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1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
2 Version 4.3.0b1
3 20 January 2014
4
5 Release Notes
6
7 NEW FEATURES
8
9 The major "theme" for ISC DHCP 4.3.x was to update the support for
10 DHCPv6 to include several of the features that have been available
11 for DHCPv4. These include:
12
13 - Support the use of classes
14
15 - Support for on_commit, on_expiry and on_release statements
16
17 - Better logging of address assignements
18
19 - Support for using DHCPv6 relay options in expressions
20
21 This release also adds suppport for the standard DDNS as described in the
22 current RFCs as well as enhancing support for dynamically adding and removing
23 subclasses via OMAPI.
24
25 There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
26 release, which will be addressed in the future:
27
28 - Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
29
30 - DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages, in
31 English. A method to reconfigure or support other languages would
32 be preferrable.
33
34 - The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
35
36 - The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
37 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
38 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
39
40 For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as
41 well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the
42 README file.
43
44 ISC DHCP uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please review the
45 output of "./configure --help" to see what options are available.
46
47 The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and may not
48 work on other platforms. Please report any problems and suggested fixes to
49 <dhcp-users@isc.org>.
50
51 Changes since 4.2.0 (new features)
52
53 - If a client renews before 'dhcp-cache-threshold' percent of its lease
54 has elapsed (default 25%), the server will reuse the allocated lease
55 (provide a lease within the currently allocated lease-time) rather
56 than extend or renew the lease. This absolves the server of needing
57 to perform an fsync() operation on the lease database before reply,
58 which improves performance. [ISC-Bugs #22228]
59 Update this patch to support asynchronous DDNS. If the server is
60 attempting to do DDNS on a lease it should be udpated and written to
61 disk even if that wouldn't be necessary due to the thresholding
62 [ISC-Bugs #26311]
63
64 - The 'no available billing' log line now also logs the name of the last
65 matching billing class tried before failing to provide a billing.
66 [ISC-Bugs #21759]
67
68 - A problem with missing get_hw_addr function when --enable-use-sockets
69 was used is now solved on GNU/Linux, BSD and GNU/Hurd systems. Note
70 that use-sockets feature was not tested on those systems. Client and
71 server code no longer use MAX_PATH constant that is not defined on
72 GNU/Hurd systems. [ISC-Bugs #25979]
73
74 - Add a perl script in the contrib directory, dhcp-lease-list.pl, which
75 can parse v4 lease files and output the lease information in a more
76 human friendly manner. This was written by Christian Hammers with
77 some updates by vom and ISC. This is contributed code and is not
78 supported by ISC; however it may be useful to some users.
79 [ISC-Bugs #20680]
80
81 - Add support in v6 for on-commit, on-expire and on-release.
82 [ISC-Bugs #27912
83
84 - Add support for using classes with v6.
85 [ISC-Bugs #26510]
86
87 - Update the DDNS code to current standards and allow for sharing
88 of DDNS entries between v4 and v6 clients. The new code is used
89 if the ddns-update-style is set to "standard", the older code is
90 still available if ddns-update-style is set to "interim". The
91 oldest DDNS code "ad-hoc" has been removed. Thanks to Thomas Pegeot
92 who submitted a patch for this issue. This patch is based on
93 that work with some modifications.
94 [ISC-Bugs #21139]
95
96 - Add a configuration option to the server to suppress using fsync().
97 Enabling this option will mean that fsync() is never called. This
98 may provide better performance but there is also a risk that a lease
99 will not be properly written to the disk after it has been issued
100 to a client and before the server stops. Using this option is
101 not recommended.
102 [ISC-Bugs #34810]
103
104 - Add some logging statements to indicate when the server is ready
105 to serve. One statement is emitted after the server has finished
106 reading its files and is about to enter the dispatch loop.
107 This is "Server starting service.".
108 The second is emitted when a server determines that both it and
109 its failover peer are in the normal state.
110 This is "failover peer <name>: Both servers normal."
111 [ISC-Bugs #33208]
112
113 - Add support for accessing options from v6 relays. The v6relay
114 statement allows the administrator to choose which relay to
115 use when searching for an option, see the dhcp-options man page
116 for a description. The host-identifer option has also been
117 updated to support the use of relay options see the dhcpd.conf
118 man page for a description.
119 [ISC-Bugs #19598]
120
121 - When doing DDNS if there isn't an appropriate zone statement attempt
122 to find a reasoanble nameserver via a DNS resolver. This restores
123 some functionality that was lost in the transition to asynchronous
124 DDNS. Due to the lack of security and increase in fragility of the
125 system when using this feature we strongly recommend the use of
126 appropriate zone statements rather than using this functionality.
127 [ISC-Bugs #30461]
128
129 - Add support for specifying the address from which to send
130 DDNS updates on the DHCP server. There are two new options
131 "ddns-local-address4" and "ddns-local-address6" that each take
132 one instance of their respective address types.
133 [ISC-Bugs #34779]
134
135 - Add ignore-client-uids option in the server. This option causes
136 the server to not record a client's uid in its lease. This
137 violates the specification but may also be useful when a client
138 can dual boot using different client ids but the same mac address.
139 Thank you to Brian De Wolf at Cal Ply Pomona for the patch.
140 [ISC-Bugs #32427]
141 [ISC-Bugs #35066]
142
143 - Extend the DHCPINFORM processing to honor the subnet selection option
144 and take host declarations into account.
145 Thanks to Christof Chen for testing and submitting the patch.
146 [ISC-Bugs #35015]
147
148 - Extend the hardware expression to look into the lease structure
149 for a hardware address if there is no packet. This allows the
150 server to find the hardware address during on-expiry processing.
151 [ISC-Bugs #24584]
152
153 - Add definitions for some options that have been specified by the IETF.
154 [ISC-Bugs #29268]
155
156 Changes since 4.3.0a1
157
158 - Modify the message displayed when a process hits a fatal error.
159 The new message is much shorter and simply points to the README
160 and our website for directions on bug submissions.
161 [ISC-Bugs #24789]
162
163 - Handle an absent resolv.conf file better.
164 [ISC-Bugs #35194]
165
166 Changes since 4.2.5
167
168 - Address static analysis warnings.
169 [ISC-Bugs #33510] [ISC-Bugs #33511]
170
171 - Silence benign static analysis warnings.
172 [ISC-Bugs #33428]
173
174 - Add check for 64-bit package for atf.
175 [ISC-Bugs #32206]
176
177 - Use newer auto* tool packages and turn on RFC_3542 support on Mac OS.
178 [ISC-Bugs #26303]
179
180 - Remove a variable when it isn't being used due to #ifdefs to avoid
181 a compiler warning on Solaris using GCC.
182 [ISC-Bugs #33032]
183
184 - Add a check for too much whitespace in a config or lease file.
185 Thanks to Paolo Pellegrino for finding the issue and a suggestion
186 for the patch.
187 [ISC-Bugs #33351]
188
189 - Fix several problems with using OMAPI to manipulate class and subclass
190 objects.
191 [ISC-Bugs #27452]
192
193 - Added a sleep call after killing the old client to allow time
194 for the sockets to be cleaned. This should allow the -r option
195 to work more consistently.
196 [ISC-Bugs #18175]
197
198 - Missing files for ISC DHCP Developer's Guide are now included in
199 the release tarballs. To generate this documentation, please use
200 make devel command in doc directory. [ISC-Bugs #32767]
201
202 - Update client script for use with openwrt.
203 [ISC-Bugs #29843]
204
205 - Fix the socket handling for DHCPv6 clients to allow multiple instances
206 of a client on a single machine to work properly. Previously only
207 one client would receive the packets. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat
208 for the bug report and a potential patch.
209 [ISC-Bugs #34784]
210
211 - Added support for gentle shutdown after signal is received.
212 [ISC-Bugs #32692] [ISC-Bugs 34945]
213
214 - Enhance the DHCPv6 server logging to include the addresses that are assigned
215 to the clients.
216 [ISC-Bugs #26377]
217
218 - Fix an operation in the DDDNS code to be a bitwise instead of logcial or.
219 [ISC-Bugs #35138]
220
221 Changes since 4.2.4
222
223 - Correct code to calculate timing values in client to compare
224 rebind value to infinity instead of renew value.
