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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
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2 Version 4.2.0
3 21 December 2012
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0171be2d 5 Release Notes
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0171be2d 7 NEW FEATURES
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9ISC DHCP 4.2.x includes features that were not included in DHCP 4.1.x.
10These include:
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12There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
13release, which will be addressed in the future:
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01a54c17 15- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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17- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages, in
18 English. A method to reconfigure or support other languages would
19 be preferrable.
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20
21- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
22
98bd7ca0 23- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 24 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 25 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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27For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as
28well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the
29README file.
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31ISC DHCP uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please review the
32output of "./configure --help" to see what options are available.
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34The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and may not
35work on other platforms. Please report any problems and suggested fixes to
36<dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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39 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
40
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41- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
42 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 43 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
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45- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
46 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
47 Cantrell at Red Hat.
48
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49- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
50 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
51
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52- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
53
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54- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
55 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
56 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
57 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
58 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
59 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
60
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61- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
62 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
63 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
64 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
65 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
66 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
67 FQDN options by default).
68
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69- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
70 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
71 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
72 determined lease time) are omitted.
73
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74 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
75
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76- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
77
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78- Validate the argument to the -p option.
79
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80- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
81 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
82 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
83 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
84 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
85
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86- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
87
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88- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
89 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
90 had been deleted from configuration.
91
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92- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
93 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
94 AC_USE_SYSTME_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
95 were being ignored.
96
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97- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
98
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99- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
100 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
101 Nordahl.
102
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103- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
104 dhcpv6 disabled.
105
8d7dca58 106- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 107 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
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109- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
110 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
111
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112- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
113 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
114 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
115
116- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
117 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
118 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
119 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
120 fewer system calls.
121
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122- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
123 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
124 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
125 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
126 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
127 Christof Chen.
128
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129- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
130 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
131 and in normal state.
132
133- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
134 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
135
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136- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
137
138- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
139 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
140 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
141
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142- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
143 rather than restarting the listener.
144
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145- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
146 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
147
148- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
149 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
150 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
151
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152- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
153 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
154 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
155 timeouts).
156
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157- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
158 in failover state records.
159
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160! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
161 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
162 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 163 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
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165- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
166 processing a DHCPINFORM.
167
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168- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
169 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
170 last option definition is used.
171
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172- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
173 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
174 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
175
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176- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
177 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
178
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179- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
180 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
181 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
182 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
183 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
184 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
185
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186- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
187 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
188 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
189 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
190
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191! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
192 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
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194- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
195 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
196
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197- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
198 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
199 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
200 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
201 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
202 over-riding vlaues were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
203 configuration.
204
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207- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
208 be recognized.
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210 Changes since 4.1.0a2
211
212- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
213 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
214 "abandoned".
215
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216- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
217
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218- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
219 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
220
221- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
222 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
223
224- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 225 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
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227- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
228
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229- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
230 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
231 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
232 in future releases.
233
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234- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
235 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
236
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237- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
238 'dhclient -6' support.
239
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240- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
241 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
242 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
243 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
244
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246
247- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
248
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249- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
250
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251- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
252 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
253 only the latter. Fixed.
254
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255- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
256
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257- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
258 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
259
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260- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
261
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262- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
263
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264- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
265 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
266 --enable-early-chroot.
267
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268- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
269 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
270
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271- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
272 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
273 parameter.
274
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275- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
276 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
277
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278- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
279 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
280
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281- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
282
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283- Merged IA_XX related structures.
284
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285- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
286
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287- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
288
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289- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
290 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
291 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
292
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293- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
294 support.
295
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296- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
297 repaired.
298
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299- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
300
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301- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
302
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303- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
304 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
305
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306- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
307 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
308
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309- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
310 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
311
312- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
313 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
314 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
315 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
316 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
317 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
318 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
319 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
320 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
321 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
322 shared-network.
323
324- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
325 configured option values.
326
327- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
328 support class statements.
329
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330- Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
331 selection were repaired.
332
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333- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
334 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
335 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
336 by the OS.
337
338- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
339 address.
340
341- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
342 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
343
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344- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
345
346- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
347
348- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
349 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
350
01a54c17 351 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
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353- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
354
4cafb815 355- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 356 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
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358- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
359 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
360 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
361
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362- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
363 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
364
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365- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
366
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367- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
368 reserved IDs avoided).
369
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370- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
371
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372- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
373 carries a rapid-commit option.
