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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
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2 Version 4.0.0a1
3 May 19, 2007
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98311e4b 5 Release Notes
72c7bd79 6
da411127 7 NEW FEATURES
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9The DHCP server in version 4.0.x of the ISC DHCP Distribution supports
10DHCPv6 in addition to DHCP for IPv4.
11
12Several new options have been added to the dhcpd executable, which are
13documented in the man page. Several changes have been made to the
14configuration file as well, which are also documented in the man
15pages.
16
17There are a number of DHCPv6 limitiations and features missing in this
18release, which will be addressed shortly:
19
99fe695e 20- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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22- There is no DHCPv6 Relay support.
23
24- Only a single fixed address is supported per IA.
25
26- IA_TA addresses are not supported.
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98bd7ca0 28- IA_PD prefixes are not supported.
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30- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages. These
31 should be configurable, and probably localized via gettext() or the
32 like.
33
34- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
35
36- Dynamically allocated leases do not respond to Confirm messages.
37
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38- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
39 not both, so two instances of the daemons are required with the
40 "-6" command line option.
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42For information on how to install, configure and run this software,
43as well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult
44the README file.
45
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46ISC DHCP now uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please
47review the output of "./configure --help" to see what options are
48available.
49
50The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and
51may not work on other platforms. Please report any problems and
52suggested fixes to <dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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55 Changes since 4.0.0a1
56
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57- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
58 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
59 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
60
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61- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
62 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
63 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
64 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
65
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66- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
67
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68- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
69 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
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71- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
72
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73- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
74
75- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
76 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
77
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78- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
79 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
80
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81 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
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83- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
84
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85- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
86 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
87
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88- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
89
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90- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
91 initialized.
92
93- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
94
95- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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96 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
97
98- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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100- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
101
102- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
103 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
104
105- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
106
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107- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
108 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplised.
109
110- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
111 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
112
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113- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
114
115- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
116
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117- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
118
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119 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
120
121- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
122 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
123 no support currently for both.
124
125- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
126 IAADDR option.
127
128- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
129 options.
130
131- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
132
133- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
134 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
135
136- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
137 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
138 specifying type 1 or type 2).
139
140- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
141 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
142
143- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
144 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
145 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
146 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
147 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
148 differently, they both use the same code here).
149
150- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
151 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
152 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
153
154- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
155
156- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
157 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
158 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
159 it should not intercept.
160
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161 Changes since 3.1.0b2
162
163- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
164 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
165 odd number of leases).
166
167- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
168 rebalance run, and one after.
169
170- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
171 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
172 processing these messages.
173
fe5b0fdd 174 Changes since 3.1.0b1
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176- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
177 objects.
178
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179- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
180 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
181 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
182 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
183 at Allianz.
184
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185- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
186 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
187
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188- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
189 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
190
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191- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
192 caused the server to abort.
193
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194- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
195 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
196 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
197
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198- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
199 by empty spaces would not get included.
200
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201- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
202 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
203
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204- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
205 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
206
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207- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
208 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
209
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210- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
211 on the parameter request list.
212
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213 Changes since 3.1.0a3
214
215- Some spelling fixes.
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217 Changes since 3.1.0a2
218
219- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
220 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
221
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222- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
223 domain-search option syntax.
224
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225 Changes since 3.1.0a1
226
227- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
228 hash table was repaired.
229
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230- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
231 entering normal state.
232
233- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
234 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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235 'xid mismatch' log messages.
236
237- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
238 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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240- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
241 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
242 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
243 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
244
245- Lease structures appear in three spearate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
246 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
247 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
248 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
249 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
250 to their needs.
251
252- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
253 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
254 run will attempt balance.
255
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256- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
257
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258 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
259
260- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
261 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
262 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
263 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
264
98bd7ca0 265- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 266 was introduced.
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268- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
269 via OMAPI.
270
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271- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
272 the protocol draft.
273
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274- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
275 one does not already exist on the system.
276
b43c87ad 277- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
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279- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
280 matches RFC 3074.
281
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282- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
283 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 284 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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286- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
287 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 288 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
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290- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
291 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
292 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
293 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
294
295- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
296 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
297 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
298 priority over the client's parameter request list.
299
f7fdb216 300- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 301 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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302 DHCPv6 support.
303
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304- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
305 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
306 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
307
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308- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
309 have been incorporated.
310
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311- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
312 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
313 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
314 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
315 that belong to the peer in need.