225 Thanks to Chenda Huang from H3C Technologies Co., Limited
226 for reporting this issue.
227 [ISC-Bugs #29062]
228
229 - Fix some issues in the code for parsing and printing options.
230 [ISC-Bugs #22625] - properly print options that have several fields
231 followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
232 [ISC-Bugs #27289] - properly parse options in declarations that have
233 several fields followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
234 [ISC-Bugs #27296] - properly determine if we parsed a 16 or 32 bit
235 value in evaluate_numeric_expression (extract-int).
236 [ISC-Bugs #27314] - properly parse a zero length option from
237 a lease file. Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski from SUSE for the report
238 and prototype patch for this ticket as well as ticket 27289.
239
240 ! Previously the server code was relaxed to allow packets with zero
241 length client ids to be processed. Under some situations use of
242 zero length client ids can cause the server to go into an infinite
243 loop. As such ids are not valid according to RFC 2132 section 9.14
244 the server no longer accepts them. Client ids with a length of 1
245 are also invalid but the server still accepts them in order to
246 minimize disruption. The restriction will likely be tightened in
247 the future to disallow ids with a length of 1.
248 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
249 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
250 [ISC-Bugs #29851]
251 CVE: CVE-2012-3571
252
253 ! When attempting to convert a DUID from a client id option
254 into a hardware address handle unexpected client ids properly.
255 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
256 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
257 [ISC-Bugs #29852]
258 CVE: CVE-2012-3570
259
260 ! A pair of memory leaks were found and fixed. Thanks to
261 Glen Eustace of Massey University, New Zealand for finding
262 this issue.
263 [ISC-Bugs #30024]
264 CVE: CVE-2012-3954
265
266 - Existing legacy unit-tests have been migrated to Automated Test
267 Framework (ATF). Several new tests have been developed. To enable
268 unit-tests, please use --with-atf in configure script. A Developer's
269 Guide has been added. To generate it, please use make devel in
270 the doc directory. It is currently in early stages of development,
271 but is expected to grow in the near future. [ISC-Bugs 25901]
272
273 ! An issue with the use of lease times was found and fixed. Making
274 certain changes to the end time of an IPv6 lease could cause the
275 server to abort. Thanks to Glen Eustace of Massey University,
276 New Zealand for finding this issue.
277 [ISC-Bugs #30281]
278 CVE: CVE-2012-3955
279
280 - Update the memory leakage debug code to work with v6.
281 [ISC-Bugs #30297]
282
283 - Relax the requirements for deleting an A or AAAA record.
284 Previously the DDNS removal code required both the A or AAAA
285 record and the TXT record to exist. This requirement could
286 cause problems if something interrupted the removal leaving
287 the TXT record alone. This relaxation was codified in RFC 4703.
288 [ISC-Bugs #30734]
289
290 - Modify the failover code to handle incorrect peer names
291 better. Previously the structure holding the name might
292 have been freed inappropriately in some cases and not
293 freed in other cases.
294 [ISC-Bugs #30320]
295
296 - Add a configure option, enable-secs-byteorder, to deal with
297 clients that do the byte ordering on the secs field incorrectly.
298 This field should be in network byte order but some clients
299 get it wrong. When this option is enabled the server will examine
300 the secs field and if it looks wrong (high byte non zero and low
301 byte zero) swap the bytes. The default is disabled. This option
302 is only useful when doing load balancing within failover.
303 [ISC-Bugs #26108]
304
305 - Fix a set of issues that were discovered via a code inspection
306 tool. Thanks to Jiri Popelka and Tomas Hozza Red Hat for the logs
307 and patches.
308 [ISC-Bugs #23833]
309
310 - Parsing unquoted base64 strings improved. Parser now properly handles
311 strings that contain reserved names. [ISC-Bugs #23048]
312
313 - Modify the nak_lease function to make some attempts to find a
314 server-identifier option to use for the NAK.
315 [ISC-Bugs #25689]
316
317 - The client now passes information about the options it requested
318 from the server to the script code via environment variables.
319 These variables are of the form requested_<option_name>=1 with
320 the option name being the same as used in the new_* and old_*
321 variables.
322 [ISC-Bugs #29068]
323
324 - Add support for a simple check that the server id in a request message
325 to a failover peer matches the server id of the server. This support
326 is enabled by editing the file includes/site.h and uncommenting the
327 definition for SERVER_ID_CHECK. The option has several restrictions
328 and issues - please read the comment in the site.h file before
329 enabling it.
330 [ISC-Bugs #31463]
331
332 - Tidy up some compiler issues in the debug code.
333 [ISC-Bugs #26460]
334
335 - Move the dhcpd.conf exmample file to dhcpd.conf.example to avoid
336 overwriting the dhcpd.conf file when installing a new version of
337 ISC DHCP. The user will now need to manual copy and edit the
338 dhcpd.conf file as desired.
339 [ISC-Bugs #19337]
340
341 - Check the status value when trying to read from a connection to
342 see if it may have been closed. If it appears closed don't try
343 to read from it again. This avoids a potential busy-wait like
344 loop when the peer names are mismatched.
345 [ISC-Bugs #31231]
346
347 - Remove an unused variable to keep compilers happy.
348 [ISC-Bugs #31983]
349
350 - Modify test makefiles to be more similar to standard makefiles
351 and comment out a currently unused test.
352 [ISC-Bugs #32089]
353
354 Changes since 4.2.3
355
356 ! Add a check for a null pointer before calling the regexec function.
357 Without this check we could, under some circumstances, pass
358 a null pointer to the regexec function causing it to segfault.
359 Thanks to a report from BlueCat Networks.
360 [ISC-Bugs #26704].
361 CVE: CVE-2011-4539
362
363 ! Modify the DDNS handling code. In a previous patch we added logging
364 code to the DDNS handling. This code included a bug that caused it
365 to attempt to dereference a NULL pointer and eventually segfault.
366 While reviewing the code as we addressed this problem, we determined
367 that some of the updates to the lease structures would not work as
368 planned since the structures being updated were in the process of
369 being freed: these updates were removed. In addition we removed an
370 incorrect call to the DDNS removal function that could cause a failure
371 during the removal of DDNS information from the DNS server.
372 Thanks to Jasper Jongmans for reporting this issue.
373 [ISC-Bugs #27078]
374 CVE: CVE-2011-4868
375
376 - Fixed the code that checks if an address the server is planning
377 to hand out is in a reserved range. This would appear as
378 the server being out of addresses in pools with particular ranges.
379 [ISC-Bugs #26498]
380
381 - In the DDNS code handle error conditions more gracefully and add more
382 logging code. The major change is to handle unexpected cancel events
383 from the DNS client code.
384 [ISC-Bugs #26287]
385
386 - Tidy up the receive calls and eliminate the need for found_pkt.
387 [ISC-Bugs #25066]
388
389 - Add support for Infiniband over sockets to the server and
390 relay code. We've tested this on Solaris and hope to expand
391 support for Infiniband in the future. This patch also corrects
392 some issues we found in the socket code.
393 [ISC-Bugs #24245]
394
395 - Add a compile time check for the presence of the noreturn attribute
396 and use it for log_fatal if it's available. This will help code
397 checking programs to eliminate false positives.
398 [ISC-Bugs #27539]
399
400 - Fixed many compilation problems ("set, but not used" warnings) for
401 gcc 4.6 that may affect Ubuntu 11.10 users. [ISC-Bugs #27588]
402
403 - Modify the code that determines if an outstanding DDNS request
404 should be cancelled. This patch results in cancelling the
405 outstanding request less often. It fixes the problem caused
406 by a client doing a release where the TXT and PTR records
407 weren't removed from the DNS.
408 [ISC-BUGS #27858]
409
410 - Use offsetof() instead of sizeof() to get the sizes for dhcpv6_relay_packet
411 and dhcpv6_packet in several more places. Thanks to a report from
412 Bruno Verstuyft and Vincent Demaertelaere of Excentis.
413 [ISC-Bugs #27941]
414
415 - Remove outdated note in the description of the bootp keyword about the
416 option not satisfying the requirement of failover peers for denying
417 dynamic bootp clients.
418 [ISC-bugs #28574]
419
420 - Multiple items to clean up IPv6 address processing.
