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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 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
50
51- Validate the argument to the -p option.
52
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53- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
54 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
55 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
56 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
57 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
58
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59- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
60
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61- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
62 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
63 had been deleted from configuration.
64
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65- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
66 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
67 AC_USE_SYSTME_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
68 were being ignored.
69
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70- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
71
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72- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
73 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
74 Nordahl.
75
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76- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
77 dhcpv6 disabled.
78
8d7dca58 79- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 80 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
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82- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
83 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
84
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85- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
86 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
87 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
88
89- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
90 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
91 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
92 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
93 fewer system calls.
94
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95- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
96 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
97 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
98 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
99 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
100 Christof Chen.
101
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104- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
105 be recognized.
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107 Changes since 4.1.0a2
108
109- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
110 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
111 "abandoned".
112
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113- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
114
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115- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
116 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
117
118- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
119 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
120
121- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 122 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
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124- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
125
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126- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
127 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
128 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
129 in future releases.
130
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131- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
132 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
133
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134- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
135 'dhclient -6' support.
136
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137- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
138 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
139 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
140 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
141
7d6180be 142 Changes since 4.1.0a1
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144- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
145
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146- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
147
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148- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
149 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
150 only the latter. Fixed.
151
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152- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
153
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154- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
155 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
156
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157- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
158
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159- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
160
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161- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
162 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
163 --enable-early-chroot.
164
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165- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
166 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
167
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168- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
169 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
170 parameter.
171
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172- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
173 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
174
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175- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
176 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
177
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178- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
179
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180- Merged IA_XX related structures.
181
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182- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
183
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184- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
185
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186- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
187 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
188 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
189
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190- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
191 support.
192
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193- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
194 repaired.
195
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196- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
197
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198- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
199
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200- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
201 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
202
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203- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
204 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
205
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206- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
207 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
208
209- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
210 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
211 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
212 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
213 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
214 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
215 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
216 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
217 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
218 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
219 shared-network.
220
221- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
222 configured option values.
223
224- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
225 support class statements.
226
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227- Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
228 selection were repaired.
229
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230- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
231 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
232 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
233 by the OS.
234
235- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
236 address.
237
238- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
239 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
240
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241- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
242
243- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
244
245- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
246 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
247
01a54c17 248 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
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250- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
251
4cafb815 252- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 253 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
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255- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
256 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
257 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
258
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259- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
260 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
261
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262- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
263
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264- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
265 reserved IDs avoided).
266
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267- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
268
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269- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
270 carries a rapid-commit option.
271
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272- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
273 an empty active lease.
274
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275- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
276
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277- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
278 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
279 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
280 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
281
282- MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
283
284- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
285 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
286 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
287 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
288 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
289 Christof Chen.
290
291 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
292
293- DHCP now builds on AIX.
294
295- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
296 config file but -6 is not specified.
297
298- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
299
300- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
301 be more helpful.
302
303- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
304 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
305 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
306
307- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
308 was repaired.
309
310- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
311 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
312 been repaired.
313
314- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
315 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
316 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
317
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318- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
319 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
320
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321- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
322 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
323 IPv4 address.
324
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325- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
326 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
327 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
328 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
329 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
330
331- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
332 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
333 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
334
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335- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
336
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337- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
338
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339- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
340 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
341 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
342 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
343 unnecessary logging.
344
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345- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
346 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
347
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348- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
349 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
350 is incompatible is printed.
351
352- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
353 a previously undefined option code.
354
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355- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
356 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
357
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358- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
359 than the year 2000.
360
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361- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
362
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363- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
364
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365- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
366
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367 Changes since 4.0.0b3
368
369- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
370 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
371 configuration.
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373- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
374 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
375
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376- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
377 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
378 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
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380- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
381 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
382 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
383 a requested address.
384
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385- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
386 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
387 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
388 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
389
390- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
391 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
392 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
393 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
394
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395- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
396 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
397 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
398
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399- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
400 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
401
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402- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
403
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404- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
405 codes through some conditions.
406
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407- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
408 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
409
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410- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
411 seemingly random values.
412
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413- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
414
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415- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
416 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
417 one ever has.
