 STDIN after reading one line.
541
542- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
543 descriptor it opened twice.
544
545- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
546 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
547 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
548
549 Changes since 3.0.3
550
551- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
552 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
553 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
554
555- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
556 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
557 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
558
559- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
560 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 561 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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562 leases to allocate.
563
564- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
565 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailng PAD option, rather
566 than the entire block of them.
567
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568! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
569 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
570 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
571 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
572 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
573 to a patch from infamous42md.
574
575! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
576 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
577 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
578 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
579 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
580 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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582- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
583 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
584 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
585
586- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
587 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
588
589- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
590 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
591 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
592 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
593 transitional states.
594
595- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
596 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
597 once it detects the old db does not exist.
598
599- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
600 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
601 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
602
603- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
604 been doucmented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
605
606- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
607 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
608
609- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
610 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
611 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
612
613- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
614 patch from 'infamous42md'.
615
616- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
617 repaired.
618
619- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
620 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
621 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
622 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
623
624- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
625 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
626 data.
627
628- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
629 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
630 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
631 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
632 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
633
634- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
635 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
636 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
637 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
638 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
639
640- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
641 has been repaired.
642
643- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
644 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
645 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
646 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
647 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
648
649- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 650 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
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652- The linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
653 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
654 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
655 move to 3.[01].x.
656
657- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
658 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
659
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660 Changes since 3.0.3b3
661
662- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
663 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
664
665- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
666 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
667 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
668 workaround.
669
670 Changes since 3.0.3b2
671
672- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
673 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
674
675 Changes since 3.0.3b1
676
677- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
678 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
679 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
680
681- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
682 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
683 dynamic updates were also retouched.
684
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685 Changes since 3.0.2
686
687- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
688 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceeding DISCOVER.
689 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
690
691- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
692 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
693 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
694 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
695 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
696
697- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
698 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
699 Jason Vas Dias at Redhat.
700
701- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
702 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
703 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
704
705- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
706 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
707 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
708 Peter Poeml.
709
710- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
711 Dr. Peter Poeml.
712
713- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
714 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
715 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
716 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
717 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
718 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
719
720- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
721 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
722 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
723 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
724
725- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
726 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
727 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
728 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
729
730- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
731 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
732
733- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
734 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
735 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
736
737- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
738 7 bytes, and failover.
739
740- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
741 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
742 at Redhat.
743
744- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
745 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
746 should work better.
747
748- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
749 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
750 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
751
752- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
753 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
754 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
755
756 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
757
758- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
759 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
760
761 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
762
763- Two varaibles introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
764 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
765 overloading. This was repaired.
766
767- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
768 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
769 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
770 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
771 three chunks to fit.
772
773- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
774 were repaired.
775
776- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
777 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
778 leak).
779
780 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
781
782- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
783 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
784
785 Changes since 3.0.2b1
786
787- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
788
789 Changes since 3.0.1
790
791- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
792 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
793 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
794
795- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
796 name was not provided by the server.
797
798- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
799 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
800
801- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
802 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
803
804- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
805 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
806
807- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
808
809- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
810
811- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
812 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
813 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
814 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
815 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
816
817- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
818 the configuration be globally scoped.
819
820- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
821 Farkas.
822
823- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
824 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
825
826- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
827 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
828
829- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
830 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
831
832- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
833 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
834 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
835 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
836
837- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
838 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
839 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
840 respond to POOLREQ messages.
841
842- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
843 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
844 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
845
846- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
847
848- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
849 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
850 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
851
852- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
853 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
854 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
855 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
856 Fjone and directconnect.no.
857
858- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
859 to Andreas Gustafsson.
860
861- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
862 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
863
864- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
865 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
866 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
867 DISCOVER timeout handling.
868
869- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
870 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
871
872- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
873 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
874 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
875
876- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
877 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
878 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
879 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
880 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
881 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
882
883- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
884 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
885 Infoblox.
886
887- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
888
889- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
890 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
891 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
892 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
893 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
894 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
895 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
896
897- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
898 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
899 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
900
901- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
902 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
903 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
904
905- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
906
907 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
908
909- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
910 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
911 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
912 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
913 systems either.