421 When processing an IA that we've seen check to see if the
422 addresses are usable (not in use by somebody else) before
423 handing it out.
424 When reading in leases from the file discard expired addresses.
425 When picking an address for a client include the IA ID in
426 addition to the client ID to generally pick different addresses
427 for different IAs.
428 [ISC-Bugs #23138] [ISC-Bugs #27945] [ISC-Bugs #25586]
429 [ISC-Bugs #27684]
430
431 - Remove unnecessary checks in the lease query code and clean up
432 several compiler issues (some dereferences of NULL and treating
433 an int as a boolean).
434 [ISC-Bugs #26203]
435
436 - Fix the NA and PD allocation code to handle the case where a client
437 provides a preference and the server doesn't have any addresses or
438 prefixes available. Previously the server ignored the request with
439 this patch it replies with a NoAddrsAvail or NoPrefixAvail response.
440 By default the code performs according to the errata of August 2010
441 for RFC 3315 section 17.2.2; to enable the previous style see the
442 section on RFC3315_PRE_ERRATA_2010_08 in includes/site.h. This option
443 may be removed in the future.
444 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
445 [ISC-Bugs #22676]
446
447 - Fix up some issues found by static analysis.
448 A potential memory leak and NULL dereference in omapi.
449 The use of a boolean test instead of a bitwise test in dst.
450 [ISC-Bugs #28941]
451
452 - Rotate the lease file when running in v6 mode.
453 Thanks to Christoph Moench-Tegeder at Astaro for the
454 report and the first version of the patch.
455 [ISC-Bugs #24887]
456
457 Changes since 4.2.2
458
459 - Fix the code that checks for an existing DDNS transaction to cancel
460 when removing DDNS information, so that we will continue with the
461 processing if we have a lease even if it doesn't have an outstanding
462 transaction. [ISC-Bugs #24682]
463
464 - Add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to configure.ac to avoid rebuilding
465 configuration files. [ISC-Bugs #24107]
466
467 - Add support for passing DDNS information to a DNS server over
468 an IPv6 address. [ISC-Bugs #22647]
469
470 - Enhanced patch for 23595 to handle IPv4 fixed addresses more
471 cleanly. [ISC-Bugs #23595]
472
473 Changes since 4.2.1
474
475 ! In dhclient check the data for some string options for
476 reasonableness before passing it along to the script that
477 interfaces with the OS.
478 [ISC-Bugs #23722]
479 CVE: CVE-2011-0997
480
481 - DHCPv6 server now responds properly if client asks for a prefix that
482 is already assigned to a different client. [ISC-Bugs #23948]
483
484 - Add the option "--no-pid" to the client, relay and server code,
485 to disable writing a pid file. Add the option "-pf pidfile"
486 to the relay to allow the user to supply the pidfile name at
487 runtime. Add the "with-relay6-pid-file" option to configure
488 to allow the user to supply the pidfile name for the relay
489 in v6 mode at configure time.
490 [ISC-Bugs #23351] [ISC-Bugs #17541]
491
492 - 'dhclient' no longer waits a random interval after first starting up to
493 begin in the INIT state. This conforms to RFC 2131, but elects not to
494 implement a 'SHOULD' direction in section 4.1. The goal of this change
495 is to start up faster. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
496
497 - Added 'initial-delay' parameter that specifies maximum amount of time
498 before client goes to the INIT state. The default value is 0. In previous
499 versions of the code client could wait up to 5 seconds. The old behavior
500 may be restored by using 'initial-delay 5;' in the client config file.
501 [ISC-Bugs #19660]
502
503 - ICMP ping-check should now sit closer to precisely the number of seconds
504 configured (or default 1), due to making use of the new microsecond
505 scale timer internally to dhcpd. This corrects a bug where the server
506 may immediately timeout an ICMP ping-check if it was made late in the
507 current second. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
508
509 - The DHCP client will schedule renewal and rebinding events in
510 microseconds if the DHCP server provided a lease-time that would result
511 in sub-1-second timers. This corrects a bug where a 2-second or lower
512 lease-time would cause the DHCP client to enter an infinite loop by
513 scheduling renewal at zero seconds. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
514
515 - Client lease records are recorded at most once every 15 seconds. This
516 keeps the client from filling the lease database disk quickly on very small
517 lease times. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
518
519 - To defend against RFC 2131 non-compliant DHCP servers which fail to
520 advertise a lease-time (either mangled, or zero in value) the DHCP
521 client now adds the server to the reject list ACL and returns to INIT
522 state to hopefully find an RFC 2131 compliant server (or retry in INIT
523 forever). [ISC-Bugs #19660]
524
525 - Parameters configured to evaluate from user defined function calls can
526 now be correctly written to dhcpd.leases (as on 'on events' or dynamic
527 host records inserted via OMAPI). [ISC-Bugs #22266]
528
529 - If a 'next-server' parameter is configured in a dynamic host record via
530 OMAPI as a domain name, the syntax written to disk is now correctly parsed
531 upon restart. [ISC-Bugs #22266]
532
533 - The DHCP server now responds to DHCPLEASEQUERY messages from agents using
534 IP addresses not covered by a subnet in configuration. Whether or not to
535 respond to such an agent is still governed by the 'allow leasequery;'
536 configuration parameter, in the case of an agent not covered by a configured
537 subnet the root configuration area is examined. Server now also returns
538 vendor-class-id option, if client sent it. [ISC-Bugs #21094]
539
540 - Documentation fixes
541 [ISC-Bugs #17959] add text to AIX section describing how to have it send
542 responses to the all-ones address.
543 [ISC-Bugs #19615] update the includes in dhcpctl/dhcpctl.3 to be more correct
544 [ISC-Bugs #20676] update dhcpd.conf.5 to include the RFC numbers for DDNS
545
546 - Relay no longer crashes, when DHCP packet is received over interface without
547 any IPv4 address assigned. Also extended logging message about discarding
548 packets with invalid hlen with information about relevant interface name.
549 [ISC-Bugs #22409]
550
551 - Relay now properly logs that packet was received over interface without
552 global IPv6 address [ISC-Bugs #24070]
553
554 - Linux Packet Filter interface improvement. sockaddr_pkt structure is used,
555 rather than sockaddr. Packet ethertype is now forced to ETH_P_IP.
556 [ISC-Bugs #18975]
557
558 - Minor code cleanups - but note port change for #23196
559 [ISC-Bugs #23470] - Modify when an ignore return macro is defined to
560 handle unsed error return warnings for more versions of gcc.
561 [ISC-Bugs #23196] - Modify the reply handling in the server code to
562 send to a specified port rather than to the source port for the incoming
563 message. Sending to the source port was test code that should have
564 been removed. The previous functionality may be restored by defining
565 REPLY_TO_SOURCE_PORT in the includes/site.h file. We suggest you don't
566 enable this except for testing purposes.
567 [ISC-Bugs #22695] - Close a file descriptor in an error path.
568 [ISC-Bugs #19368] - Tidy up variable types in validate_port.
569
570 - Code cleanup: remove obsolete PROTO, KandR, INLINE and ANSI_DECL macros
571 [ISC-Bugs #13151]
572
573 - Compilation problem with gcc4.5 and omshell.c resolved. [ISC-Bugs #23831]
574
575 - Client Script fixes
576 [ISC-Bugs #23045] Typos in client/scripts/openbsd
577 [ISC-Bugs #23565] In the client scripts add a zone id (interface id) if
578 the domain search address is link local.
579 [ISC-Bugs #1277] In some of the client scripts add code to handle the
580 case of the default router information being changed without the address
581 being changed.
582
583 - Documentation cleanup
584 [ISC-Bugs #23326] Updated References document, several man page updates
585
586 - Server no longer complains about NULL pointer when configured
587 server-identifier expression fails to evaluate. [ISC-Bugs #24547]
588
589 - Convert ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to ISC_R_SUCCESS when called from other
590 than the dispatch handler. This fixes an issue where omshell, when
591 run from the same platform as the server, would appear to fail to
592 connect. This is a companion to #21839. [ISC-Bugs #23592]
593
594 - Enlarge the buffer size used by the Omshell code and some of the
595 print routines to allow for greater than 60 characters or, when
596 printing as hex strings, 20 characters. [ISC-Bugs #22743]
597
598 - In Solaris 11 switch to using sockets instead of DLPI, thanks
599 to a patch form Oracle. [ISC-Bugs #24634].