316
317- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
318 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
319
320- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
321 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
322 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
323
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324- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
325 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
326
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327- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
328 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
329 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
330 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
331 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
332
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333- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
334 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
335 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
336 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
337
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338- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
339 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
340 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
341 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
342 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
343 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
344 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
345 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
346 ignoring this aspect of their request.
347
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348- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
349 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
350
41e45067 351- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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352 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
353 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
354 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
355
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356- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
357 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
358 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
359 hardware and funding the development.
6d103865 360
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361- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
362 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
363 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
364 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
365 via Robin Breathe.
366
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367- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
368 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
369 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
370 from Christof Chen.
371
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372- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
373 formally supported.
374
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375 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
376
377- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
378 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
379
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380 Changes since 3.0.5
381
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382- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
383 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
384 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 385 they actually received.
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386
387- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
388
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389- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
390 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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391 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
392 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
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394- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
395
d69fb6a8 396- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 397 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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399- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
400 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
401 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
402 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
403 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
404 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
405 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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406 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
407
408- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
409 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
410 'file' field.
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412- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
413 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
414
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415- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
416 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
417 a patch from Kevin Steves.
418
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419- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
420 from Chris Wagner.
421
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422- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
423 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
424 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
425
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426- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
427 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
428 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
429 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
430 was set.
431
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432- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
433 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
434
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435- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
436 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
437 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
438 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
439 active ones.
440
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901306d5 443- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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444 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
445 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
446 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
447 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
448
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449- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
450 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
451
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452 Changes since 3.0.4
453
454- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
455 scopes are actually global has been added.
456
457- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
458 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
459 known to be damaging.
460
461- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
462 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
463 balancing).
464
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465- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
466 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
467 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
468
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469- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
470 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
471 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
472
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473- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
474 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
475 more clear now.
476
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477- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
478 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
479 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
480 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
481 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 482 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
6cbc6629 483
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484- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
485 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
486
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487- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
488 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
489 made possible.
490
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491- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
492 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
493 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
494
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495- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
496 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
497
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498- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
499 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
500 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
501
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502- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
503 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
504 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
505 value with the later configured value).
506
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507- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
508 have been named and documented.
509
510- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
511 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
512 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
513 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
514 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
515 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
516 write new output.
517
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518 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
519
520- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
521 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
522
523 Changes since 3.0.4b3
524
525- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
526 mailing list.
527
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528 Changes since 3.0.4b2
529
530- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunatley require
531 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
532
533- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
534 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
535
536- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
537 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
538 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
539 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
540
541- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
542 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
543 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
544 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
545 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
546 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
547 transition (properly).
548
549- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
550
551 Changes since 3.0.4b1
552
553- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
554 STDIN after reading one line.
555
556- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
557 descriptor it opened twice.
558
559- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
560 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
561 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
562
563 Changes since 3.0.3
564
565- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
566 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
567 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
568
569- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
570 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
571 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
572
573- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
574 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 575 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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577
578- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
579 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailng PAD option, rather
580 than the entire block of them.
581
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582! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
583 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
584 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
585 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
586 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
587 to a patch from infamous42md.
588
589! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
590 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
591 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
592 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
593 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
594 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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596- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
597 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
598 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
599
600- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
601 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
602
603- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
604 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
605 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
606 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
607 transitional states.
608
609- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
610 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
611 once it detects the old db does not exist.
612
613- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
614 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
615 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
616
617- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
618 been doucmented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
619
620- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
621 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
622
623- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
624 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
625 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
626
627- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
628 patch from 'infamous42md'.
629
630- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
631 repaired.
632
633- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
634 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
635 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
636 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
637
638- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
639 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
640 data.
641
642- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
643 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
644 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
645 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
646 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
647
648- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
649 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
650 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
651 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
652 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
653
654- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
655 has been repaired.
656
657- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
658 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
659 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
660 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
661 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
662
663- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
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666- The linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
667 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
668 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
669 move to 3.[01].x.
670
671- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
672 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
673
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674 Changes since 3.0.3b3
675
676- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
677 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
678
679- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
680 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
681 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
682 workaround.
683
684 Changes since 3.0.3b2
685
686- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
687 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
688
689 Changes since 3.0.3b1
690
691- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
692 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
693 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
694
695- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
696 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
697 dynamic updates were also retouched.
698
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699 Changes since 3.0.2
700
701- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
702 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceeding DISCOVER.
