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1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
2 Version 4.3.0-Pre-Beta
3 XX Month 2013
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 its 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 (new features)
43
44 - If a client renews before 'dhcp-cache-threshold' percent of its lease
45 has elapsed (default 25%), the server will reuse the allocated lease
46 (provide a lease within the currently allocated lease-time) rather
47 than extend or renew the lease. This absolves the server of needing
48 to perform an fsync() operation on the lease database before reply,
49 which improves performance. [ISC-Bugs #22228]
50 Update this patch to support asynchronous DDNS. If the server is
51 attempting to do DDNS on a lease it should be udpated and written to
52 disk even if that wouldn't be necessary due to the thresholding
53 [ISC-Bugs #26311]
54
55 - The 'no available billing' log line now also logs the name of the last
56 matching billing class tried before failing to provide a billing.
57 [ISC-Bugs #21759]
58
59 - A problem with missing get_hw_addr function when --enable-use-sockets
60 was used is now solved on GNU/Linux, BSD and GNU/Hurd systems. Note
61 that use-sockets feature was not tested on those systems. Client and
62 server code no longer use MAX_PATH constant that is not defined on
63 GNU/Hurd systems. [ISC-Bugs #25979]
64
65 - Add a perl script in the contrib directory, dhcp-lease-list.pl, which
66 can parse v4 lease files and output the lease information in a more
67 human friendly manner. This was written by Christian Hammers with
68 some updates by vom and ISC. This is contributed code and is not
69 supported by ISC; however it may be useful to some users.
70 [ISC-Bugs #20680]
71
72 - Add support in v6 for on-commit, on-expire and on-release.
73 [ISC-Bugs #27912
74
75 - Add support for using classes with v6.
76 [ISC-Bugs #26510]
77
78 - Update the DDNS code to current standards and allow for sharing
79 of DDNS entries between v4 and v6 clients. The new code is used
80 if the ddns-update-style is set to "standard", the older code is
81 still available if ddns-update-style is set to "interim". The
82 oldest DDNS code "ad-hoc" has been removed. Thanks to Thomas Pegeot
83 who submitted a patch for this issue. This patch is based on
84 that work with some modifications.
85 [ISC-Bugs #21139]
86
87 - Add a configuration option to the server to suppress using fsync().
88 Enabling this option will mean that fsync() is never called. This
89 may provide better performance but there is also a risk that a lease
90 will not be properly written to the disk after it has been issued
91 to a client and before the server stops. Using this option is
92 not recommended.
93 [ISC-Bugs #34810]
94
95 - Add some logging statements to indicate when the server is ready
96 to serve. One statement is emitted after the server has finished
97 reading its files and is about to enter the dispatch loop.
98 This is "Server starting service.".
99 The second is emitted when a server determines that both it and
100 its failover peer are in the normal state.
101 This is "failover peer <name>: Both servers normal."
102 [ISC-Bugs #33208]
103
104 - Add support for accessing options from v6 relays. The v6relay
105 statement allows the administrator to choose which relay to
106 use when searching for an option, see the dhcp-options man page
107 for a description. The host-identifer option has also been
108 updated to support the use of relay options see the dhcpd.conf
109 man page for a description.
110 [ISC-Bugs #19598]
111
112 - When doing DDNS if there isn't an appropriate zone statement attempt
113 to find a reasoanble nameserver via a DNS resolver. This restores
114 some functionality that was lost in the transition to asynchronous
115 DDNS. Due to the lack of security and increase in fragility of the
116 system when using this feature we strongly recommend the use of
117 appropriate zone statements rather than using this functionality.
118 [ISC-Bugs #30461]
119
120 - Add support for specifying the address from which to send
121 DDNS updates on the DHCP server. There are two new options
122 "ddns-local-address4" and "ddns-local-address6" that each take
123 one instance of their respective address types.
124 [ISC-Bugs #34779]
125
126 Changes since 4.2.5
127
128 - Address static analysis warnings.
129 [ISC-Bugs #33510] [ISC-Bugs #33511]
130
131 - Silence benign static analysis warnings.
132 [ISC-Bugs #33428]
133
134 - Add check for 64-bit package for atf.
135 [ISC-Bugs #32206]
136
137 - Use newer auto* tool packages and turn on RFC_3542 support on Mac OS.
138 [ISC-Bugs #26303]
139
140 - Remove a variable when it isn't being used due to #ifdefs to avoid
141 a compiler warning on Solaris using GCC.
142 [ISC-Bugs #33032]
143
144 - Add a check for too much whitespace in a config or lease file.
145 Thanks to Paolo Pellegrino for finding the issue and a suggestion
146 for the patch.
147 [ISC-Bugs #33351]
148
149 - Fix several problems with using OMAPI to manipulate class and subclass
150 objects.
151 [ISC-Bugs #27452]
152
153 - Added a sleep call after killing the old client to allow time
154 for the sockets to be cleaned. This should allow the -r option
155 to work more consistently.
156 [ISC-Bugs #18175]
157
158 - Missing files for ISC DHCP Developer's Guide are now included in
159 the release tarballs. To generate this documentation, please use
160 make devel command in doc directory. [ISC-Bugs #32767]
161
162 - Update client script for use with openwrt.
163 [ISC-Bugs #29843]
164
165 - Fix the socket handling for DHCPv6 clients to allow multiple instances
166 of a client on a single machine to work properly. Previously only
167 one client would receive the packets. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat
168 for the bug report and a potential patch.
169 [ISC-Bugs #34784]
170
171 - Added support for gentle shutdown after signal is received.
172 [ISC-Bugs #32692] [ISC-Bugs 34945]
173
174 - Enhance the DHCPv6 server logging to include the addresses that are assigned
175 to the clients.
176 [ISC-Bugs #26377]
177
178 Changes since 4.2.4
179
180 - Correct code to calculate timing values in client to compare
181 rebind value to infinity instead of renew value.
182 Thanks to Chenda Huang from H3C Technologies Co., Limited
183 for reporting this issue.
184 [ISC-Bugs #29062]
185
186 - Fix some issues in the code for parsing and printing options.
187 [ISC-Bugs #22625] - properly print options that have several fields
188 followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
189 [ISC-Bugs #27289] - properly parse options in declarations that have
190 several fields followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
191 [ISC-Bugs #27296] - properly determine if we parsed a 16 or 32 bit
192 value in evaluate_numeric_expression (extract-int).
193 [ISC-Bugs #27314] - properly parse a zero length option from
194 a lease file. Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski from SUSE for the report
195 and prototype patch for this ticket as well as ticket 27289.
196
197 ! Previously the server code was relaxed to allow packets with zero
198 length client ids to be processed. Under some situations use of
199 zero length client ids can cause the server to go into an infinite
200 loop. As such ids are not valid according to RFC 2132 section 9.14
201 the server no longer accepts them. Client ids with a length of 1
202 are also invalid but the server still accepts them in order to
203 minimize disruption. The restriction will likely be tightened in
204 the future to disallow ids with a length of 1.
205 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
206 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
207 [ISC-Bugs #29851]
208 CVE: CVE-2012-3571
209
210 ! When attempting to convert a DUID from a client id option
211 into a hardware address handle unexpected client ids properly.
212 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
213 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
214 [ISC-Bugs #29852]
215 CVE: CVE-2012-3570
216
217 ! A pair of memory leaks were found and fixed. Thanks to
218 Glen Eustace of Massey University, New Zealand for finding
219 this issue.
220 [ISC-Bugs #30024]
221 CVE: CVE-2012-3954
222
223 - Existing legacy unit-tests have been migrated to Automated Test
224 Framework (ATF). Several new tests have been developed. To enable
225 unit-tests, please use --with-atf in configure script. A Developer's
226 Guide has been added. To generate it, please use make devel in
227 the doc directory. It is currently in early stages of development,
228 but is expected to grow in the near future. [ISC-Bugs 25901]
229
230 ! An issue with the use of lease times was found and fixed. Making
231 certain changes to the end time of an IPv6 lease could cause the
232 server to abort. Thanks to Glen Eustace of Massey University,
233 New Zealand for finding this issue.
234 [ISC-Bugs #30281]
235 CVE: CVE-2012-3955
236
237 - Update the memory leakage debug code to work with v6.
238 [ISC-Bugs #30297]
239
240 - Relax the requirements for deleting an A or AAAA record.
241 Previously the DDNS removal code required both the A or AAAA
242 record and the TXT record to exist. This requirement could
243 cause problems if something interrupted the removal leaving
244 the TXT record alone. This relaxation was codified in RFC 4703.
245 [ISC-Bugs #30734]
246
247 - Modify the failover code to handle incorrect peer names
248 better. Previously the structure holding the name might
249 have been freed inappropriately in some cases and not
250 freed in other cases.
251 [ISC-Bugs #30320]
252
253 - Add a configure option, enable-secs-byteorder, to deal with
254 clients that do the byte ordering on the secs field incorrectly.
255 This field should be in network byte order but some clients
256 get it wrong. When this option is enabled the server will examine
257 the secs field and if it looks wrong (high byte non zero and low
258 byte zero) swap the bytes. The default is disabled. This option
259 is only useful when doing load balancing within failover.