374
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375- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
376 an empty active lease.
377
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378- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
379
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380- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
381 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
382 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
383 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
384
385- MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
386
387- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
388 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
389 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
390 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
391 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
392 Christof Chen.
393
394 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
395
396- DHCP now builds on AIX.
397
398- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
399 config file but -6 is not specified.
400
401- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
402
403- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
404 be more helpful.
405
406- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
407 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
408 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
409
410- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
411 was repaired.
412
413- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
414 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
415 been repaired.
416
417- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
418 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
419 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
420
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421- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
422 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
423
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424- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
425 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
426 IPv4 address.
427
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428- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
429 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
430 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
431 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
432 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
433
434- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
435 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
436 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
437
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438- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
439
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440- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
441
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442- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
443 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
444 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
445 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
446 unnecessary logging.
447
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448- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
449 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
450
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451- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
452 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
453 is incompatible is printed.
454
455- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
456 a previously undefined option code.
457
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458- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
459 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
460
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461- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
462 than the year 2000.
463
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464- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
465
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466- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
467
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468- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
469
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470 Changes since 4.0.0b3
471
472- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
473 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
474 configuration.
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476- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
477 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
478
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479- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
480 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
481 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
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483- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
484 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
485 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
486 a requested address.
487
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488- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
489 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
490 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
491 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
492
493- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
494 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
495 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
496 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
497
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498- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
499 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
500 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
501
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502- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
503 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
504
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505- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
506
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507- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
508 codes through some conditions.
509
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510- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
511 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
512
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513- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
514 seemingly random values.
515
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516- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
517
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518- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
519 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
520 one ever has.
521
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522- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
523 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
524 to a REQUEST.
525
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526- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
527 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
528 level.
529
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530 Changes since 4.0.0b2
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532- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
533
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534- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
535 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
536 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
537 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
538 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
539
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540- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
541 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
542 new address.
543
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544 Changes since 4.0.0b1
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546- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
547 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
548 simultaneously on a single interface.
549
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550- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
551 of service under unusual server configurations
552
553- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
554
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555- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
556 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
fa9b593d 557
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558- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
559 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
560 on every pool rebalance run.
561
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562- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
563 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
564
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565- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
566 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
567
ab3a540f 568 Changes since 4.0.0a3
763cba6b 569
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570- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
571 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
572
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573- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
574 point out the problem.
575
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576- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
577 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
578 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
579
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580- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
581 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
582
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583- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
584 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
585 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
586
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587- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
588
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589- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
590 fixed by Marcus Goller.
591
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592- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
593 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
594 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
595 regardless of the existence of bindings.
596
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597- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
598
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599- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
600 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
601 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
602 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
603 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
604
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605- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
606
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607 Changes since 4.0.0a2
608
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609- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
610 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
611
763cba6b 612- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
e889ded1 613
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614- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
615 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
616 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
617
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618- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
619
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620- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
621 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
622
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623- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
624 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
625 loaded from persistent storage.
626
45d545f0 627- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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628 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
629 necessary.
630
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631- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
632 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
633 rapid-commit option.
634
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635- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
636 non-128-bits in length were removed.
637
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638 Changes since 4.0.0a1
639
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640- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
641 and fix.
642
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643- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
644
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645- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
646
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647- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
648 for when loading configuration.
649
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650- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
651 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
652 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
653
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654- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
655 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
656 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
657 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
658
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659- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
660
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661- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
662 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
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664- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
665
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666- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
667
668- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
669 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
670
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671- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
672 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
673
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674- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
675
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676- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
677 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
678
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679 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
680
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681- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
682
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683- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
684 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
685
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686- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
687
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688- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
689 initialized.
690
691- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
692
693- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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694 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
695
696- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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698- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
699
700- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
701 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
702
703- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
704
8ea19a71 705- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 706 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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707
708- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
709 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
710
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711- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
712
713- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
714
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715- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
716
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717 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
718
719- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
720 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
721 no support currently for both.
722
723- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
724 IAADDR option.
725
726- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
727 options.
728
729- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
730
731- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
732 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
733
734- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
735 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
736 specifying type 1 or type 2).
737
738- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
739 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
740
741- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
742 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
743 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
744 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
745 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
746 differently, they both use the same code here).
747
748- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
749 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
750 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
751
752- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
753
754- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
755 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
756 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
757 it should not intercept.
