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2 Version 3.1.0a1
3 August 1, 2006
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da411127 7 NEW FEATURES
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9Version 3.1.x of the ISC DHCP Distribution includes the following major
10new features compared to its 3.0.x derivative:
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12 - Failover protocol 'MAC Address Affinity' to reduce pool churn.
13 - Support for the 'reserved' and 'bootp' failover flags, which
14 means in lay terms that static allocations can be made to
15 clients in which 'on events' can be supported.
16 - Several other failover optimizations and changes.
17 - Management of class and subclass statements via OMAPI.
18 - Many new configuration statement functions.
19 - Initial formal support for VIVCO/VIVSO options.
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21For a full list of new features added in this release, please observe
22the changes list directly following this section.
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24For information on how to install, configure and run this software,
25as well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult
26the README file.
27
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29 Changes since 3.1.0a1
30
31- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
32 hash table was repaired.
33
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34- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
35 entering normal state.
36
37- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
38 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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39 'xid mismatch' log messages.
40
41- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
42 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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44- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
45 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
46 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
47 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
48
49- Lease structures appear in three spearate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
50 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
51 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
52 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
53 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
54 to their needs.
55
56- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
57 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
58 run will attempt balance.
59
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60 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
61
62- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
63 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
64 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
65 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
66
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67- Support for 'reserved' (psuedo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
68 was introduced.
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70- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
71 via OMAPI.
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73- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
74 the protocol draft.
75
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76- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
77 one does not already exist on the system.
78
b43c87ad 79- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
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81- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
82 matches RFC 3074.
83
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84- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
85 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 86 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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88- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
89 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 90 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
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92- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
93 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
94 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
95 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
96
97- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
98 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
99 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
100 priority over the client's parameter request list.
101
f7fdb216 102- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 103 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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104 DHCPv6 support.
105
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106- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
107 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
108 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
109
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110- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
111 have been incorporated.
112
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113- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
114 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
115 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
116 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
117 that belong to the peer in need.
118
119- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
120 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
121
122- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
123 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
124 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
125
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126- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
127 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
128
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129- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
130 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
131 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
132 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
133 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
134
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135- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
136 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
137 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
138 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
139
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140- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
141 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
142 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
143 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
144 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
145 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
146 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
147 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
148 ignoring this aspect of their request.
149
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150- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
151 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
152
41e45067 153- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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154 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
155 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
156 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
157
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158- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
159 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
160 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
161 hardware and funding the development.
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163- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
164 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
165 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
166 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
167 via Robin Breathe.
168
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169- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
170 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
171 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
172 from Christof Chen.
173
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174- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
175 formally supported.
176
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177 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
178
901306d5 179- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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180 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
181 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
182 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
183 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
184
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185- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
186 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
187
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188 Changes since 3.0.4
189
190- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
191 scopes are actually global has been added.
192
193- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
194 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
195 known to be damaging.
196
197- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
198 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
199 balancing).
200
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201- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
202 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
203 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
204
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205- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
206 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
207 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
208
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209- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
210 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
211 more clear now.
212
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213- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
214 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
215 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
216 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
217 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 218 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
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220- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
221 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
222
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223- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
224 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
225 made possible.
226
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227- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
228 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
229 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
230
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231- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
232 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
233
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234- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
235 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
236 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
237
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238- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
239 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
240 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
241 value with the later configured value).
242
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243- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
244 have been named and documented.
245
246- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
247 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
248 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
249 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
250 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
251 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
252 write new output.
253
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254 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
255
256- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
257 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
258
259 Changes since 3.0.4b3
260
261- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
262 mailing list.
263
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264 Changes since 3.0.4b2
265
266- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunatley require
267 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
268
269- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
270 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
271
272- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
273 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
274 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
275 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
276
277- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
278 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
279 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
280 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
281 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
282 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
283 transition (properly).
284
285- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
286
287 Changes since 3.0.4b1
288
289- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
290 STDIN after reading one line.
291
292- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
293 descriptor it opened twice.
294
295- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
296 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
297 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
298
299 Changes since 3.0.3
300
301- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
302 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
303 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
304
305- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
306 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
307 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
308
309- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
310 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
311 wether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
312 leases to allocate.
313
314- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
315 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailng PAD option, rather
316 than the entire block of them.
317
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318! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
319 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
320 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
321 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
322 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
323 to a patch from infamous42md.
324
325! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
326 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
327 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
328 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
329 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
330 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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332- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
333 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
334 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
335
336- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
337 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
338
339- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
340 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
341 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
342 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
343 transitional states.
344
345- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
346 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
347 once it detects the old db does not exist.