260 [ISC-Bugs #26108]
261
262 - Fix a set of issues that were discovered via a code inspection
263 tool. Thanks to Jiri Popelka and Tomas Hozza Red Hat for the logs
264 and patches.
265 [ISC-Bugs #23833]
266
267 - Parsing unquoted base64 strings improved. Parser now properly handles
268 strings that contain reserved names. [ISC-Bugs #23048]
269
270 - Modify the nak_lease function to make some attempts to find a
271 server-identifier option to use for the NAK.
272 [ISC-Bugs #25689]
273
274 - The client now passes information about the options it requested
275 from the server to the script code via environment variables.
276 These variables are of the form requested_<option_name>=1 with
277 the option name being the same as used in the new_* and old_*
278 variables.
279 [ISC-Bugs #29068]
280
281 - Add support for a simple check that the server id in a request message
282 to a failover peer matches the server id of the server. This support
283 is enabled by editing the file includes/site.h and uncommenting the
284 definition for SERVER_ID_CHECK. The option has several restrictions
285 and issues - please read the comment in the site.h file before
286 enabling it.
287 [ISC-Bugs #31463]
288
289 - Tidy up some compiler issues in the debug code.
290 [ISC-Bugs #26460]
291
292 - Move the dhcpd.conf exmample file to dhcpd.conf.example to avoid
293 overwriting the dhcpd.conf file when installing a new version of
294 ISC DHCP. The user will now need to manual copy and edit the
295 dhcpd.conf file as desired.
296 [ISC-Bugs #19337]
297
298 - Check the status value when trying to read from a connection to
299 see if it may have been closed. If it appears closed don't try
300 to read from it again. This avoids a potential busy-wait like
301 loop when the peer names are mismatched.
302 [ISC-Bugs #31231]
303
304 - Remove an unused variable to keep compilers happy.
305 [ISC-Bugs #31983]
306
307 - Modify test makefiles to be more similar to standard makefiles
308 and comment out a currently unused test.
309 [ISC-Bugs #32089]
310
311 Changes since 4.2.3
312
313 ! Add a check for a null pointer before calling the regexec function.
314 Without this check we could, under some circumstances, pass
315 a null pointer to the regexec function causing it to segfault.
316 Thanks to a report from BlueCat Networks.
317 [ISC-Bugs #26704].
318 CVE: CVE-2011-4539
319
320 ! Modify the DDNS handling code. In a previous patch we added logging
321 code to the DDNS handling. This code included a bug that caused it
322 to attempt to dereference a NULL pointer and eventually segfault.
323 While reviewing the code as we addressed this problem, we determined
324 that some of the updates to the lease structures would not work as
325 planned since the structures being updated were in the process of
326 being freed: these updates were removed. In addition we removed an
327 incorrect call to the DDNS removal function that could cause a failure
328 during the removal of DDNS information from the DNS server.
329 Thanks to Jasper Jongmans for reporting this issue.
330 [ISC-Bugs #27078]
331 CVE: CVE-2011-4868
332
333 - Fixed the code that checks if an address the server is planning
334 to hand out is in a reserved range. This would appear as
335 the server being out of addresses in pools with particular ranges.
336 [ISC-Bugs #26498]
337
338 - In the DDNS code handle error conditions more gracefully and add more
339 logging code. The major change is to handle unexpected cancel events
340 from the DNS client code.
341 [ISC-Bugs #26287]
342
343 - Tidy up the receive calls and eliminate the need for found_pkt.
344 [ISC-Bugs #25066]
345
346 - Add support for Infiniband over sockets to the server and
347 relay code. We've tested this on Solaris and hope to expand
348 support for Infiniband in the future. This patch also corrects
349 some issues we found in the socket code.
350 [ISC-Bugs #24245]
351
352 - Add a compile time check for the presence of the noreturn attribute
353 and use it for log_fatal if it's available. This will help code
354 checking programs to eliminate false positives.
355 [ISC-Bugs #27539]
356
357 - Fixed many compilation problems ("set, but not used" warnings) for
358 gcc 4.6 that may affect Ubuntu 11.10 users. [ISC-Bugs #27588]
359
360 - Modify the code that determines if an outstanding DDNS request
361 should be cancelled. This patch results in cancelling the
362 outstanding request less often. It fixes the problem caused
363 by a client doing a release where the TXT and PTR records
364 weren't removed from the DNS.
365 [ISC-BUGS #27858]
366
367 - Use offsetof() instead of sizeof() to get the sizes for dhcpv6_relay_packet
368 and dhcpv6_packet in several more places. Thanks to a report from
369 Bruno Verstuyft and Vincent Demaertelaere of Excentis.
370 [ISC-Bugs #27941]
371
372 - Remove outdated note in the description of the bootp keyword about the
373 option not satisfying the requirement of failover peers for denying
374 dynamic bootp clients.
375 [ISC-bugs #28574]
376
377 - Multiple items to clean up IPv6 address processing.
378 When processing an IA that we've seen check to see if the
379 addresses are usable (not in use by somebody else) before
380 handing it out.
381 When reading in leases from the file discard expired addresses.
382 When picking an address for a client include the IA ID in
383 addition to the client ID to generally pick different addresses
384 for different IAs.
385 [ISC-Bugs #23138] [ISC-Bugs #27945] [ISC-Bugs #25586]
386 [ISC-Bugs #27684]
387
388 - Remove unnecessary checks in the lease query code and clean up
389 several compiler issues (some dereferences of NULL and treating
390 an int as a boolean).
391 [ISC-Bugs #26203]
392
393 - Fix the NA and PD allocation code to handle the case where a client
394 provides a preference and the server doesn't have any addresses or
395 prefixes available. Previously the server ignored the request with
396 this patch it replies with a NoAddrsAvail or NoPrefixAvail response.
397 By default the code performs according to the errata of August 2010
398 for RFC 3315 section 17.2.2; to enable the previous style see the
399 section on RFC3315_PRE_ERRATA_2010_08 in includes/site.h. This option
400 may be removed in the future.
401 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
402 [ISC-Bugs #22676]
403
404 - Fix up some issues found by static analysis.
405 A potential memory leak and NULL dereference in omapi.
406 The use of a boolean test instead of a bitwise test in dst.
407 [ISC-Bugs #28941]
408
409 - Rotate the lease file when running in v6 mode.
410 Thanks to Christoph Moench-Tegeder at Astaro for the
411 report and the first version of the patch.
412 [ISC-Bugs #24887]
413
414 Changes since 4.2.2
415
416 - Fix the code that checks for an existing DDNS transaction to cancel
417 when removing DDNS information, so that we will continue with the
418 processing if we have a lease even if it doesn't have an outstanding
419 transaction. [ISC-Bugs #24682]
420
421 - Add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to configure.ac to avoid rebuilding
422 configuration files. [ISC-Bugs #24107]
423
424 - Add support for passing DDNS information to a DNS server over
425 an IPv6 address. [ISC-Bugs #22647]
426
427 - Enhanced patch for 23595 to handle IPv4 fixed addresses more
428 cleanly. [ISC-Bugs #23595]
429
430 Changes since 4.2.1
431
432 ! In dhclient check the data for some string options for
433 reasonableness before passing it along to the script that
434 interfaces with the OS.
435 [ISC-Bugs #23722]
436 CVE: CVE-2011-0997
437
438 - DHCPv6 server now responds properly if client asks for a prefix that
439 is already assigned to a different client. [ISC-Bugs #23948]
440
441 - Add the option "--no-pid" to the client, relay and server code,
442 to disable writing a pid file. Add the option "-pf pidfile"
443 to the relay to allow the user to supply the pidfile name at
444 runtime. Add the "with-relay6-pid-file" option to configure
445 to allow the user to supply the pidfile name for the relay
446 in v6 mode at configure time.
447 [ISC-Bugs #23351] [ISC-Bugs #17541]
448
449 - 'dhclient' no longer waits a random interval after first starting up to
450 begin in the INIT state. This conforms to RFC 2131, but elects not to
451 implement a 'SHOULD' direction in section 4.1. The goal of this change
452 is to start up faster. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
453
454 - Added 'initial-delay' parameter that specifies maximum amount of time
455 before client goes to the INIT state. The default value is 0. In previous
456 versions of the code client could wait up to 5 seconds. The old behavior
457 may be restored by using 'initial-delay 5;' in the client config file.
458 [ISC-Bugs #19660]
459
460 - ICMP ping-check should now sit closer to precisely the number of seconds
461 configured (or default 1), due to making use of the new microsecond
462 scale timer internally to dhcpd. This corrects a bug where the server
463 may immediately timeout an ICMP ping-check if it was made late in the
464 current second. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
465
466 - The DHCP client will schedule renewal and rebinding events in
467 microseconds if the DHCP server provided a lease-time that would result
468 in sub-1-second timers. This corrects a bug where a 2-second or lower
469 lease-time would cause the DHCP client to enter an infinite loop by
470 scheduling renewal at zero seconds. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
471
472 - Client lease records are recorded at most once every 15 seconds. This
473 keeps the client from filling the lease database disk quickly on very small
474 lease times. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
475
476 - To defend against RFC 2131 non-compliant DHCP servers which fail to
477 advertise a lease-time (either mangled, or zero in value) the DHCP
478 client now adds the server to the reject list ACL and returns to INIT
479 state to hopefully find an RFC 2131 compliant server (or retry in INIT
480 forever). [ISC-Bugs #19660]
481
482 - Parameters configured to evaluate from user defined function calls can
483 now be correctly written to dhcpd.leases (as on 'on events' or dynamic
484 host records inserted via OMAPI). [ISC-Bugs #22266]
485
486 - If a 'next-server' parameter is configured in a dynamic host record via
487 OMAPI as a domain name, the syntax written to disk is now correctly parsed
488 upon restart. [ISC-Bugs #22266]
489
490 - The DHCP server now responds to DHCPLEASEQUERY messages from agents using
491 IP addresses not covered by a subnet in configuration. Whether or not to
492 respond to such an agent is still governed by the 'allow leasequery;'
493 configuration parameter, in the case of an agent not covered by a configured
494 subnet the root configuration area is examined. Server now also returns
495 vendor-class-id option, if client sent it. [ISC-Bugs #21094]
496
497 - Documentation fixes
498 [ISC-Bugs #17959] add text to AIX section describing how to have it send
499 responses to the all-ones address.