703 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
704
705- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
706 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
707 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
708 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
709 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
710
711- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
712 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
713 Jason Vas Dias at Redhat.
714
715- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
716 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
717 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
718
719- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
720 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
721 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
722 Peter Poeml.
723
724- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
725 Dr. Peter Poeml.
726
727- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
728 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
729 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
730 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
731 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
732 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
733
734- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
735 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
736 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
737 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
738
739- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
740 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
741 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
742 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
743
744- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
745 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
746
747- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
748 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
749 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
750
751- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
752 7 bytes, and failover.
753
754- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
755 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
756 at Redhat.
757
758- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
759 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
760 should work better.
761
762- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
763 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
764 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
765
766- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
767 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
768 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
769
770 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
771
772- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
773 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
774
775 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
776
777- Two varaibles introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
778 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
779 overloading. This was repaired.
780
781- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
782 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
783 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
784 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
785 three chunks to fit.
786
787- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
788 were repaired.
789
790- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
791 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
792 leak).
793
794 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
795
796- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
797 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
798
799 Changes since 3.0.2b1
800
801- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
802
803 Changes since 3.0.1
804
805- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
806 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
807 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
808
809- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
810 name was not provided by the server.
811
812- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
813 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
814
815- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
816 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
817
818- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
819 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
820
821- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
822
823- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
824
825- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
826 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
827 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
828 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
829 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
830
831- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
832 the configuration be globally scoped.
833
834- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
835 Farkas.
836
837- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
838 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
839
840- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
841 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
842
843- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
844 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
845
846- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
847 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
848 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
849 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
850
851- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
852 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
853 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
854 respond to POOLREQ messages.
855
856- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
857 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
858 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
859
860- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
861
862- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
863 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
864 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
865
866- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
867 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
868 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
869 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
870 Fjone and directconnect.no.
871
872- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
873 to Andreas Gustafsson.
874
875- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
876 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
877
878- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
879 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
880 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
881 DISCOVER timeout handling.
882
883- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
884 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
885
886- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
887 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
888 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
889
890- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
891 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
892 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
893 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
894 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
895 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
896
897- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
898 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
899 Infoblox.
900
901- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
902
903- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
904 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
905 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
906 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
907 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
908 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
909 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
910
911- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
912 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
913 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
914
915- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
916 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
917 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
918
919- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
920
921 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
922
923- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
924 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
925 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
926 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
927 systems either.
928
929- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
930
931- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
932 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
933 is false.
934
935- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
936 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
937
938- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
939
940 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
941
942! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
943 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
944 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
945 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
946 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
947 both finding and solving the problem.
948
949! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
950 in log_*() functions was evidented, on some specific platforms where
951 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
952 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
953 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
954 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
955 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
956 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
957 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
958 published version of ISC DHCP.
959
960- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
961
962- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
963
964 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
965
966- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
967 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
968 Richard Hirst.
969
970- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
971 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
972 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
973
974- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
975
976- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
977 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
978 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
979 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
980
981- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
982 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on solaris platforms.
983
984- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
985 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
986
987- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
988
989 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
990
991- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
992 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
993
994- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
995 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
996 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
997
998- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
999 by name was fixed.
1000
1001- Delcaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
1002 longer result in error.
1003
1004- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
1005
1006- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
1007 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
1008 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
1009
1010- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
1011 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
1012
1013- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
1014 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
1015 Blapp.
1016
1017- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
1018 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
1019 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
1020 Martin Blapp.
1021
1022- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
1023 expiry times in failover configurations.
1024
1025- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
1026 Steve G.
1027
1028- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
1029 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
1030
1031- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
1032 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
1033 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
1034 now "unknown-144".
1035
1036- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
1037 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
1038
1039 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
1040
1041- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
1042
1043- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
1044 not be bash.
1045
1046- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1047
1048- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
1049 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
1050 that errored before will now work properly.
1051
1052- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
1053 names was repaired.
1054
1055- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
1056 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
1057 configuration file.
1058
1059- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
1060 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1061
1062- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
1063 error rather than a null dereference.
1064
1065 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
1066
1067- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
1068
1069- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
1070
1071- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
1072 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
1073
1074- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
1075
1076- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
1077
1078- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
1079 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
1080 self-corrupting lease databases.
1081
1082- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
1083
1084- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
1085 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
1086
1087- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
1088
1089- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
1090
1091- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
1092 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
1093 Ling Gou.
1094
1095- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
1096 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1097
1098- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
1099 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
1100 Ted Lemon for the patch.
1101
1102- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
1103 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
1104
1105 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
1106
1107- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
1108 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
1109
1110- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
1111
1112- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
1113 a memory leak.