348
349- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
350 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
351 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
352
353- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
354 been doucmented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
355
356- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
357 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
358
359- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
360 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
361 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
362
363- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
364 patch from 'infamous42md'.
365
366- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
367 repaired.
368
369- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
370 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
371 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
372 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
373
374- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
375 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
376 data.
377
378- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
379 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
380 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
381 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
382 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
383
384- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
385 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
386 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
387 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
388 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
389
390- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
391 has been repaired.
392
393- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
394 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
395 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
396 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
397 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
398
399- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
400 be treated consistently, regardless of wether TRACING is defined or not.
401
402- The linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
403 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
404 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
405 move to 3.[01].x.
406
407- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
408 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
409
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410 Changes since 3.0.3b3
411
412- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
413 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
414
415- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
416 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
417 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
418 workaround.
419
420 Changes since 3.0.3b2
421
422- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
423 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
424
425 Changes since 3.0.3b1
426
427- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
428 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
429 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
430
431- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
432 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
433 dynamic updates were also retouched.
434
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435 Changes since 3.0.2
436
437- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
438 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceeding DISCOVER.
439 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
440
441- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
442 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
443 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
444 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
445 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
446
447- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
448 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
449 Jason Vas Dias at Redhat.
450
451- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
452 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
453 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
454
455- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
456 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
457 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
458 Peter Poeml.
459
460- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
461 Dr. Peter Poeml.
462
463- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
464 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
465 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
466 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
467 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
468 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
469
470- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
471 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
472 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
473 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
474
475- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
476 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
477 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
478 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
479
480- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
481 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
482
483- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
484 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
485 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
486
487- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
488 7 bytes, and failover.
489
490- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
491 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
492 at Redhat.
493
494- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
495 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
496 should work better.
497
498- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
499 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
500 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
501
502- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
503 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
504 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
505
506 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
507
508- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
509 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
510
511 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
512
513- Two varaibles introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
514 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
515 overloading. This was repaired.
516
517- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
518 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
519 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
520 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
521 three chunks to fit.
522
523- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
524 were repaired.
525
526- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
527 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
528 leak).
529
530 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
531
532- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
533 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
534
535 Changes since 3.0.2b1
536
537- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
538
539 Changes since 3.0.1
540
541- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
542 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
543 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
544
545- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
546 name was not provided by the server.
547
548- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
549 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
550
551- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
552 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
553
554- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
555 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
556
557- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
558
559- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
560
561- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
562 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
563 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
564 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
565 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
566
567- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
568 the configuration be globally scoped.
569
570- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
571 Farkas.
572
573- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
574 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
575
576- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
577 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
578
579- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
580 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
581
582- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
583 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
584 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
585 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
586
587- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
588 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
589 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
590 respond to POOLREQ messages.
591
592- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
593 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
594 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
595
596- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
597
598- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
599 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
600 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
601
602- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
603 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
604 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
605 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
606 Fjone and directconnect.no.
607
608- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
609 to Andreas Gustafsson.
610
611- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
612 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
613
614- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
615 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
616 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
617 DISCOVER timeout handling.
618
619- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
620 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
621
622- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
623 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
624 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
625
626- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
627 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
628 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
629 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
630 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
631 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
632
633- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
634 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
635 Infoblox.
636
637- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
638
639- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
640 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
641 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
642 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
643 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
644 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
645 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
646
647- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
648 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
649 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
650
651- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
652 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
653 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
654
655- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
656
657 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
658
659- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
660 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
661 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
662 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
663 systems either.
664
665- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
666
667- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
668 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
669 is false.
670
671- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
672 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
673
674- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
675
676 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
677
678! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
679 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
680 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
681 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
682 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
683 both finding and solving the problem.
684
685! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
686 in log_*() functions was evidented, on some specific platforms where
687 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
688 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
689 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
690 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
691 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
692 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
693 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
694 published version of ISC DHCP.
695
696- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
697
698- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
699
700 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
701
702- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
703 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
704 Richard Hirst.
705
706- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
707 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
708 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
709
710- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
711
712- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
713 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
714 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
715 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
716
717- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
718 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on solaris platforms.
719
720- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
721 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
722
723- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
724
725 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
726
727- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
728 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
729
730- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
731 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
732 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
733
734- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
735 by name was fixed.
736
737- Delcaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
738 longer result in error.
739
740- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
741
742- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
743 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
744 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
745
746- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
747 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
748
749- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
750 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
751 Blapp.
752
753- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
754 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
755 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
756 Martin Blapp.
757
758- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
759 expiry times in failover configurations.