418
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419- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
420 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
421 to a REQUEST.
422
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423- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
424 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
425 level.
426
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427 Changes since 4.0.0b2
428
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429- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
430
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431- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
432 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
433 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
434 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
435 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
436
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437- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
438 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
439 new address.
440
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441 Changes since 4.0.0b1
442
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443- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
444 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
445 simultaneously on a single interface.
446
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447- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
448 of service under unusual server configurations
449
450- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
451
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452- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
453 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
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455- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
456 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
457 on every pool rebalance run.
458
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459- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
460 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
461
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462- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
463 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
464
ab3a540f 465 Changes since 4.0.0a3
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467- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
468 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
469
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470- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
471 point out the problem.
472
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473- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
474 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
475 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
476
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477- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
478 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
479
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480- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
481 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
482 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
483
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484- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
485
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486- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
487 fixed by Marcus Goller.
488
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489- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
490 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
491 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
492 regardless of the existence of bindings.
493
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494- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
495
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496- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
497 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
498 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
499 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
500 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
501
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502- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
503
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504 Changes since 4.0.0a2
505
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506- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
507 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
508
763cba6b 509- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
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511- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
512 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
513 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
514
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515- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
516
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517- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
518 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
519
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520- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
521 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
522 loaded from persistent storage.
523
45d545f0 524- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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525 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
526 necessary.
527
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528- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
529 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
530 rapid-commit option.
531
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532- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
533 non-128-bits in length were removed.
534
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535 Changes since 4.0.0a1
536
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537- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
538 and fix.
539
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540- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
541
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542- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
543
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544- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
545 for when loading configuration.
546
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547- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
548 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
549 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
550
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551- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
552 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
553 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
554 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
555
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556- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
557
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558- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
559 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
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561- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
562
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563- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
564
565- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
566 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
567
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568- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
569 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
570
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571- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
572
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573- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
574 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
575
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576 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
577
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578- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
579
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580- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
581 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
582
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583- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
584
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585- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
586 initialized.
587
588- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
589
590- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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591 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
592
593- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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595- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
596
597- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
598 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
599
600- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
601
8ea19a71 602- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
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604
605- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
606 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
607
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608- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
609
610- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
611
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612- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
613
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614 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
615
616- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
617 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
618 no support currently for both.
619
620- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
621 IAADDR option.
622
623- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
624 options.
625
626- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
627
628- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
629 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
630
631- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
632 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
633 specifying type 1 or type 2).
634
635- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
636 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
637
638- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
639 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
640 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
641 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
642 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
643 differently, they both use the same code here).
644
645- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
646 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
647 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
648
649- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
650
651- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
652 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
653 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
654 it should not intercept.
655
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656 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
657
658- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
659 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
660 between primary and secondary.
661
662- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
663 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
664 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
665
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666- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
667
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668- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
669 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
670 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
671 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
672 or REQUEST messages.
673
674- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
675 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
676
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677- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
678
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679 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
680
681- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
682 failover protected subnets was removed.
683
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684 Changes since 3.1.0b2
685
686- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
687 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
688 odd number of leases).
689
690- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
691 rebalance run, and one after.
692
693- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
694 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
695 processing these messages.
696
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699- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
700 objects.
701
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702- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
703 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
704 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
705 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
706 at Allianz.
707
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708- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
709 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
710
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711- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
712 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
713
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714- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
715 caused the server to abort.
716
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717- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
718 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
719 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
720
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721- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
722 by empty spaces would not get included.
723
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724- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
725 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
726
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727- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
728 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
729
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730- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
731 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
732
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733- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
734 on the parameter request list.
735
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736 Changes since 3.1.0a3
737
738- Some spelling fixes.
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740 Changes since 3.1.0a2
741
742- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
743 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
744
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745- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
746 domain-search option syntax.
747
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748 Changes since 3.1.0a1
749
750- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
751 hash table was repaired.
752
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753- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
754 entering normal state.
755
756- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
757 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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758 'xid mismatch' log messages.
759
760- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
761 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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763- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
764 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
765 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
766 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
767
45d545f0 768- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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769 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
770 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
771 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
772 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
773 to their needs.
