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1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
2 Version 4.2.0
3 21 December 2012
4
5 Release Notes
6
7 NEW FEATURES
8
9ISC DHCP 4.2.x includes features that were not included in DHCP 4.1.x.
10These include:
11
12Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
13The DHCP server or client can now continue with it's processing while
14awaiting replies from the DNS server.
15
16There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
17release, which will be addressed in the future:
18
19- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
20
21- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages, in
22 English. A method to reconfigure or support other languages would
23 be preferrable.
24
25- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
26
27- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
28 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
29 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
30
31For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as
32well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the
33README file.
34
35ISC DHCP uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please review the
36output of "./configure --help" to see what options are available.
37
38The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and may not
39work on other platforms. Please report any problems and suggested fixes to
40<dhcp-users@isc.org>.
41
42 Changes since 4.2.1
43
44! In dhclient check the data for some string options for
45 reasonableness before passing it along to the script that
46 interfaces with the OS.
47 [ISC-Bugs #23722]
48 CVE: CVE-2011-0997
49
50- DHCPv6 server now responds properly if client asks for a prefix that
51 is already assigned to a different client. [ISC-Bugs #23948]
52
53- Add the option "--no-pid" to the client, relay and server code,
54 to disable writing a pid file. Add the option "-pf pidfile"
55 to the relay to allow the user to supply the pidfile name at
56 runtime. Add the "with-relay6-pid-file" option to configure
57 to allow the user to supply the pidfile name for the relay
58 in v6 mode at configure time.
59 [ISC-Bugs #23351] [ISC-Bugs #17541]
60
61- 'dhclient' no longer waits a random interval after first starting up to
62 begin in the INIT state. This conforms to RFC 2131, but elects not to
63 implement a 'SHOULD' direction in section 4.1. The goal of this change
64 is to start up faster. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
65
66- Added 'initial-delay' parameter that specifies maximum amount of time
67 before client goes to the INIT state. The default value is 0. In previous
68 versions of the code client could wait up to 5 seconds. The old behavior
69 may be restored by using 'initial-delay 5;' in the client config file.
70 [ISC-Bugs #19660]
71
72- ICMP ping-check should now sit closer to precisely the number of seconds
73 configured (or default 1), due to making use of the new microsecond
74 scale timer internally to dhcpd. This corrects a bug where the server
75 may immediately timeout an ICMP ping-check if it was made late in the
76 current second. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
77
78- The DHCP client will schedule renewal and rebinding events in
79 microseconds if the DHCP server provided a lease-time that would result
80 in sub-1-second timers. This corrects a bug where a 2-second or lower
81 lease-time would cause the DHCP client to enter an infinite loop by
82 scheduling renewal at zero seconds. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
83
84- Client lease records are recorded at most once every 15 seconds. This
85 keeps the client from filling the lease database disk quickly on very small
86 lease times. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
87
88- To defend against RFC 2131 non-compliant DHCP servers which fail to
89 advertise a lease-time (either mangled, or zero in value) the DHCP
90 client now adds the server to the reject list ACL and returns to INIT
91 state to hopefully find an RFC 2131 compliant server (or retry in INIT
92 forever). [ISC-Bugs #19660]
93
94- Parameters configured to evaluate from user defined function calls can
95 now be correctly written to dhcpd.leases (as on 'on events' or dynamic
96 host records inserted via OMAPI). [ISC-Bugs #22266]
97
98- If a 'next-server' parameter is configured in a dynamic host record via
99 OMAPI as a domain name, the syntax written to disk is now correctly parsed
100 upon restart. [ISC-Bugs #22266]
101
102- The DHCP server now responds to DHCPLEASEQUERY messages from agents using
103 IP addresses not covered by a subnet in configuration. Whether or not to
104 respond to such an agent is still governed by the 'allow leasequery;'
105 configuration parameter, in the case of an agent not covered by a configured
106 subnet the root configuration area is examined. Server now also returns
107 vendor-class-id option, if client sent it. [ISC-Bugs #21094]
108
109- Documentation fixes
110 [ISC-Bugs #17959] add text to AIX section describing how to have it send
111 responses to the all-ones address.
112 [ISC-Bugs #19615] update the includes in dhcpctl/dhcpctl.3 to be more correct
113 [ISC-Bugs #20676] update dhcpd.conf.5 to include the RFC numbers for DDNS
114
115- Relay no longer crashes, when DHCP packet is received over interface without
116 any IPv4 address assigned. Also extended logging message about discarding
117 packets with invalid hlen with information about relevant interface name.
118 [ISC-Bugs #22409]
119
120- Relay now properly logs that packet was received over interface without
121 global IPv6 address [ISC-Bugs #24070]
122
123- Linux Packet Filter interface improvement. sockaddr_pkt structure is used,
124 rather than sockaddr. Packet ethertype is now forced to ETH_P_IP.
125 [ISC-Bugs #18975]
126
127- Minor code cleanups - but note port change for #23196
128 [ISC-Bugs #23470] - Modify when an ignore return macro is defined to
129 handle unsed error return warnings for more versions of gcc.
130 [ISC-Bugs #23196] - Modify the reply handling in the server code to
131 send to a specified port rather than to the source port for the incoming
132 message. Sending to the source port was test code that should have
133 been removed. The previous functionality may be restored by defining
134 REPLY_TO_SOURCE_PORT in the includes/site.h file. We suggest you don't
135 enable this except for testing purposes.
136 [ISC-Bugs #22695] - Close a file descriptor in an error path.
137 [ISC-Bugs #19368] - Tidy up variable types in validate_port.
138
139- Code cleanup: remove obsolete PROTO, KandR, INLINE and ANSI_DECL macros
140 [ISC-Bugs #13151]
141
142- Compilation problem with gcc4.5 and omshell.c resolved. [ISC-Bugs #23831]
143
144- If a client renews before 'dhcp-cache-threshold' percent of its lease
145 has elapsed (default 25%), the server will reuse the allocated lease
146 (provide a lease within the currently allocated lease-time) rather
147 than extend or renew the lease. This absolves the server of needing
148 to perform an fsync() operation on the lease database before reply,
149 which improves performance. [ISC-Bugs #22228]
150
151 Changes since 4.2.0
152
153- Documentation cleanup covering multiple tickets
154 [ISC-Bugs #20265] [ISC-Bugs #20259] minor cleanup
155 [ISC-Bugs #20263] add text describing some default values
156 [ISC-Bugs #20193] single quotes at the start of a line indicate a control
157 line to nroff, escape them if we actually want a quote.