914
915- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
916
917- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
918 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
919 is false.
920
921- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
922 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
923
924- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
925
926 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
927
928! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
929 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
930 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
931 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
932 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
933 both finding and solving the problem.
934
935! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
936 in log_*() functions was evidented, on some specific platforms where
937 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
938 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
939 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
940 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
941 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
942 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
943 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
944 published version of ISC DHCP.
945
946- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
947
948- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
949
950 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
951
952- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
953 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
954 Richard Hirst.
955
956- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
957 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
958 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
959
960- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
961
962- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
963 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
964 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
965 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
966
967- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
968 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on solaris platforms.
969
970- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
971 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
972
973- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
974
975 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
976
977- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
978 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
979
980- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
981 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
982 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
983
984- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
985 by name was fixed.
986
987- Delcaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
988 longer result in error.
989
990- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
991
992- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
993 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
994 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
995
996- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
997 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
998
999- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
1000 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
1001 Blapp.
1002
1003- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
1004 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
1005 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
1006 Martin Blapp.
1007
1008- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
1009 expiry times in failover configurations.
1010
1011- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
1012 Steve G.
1013
1014- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
1015 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
1016
1017- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
1018 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
1019 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
1020 now "unknown-144".
1021
1022- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
1023 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
1024
1025 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
1026
1027- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
1028
1029- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
1030 not be bash.
1031
1032- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1033
1034- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
1035 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
1036 that errored before will now work properly.
1037
1038- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
1039 names was repaired.
1040
1041- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
1042 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
1043 configuration file.
1044
1045- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
1046 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1047
1048- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
1049 error rather than a null dereference.
1050
1051 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
1052
1053- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
1054
1055- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
1056
1057- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
1058 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
1059
1060- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
1061
1062- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
1063
1064- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
1065 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
1066 self-corrupting lease databases.
1067
1068- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
1069
1070- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
1071 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
1072
1073- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
1074
1075- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
1076
1077- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
1078 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
1079 Ling Gou.
1080
1081- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
1082 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1083
1084- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
1085 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
1086 Ted Lemon for the patch.
1087
1088- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
1089 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
1090
1091 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
1092
1093- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
1094 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
1095
1096- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
1097
1098- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
1099 a memory leak.
1100
1101- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
1102 script.
1103
1104- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
1105
1106- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
1107
1108- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
1109
1110- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
1111
1112- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
1113
1114- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
1115
1116- Increment the hop count when relaying.
1117
1118- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
1119
1120- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
1121
1122- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
1123
1124- Change the type of rbuf_max.
1125
1126- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
1127
1128 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
1129
1130- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
1131 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
1132 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
1133
1134 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
1135
1136- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
1137 to be renewed.
1138
1139- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
1140 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
1141
1142- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
1143 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
1144
1145- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
1146 that two permit lists matched.
1147
1148- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
1149 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
1150
1151- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
1152
1153- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
1154 requested it, contrary to the standard.
1155
1156- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
1157
1158- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
1159
1160- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
1161 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
1162 going to update its A record.
1163
1164- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
1165 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
1166 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
1167 DNS server.
1168
1169- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
1170
1171- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
1172
1173- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
1174 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
1175 NetBSD project).
1176
1177- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
1178 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
1179
1180- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
1181 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
1182
1183- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
1184
1185- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
1186
1187- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
1188 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
1189 failover protocol standard.
1190
1191- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
1192 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
1193 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
1194
1195- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
1196 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
1197 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
1198 do so.
1199
1200- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
1201
1202 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
1203
1204- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
1205
1206- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
1207 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
1208
1209- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
1210 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
1211
1212- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
1213 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
1214 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
1215
1216- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
1217 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
1218 network, merge the two pools.
1219
1220- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
1221 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
1222 fix this bug.
