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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
c76a506e 2 Version 4.0.0rc1
b947f983 3 December 10, 2007
72c7bd79 4
98311e4b 5 Release Notes
72c7bd79 6
da411127 7 NEW FEATURES
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9The DHCP server in version 4.0.x of the ISC DHCP Distribution supports
10DHCPv6 in addition to DHCP for IPv4.
11
12Several new options have been added to the dhcpd executable, which are
13documented in the man page. Several changes have been made to the
14configuration file as well, which are also documented in the man
15pages.
16
45d545f0 17There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
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18release, which will be addressed shortly:
19
99fe695e 20- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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22- There is no DHCPv6 Relay Agent implementation. There are only DHCPv6
23 Server and Client implementations.
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39725d92 25- Only a single address is supported per IA.
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26
27- IA_TA addresses are not supported.
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98bd7ca0 29- IA_PD prefixes are not supported.
29d5553a 30
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31- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages. These
32 should be configurable, and probably localized via gettext() or the
33 like.
34
35- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
36
37- Dynamically allocated leases do not respond to Confirm messages.
38
98bd7ca0 39- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 40 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 41 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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43For information on how to install, configure and run this software,
44as well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult
45the README file.
46
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47ISC DHCP now uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please
48review the output of "./configure --help" to see what options are
49available.
50
51The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and
52may not work on other platforms. Please report any problems and
53suggested fixes to <dhcp-users@isc.org>.
98bd7ca0 54
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1dcc3612 56 Changes since 4.0.0
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57
58- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
59 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
60 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
61
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62- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
63 be more helpful.
64
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65- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
66 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
67 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
68
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69- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
70 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
71
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72- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
73 was repaired.
74
75- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
76 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
77 been repaired.
78
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79- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
80
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81- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
82 reserved IDs avoided).
83
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84- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
85
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86- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
87 carries a rapid-commit option.
88
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89- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
90 an empty active lease.
91
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92- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
93
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94 Changes since 4.0.0b3
95
96- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
97 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
98 configuration.
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100- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
101 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
102
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103- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
104 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
105 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
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107- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
108 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
109 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
110 a requested address.
111
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112- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
113 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
114 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
115 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
116
117- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
118 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
119 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
120 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
121
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122- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
123 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
124 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
125
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126- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
127 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
128
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129- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
130
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131- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
132 codes through some conditions.
133
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134- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
135 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
136
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137- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
138 seemingly random values.
139
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140- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
141
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142- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
143 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
144 one ever has.
145
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146- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
147 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
148 to a REQUEST.
149
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150- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
151 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
152 level.
153
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154 Changes since 4.0.0b2
155
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156- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
157
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158- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
159 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
160 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
161 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
162 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
163
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164- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
165 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
166 new address.
167
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168 Changes since 4.0.0b1
169
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170- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
171 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
172 simultaneously on a single interface.
173
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174- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
175 of service under unusual server configurations
176
177- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
178
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179- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
180 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
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182- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
183 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
184 on every pool rebalance run.
185
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186- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
187 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
188
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189- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
190 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
191
ab3a540f 192 Changes since 4.0.0a3
763cba6b 193
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194- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
195 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
196
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197- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
198 point out the problem.
199
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200- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
201 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
202 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
203
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204- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
205 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
206
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207- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
208 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
209 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
210
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211- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
212
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213- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
214 fixed by Marcus Goller.
215
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216- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
217 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
218 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
219 regardless of the existence of bindings.
220
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221- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
222
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223- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
224 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
225 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
226 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
227 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
228
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229- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
230
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231 Changes since 4.0.0a2
232
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233- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
234 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
235
763cba6b 236- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
e889ded1 237
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238- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
239 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
240 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
241
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242- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
243
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244- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
245 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
246
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247- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
248 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
249 loaded from persistent storage.
250
45d545f0 251- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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252 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
253 necessary.
254
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255- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
256 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
257 rapid-commit option.
258
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259- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
260 non-128-bits in length were removed.
261
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262 Changes since 4.0.0a1
263
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264- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
265 and fix.
266
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267- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
268
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269- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
270
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271- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
272 for when loading configuration.
273
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274- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
275 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
276 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
277
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278- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
279 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
280 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
281 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
282
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283- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
284
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285- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
286 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 287
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288- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
289
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290- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
291
292- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
293 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
294
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295- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
296 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
297
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298- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
299
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300- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
301 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
302
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303 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
304
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305- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
306
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307- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
308 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
309
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310- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
311
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312- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
313 initialized.