158 [ISC-Bugs #18916] sync the pointer to web pages amongst the different docs
159
160- 'get-host-names true;' now also works even if 'use-host-decl-names true;'
161 was also configured. The nature of this repair also fixes another
162 error; the host-name supplied by a client is no longer overridden by a
163 reverse lookup of the lease address. Thanks to a patch from Wilco Baan
164 Hofman supplied to us by the Debian package maintenance team.
165 [ISC-Bugs #21691] {Debian Bug#509445}
166
167- The .TH tag for the dhcp-options manpage was typo repaired
168 thanks to a report from jidanni and the Debian package maintenance
169 team. [ISC-Bugs #21676] {Debian Bug#563613}
170
171- More documentation changes - primarily to put the options in the dhclient
172 and dhcpd man pages into the standard form. Thanks in part to a patch
173 from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
174 [ISC-Bugs #20264] and parts of [ISC-Bugs #17744] dhclient.8 changes
175
176- Add code to clear the pointer to an object in an OMAPI handle when the
177 object is freed due to a dereference. [ISC-Bugs #21306]
178
179- Fixed a bug that leaks host record references onto lease structures,
180 causing the server to apply configuration intended for one host to any
181 other innocent clients that come along later. [ISC-Bugs #22018]
182
183- Minor code fixes
184 [ISC-Bugs #19566] When trying to find the zone for a name for ddns allow
185 the name to be at the apex of the zone.
186 [ISC-Bugs #19617] Restrict length of interface name read from command line
187 in dhcpd - based on a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
188 [ISC-Bugs #20039] Correct some error messages in dhcpd.c
189 [ISC-Bugs #20070] Better range check on values when creating a DHCID.
190 [ISC-Bugs #20198] Avoid writing past the end of the field when adding
191 overly long file or server names to a packet and add a log message
192 if the configuration supplied overly long names for these fields.
193 Thanks to Martin Pala.
194 [ISC-Bugs #21497] Add a little more randomness to rng seed in client
195 thanks to a patch from Jeremiah Jinno.
196
197- Correct error handling in DLPI [ISC-Bugs #20378]
198
199- Remove __sun__ and __hpux__ typedefs in osdep.h as they are now being
200 checked in configure. [ISC-Bugs #20443]
201
202- Modify how the cmsg header is allocated the v6 send and received routines
203 to compile on more compilers. [ISC-Bugs #20524]
204
205- When parsing a domain name free the memory for the name after we are
206 done with it. [ISC-Bugs #20824]
207
208- Add an elapsed time option to the release message and refactor the
209 code to move most of the common code to a single routine.
210 [ISC-Bugs #21171].
211
212- Two identical log messages for commit_leases() have been disambiguated.
213 [ISC-Bugs #18915]
214
215- Parse date strings more properly - the code now handles semi-colons in
216 date strings correctly. Thanks to a patch from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
217 [ISC-Bugs #21501, #20598]
218
219- Fixes to lease input and output.
220 [ISC-Bugs #20418] - Some systems don't support the "%s" argument to
221 strftime, paste together the same string using mktime instead.
222 [ISC-Bugs #19596] - When parsing iaid values accept printable
223 characters.
224 [ISC-Bugs #21585] - Always print time values in omshell as hex
225 instead of ascii if the values happen to be printable characters.
226
227- Minor changes for scripts, configure.ac and Makefiles
228 [ISC-Bugs #19147] Use domain-search instead of domain-name in manual and
229 example conf file. Thanks to a patch from David Cantrell
230 at Red Hat.
231 [ISC-Bugs #19761] Restore address when doing a rebind in DHCPv6
232 [ISC-Bugs #19945] Properly close the quote on some arguments.
233 [ISC-Bugs #20952] Add 64 bit types to configure.ac
234 [ISC-Bugs #21308] Add "PATH=" to CLIENT_PATH envrionment variable
235
236- Update the code to parse dhcpv6 lease files to accept a semi-colon at
237 the end of the max-life and preferred-life clauses. In order to be
238 backwards compatible with older lease files not finding a semi-colon
239 is also accepted. [ISC-Bugs #22303].
240
241! Handle a relay forward message with an unspecified address in the
242 link address field. Previously such a message would cause the
243 server to crash. Thanks to a report from John Gibbons. [ISC-Bugs #21992]
244 CERT: VU#102047 CVE: CVE-2010-3611
245
246- ./configure on longer searches for -lcrypto to explicitly link against.
247 This fixes a bug where 'dhclient' would have shared library dependencies
248 on '/usr/lib'. [ISC-Bugs #21967]
249
250- Handle pipe failures more gracefully. Some OSes pass a SIGPIPE
251 signal to a process and will kill the process if the signal isn't
252 caught. This patch adds code to turn off the SIGPIPE signal via
253 a setsockopt() call. The signal is already being ignored as part
254 of the ISC library. [ISC-Bugs #22269]
255
256- Restore printing of values in omshell to the style pre 21585. For
257 21585 we changed the print routines to always display time values
258 as a hex list. This had a side effect of printing all data strings
259 as a hex list. We shall investigate other ways of displaying time
260 values more usefully. [ISC-Bugs #22626]
261
262! Fix the handling of connection requests on the failover port.
263 Previously a connection request from a source that wasn't
264 listed as a failover peer would cause the server to become
265 non-responsive. Thanks to a report from Brad Bendily, brad@bendily.com.
266 [ISC-Bugs #22679]
267 CERT: VU#159528 CVE: CVE-2010-3616
268
269- Don't pass the ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to the omapi signal handlers.
270 Passing it through to the handlers caused the omshell program to fail
271 to connect to the server. [ISC-Bugs #21839]
272
273- Fix the paranthesis in the code to process configuration statements
274 beginning with "auth". The previous arrangement caused
275 "auto-partner-down" to be processed incorrectly. [ISC-Bugs #21854]
276
277- Limit the timeout period allowed in the dispatch code to 2^^32-1 seconds.
278 Thanks to a report from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
279 [ISC-Bugs #22033], [Red Hat Bug #628258]
280
281- When processing the format flags for a given option consume the
282 flag indicating an optional value correctly. A symptom of this
283 bug was an infinite loop when trying to parse the slp-service-scope
284 option. Thanks to a patch from Marius Tomaschewski.
285 [ISC-Bugs #22055]
286
287- Disable the use of kqueue in the ISC library. This avoids a problem
288 between the fork and socket code that caused the dhcpd process to
289 use all available cpu if the program daemonized itself.
290 [ISC-Bugs #21911]
291
292! When processing a request in the DHCPv6 server code that specifies
293 an address that is tagged as abandoned (meaning we received a
294 decline request for it previously) don't attempt to move it from
295 the inactive to active pool as doing so can result in the server
296 crashing on an assert failure. Also retag the lease as active
297 and reset it's timeout value.