500 [ISC-Bugs #19615] update the includes in dhcpctl/dhcpctl.3 to be more correct
501 [ISC-Bugs #20676] update dhcpd.conf.5 to include the RFC numbers for DDNS
502
503 - Relay no longer crashes, when DHCP packet is received over interface without
504 any IPv4 address assigned. Also extended logging message about discarding
505 packets with invalid hlen with information about relevant interface name.
506 [ISC-Bugs #22409]
507
508 - Relay now properly logs that packet was received over interface without
509 global IPv6 address [ISC-Bugs #24070]
510
511 - Linux Packet Filter interface improvement. sockaddr_pkt structure is used,
512 rather than sockaddr. Packet ethertype is now forced to ETH_P_IP.
513 [ISC-Bugs #18975]
514
515 - Minor code cleanups - but note port change for #23196
516 [ISC-Bugs #23470] - Modify when an ignore return macro is defined to
517 handle unsed error return warnings for more versions of gcc.
518 [ISC-Bugs #23196] - Modify the reply handling in the server code to
519 send to a specified port rather than to the source port for the incoming
520 message. Sending to the source port was test code that should have
521 been removed. The previous functionality may be restored by defining
522 REPLY_TO_SOURCE_PORT in the includes/site.h file. We suggest you don't
523 enable this except for testing purposes.
524 [ISC-Bugs #22695] - Close a file descriptor in an error path.
525 [ISC-Bugs #19368] - Tidy up variable types in validate_port.
526
527 - Code cleanup: remove obsolete PROTO, KandR, INLINE and ANSI_DECL macros
528 [ISC-Bugs #13151]
529
530 - Compilation problem with gcc4.5 and omshell.c resolved. [ISC-Bugs #23831]
531
532 - Client Script fixes
533 [ISC-Bugs #23045] Typos in client/scripts/openbsd
534 [ISC-Bugs #23565] In the client scripts add a zone id (interface id) if
535 the domain search address is link local.
536 [ISC-Bugs #1277] In some of the client scripts add code to handle the
537 case of the default router information being changed without the address
538 being changed.
539
540 - Documentation cleanup
541 [ISC-Bugs #23326] Updated References document, several man page updates
542
543 - Server no longer complains about NULL pointer when configured
544 server-identifier expression fails to evaluate. [ISC-Bugs #24547]
545
546 - Convert ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to ISC_R_SUCCESS when called from other
547 than the dispatch handler. This fixes an issue where omshell, when
548 run from the same platform as the server, would appear to fail to
549 connect. This is a companion to #21839. [ISC-Bugs #23592]
550
551 - Enlarge the buffer size used by the Omshell code and some of the
552 print routines to allow for greater than 60 characters or, when
553 printing as hex strings, 20 characters. [ISC-Bugs #22743]
554
555 - In Solaris 11 switch to using sockets instead of DLPI, thanks
556 to a patch form Oracle. [ISC-Bugs #24634].
557
558 - Strict checks for content of domain-name DHCPv4 option can now be
559 configured during compilation time. Even though RFC2132 does not allow
560 to store more than one domain in domain-name option, such behavior is
561 now enabled by default, but this may change some time in the future.
562 See ACCEPT_LIST_IN_DOMAIN_NAME define in includes/site.h.
563 [ISC-Bugs #24167]
564
565 - DNS Update fix. A misconfigured server could crash during DNS update
566 processing if the configuration included overlapping pools or
567 multiple fixed-address entries for a single address. This issue
568 affected both IPv4 and IPv6. The fix allows a server to detect such
569 conditions, provides the user with extra information and recommended
570 steps to fix the problem. If the user enables the appropriate option
571 in site.h then server will be terminated
572 [ISC-Bugs #23595]
573
574 ! Two packets were found that cause a server to halt. The code
575 has been updated to properly process or reject the packets as
576 appropriate. Thanks to David Zych at University of Illinois
577 for reporting this issue. [ISC-Bugs #24960]
578 One CVE number for each class of packet.
579 CVE-2011-2748
580 CVE-2011-2749
581
582 Changes since 4.2.0
583
584 - Documentation cleanup covering multiple tickets
585 [ISC-Bugs #20265] [ISC-Bugs #20259] minor cleanup
586 [ISC-Bugs #20263] add text describing some default values
587 [ISC-Bugs #20193] single quotes at the start of a line indicate a control
588 line to nroff, escape them if we actually want a quote.
589 [ISC-Bugs #18916] sync the pointer to web pages amongst the different docs
590
591 - 'get-host-names true;' now also works even if 'use-host-decl-names true;'
592 was also configured. The nature of this repair also fixes another
593 error; the host-name supplied by a client is no longer overridden by a
594 reverse lookup of the lease address. Thanks to a patch from Wilco Baan
595 Hofman supplied to us by the Debian package maintenance team.
596 [ISC-Bugs #21691] {Debian Bug#509445}
597
598 - The .TH tag for the dhcp-options manpage was typo repaired
599 thanks to a report from jidanni and the Debian package maintenance
600 team. [ISC-Bugs #21676] {Debian Bug#563613}
601
602 - More documentation changes - primarily to put the options in the dhclient
603 and dhcpd man pages into the standard form. Thanks in part to a patch
604 from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
605 [ISC-Bugs #20264] and parts of [ISC-Bugs #17744] dhclient.8 changes
606
607 - Add code to clear the pointer to an object in an OMAPI handle when the
608 object is freed due to a dereference. [ISC-Bugs #21306]
609
610 - Fixed a bug that leaks host record references onto lease structures,
611 causing the server to apply configuration intended for one host to any
612 other innocent clients that come along later. [ISC-Bugs #22018]
613
614 - Minor code fixes
615 [ISC-Bugs #19566] When trying to find the zone for a name for ddns allow
616 the name to be at the apex of the zone.
617 [ISC-Bugs #19617] Restrict length of interface name read from command line
618 in dhcpd - based on a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
619 [ISC-Bugs #20039] Correct some error messages in dhcpd.c
620 [ISC-Bugs #20070] Better range check on values when creating a DHCID.
621 [ISC-Bugs #20198] Avoid writing past the end of the field when adding
622 overly long file or server names to a packet and add a log message
623 if the configuration supplied overly long names for these fields.
624 Thanks to Martin Pala.
625 [ISC-Bugs #21497] Add a little more randomness to rng seed in client
626 thanks to a patch from Jeremiah Jinno.
627
628 - Correct error handling in DLPI [ISC-Bugs #20378]
629
630 - Remove __sun__ and __hpux__ typedefs in osdep.h as they are now being
631 checked in configure. [ISC-Bugs #20443]
632
633 - Modify how the cmsg header is allocated the v6 send and received routines
634 to compile on more compilers. [ISC-Bugs #20524]
635
636 - When parsing a domain name free the memory for the name after we are
637 done with it. [ISC-Bugs #20824]
638
639 - Add an elapsed time option to the release message and refactor the
640 code to move most of the common code to a single routine.
641 [ISC-Bugs #21171].
642
643 - Two identical log messages for commit_leases() have been disambiguated.
644 [ISC-Bugs #18915]
645
646 - Parse date strings more properly - the code now handles semi-colons in
647 date strings correctly. Thanks to a patch from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
648 [ISC-Bugs #21501, #20598]
649
650 - Fixes to lease input and output.
651 [ISC-Bugs #20418] - Some systems don't support the "%s" argument to
652 strftime, paste together the same string using mktime instead.
653 [ISC-Bugs #19596] - When parsing iaid values accept printable
654 characters.
655 [ISC-Bugs #21585] - Always print time values in omshell as hex
656 instead of ascii if the values happen to be printable characters.
657
658 - Minor changes for scripts, configure.ac and Makefiles
659 [ISC-Bugs #19147] Use domain-search instead of domain-name in manual and
660 example conf file. Thanks to a patch from David Cantrell
661 at Red Hat.
662 [ISC-Bugs #19761] Restore address when doing a rebind in DHCPv6
663 [ISC-Bugs #19945] Properly close the quote on some arguments.
664 [ISC-Bugs #20952] Add 64 bit types to configure.ac
665 [ISC-Bugs #21308] Add "PATH=" to CLIENT_PATH envrionment variable
666
667 - Update the code to parse dhcpv6 lease files to accept a semi-colon at
668 the end of the max-life and preferred-life clauses. In order to be
669 backwards compatible with older lease files not finding a semi-colon
670 is also accepted. [ISC-Bugs #22303].