314
315- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
316
317- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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318 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
319
320- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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322- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
323
324- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
325 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
326
327- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
328
8ea19a71 329- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 330 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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331
332- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
333 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
334
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335- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
336
337- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
338
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339- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
340
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341 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
342
343- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
344 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
345 no support currently for both.
346
347- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
348 IAADDR option.
349
350- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
351 options.
352
353- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
354
355- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
356 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
357
358- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
359 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
360 specifying type 1 or type 2).
361
362- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
363 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
364
365- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
366 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
367 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
368 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
369 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
370 differently, they both use the same code here).
371
372- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
373 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
374 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
375
376- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
377
378- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
379 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
380 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
381 it should not intercept.
382
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383 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
384
385- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
386 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
387 between primary and secondary.
388
389- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
390 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
391 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
392
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393- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
394
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395- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
396 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
397 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
398 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
399 or REQUEST messages.
400
401- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
402 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
403
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404- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
405
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406 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
407
408- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
409 failover protected subnets was removed.
410
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411 Changes since 3.1.0b2
412
413- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
414 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
415 odd number of leases).
416
417- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
418 rebalance run, and one after.
419
420- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
421 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
422 processing these messages.
423
fe5b0fdd 424 Changes since 3.1.0b1
27837f95 425
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426- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
427 objects.
428
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429- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
430 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
431 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
432 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
433 at Allianz.
434
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435- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
436 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
437
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438- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
439 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
440
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441- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
442 caused the server to abort.
443
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444- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
445 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
446 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
447
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448- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
449 by empty spaces would not get included.
450
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451- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
452 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
453
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454- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
455 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
456
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457- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
458 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
459
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460- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
461 on the parameter request list.
462
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463 Changes since 3.1.0a3
464
465- Some spelling fixes.
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467 Changes since 3.1.0a2
468
469- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
470 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
471
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472- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
473 domain-search option syntax.
474
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475 Changes since 3.1.0a1
476
477- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
478 hash table was repaired.
479
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480- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
481 entering normal state.
482
483- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
484 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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485 'xid mismatch' log messages.
486
487- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
488 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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490- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
491 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
492 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
493 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
494
45d545f0 495- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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496 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
497 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
498 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
499 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
500 to their needs.
501
502- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
503 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
504 run will attempt balance.
505
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506- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
507
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508 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
509
510- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
511 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
512 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
513 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
514
98bd7ca0 515- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 516 was introduced.
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517
518- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
519 via OMAPI.
520
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521- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
522 the protocol draft.
523
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524- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
525 one does not already exist on the system.
526
b43c87ad 527- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 528
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529- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
530 matches RFC 3074.
531
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532- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
533 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 534 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2727c1cf 535
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536- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
537 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 538 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 539
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540- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
541 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
542 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
543 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
544
545- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
546 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
547 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
548 priority over the client's parameter request list.
549
f7fdb216 550- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 551 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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552 DHCPv6 support.
553
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554- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
555 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
556 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
557
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558- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
559 have been incorporated.
560
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561- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
562 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
563 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
564 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
565 that belong to the peer in need.
566
567- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
568 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
569
570- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
571 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
572 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
573
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574- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
575 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
576
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577- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
578 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
579 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
580 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
581 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
582
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583- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
584 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
585 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
586 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
587
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588- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
589 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
590 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
591 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
592 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
593 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
594 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
595 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
596 ignoring this aspect of their request.
597
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598- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
599 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
600
41e45067 601- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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602 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
603 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
604 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
605
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606- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
607 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
608 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
609 hardware and funding the development.
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611- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
612 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
613 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
614 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
615 via Robin Breathe.
616
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617- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
618 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
619 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
620 from Christof Chen.
621
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622- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
623 formally supported.
624
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625 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
626
627- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
628 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
629
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630 Changes since 3.0.5
631
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632- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
633 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
634 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 635 they actually received.
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636
637- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
638
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639- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
640 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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641 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
642 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
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644- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
645
d69fb6a8 646- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 647 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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649- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
650 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
651 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
652 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
653 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
654 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
655 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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656 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
657
658- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
659 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
660 'file' field.
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662- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
663 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
664
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665- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
666 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
667 a patch from Kevin Steves.