774
775- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
776 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
777 run will attempt balance.
778
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779- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
780
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781 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
782
783- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
784 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
785 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
786 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
787
98bd7ca0 788- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 789 was introduced.
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790
791- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
792 via OMAPI.
793
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794- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
795 the protocol draft.
796
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797- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
798 one does not already exist on the system.
799
b43c87ad 800- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
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802- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
803 matches RFC 3074.
804
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805- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
806 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 807 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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809- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
810 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 811 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
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813- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
814 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
815 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
816 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
817
818- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
819 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
820 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
821 priority over the client's parameter request list.
822
f7fdb216 823- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 824 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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825 DHCPv6 support.
826
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827- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
828 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
829 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
830
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831- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
832 have been incorporated.
833
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834- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
835 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
836 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
837 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
838 that belong to the peer in need.
839
840- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
841 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
842
843- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
844 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
845 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
846
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847- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
848 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
849
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850- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
851 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
852 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
853 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
854 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
855
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856- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
857 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
858 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
859 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
860
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861- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
862 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
863 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
864 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
865 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
866 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
867 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
868 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
869 ignoring this aspect of their request.
870
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871- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
872 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
873
41e45067 874- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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875 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
876 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
877 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
878
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879- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
880 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
881 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
882 hardware and funding the development.
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884- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
885 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
886 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
887 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
888 via Robin Breathe.
889
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890- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
891 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
892 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
893 from Christof Chen.
894
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895- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
896 formally supported.
897
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898 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
899
900- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
901 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
902
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903 Changes since 3.0.5
904
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905- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
906 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
907 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 908 they actually received.
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909
910- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
911
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912- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
913 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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914 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
915 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
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917- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
918
d69fb6a8 919- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 920 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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922- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
923 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
924 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
925 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
926 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
927 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
928 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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929 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
930
931- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
932 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
933 'file' field.
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935- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
936 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
937
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938- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
939 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
940 a patch from Kevin Steves.
941
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942- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
943 from Chris Wagner.
944
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945- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
946 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
947 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
948
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949- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
950 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
951 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
952 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
953 was set.
954
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955- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
956 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
957
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958- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
959 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
960 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
961 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
962 active ones.
963
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901306d5 966- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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967 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
968 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
969 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
970 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
971
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972- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
973 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
974
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975 Changes since 3.0.4
976
977- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
978 scopes are actually global has been added.
979
980- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
981 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
982 known to be damaging.
983
984- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
985 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
986 balancing).
987
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988- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
989 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
990 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
991
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992- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
993 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
994 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
995
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996- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
997 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
998 more clear now.
999
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1000- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
1001 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
1002 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
1003 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
1004 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 1005 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
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1007- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
1008 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
1009
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1010- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
1011 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
1012 made possible.
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1014- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
1015 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
1016 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
1017
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1018- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
1019 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
1020
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1021- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
1022 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
1023 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
1024
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1025- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
1026 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
1027 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
1028 value with the later configured value).
1029
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1030- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
1031 have been named and documented.
1032
1033- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
1034 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
1035 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
1036 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
1037 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
1038 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
1039 write new output.
1040
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1041 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
1042
1043- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
1044 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
1045
1046 Changes since 3.0.4b3
1047
1048- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
1049 mailing list.
1050
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1051 Changes since 3.0.4b2
1052
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1054 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
1055
1056- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
1057 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
1058
1059- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
1060 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
1061 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
1062 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
1063
1064- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
1065 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
1066 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
1067 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
1068 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
1069 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
1070 transition (properly).
1071
1072- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
1073
1074 Changes since 3.0.4b1
1075
1076- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
1077 STDIN after reading one line.
1078
1079- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
1080 descriptor it opened twice.
1081
1082- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
1083 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
1084 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
1085
1086 Changes since 3.0.3
1087
1088- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
1089 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
1090 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
1091
1092- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
1093 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
1094 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
1095
1096- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
1097 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 1098 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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1099 leases to allocate.
1100
1101- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 1102 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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1103 than the entire block of them.