600
601 - Strict checks for content of domain-name DHCPv4 option can now be
602 configured during compilation time. Even though RFC2132 does not allow
603 to store more than one domain in domain-name option, such behavior is
604 now enabled by default, but this may change some time in the future.
605 See ACCEPT_LIST_IN_DOMAIN_NAME define in includes/site.h.
606 [ISC-Bugs #24167]
607
608 - DNS Update fix. A misconfigured server could crash during DNS update
609 processing if the configuration included overlapping pools or
610 multiple fixed-address entries for a single address. This issue
611 affected both IPv4 and IPv6. The fix allows a server to detect such
612 conditions, provides the user with extra information and recommended
613 steps to fix the problem. If the user enables the appropriate option
614 in site.h then server will be terminated
615 [ISC-Bugs #23595]
616
617 ! Two packets were found that cause a server to halt. The code
618 has been updated to properly process or reject the packets as
619 appropriate. Thanks to David Zych at University of Illinois
620 for reporting this issue. [ISC-Bugs #24960]
621 One CVE number for each class of packet.
622 CVE-2011-2748
623 CVE-2011-2749
624
625 Changes since 4.2.0
626
627 - Documentation cleanup covering multiple tickets
628 [ISC-Bugs #20265] [ISC-Bugs #20259] minor cleanup
629 [ISC-Bugs #20263] add text describing some default values
630 [ISC-Bugs #20193] single quotes at the start of a line indicate a control
631 line to nroff, escape them if we actually want a quote.
632 [ISC-Bugs #18916] sync the pointer to web pages amongst the different docs
633
634 - 'get-host-names true;' now also works even if 'use-host-decl-names true;'
635 was also configured. The nature of this repair also fixes another
636 error; the host-name supplied by a client is no longer overridden by a
637 reverse lookup of the lease address. Thanks to a patch from Wilco Baan
638 Hofman supplied to us by the Debian package maintenance team.
639 [ISC-Bugs #21691] {Debian Bug#509445}
640
641 - The .TH tag for the dhcp-options manpage was typo repaired
642 thanks to a report from jidanni and the Debian package maintenance
643 team. [ISC-Bugs #21676] {Debian Bug#563613}
644
645 - More documentation changes - primarily to put the options in the dhclient
646 and dhcpd man pages into the standard form. Thanks in part to a patch
647 from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
648 [ISC-Bugs #20264] and parts of [ISC-Bugs #17744] dhclient.8 changes
649
650 - Add code to clear the pointer to an object in an OMAPI handle when the
651 object is freed due to a dereference. [ISC-Bugs #21306]
652
653 - Fixed a bug that leaks host record references onto lease structures,
654 causing the server to apply configuration intended for one host to any
655 other innocent clients that come along later. [ISC-Bugs #22018]
656
657 - Minor code fixes
658 [ISC-Bugs #19566] When trying to find the zone for a name for ddns allow
659 the name to be at the apex of the zone.
660 [ISC-Bugs #19617] Restrict length of interface name read from command line
661 in dhcpd - based on a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
662 [ISC-Bugs #20039] Correct some error messages in dhcpd.c
663 [ISC-Bugs #20070] Better range check on values when creating a DHCID.
664 [ISC-Bugs #20198] Avoid writing past the end of the field when adding
665 overly long file or server names to a packet and add a log message
666 if the configuration supplied overly long names for these fields.
667 Thanks to Martin Pala.
668 [ISC-Bugs #21497] Add a little more randomness to rng seed in client
669 thanks to a patch from Jeremiah Jinno.
670
671 - Correct error handling in DLPI [ISC-Bugs #20378]
672
673 - Remove __sun__ and __hpux__ typedefs in osdep.h as they are now being
674 checked in configure. [ISC-Bugs #20443]
675
676 - Modify how the cmsg header is allocated the v6 send and received routines
677 to compile on more compilers. [ISC-Bugs #20524]
678
679 - When parsing a domain name free the memory for the name after we are
680 done with it. [ISC-Bugs #20824]
681
682 - Add an elapsed time option to the release message and refactor the
683 code to move most of the common code to a single routine.
684 [ISC-Bugs #21171].
685
686 - Two identical log messages for commit_leases() have been disambiguated.
687 [ISC-Bugs #18915]
688
689 - Parse date strings more properly - the code now handles semi-colons in
690 date strings correctly. Thanks to a patch from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
691 [ISC-Bugs #21501, #20598]
692
693 - Fixes to lease input and output.
694 [ISC-Bugs #20418] - Some systems don't support the "%s" argument to
695 strftime, paste together the same string using mktime instead.
696 [ISC-Bugs #19596] - When parsing iaid values accept printable
697 characters.
698 [ISC-Bugs #21585] - Always print time values in omshell as hex
699 instead of ascii if the values happen to be printable characters.
700
701 - Minor changes for scripts, configure.ac and Makefiles
702 [ISC-Bugs #19147] Use domain-search instead of domain-name in manual and
703 example conf file. Thanks to a patch from David Cantrell
704 at Red Hat.
705 [ISC-Bugs #19761] Restore address when doing a rebind in DHCPv6
706 [ISC-Bugs #19945] Properly close the quote on some arguments.
707 [ISC-Bugs #20952] Add 64 bit types to configure.ac
708 [ISC-Bugs #21308] Add "PATH=" to CLIENT_PATH envrionment variable
709
710 - Update the code to parse dhcpv6 lease files to accept a semi-colon at
711 the end of the max-life and preferred-life clauses. In order to be
712 backwards compatible with older lease files not finding a semi-colon
713 is also accepted. [ISC-Bugs #22303].
714
715 ! Handle a relay forward message with an unspecified address in the
716 link address field. Previously such a message would cause the
717 server to crash. Thanks to a report from John Gibbons. [ISC-Bugs #21992]
718 CERT: VU#102047 CVE: CVE-2010-3611
719
720 - ./configure on longer searches for -lcrypto to explicitly link against.
721 This fixes a bug where 'dhclient' would have shared library dependencies
722 on '/usr/lib'. [ISC-Bugs #21967]
723
724 - Handle pipe failures more gracefully. Some OSes pass a SIGPIPE
725 signal to a process and will kill the process if the signal isn't
726 caught. This patch adds code to turn off the SIGPIPE signal via
727 a setsockopt() call. The signal is already being ignored as part
728 of the ISC library. [ISC-Bugs #22269]
729
730 - Restore printing of values in omshell to the style pre 21585. For
731 21585 we changed the print routines to always display time values
732 as a hex list. This had a side effect of printing all data strings
733 as a hex list. We shall investigate other ways of displaying time
734 values more usefully. [ISC-Bugs #22626]
735
736 ! Fix the handling of connection requests on the failover port.
737 Previously a connection request from a source that wasn't
738 listed as a failover peer would cause the server to become
739 non-responsive. Thanks to a report from Brad Bendily, brad@bendily.com.
740 [ISC-Bugs #22679]
741 CERT: VU#159528 CVE: CVE-2010-3616
742
743 - Don't pass the ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to the omapi signal handlers.
744 Passing it through to the handlers caused the omshell program to fail
745 to connect to the server. [ISC-Bugs #21839]
746
747 - Fix the paranthesis in the code to process configuration statements
748 beginning with "auth". The previous arrangement caused
749 "auto-partner-down" to be processed incorrectly. [ISC-Bugs #21854]
750
751 - Limit the timeout period allowed in the dispatch code to 2^^32-1 seconds.
752 Thanks to a report from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
753 [ISC-Bugs #22033], [Red Hat Bug #628258]
754
755 - When processing the format flags for a given option consume the
756 flag indicating an optional value correctly. A symptom of this
757 bug was an infinite loop when trying to parse the slp-service-scope
758 option. Thanks to a patch from Marius Tomaschewski.
759 [ISC-Bugs #22055]
760
761 - Disable the use of kqueue in the ISC library. This avoids a problem
762 between the fork and socket code that caused the dhcpd process to
763 use all available cpu if the program daemonized itself.