1114
1115- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
1116 script.
1117
1118- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
1119
1120- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
1121
1122- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
1123
1124- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
1125
1126- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
1127
1128- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
1129
1130- Increment the hop count when relaying.
1131
1132- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
1133
1134- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
1135
1136- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
1137
1138- Change the type of rbuf_max.
1139
1140- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
1141
1142 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
1143
1144- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
1145 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
1146 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
1147
1148 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
1149
1150- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
1151 to be renewed.
1152
1153- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
1154 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
1155
1156- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
1157 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
1158
1159- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
1160 that two permit lists matched.
1161
1162- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
1163 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
1164
1165- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
1166
1167- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
1168 requested it, contrary to the standard.
1169
1170- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
1171
1172- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
1173
1174- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
1175 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
1176 going to update its A record.
1177
1178- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
1179 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
1180 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
1181 DNS server.
1182
1183- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
1184
1185- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
1186
1187- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
1188 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
1189 NetBSD project).
1190
1191- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
1192 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
1193
1194- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
1195 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
1196
1197- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
1198
1199- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
1200
1201- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
1202 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
1203 failover protocol standard.
1204
1205- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
1206 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
1207 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
1208
1209- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
1210 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
1211 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
1212 do so.
1213
1214- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
1215
1216 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
1217
1218- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
1219
1220- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
1221 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
1222
1223- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
1224 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
1225
1226- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
1227 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
1228 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
1229
1230- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
1231 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
1232 network, merge the two pools.
1233
1234- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
1235 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
1236 fix this bug.
1237
1238 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
1239
1240- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
1241 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
1242
1243- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
1244 the same case.
1245
1246- Additional documentation.
1247
1248- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
1249 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
1250
1251 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
1252
1253- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
1254- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
1255
1256 Changes since 3.0.1rc2
1257
1258- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
1259 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
1260 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
1261 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
1262 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
1263
1264 Changes since 3.0.1rc1
1265
1266- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
1267 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
1268 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
1269 wasn't the one that removed it.
1270
1271- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
1272 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
1273 were not configured.
1274
1275- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
1276
1277- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
1278 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
1279 routing information.
1280
1281- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
1282 request being sent.
1283
1284- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
1285 done.
1286
1287- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
1288 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
1289 were pending.
1290
1291- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
1292 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
1293 problems with failover.
1294
1295- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
1296 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
1297 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
1298
1299 Changes since 3.0
1300
1301- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
1302 smash in the subclass allocation code.
1303
1304- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
1305 no object is open, it dumps core.
1306
1307- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
1308
1309- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
1310
1311- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
1312
1313- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
1314 a host object attribute with a null value.
1315
1316 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
1317
1318- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
1319
1320- Fix an obscure core dump.
1321
1322- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
1323 when crucial information is left out.
1324
1325- Log "no free leases" as an error.
1326
1327- Documentation updates.
1328
1329 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
1330
1331- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
1332
1333- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
1334 structure wasn't zeroed.
1335
1336- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
1337 incorrectly.
1338
1339- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
1340 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
1341 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
1342 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
1343 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
1344 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
1345 restarted.
1346
1347 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
1348
1349- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
1350 in failover-enabled pools.
1351
1352- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
1353 declarations).
1354
1355- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
1356 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
1357
1358- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
1359 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
1360
1361- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
1362
1363- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
1364 defined but not referenced by any pools.
1365
1366- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
1367
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1369
1370- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
1371
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1373
1374- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
1375
1376- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
1377
1378- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
1379
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1381
1382- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
1383 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
1384 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
1385
1386- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
1387 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
1388 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
1389 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
1390 string.
1391
1392- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
1393
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1395
1396- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
1397 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
1398
1399- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
1400 malformed packets.
1401
1402- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
1403
1404- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
1405 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
1406 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
1407
1408- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
1409
1410- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
1411
1412- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
1413
1414- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
1415 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
1416
1417- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
1418 tcp connections from being played back.
1419
1420- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
1421 on exit.
1422
1423- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
1424
1425- Add some configurability to the build system.
1426
1427- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
1428
1429- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
1430 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
1431 hadn't been noticed until now.
1432
1433 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
1434
1435- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
1436 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
1437
1438- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
1439 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
1440 conformant, but also didn't work).
1441
1442- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
1443 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
1444
1445- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
1446 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
1447
1448- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
1449 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
1450
1451- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
1452 variables to leases via OMAPI.
1453
1454- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
1455 doing failover.