758
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759 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
760
761- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
762 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
763 between primary and secondary.
764
765- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
766 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
767 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
768
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769- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
770
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771- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
772 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
773 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
774 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
775 or REQUEST messages.
776
777- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
778 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
779
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780- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
781
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782 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
783
784- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
785 failover protected subnets was removed.
786
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787 Changes since 3.1.0b2
788
789- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
790 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
791 odd number of leases).
792
793- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
794 rebalance run, and one after.
795
796- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
797 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
798 processing these messages.
799
fe5b0fdd 800 Changes since 3.1.0b1
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802- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
803 objects.
804
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805- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
806 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
807 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
808 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
809 at Allianz.
810
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811- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
812 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
813
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814- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
815 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
816
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817- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
818 caused the server to abort.
819
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820- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
821 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
822 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
823
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824- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
825 by empty spaces would not get included.
826
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827- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
828 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
829
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830- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
831 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
832
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833- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
834 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
835
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836- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
837 on the parameter request list.
838
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839 Changes since 3.1.0a3
840
841- Some spelling fixes.
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843 Changes since 3.1.0a2
844
845- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
846 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
847
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848- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
849 domain-search option syntax.
850
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851 Changes since 3.1.0a1
852
853- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
854 hash table was repaired.
855
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856- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
857 entering normal state.
858
859- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
860 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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861 'xid mismatch' log messages.
862
863- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
864 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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866- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
867 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
868 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
869 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
870
45d545f0 871- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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872 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
873 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
874 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
875 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
876 to their needs.
877
878- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
879 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
880 run will attempt balance.
881
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882- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
883
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884 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
885
886- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
887 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
888 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
889 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
890
98bd7ca0 891- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 892 was introduced.
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893
894- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
895 via OMAPI.
896
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897- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
898 the protocol draft.
899
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900- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
901 one does not already exist on the system.
902
b43c87ad 903- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 904
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905- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
906 matches RFC 3074.
907
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908- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
909 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 910 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2727c1cf 911
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912- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
913 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 914 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
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916- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
917 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
918 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
919 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
920
921- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
922 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
923 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
924 priority over the client's parameter request list.
925
f7fdb216 926- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 927 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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928 DHCPv6 support.
929
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930- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
931 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
932 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
933
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934- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
935 have been incorporated.
936
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937- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
938 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
939 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
940 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
941 that belong to the peer in need.
942
943- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
944 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
945
946- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
947 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
948 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
949
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950- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
951 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
952
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953- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
954 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
955 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
956 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
957 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
958
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959- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
960 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
961 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
962 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
963
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964- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
965 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
966 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
967 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
968 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
969 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
970 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
971 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
972 ignoring this aspect of their request.
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974- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
975 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
976
41e45067 977- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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978 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
979 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
980 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
981
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982- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
983 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
984 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
985 hardware and funding the development.
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987- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
988 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
989 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
990 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
991 via Robin Breathe.
992
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993- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
994 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
995 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
996 from Christof Chen.
997
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998- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
999 formally supported.
1000
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1001 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
1002
1003- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
1004 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
1005
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1006 Changes since 3.0.5
1007
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1008- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
1009 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
1010 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 1011 they actually received.
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1012
1013- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
1014
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1015- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
1016 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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1017 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
1018 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
c1e6c832 1019
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1020- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
1021
d69fb6a8 1022- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 1023 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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1025- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
1026 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
1027 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
1028 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
1029 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
1030 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
1031 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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1032 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
1033
1034- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
1035 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
1036 'file' field.
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1038- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
1039 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
1040
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1041- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
1042 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
1043 a patch from Kevin Steves.
1044
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1045- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
1046 from Chris Wagner.
1047
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1048- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
1049 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
1050 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
1051
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1052- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
1053 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
1054 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
1055 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
1056 was set.
1057
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1058- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
1059 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
1060
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1061- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
1062 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
1063 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
1064 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
1065 active ones.
1066
02428754 1067 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
0a73b7b6 1068
901306d5 1069- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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1070 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
1071 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
1072 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
1073 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
1074
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1075- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
1076 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
1077
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1078 Changes since 3.0.4
1079
1080- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
1081 scopes are actually global has been added.
1082
1083- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
1084 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
1085 known to be damaging.
1086
1087- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
1088 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
1089 balancing).
1090
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1091- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
1092 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
1093 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
1094
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1095- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
1096 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
1097 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
1098
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1099- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
1100 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
1101 more clear now.