764 [ISC-Bugs #21911]
765
766 ! When processing a request in the DHCPv6 server code that specifies
767 an address that is tagged as abandoned (meaning we received a
768 decline request for it previously) don't attempt to move it from
769 the inactive to active pool as doing so can result in the server
770 crashing on an assert failure. Also retag the lease as active
771 and reset its timeout value.
772 [ISC-Bugs #21921]
773
774 - Removed the restriction on using IPv6 addresses in IPv4 mode. This
775 allows IPv4 options which contain IPv6 addresses to be specified. For
776 example the 6rd option can be specified and used like this:
777 [ISC-Bugs #23039]
778
779 option 6rd code 212 = { integer 8, integer 8,
780 ip6-address, array of ip-address };
781 option 6rd 16 10 2001:: 1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8;
782
783 - Handle some DDNS corner cases better. Maintain the DDNS transaction
784 information when updating a lease and cancel any existing transactions
785 when removing the ddns information.
786 [ISC-Bugs #23103]
787
788 - Some fixes for LDAP
789 [ISC-Bugs #21783] - Include lber library when building ldap
790 [ISC-Bugs #22888] - Enable the ldap code when buidling common
791 The above fixes are from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
792
793 - Modify the dlpi code to accept getmsg() returning a positive value.
794 [ISC-Bugs #22824]
795
796 Changes since 4.2.0b2
797
798 - Add declaration for variable in debug code in alloc.c. [ISC-Bugs #21472]
799
800 Changes since 4.2.0b1
801
802 - Prohibit including lease time information in a response to a DHCP INFORM.
803 [ISC-Bugs #21092]
804
805 ! Accept a client id of length 0 while hashing. Previously the server would
806 exit if it attempted to hash a zero length client id, providing attackers
807 with a simple denial of service attack. [ISC-Bugs #21253]
808 CERT: VU#541921 - CVE: CVE-2010-2156
809
810 - A memory leak in ddns processing was closed. [ISC-Bugs #21377]
811
812 - Modify the exception handling for initial context creation. Previously
813 we would try and clean up before exiting. This could present problems
814 when the cleanup required part of the context that wasn't available. It
815 also didn't do much as we exited afterwards anyway. Now we simply log
816 the error and exit. [ISC-Bugs #21093]
817
818 - A bug was fixed that could cause the DHCPv6 server to advertise/assign a
819 previously allocated (active) lease to a client that has changed subnets,
820 despite being on different shared networks. Dynamic prefixes specifically
821 allocated in shared networks also now are not offered if the client has
822 moved. [ISC-Bugs #21152]
823
824 - Add some debugging output for use with the DDNS code. [ISC-Bugs #20916]
825
826 - Fix the trace code to handle timing events better and to truncate a file
827 before using instead of overwriting it. [ISC-Bugs #20969]
828
829 - Modify the determination of the default TTL to use for DDNS updates.
830 The user may still configure the ttl via ddns-ttl. The default for
831 both v4 and v6 is now 1/2 the (preferred) lease time with a limit. The
832 previous defaults (1/2 lease time without a limit for v4 and a default
833 value for v6) may be used by defining USE_OLD_DDNS_TTL in site.h
834 [ISC-Bugs #21126]
835
836 - libisc/libdns is now brought up to version 9.7.1rc1. This corrects
837 three reported flaws in ISC DHCP;
838
839 o DHCP processes (dhcpd, dhclient) fail to start if one of either the
840 IPv4 or IPv6 address families is not present. [ISC-Bugs #21122]
841
842 o Assertion failure when attempting to cancel a previously running DDNS
843 update. [ISC-Bugs #21133]
844
845 o Compilation failure of libisc/libdns due to the use of a flexible
846 array member. [ISC-Bugs #21316]
847
848 Changes since 4.2.0a2
849
850 - Update the fsync code to work with the changes to the DDNS code. It now
851 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
852
853 - When constructing the DNS name structure from a text string append
854 the root to relative names. This satisfies a requirement in the DNS
855 library that names be absolute instead of relative and prevents DHCP
856 from crashing. [ISC-Bugs #21054]
857
858 - "The LDAP Patch" that has been circulating for some time, written by
859 Brian Masney and S.Kalyanasundraram and maintained for application to
860 the DHCP-4 sources by David Cantrell has been included. Please be
861 advised that these sources were contributed, and do not yet meet the
862 high standards we place on production sources we include by default.
863 As a result, the LDAP features are only included by using a compile-time
864 option which defaults off, and if you enable it you do so under your
865 own recognizance. We will be improving this software over time.
866 [ISC-Bugs #17741]
867
868 Changes since 4.2.0a1
869
870 - When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
871 is no longer truncated to one octet.
872
873 - Cleaned up an unused hardware address variable in nak_lease().
874
875 - Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
876 reflect support for prefix delegation.
877
878 - Cleaned up some compiler warnings
879
880 - An optimization described in the failover protocol draft is now included,
881 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
882 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
883 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
884 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
885 entry for each lease.
886
887 - Fix the trace code which was broken by the changes to the DDNS code.
888
889 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
890
891 - Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
892 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
893 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
894
895 - If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
896 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
897 Cantrell at Red Hat.
898
899 - Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
900 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
901
902 - Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
903
904 - A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
905 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
906 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
907 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
908 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
909 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
910
911 - Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
912 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
913 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
914 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
915 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
916 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
917 FQDN options by default).
918
919 - The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
920 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
921 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
922 determined lease time) are omitted.
923
924 - Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
925 The DHCP server or client can now continue with its processing while
926 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
927
928 - The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
929 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
930 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
931
932 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
933
934 - Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
935
936 - Validate the argument to the -p option.
937
938 - The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
939 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
940 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
941 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
942 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
943
944 - Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
945
946 - A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
947 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
948 had been deleted from configuration.
949
950 - Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
951 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
952 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
953 were being ignored.
954
955 - The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
956
957 - Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
958 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
959 Nordahl.
960
961 - Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
962 dhcpv6 disabled.
963
964 - Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
965 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
966
967 - Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
968 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
969
970 - A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
971 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
972 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
973
974 - A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
975 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
976 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
977 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
978 fewer system calls.
979
980 - The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
981 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
982 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
983 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
984 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
985 Christof Chen.
986
987 - Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
988 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
989 and in normal state.
990
991 - Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
992 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
993
994 - Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
995
996 - Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
997 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
998 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
999
1000 - Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
1001 rather than restarting the listener.
1002
1003 - Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
1004 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
1005
1006 - A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
1007 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
1008 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
1009
1010 - Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
1011 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
1012 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
1013 timeouts).
1014
1015 - A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
1016 in failover state records.
1017
1018 ! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
1019 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
1020 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1021 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
1022
1023 - Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
1024 processing a DHCPINFORM.
1025
1026 - Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
1027 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
1028 last option definition is used.
1029
1030 - Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
1031 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
1032 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
1033
1034 - Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
1035 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
1036
1037 - Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
1038 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
1039 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
1040 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
1041 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
1042 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
1043
1044 - A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
1045 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
1046 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
1047 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
1048
1049 ! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
1050 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
1051
1052 - Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
1053 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
1054
1055 - Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
1056 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
1057 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
1058 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
1059 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
1060 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
1061 configuration.
1062
1063 - ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
1064 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
1065
1066 - Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
1067 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
1068 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
1069 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
1070
1071 - Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
1072 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
1073 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
1074 was always properly set.
1075
1076 Changes since 4.1.0b1
1077
1078 - A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
1079 be recognized.
1080
1081 Changes since 4.1.0a2
1082
1083 - A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
1084 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
1085 "abandoned".
1086
1087 - Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
1088
1089 - Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
1090 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
1091
1092 - The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
1093 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
1094
1095 - Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
1096 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
1097
1098 - A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
1099
1100 - Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
1101 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
1102 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
1103 in future releases.
1104
1105 - The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
1106 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
1107
1108 - A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
1109 'dhclient -6' support.
1110
1111 - DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
1112 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
1113 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
1114 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
1115
1116 Changes since 4.1.0a1
1117
1118 - Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
1119
1120 - Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
1121
1122 - Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
1123 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
1124 only the latter. Fixed.
1125
1126 - The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
1127
1128 - A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
1129 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
1130
1131 - Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
1132
1133 - Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
1134
1135 - Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
1136 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
1137 --enable-early-chroot.
1138
1139 - ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
1140 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
1141
1142 - There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
1143 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
1144 parameter.