671
672 ! Handle a relay forward message with an unspecified address in the
673 link address field. Previously such a message would cause the
674 server to crash. Thanks to a report from John Gibbons. [ISC-Bugs #21992]
675 CERT: VU#102047 CVE: CVE-2010-3611
676
677 - ./configure on longer searches for -lcrypto to explicitly link against.
678 This fixes a bug where 'dhclient' would have shared library dependencies
679 on '/usr/lib'. [ISC-Bugs #21967]
680
681 - Handle pipe failures more gracefully. Some OSes pass a SIGPIPE
682 signal to a process and will kill the process if the signal isn't
683 caught. This patch adds code to turn off the SIGPIPE signal via
684 a setsockopt() call. The signal is already being ignored as part
685 of the ISC library. [ISC-Bugs #22269]
686
687 - Restore printing of values in omshell to the style pre 21585. For
688 21585 we changed the print routines to always display time values
689 as a hex list. This had a side effect of printing all data strings
690 as a hex list. We shall investigate other ways of displaying time
691 values more usefully. [ISC-Bugs #22626]
692
693 ! Fix the handling of connection requests on the failover port.
694 Previously a connection request from a source that wasn't
695 listed as a failover peer would cause the server to become
696 non-responsive. Thanks to a report from Brad Bendily, brad@bendily.com.
697 [ISC-Bugs #22679]
698 CERT: VU#159528 CVE: CVE-2010-3616
699
700 - Don't pass the ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to the omapi signal handlers.
701 Passing it through to the handlers caused the omshell program to fail
702 to connect to the server. [ISC-Bugs #21839]
703
704 - Fix the paranthesis in the code to process configuration statements
705 beginning with "auth". The previous arrangement caused
706 "auto-partner-down" to be processed incorrectly. [ISC-Bugs #21854]
707
708 - Limit the timeout period allowed in the dispatch code to 2^^32-1 seconds.
709 Thanks to a report from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
710 [ISC-Bugs #22033], [Red Hat Bug #628258]
711
712 - When processing the format flags for a given option consume the
713 flag indicating an optional value correctly. A symptom of this
714 bug was an infinite loop when trying to parse the slp-service-scope
715 option. Thanks to a patch from Marius Tomaschewski.
716 [ISC-Bugs #22055]
717
718 - Disable the use of kqueue in the ISC library. This avoids a problem
719 between the fork and socket code that caused the dhcpd process to
720 use all available cpu if the program daemonized itself.
721 [ISC-Bugs #21911]
722
723 ! When processing a request in the DHCPv6 server code that specifies
724 an address that is tagged as abandoned (meaning we received a
725 decline request for it previously) don't attempt to move it from
726 the inactive to active pool as doing so can result in the server
727 crashing on an assert failure. Also retag the lease as active
728 and reset its timeout value.
729 [ISC-Bugs #21921]
730
731 - Removed the restriction on using IPv6 addresses in IPv4 mode. This
732 allows IPv4 options which contain IPv6 addresses to be specified. For
733 example the 6rd option can be specified and used like this:
734 [ISC-Bugs #23039]
735
736 option 6rd code 212 = { integer 8, integer 8,
737 ip6-address, array of ip-address };
738 option 6rd 16 10 2001:: 1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8;
739
740 - Handle some DDNS corner cases better. Maintain the DDNS transaction
741 information when updating a lease and cancel any existing transactions
742 when removing the ddns information.
743 [ISC-Bugs #23103]
744
745 - Some fixes for LDAP
746 [ISC-Bugs #21783] - Include lber library when building ldap
747 [ISC-Bugs #22888] - Enable the ldap code when buidling common
748 The above fixes are from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
749
750 - Modify the dlpi code to accept getmsg() returning a positive value.
751 [ISC-Bugs #22824]
752
753 Changes since 4.2.0b2
754
755 - Add declaration for variable in debug code in alloc.c. [ISC-Bugs #21472]
756
757 Changes since 4.2.0b1
758
759 - Prohibit including lease time information in a response to a DHCP INFORM.
760 [ISC-Bugs #21092]
761
762 ! Accept a client id of length 0 while hashing. Previously the server would
763 exit if it attempted to hash a zero length client id, providing attackers
764 with a simple denial of service attack. [ISC-Bugs #21253]
765 CERT: VU#541921 - CVE: CVE-2010-2156
766
767 - A memory leak in ddns processing was closed. [ISC-Bugs #21377]
768
769 - Modify the exception handling for initial context creation. Previously
770 we would try and clean up before exiting. This could present problems
771 when the cleanup required part of the context that wasn't available. It
772 also didn't do much as we exited afterwards anyway. Now we simply log
773 the error and exit. [ISC-Bugs #21093]
774
775 - A bug was fixed that could cause the DHCPv6 server to advertise/assign a
776 previously allocated (active) lease to a client that has changed subnets,
777 despite being on different shared networks. Dynamic prefixes specifically
778 allocated in shared networks also now are not offered if the client has
779 moved. [ISC-Bugs #21152]
780
781 - Add some debugging output for use with the DDNS code. [ISC-Bugs #20916]
782
783 - Fix the trace code to handle timing events better and to truncate a file
784 before using instead of overwriting it. [ISC-Bugs #20969]
785
786 - Modify the determination of the default TTL to use for DDNS updates.
787 The user may still configure the ttl via ddns-ttl. The default for
788 both v4 and v6 is now 1/2 the (preferred) lease time with a limit. The
789 previous defaults (1/2 lease time without a limit for v4 and a default
790 value for v6) may be used by defining USE_OLD_DDNS_TTL in site.h
791 [ISC-Bugs #21126]
792
793 - libisc/libdns is now brought up to version 9.7.1rc1. This corrects
794 three reported flaws in ISC DHCP;
795
796 o DHCP processes (dhcpd, dhclient) fail to start if one of either the
797 IPv4 or IPv6 address families is not present. [ISC-Bugs #21122]
798
799 o Assertion failure when attempting to cancel a previously running DDNS
800 update. [ISC-Bugs #21133]
801
802 o Compilation failure of libisc/libdns due to the use of a flexible
803 array member. [ISC-Bugs #21316]
804
805 Changes since 4.2.0a2
806
807 - Update the fsync code to work with the changes to the DDNS code. It now
808 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
809
810 - When constructing the DNS name structure from a text string append
811 the root to relative names. This satisfies a requirement in the DNS
812 library that names be absolute instead of relative and prevents DHCP
813 from crashing. [ISC-Bugs #21054]
814
815 - "The LDAP Patch" that has been circulating for some time, written by
816 Brian Masney and S.Kalyanasundraram and maintained for application to
817 the DHCP-4 sources by David Cantrell has been included. Please be
818 advised that these sources were contributed, and do not yet meet the
819 high standards we place on production sources we include by default.
820 As a result, the LDAP features are only included by using a compile-time
821 option which defaults off, and if you enable it you do so under your
822 own recognizance. We will be improving this software over time.
823 [ISC-Bugs #17741]
824
825 Changes since 4.2.0a1
826
827 - When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
828 is no longer truncated to one octet.
829
830 - Cleaned up an unused hardware address variable in nak_lease().
831
832 - Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
833 reflect support for prefix delegation.
834
835 - Cleaned up some compiler warnings
836
837 - An optimization described in the failover protocol draft is now included,
838 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
839 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
840 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
841 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
842 entry for each lease.
843
844 - Fix the trace code which was broken by the changes to the DDNS code.
845
846 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
847
848 - Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
849 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
850 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
851
852 - If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
853 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
854 Cantrell at Red Hat.
855
856 - Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
857 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
858
859 - Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
860
861 - A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
862 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
863 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
864 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
865 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
866 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
867
868 - Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
869 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
870 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
871 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
872 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
873 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
874 FQDN options by default).
875
876 - The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
877 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
878 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
879 determined lease time) are omitted.
880
881 - Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
882 The DHCP server or client can now continue with its processing while
883 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
884
885 - The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
886 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
887 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
888
889 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
890
891 - Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
892
893 - Validate the argument to the -p option.
894
895 - The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
896 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
897 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
898 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
899 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
900
901 - Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
902
903 - A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
904 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
905 had been deleted from configuration.
906
907 - Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
908 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
909 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
910 were being ignored.
911
912 - The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
913
914 - Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
915 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
916 Nordahl.
917
918 - Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
919 dhcpv6 disabled.
920
921 - Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
922 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
923
924 - Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
925 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
926
927 - A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
928 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
929 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
930
931 - A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
932 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
933 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
934 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
935 fewer system calls.
936
937 - The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
938 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
939 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
940 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
941 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
942 Christof Chen.
943
944 - Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
945 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
946 and in normal state.
947
948 - Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
949 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
950
951 - Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
952
953 - Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
954 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
955 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
956
957 - Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
958 rather than restarting the listener.
959
960 - Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
961 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
962
963 - A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
964 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
965 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
966
967 - Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
968 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
969 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
970 timeouts).
971
972 - A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
973 in failover state records.
974
975 ! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
976 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
977 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
978 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
979
980 - Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
981 processing a DHCPINFORM.
982
983 - Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
984 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
985 last option definition is used.