1102
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1103- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
1104 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
1105 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
1106 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
1107 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 1108 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
6cbc6629 1109
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1110- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
1111 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
1112
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1113- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
1114 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
1115 made possible.
1116
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1117- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
1118 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
1119 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
1120
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1121- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
1122 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
1123
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1124- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
1125 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
1126 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
1127
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1128- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
1129 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
1130 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
1131 value with the later configured value).
1132
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1133- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
1134 have been named and documented.
1135
1136- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
1137 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
1138 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
1139 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
1140 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
1141 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
1142 write new output.
1143
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1144 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
1145
1146- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
1147 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
1148
1149 Changes since 3.0.4b3
1150
1151- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
1152 mailing list.
1153
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1154 Changes since 3.0.4b2
1155
45d545f0 1156- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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1157 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
1158
1159- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
1160 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
1161
1162- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
1163 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
1164 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
1165 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
1166
1167- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
1168 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
1169 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
1170 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
1171 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
1172 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
1173 transition (properly).
1174
1175- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
1176
1177 Changes since 3.0.4b1
1178
1179- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
1180 STDIN after reading one line.
1181
1182- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
1183 descriptor it opened twice.
1184
1185- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
1186 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
1187 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
1188
1189 Changes since 3.0.3
1190
1191- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
1192 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
1193 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
1194
1195- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
1196 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
1197 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
1198
1199- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
1200 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 1201 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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1202 leases to allocate.
1203
1204- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 1205 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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1206 than the entire block of them.
1207
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1208! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
1209 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
1210 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
1211 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
1212 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
1213 to a patch from infamous42md.
1214
1215! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
1216 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
1217 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
1218 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
1219 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
1220 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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1221
1222- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
1223 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
1224 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
1225
1226- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 1227 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1228
1229- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
1230 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
1231 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
1232 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
1233 transitional states.
1234
1235- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
1236 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
1237 once it detects the old db does not exist.
1238
1239- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
1240 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
1241 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
1242
1243- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 1244 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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1245
1246- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
1247 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
1248
1249- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
1250 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
1251 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
1252
1253- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
1254 patch from 'infamous42md'.
1255
1256- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
1257 repaired.
1258
1259- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
1260 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
1261 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
1262 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
1263
1264- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
1265 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
1266 data.
1267
1268- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
1269 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
1270 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
1271 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
1272 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
1273
1274- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
1275 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
1276 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
1277 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
1278 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
1279
1280- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
1281 has been repaired.
1282
1283- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
1284 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
1285 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
1286 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 1287 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1288
1289- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 1290 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
88cd8aca 1291
45d545f0 1292- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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1293 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
1294 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
1295 move to 3.[01].x.
1296
1297- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
1298 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
1299
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1300 Changes since 3.0.3b3
1301
1302- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
1303 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
1304
1305- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
1306 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
1307 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
1308 workaround.
1309
1310 Changes since 3.0.3b2
1311
1312- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
1313 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
1314
1315 Changes since 3.0.3b1
1316
1317- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
1318 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
1319 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
1320
1321- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
1322 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
1323 dynamic updates were also retouched.
1324
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1325 Changes since 3.0.2
1326
1327- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 1328 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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1329 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
1330
1331- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
1332 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
1333 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
1334 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
1335 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
1336
1337- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
1338 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 1339 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1340
1341- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
1342 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 1343 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1344
1345- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
1346 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
1347 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
1348 Peter Poeml.
1349
1350- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
1351 Dr. Peter Poeml.
1352
1353- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
1354 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
1355 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
1356 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
1357 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
1358 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
1359
1360- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
1361 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
1362 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
1363 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
1364
1365- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
1366 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
1367 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
1368 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
1369
1370- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
1371 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
1372
1373- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
1374 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
1375 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
1376
1377- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
1378 7 bytes, and failover.
1379
1380- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
1381 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 1382 at Red Hat.
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1383
1384- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
1385 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
1386 should work better.
1387
1388- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
1389 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
1390 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
1391
1392- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
1393 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
1394 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
1395
1396 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
1397
1398- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
1399 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
1400
1401 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
1402
45d545f0 1403- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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1404 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
1405 overloading. This was repaired.
1406
1407- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
1408 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
1409 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
1410 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
1411 three chunks to fit.
1412
1413- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
1414 were repaired.