668
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669- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
670 from Chris Wagner.
671
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672- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
673 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
674 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
675
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676- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
677 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
678 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
679 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
680 was set.
681
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682- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
683 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
684
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685- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
686 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
687 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
688 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
689 active ones.
690
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901306d5 693- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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694 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
695 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
696 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
697 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
698
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699- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
700 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
701
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702 Changes since 3.0.4
703
704- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
705 scopes are actually global has been added.
706
707- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
708 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
709 known to be damaging.
710
711- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
712 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
713 balancing).
714
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715- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
716 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
717 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
718
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719- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
720 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
721 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
722
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723- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
724 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
725 more clear now.
726
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727- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
728 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
729 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
730 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
731 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 732 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
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734- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
735 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
736
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737- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
738 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
739 made possible.
740
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741- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
742 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
743 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
744
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745- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
746 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
747
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748- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
749 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
750 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
751
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752- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
753 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
754 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
755 value with the later configured value).
756
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757- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
758 have been named and documented.
759
760- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
761 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
762 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
763 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
764 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
765 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
766 write new output.
767
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768 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
769
770- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
771 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
772
773 Changes since 3.0.4b3
774
775- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
776 mailing list.
777
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778 Changes since 3.0.4b2
779
45d545f0 780- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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781 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
782
783- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
784 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
785
786- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
787 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
788 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
789 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
790
791- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
792 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
793 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
794 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
795 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
796 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
797 transition (properly).
798
799- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
800
801 Changes since 3.0.4b1
802
803- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
804 STDIN after reading one line.
805
806- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
807 descriptor it opened twice.
808
809- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
810 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
811 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
812
813 Changes since 3.0.3
814
815- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
816 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
817 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
818
819- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
820 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
821 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
822
823- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
824 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 825 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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826 leases to allocate.
827
828- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 829 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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830 than the entire block of them.
831
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832! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
833 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
834 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
835 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
836 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
837 to a patch from infamous42md.
838
839! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
840 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
841 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
842 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
843 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
844 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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846- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
847 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
848 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
849
850- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
851 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
852
853- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
854 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
855 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
856 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
857 transitional states.
858
859- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
860 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
861 once it detects the old db does not exist.
862
863- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
864 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
865 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
866
867- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 868 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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870- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
871 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
872
873- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
874 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
875 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
876
877- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
878 patch from 'infamous42md'.
879
880- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
881 repaired.
882
883- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
884 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
885 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
886 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
887
888- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
889 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
890 data.
891
892- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
893 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
894 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
895 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
896 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
897
898- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
899 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
900 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
901 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
902 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
903
904- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
905 has been repaired.
906
907- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
908 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
909 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
910 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
911 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
912
913- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 914 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
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917 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
918 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
919 move to 3.[01].x.
920
921- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
922 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
923
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924 Changes since 3.0.3b3
925
926- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
927 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
928
929- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
930 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
931 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
932 workaround.
933
934 Changes since 3.0.3b2
935
936- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
937 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
938
939 Changes since 3.0.3b1
940
941- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
942 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
943 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
944
945- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
946 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
947 dynamic updates were also retouched.
948
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949 Changes since 3.0.2
950
951- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
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954
955- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
956 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
957 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
958 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
959 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
960
961- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
962 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
963 Jason Vas Dias at Redhat.
964
965- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
966 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
967 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
968
969- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
970 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
971 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
972 Peter Poeml.
973
974- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
975 Dr. Peter Poeml.
976
977- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
978 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
979 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
980 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
981 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
982 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
983
984- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
985 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
986 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
987 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
988
989- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
990 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
991 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
992 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
993
994- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
995 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
996
997- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
998 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
999 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
1000
1001- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
1002 7 bytes, and failover.
1003
1004- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
1005 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
1006 at Redhat.
1007
1008- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
1009 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
1010 should work better.
1011
1012- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
1013 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
1014 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
1015
1016- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
1017 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
1018 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
1019
1020 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
1021
1022- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
1023 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
1024
1025 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
1026
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1028 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
1029 overloading. This was repaired.
1030
1031- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
1032 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
1033 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
1034 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
1035 three chunks to fit.
1036
1037- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
1038 were repaired.
1039
1040- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
1041 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
1042 leak).