298 [ISC-Bugs #21921]
299
300- Removed the restriction on using IPv6 addresses in IPv4 mode. This
301 allows IPv4 options which contain IPv6 addresses to be specified. For
302 example the 6rd option can be specified and used like this:
303 [ISC-Bugs #23039]
304
305 option 6rd code 212 = { integer 8, integer 8,
306 ip6-address, array of ip-address };
307 option 6rd 16 10 2001:: 1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8;
308
309- Handle some DDNS corner cases better. Maintain the DDNS transaction
310 information when updating a lease and cancel any existing transactions
311 when removing the ddns information.
312 [ISC-Bugs #23103]
313
314- Some fixes for LDAP
315 [ISC-Bugs #21783] - Include lber library when building ldap
316 [ISC-Bugs #22888] - Enable the ldap code when buidling common
317 The above fixes are from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
318
319- Modify the dlpi code to accept getmsg() returning a positive value.
320 [ISC-Bugs #22824]
321
322 Changes since 4.2.0b2
323
324- Add declaration for variable in debug code in alloc.c. [ISC-Bugs #21472]
325
326 Changes since 4.2.0b1
327
328- Prohibit including lease time information in a response to a DHCP INFORM.
329 [ISC-Bugs #21092]
330
331! Accept a client id of length 0 while hashing. Previously the server would
332 exit if it attempted to hash a zero length client id, providing attackers
333 with a simple denial of service attack. [ISC-Bugs #21253]
334 CERT: VU#541921 - CVE: CVE-2010-2156
335
336- A memory leak in ddns processing was closed. [ISC-Bugs #21377]
337
338- Modify the exception handling for initial context creation. Previously
339 we would try and clean up before exiting. This could present problems
340 when the cleanup required part of the context that wasn't available. It
341 also didn't do much as we exited afterwards anyway. Now we simply log
342 the error and exit. [ISC-Bugs #21093]
343
344- A bug was fixed that could cause the DHCPv6 server to advertise/assign a
345 previously allocated (active) lease to a client that has changed subnets,
346 despite being on different shared networks. Dynamic prefixes specifically
347 allocated in shared networks also now are not offered if the client has
348 moved. [ISC-Bugs #21152]
349
350- Add some debugging output for use with the DDNS code. [ISC-Bugs #20916]
351
352- Fix the trace code to handle timing events better and to truncate a file
353 before using instead of overwriting it. [ISC-Bugs #20969]
354
355- Modify the determination of the default TTL to use for DDNS updates.
356 The user may still configure the ttl via ddns-ttl. The default for
357 both v4 and v6 is now 1/2 the (preferred) lease time with a limit. The
358 previous defaults (1/2 lease time without a limit for v4 and a default
359 value for v6) may be used by defining USE_OLD_DDNS_TTL in site.h
360 [ISC-Bugs #21126]
361
362- libisc/libdns is now brought up to version 9.7.1rc1. This corrects
363 three reported flaws in ISC DHCP;
364
365 o DHCP processes (dhcpd, dhclient) fail to start if one of either the
366 IPv4 or IPv6 address families is not present. [ISC-Bugs #21122]
367
368 o Assertion failure when attempting to cancel a previously running DDNS
369 update. [ISC-Bugs #21133]
370
371 o Compilation failure of libisc/libdns due to the use of a flexible
372 array member. [ISC-Bugs #21316]
373
374 Changes since 4.2.0a2
375
376- Update the fsync code to work with the changes to the DDNS code. It now
377 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
378
379- When constructing the DNS name structure from a text string append
380 the root to relative names. This satisfies a requirement in the DNS
381 library that names be absolute instead of relative and prevents DHCP
382 from crashing. [ISC-Bugs #21054]
383
384- "The LDAP Patch" that has been circulating for some time, written by
385 Brian Masney and S.Kalyanasundraram and maintained for application to
386 the DHCP-4 sources by David Cantrell has been included. Please be
387 advised that these sources were contributed, and do not yet meet the
388 high standards we place on production sources we include by default.
389 As a result, the LDAP features are only included by using a compile-time
390 option which defaults off, and if you enable it you do so under your
391 own recognizance. We will be improving this software over time.
392 [ISC-Bugs #17741]
393
394 Changes since 4.2.0a1
395
396- When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
397 is no longer truncated to one octet.
398
399- Cleaned up an unused hardware address variable in nak_lease().
400
401- Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
402 reflect support for prefix delegation.
403
404- Cleaned up some compiler warnings
405
406- An optimization described in the failover protocol draft is now included,
407 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
408 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
409 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
410 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
411 entry for each lease.
412
413- Fix the trace code which was broken by the changes to the DDNS code.
414
415 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
416
417- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
418 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
419 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
420
421- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
422 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
423 Cantrell at Red Hat.
424
425- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
426 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
427
428- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
429
430- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
431 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
432 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
433 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
434 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
435 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
436
437- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
438 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
439 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
440 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
441 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
442 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
443 FQDN options by default).
444
445- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
446 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
447 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
448 determined lease time) are omitted.
449
450- Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
451 The DHCP server or client can now continue with it's processing while
452 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
453
454- The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
455 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
456 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
457
458 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
459
460- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
461
462- Validate the argument to the -p option.
463
464- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
465 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
466 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
467 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
468 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
469
470- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
471
472- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
473 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
474 had been deleted from configuration.
475
476- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
477 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
478 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
479 were being ignored.
480
481- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
482
483- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
484 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
485 Nordahl.
486
487- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
488 dhcpv6 disabled.
489
490- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
491 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
492
493- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
494 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
495
496- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
497 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
498 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
499
500- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
501 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
502 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
503 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
504 fewer system calls.
505
506- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
507 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
508 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
509 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
510 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
511 Christof Chen.
512
513- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
514 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
515 and in normal state.
516
517- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
518 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
519
520- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
521
522- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
523 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
524 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
525
526- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
527 rather than restarting the listener.
528
529- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
530 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
531
532- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
533 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
534 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
535
536- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
537 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
538 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
539 timeouts).
540
541- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
542 in failover state records.
543
544! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
545 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
546 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
547 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
548
549- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
550 processing a DHCPINFORM.
551
552- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
553 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
554 last option definition is used.
555
556- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
557 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
558 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
559
560- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
561 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
562
563- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
564 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
565 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
566 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
567 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
568 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
569
570- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
571 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
572 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
573 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
574
575! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
576 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
577
578- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
579 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
580
581- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
582 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
583 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
584 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
585 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
586 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
587 configuration.
588
589- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
590 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
591
592- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
593 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
594 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
595 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
596
597- Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
598 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
599 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
600 was always properly set.