760
761- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
762 Steve G.
763
764- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
765 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
766
767- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
768 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
769 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
770 now "unknown-144".
771
772- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
773 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
774
775 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
776
777- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
778
779- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
780 not be bash.
781
782- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
783
784- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
785 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
786 that errored before will now work properly.
787
788- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
789 names was repaired.
790
791- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
792 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
793 configuration file.
794
795- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
796 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
797
798- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
799 error rather than a null dereference.
800
801 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
802
803- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
804
805- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
806
807- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
808 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
809
810- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
811
812- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
813
814- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
815 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
816 self-corrupting lease databases.
817
818- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
819
820- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
821 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
822
823- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
824
825- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
826
827- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
828 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
829 Ling Gou.
830
831- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
832 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
833
834- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
835 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
836 Ted Lemon for the patch.
837
838- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
839 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
840
841 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
842
843- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
844 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
845
846- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
847
848- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
849 a memory leak.
850
851- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
852 script.
853
854- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
855
856- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
857
858- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
859
860- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
861
862- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
863
864- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
865
866- Increment the hop count when relaying.
867
868- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
869
870- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
871
872- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
873
874- Change the type of rbuf_max.
875
876- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
877
878 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
879
880- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
881 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
882 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
883
884 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
885
886- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
887 to be renewed.
888
889- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
890 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
891
892- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
893 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
894
895- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
896 that two permit lists matched.
897
898- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
899 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
900
901- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
902
903- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
904 requested it, contrary to the standard.
905
906- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
907
908- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
909
910- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
911 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
912 going to update its A record.
913
914- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
915 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
916 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
917 DNS server.
918
919- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
920
921- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
922
923- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
924 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
925 NetBSD project).
926
927- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
928 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
929
930- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
931 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
932
933- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
934
935- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
936
937- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
938 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
939 failover protocol standard.
940
941- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
942 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
943 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
944
945- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
946 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
947 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
948 do so.
949
950- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
951
952 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
953
954- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
955
956- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
957 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
958
959- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
960 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
961
962- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
963 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
964 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
965
966- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
967 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
968 network, merge the two pools.
969
970- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
971 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
972 fix this bug.
973
974 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
975
976- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
977 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
978
979- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
980 the same case.
981
982- Additional documentation.
983
984- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
985 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
986
987 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
988
989- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
990- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
991
992 Changes since 3.0.1rc2
993
994- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
995 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
996 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
997 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
998 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
999
1000 Changes since 3.0.1rc1
1001
1002- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
1003 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
1004 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
1005 wasn't the one that removed it.
1006
1007- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
1008 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
1009 were not configured.
1010
1011- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
1012
1013- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
1014 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
1015 routing information.
1016
1017- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
1018 request being sent.
1019
1020- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
1021 done.
1022
1023- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
1024 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
1025 were pending.
1026
1027- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
1028 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
1029 problems with failover.
1030
1031- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
1032 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
1033 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
1034
1035 Changes since 3.0
1036
1037- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
1038 smash in the subclass allocation code.
1039
1040- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
1041 no object is open, it dumps core.
1042
1043- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
1044
1045- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
1046
1047- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
1048
1049- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
1050 a host object attribute with a null value.
1051
1052 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
1053
1054- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
1055
1056- Fix an obscure core dump.
1057
1058- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
1059 when crucial information is left out.
1060
1061- Log "no free leases" as an error.
1062
1063- Documentation updates.
1064
1065 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
1066
1067- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
1068
1069- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
1070 structure wasn't zeroed.
1071
1072- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
1073 incorrectly.
1074
1075- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
1076 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
1077 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
1078 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
1079 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
1080 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
1081 restarted.
1082
1083 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
1084
1085- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
1086 in failover-enabled pools.
1087
1088- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
1089 declarations).
1090
1091- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
1092 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
1093
1094- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
1095 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
1096
1097- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
1098
1099- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
1100 defined but not referenced by any pools.
1101
1102- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
1103
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1105
1106- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
1107
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1109
1110- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
1111
1112- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
1113
1114- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
1115
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1117
1118- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
1119 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
1120 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
1121
1122- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
1123 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
1124 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
1125 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
1126 string.
1127
1128- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
1129
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1131
1132- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
1133 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
1134
1135- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
1136 malformed packets.
1137
1138- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
1139
1140- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
1141 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
1142 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
1143
1144- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
1145
1146- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
1147
1148- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
1149
1150- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
1151 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
1152
1153- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
1154 tcp connections from being played back.
1155
1156- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
1157 on exit.
1158
1159- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
1160
1161- Add some configurability to the build system.
1162
1163- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
1164
1165- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
1166 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
1167 hadn't been noticed until now.