1043
1044 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
1045
1046- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
1047 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
1048
1049 Changes since 3.0.2b1
1050
1051- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
1052
1053 Changes since 3.0.1
1054
1055- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
1056 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
1057 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
1058
1059- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
1060 name was not provided by the server.
1061
1062- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
1063 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
1064
1065- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
1066 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
1067
1068- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
1069 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
1070
1071- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
1072
1073- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
1074
1075- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
1076 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
1077 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
1078 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
1079 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
1080
1081- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
1082 the configuration be globally scoped.
1083
1084- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
1085 Farkas.
1086
1087- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
1088 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1089
1090- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
1091 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
1092
1093- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
1094 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
1095
1096- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
1097 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
1098 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
1099 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
1100
1101- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
1102 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
1103 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
1104 respond to POOLREQ messages.
1105
1106- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
1107 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
1108 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
1109
1110- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
1111
1112- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
1113 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
1114 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
1115
1116- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
1117 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
1118 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
1119 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
1120 Fjone and directconnect.no.
1121
1122- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
1123 to Andreas Gustafsson.
1124
1125- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
1126 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
1127
1128- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
1129 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
1130 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
1131 DISCOVER timeout handling.
1132
1133- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
1134 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
1135
1136- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
1137 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
1138 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
1139
1140- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
1141 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
1142 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
1143 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
1144 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
1145 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
1146
1147- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
1148 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
1149 Infoblox.
1150
1151- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
1152
1153- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
1154 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
1155 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
1156 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
1157 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
1158 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
1159 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
1160
1161- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
1162 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
1163 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
1164
1165- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
1166 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
1167 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
1168
1169- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
1170
1171 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
1172
1173- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
1174 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
1175 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
1176 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
1177 systems either.
1178
1179- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
1180
1181- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
1182 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
1183 is false.
1184
1185- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
1186 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
1187
1188- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
1189
1190 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
1191
1192! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
1193 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
1194 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
1195 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
1196 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
1197 both finding and solving the problem.
1198
1199! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
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1201 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
1202 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
1203 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
1204 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
1205 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
1206 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
1207 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
1208 published version of ISC DHCP.
1209
1210- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
1211
1212- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
1213
1214 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
1215
1216- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
1217 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
1218 Richard Hirst.
1219
1220- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
1221 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
1222 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
1223
1224- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
1225
1226- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
1227 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
1228 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
1229 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
1230
1231- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 1232 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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1233
1234- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
1235 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
1236
1237- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
1238
1239 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
1240
1241- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
1242 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
1243
1244- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
1245 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
1246 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
1247
1248- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
1249 by name was fixed.
1250
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1252 longer result in error.
1253
1254- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
1255
1256- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
1257 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
1258 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
1259
1260- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
1261 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
1262
1263- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
1264 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
1265 Blapp.
1266
1267- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
1268 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
1269 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
1270 Martin Blapp.
1271
1272- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
1273 expiry times in failover configurations.
1274
1275- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
1276 Steve G.
1277
1278- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
1279 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
1280
1281- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
1282 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
1283 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
1284 now "unknown-144".
1285
1286- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
1287 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
1288
1289 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
1290
1291- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
1292
1293- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
1294 not be bash.
1295
1296- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1297
1298- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
1299 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
1300 that errored before will now work properly.
1301
1302- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
1303 names was repaired.
1304
1305- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
1306 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
1307 configuration file.
1308
1309- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
1310 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1311
1312- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
1313 error rather than a null dereference.
1314
1315 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
1316
1317- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
1318
1319- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
1320
1321- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
1322 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
1323
1324- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
1325
1326- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
1327
1328- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
1329 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
1330 self-corrupting lease databases.
1331
1332- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
1333
1334- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
1335 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
1336
1337- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
1338
1339- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
1340
1341- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
1342 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
1343 Ling Gou.
1344
1345- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
1346 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1347
1348- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
1349 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
1350 Ted Lemon for the patch.
1351
1352- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
1353 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
1354
1355 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
1356
1357- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
1358 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
1359
1360- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
1361
1362- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
1363 a memory leak.
1364
1365- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
1366 script.
1367
1368- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
1369
1370- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
1371
1372- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
1373
1374- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
1375
1376- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
1377
1378- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
1379
1380- Increment the hop count when relaying.
1381
1382- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
1383
1384- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
1385
1386- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
1387
1388- Change the type of rbuf_max.