986
987 - Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
988 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
989 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
990
991 - Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
992 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
993
994 - Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
995 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
996 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
997 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
998 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
999 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
1000
1001 - A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
1002 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
1003 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
1004 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
1005
1006 ! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
1007 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
1008
1009 - Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
1010 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
1011
1012 - Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
1013 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
1014 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
1015 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
1016 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
1017 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
1018 configuration.
1019
1020 - ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
1021 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
1022
1023 - Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
1024 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
1025 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
1026 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
1027
1028 - Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
1029 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
1030 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
1031 was always properly set.
1032
1033 Changes since 4.1.0b1
1034
1035 - A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
1036 be recognized.
1037
1038 Changes since 4.1.0a2
1039
1040 - A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
1041 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
1042 "abandoned".
1043
1044 - Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
1045
1046 - Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
1047 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
1048
1049 - The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
1050 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
1051
1052 - Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
1053 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
1054
1055 - A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
1056
1057 - Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
1058 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
1059 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
1060 in future releases.
1061
1062 - The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
1063 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
1064
1065 - A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
1066 'dhclient -6' support.
1067
1068 - DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
1069 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
1070 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
1071 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
1072
1073 Changes since 4.1.0a1
1074
1075 - Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
1076
1077 - Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
1078
1079 - Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
1080 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
1081 only the latter. Fixed.
1082
1083 - The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
1084
1085 - A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
1086 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
1087
1088 - Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
1089
1090 - Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
1091
1092 - Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
1093 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
1094 --enable-early-chroot.
1095
1096 - ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
1097 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
1098
1099 - There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
1100 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
1101 parameter.
1102
1103 - A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
1104 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
1105
1106 - Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
1107 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
1108
1109 - Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
1110
1111 - Merged IA_XX related structures.
1112
1113 - Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
1114
1115 - A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
1116
1117 - DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
1118 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
1119 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
1120
1121 - Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
1122 support.
1123
1124 - A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
1125 repaired.
1126
1127 - Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
1128
1129 - Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
1130
1131 - Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
1132 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
1133
1134 - Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
1135 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
1136
1137 - A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
1138 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
1139
1140 - When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
1141 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
1142 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
1143 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
1144 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
1145 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
1146 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
1147 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
1148 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
1149 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
1150 shared-network.
1151
1152 - A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
1153 configured option values.
1154
1155 - A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
1156 support class statements.
1157
1158 - Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
1159 selection were repaired.
1160
1161 - The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
1162 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
1163 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
1164 by the OS.
1165
1166 - The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
1167 address.
1168
1169 - A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
1170 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
1171
1172 - ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
1173
1174 - Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
1175
1176 - Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
1177 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
1178
1179 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
1180
1181 - Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
1182
1183 - Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
1184 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
1185
1186 - It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
1187 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
1188 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
1189
1190 - Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
1191 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
1192
1193 - Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
1194
1195 - Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
1196 reserved IDs avoided).
1197
1198 - Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
1199
1200 - NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
1201 carries a rapid-commit option.
1202
1203 - Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
1204 an empty active lease.
1205
1206 - Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
1207
1208 - The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
1209 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
1210 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
1211 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
1212
1213 - MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
1214
1215 - Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
1216 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
1217 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
1218 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
1219 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
1220 Christof Chen.
1221
1222 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
1223
1224 - DHCP now builds on AIX.
1225
1226 - Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
1227 config file but -6 is not specified.
1228
1229 - Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
1230
1231 - The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
1232 be more helpful.
1233
1234 - The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
1235 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
1236 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
1237
1238 - A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
1239 was repaired.
1240
1241 - A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
1242 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
1243 been repaired.
1244
1245 - A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
1246 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
1247 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
1248
1249 - A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
1250 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
1251
1252 - A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
1253 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
1254 IPv4 address.
1255
1256 - The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
1257 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
1258 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
1259 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
1260 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
1261
1262 - A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
1263 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
1264 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
1265
1266 - Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
1267
1268 - Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
1269
1270 - When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
1271 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
1272 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
1273 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
1274 unnecessary logging.
1275
1276 - Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
1277 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
1278
1279 - When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
1280 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
1281 is incompatible is printed.
1282
1283 - The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
1284 a previously undefined option code.
1285
1286 - Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
1287 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
1288
1289 - DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
1290 than the year 2000.
1291
1292 - Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
1293
1294 - DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
1295
1296 - 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
1297
1298 Changes since 4.0.0b3
1299
1300 - The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
1301 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
1302 configuration.
1303
1304 - dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
1305 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
1306
1307 - The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
1308 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
1309 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
1310
1311 - When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
1312 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
1313 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
1314 a requested address.
1315
1316 - If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
1317 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
1318 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
1319 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
1320
1321 - dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
1322 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
1323 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
1324 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
1325
1326 - The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
1327 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
1328 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
1329
1330 - The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
1331 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
1332
1333 - The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
1334
1335 - A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
1336 codes through some conditions.
1337
1338 - The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
1339 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
1340
1341 - A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
1342 seemingly random values.
1343
1344 - A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
1345
1346 - ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
1347 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
1348 one ever has.
1349
1350 - Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
1351 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
1352 to a REQUEST.
1353
1354 - A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
1355 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
1356 level.
1357
1358 Changes since 4.0.0b2
1359
1360 - Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
1361
1362 - Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
1363 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
1364 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
1365 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
1366 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
1367
1368 - The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
1369 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
1370 new address.
1371
1372 Changes since 4.0.0b1
1373
1374 - Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
1375 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
1376 simultaneously on a single interface.
1377
1378 - Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
1379 of service under unusual server configurations
1380
1381 - Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
1382
1383 - A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
1384 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
1385
1386 - The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
1387 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
1388 on every pool rebalance run.
1389
1390 - sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
1391 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
1392
1393 - The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
1394 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
1395
1396 Changes since 4.0.0a3
1397
1398 - The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
1399 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
1400
1401 - Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
1402 point out the problem.
1403
1404 - Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
1405 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
1406 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
1407
1408 - Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
1409 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
1410
1411 - Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
1412 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
1413 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
1414
1415 - Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
1416
1417 - Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
1418 fixed by Marcus Goller.
1419
1420 - DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
1421 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
1422 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
1423 regardless of the existence of bindings.
1424
1425 - A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
1426
1427 - DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
1428 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
1429 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
1430 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
1431 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
1432
1433 - Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
1434
1435 Changes since 4.0.0a2
1436
1437 - Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
1438 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
1439
1440 - Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
1441
1442 - Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
1443 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
1444 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
1445
1446 - Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
1447
1448 - DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
1449 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
1450
1451 - An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
1452 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
1453 loaded from persistent storage.
1454
1455 - 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
1456 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
1457 necessary.
1458
1459 - Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
1460 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
1461 rapid-commit option.
1462
1463 - Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
1464 non-128-bits in length were removed.
1465
1466 Changes since 4.0.0a1
1467
1468 - Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
1469 and fix.
1470
1471 - Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
1472
1473 - Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
1474
1475 - Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
1476 for when loading configuration.
1477
1478 - Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
1479 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
1480 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
1481
1482 - Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
1483 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
1484 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
1485 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
1486
1487 - Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
1488
1489 - A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
1490 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
1491
1492 - Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
1493
1494 - Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
1495
1496 - Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
1497 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
1498
1499 - All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
1500 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
1501
1502 - Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
1503
1504 - Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
1505 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
1506
1507 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
1508
1509 - Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
1510
1511 - IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
1512 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
1513
1514 - An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
1515
1516 - Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
1517 initialized.
1518
1519 - Silenced several other compiler warnings.
1520
1521 - Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
1522 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
1523
1524 - Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
1525
1526 - DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
1527
1528 - DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
1529 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
1530
1531 - Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
1532
1533 - dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
1534 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
1535
1536 - -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
1537 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
1538
1539 - Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
1540
1541 - Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
1542
1543 - Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
1544
1545 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
1546
1547 - DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
1548 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
1549 no support currently for both.
1550
1551 - Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
1552 IAADDR option.
1553
1554 - Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
1555 options.
1556
1557 - Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
1558
1559 - Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
1560 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
1561
1562 - The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
1563 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
1564 specifying type 1 or type 2).
1565
1566 - The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
1567 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
1568
1569 - DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
1570 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
1571 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
1572 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
1573 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
1574 differently, they both use the same code here).
1575
1576 - The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
1577 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
1578 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
1579
1580 - Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
1581
1582 - The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
1583 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
1584 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
1585 it should not intercept.
1586
1587 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
1588
1589 - A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
1590 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
1591 between primary and secondary.
1592
1593 - A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
1594 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
1595 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
1596
1597 - An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
1598
1599 - The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
1600 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
1601 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
1602 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
1603 or REQUEST messages.
1604
1605 - The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
1606 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
1607
1608 - Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
1609
1610 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
1611
1612 - The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
1613 failover protected subnets was removed.
1614
1615 Changes since 3.1.0b2
1616
1617 - Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
1618 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
1619 odd number of leases).
1620
1621 - The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
1622 rebalance run, and one after.
1623
1624 - Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
1625 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
1626 processing these messages.
1627
1628 Changes since 3.1.0b1
1629
1630 - Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
1631 objects.
1632
1633 - A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
1634 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
1635 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
1636 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
1637 at Allianz.
1638
1639 - Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
1640 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
1641
1642 - A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
1643 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
1644
1645 - Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
1646 caused the server to abort.
1647
1648 - A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
1649 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
1650 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
1651
1652 - A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
1653 by empty spaces would not get included.