1415
1416- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
1417 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
1418 leak).
1419
1420 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
1421
1422- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
1423 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
1424
1425 Changes since 3.0.2b1
1426
1427- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
1428
1429 Changes since 3.0.1
1430
1431- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
1432 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
1433 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
1434
1435- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
1436 name was not provided by the server.
1437
1438- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
1439 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
1440
1441- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
1442 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
1443
1444- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
1445 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
1446
1447- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
1448
1449- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
1450
1451- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
1452 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
1453 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
1454 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
1455 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
1456
1457- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
1458 the configuration be globally scoped.
1459
1460- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
1461 Farkas.
1462
1463- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
1464 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1465
1466- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
1467 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
1468
1469- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
1470 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
1471
1472- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
1473 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
1474 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
1475 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
1476
1477- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
1478 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
1479 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
1480 respond to POOLREQ messages.
1481
1482- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
1483 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
1484 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
1485
1486- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
1487
1488- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
1489 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
1490 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
1491
1492- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
1493 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
1494 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
1495 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
1496 Fjone and directconnect.no.
1497
1498- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
1499 to Andreas Gustafsson.
1500
1501- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
1502 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
1503
1504- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
1505 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
1506 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
1507 DISCOVER timeout handling.
1508
1509- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
1510 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
1511
1512- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
1513 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
1514 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
1515
1516- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
1517 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
1518 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
1519 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
1520 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
1521 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
1522
1523- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
1524 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
1525 Infoblox.
1526
1527- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
1528
1529- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
1530 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
1531 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
1532 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
1533 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
1534 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
1535 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
1536
1537- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
1538 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
1539 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
1540
1541- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
1542 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
1543 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
1544
1545- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
1546
1547 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
1548
1549- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
1550 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
1551 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
1552 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
1553 systems either.
1554
1555- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
1556
1557- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
1558 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
1559 is false.
1560
1561- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
1562 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
1563
1564- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
1565
1566 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
1567
1568! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
1569 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
1570 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
1571 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
1572 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
1573 both finding and solving the problem.
1574
1575! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
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1577 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
1578 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
1579 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
1580 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
1581 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
1582 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
1583 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
1584 published version of ISC DHCP.
1585
1586- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
1587
1588- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
1589
1590 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
1591
1592- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
1593 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
1594 Richard Hirst.
1595
1596- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
1597 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
1598 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
1599
1600- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
1601
1602- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
1603 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
1604 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
1605 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
1606
1607- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 1608 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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1609
1610- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
1611 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
1612
1613- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
1614
1615 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
1616
1617- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
1618 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
1619
1620- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
1621 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
1622 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
1623
1624- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
1625 by name was fixed.
1626
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1628 longer result in error.
1629
1630- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
1631
1632- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
1633 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
1634 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
1635
1636- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
1637 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
1638
1639- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
1640 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
1641 Blapp.
1642
1643- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
1644 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
1645 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
1646 Martin Blapp.
1647
1648- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
1649 expiry times in failover configurations.
1650
1651- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
1652 Steve G.
1653
1654- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
1655 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
1656
1657- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
1658 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
1659 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
1660 now "unknown-144".
1661
1662- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
1663 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
1664
1665 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
1666
1667- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
1668
1669- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
1670 not be bash.
1671
1672- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1673
1674- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
1675 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
1676 that errored before will now work properly.
1677
1678- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
1679 names was repaired.
1680
1681- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
1682 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
1683 configuration file.
1684
1685- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
1686 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1687
1688- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
1689 error rather than a null dereference.
1690
1691 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
1692
1693- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
1694
1695- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
1696
1697- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
1698 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
1699
1700- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
1701
1702- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
1703
1704- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
1705 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
1706 self-corrupting lease databases.
1707
1708- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
1709
1710- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
1711 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
1712
1713- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
1714
1715- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
1716
1717- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
1718 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
1719 Ling Gou.
1720
1721- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
1722 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1723
1724- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
1725 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
1726 Ted Lemon for the patch.
1727
1728- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
1729 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
1730
1731 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
1732
1733- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
1734 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
1735
1736- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
1737
1738- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
1739 a memory leak.
1740
1741- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
1742 script.
1743
1744- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
1745
1746- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
1747
1748- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
1749
1750- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
1751
1752- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
1753
1754- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
1755
1756- Increment the hop count when relaying.