1223
1224 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
1225
1226- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
1227 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
1228
1229- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
1230 the same case.
1231
1232- Additional documentation.
1233
1234- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
1235 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
1236
1237 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
1238
1239- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
1240- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
1241
1242 Changes since 3.0.1rc2
1243
1244- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
1245 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
1246 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
1247 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
1248 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
1249
1250 Changes since 3.0.1rc1
1251
1252- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
1253 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
1254 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
1255 wasn't the one that removed it.
1256
1257- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
1258 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
1259 were not configured.
1260
1261- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
1262
1263- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
1264 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
1265 routing information.
1266
1267- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
1268 request being sent.
1269
1270- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
1271 done.
1272
1273- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
1274 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
1275 were pending.
1276
1277- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
1278 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
1279 problems with failover.
1280
1281- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
1282 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
1283 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
1284
1285 Changes since 3.0
1286
1287- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
1288 smash in the subclass allocation code.
1289
1290- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
1291 no object is open, it dumps core.
1292
1293- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
1294
1295- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
1296
1297- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
1298
1299- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
1300 a host object attribute with a null value.
1301
1302 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
1303
1304- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
1305
1306- Fix an obscure core dump.
1307
1308- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
1309 when crucial information is left out.
1310
1311- Log "no free leases" as an error.
1312
1313- Documentation updates.
1314
1315 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
1316
1317- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
1318
1319- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
1320 structure wasn't zeroed.
1321
1322- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
1323 incorrectly.
1324
1325- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
1326 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
1327 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
1328 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
1329 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
1330 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
1331 restarted.
1332
1333 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
1334
1335- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
1336 in failover-enabled pools.
1337
1338- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
1339 declarations).
1340
1341- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
1342 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
1343
1344- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
1345 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
1346
1347- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
1348
1349- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
1350 defined but not referenced by any pools.
1351
1352- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
1353
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1355
1356- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
1357
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1359
1360- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
1361
1362- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
1363
1364- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
1365
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1367
1368- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
1369 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
1370 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
1371
1372- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
1373 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
1374 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
1375 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
1376 string.
1377
1378- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
1379
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1381
1382- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
1383 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
1384
1385- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
1386 malformed packets.
1387
1388- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
1389
1390- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
1391 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
1392 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
1393
1394- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
1395
1396- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
1397
1398- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
1399
1400- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
1401 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
1402
1403- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
1404 tcp connections from being played back.
1405
1406- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
1407 on exit.
1408
1409- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
1410
1411- Add some configurability to the build system.
1412
1413- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
1414
1415- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
1416 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
1417 hadn't been noticed until now.
1418
1419 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
1420
1421- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
1422 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
1423
1424- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
1425 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
1426 conformant, but also didn't work).
1427
1428- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
1429 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
1430
1431- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
1432 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
1433
1434- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
1435 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
1436
1437- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
1438 variables to leases via OMAPI.
1439
1440- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
1441 doing failover.
1442
1443- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
1444 running on alpha processors.
1445
1446- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
1447 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
1448
1449- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
1450
1451- Install omshell (including new documentation).
1452
1453- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
1454 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
1455
1456- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
1457
1458- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
1459 actually named (key names are domain names).
1460
1461- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
1462
1463- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
1464 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
1465
1466- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
1467 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
1468
1469- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
1470 statements.
1471
1472- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
1473 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
1474
1475- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
1476 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
1477 operating.
1478
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1480
1481- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
1482 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
1483 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
1484 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
1485
1486- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
1487 using omapi to manipulate leases.
1488
1489- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
1490
1491
1492 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
1493
1494- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
1495 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
1496
1497- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
1498 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
1499 to the chain.
1500
1501- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
1502
1503- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
1504
1505- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
1506
98311e4b 1507- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
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1509
98311e4b 1510- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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1512- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
1513
1514 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
1515
1516- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
1517 DHCPDECLINE.
1518
1519- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
1520
1521- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
1522 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
1523 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
1524
1525- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
1526
1527- Documentation fixes.