1389
1390- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
1391
1392 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
1393
1394- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
1395 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
1396 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
1397
1398 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
1399
1400- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
1401 to be renewed.
1402
1403- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
1404 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
1405
1406- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
1407 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
1408
1409- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
1410 that two permit lists matched.
1411
1412- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
1413 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
1414
1415- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
1416
1417- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
1418 requested it, contrary to the standard.
1419
1420- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
1421
1422- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
1423
1424- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
1425 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
1426 going to update its A record.
1427
1428- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
1429 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
1430 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
1431 DNS server.
1432
1433- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
1434
1435- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
1436
1437- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
1438 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
1439 NetBSD project).
1440
1441- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
1442 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
1443
1444- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
1445 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
1446
1447- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
1448
1449- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
1450
1451- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
1452 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
1453 failover protocol standard.
1454
1455- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
1456 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
1457 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
1458
1459- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
1460 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
1461 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
1462 do so.
1463
1464- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
1465
1466 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
1467
1468- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
1469
1470- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
1471 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
1472
1473- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
1474 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
1475
1476- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
1477 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
1478 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
1479
1480- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
1481 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
1482 network, merge the two pools.
1483
1484- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
1485 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
1486 fix this bug.
1487
1488 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
1489
1490- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
1491 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
1492
1493- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
1494 the same case.
1495
1496- Additional documentation.
1497
1498- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
1499 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
1500
1501 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
1502
1503- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
1504- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
1505
1506 Changes since 3.0.1rc2
1507
1508- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
1509 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
1510 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
1511 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
1512 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
1513
1514 Changes since 3.0.1rc1
1515
1516- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
1517 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
1518 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
1519 wasn't the one that removed it.
1520
1521- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
1522 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
1523 were not configured.
1524
1525- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
1526
1527- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
1528 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
1529 routing information.
1530
1531- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
1532 request being sent.
1533
1534- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
1535 done.
1536
1537- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
1538 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
1539 were pending.
1540
1541- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
1542 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
1543 problems with failover.
1544
1545- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
1546 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
1547 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
1548
1549 Changes since 3.0
1550
1551- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
1552 smash in the subclass allocation code.
1553
1554- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
1555 no object is open, it dumps core.
1556
1557- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
1558
1559- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
1560
1561- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
1562
1563- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
1564 a host object attribute with a null value.
1565
1566 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
1567
1568- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
1569
1570- Fix an obscure core dump.
1571
1572- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
1573 when crucial information is left out.
1574
1575- Log "no free leases" as an error.
1576
1577- Documentation updates.
1578
1579 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
1580
1581- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
1582
1583- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
1584 structure wasn't zeroed.
1585
1586- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
1587 incorrectly.
1588
1589- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
1590 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
1591 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
1592 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
1593 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
1594 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
1595 restarted.
1596
1597 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
1598
1599- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
1600 in failover-enabled pools.
1601
1602- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
1603 declarations).
1604
1605- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
1606 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
1607
1608- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
1609 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
1610
1611- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
1612
1613- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
1614 defined but not referenced by any pools.
1615
1616- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
1617
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1619
1620- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
1621
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1623
1624- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
1625
1626- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
1627
1628- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
1629
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1631
1632- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
1633 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
1634 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
1635
1636- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
1637 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
1638 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
1639 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
1640 string.
1641
1642- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
1643
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1645
1646- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
1647 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
1648
1649- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
1650 malformed packets.
1651
1652- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
1653
1654- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
1655 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
1656 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
1657
1658- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
1659
1660- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
1661
1662- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
1663
1664- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
1665 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
1666
1667- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
1668 tcp connections from being played back.
1669
1670- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
1671 on exit.
1672
1673- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
1674
1675- Add some configurability to the build system.
1676
1677- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
1678
1679- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
1680 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
1681 hadn't been noticed until now.
1682
1683 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
1684
1685- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
1686 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
1687
1688- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
1689 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
1690 conformant, but also didn't work).
1691
1692- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
1693 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
1694
1695- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
1696 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
1697
1698- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
1699 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
1700
1701- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
1702 variables to leases via OMAPI.
1703
1704- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
1705 doing failover.
1706
1707- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
1708 running on alpha processors.
1709
1710- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
1711 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
1712
1713- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
1714
1715- Install omshell (including new documentation).
1716
1717- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
1718 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
1719
1720- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
1721
1722- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
1723 actually named (key names are domain names).