1104
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1105! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
1106 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
1107 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
1108 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
1109 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
1110 to a patch from infamous42md.
1111
1112! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
1113 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
1114 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
1115 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
1116 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
1117 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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1118
1119- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
1120 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
1121 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
1122
1123- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 1124 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1125
1126- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
1127 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
1128 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
1129 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
1130 transitional states.
1131
1132- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
1133 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
1134 once it detects the old db does not exist.
1135
1136- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
1137 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
1138 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
1139
1140- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 1141 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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1142
1143- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
1144 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
1145
1146- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
1147 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
1148 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
1149
1150- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
1151 patch from 'infamous42md'.
1152
1153- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
1154 repaired.
1155
1156- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
1157 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
1158 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
1159 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
1160
1161- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
1162 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
1163 data.
1164
1165- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
1166 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
1167 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
1168 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
1169 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
1170
1171- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
1172 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
1173 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
1174 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
1175 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
1176
1177- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
1178 has been repaired.
1179
1180- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
1181 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
1182 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
1183 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 1184 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1185
1186- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 1187 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
88cd8aca 1188
45d545f0 1189- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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1190 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
1191 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
1192 move to 3.[01].x.
1193
1194- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
1195 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
1196
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1197 Changes since 3.0.3b3
1198
1199- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
1200 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
1201
1202- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
1203 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
1204 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
1205 workaround.
1206
1207 Changes since 3.0.3b2
1208
1209- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
1210 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
1211
1212 Changes since 3.0.3b1
1213
1214- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
1215 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
1216 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
1217
1218- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
1219 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
1220 dynamic updates were also retouched.
1221
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1222 Changes since 3.0.2
1223
1224- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 1225 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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1226 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
1227
1228- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
1229 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
1230 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
1231 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
1232 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
1233
1234- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
1235 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 1236 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1237
1238- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
1239 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 1240 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1241
1242- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
1243 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
1244 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
1245 Peter Poeml.
1246
1247- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
1248 Dr. Peter Poeml.
1249
1250- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
1251 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
1252 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
1253 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
1254 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
1255 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
1256
1257- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
1258 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
1259 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
1260 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
1261
1262- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
1263 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
1264 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
1265 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
1266
1267- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
1268 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
1269
1270- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
1271 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
1272 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
1273
1274- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
1275 7 bytes, and failover.
1276
1277- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
1278 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 1279 at Red Hat.
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1280
1281- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
1282 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
1283 should work better.
1284
1285- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
1286 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
1287 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
1288
1289- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
1290 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
1291 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
1292
1293 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
1294
1295- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
1296 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
1297
1298 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
1299
45d545f0 1300- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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1301 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
1302 overloading. This was repaired.
1303
1304- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
1305 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
1306 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
1307 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
1308 three chunks to fit.
1309
1310- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
1311 were repaired.
1312
1313- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
1314 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
1315 leak).
1316
1317 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
1318
1319- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
1320 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
1321
1322 Changes since 3.0.2b1
1323
1324- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
1325
1326 Changes since 3.0.1
1327
1328- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
1329 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
1330 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
1331
1332- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
1333 name was not provided by the server.
1334
1335- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
1336 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
1337
1338- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
1339 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
1340
1341- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
1342 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
1343
1344- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
1345
1346- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
1347
1348- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
1349 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
1350 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
1351 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
1352 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
1353
1354- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
1355 the configuration be globally scoped.
1356
1357- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
1358 Farkas.
1359
1360- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
1361 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1362
1363- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
1364 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
1365
1366- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
1367 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
1368
1369- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
1370 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
1371 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
1372 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
1373
1374- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
1375 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
1376 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
1377 respond to POOLREQ messages.
1378
1379- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
1380 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
1381 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
1382
1383- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
1384
1385- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
1386 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
1387 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
1388
1389- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
1390 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
1391 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
1392 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
1393 Fjone and directconnect.no.
1394
1395- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
1396 to Andreas Gustafsson.