601
602 Changes since 4.1.0b1
603
604- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
605 be recognized.
606
607 Changes since 4.1.0a2
608
609- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
610 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
611 "abandoned".
612
613- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
614
615- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
616 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
617
618- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
619 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
620
621- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
622 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
623
624- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
625
626- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
627 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
628 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
629 in future releases.
630
631- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
632 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
633
634- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
635 'dhclient -6' support.
636
637- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
638 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
639 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
640 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
641
642 Changes since 4.1.0a1
643
644- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
645
646- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
647
648- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
649 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
650 only the latter. Fixed.
651
652- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
653
654- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
655 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
656
657- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
658
659- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
660
661- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
662 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
663 --enable-early-chroot.
664
665- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
666 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
667
668- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
669 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
670 parameter.
671
672- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
673 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
674
675- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
676 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
677
678- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
679
680- Merged IA_XX related structures.
681
682- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
683
684- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
685
686- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
687 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
688 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
689
690- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
691 support.
692
693- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
694 repaired.
695
696- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
697
698- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
699
700- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
701 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
702
703- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
704 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
705
706- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
707 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
708
709- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
710 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
711 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
712 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
713 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
714 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
715 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
716 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
717 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
718 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
719 shared-network.
720
721- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
722 configured option values.
723
724- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
725 support class statements.
726
727- Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
728 selection were repaired.
729
730- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
731 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
732 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
733 by the OS.
734
735- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
736 address.
737
738- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
739 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
740
741- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
742
743- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
744
745- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
746 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
747
748 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
749
750- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
751
752- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
753 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
754
755- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
756 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
757 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
758
759- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
760 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
761
762- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
763
764- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
765 reserved IDs avoided).
766
767- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
768
769- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
770 carries a rapid-commit option.
771
772- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
773 an empty active lease.
774
775- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
776
777- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
778 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
779 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
780 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
781
782- MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
783
784- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
785 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
786 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
787 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
788 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
789 Christof Chen.
790
791 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
792
793- DHCP now builds on AIX.
794
795- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
796 config file but -6 is not specified.
797
798- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
799
800- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
801 be more helpful.
802
803- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
804 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
805 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
806
807- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
808 was repaired.
809
810- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
811 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
812 been repaired.
813
814- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
815 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
816 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
817
818- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
819 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
820
821- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
822 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
823 IPv4 address.
824
825- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
826 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
827 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
828 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
829 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
830
831- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
832 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
833 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
834
835- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
836
837- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
838
839- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
840 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
841 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
842 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
843 unnecessary logging.
844
845- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
846 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
847
848- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
849 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
850 is incompatible is printed.
851
852- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
853 a previously undefined option code.
854
855- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
856 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
857
858- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
859 than the year 2000.
860
861- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
862
863- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
864
865- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
866
867 Changes since 4.0.0b3
868
869- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
870 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
871 configuration.
872
873- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
874 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
875
876- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
877 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
878 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
879
880- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
881 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
882 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
883 a requested address.
884
885- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
886 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
887 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
888 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
889
890- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
891 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
892 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
893 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
894
895- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
896 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
897 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
898
899- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
900 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
901
902- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
903
904- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
905 codes through some conditions.
906
907- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
908 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
909
910- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
911 seemingly random values.
912
913- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
914
915- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
916 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
917 one ever has.
918
919- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
920 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
921 to a REQUEST.
922
923- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
924 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
925 level.
926
927 Changes since 4.0.0b2
928
929- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
930
931- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
932 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
933 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
934 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
935 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
936
937- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
938 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
939 new address.
940
941 Changes since 4.0.0b1
942
943- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
944 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
945 simultaneously on a single interface.
946
947- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
948 of service under unusual server configurations
949
950- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
951
952- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
953 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
954
955- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
956 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
957 on every pool rebalance run.
958
959- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
960 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
961
962- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
963 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
964
965 Changes since 4.0.0a3
966
967- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
968 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
969
970- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
971 point out the problem.
972
973- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
974 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
975 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
976
977- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
978 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
979
980- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
981 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
982 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
983
984- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
985
986- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
987 fixed by Marcus Goller.
988
989- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
990 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
991 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
992 regardless of the existence of bindings.
993
994- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
995
996- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
997 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
998 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
999 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
1000 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
1001
1002- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
1003
1004 Changes since 4.0.0a2
1005
1006- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
1007 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
1008
1009- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
1010
1011- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
1012 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
1013 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
1014
1015- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
1016
1017- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
1018 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
1019
1020- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
1021 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
1022 loaded from persistent storage.
1023
1024- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
1025 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
1026 necessary.
1027
1028- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
1029 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
1030 rapid-commit option.
1031
1032- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
1033 non-128-bits in length were removed.
1034
1035 Changes since 4.0.0a1
1036
1037- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
1038 and fix.
1039
1040- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
1041
1042- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
1043
1044- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
1045 for when loading configuration.
1046
1047- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
1048 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
1049 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
1050
1051- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
1052 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
1053 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
1054 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
1055
1056- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
1057
1058- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
1059 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
1060
1061- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
1062
1063- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
1064
1065- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
1066 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
1067
1068- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
1069 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
1070
1071- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
1072
1073- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
1074 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
1075
1076 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
1077
1078- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
1079
1080- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
1081 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
1082
1083- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
1084
1085- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
1086 initialized.
1087
1088- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
1089
1090- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
1091 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
1092
1093- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
1094
1095- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
1096
1097- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
1098 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
1099
1100- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
1101
1102- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
1103 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
1104
1105- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
1106 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
1107
1108- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
1109
1110- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
1111
1112- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
1113
1114 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
1115
1116- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
1117 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
1118 no support currently for both.
1119
1120- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
1121 IAADDR option.
1122
1123- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
1124 options.
1125
1126- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
1127
1128- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
1129 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
1130
1131- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
1132 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
1133 specifying type 1 or type 2).
1134
1135- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
1136 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
1137
1138- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
1139 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
1140 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
1141 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
1142 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
1143 differently, they both use the same code here).
1144
1145- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
1146 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
1147 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
1148
1149- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
1150
1151- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
1152 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
1153 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
1154 it should not intercept.
1155
1156 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
1157
1158- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
1159 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
1160 between primary and secondary.
1161
1162- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
1163 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
1164 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
1165
1166- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
1167
1168- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
1169 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
1170 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
1171 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
1172 or REQUEST messages.
1173
1174- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
1175 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
1176
1177- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
1178
1179 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
1180
1181- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
1182 failover protected subnets was removed.
1183
1184 Changes since 3.1.0b2
1185
1186- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
1187 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
1188 odd number of leases).