1724
1725- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
1726
1727- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
1728 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
1729
1730- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
1731 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
1732
1733- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
1734 statements.
1735
1736- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
1737 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
1738
1739- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
1740 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
1741 operating.
1742
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1744
1745- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
1746 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
1747 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
1748 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
1749
1750- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
1751 using omapi to manipulate leases.
1752
1753- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
1754
1755
1756 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
1757
1758- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
1759 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
1760
1761- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
1762 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
1763 to the chain.
1764
1765- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
1766
1767- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
1768
1769- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
1770
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1773
98311e4b 1774- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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1776- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
1777
1778 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
1779
1780- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
1781 DHCPDECLINE.
1782
1783- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
1784
1785- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
1786 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
1787 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
1788
1789- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
1790
1791- Documentation fixes.
1792
1793- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
1794 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
1795
1796- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
1797 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
1798
1799- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
1800
1801- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
1802
1803- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
1804 case-insensitive.
1805
1806- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
1807
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1810 consistently.
1811
1812- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
1813 systems with the probe not working correctly.
1814
1815- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
1816
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1818
1819- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
1820 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
1821 result of duplicate leases.
1822
1823- Document OMAPI server objects.
1824
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1826
1827- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
1828 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
1829
1830- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
1831 core dumps.
1832
1833- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
1834 Friedrich.
1835
1836- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
1837
1838 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
1839
1840- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
1841 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
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1844
1845- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
1846 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
1847
1848- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
1849 trace file.
1850
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1854 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
1855 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
1856 e.g., Digital Unix.
1857
1858- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
1859 when no error had occurred.
1860
1861- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
1862 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
1863 non-communicating state.
1864
1865- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
1866
1867- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
1868 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
1869 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
1870
1871- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
1872 when the client lease expired.
1873
1874- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
1875 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
1876 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
1877 in testing.
1878
1879- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
1880 the command line, it would fail.
1881
1882- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
1883 user impact).
1884
1885- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
1886
1887- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
1888 they're executable.
1889
1890 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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1892- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
1893 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
1894 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
1895 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
1896
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1898 Transmeta.
1899
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1900- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
1901 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
1902 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
1903 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
1904
1905- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
1906 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
1907
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1909
1910- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
1911 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
1912
1913- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
1914
1915- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
1916
1917- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
1918
1919- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
1920
1921- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
1922
1923- Update some parts of the README file.
1924
1925- Support GCC on SCO.
1926
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1928
1929- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
1930 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
1931
1932- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
1933 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
1934 unbill the old class.
1935
1936- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
1937 process the state transition immediately.
1938
1939- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
1940 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
1941
1942- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
1943
1944- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
1945
1946- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
1947
1948- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
1949
1950- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
1951 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
1952 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
1953
1954- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
1955 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
1956
1957- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
1958 lease file.
1959
1960- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
1961
1962- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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1965
1966- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
1967 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
1968
1969- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
1970
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1972
1973- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
1974
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1976
1977- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
1978
1979- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
1980 pl19.
1981
1982- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
1983 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
1984 past the regression test.
1985
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1987
1988- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
1989 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
1990
1991- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
1992 DHCPREQUEST.
1993
1994- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
1995
1996- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
1997
1998- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
1999
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2001
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2002- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
2003 (Damien Neil)
2004
2005- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
2006 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
2007
2008- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
2009 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
2010 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
2011
2012- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
2013 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
2014 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
2015 message.
2016
2017- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
2018 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
2019 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
2020
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2022 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
2023 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
2024 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
2025 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
2026 this way will work.
2027
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2028- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
2029
2030- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
2031 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
2032 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
2033 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
2034
2035 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
2036
2037 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
2038
2039- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
2040 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
2041 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
2042
2043- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
2044 Hermann Lauer.
2045
2046- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
2047 messages.
2048
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2049- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
2050 it contained quoted strings.
2051
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2052 ** there was no pl17 **
2053
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2054 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 16
2055
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2056- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
2057 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
2058 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
2059 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
2060 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
2061 tracking down memory leaks.
2062
2063- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
2064 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
2065 Solaris.
2066
2067- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
2068 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
2069 corruption and core dumps.
2070
2071- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
2072 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
2073
2074- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
2075
2076- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
2077 and implemented by Damien Neil.
2078
2079- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
2080 name and version to standard output.