1397
1398- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
1399 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
1400
1401- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
1402 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
1403 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
1404 DISCOVER timeout handling.
1405
1406- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
1407 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
1408
1409- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
1410 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
1411 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
1412
1413- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
1414 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
1415 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
1416 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
1417 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
1418 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
1419
1420- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
1421 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
1422 Infoblox.
1423
1424- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
1425
1426- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
1427 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
1428 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
1429 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
1430 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
1431 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
1432 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
1433
1434- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
1435 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
1436 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
1437
1438- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
1439 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
1440 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
1441
1442- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
1443
1444 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
1445
1446- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
1447 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
1448 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
1449 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
1450 systems either.
1451
1452- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
1453
1454- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
1455 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
1456 is false.
1457
1458- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
1459 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
1460
1461- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
1462
1463 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
1464
1465! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
1466 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
1467 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
1468 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
1469 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
1470 both finding and solving the problem.
1471
1472! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
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1474 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
1475 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
1476 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
1477 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
1478 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
1479 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
1480 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
1481 published version of ISC DHCP.
1482
1483- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
1484
1485- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
1486
1487 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
1488
1489- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
1490 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
1491 Richard Hirst.
1492
1493- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
1494 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
1495 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
1496
1497- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
1498
1499- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
1500 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
1501 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
1502 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
1503
1504- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 1505 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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1506
1507- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
1508 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
1509
1510- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
1511
1512 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
1513
1514- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
1515 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
1516
1517- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
1518 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
1519 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
1520
1521- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
1522 by name was fixed.
1523
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1525 longer result in error.
1526
1527- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
1528
1529- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
1530 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
1531 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
1532
1533- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
1534 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
1535
1536- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
1537 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
1538 Blapp.
1539
1540- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
1541 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
1542 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
1543 Martin Blapp.
1544
1545- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
1546 expiry times in failover configurations.
1547
1548- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
1549 Steve G.
1550
1551- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
1552 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
1553
1554- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
1555 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
1556 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
1557 now "unknown-144".
1558
1559- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
1560 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
1561
1562 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
1563
1564- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
1565
1566- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
1567 not be bash.
1568
1569- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1570
1571- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
1572 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
1573 that errored before will now work properly.
1574
1575- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
1576 names was repaired.
1577
1578- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
1579 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
1580 configuration file.
1581
1582- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
1583 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1584
1585- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
1586 error rather than a null dereference.
1587
1588 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
1589
1590- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
1591
1592- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
1593
1594- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
1595 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
1596
1597- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
1598
1599- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
1600
1601- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
1602 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
1603 self-corrupting lease databases.
1604
1605- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
1606
1607- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
1608 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
1609
1610- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
1611
1612- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
1613
1614- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
1615 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
1616 Ling Gou.
1617
1618- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
1619 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1620
1621- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
1622 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
1623 Ted Lemon for the patch.
1624
1625- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
1626 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
1627
1628 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
1629
1630- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
1631 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
1632
1633- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
1634
1635- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
1636 a memory leak.
1637
1638- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
1639 script.
1640
1641- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
1642
1643- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
1644
1645- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
1646
1647- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
1648
1649- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
1650
1651- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
1652
1653- Increment the hop count when relaying.
1654
1655- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
1656
1657- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
1658
1659- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
1660
1661- Change the type of rbuf_max.
1662
1663- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
1664
1665 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
1666
1667- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
1668 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
1669 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
1670
1671 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
1672
1673- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
1674 to be renewed.
1675
1676- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
1677 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
1678
1679- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
1680 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
1681
1682- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
1683 that two permit lists matched.
1684
1685- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
1686 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
1687
1688- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
1689
1690- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
1691 requested it, contrary to the standard.
1692
1693- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
1694
1695- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
1696
1697- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
1698 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
1699 going to update its A record.
1700
1701- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
1702 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
1703 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
1704 DNS server.
1705
1706- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
1707
1708- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
1709
1710- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
1711 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
1712 NetBSD project).
1713
1714- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
1715 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
1716
1717- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
1718 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
1719
1720- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
1721
1722- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
1723
1724- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
1725 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
1726 failover protocol standard.
1727
1728- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
1729 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
1730 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
1731
1732- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
1733 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
1734 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
1735 do so.