1145
1146 - A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
1147 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
1148
1149 - Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
1150 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
1151
1152 - Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
1153
1154 - Merged IA_XX related structures.
1155
1156 - Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
1157
1158 - A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
1159
1160 - DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
1161 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
1162 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
1163
1164 - Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
1165 support.
1166
1167 - A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
1168 repaired.
1169
1170 - Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
1171
1172 - Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
1173
1174 - Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
1175 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
1176
1177 - Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
1178 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
1179
1180 - A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
1181 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
1182
1183 - When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
1184 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
1185 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
1186 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
1187 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
1188 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
1189 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
1190 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
1191 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
1192 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
1193 shared-network.
1194
1195 - A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
1196 configured option values.
1197
1198 - A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
1199 support class statements.
1200
1201 - Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
1202 selection were repaired.
1203
1204 - The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
1205 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
1206 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
1207 by the OS.
1208
1209 - The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
1210 address.
1211
1212 - A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
1213 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
1214
1215 - ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
1216
1217 - Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
1218
1219 - Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
1220 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
1221
1222 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
1223
1224 - Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
1225
1226 - Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
1227 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
1228
1229 - It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
1230 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
1231 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
1232
1233 - Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
1234 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
1235
1236 - Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
1237
1238 - Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
1239 reserved IDs avoided).
1240
1241 - Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
1242
1243 - NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
1244 carries a rapid-commit option.
1245
1246 - Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
1247 an empty active lease.
1248
1249 - Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
1250
1251 - The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
1252 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
1253 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
1254 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
1255
1256 - MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
1257
1258 - Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
1259 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
1260 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
1261 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
1262 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
1263 Christof Chen.
1264
1265 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
1266
1267 - DHCP now builds on AIX.
1268
1269 - Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
1270 config file but -6 is not specified.
1271
1272 - Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
1273
1274 - The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
1275 be more helpful.
1276
1277 - The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
1278 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
1279 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
1280
1281 - A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
1282 was repaired.
1283
1284 - A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
1285 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
1286 been repaired.
1287
1288 - A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
1289 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
1290 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
1291
1292 - A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
1293 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
1294
1295 - A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
1296 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
1297 IPv4 address.
1298
1299 - The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
1300 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
1301 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
1302 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
1303 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
1304
1305 - A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
1306 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
1307 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
1308
1309 - Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
1310
1311 - Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
1312
1313 - When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
1314 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
1315 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
1316 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
1317 unnecessary logging.
1318
1319 - Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
1320 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
1321
1322 - When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
1323 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
1324 is incompatible is printed.
1325
1326 - The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
1327 a previously undefined option code.
1328
1329 - Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
1330 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
1331
1332 - DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
1333 than the year 2000.
1334
1335 - Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
1336
1337 - DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
1338
1339 - 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
1340
1341 Changes since 4.0.0b3
1342
1343 - The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
1344 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
1345 configuration.
1346
1347 - dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
1348 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
1349
1350 - The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
1351 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
1352 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
1353
1354 - When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
1355 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
1356 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
1357 a requested address.
1358
1359 - If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
1360 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
1361 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
1362 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
1363
1364 - dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
1365 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
1366 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
1367 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
1368
1369 - The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
1370 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
1371 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
1372
1373 - The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
1374 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
1375
1376 - The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
1377
1378 - A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
1379 codes through some conditions.
1380
1381 - The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
1382 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
1383
1384 - A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
1385 seemingly random values.
1386
1387 - A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
1388
1389 - ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
1390 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
1391 one ever has.
1392
1393 - Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
1394 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
1395 to a REQUEST.
1396
1397 - A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
1398 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
1399 level.
1400
1401 Changes since 4.0.0b2
1402
1403 - Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
1404
1405 - Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
1406 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
1407 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
1408 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
1409 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
1410
1411 - The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
1412 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
1413 new address.
1414
1415 Changes since 4.0.0b1
1416
1417 - Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
1418 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
1419 simultaneously on a single interface.
1420
1421 - Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
1422 of service under unusual server configurations
1423
1424 - Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
1425
1426 - A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
1427 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
1428
1429 - The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
1430 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
1431 on every pool rebalance run.
1432
1433 - sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
1434 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
1435
1436 - The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
1437 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
1438
1439 Changes since 4.0.0a3
1440
1441 - The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
1442 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
1443
1444 - Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
1445 point out the problem.
1446
1447 - Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
1448 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
1449 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
1450
1451 - Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
1452 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
1453
1454 - Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
1455 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
1456 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
1457
1458 - Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
1459
1460 - Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
1461 fixed by Marcus Goller.
1462
1463 - DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
1464 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
1465 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
1466 regardless of the existence of bindings.
1467
1468 - A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
1469
1470 - DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
1471 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
1472 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
1473 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
1474 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
1475
1476 - Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
1477
1478 Changes since 4.0.0a2
1479
1480 - Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
1481 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
1482
1483 - Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
1484
1485 - Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
1486 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
1487 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
1488
1489 - Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
1490
1491 - DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
1492 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
1493
1494 - An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
1495 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
1496 loaded from persistent storage.
1497
1498 - 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
1499 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
1500 necessary.
1501
1502 - Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
1503 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
1504 rapid-commit option.
1505
1506 - Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
1507 non-128-bits in length were removed.
1508
1509 Changes since 4.0.0a1
1510
1511 - Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
1512 and fix.
1513
1514 - Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
1515
1516 - Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
1517
1518 - Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
1519 for when loading configuration.
1520
1521 - Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
1522 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
1523 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
1524
1525 - Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
1526 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
1527 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
1528 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
1529
1530 - Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
1531
1532 - A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
1533 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
1534
1535 - Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
1536
1537 - Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
1538
1539 - Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
1540 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
1541
1542 - All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
1543 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
1544
1545 - Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
1546
1547 - Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
1548 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
1549
1550 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
1551
1552 - Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
1553
1554 - IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
1555 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
1556
1557 - An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
1558
1559 - Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
1560 initialized.
1561
1562 - Silenced several other compiler warnings.
1563
1564 - Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
1565 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
1566
1567 - Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
1568
1569 - DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
1570
1571 - DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
1572 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
1573
1574 - Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
1575
1576 - dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
1577 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
1578
1579 - -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
1580 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
1581
1582 - Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
1583
1584 - Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
1585
1586 - Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
1587
1588 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
1589
1590 - DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
1591 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
1592 no support currently for both.
1593
1594 - Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
1595 IAADDR option.
1596
1597 - Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
1598 options.
1599
1600 - Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
1601
1602 - Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
1603 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
1604
1605 - The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
1606 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
1607 specifying type 1 or type 2).
1608
1609 - The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
1610 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
1611
1612 - DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
1613 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
1614 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
1615 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
1616 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
1617 differently, they both use the same code here).
1618
1619 - The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
1620 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
1621 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
1622
1623 - Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
1624
1625 - The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
1626 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
1627 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
1628 it should not intercept.
1629
1630 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
1631
1632 - A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
1633 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
1634 between primary and secondary.
1635
1636 - A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
1637 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
1638 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
1639
1640 - An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
1641
1642 - The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
1643 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
1644 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
1645 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
1646 or REQUEST messages.
1647
1648 - The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
1649 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
1650
1651 - Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
1652
1653 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
1654
1655 - The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
1656 failover protected subnets was removed.
1657
1658 Changes since 3.1.0b2
1659
1660 - Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
1661 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
1662 odd number of leases).
1663
1664 - The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
1665 rebalance run, and one after.
1666
1667 - Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
1668 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
1669 processing these messages.
1670
1671 Changes since 3.1.0b1
1672
1673 - Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
1674 objects.
1675
1676 - A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
1677 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
1678 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
1679 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
1680 at Allianz.
1681
1682 - Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
1683 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
1684
1685 - A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
1686 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
1687
1688 - Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
1689 caused the server to abort.
1690
1691 - A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
1692 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
1693 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
1694
1695 - A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
1696 by empty spaces would not get included.
1697
1698 - A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
1699 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
1700
1701 - 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
1702 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
1703
1704 - A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
1705 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
1706
1707 - Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
1708 on the parameter request list.
1709
1710 Changes since 3.1.0a3
1711
1712 - Some spelling fixes.
1713
1714 Changes since 3.1.0a2
1715
1716 - A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
1717 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
1718
1719 - A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
1720 domain-search option syntax.
1721
1722 Changes since 3.1.0a1
1723
1724 - A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
1725 hash table was repaired.