1456
1457- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
1458 running on alpha processors.
1459
1460- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
1461 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
1462
1463- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
1464
1465- Install omshell (including new documentation).
1466
1467- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
1468 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
1469
1470- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
1471
1472- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
1473 actually named (key names are domain names).
1474
1475- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
1476
1477- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
1478 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
1479
1480- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
1481 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
1482
1483- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
1484 statements.
1485
1486- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
1487 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
1488
1489- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
1490 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
1491 operating.
1492
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1494
1495- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
1496 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
1497 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
1498 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
1499
1500- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
1501 using omapi to manipulate leases.
1502
1503- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
1504
1505
1506 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
1507
1508- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
1509 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
1510
1511- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
1512 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
1513 to the chain.
1514
1515- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
1516
1517- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
1518
1519- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
1520
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1523
98311e4b 1524- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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1526- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
1527
1528 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
1529
1530- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
1531 DHCPDECLINE.
1532
1533- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
1534
1535- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
1536 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
1537 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
1538
1539- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
1540
1541- Documentation fixes.
1542
1543- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
1544 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
1545
1546- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
1547 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
1548
1549- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
1550
1551- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
1552
1553- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
1554 case-insensitive.
1555
1556- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
1557
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1560 consistently.
1561
1562- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
1563 systems with the probe not working correctly.
1564
1565- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
1566
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1568
1569- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
1570 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
1571 result of duplicate leases.
1572
1573- Document OMAPI server objects.
1574
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1576
1577- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
1578 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
1579
1580- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
1581 core dumps.
1582
1583- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
1584 Friedrich.
1585
1586- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
1587
1588 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
1589
1590- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
1591 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 1592 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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1594
1595- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
1596 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
1597
1598- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
1599 trace file.
1600
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1603- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
1604 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
1605 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
1606 e.g., Digital Unix.
1607
1608- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
1609 when no error had occurred.
1610
1611- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
1612 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
1613 non-communicating state.
1614
1615- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
1616
1617- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
1618 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
1619 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
1620
1621- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
1622 when the client lease expired.
1623
1624- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
1625 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
1626 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
1627 in testing.
1628
1629- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
1630 the command line, it would fail.
1631
1632- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
1633 user impact).
1634
1635- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
1636
1637- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
1638 they're executable.
1639
1640 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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1642- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
1643 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
1644 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
1645 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
1646
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1648 Transmeta.
1649
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1650- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
1651 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
1652 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
1653 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
1654
1655- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
1656 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
1657
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1659
1660- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
1661 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
1662
1663- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
1664
1665- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
1666
1667- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
1668
1669- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
1670
1671- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
1672
1673- Update some parts of the README file.
1674
1675- Support GCC on SCO.
1676
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1678
1679- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
1680 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
1681
1682- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
1683 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
1684 unbill the old class.
1685
1686- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
1687 process the state transition immediately.
1688
1689- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
1690 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
1691
1692- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
1693
1694- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
1695
1696- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
1697
1698- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
1699
1700- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
1701 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
1702 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
1703
1704- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
1705 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
1706
1707- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
1708 lease file.
1709
1710- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
1711
1712- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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1715
1716- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
1717 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
1718
1719- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
1720
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1722
1723- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
1724
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1726
1727- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
1728
1729- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
1730 pl19.
1731
1732- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
1733 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
1734 past the regression test.
1735
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1737
1738- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
1739 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
1740
1741- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
1742 DHCPREQUEST.
1743
1744- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
1745
1746- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
1747
1748- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
1749
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1750 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 18
1751
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1752- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
1753 (Damien Neil)
1754
1755- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
1756 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
1757
1758- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
1759 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
1760 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
1761
1762- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
1763 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
1764 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
1765 message.
1766
1767- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
1768 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
1769 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
1770
98311e4b 1771- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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1773 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
1774 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
1775 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
1776 this way will work.
1777
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1778- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
1779
1780- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
1781 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
1782 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
1783 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
1784
1785 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
1786
1787 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
1788
1789- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
1790 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
1791 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
1792
1793- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
1794 Hermann Lauer.
1795
1796- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
1797 messages.
1798
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1800 it contained quoted strings.
1801
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1803
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1805
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1806- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
1807 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
1808 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
1809 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
1810 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
1811 tracking down memory leaks.
1812
1813- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
1814 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
1815 Solaris.
1816
1817- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
1818 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
1819 corruption and core dumps.
1820
1821- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
1822 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
1823
1824- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
1825
1826- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
1827 and implemented by Damien Neil.