1757
1758- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
1759
1760- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
1761
1762- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
1763
1764- Change the type of rbuf_max.
1765
1766- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
1767
1768 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
1769
1770- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
1771 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
1772 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
1773
1774 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
1775
1776- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
1777 to be renewed.
1778
1779- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
1780 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
1781
1782- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
1783 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
1784
1785- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
1786 that two permit lists matched.
1787
1788- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
1789 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
1790
1791- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
1792
1793- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
1794 requested it, contrary to the standard.
1795
1796- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
1797
1798- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
1799
1800- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
1801 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
1802 going to update its A record.
1803
1804- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
1805 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
1806 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
1807 DNS server.
1808
1809- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
1810
1811- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
1812
1813- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
1814 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
1815 NetBSD project).
1816
1817- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
1818 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
1819
1820- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
1821 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
1822
1823- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
1824
1825- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
1826
1827- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
1828 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
1829 failover protocol standard.
1830
1831- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
1832 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
1833 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
1834
1835- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
1836 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
1837 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
1838 do so.
1839
1840- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
1841
1842 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
1843
1844- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
1845
1846- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
1847 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
1848
1849- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
1850 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
1851
1852- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
1853 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
1854 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
1855
1856- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
1857 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
1858 network, merge the two pools.
1859
1860- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
1861 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
1862 fix this bug.
1863
1864 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
1865
1866- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
1867 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
1868
1869- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
1870 the same case.
1871
1872- Additional documentation.
1873
1874- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
1875 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
1876
1877 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
1878
1879- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
1880- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
1881
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1883
1884- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
1885 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
1886 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
1887 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
1888 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
1889
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1891
1892- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
1893 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
1894 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
1895 wasn't the one that removed it.
1896
1897- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
1898 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
1899 were not configured.
1900
1901- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
1902
1903- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
1904 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
1905 routing information.
1906
1907- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
1908 request being sent.
1909
1910- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
1911 done.
1912
1913- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
1914 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
1915 were pending.
1916
1917- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
1918 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
1919 problems with failover.
1920
1921- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
1922 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
1923 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
1924
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1926
1927- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
1928 smash in the subclass allocation code.
1929
1930- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
1931 no object is open, it dumps core.
1932
1933- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
1934
1935- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
1936
1937- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
1938
1939- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
1940 a host object attribute with a null value.
1941
1942 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
1943
1944- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
1945
1946- Fix an obscure core dump.
1947
1948- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
1949 when crucial information is left out.
1950
1951- Log "no free leases" as an error.
1952
1953- Documentation updates.
1954
1955 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
1956
1957- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
1958
1959- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
1960 structure wasn't zeroed.
1961
1962- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
1963 incorrectly.
1964
1965- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
1966 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
1967 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
1968 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
1969 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
1970 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
1971 restarted.
1972
1973 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
1974
1975- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
1976 in failover-enabled pools.
1977
1978- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
1979 declarations).
1980
1981- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
1982 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
1983
1984- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
1985 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
1986
1987- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
1988
1989- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
1990 defined but not referenced by any pools.
1991
1992- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
1993
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1995
1996- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
1997
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1999
2000- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
2001
2002- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
2003
2004- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
2005
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2007
2008- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
2009 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
2010 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
2011
2012- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
2013 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
2014 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
2015 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
2016 string.
2017
2018- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
2019
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2021
2022- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
2023 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
2024
2025- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
2026 malformed packets.
2027
2028- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
2029
2030- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
2031 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
2032 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
2033
2034- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
2035
2036- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
2037
2038- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
2039
2040- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
2041 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
2042
2043- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
2044 tcp connections from being played back.
2045
2046- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
2047 on exit.
2048
2049- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
2050
2051- Add some configurability to the build system.
2052
2053- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
2054
2055- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
2056 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
2057 hadn't been noticed until now.
2058
2059 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
2060
2061- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
2062 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
2063
2064- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
2065 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
2066 conformant, but also didn't work).
2067
2068- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
2069 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
2070
2071- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
2072 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
2073
2074- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
2075 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
2076
2077- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
2078 variables to leases via OMAPI.
2079
2080- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
2081 doing failover.
2082
2083- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
2084 running on alpha processors.
2085
2086- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
2087 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
2088
2089- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
2090
2091- Install omshell (including new documentation).
2092
2093- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
2094 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
2095
2096- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
2097
2098- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
2099 actually named (key names are domain names).