1168
1169 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
1170
1171- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
1172 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
1173
1174- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
1175 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
1176 conformant, but also didn't work).
1177
1178- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
1179 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
1180
1181- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
1182 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
1183
1184- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
1185 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
1186
1187- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
1188 variables to leases via OMAPI.
1189
1190- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
1191 doing failover.
1192
1193- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
1194 running on alpha processors.
1195
1196- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
1197 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
1198
1199- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
1200
1201- Install omshell (including new documentation).
1202
1203- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
1204 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
1205
1206- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
1207
1208- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
1209 actually named (key names are domain names).
1210
1211- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
1212
1213- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
1214 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
1215
1216- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
1217 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
1218
1219- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
1220 statements.
1221
1222- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
1223 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
1224
1225- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
1226 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
1227 operating.
1228
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1230
1231- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
1232 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
1233 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
1234 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
1235
1236- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
1237 using omapi to manipulate leases.
1238
1239- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
1240
1241
1242 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
1243
1244- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
1245 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
1246
1247- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
1248 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
1249 to the chain.
1250
1251- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
1252
1253- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
1254
1255- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
1256
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1259
98311e4b 1260- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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1262- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
1263
1264 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
1265
1266- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
1267 DHCPDECLINE.
1268
1269- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
1270
1271- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
1272 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
1273 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
1274
1275- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
1276
1277- Documentation fixes.
1278
1279- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
1280 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
1281
1282- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
1283 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
1284
1285- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
1286
1287- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
1288
1289- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
1290 case-insensitive.
1291
1292- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
1293
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1296 consistently.
1297
1298- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
1299 systems with the probe not working correctly.
1300
1301- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
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1304
1305- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
1306 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
1307 result of duplicate leases.
1308
1309- Document OMAPI server objects.
1310
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1312
1313- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
1314 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
1315
1316- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
1317 core dumps.
1318
1319- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
1320 Friedrich.
1321
1322- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
1323
1324 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
1325
1326- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
1327 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
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1330
1331- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
1332 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
1333
1334- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
1335 trace file.
1336
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1340 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
1341 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
1342 e.g., Digital Unix.
1343
1344- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
1345 when no error had occurred.
1346
1347- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
1348 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
1349 non-communicating state.
1350
1351- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
1352
1353- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
1354 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
1355 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
1356
1357- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
1358 when the client lease expired.
1359
1360- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
1361 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
1362 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
1363 in testing.
1364
1365- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
1366 the command line, it would fail.
1367
1368- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
1369 user impact).
1370
1371- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
1372
1373- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
1374 they're executable.
1375
1376 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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1378- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
1379 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
1380 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
1381 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
1382
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1384 Transmeta.
1385
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1387 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
1388 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
1389 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
1390
1391- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
1392 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
1393
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1395
1396- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
1397 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
1398
1399- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
1400
1401- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
1402
1403- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
1404
1405- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
1406
1407- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
1408
1409- Update some parts of the README file.
1410
1411- Support GCC on SCO.
1412
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1414
1415- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
1416 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
1417
1418- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
1419 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
1420 unbill the old class.
1421
1422- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
1423 process the state transition immediately.
1424
1425- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
1426 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
1427
1428- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
1429
1430- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
1431
1432- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
1433
1434- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
1435
1436- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
1437 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
1438 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
1439
1440- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
1441 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
1442
1443- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
1444 lease file.
1445
1446- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
1447
1448- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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1451
1452- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
1453 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
1454
1455- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
1456
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1458
1459- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
1460
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1462
1463- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
1464
1465- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
1466 pl19.
1467
1468- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
1469 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
1470 past the regression test.
1471
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1473
1474- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
1475 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
1476
1477- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
1478 DHCPREQUEST.
1479
1480- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
1481
1482- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
1483
1484- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
1485
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1487
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1488- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
1489 (Damien Neil)
1490
1491- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
1492 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
1493
1494- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
1495 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
1496 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
1497
1498- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
1499 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
1500 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
1501 message.
1502
1503- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
1504 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
1505 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
1506
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1509 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
1510 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
1511 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
1512 this way will work.
1513
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1515
1516- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
1517 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
1518 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
1519 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
1520
1521 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
1522
1523 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
1524
1525- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
1526 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
1527 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
1528
1529- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
1530 Hermann Lauer.
1531
1532- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
1533 messages.
1534
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1536 it contained quoted strings.
1537
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1539
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1541
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1542- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
1543 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
1544 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
1545 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
1546 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
1547 tracking down memory leaks.
1548
1549- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
1550 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
1551 Solaris.
1552
1553- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
1554 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
1555 corruption and core dumps.