1654
1655 - A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
1656 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
1657
1658 - 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
1659 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
1660
1661 - A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
1662 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
1663
1664 - Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
1665 on the parameter request list.
1666
1667 Changes since 3.1.0a3
1668
1669 - Some spelling fixes.
1670
1671 Changes since 3.1.0a2
1672
1673 - A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
1674 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
1675
1676 - A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
1677 domain-search option syntax.
1678
1679 Changes since 3.1.0a1
1680
1681 - A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
1682 hash table was repaired.
1683
1684 - The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
1685 entering normal state.
1686
1687 - UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
1688 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
1689 'xid mismatch' log messages.
1690
1691 - An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
1692 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
1693
1694 - Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
1695 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
1696 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
1697 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
1698
1699 - Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
1700 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
1701 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
1702 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
1703 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
1704 to their needs.
1705
1706 - The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
1707 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
1708 run will attempt balance.
1709
1710 - A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
1711
1712 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
1713
1714 - A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
1715 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
1716 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
1717 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
1718
1719 - Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
1720 was introduced.
1721
1722 - Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
1723 via OMAPI.
1724
1725 - The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
1726 the protocol draft.
1727
1728 - 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
1729 one does not already exist on the system.
1730
1731 - RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
1732
1733 - The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
1734 matches RFC 3074.
1735
1736 - lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
1737 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
1738 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
1739
1740 - The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
1741 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
1742 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
1743
1744 - The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
1745 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
1746 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
1747 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
1748
1749 - The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
1750 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
1751 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
1752 priority over the client's parameter request list.
1753
1754 - Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
1755 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
1756 DHCPv6 support.
1757
1758 - A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
1759 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
1760 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
1761
1762 - Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
1763 have been incorporated.
1764
1765 - Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
1766 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
1767 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
1768 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
1769 that belong to the peer in need.
1770
1771 - The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
1772 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
1773
1774 - Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
1775 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
1776 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
1777
1778 - The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
1779 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
1780
1781 - A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
1782 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
1783 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
1784 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
1785 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
1786
1787 - In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
1788 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
1789 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
1790 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
1791
1792 - 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
1793 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
1794 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
1795 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
1796 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
1797 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
1798 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
1799 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
1800 ignoring this aspect of their request.
1801
1802 - Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
1803 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
1804
1805 - The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
1806 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
1807 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
1808 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
1809
1810 - DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
1811 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
1812 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
1813 hardware and funding the development.
1814
1815 - A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
1816 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
1817 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
1818 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
1819 via Robin Breathe.
1820
1821 - A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
1822 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
1823 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
1824 from Christof Chen.
1825
1826 - Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
1827 formally supported.
1828
1829 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
1830
1831 - supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
1832 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
1833
1834 Changes since 3.0.5
1835
1836 - Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
1837 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
1838 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
1839 they actually received.
1840
1841 - UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
1842
1843 - A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
1844 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
1845 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
1846 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
1847
1848 - A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
1849
1850 - A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
1851 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
1852
1853 - In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
1854 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
1855 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
1856 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
1857 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
1858 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
1859 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
1860 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
1861
1862 - A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
1863 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
1864 'file' field.
1865
1866 - A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
1867 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
1868
1869 - Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
1870 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
1871 a patch from Kevin Steves.
1872
1873 - A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
1874 from Chris Wagner.
1875
1876 - Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
1877 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
1878 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
1879
1880 - Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
1881 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
1882 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
1883 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
1884 was set.
1885
1886 - dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
1887 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
1888
1889 - The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
1890 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
1891 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
1892 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
1893 active ones.
1894
1895 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
1896
1897 - A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
1898 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
1899 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
1900 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
1901 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
1902
1903 - DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
1904 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
1905
1906 Changes since 3.0.4
1907
1908 - A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
1909 scopes are actually global has been added.
1910
1911 - The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
1912 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
1913 known to be damaging.
1914
1915 - Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
1916 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
1917 balancing).
1918
1919 - Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
1920 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
1921 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
1922
1923 - A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
1924 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
1925 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
1926
1927 - The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
1928 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
1929 more clear now.
1930
1931 - If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
1932 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
1933 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
1934 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
1935 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1936 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
1937
1938 - The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
1939 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
1940
1941 - A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
1942 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
1943 made possible.
1944
1945 - The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
1946 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
1947 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
1948
1949 - Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
1950 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
1951
1952 - Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
1953 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
1954 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
1955
1956 - Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
1957 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
1958 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
1959 value with the later configured value).
1960
1961 - Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
1962 have been named and documented.
1963
1964 - Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
1965 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
1966 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
1967 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
1968 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
1969 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
1970 write new output.
1971
1972 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
1973
1974 - The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
1975 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
1976
1977 Changes since 3.0.4b3
1978
1979 - Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
1980 mailing list.
1981
1982 Changes since 3.0.4b2
1983
1984 - Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
1985 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
1986
1987 - The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
1988 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
1989
1990 - DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
1991 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
1992 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
1993 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
1994
1995 - The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
1996 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
1997 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
1998 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
1999 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
2000 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
2001 transition (properly).
2002
2003 - The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
2004
2005 Changes since 3.0.4b1
2006
2007 - Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
2008 STDIN after reading one line.
2009
2010 - The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
2011 descriptor it opened twice.
2012
2013 - Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
2014 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
2015 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
2016
2017 Changes since 3.0.3
2018
2019 - A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
2020 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
2021 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
2022
2023 - The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
2024 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
2025 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
2026
2027 - Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
2028 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
2029 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
2030 leases to allocate.
2031
2032 - Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
2033 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
2034 than the entire block of them.
2035
2036 ! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
2037 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
2038 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
2039 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
2040 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
2041 to a patch from infamous42md.
2042
2043 ! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
2044 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
2045 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
2046 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
2047 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
2048 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
2049
2050 - dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
2051 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
2052 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
2053
2054 - Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
2055 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
2056
2057 - A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
2058 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
2059 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
2060 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
2061 transitional states.
2062
2063 - If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
2064 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
2065 once it detects the old db does not exist.
2066
2067 - dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
2068 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
2069 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
2070
2071 - Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
2072 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
2073
2074 - Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
2075 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
2076
2077 - Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
2078 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
2079 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
2080
2081 - An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
2082 patch from 'infamous42md'.
2083
2084 - An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
2085 repaired.
2086
2087 - Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
2088 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
2089 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
2090 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
2091
2092 - When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
2093 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
2094 data.
2095
2096 - The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
2097 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
2098 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
2099 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
2100 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
2101
2102 - The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
2103 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
2104 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
2105 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
2106 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
2107
2108 - Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
2109 has been repaired.
2110
2111 - "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
2112 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
2113 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
2114 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
2115 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
2116
2117 - File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
2118 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
2119
2120 - The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
2121 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
2122 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
2123 move to 3.[01].x.
2124
2125 - The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
2126 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
2127
2128 Changes since 3.0.3b3
2129
2130 - dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
2131 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
2132
2133 - In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
2134 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
2135 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
2136 workaround.
2137
2138 Changes since 3.0.3b2
2139
2140 - An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
2141 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
2142
2143 Changes since 3.0.3b1
2144
2145 - A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
2146 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
2147 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
2148
2149 - The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
2150 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
2151 dynamic updates were also retouched.
2152
2153 Changes since 3.0.2
2154
2155 - A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
2156 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
2157 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
2158
2159 - In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
2160 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
2161 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
2162 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
2163 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
2164
2165 - The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
2166 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
2167 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
2168
2169 - Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
2170 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
2171 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
2172
2173 - decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
2174 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
2175 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
2176 Peter Poeml.
2177
2178 - An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
2179 Dr. Peter Poeml.
2180
2181 - A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
2182 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
2183 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
2184 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
2185 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
2186 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
2187
2188 - The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
2189 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
2190 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
2191 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
2192
2193 - mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
2194 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
2195 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
2196 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
2197
2198 - A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
2199 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
2200
2201 - Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
2202 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
2203 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
2204
2205 - A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
2206 7 bytes, and failover.
2207
2208 - Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
2209 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
2210 at Red Hat.
2211
2212 - Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
2213 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
2214 should work better.
2215
2216 - In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
2217 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
2218 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
2219
2220 - Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
2221 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
2222 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
2223
2224 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
2225
2226 - A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
2227 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
2228
2229 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
2230
2231 - Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
2232 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
2233 overloading. This was repaired.
2234
2235 - A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
2236 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
2237 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
2238 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
2239 three chunks to fit.
2240
2241 - Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
2242 were repaired.
2243
2244 - An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
2245 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
2246 leak).
2247
2248 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
2249
2250 - allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
2251 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
2252
2253 Changes since 3.0.2b1
2254
2255 - Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
2256
2257 Changes since 3.0.1
2258
2259 - A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
2260 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
2261 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
2262
2263 - The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
2264 name was not provided by the server.
2265
2266 - A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
2267 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
2268
2269 - Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
2270 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
2271
2272 - One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
2273 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
2274
2275 - Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
2276
2277 - A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
2278
2279 - Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
2280 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
2281 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
2282 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
2283 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
2284
2285 - The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
2286 the configuration be globally scoped.
2287
2288 - Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
2289 Farkas.
2290
2291 - Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
2292 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
2293
2294 - Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
2295 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
2296
2297 - Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
2298 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2299
2300 - Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
2301 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
2302 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
2303 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
2304
2305 - Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
2306 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
2307 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
2308 respond to POOLREQ messages.