1736
1737- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
1738
1739 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
1740
1741- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
1742
1743- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
1744 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
1745
1746- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
1747 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
1748
1749- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
1750 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
1751 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
1752
1753- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
1754 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
1755 network, merge the two pools.
1756
1757- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
1758 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
1759 fix this bug.
1760
1761 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
1762
1763- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
1764 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
1765
1766- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
1767 the same case.
1768
1769- Additional documentation.
1770
1771- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
1772 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
1773
1774 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
1775
1776- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
1777- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
1778
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1780
1781- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
1782 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
1783 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
1784 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
1785 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
1786
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1788
1789- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
1790 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
1791 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
1792 wasn't the one that removed it.
1793
1794- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
1795 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
1796 were not configured.
1797
1798- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
1799
1800- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
1801 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
1802 routing information.
1803
1804- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
1805 request being sent.
1806
1807- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
1808 done.
1809
1810- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
1811 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
1812 were pending.
1813
1814- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
1815 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
1816 problems with failover.
1817
1818- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
1819 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
1820 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
1821
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1823
1824- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
1825 smash in the subclass allocation code.
1826
1827- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
1828 no object is open, it dumps core.
1829
1830- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
1831
1832- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
1833
1834- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
1835
1836- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
1837 a host object attribute with a null value.
1838
1839 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
1840
1841- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
1842
1843- Fix an obscure core dump.
1844
1845- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
1846 when crucial information is left out.
1847
1848- Log "no free leases" as an error.
1849
1850- Documentation updates.
1851
1852 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
1853
1854- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
1855
1856- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
1857 structure wasn't zeroed.
1858
1859- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
1860 incorrectly.
1861
1862- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
1863 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
1864 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
1865 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
1866 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
1867 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
1868 restarted.
1869
1870 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
1871
1872- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
1873 in failover-enabled pools.
1874
1875- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
1876 declarations).
1877
1878- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
1879 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
1880
1881- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
1882 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
1883
1884- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
1885
1886- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
1887 defined but not referenced by any pools.
1888
1889- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
1890
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1892
1893- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
1894
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1896
1897- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
1898
1899- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
1900
1901- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
1902
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1904
1905- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
1906 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
1907 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
1908
1909- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
1910 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
1911 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
1912 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
1913 string.
1914
1915- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
1916
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1918
1919- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
1920 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
1921
1922- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
1923 malformed packets.
1924
1925- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
1926
1927- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
1928 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
1929 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
1930
1931- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
1932
1933- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
1934
1935- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
1936
1937- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
1938 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
1939
1940- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
1941 tcp connections from being played back.
1942
1943- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
1944 on exit.
1945
1946- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
1947
1948- Add some configurability to the build system.
1949
1950- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
1951
1952- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
1953 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
1954 hadn't been noticed until now.
1955
1956 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
1957
1958- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
1959 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
1960
1961- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
1962 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
1963 conformant, but also didn't work).
1964
1965- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
1966 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
1967
1968- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
1969 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
1970
1971- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
1972 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
1973
1974- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
1975 variables to leases via OMAPI.
1976
1977- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
1978 doing failover.
1979
1980- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
1981 running on alpha processors.
1982
1983- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
1984 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
1985
1986- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
1987
1988- Install omshell (including new documentation).
1989
1990- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
1991 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
1992
1993- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
1994
1995- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
1996 actually named (key names are domain names).
1997
1998- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
1999
2000- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
2001 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
2002
2003- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
2004 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
2005
2006- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
2007 statements.
2008
2009- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
2010 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
2011
2012- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
2013 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
2014 operating.
2015
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2017
2018- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
2019 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
2020 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
2021 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
2022
2023- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
2024 using omapi to manipulate leases.
2025
2026- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
2027
2028
2029 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
2030
2031- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
2032 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
2033
2034- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
2035 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
2036 to the chain.
2037
2038- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
2039
2040- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
2041
2042- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
2043
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2045 attribute values in omshell.
2046
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2048
2049- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
2050
2051 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
2052
2053- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
2054 DHCPDECLINE.
2055
2056- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
2057
2058- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
2059 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
2060 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
2061
2062- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
2063
2064- Documentation fixes.