1556
1557- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
1558 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
1559
1560- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
1561
1562- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
1563 and implemented by Damien Neil.
1564
1565- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
1566 name and version to standard output.
1567
1568- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
1569
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1570- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
1571 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
1572
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1573- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
1574
1575- Lots of documentation updates.
1576
1577- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
1578 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
1579
1580- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
1581
1582- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
1583 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
1584
1585
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1587
1588- Some documentation tweaks.
1589
1590- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
1591
1592- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
1593
1594- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
1595 agent options into them.
1596
1597- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
1598
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1599- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
1600 options.
1601
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1603
1604- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
1605 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
1606 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
1607 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
1608 used in class statements to control address allocation.
1609
1610- Fix up documentation.
1611
1612- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
1613 significantly in a high-demand situation.
1614
1615- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
1616
1617- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
1618
1619- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
1620 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
1621 practical use otherwise.
1622
1623- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
1624 for debugging.
1625
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1627
1628- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
1629 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
1630 dump on some systems.
1631
1632- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
1633 option.
1634
1635- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
1636 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
1637
1638- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
1639 that were not printing enough information.
1640
1641- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
1642 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
1643
1644- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
1645 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
1646 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
1647 were answering.
1648
1649- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
1650 the transition.
1651
1652
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1654
1655- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
1656
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1658
1659- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
1660 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
1661 representation from working correctly.
1662
1663- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
1664 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
1665 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
1666 could spin.
1667
1668- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
1669 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
1670
1671- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
1672 interface name on the command line.
1673
1674- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
1675 client state.
1676
1677- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
1678 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
1679 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
1680 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
1681 added by Ted Lemon.
1682
1683- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
1684 be made to log debugging information and other information.
1685
1686- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
1687 end option.
1688
1689- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
1690 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
1691 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
1692
1693- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
1694 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
1695 face of a null hardware address on input.
1696
1697- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
1698 specified unqualified.
1699
1700- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
1701 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
1702
1703- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
1704 RFC.
1705
1706- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
1707
1708- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
1709
1710- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
1711 it works.
1712
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1714
1715- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
1716 to CVS.
1717
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1719
1720- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
1721
1722- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
1723 in patchlevel 9.
1724
1725- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
1726 options at renewal time.
1727
1728- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
1729 configuration language.
1730
1731- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
1732
1733- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
1734 done when no client hostname was received.
1735
1736- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
1737
1738- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
1739 the DHCP option space.
1740
1741- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
1742
1743- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
1744 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
1745
1746- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
1747 silently dropped.
1748
1749- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
1750 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
1751
1752- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
1753 will be correctly updated.
1754
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1756
1757- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
1758 bounds-checking.
1759
1760 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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1762- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
1763
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1766- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
1767 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
1768 possible to exploit it any further than that.
1769
1770- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
1771 option.
1772
1773- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
1774 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
1775 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
1776 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
1777 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
1778 meaningfully.
1779
1780- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
1781 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
1782 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
1783
1784- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
1785 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
1786 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
1787 this one down!
1788
1789- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
1790 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
1791 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
1792 down and fixing this problem.
1793
1794 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
1795
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1796- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
1797 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
1798
1799- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
1800 environment.
1801
1802- Fix suffix operator.
1803
1804- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
1805
1806- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
1807 connection code.
1808
1809- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
1810
1811- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
1812
1813- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
1814 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
1815
1816- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
1817
1818- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
1819
1820- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
1821 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
1822
1823- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
1824 spawn with.
1825
1826- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
1827 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
1828
1829- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
1830 for OMAPI.
1831
1832- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
1833 can install in host declarations.
1834
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1836
1837- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
1838 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
1839 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
1840 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
1841 comments)!
1842
1843- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
1844
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1846 request for help on this with patches!
1847
1848- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
1849 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
1850 lost, they never reconnect.
1851
1852- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
1853 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
1854
1855- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
1856 dump.
1857
1858- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
1859 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
1860 catching this one.
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1863
1864- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
1865 of options, so that the client configuration can overried, e.g., the
1866 lease renewal time.
1867
1868- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
1869 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
1870 declared without a key.
1871
1872- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
1873
1874- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
1875 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
1876
1877- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
1878 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
1879 determine the maximum size of the response.
1880
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1882
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1883- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
1884 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
1885
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1886- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
1887 RENEWING client.
1888
1889- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
1890
1891- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
1892 using memcmp().
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1895
1896- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
1897 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
1898 pointing this out.
1899
1900- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
1901 exit.
1902
1903- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
1904
1905- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
1906 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.