1189
1190- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
1191 rebalance run, and one after.
1192
1193- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
1194 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
1195 processing these messages.
1196
1197 Changes since 3.1.0b1
1198
1199- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
1200 objects.
1201
1202- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
1203 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
1204 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
1205 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
1206 at Allianz.
1207
1208- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
1209 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
1210
1211- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
1212 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
1213
1214- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
1215 caused the server to abort.
1216
1217- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
1218 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
1219 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
1220
1221- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
1222 by empty spaces would not get included.
1223
1224- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
1225 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
1226
1227- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
1228 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
1229
1230- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
1231 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
1232
1233- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
1234 on the parameter request list.
1235
1236 Changes since 3.1.0a3
1237
1238- Some spelling fixes.
1239
1240 Changes since 3.1.0a2
1241
1242- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
1243 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
1244
1245- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
1246 domain-search option syntax.
1247
1248 Changes since 3.1.0a1
1249
1250- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
1251 hash table was repaired.
1252
1253- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
1254 entering normal state.
1255
1256- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
1257 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
1258 'xid mismatch' log messages.
1259
1260- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
1261 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
1262
1263- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
1264 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
1265 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
1266 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
1267
1268- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
1269 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
1270 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
1271 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
1272 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
1273 to their needs.
1274
1275- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
1276 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
1277 run will attempt balance.
1278
1279- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
1280
1281 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
1282
1283- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
1284 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
1285 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
1286 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
1287
1288- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
1289 was introduced.
1290
1291- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
1292 via OMAPI.
1293
1294- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
1295 the protocol draft.
1296
1297- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
1298 one does not already exist on the system.
1299
1300- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
1301
1302- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
1303 matches RFC 3074.
1304
1305- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
1306 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
1307 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
1308
1309- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
1310 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
1311 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
1312
1313- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
1314 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
1315 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
1316 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
1317
1318- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
1319 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
1320 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
1321 priority over the client's parameter request list.
1322
1323- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
1324 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
1325 DHCPv6 support.
1326
1327- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
1328 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
1329 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
1330
1331- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
1332 have been incorporated.
1333
1334- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
1335 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
1336 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
1337 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
1338 that belong to the peer in need.
1339
1340- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
1341 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
1342
1343- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
1344 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
1345 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
1346
1347- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
1348 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
1349
1350- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
1351 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
1352 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
1353 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
1354 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
1355
1356- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
1357 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
1358 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
1359 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
1360
1361- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
1362 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
1363 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
1364 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
1365 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
1366 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
1367 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
1368 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
1369 ignoring this aspect of their request.
1370
1371- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
1372 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
1373
1374- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
1375 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
1376 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
1377 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
1378
1379- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
1380 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
1381 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
1382 hardware and funding the development.
1383
1384- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
1385 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
1386 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
1387 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
1388 via Robin Breathe.
1389
1390- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
1391 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
1392 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
1393 from Christof Chen.
1394
1395- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
1396 formally supported.
1397
1398 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
1399
1400- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
1401 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
1402
1403 Changes since 3.0.5
1404
1405- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
1406 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
1407 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
1408 they actually received.
1409
1410- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
1411
1412- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
1413 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
1414 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
1415 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
1416
1417- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
1418
1419- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
1420 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
1421
1422- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
1423 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
1424 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
1425 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
1426 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
1427 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
1428 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
1429 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
1430
1431- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
1432 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
1433 'file' field.
1434
1435- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
1436 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
1437
1438- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
1439 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
1440 a patch from Kevin Steves.
1441
1442- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
1443 from Chris Wagner.
1444
1445- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
1446 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
1447 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
1448
1449- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
1450 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
1451 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
1452 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
1453 was set.
1454
1455- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
1456 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
1457
1458- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
1459 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
1460 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
1461 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
1462 active ones.
1463
1464 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
1465
1466- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
1467 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
1468 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
1469 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
1470 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
1471
1472- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
1473 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
1474
1475 Changes since 3.0.4
1476
1477- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
1478 scopes are actually global has been added.
1479
1480- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
1481 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
1482 known to be damaging.
1483
1484- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
1485 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
1486 balancing).
1487
1488- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
1489 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
1490 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
1491
1492- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
1493 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
1494 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
1495
1496- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
1497 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
1498 more clear now.
1499
1500- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
1501 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
1502 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
1503 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
1504 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1505 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
1506
1507- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
1508 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
1509
1510- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
1511 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
1512 made possible.
1513
1514- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
1515 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
1516 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
1517
1518- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
1519 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
1520
1521- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
1522 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
1523 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
1524
1525- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
1526 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
1527 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
1528 value with the later configured value).
1529
1530- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
1531 have been named and documented.
1532
1533- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
1534 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
1535 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
1536 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
1537 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
1538 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
1539 write new output.
1540
1541 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
1542
1543- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
1544 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
1545
1546 Changes since 3.0.4b3
1547
1548- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
1549 mailing list.
1550
1551 Changes since 3.0.4b2
1552
1553- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
1554 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
1555
1556- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
1557 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
1558
1559- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
1560 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
1561 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
1562 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
1563
1564- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
1565 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
1566 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
1567 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
1568 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
1569 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
1570 transition (properly).
1571
1572- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
1573
1574 Changes since 3.0.4b1
1575
1576- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
1577 STDIN after reading one line.
1578
1579- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
1580 descriptor it opened twice.
1581
1582- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
1583 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
1584 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
1585
1586 Changes since 3.0.3
1587
1588- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
1589 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
1590 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
1591
1592- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
1593 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
1594 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
1595
1596- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
1597 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
1598 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
1599 leases to allocate.
1600
1601- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
1602 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
1603 than the entire block of them.
1604
1605! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
1606 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
1607 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
1608 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
1609 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
1610 to a patch from infamous42md.
1611
1612! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
1613 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
1614 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
1615 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
1616 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
1617 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
1618
1619- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
1620 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
1621 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
1622
1623- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
1624 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
1625
1626- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
1627 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
1628 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
1629 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
1630 transitional states.
1631
1632- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
1633 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
1634 once it detects the old db does not exist.
1635
1636- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
1637 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
1638 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
1639
1640- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
1641 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
1642
1643- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
1644 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
1645
1646- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
1647 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
1648 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
1649
1650- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
1651 patch from 'infamous42md'.
1652
1653- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
1654 repaired.
1655
1656- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
1657 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
1658 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
1659 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
1660
1661- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
1662 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
1663 data.
1664
1665- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
1666 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
1667 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
1668 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
1669 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
1670
1671- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
1672 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
1673 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
1674 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
1675 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
1676
1677- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
1678 has been repaired.