1828
1829- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
1830 name and version to standard output.
1831
1832- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
1833
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1835 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
1836
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1837- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
1838
1839- Lots of documentation updates.
1840
1841- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
1842 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
1843
1844- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
1845
1846- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
1847 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
1848
1849
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1851
1852- Some documentation tweaks.
1853
1854- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
1855
1856- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
1857
1858- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
1859 agent options into them.
1860
1861- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
1862
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1864 options.
1865
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1867
1868- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
1869 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
1870 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
1871 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
1872 used in class statements to control address allocation.
1873
1874- Fix up documentation.
1875
1876- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
1877 significantly in a high-demand situation.
1878
1879- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
1880
1881- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
1882
1883- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
1884 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
1885 practical use otherwise.
1886
1887- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
1888 for debugging.
1889
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1891
1892- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
1893 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
1894 dump on some systems.
1895
1896- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
1897 option.
1898
1899- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
1900 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
1901
1902- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
1903 that were not printing enough information.
1904
1905- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
1906 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
1907
1908- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
1909 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
1910 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
1911 were answering.
1912
1913- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
1914 the transition.
1915
1916
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1918
1919- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
1920
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1922
1923- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
1924 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
1925 representation from working correctly.
1926
1927- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
1928 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
1929 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
1930 could spin.
1931
1932- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
1933 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
1934
1935- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
1936 interface name on the command line.
1937
1938- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
1939 client state.
1940
1941- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
1942 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
1943 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
1944 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
1945 added by Ted Lemon.
1946
1947- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
1948 be made to log debugging information and other information.
1949
1950- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
1951 end option.
1952
1953- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
1954 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
1955 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
1956
1957- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
1958 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
1959 face of a null hardware address on input.
1960
1961- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
1962 specified unqualified.
1963
1964- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
1965 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
1966
1967- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
1968 RFC.
1969
1970- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
1971
1972- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
1973
1974- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
1975 it works.
1976
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1978
1979- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
1980 to CVS.
1981
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1982 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
1983
1984- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
1985
1986- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
1987 in patchlevel 9.
1988
1989- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
1990 options at renewal time.
1991
1992- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
1993 configuration language.
1994
1995- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
1996
1997- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
1998 done when no client hostname was received.
1999
2000- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
2001
2002- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
2003 the DHCP option space.
2004
2005- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
2006
2007- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
2008 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
2009
2010- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
2011 silently dropped.
2012
2013- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
2014 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
2015
2016- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
2017 will be correctly updated.
2018
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2020
2021- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
2022 bounds-checking.
2023
2024 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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2026- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
2027
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2030- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
2031 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
2032 possible to exploit it any further than that.
2033
2034- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
2035 option.
2036
2037- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
2038 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
2039 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
2040 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
2041 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
2042 meaningfully.
2043
2044- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
2045 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
2046 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
2047
2048- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
2049 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
2050 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
2051 this one down!
2052
2053- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
2054 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
2055 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
2056 down and fixing this problem.
2057
2058 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
2059
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2060- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
2061 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
2062
2063- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
2064 environment.
2065
2066- Fix suffix operator.
2067
2068- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
2069
2070- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
2071 connection code.
2072
2073- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
2074
2075- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
2076
2077- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
2078 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
2079
2080- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
2081
2082- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
2083
2084- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
2085 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
2086
2087- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
2088 spawn with.
2089
2090- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
2091 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
2092
2093- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
2094 for OMAPI.
2095
2096- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
2097 can install in host declarations.
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2100
2101- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
2102 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
2103 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
2104 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
2105 comments)!
2106
2107- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
2108
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2109- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
2110 request for help on this with patches!
2111
2112- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
2113 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
2114 lost, they never reconnect.
2115
2116- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
2117 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
2118
2119- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
2120 dump.
2121
2122- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
2123 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
2124 catching this one.
2125
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2127
2128- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
2129 of options, so that the client configuration can overried, e.g., the
2130 lease renewal time.
2131
2132- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
2133 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
2134 declared without a key.
2135
2136- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
2137
2138- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
2139 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
2140
2141- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
2142 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
2143 determine the maximum size of the response.
2144
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2146
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2147- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
2148 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
2149
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2150- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
2151 RENEWING client.
2152
2153- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
2154
2155- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
2156 using memcmp().
2157
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2159
2160- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
2161 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
2162 pointing this out.
2163
2164- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
2165 exit.
2166
2167- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
2168
2169- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
2170 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.