2065
2066- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
2067 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
2068
2069- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
2070 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
2071
2072- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
2073
2074- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
2075
2076- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
2077 case-insensitive.
2078
2079- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
2080
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2082 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
2083 consistently.
2084
2085- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
2086 systems with the probe not working correctly.
2087
2088- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
2089
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2090 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 3
2091
2092- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
2093 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
2094 result of duplicate leases.
2095
2096- Document OMAPI server objects.
2097
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2098 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Patchlevel 1
2099
2100- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
2101 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
2102
2103- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
2104 core dumps.
2105
2106- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
2107 Friedrich.
2108
2109- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
2110
2111 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
2112
2113- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
2114 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
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2117
2118- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
2119 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
2120
2121- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
2122 trace file.
2123
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2126- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
2127 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
2128 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
2129 e.g., Digital Unix.
2130
2131- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
2132 when no error had occurred.
2133
2134- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
2135 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
2136 non-communicating state.
2137
2138- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
2139
2140- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
2141 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
2142 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
2143
2144- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
2145 when the client lease expired.
2146
2147- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
2148 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
2149 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
2150 in testing.
2151
2152- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
2153 the command line, it would fail.
2154
2155- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
2156 user impact).
2157
2158- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
2159
2160- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
2161 they're executable.
2162
2163 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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2165- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
2166 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
2167 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
2168 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
2169
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2170- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
2171 Transmeta.
2172
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2173- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
2174 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
2175 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
2176 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
2177
2178- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
2179 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
2180
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2182
2183- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
2184 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
2185
2186- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
2187
2188- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
2189
2190- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
2191
2192- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
2193
2194- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
2195
2196- Update some parts of the README file.
2197
2198- Support GCC on SCO.
2199
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2201
2202- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
2203 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
2204
2205- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
2206 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
2207 unbill the old class.
2208
2209- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
2210 process the state transition immediately.
2211
2212- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
2213 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
2214
2215- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
2216
2217- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
2218
2219- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
2220
2221- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
2222
2223- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
2224 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
2225 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
2226
2227- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
2228 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
2229
2230- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
2231 lease file.
2232
2233- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
2234
2235- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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2239- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
2240 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
2241
2242- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
2243
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2246- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
2247
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2249
2250- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
2251
2252- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
2253 pl19.
2254
2255- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
2256 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
2257 past the regression test.
2258
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2260
2261- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
2262 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
2263
2264- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
2265 DHCPREQUEST.
2266
2267- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
2268
2269- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
2270
2271- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
2272
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2275- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
2276 (Damien Neil)
2277
2278- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
2279 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
2280
2281- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
2282 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
2283 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
2284
2285- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
2286 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
2287 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
2288 message.
2289
2290- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
2291 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
2292 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
2293
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2296 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
2297 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
2298 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
2299 this way will work.
2300
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2301- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
2302
2303- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
2304 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
2305 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
2306 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
2307
2308 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
2309
2310 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
2311
2312- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
2313 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
2314 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
2315
2316- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
2317 Hermann Lauer.
2318
2319- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
2320 messages.
2321
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2323 it contained quoted strings.
2324
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2325 ** there was no pl17 **
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2329- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
2330 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
2331 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
2332 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
2333 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
2334 tracking down memory leaks.
2335
2336- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
2337 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
2338 Solaris.
2339
2340- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
2341 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
2342 corruption and core dumps.
2343
2344- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
2345 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
2346
2347- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
2348
2349- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
2350 and implemented by Damien Neil.
2351
2352- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
2353 name and version to standard output.
2354
2355- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
2356
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2358 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
2359
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2360- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
2361
2362- Lots of documentation updates.
2363
2364- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
2365 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
2366
2367- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
2368
2369- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
2370 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
2371
2372
adbef119 2373 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 15
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2374
2375- Some documentation tweaks.
2376
2377- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
2378
2379- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
2380
2381- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
2382 agent options into them.
2383
2384- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
2385
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2386- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
2387 options.
2388
adbef119 2389 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 14
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2390
2391- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
2392 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
2393 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
2394 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
2395 used in class statements to control address allocation.