1679
1680- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
1681 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
1682 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
1683 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
1684 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
1685
1686- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
1687 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
1688
1689- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
1690 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
1691 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
1692 move to 3.[01].x.
1693
1694- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
1695 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
1696
1697 Changes since 3.0.3b3
1698
1699- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
1700 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
1701
1702- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
1703 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
1704 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
1705 workaround.
1706
1707 Changes since 3.0.3b2
1708
1709- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
1710 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
1711
1712 Changes since 3.0.3b1
1713
1714- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
1715 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
1716 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
1717
1718- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
1719 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
1720 dynamic updates were also retouched.
1721
1722 Changes since 3.0.2
1723
1724- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
1725 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
1726 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
1727
1728- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
1729 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
1730 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
1731 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
1732 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
1733
1734- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
1735 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
1736 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
1737
1738- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
1739 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
1740 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
1741
1742- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
1743 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
1744 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
1745 Peter Poeml.
1746
1747- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
1748 Dr. Peter Poeml.
1749
1750- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
1751 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
1752 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
1753 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
1754 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
1755 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
1756
1757- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
1758 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
1759 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
1760 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
1761
1762- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
1763 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
1764 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
1765 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
1766
1767- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
1768 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
1769
1770- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
1771 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
1772 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
1773
1774- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
1775 7 bytes, and failover.
1776
1777- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
1778 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
1779 at Red Hat.
1780
1781- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
1782 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
1783 should work better.
1784
1785- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
1786 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
1787 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
1788
1789- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
1790 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
1791 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
1792
1793 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
1794
1795- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
1796 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
1797
1798 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
1799
1800- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
1801 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
1802 overloading. This was repaired.
1803
1804- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
1805 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
1806 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
1807 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
1808 three chunks to fit.
1809
1810- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
1811 were repaired.
1812
1813- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
1814 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
1815 leak).
1816
1817 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
1818
1819- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
1820 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
1821
1822 Changes since 3.0.2b1
1823
1824- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
1825
1826 Changes since 3.0.1
1827
1828- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
1829 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
1830 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
1831
1832- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
1833 name was not provided by the server.
1834
1835- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
1836 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
1837
1838- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
1839 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
1840
1841- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
1842 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
1843
1844- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
1845
1846- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
1847
1848- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
1849 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
1850 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
1851 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
1852 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
1853
1854- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
1855 the configuration be globally scoped.
1856
1857- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
1858 Farkas.
1859
1860- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
1861 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1862
1863- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
1864 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
1865
1866- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
1867 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
1868
1869- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
1870 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
1871 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
1872 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
1873
1874- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
1875 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
1876 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
1877 respond to POOLREQ messages.
1878
1879- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
1880 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
1881 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
1882
1883- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
1884
1885- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
1886 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
1887 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
1888
1889- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
1890 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
1891 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
1892 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
1893 Fjone and directconnect.no.
1894
1895- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
1896 to Andreas Gustafsson.
1897
1898- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
1899 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
1900
1901- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
1902 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
1903 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
1904 DISCOVER timeout handling.
1905
1906- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
1907 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
1908
1909- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
1910 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
1911 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
1912
1913- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
1914 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
1915 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
1916 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
1917 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
1918 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
1919
1920- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
1921 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
1922 Infoblox.
1923
1924- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
1925
1926- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
1927 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
1928 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
1929 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
1930 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
1931 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
1932 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
1933
1934- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
1935 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
1936 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
1937
1938- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
1939 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
1940 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
1941
1942- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
1943
1944 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
1945
1946- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
1947 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
1948 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
1949 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
1950 systems either.
1951
1952- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
1953
1954- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
1955 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
1956 is false.
1957
1958- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
1959 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
1960
1961- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
1962
1963 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
1964
1965! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
1966 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
1967 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
1968 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
1969 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
1970 both finding and solving the problem.
1971
1972! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
1973 in log_*() functions was evidenced, on some specific platforms where
1974 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
1975 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
1976 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
1977 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
1978 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
1979 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
1980 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
1981 published version of ISC DHCP.
1982
1983- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
1984
1985- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
1986
1987 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
1988
1989- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
1990 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
1991 Richard Hirst.
1992
1993- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
1994 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
1995 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
1996
1997- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
1998
1999- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
2000 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
2001 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
2002 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
2003
2004- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
2005 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
2006
2007- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
2008 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
2009
2010- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
2011
2012 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
2013
2014- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
2015 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
2016
2017- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
2018 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
2019 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
2020
2021- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
2022 by name was fixed.
2023
2024- Declaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
2025 longer result in error.
2026
2027- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
2028
2029- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
2030 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
2031 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
2032
2033- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
2034 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
2035
2036- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
2037 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
2038 Blapp.
2039
2040- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
2041 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
2042 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
2043 Martin Blapp.
2044
2045- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
2046 expiry times in failover configurations.
2047
2048- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
2049 Steve G.
2050
2051- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
2052 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
2053
2054- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
2055 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
2056 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
2057 now "unknown-144".
2058
2059- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
2060 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
2061
2062 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
2063
2064- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
2065
2066- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
2067 not be bash.
2068
2069- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
2070
2071- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
2072 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
2073 that errored before will now work properly.
2074
2075- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
2076 names was repaired.
2077
2078- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
2079 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
2080 configuration file.
2081
2082- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
2083 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2084
2085- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
2086 error rather than a null dereference.
2087
2088 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
2089
2090- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
2091
2092- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
2093
2094- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
2095 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
2096
2097- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
2098
2099- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
2100
2101- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
2102 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
2103 self-corrupting lease databases.
2104
2105- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
2106
2107- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
2108 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
2109
2110- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
2111
2112- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
2113
2114- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
2115 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
2116 Ling Gou.
2117
2118- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
2119 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2120
2121- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
2122 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
2123 Ted Lemon for the patch.
2124
2125- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
2126 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
2127
2128 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
2129
2130- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
2131 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
2132
2133- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
2134
2135- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
2136 a memory leak.
2137
2138- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
2139 script.
2140
2141- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
2142
2143- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
2144
2145- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
2146
2147- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
2148
2149- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
2150
2151- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
2152
2153- Increment the hop count when relaying.
2154
2155- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
2156
2157- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
2158
2159- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
2160
2161- Change the type of rbuf_max.
2162
2163- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
2164
2165 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
2166
2167- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
2168 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
2169 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
2170
2171 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
2172
2173- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
2174 to be renewed.
2175
2176- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
2177 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
2178
2179- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
2180 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
2181
2182- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
2183 that two permit lists matched.