1528
1529- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
1530 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
1531
1532- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
1533 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
1534
1535- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
1536
1537- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
1538
1539- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
1540 case-insensitive.
1541
1542- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
1543
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1546 consistently.
1547
1548- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
1549 systems with the probe not working correctly.
1550
1551- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
1552
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1554
1555- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
1556 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
1557 result of duplicate leases.
1558
1559- Document OMAPI server objects.
1560
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1562
1563- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
1564 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
1565
1566- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
1567 core dumps.
1568
1569- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
1570 Friedrich.
1571
1572- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
1573
1574 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
1575
1576- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
1577 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 1578 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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1580
1581- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
1582 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
1583
1584- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
1585 trace file.
1586
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1590 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
1591 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
1592 e.g., Digital Unix.
1593
1594- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
1595 when no error had occurred.
1596
1597- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
1598 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
1599 non-communicating state.
1600
1601- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
1602
1603- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
1604 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
1605 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
1606
1607- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
1608 when the client lease expired.
1609
1610- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
1611 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
1612 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
1613 in testing.
1614
1615- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
1616 the command line, it would fail.
1617
1618- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
1619 user impact).
1620
1621- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
1622
1623- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
1624 they're executable.
1625
1626 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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1628- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
1629 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
1630 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
1631 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
1632
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1633- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
1634 Transmeta.
1635
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1636- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
1637 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
1638 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
1639 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
1640
1641- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
1642 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
1643
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1645
1646- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
1647 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
1648
1649- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
1650
1651- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
1652
1653- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
1654
1655- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
1656
1657- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
1658
1659- Update some parts of the README file.
1660
1661- Support GCC on SCO.
1662
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1664
1665- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
1666 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
1667
1668- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
1669 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
1670 unbill the old class.
1671
1672- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
1673 process the state transition immediately.
1674
1675- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
1676 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
1677
1678- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
1679
1680- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
1681
1682- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
1683
1684- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
1685
1686- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
1687 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
1688 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
1689
1690- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
1691 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
1692
1693- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
1694 lease file.
1695
1696- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
1697
1698- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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1701
1702- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
1703 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
1704
1705- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
1706
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1708
1709- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
1710
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1712
1713- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
1714
1715- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
1716 pl19.
1717
1718- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
1719 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
1720 past the regression test.
1721
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1723
1724- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
1725 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
1726
1727- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
1728 DHCPREQUEST.
1729
1730- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
1731
1732- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
1733
1734- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
1735
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1736 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 18
1737
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1738- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
1739 (Damien Neil)
1740
1741- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
1742 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
1743
1744- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
1745 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
1746 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
1747
1748- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
1749 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
1750 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
1751 message.
1752
1753- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
1754 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
1755 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
1756
98311e4b 1757- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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1759 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
1760 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
1761 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
1762 this way will work.
1763
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1764- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
1765
1766- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
1767 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
1768 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
1769 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
1770
1771 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
1772
1773 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
1774
1775- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
1776 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
1777 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
1778
1779- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
1780 Hermann Lauer.
1781
1782- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
1783 messages.
1784
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1786 it contained quoted strings.
1787
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1788 ** there was no pl17 **
1789
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1790 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 16
1791
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1792- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
1793 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
1794 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
1795 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
1796 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
1797 tracking down memory leaks.
1798
1799- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
1800 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
1801 Solaris.
1802
1803- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
1804 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
1805 corruption and core dumps.
1806
1807- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
1808 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
1809
1810- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
1811
1812- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
1813 and implemented by Damien Neil.
1814
1815- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
1816 name and version to standard output.
1817
1818- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
1819
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1821 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
1822
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1823- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
1824
1825- Lots of documentation updates.
1826
1827- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
1828 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
1829
1830- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
1831
1832- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
1833 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
1834
1835
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1837
1838- Some documentation tweaks.
1839
1840- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
1841
1842- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
1843
1844- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
1845 agent options into them.
1846
1847- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
1848
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1850 options.