2309
2310 - Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
2311 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
2312 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
2313
2314 - "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
2315
2316 - If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
2317 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
2318 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
2319
2320 - log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
2321 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
2322 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
2323 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
2324 Fjone and directconnect.no.
2325
2326 - Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
2327 to Andreas Gustafsson.
2328
2329 - The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
2330 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
2331
2332 - How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
2333 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
2334 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
2335 DISCOVER timeout handling.
2336
2337 - Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
2338 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
2339
2340 - A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
2341 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
2342 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
2343
2344 - Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
2345 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
2346 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
2347 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
2348 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
2349 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
2350
2351 - A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
2352 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
2353 Infoblox.
2354
2355 - 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
2356
2357 - A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
2358 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
2359 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
2360 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
2361 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
2362 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
2363 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
2364
2365 - A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
2366 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
2367 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
2368
2369 - A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
2370 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
2371 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
2372
2373 - A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
2374
2375 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
2376
2377 - The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
2378 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
2379 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
2380 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
2381 systems either.
2382
2383 - A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
2384
2385 - AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
2386 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
2387 is false.
2388
2389 - The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
2390 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
2391
2392 - omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
2393
2394 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
2395
2396 ! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
2397 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
2398 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
2399 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
2400 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
2401 both finding and solving the problem.
2402
2403 ! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
2404 in log_*() functions was evidenced, on some specific platforms where
2405 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
2406 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
2407 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
2408 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
2409 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
2410 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
2411 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
2412 published version of ISC DHCP.
2413
2414 - Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
2415
2416 - 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
2417
2418 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
2419
2420 - Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
2421 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
2422 Richard Hirst.
2423
2424 - Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
2425 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
2426 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
2427
2428 - Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
2429
2430 - Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
2431 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
2432 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
2433 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
2434
2435 - The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
2436 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
2437
2438 - A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
2439 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
2440
2441 - dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
2442
2443 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
2444
2445 - A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
2446 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
2447
2448 - A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
2449 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
2450 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
2451
2452 - A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
2453 by name was fixed.
2454
2455 - Declaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
2456 longer result in error.
2457
2458 - The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
2459
2460 - Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
2461 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
2462 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
2463
2464 - contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
2465 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
2466
2467 - Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
2468 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
2469 Blapp.
2470
2471 - The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
2472 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
2473 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
2474 Martin Blapp.
2475
2476 - A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
2477 expiry times in failover configurations.
2478
2479 - A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
2480 Steve G.
2481
2482 - The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
2483 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
2484
2485 - Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
2486 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
2487 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
2488 now "unknown-144".
2489
2490 - Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
2491 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
2492
2493 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
2494
2495 - Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
2496
2497 - A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
2498 not be bash.
2499
2500 - Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
2501
2502 - A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
2503 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
2504 that errored before will now work properly.
2505
2506 - Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
2507 names was repaired.
2508
2509 - Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
2510 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
2511 configuration file.
2512
2513 - Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
2514 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2515
2516 - Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
2517 error rather than a null dereference.
2518
2519 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
2520
2521 - A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
2522
2523 - A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
2524
2525 - The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
2526 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
2527
2528 - A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
2529
2530 - A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
2531
2532 - Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
2533 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
2534 self-corrupting lease databases.
2535
2536 - dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
2537
2538 - A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
2539 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
2540
2541 - Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
2542
2543 - Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
2544
2545 - A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
2546 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
2547 Ling Gou.
2548
2549 - A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
2550 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2551
2552 - A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
2553 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
2554 Ted Lemon for the patch.
2555
2556 - Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
2557 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
2558
2559 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
2560
2561 - Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
2562 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
2563
2564 - Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
2565
2566 - Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
2567 a memory leak.
2568
2569 - Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
2570 script.
2571
2572 - Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
2573
2574 - Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
2575
2576 - Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
2577
2578 - Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
2579
2580 - Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
2581
2582 - Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
2583
2584 - Increment the hop count when relaying.
2585
2586 - Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
2587
2588 - Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
2589
2590 - Fix a reversed test in the parser.
2591
2592 - Change the type of rbuf_max.
2593
2594 - Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
2595
2596 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
2597
2598 - Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
2599 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
2600 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
2601
2602 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
2603
2604 - Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
2605 to be renewed.
2606
2607 - Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
2608 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
2609
2610 - Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
2611 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
2612
2613 - Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
2614 that two permit lists matched.
2615
2616 - Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
2617 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
2618
2619 - Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
2620
2621 - Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
2622 requested it, contrary to the standard.
2623
2624 - On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
2625
2626 - On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
2627
2628 - Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
2629 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
2630 going to update its A record.
2631
2632 - In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
2633 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
2634 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
2635 DNS server.
2636
2637 - Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
2638
2639 - Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
2640
2641 - Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
2642 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
2643 NetBSD project).
2644
2645 - Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
2646 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
2647
2648 - Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
2649 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
2650
2651 - Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
2652
2653 - Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
2654
2655 - Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
2656 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
2657 failover protocol standard.
2658
2659 - Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
2660 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
2661 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
2662
2663 - In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
2664 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
2665 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
2666 do so.
2667
2668 - Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
2669
2670 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
2671
2672 - Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
2673
2674 - Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
2675 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
2676
2677 - Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
2678 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
2679
2680 - Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
2681 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
2682 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
2683
2684 - If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
2685 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
2686 network, merge the two pools.
2687
2688 - Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
2689 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
2690 fix this bug.
2691
2692 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
2693
2694 - Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
2695 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
2696
2697 - Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
2698 the same case.
2699
2700 - Additional documentation.
2701
2702 - Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
2703 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
2704
2705 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
2706
2707 - A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
2708 - Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
2709
2710 Changes since 3.0.1rc2
2711
2712 - Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
2713 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
2714 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
2715 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
2716 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
2717
2718 Changes since 3.0.1rc1
2719
2720 - Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
2721 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
2722 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
2723 wasn't the one that removed it.
2724
2725 - Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
2726 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
2727 were not configured.
2728
2729 - Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
2730
2731 - Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
2732 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
2733 routing information.
2734
2735 - Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
2736 request being sent.
2737
2738 - Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
2739 done.
2740
2741 - Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
2742 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
2743 were pending.
2744
2745 - Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
2746 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
2747 problems with failover.
2748
2749 - Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
2750 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
2751 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
2752
2753 Changes since 3.0
2754
2755 - Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
2756 smash in the subclass allocation code.
2757
2758 - Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
2759 no object is open, it dumps core.
2760
2761 - Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
2762
2763 - Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
2764
2765 - Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
2766
2767 - Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
2768 a host object attribute with a null value.
2769
2770 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
2771
2772 - Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
2773
2774 - Fix an obscure core dump.
2775
2776 - Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
2777 when crucial information is left out.
2778
2779 - Log "no free leases" as an error.
2780
2781 - Documentation updates.
2782
2783 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
2784
2785 - Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
2786
2787 - Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
2788 structure wasn't zeroed.
2789
2790 - Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
2791 incorrectly.
2792
2793 - When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
2794 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
2795 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
2796 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
2797 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
2798 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
2799 restarted.
2800
2801 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
2802
2803 - Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
2804 in failover-enabled pools.
2805
2806 - Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
2807 declarations).
2808
2809 - Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
2810 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
2811
2812 - Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
2813 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
2814
2815 - Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
2816
2817 - Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
2818 defined but not referenced by any pools.
2819
2820 - Correct a confusing error message in failover.
2821
2822 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 9
2823
2824 - Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
2825
2826 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 2
2827
2828 - Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
2829
2830 - Document failover-state OMAPI object.
2831
2832 - Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
2833
2834 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 1
2835
2836 - Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
2837 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
2838 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
2839
2840 - Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
2841 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
2842 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
2843 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
2844 string.
2845
2846 - Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
2847
2848 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8
2849
2850 - Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
2851 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
2852
2853 - Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
2854 malformed packets.
2855
2856 - In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
2857
2858 - On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
2859 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
2860 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
2861
2862 - Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
2863
2864 - Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
2865
2866 - Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
2867
2868 - Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
2869 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
2870
2871 - Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
2872 tcp connections from being played back.
2873
2874 - Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
2875 on exit.
2876
2877 - Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
2878
2879 - Add some configurability to the build system.
2880
2881 - Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
2882
2883 - Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
2884 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
2885 hadn't been noticed until now.
2886
2887 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
2888
2889 - Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
2890 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
2891
2892 - Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
2893 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
2894 conformant, but also didn't work).
2895
2896 - Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
2897 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
2898
2899 - When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
2900 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
2901
2902 - In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
2903 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
2904
2905 - Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
2906 variables to leases via OMAPI.
2907
2908 - If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
2909 doing failover.
2910
2911 - Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
2912 running on alpha processors.
2913
2914 - Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
2915 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
2916
2917 - Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
2918
2919 - Install omshell (including new documentation).
2920
2921 - Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
2922 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
2923
2924 - Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
2925
2926 - Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
2927 actually named (key names are domain names).
2928
2929 - Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
2930
2931 - Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
2932 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
2933
2934 - Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
2935 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
2936
2937 - Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
2938 statements.
2939
2940 - Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
2941 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
2942
2943 - Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
2944 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
2945 operating.
2946
2947 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 6
2948
2949 - Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
2950 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
2951 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
2952 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
2953
2954 - Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
2955 using omapi to manipulate leases.
2956
2957 - Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
2958
2959 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
2960
2961 - Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
2962 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
2963
2964 - Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
2965 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
2966 to the chain.