2396
2397- Fix up documentation.
2398
2399- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
2400 significantly in a high-demand situation.
2401
2402- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
2403
2404- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
2405
2406- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
2407 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
2408 practical use otherwise.
2409
2410- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
2411 for debugging.
2412
adbef119 2413 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 13
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2414
2415- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
2416 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
2417 dump on some systems.
2418
2419- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
2420 option.
2421
2422- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
2423 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
2424
2425- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
2426 that were not printing enough information.
2427
2428- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
2429 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
2430
2431- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
2432 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
2433 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
2434 were answering.
2435
2436- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
2437 the transition.
2438
2439
adbef119 2440 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 12
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2441
2442- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
2443
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2444 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
2445
2446- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
2447 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
2448 representation from working correctly.
2449
2450- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
2451 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
2452 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
2453 could spin.
2454
2455- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
2456 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
2457
2458- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
2459 interface name on the command line.
2460
2461- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
2462 client state.
2463
2464- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
2465 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
2466 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
2467 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
2468 added by Ted Lemon.
2469
2470- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
2471 be made to log debugging information and other information.
2472
2473- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
2474 end option.
2475
2476- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
2477 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
2478 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
2479
2480- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
2481 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
2482 face of a null hardware address on input.
2483
2484- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
2485 specified unqualified.
2486
2487- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
2488 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
2489
2490- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
2491 RFC.
2492
2493- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
2494
2495- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
2496
2497- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
2498 it works.
2499
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2500 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
2501
2502- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
2503 to CVS.
2504
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2505 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
2506
2507- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
2508
2509- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
2510 in patchlevel 9.
2511
2512- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
2513 options at renewal time.
2514
2515- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
2516 configuration language.
2517
2518- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
2519
2520- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
2521 done when no client hostname was received.
2522
2523- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
2524
2525- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
2526 the DHCP option space.
2527
2528- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
2529
2530- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
2531 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
2532
2533- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
2534 silently dropped.
2535
2536- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
2537 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
2538
2539- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
2540 will be correctly updated.
2541
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2542 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
2543
2544- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
2545 bounds-checking.
2546
2547 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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2548
2549- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
2550
3922772a 2551 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 6
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2553- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
2554 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
2555 possible to exploit it any further than that.
2556
2557- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
2558 option.
2559
2560- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
2561 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
2562 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
2563 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
2564 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
2565 meaningfully.
2566
2567- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
2568 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
2569 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
2570
2571- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
2572 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
2573 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
2574 this one down!
2575
2576- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
2577 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
2578 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
2579 down and fixing this problem.
2580
2581 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
2582
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2583- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
2584 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
2585
2586- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
2587 environment.
2588
2589- Fix suffix operator.
2590
2591- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
2592
2593- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
2594 connection code.
2595
2596- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
2597
2598- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
2599
2600- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
2601 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
2602
2603- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
2604
2605- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
2606
2607- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
2608 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
2609
2610- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
2611 spawn with.
2612
2613- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
2614 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
2615
2616- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
2617 for OMAPI.
2618
2619- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
2620 can install in host declarations.
2621
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2622 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
2623
2624- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
2625 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
2626 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
2627 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
2628 comments)!
2629
2630- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
2631
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2632- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
2633 request for help on this with patches!
2634
2635- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
2636 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
2637 lost, they never reconnect.
2638
2639- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
2640 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
2641
2642- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
2643 dump.
2644
2645- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
2646 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
2647 catching this one.
2648
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2649 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
2650
2651- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 2652 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
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2653 lease renewal time.
2654
2655- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
2656 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
2657 declared without a key.
2658
2659- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
2660
2661- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
2662 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
2663
2664- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
2665 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
2666 determine the maximum size of the response.
2667
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2668 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
2669
359b023e
TL
2670- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
2671 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
2672
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2673- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
2674 RENEWING client.
2675
2676- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
2677
2678- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
2679 using memcmp().
2680
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2681 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
2682
2683- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
2684 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
2685 pointing this out.
2686
2687- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
2688 exit.
2689
2690- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
2691
2692- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
2693 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.