2100
2101- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
2102
2103- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
2104 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
2105
2106- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
2107 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
2108
2109- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
2110 statements.
2111
2112- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
2113 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
2114
2115- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
2116 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
2117 operating.
2118
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2120
2121- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
2122 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
2123 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
2124 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
2125
2126- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
2127 using omapi to manipulate leases.
2128
2129- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
2130
2131
2132 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
2133
2134- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
2135 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
2136
2137- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
2138 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
2139 to the chain.
2140
2141- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
2142
2143- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
2144
2145- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
2146
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2149
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2152- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
2153
2154 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
2155
2156- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
2157 DHCPDECLINE.
2158
2159- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
2160
2161- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
2162 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
2163 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
2164
2165- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
2166
2167- Documentation fixes.
2168
2169- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
2170 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
2171
2172- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
2173 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
2174
2175- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
2176
2177- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
2178
2179- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
2180 case-insensitive.
2181
2182- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
2183
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2186 consistently.
2187
2188- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
2189 systems with the probe not working correctly.
2190
2191- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
2192
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2194
2195- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
2196 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
2197 result of duplicate leases.
2198
2199- Document OMAPI server objects.
2200
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2202
2203- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
2204 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
2205
2206- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
2207 core dumps.
2208
2209- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
2210 Friedrich.
2211
2212- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
2213
2214 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
2215
2216- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
2217 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
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2220
2221- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
2222 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
2223
2224- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
2225 trace file.
2226
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2229- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
2230 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
2231 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
2232 e.g., Digital Unix.
2233
2234- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
2235 when no error had occurred.
2236
2237- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
2238 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
2239 non-communicating state.
2240
2241- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
2242
2243- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
2244 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
2245 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
2246
2247- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
2248 when the client lease expired.
2249
2250- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
2251 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
2252 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
2253 in testing.
2254
2255- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
2256 the command line, it would fail.
2257
2258- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
2259 user impact).
2260
2261- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
2262
2263- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
2264 they're executable.
2265
2266 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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2268- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
2269 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
2270 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
2271 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
2272
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2273- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
2274 Transmeta.
2275
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2276- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
2277 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
2278 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
2279 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
2280
2281- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
2282 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
2283
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2285
2286- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
2287 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
2288
2289- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
2290
2291- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
2292
2293- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
2294
2295- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
2296
2297- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
2298
2299- Update some parts of the README file.
2300
2301- Support GCC on SCO.
2302
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2305- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
2306 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
2307
2308- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
2309 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
2310 unbill the old class.
2311
2312- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
2313 process the state transition immediately.
2314
2315- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
2316 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
2317
2318- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
2319
2320- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
2321
2322- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
2323
2324- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
2325
2326- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
2327 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
2328 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
2329
2330- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
2331 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
2332
2333- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
2334 lease file.
2335
2336- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
2337
2338- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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2341
2342- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
2343 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
2344
2345- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
2346
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2348
2349- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
2350
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2352
2353- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
2354
2355- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
2356 pl19.
2357
2358- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
2359 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
2360 past the regression test.
2361
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2363
2364- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
2365 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
2366
2367- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
2368 DHCPREQUEST.
2369
2370- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
2371
2372- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
2373
2374- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
2375
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2378- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
2379 (Damien Neil)
2380
2381- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
2382 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
2383
2384- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
2385 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
2386 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
2387
2388- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
2389 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
2390 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
2391 message.
2392
2393- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
2394 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
2395 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
2396
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2398 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
2399 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
2400 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
2401 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
2402 this way will work.
2403
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2404- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
2405
2406- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
2407 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
2408 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
2409 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
2410
2411 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
2412
2413 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
2414
2415- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
2416 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
2417 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
2418
2419- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
2420 Hermann Lauer.
2421
2422- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
2423 messages.
2424
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2425- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
2426 it contained quoted strings.
2427
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2428 ** there was no pl17 **
2429
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2432- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
2433 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
2434 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
2435 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
2436 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
2437 tracking down memory leaks.
2438
2439- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
2440 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
2441 Solaris.
2442
2443- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
2444 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
2445 corruption and core dumps.
2446
2447- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
2448 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
2449
2450- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
2451
2452- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
2453 and implemented by Damien Neil.
2454
2455- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
2456 name and version to standard output.
2457
2458- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
2459
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2460- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
2461 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
2462
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2463- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
2464
2465- Lots of documentation updates.