2184
2185- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
2186 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
2187
2188- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
2189
2190- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
2191 requested it, contrary to the standard.
2192
2193- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
2194
2195- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
2196
2197- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
2198 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
2199 going to update its A record.
2200
2201- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
2202 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
2203 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
2204 DNS server.
2205
2206- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
2207
2208- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
2209
2210- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
2211 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
2212 NetBSD project).
2213
2214- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
2215 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
2216
2217- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
2218 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
2219
2220- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
2221
2222- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
2223
2224- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
2225 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
2226 failover protocol standard.
2227
2228- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
2229 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
2230 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
2231
2232- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
2233 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
2234 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
2235 do so.
2236
2237- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
2238
2239 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
2240
2241- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
2242
2243- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
2244 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
2245
2246- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
2247 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
2248
2249- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
2250 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
2251 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
2252
2253- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
2254 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
2255 network, merge the two pools.
2256
2257- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
2258 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
2259 fix this bug.
2260
2261 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
2262
2263- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
2264 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
2265
2266- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
2267 the same case.
2268
2269- Additional documentation.
2270
2271- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
2272 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
2273
2274 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
2275
2276- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
2277- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
2278
2279 Changes since 3.0.1rc2
2280
2281- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
2282 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
2283 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
2284 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
2285 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
2286
2287 Changes since 3.0.1rc1
2288
2289- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
2290 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
2291 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
2292 wasn't the one that removed it.
2293
2294- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
2295 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
2296 were not configured.
2297
2298- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
2299
2300- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
2301 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
2302 routing information.
2303
2304- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
2305 request being sent.
2306
2307- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
2308 done.
2309
2310- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
2311 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
2312 were pending.
2313
2314- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
2315 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
2316 problems with failover.
2317
2318- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
2319 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
2320 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
2321
2322 Changes since 3.0
2323
2324- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
2325 smash in the subclass allocation code.
2326
2327- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
2328 no object is open, it dumps core.
2329
2330- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
2331
2332- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
2333
2334- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
2335
2336- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
2337 a host object attribute with a null value.
2338
2339 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
2340
2341- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
2342
2343- Fix an obscure core dump.
2344
2345- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
2346 when crucial information is left out.
2347
2348- Log "no free leases" as an error.
2349
2350- Documentation updates.
2351
2352 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
2353
2354- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
2355
2356- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
2357 structure wasn't zeroed.
2358
2359- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
2360 incorrectly.
2361
2362- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
2363 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
2364 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
2365 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
2366 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
2367 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
2368 restarted.
2369
2370 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
2371
2372- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
2373 in failover-enabled pools.
2374
2375- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
2376 declarations).
2377
2378- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
2379 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
2380
2381- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
2382 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
2383
2384- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
2385
2386- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
2387 defined but not referenced by any pools.
2388
2389- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
2390
2391 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 9
2392
2393- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
2394
2395 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 2
2396
2397- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
2398
2399- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
2400
2401- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
2402
2403 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 1
2404
2405- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
2406 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
2407 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
2408
2409- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
2410 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
2411 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
2412 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
2413 string.
2414
2415- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
2416
2417 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8
2418
2419- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
2420 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
2421
2422- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
2423 malformed packets.
2424
2425- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
2426
2427- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
2428 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
2429 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
2430
2431- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
2432
2433- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
2434
2435- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
2436
2437- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
2438 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
2439
2440- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
2441 tcp connections from being played back.
2442
2443- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
2444 on exit.
2445
2446- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
2447
2448- Add some configurability to the build system.
2449
2450- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
2451
2452- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
2453 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
2454 hadn't been noticed until now.
2455
2456 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
2457
2458- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
2459 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
2460
2461- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
2462 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
2463 conformant, but also didn't work).
2464
2465- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
2466 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
2467
2468- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
2469 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
2470
2471- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
2472 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
2473
2474- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
2475 variables to leases via OMAPI.
2476
2477- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
2478 doing failover.
2479
2480- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
2481 running on alpha processors.
2482
2483- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
2484 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
2485
2486- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
2487
2488- Install omshell (including new documentation).
2489
2490- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
2491 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
2492
2493- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
2494
2495- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
2496 actually named (key names are domain names).
2497
2498- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
2499
2500- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
2501 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
2502
2503- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
2504 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
2505
2506- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
2507 statements.
2508
2509- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
2510 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
2511
2512- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
2513 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
2514 operating.
2515
2516 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 6
2517
2518- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
2519 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
2520 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
2521 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
2522
2523- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
2524 using omapi to manipulate leases.
2525
2526- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
2527
2528 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
2529
2530- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
2531 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
2532
2533- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
2534 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
2535 to the chain.
2536
2537- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
2538
2539- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
2540
2541- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
2542
2543- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
2544 attribute values in omshell.
2545
2546- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
2547
2548- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
2549
2550 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
2551
2552- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
2553 DHCPDECLINE.
2554
2555- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
2556
2557- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
2558 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
2559 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
2560
2561- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
2562
2563- Documentation fixes.
2564
2565- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
2566 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
2567
2568- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
2569 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
2570
2571- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
2572
2573- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
2574
2575- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
2576 case-insensitive.
2577
2578- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
2579
2580- If a signature algorithm is not terminated with '.', terminate it so
2581 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
2582 consistently.
2583
2584- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
2585 systems with the probe not working correctly.
2586
2587- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
2588
2589 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 3
2590
2591- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
2592 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
2593 result of duplicate leases.
2594
2595- Document OMAPI server objects.
2596
2597 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Patchlevel 1
2598
2599- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
2600 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
2601
2602- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
2603 core dumps.
2604
2605- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
2606 Friedrich.
2607
2608- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
2609
2610 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
2611
2612- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
2613 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
2614 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
2615 billing class code.
2616
2617- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
2618 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
2619
2620- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
2621 trace file.
2622
2623 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1 Patchlevel 1
2624
2625- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
2626 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
2627 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
2628 e.g., Digital Unix.
2629
2630- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
2631 when no error had occurred.
2632
2633- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
2634 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
2635 non-communicating state.
2636
2637- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
2638
2639- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
2640 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
2641 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
2642
2643- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
2644 when the client lease expired.
2645
2646- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
2647 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
2648 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
2649 in testing.
2650
2651- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
2652 the command line, it would fail.
2653
2654- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
2655 user impact).
2656
2657- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
2658
2659- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
2660 they're executable.
2661
2662 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
2663
2664- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
2665 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
2666 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
2667 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
2668
2669- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
2670 Transmeta.
2671
2672- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
2673 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
2674 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
2675 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
2676
2677- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
2678 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
2679
2680 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 24
2681
2682- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
2683 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
2684
2685- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
2686
2687- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
2688
2689- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
2690
2691- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
2692
2693- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
2694
2695- Update some parts of the README file.