1851
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1853
1854- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
1855 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
1856 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
1857 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
1858 used in class statements to control address allocation.
1859
1860- Fix up documentation.
1861
1862- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
1863 significantly in a high-demand situation.
1864
1865- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
1866
1867- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
1868
1869- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
1870 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
1871 practical use otherwise.
1872
1873- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
1874 for debugging.
1875
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1877
1878- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
1879 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
1880 dump on some systems.
1881
1882- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
1883 option.
1884
1885- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
1886 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
1887
1888- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
1889 that were not printing enough information.
1890
1891- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
1892 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
1893
1894- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
1895 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
1896 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
1897 were answering.
1898
1899- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
1900 the transition.
1901
1902
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1904
1905- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
1906
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1908
1909- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
1910 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
1911 representation from working correctly.
1912
1913- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
1914 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
1915 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
1916 could spin.
1917
1918- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
1919 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
1920
1921- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
1922 interface name on the command line.
1923
1924- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
1925 client state.
1926
1927- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
1928 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
1929 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
1930 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
1931 added by Ted Lemon.
1932
1933- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
1934 be made to log debugging information and other information.
1935
1936- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
1937 end option.
1938
1939- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
1940 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
1941 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
1942
1943- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
1944 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
1945 face of a null hardware address on input.
1946
1947- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
1948 specified unqualified.
1949
1950- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
1951 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
1952
1953- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
1954 RFC.
1955
1956- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
1957
1958- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
1959
1960- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
1961 it works.
1962
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1964
1965- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
1966 to CVS.
1967
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1968 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
1969
1970- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
1971
1972- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
1973 in patchlevel 9.
1974
1975- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
1976 options at renewal time.
1977
1978- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
1979 configuration language.
1980
1981- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
1982
1983- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
1984 done when no client hostname was received.
1985
1986- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
1987
1988- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
1989 the DHCP option space.
1990
1991- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
1992
1993- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
1994 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
1995
1996- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
1997 silently dropped.
1998
1999- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
2000 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
2001
2002- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
2003 will be correctly updated.
2004
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2006
2007- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
2008 bounds-checking.
2009
2010 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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2011
2012- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
2013
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2016- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
2017 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
2018 possible to exploit it any further than that.
2019
2020- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
2021 option.
2022
2023- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
2024 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
2025 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
2026 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
2027 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
2028 meaningfully.
2029
2030- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
2031 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
2032 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
2033
2034- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
2035 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
2036 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
2037 this one down!
2038
2039- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
2040 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
2041 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
2042 down and fixing this problem.
2043
2044 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
2045
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2046- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
2047 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
2048
2049- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
2050 environment.
2051
2052- Fix suffix operator.
2053
2054- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
2055
2056- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
2057 connection code.
2058
2059- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
2060
2061- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
2062
2063- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
2064 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
2065
2066- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
2067
2068- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
2069
2070- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
2071 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
2072
2073- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
2074 spawn with.
2075
2076- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
2077 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
2078
2079- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
2080 for OMAPI.
2081
2082- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
2083 can install in host declarations.
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2086
2087- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
2088 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
2089 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
2090 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
2091 comments)!
2092
2093- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
2094
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2095- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
2096 request for help on this with patches!
2097
2098- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
2099 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
2100 lost, they never reconnect.
2101
2102- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
2103 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
2104
2105- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
2106 dump.
2107
2108- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
2109 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
2110 catching this one.
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2113
2114- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
2115 of options, so that the client configuration can overried, e.g., the
2116 lease renewal time.
2117
2118- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
2119 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
2120 declared without a key.
2121
2122- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
2123
2124- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
2125 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
2126
2127- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
2128 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
2129 determine the maximum size of the response.
2130
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2132
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2133- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
2134 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
2135
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2136- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
2137 RENEWING client.
2138
2139- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
2140
2141- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
2142 using memcmp().
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2145
2146- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
2147 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
2148 pointing this out.
2149
2150- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
2151 exit.
2152
2153- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
2154
2155- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
2156 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.