1726
1727 - The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
1728 entering normal state.
1729
1730 - UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
1731 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
1732 'xid mismatch' log messages.
1733
1734 - An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
1735 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
1736
1737 - Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
1738 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
1739 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
1740 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
1741
1742 - Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
1743 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
1744 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
1745 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
1746 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
1747 to their needs.
1748
1749 - The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
1750 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
1751 run will attempt balance.
1752
1753 - A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
1754
1755 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
1756
1757 - A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
1758 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
1759 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
1760 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
1761
1762 - Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
1763 was introduced.
1764
1765 - Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
1766 via OMAPI.
1767
1768 - The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
1769 the protocol draft.
1770
1771 - 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
1772 one does not already exist on the system.
1773
1774 - RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
1775
1776 - The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
1777 matches RFC 3074.
1778
1779 - lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
1780 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
1781 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
1782
1783 - The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
1784 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
1785 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
1786
1787 - The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
1788 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
1789 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
1790 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
1791
1792 - The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
1793 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
1794 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
1795 priority over the client's parameter request list.
1796
1797 - Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
1798 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
1799 DHCPv6 support.
1800
1801 - A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
1802 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
1803 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
1804
1805 - Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
1806 have been incorporated.
1807
1808 - Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
1809 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
1810 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
1811 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
1812 that belong to the peer in need.
1813
1814 - The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
1815 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
1816
1817 - Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
1818 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
1819 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
1820
1821 - The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
1822 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
1823
1824 - A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
1825 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
1826 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
1827 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
1828 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
1829
1830 - In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
1831 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
1832 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
1833 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
1834
1835 - 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
1836 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
1837 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
1838 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
1839 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
1840 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
1841 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
1842 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
1843 ignoring this aspect of their request.
1844
1845 - Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
1846 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
1847
1848 - The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
1849 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
1850 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
1851 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
1852
1853 - DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
1854 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
1855 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
1856 hardware and funding the development.
1857
1858 - A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
1859 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
1860 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
1861 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
1862 via Robin Breathe.
1863
1864 - A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
1865 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
1866 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
1867 from Christof Chen.
1868
1869 - Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
1870 formally supported.
1871
1872 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
1873
1874 - supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
1875 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
1876
1877 Changes since 3.0.5
1878
1879 - Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
1880 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
1881 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
1882 they actually received.
1883
1884 - UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
1885
1886 - A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
1887 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
1888 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
1889 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
1890
1891 - A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
1892
1893 - A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
1894 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
1895
1896 - In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
1897 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
1898 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
1899 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
1900 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
1901 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
1902 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
1903 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
1904
1905 - A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
1906 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
1907 'file' field.
1908
1909 - A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
1910 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
1911
1912 - Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
1913 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
1914 a patch from Kevin Steves.
1915
1916 - A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
1917 from Chris Wagner.
1918
1919 - Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
1920 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
1921 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
1922
1923 - Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
1924 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
1925 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
1926 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
1927 was set.
1928
1929 - dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
1930 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
1931
1932 - The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
1933 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
1934 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
1935 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
1936 active ones.
1937
1938 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
1939
1940 - A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
1941 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
1942 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
1943 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
1944 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
1945
1946 - DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
1947 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
1948
1949 Changes since 3.0.4
1950
1951 - A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
1952 scopes are actually global has been added.
1953
1954 - The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
1955 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
1956 known to be damaging.
1957
1958 - Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
1959 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
1960 balancing).
1961
1962 - Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
1963 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
1964 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
1965
1966 - A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
1967 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
1968 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
1969
1970 - The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
1971 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
1972 more clear now.
1973
1974 - If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
1975 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
1976 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
1977 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
1978 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1979 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
1980
1981 - The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
1982 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
1983
1984 - A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
1985 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
1986 made possible.
1987
1988 - The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
1989 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
1990 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
1991
1992 - Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
1993 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
1994
1995 - Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
1996 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
1997 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
1998
1999 - Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
2000 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
2001 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
2002 value with the later configured value).
2003
2004 - Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
2005 have been named and documented.
2006
2007 - Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
2008 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
2009 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
2010 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
2011 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
2012 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
2013 write new output.
2014
2015 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
2016
2017 - The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
2018 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
2019
2020 Changes since 3.0.4b3
2021
2022 - Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
2023 mailing list.
2024
2025 Changes since 3.0.4b2
2026
2027 - Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
2028 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
2029
2030 - The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
2031 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
2032
2033 - DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
2034 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
2035 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
2036 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
2037
2038 - The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
2039 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
2040 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
2041 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
2042 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
2043 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
2044 transition (properly).
2045
2046 - The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
2047
2048 Changes since 3.0.4b1
2049
2050 - Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
2051 STDIN after reading one line.
2052
2053 - The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
2054 descriptor it opened twice.
2055
2056 - Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
2057 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
2058 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
2059
2060 Changes since 3.0.3
2061
2062 - A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
2063 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
2064 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
2065
2066 - The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
2067 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
2068 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
2069
2070 - Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
2071 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
2072 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
2073 leases to allocate.
2074
2075 - Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
2076 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
2077 than the entire block of them.
2078
2079 ! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
2080 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
2081 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
2082 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
2083 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
2084 to a patch from infamous42md.
2085
2086 ! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
2087 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
2088 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
2089 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
2090 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
2091 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
2092
2093 - dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
2094 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
2095 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
2096
2097 - Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
2098 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
2099
2100 - A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
2101 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
2102 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
2103 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
2104 transitional states.
2105
2106 - If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
2107 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
2108 once it detects the old db does not exist.
2109
2110 - dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
2111 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
2112 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
2113
2114 - Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
2115 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
2116
2117 - Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
2118 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
2119
2120 - Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
2121 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
2122 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
2123
2124 - An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
2125 patch from 'infamous42md'.
2126
2127 - An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
2128 repaired.
2129
2130 - Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
2131 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
2132 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
2133 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
2134
2135 - When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
2136 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
2137 data.
2138
2139 - The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
2140 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
2141 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
2142 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
2143 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
2144
2145 - The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
2146 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
2147 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
2148 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
2149 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
2150
2151 - Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
2152 has been repaired.
2153
2154 - "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
2155 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
2156 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
2157 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
2158 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
2159
2160 - File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
2161 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
2162
2163 - The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
2164 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
2165 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
2166 move to 3.[01].x.
2167
2168 - The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
2169 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
2170
2171 Changes since 3.0.3b3
2172
2173 - dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
2174 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
2175
2176 - In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
2177 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
2178 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
2179 workaround.
2180
2181 Changes since 3.0.3b2
2182
2183 - An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
2184 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
2185
2186 Changes since 3.0.3b1
2187
2188 - A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
2189 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
2190 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
2191
2192 - The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
2193 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
2194 dynamic updates were also retouched.
2195
2196 Changes since 3.0.2
2197
2198 - A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
2199 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
2200 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
2201
2202 - In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
2203 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
2204 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
2205 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
2206 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
2207
2208 - The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
2209 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
2210 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
2211
2212 - Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
2213 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
2214 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
2215
2216 - decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
2217 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
2218 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
2219 Peter Poeml.
2220
2221 - An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
2222 Dr. Peter Poeml.
2223
2224 - A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
2225 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
2226 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
2227 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
2228 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
2229 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
2230
2231 - The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
2232 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
2233 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
2234 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
2235
2236 - mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
2237 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
2238 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
2239 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
2240
2241 - A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
2242 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
2243
2244 - Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
2245 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
2246 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
2247
2248 - A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
2249 7 bytes, and failover.
2250
2251 - Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
2252 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
2253 at Red Hat.
2254
2255 - Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
2256 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
2257 should work better.
2258
2259 - In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
2260 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
2261 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
2262
2263 - Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
2264 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
2265 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
2266
2267 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
2268
2269 - A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
2270 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
2271
2272 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
2273
2274 - Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
2275 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
2276 overloading. This was repaired.
2277
2278 - A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
2279 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
2280 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
2281 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
2282 three chunks to fit.
2283
2284 - Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
2285 were repaired.
2286
2287 - An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
2288 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
2289 leak).
2290
2291 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
2292
2293 - allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
2294 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
2295
2296 Changes since 3.0.2b1
2297
2298 - Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
2299
2300 Changes since 3.0.1
2301
2302 - A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
2303 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
2304 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
2305
2306 - The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
2307 name was not provided by the server.