2081
2082- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
2083
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2084- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
2085 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
2086
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2087- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
2088
2089- Lots of documentation updates.
2090
2091- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
2092 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
2093
2094- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
2095
2096- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
2097 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
2098
2099
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2101
2102- Some documentation tweaks.
2103
2104- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
2105
2106- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
2107
2108- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
2109 agent options into them.
2110
2111- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
2112
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2113- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
2114 options.
2115
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2117
2118- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
2119 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
2120 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
2121 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
2122 used in class statements to control address allocation.
2123
2124- Fix up documentation.
2125
2126- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
2127 significantly in a high-demand situation.
2128
2129- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
2130
2131- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
2132
2133- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
2134 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
2135 practical use otherwise.
2136
2137- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
2138 for debugging.
2139
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2141
2142- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
2143 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
2144 dump on some systems.
2145
2146- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
2147 option.
2148
2149- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
2150 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
2151
2152- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
2153 that were not printing enough information.
2154
2155- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
2156 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
2157
2158- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
2159 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
2160 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
2161 were answering.
2162
2163- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
2164 the transition.
2165
2166
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2168
2169- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
2170
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2172
2173- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
2174 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
2175 representation from working correctly.
2176
2177- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
2178 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
2179 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
2180 could spin.
2181
2182- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
2183 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
2184
2185- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
2186 interface name on the command line.
2187
2188- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
2189 client state.
2190
2191- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
2192 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
2193 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
2194 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
2195 added by Ted Lemon.
2196
2197- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
2198 be made to log debugging information and other information.
2199
2200- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
2201 end option.
2202
2203- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
2204 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
2205 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
2206
2207- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
2208 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
2209 face of a null hardware address on input.
2210
2211- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
2212 specified unqualified.
2213
2214- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
2215 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
2216
2217- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
2218 RFC.
2219
2220- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
2221
2222- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
2223
2224- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
2225 it works.
2226
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2228
2229- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
2230 to CVS.
2231
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2233
2234- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
2235
2236- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
2237 in patchlevel 9.
2238
2239- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
2240 options at renewal time.
2241
2242- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
2243 configuration language.
2244
2245- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
2246
2247- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
2248 done when no client hostname was received.
2249
2250- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
2251
2252- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
2253 the DHCP option space.
2254
2255- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
2256
2257- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
2258 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
2259
2260- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
2261 silently dropped.
2262
2263- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
2264 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
2265
2266- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
2267 will be correctly updated.
2268
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2270
2271- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
2272 bounds-checking.
2273
2274 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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2276- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
2277
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2280- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
2281 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
2282 possible to exploit it any further than that.
2283
2284- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
2285 option.
2286
2287- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
2288 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
2289 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
2290 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
2291 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
2292 meaningfully.
2293
2294- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
2295 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
2296 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
2297
2298- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
2299 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
2300 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
2301 this one down!
2302
2303- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
2304 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
2305 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
2306 down and fixing this problem.
2307
2308 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
2309
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2310- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
2311 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
2312
2313- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
2314 environment.
2315
2316- Fix suffix operator.
2317
2318- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
2319
2320- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
2321 connection code.
2322
2323- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
2324
2325- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
2326
2327- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
2328 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
2329
2330- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
2331
2332- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
2333
2334- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
2335 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
2336
2337- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
2338 spawn with.
2339
2340- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
2341 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
2342
2343- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
2344 for OMAPI.
2345
2346- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
2347 can install in host declarations.
2348
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2350
2351- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
2352 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
2353 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
2354 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
2355 comments)!
2356
2357- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
2358
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2359- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
2360 request for help on this with patches!
2361
2362- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
2363 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
2364 lost, they never reconnect.
2365
2366- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
2367 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
2368
2369- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
2370 dump.
2371
2372- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
2373 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
2374 catching this one.
2375
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2377
2378- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
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2381
2382- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
2383 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
2384 declared without a key.
2385
2386- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
2387
2388- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
2389 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
2390
2391- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
2392 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
2393 determine the maximum size of the response.
2394
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2396
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2397- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
2398 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
2399
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2400- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
2401 RENEWING client.
2402
2403- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
2404
2405- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
2406 using memcmp().
2407
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2409
2410- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
2411 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
2412 pointing this out.
2413
2414- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
2415 exit.
2416
2417- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
2418
2419- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
2420 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.