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