2967
2968 - Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
2969
2970 - Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
2971
2972 - Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
2973
2974 - Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
2975 attribute values in omshell.
2976
2977 - Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
2978
2979 - Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
2980
2981 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
2982
2983 - Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
2984 DHCPDECLINE.
2985
2986 - Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
2987
2988 - In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
2989 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
2990 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
2991
2992 - Fix some broken failover state transitions.
2993
2994 - Documentation fixes.
2995
2996 - Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
2997 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
2998
2999 - Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
3000 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
3001
3002 - Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
3003
3004 - Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
3005
3006 - Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
3007 case-insensitive.
3008
3009 - Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
3010
3011 - If a signature algorithm is not terminated with '.', terminate it so
3012 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
3013 consistently.
3014
3015 - Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
3016 systems with the probe not working correctly.
3017
3018 - Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
3019
3020 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 3
3021
3022 - Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
3023 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
3024 result of duplicate leases.
3025
3026 - Document OMAPI server objects.
3027
3028 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Patchlevel 1
3029
3030 - Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
3031 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
3032
3033 - Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
3034 core dumps.
3035
3036 - Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
3037 Friedrich.
3038
3039 - Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
3040
3041 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
3042
3043 - Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
3044 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
3045 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
3046 billing class code.
3047
3048 - Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
3049 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
3050
3051 - Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
3052 trace file.
3053
3054 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1 Patchlevel 1
3055
3056 - Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
3057 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
3058 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
3059 e.g., Digital Unix.
3060
3061 - Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
3062 when no error had occurred.
3063
3064 - Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
3065 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
3066 non-communicating state.
3067
3068 - Be smart about going into recover_wait.
3069
3070 - Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
3071 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
3072 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
3073
3074 - Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
3075 when the client lease expired.
3076
3077 - If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
3078 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
3079 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
3080 in testing.
3081
3082 - Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
3083 the command line, it would fail.
3084
3085 - Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
3086 user impact).
3087
3088 - Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
3089
3090 - Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
3091 they're executable.
3092
3093 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
3094
3095 - Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
3096 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
3097 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
3098 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
3099
3100 - Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
3101 Transmeta.
3102
3103 - There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
3104 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
3105 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
3106 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
3107
3108 - There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
3109 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
3110
3111 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 24
3112
3113 - Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
3114 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
3115
3116 - Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
3117
3118 - Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
3119
3120 - Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
3121
3122 - Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
3123
3124 - Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
3125
3126 - Update some parts of the README file.
3127
3128 - Support GCC on SCO.
3129
3130 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 23
3131
3132 - Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
3133 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
3134
3135 - When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
3136 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
3137 unbill the old class.
3138
3139 - When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
3140 process the state transition immediately.
3141
3142 - Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
3143 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
3144
3145 - Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
3146
3147 - Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
3148
3149 - Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
3150
3151 - Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
3152
3153 - Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
3154 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
3155 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
3156
3157 - If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
3158 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
3159
3160 - The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
3161 lease file.
3162
3163 - Don't overwrite tracefiles.
3164
3165 - Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
3166
3167 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 22
3168
3169 - Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
3170 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
3171
3172 - Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
3173
3174 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 21
3175
3176 - This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
3177
3178 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 20
3179
3180 - Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
3181
3182 - Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
3183 pl19.
3184
3185 - Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
3186 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
3187 past the regression test.
3188
3189 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 19
3190
3191 - Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
3192 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
3193
3194 - Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
3195 DHCPREQUEST.
3196
3197 - Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
3198
3199 - Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
3200
3201 - Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
3202
3203 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 18
3204
3205 - Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
3206 (Damien Neil)
3207
3208 - Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
3209 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
3210
3211 - Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
3212 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
3213 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
3214
3215 - Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
3216 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
3217 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
3218 message.
3219
3220 - Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
3221 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
3222 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
3223
3224 - Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
3225 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
3226 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
3227 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
3228 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
3229 this way will work.
3230
3231 - Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
3232
3233 - Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
3234 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
3235 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
3236 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
3237
3238 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
3239
3240 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
3241
3242 - Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
3243 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
3244 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
3245
3246 - Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
3247 Hermann Lauer.
3248
3249 - Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
3250 messages.
3251
3252 - Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
3253 it contained quoted strings.
3254
3255 ** there was no pl17 **
3256
3257 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 16
3258
3259 - Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
3260 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
3261 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
3262 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
3263 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
3264 tracking down memory leaks.
3265
3266 - Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
3267 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
3268 Solaris.
3269
3270 - Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
3271 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
3272 corruption and core dumps.
3273
3274 - Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
3275 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
3276
3277 - Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
3278
3279 - Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
3280 and implemented by Damien Neil.
3281
3282 - Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
3283 name and version to standard output.
3284
3285 - Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
3286
3287 - A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
3288 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
3289
3290 - Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
3291
3292 - Lots of documentation updates.
3293
3294 - Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
3295 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
3296
3297 - Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
3298
3299 - Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
3300 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
3301
3302 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 15
3303
3304 - Some documentation tweaks.
3305
3306 - Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
3307
3308 - Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
3309
3310 - Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
3311 agent options into them.
3312
3313 - Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
3314
3315 - Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
3316 options.
3317
3318 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 14
3319
3320 - Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
3321 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
3322 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
3323 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
3324 used in class statements to control address allocation.
3325
3326 - Fix up documentation.
3327
3328 - Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
3329 significantly in a high-demand situation.
3330
3331 - Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
3332
3333 - Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
3334
3335 - Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
3336 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
3337 practical use otherwise.
3338
3339 - Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
3340 for debugging.
3341
3342 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 13
3343
3344 - Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
3345 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
3346 dump on some systems.
3347
3348 - Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
3349 option.
3350
3351 - Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
3352 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
3353
3354 - Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
3355 that were not printing enough information.
3356
3357 - It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
3358 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
3359
3360 - Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
3361 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
3362 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
3363 were answering.
3364
3365 - When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
3366 the transition.
3367
3368
3369 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 12
3370
3371 - Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
3372
3373 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
3374
3375 - Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
3376 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
3377 representation from working correctly.
3378
3379 - Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
3380 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
3381 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
3382 could spin.
3383
3384 - Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
3385 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
3386
3387 - Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
3388 interface name on the command line.
3389
3390 - Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
3391 client state.
3392
3393 - Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
3394 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
3395 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
3396 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
3397 added by Ted Lemon.
3398
3399 - Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
3400 be made to log debugging information and other information.
3401
3402 - Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
3403 end option.
3404
3405 - Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
3406 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
3407 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
3408
3409 - Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
3410 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
3411 face of a null hardware address on input.
3412
3413 - Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
3414 specified unqualified.
3415
3416 - Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
3417 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
3418
3419 - Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
3420 RFC.
3421
3422 - Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
3423
3424 - Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
3425
3426 - Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
3427 it works.
3428
3429 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
3430
3431 - Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
3432 to CVS.
3433
3434 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
3435
3436 - Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
3437
3438 - Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
3439 in patchlevel 9.
3440
3441 - Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
3442 options at renewal time.
3443
3444 - Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
3445 configuration language.
3446
3447 - Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
3448
3449 - Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
3450 done when no client hostname was received.
3451
3452 - Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
3453
3454 - Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
3455 the DHCP option space.
3456
3457 - Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
3458
3459 - Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
3460 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
3461
3462 - Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
3463 silently dropped.
3464
3465 - Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
3466 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
3467
3468 - Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
3469 will be correctly updated.
3470
3471 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
3472
3473 - Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
3474 bounds-checking.
3475
3476 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
3477
3478 - Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
3479
3480 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 6
3481
3482 - Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
3483 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
3484 possible to exploit it any further than that.
3485
3486 - Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
3487 option.
3488
3489 - Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
3490 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
3491 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
3492 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
3493 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
3494 meaningfully.
3495
3496 - Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
3497 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
3498 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
3499
3500 - Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
3501 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
3502 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
3503 this one down!
3504
3505 - Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
3506 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
3507 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
3508 down and fixing this problem.
3509
3510 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
3511
3512 - Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
3513 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
3514
3515 - Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
3516 environment.
3517
3518 - Fix suffix operator.
3519
3520 - Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
3521
3522 - Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
3523 connection code.
3524
3525 - Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
3526
3527 - Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
3528
3529 - Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
3530 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
3531
3532 - Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
3533
3534 - Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
3535
3536 - Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
3537 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
3538
3539 - Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
3540 spawn with.
3541
3542 - Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
3543 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
3544
3545 - Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
3546 for OMAPI.
3547
3548 - Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
3549 can install in host declarations.
3550
3551 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
3552
3553 - Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
3554 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
3555 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
3556 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
3557 comments)!
3558
3559 - Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
3560
3561 - Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
3562 request for help on this with patches!
3563
3564 - Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
3565 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
3566 lost, they never reconnect.
3567
3568 - Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
3569 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
3570
3571 - Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
3572 dump.
3573
3574 - Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
3575 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
3576 catching this one.
3577
3578 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
3579
3580 - In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
3581 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
3582 lease renewal time.
3583
3584 - Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
3585 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
3586 declared without a key.
3587
3588 - Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
3589
3590 - Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
3591 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
3592
3593 - If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
3594 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
3595 determine the maximum size of the response.
3596
3597 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
3598
3599 - Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
3600 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
3601
3602 - Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
3603 RENEWING client.
3604
3605 - Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
3606
3607 - Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
3608 using memcmp().
3609
3610 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
3611
3612 - Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
3613 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
3614 pointing this out.
3615
3616 - In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
3617 exit.
3618
3619 - Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
3620
3621 - Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
3622 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.