2696
2697- Support GCC on SCO.
2698
2699 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 23
2700
2701- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
2702 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
2703
2704- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
2705 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
2706 unbill the old class.
2707
2708- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
2709 process the state transition immediately.
2710
2711- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
2712 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
2713
2714- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
2715
2716- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
2717
2718- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
2719
2720- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
2721
2722- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
2723 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
2724 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
2725
2726- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
2727 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
2728
2729- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
2730 lease file.
2731
2732- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
2733
2734- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
2735
2736 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 22
2737
2738- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
2739 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
2740
2741- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
2742
2743 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 21
2744
2745- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
2746
2747 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 20
2748
2749- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
2750
2751- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
2752 pl19.
2753
2754- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
2755 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
2756 past the regression test.
2757
2758 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 19
2759
2760- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
2761 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
2762
2763- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
2764 DHCPREQUEST.
2765
2766- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
2767
2768- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
2769
2770- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
2771
2772 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 18
2773
2774- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
2775 (Damien Neil)
2776
2777- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
2778 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
2779
2780- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
2781 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
2782 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
2783
2784- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
2785 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
2786 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
2787 message.
2788
2789- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
2790 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
2791 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
2792
2793- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
2794 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
2795 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
2796 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
2797 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
2798 this way will work.
2799
2800- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
2801
2802- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
2803 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
2804 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
2805 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
2806
2807 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
2808
2809 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
2810
2811- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
2812 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
2813 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
2814
2815- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
2816 Hermann Lauer.
2817
2818- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
2819 messages.
2820
2821- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
2822 it contained quoted strings.
2823
2824 ** there was no pl17 **
2825
2826 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 16
2827
2828- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
2829 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
2830 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
2831 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
2832 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
2833 tracking down memory leaks.
2834
2835- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
2836 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
2837 Solaris.
2838
2839- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
2840 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
2841 corruption and core dumps.
2842
2843- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
2844 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
2845
2846- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
2847
2848- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
2849 and implemented by Damien Neil.
2850
2851- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
2852 name and version to standard output.
2853
2854- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
2855
2856- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
2857 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
2858
2859- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
2860
2861- Lots of documentation updates.
2862
2863- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
2864 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
2865
2866- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
2867
2868- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
2869 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
2870
2871 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 15
2872
2873- Some documentation tweaks.
2874
2875- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
2876
2877- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
2878
2879- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
2880 agent options into them.
2881
2882- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
2883
2884- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
2885 options.
2886
2887 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 14
2888
2889- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
2890 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
2891 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
2892 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
2893 used in class statements to control address allocation.
2894
2895- Fix up documentation.
2896
2897- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
2898 significantly in a high-demand situation.
2899
2900- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
2901
2902- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
2903
2904- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
2905 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
2906 practical use otherwise.
2907
2908- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
2909 for debugging.
2910
2911 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 13
2912
2913- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
2914 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
2915 dump on some systems.
2916
2917- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
2918 option.
2919
2920- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
2921 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
2922
2923- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
2924 that were not printing enough information.
2925
2926- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
2927 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
2928
2929- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
2930 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
2931 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
2932 were answering.
2933
2934- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
2935 the transition.
2936
2937
2938 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 12
2939
2940- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
2941
2942 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
2943
2944- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
2945 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
2946 representation from working correctly.
2947
2948- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
2949 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
2950 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
2951 could spin.
2952
2953- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
2954 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
2955
2956- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
2957 interface name on the command line.
2958
2959- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
2960 client state.
2961
2962- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
2963 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
2964 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
2965 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
2966 added by Ted Lemon.
2967
2968- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
2969 be made to log debugging information and other information.
2970
2971- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
2972 end option.
2973
2974- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
2975 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
2976 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
2977
2978- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
2979 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
2980 face of a null hardware address on input.
2981
2982- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
2983 specified unqualified.
2984
2985- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
2986 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
2987
2988- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
2989 RFC.
2990
2991- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
2992
2993- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
2994
2995- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
2996 it works.
2997
2998 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
2999
3000- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
3001 to CVS.
3002
3003 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
3004
3005- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
3006
3007- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
3008 in patchlevel 9.
3009
3010- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
3011 options at renewal time.
3012
3013- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
3014 configuration language.
3015
3016- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
3017
3018- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
3019 done when no client hostname was received.
3020
3021- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
3022
3023- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
3024 the DHCP option space.
3025
3026- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
3027
3028- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
3029 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
3030
3031- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
3032 silently dropped.
3033
3034- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
3035 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
3036
3037- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
3038 will be correctly updated.
3039
3040 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
3041
3042- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
3043 bounds-checking.
3044
3045 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
3046
3047- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
3048
3049 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 6
3050
3051- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
3052 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
3053 possible to exploit it any further than that.
3054
3055- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
3056 option.
3057
3058- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
3059 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
3060 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
3061 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
3062 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
3063 meaningfully.
3064
3065- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
3066 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
3067 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
3068
3069- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
3070 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
3071 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
3072 this one down!
3073
3074- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
3075 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
3076 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
3077 down and fixing this problem.
3078
3079 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
3080
3081- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
3082 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
3083
3084- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
3085 environment.
3086
3087- Fix suffix operator.
3088
3089- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
3090
3091- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
3092 connection code.
3093
3094- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
3095
3096- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
3097
3098- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
3099 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
3100
3101- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
3102
3103- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
3104
3105- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
3106 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
3107
3108- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
3109 spawn with.
3110
3111- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
3112 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
3113
3114- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
3115 for OMAPI.
3116
3117- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
3118 can install in host declarations.
3119
3120 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
3121
3122- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
3123 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
3124 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
3125 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
3126 comments)!
3127
3128- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
3129
3130- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
3131 request for help on this with patches!
3132
3133- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
3134 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
3135 lost, they never reconnect.
3136
3137- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
3138 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
3139
3140- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
3141 dump.
3142
3143- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
3144 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
3145 catching this one.
3146
3147 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
3148
3149- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
3150 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
3151 lease renewal time.
3152
3153- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
3154 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
3155 declared without a key.
3156
3157- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
3158
3159- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
3160 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
3161
3162- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
3163 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
3164 determine the maximum size of the response.
3165
3166 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
3167
3168- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
3169 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
3170
3171- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
3172 RENEWING client.
3173
3174- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
3175
3176- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
3177 using memcmp().
3178
3179 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
3180
3181- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
3182 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
3183 pointing this out.
3184
3185- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
3186 exit.
3187
3188- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
3189
3190- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
3191 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.