2466
2467- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
2468 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
2469
2470- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
2471
2472- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
2473 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
2474
2475
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2477
2478- Some documentation tweaks.
2479
2480- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
2481
2482- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
2483
2484- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
2485 agent options into them.
2486
2487- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
2488
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2489- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
2490 options.
2491
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2493
2494- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
2495 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
2496 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
2497 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
2498 used in class statements to control address allocation.
2499
2500- Fix up documentation.
2501
2502- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
2503 significantly in a high-demand situation.
2504
2505- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
2506
2507- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
2508
2509- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
2510 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
2511 practical use otherwise.
2512
2513- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
2514 for debugging.
2515
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2517
2518- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
2519 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
2520 dump on some systems.
2521
2522- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
2523 option.
2524
2525- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
2526 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
2527
2528- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
2529 that were not printing enough information.
2530
2531- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
2532 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
2533
2534- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
2535 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
2536 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
2537 were answering.
2538
2539- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
2540 the transition.
2541
2542
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2544
2545- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
2546
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2547 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
2548
2549- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
2550 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
2551 representation from working correctly.
2552
2553- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
2554 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
2555 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
2556 could spin.
2557
2558- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
2559 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
2560
2561- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
2562 interface name on the command line.
2563
2564- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
2565 client state.
2566
2567- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
2568 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
2569 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
2570 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
2571 added by Ted Lemon.
2572
2573- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
2574 be made to log debugging information and other information.
2575
2576- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
2577 end option.
2578
2579- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
2580 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
2581 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
2582
2583- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
2584 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
2585 face of a null hardware address on input.
2586
2587- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
2588 specified unqualified.
2589
2590- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
2591 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
2592
2593- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
2594 RFC.
2595
2596- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
2597
2598- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
2599
2600- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
2601 it works.
2602
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2603 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
2604
2605- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
2606 to CVS.
2607
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2608 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
2609
2610- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
2611
2612- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
2613 in patchlevel 9.
2614
2615- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
2616 options at renewal time.
2617
2618- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
2619 configuration language.
2620
2621- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
2622
2623- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
2624 done when no client hostname was received.
2625
2626- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
2627
2628- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
2629 the DHCP option space.
2630
2631- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
2632
2633- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
2634 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
2635
2636- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
2637 silently dropped.
2638
2639- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
2640 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
2641
2642- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
2643 will be correctly updated.
2644
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2645 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
2646
2647- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
2648 bounds-checking.
2649
2650 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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2651
2652- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
2653
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2656- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
2657 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
2658 possible to exploit it any further than that.
2659
2660- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
2661 option.
2662
2663- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
2664 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
2665 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
2666 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
2667 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
2668 meaningfully.
2669
2670- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
2671 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
2672 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
2673
2674- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
2675 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
2676 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
2677 this one down!
2678
2679- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
2680 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
2681 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
2682 down and fixing this problem.
2683
2684 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
2685
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2686- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
2687 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
2688
2689- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
2690 environment.
2691
2692- Fix suffix operator.
2693
2694- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
2695
2696- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
2697 connection code.
2698
2699- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
2700
2701- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
2702
2703- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
2704 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
2705
2706- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
2707
2708- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
2709
2710- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
2711 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
2712
2713- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
2714 spawn with.
2715
2716- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
2717 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
2718
2719- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
2720 for OMAPI.
2721
2722- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
2723 can install in host declarations.
2724
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2725 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
2726
2727- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
2728 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
2729 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
2730 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
2731 comments)!
2732
2733- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
2734
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2735- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
2736 request for help on this with patches!
2737
2738- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
2739 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
2740 lost, they never reconnect.
2741
2742- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
2743 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
2744
2745- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
2746 dump.
2747
2748- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
2749 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
2750 catching this one.
2751
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2753
2754- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
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2756 lease renewal time.
2757
2758- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
2759 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
2760 declared without a key.
2761
2762- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
2763
2764- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
2765 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
2766
2767- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
2768 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
2769 determine the maximum size of the response.
2770
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2772
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2773- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
2774 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
2775
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2776- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
2777 RENEWING client.
2778
2779- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
2780
2781- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
2782 using memcmp().
2783
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2784 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
2785
2786- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
2787 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
2788 pointing this out.
2789
2790- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
2791 exit.
2792
2793- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
2794
2795- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
2796 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.