2308
2309 - A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
2310 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
2311
2312 - Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
2313 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
2314
2315 - One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
2316 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
2317
2318 - Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
2319
2320 - A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
2321
2322 - Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
2323 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
2324 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
2325 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
2326 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
2327
2328 - The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
2329 the configuration be globally scoped.
2330
2331 - Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
2332 Farkas.
2333
2334 - Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
2335 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
2336
2337 - Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
2338 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
2339
2340 - Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
2341 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2342
2343 - Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
2344 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
2345 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
2346 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
2347
2348 - Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
2349 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
2350 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
2351 respond to POOLREQ messages.
2352
2353 - Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
2354 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
2355 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
2356
2357 - "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
2358
2359 - If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
2360 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
2361 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
2362
2363 - log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
2364 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
2365 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
2366 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
2367 Fjone and directconnect.no.
2368
2369 - Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
2370 to Andreas Gustafsson.
2371
2372 - The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
2373 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
2374
2375 - How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
2376 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
2377 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
2378 DISCOVER timeout handling.
2379
2380 - Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
2381 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
2382
2383 - A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
2384 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
2385 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
2386
2387 - Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
2388 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
2389 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
2390 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
2391 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
2392 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
2393
2394 - A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
2395 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
2396 Infoblox.
2397
2398 - 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
2399
2400 - A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
2401 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
2402 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
2403 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
2404 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
2405 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
2406 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
2407
2408 - A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
2409 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
2410 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
2411
2412 - A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
2413 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
2414 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
2415
2416 - A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
2417
2418 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
2419
2420 - The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
2421 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
2422 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
2423 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
2424 systems either.
2425
2426 - A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
2427
2428 - AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
2429 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
2430 is false.
2431
2432 - The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
2433 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
2434
2435 - omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
2436
2437 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
2438
2439 ! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
2440 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
2441 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
2442 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
2443 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
2444 both finding and solving the problem.
2445
2446 ! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
2447 in log_*() functions was evidenced, on some specific platforms where
2448 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
2449 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
2450 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
2451 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
2452 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
2453 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
2454 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
2455 published version of ISC DHCP.
2456
2457 - Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
2458
2459 - 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
2460
2461 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
2462
2463 - Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
2464 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
2465 Richard Hirst.
2466
2467 - Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
2468 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
2469 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
2470
2471 - Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
2472
2473 - Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
2474 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
2475 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
2476 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
2477
2478 - The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
2479 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
2480
2481 - A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
2482 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
2483
2484 - dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
2485
2486 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
2487
2488 - A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
2489 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
2490
2491 - A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
2492 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
2493 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
2494
2495 - A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
2496 by name was fixed.
2497
2498 - Declaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
2499 longer result in error.
2500
2501 - The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
2502
2503 - Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
2504 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
2505 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
2506
2507 - contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
2508 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
2509
2510 - Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
2511 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
2512 Blapp.
2513
2514 - The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
2515 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
2516 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
2517 Martin Blapp.
2518
2519 - A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
2520 expiry times in failover configurations.
2521
2522 - A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
2523 Steve G.
2524
2525 - The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
2526 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
2527
2528 - Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
2529 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
2530 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
2531 now "unknown-144".
2532
2533 - Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
2534 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
2535
2536 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
2537
2538 - Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
2539
2540 - A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
2541 not be bash.
2542
2543 - Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
2544
2545 - A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
2546 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
2547 that errored before will now work properly.
2548
2549 - Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
2550 names was repaired.
2551
2552 - Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
2553 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
2554 configuration file.
2555
2556 - Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
2557 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2558
2559 - Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
2560 error rather than a null dereference.
2561
2562 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
2563
2564 - A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
2565
2566 - A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
2567
2568 - The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
2569 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
2570
2571 - A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
2572
2573 - A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
2574
2575 - Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
2576 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
2577 self-corrupting lease databases.
2578
2579 - dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
2580
2581 - A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
2582 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
2583
2584 - Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
2585
2586 - Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
2587
2588 - A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
2589 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
2590 Ling Gou.
2591
2592 - A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
2593 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2594
2595 - A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
2596 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
2597 Ted Lemon for the patch.
2598
2599 - Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
2600 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
2601
2602 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
2603
2604 - Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
2605 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
2606
2607 - Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
2608
2609 - Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
2610 a memory leak.
2611
2612 - Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
2613 script.
2614
2615 - Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
2616
2617 - Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
2618
2619 - Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
2620
2621 - Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
2622
2623 - Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
2624
2625 - Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
2626
2627 - Increment the hop count when relaying.
2628
2629 - Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
2630
2631 - Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
2632
2633 - Fix a reversed test in the parser.
2634
2635 - Change the type of rbuf_max.
2636
2637 - Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
2638
2639 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
2640
2641 - Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
2642 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
2643 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
2644
2645 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
2646
2647 - Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
2648 to be renewed.
2649
2650 - Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
2651 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
2652
2653 - Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
2654 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
2655
2656 - Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
2657 that two permit lists matched.
2658
2659 - Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
2660 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
2661
2662 - Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
2663
2664 - Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
2665 requested it, contrary to the standard.
2666
2667 - On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
2668
2669 - On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
2670
2671 - Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
2672 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
2673 going to update its A record.
2674
2675 - In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
2676 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
2677 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
2678 DNS server.
2679
2680 - Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
2681
2682 - Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
2683
2684 - Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
2685 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
2686 NetBSD project).
2687
2688 - Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
2689 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
2690
2691 - Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
2692 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
2693
2694 - Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
2695
2696 - Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
2697
2698 - Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
2699 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
2700 failover protocol standard.
2701
2702 - Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
2703 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
2704 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
2705
2706 - In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
2707 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
2708 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
2709 do so.
2710
2711 - Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
2712
2713 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
2714
2715 - Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
2716
2717 - Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
2718 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
2719
2720 - Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
2721 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
2722
2723 - Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
2724 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
2725 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
2726
2727 - If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
2728 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
2729 network, merge the two pools.
2730
2731 - Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
2732 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
2733 fix this bug.
2734
2735 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
2736
2737 - Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
2738 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
2739
2740 - Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
2741 the same case.
2742
2743 - Additional documentation.
2744
2745 - Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
2746 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
2747
2748 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
2749
2750 - A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
2751 - Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
2752
2753 Changes since 3.0.1rc2
2754
2755 - Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
2756 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
2757 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
2758 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
2759 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
2760
2761 Changes since 3.0.1rc1
2762
2763 - Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
2764 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
2765 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
2766 wasn't the one that removed it.
2767
2768 - Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
2769 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
2770 were not configured.
2771
2772 - Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
2773
2774 - Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
2775 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
2776 routing information.
2777
2778 - Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
2779 request being sent.
2780
2781 - Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
2782 done.
2783
2784 - Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
2785 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
2786 were pending.
2787
2788 - Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
2789 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
2790 problems with failover.
2791
2792 - Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
2793 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
2794 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
2795
2796 Changes since 3.0
2797
2798 - Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
2799 smash in the subclass allocation code.
2800
2801 - Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
2802 no object is open, it dumps core.
2803
2804 - Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
2805
2806 - Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
2807
2808 - Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
2809
2810 - Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
2811 a host object attribute with a null value.
2812
2813 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
2814
2815 - Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
2816
2817 - Fix an obscure core dump.
2818
2819 - Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
2820 when crucial information is left out.
2821
2822 - Log "no free leases" as an error.
2823
2824 - Documentation updates.
2825
2826 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
2827
2828 - Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
2829
2830 - Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
2831 structure wasn't zeroed.
2832
2833 - Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
2834 incorrectly.
2835
2836 - When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
2837 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
2838 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
2839 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
2840 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
2841 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
2842 restarted.
2843
2844 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
2845
2846 - Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
2847 in failover-enabled pools.
2848
2849 - Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
2850 declarations).
2851
2852 - Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
2853 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
2854
2855 - Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
2856 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
2857
2858 - Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
2859
2860 - Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
2861 defined but not referenced by any pools.
2862
2863 - Correct a confusing error message in failover.
2864
2865 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 9
2866
2867 - Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
2868
2869 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 2
2870
2871 - Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
2872
2873 - Document failover-state OMAPI object.
2874
2875 - Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
2876
2877 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 1
2878
2879 - Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
2880 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
2881 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
2882
2883 - Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
2884 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
2885 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
2886 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
2887 string.
2888
2889 - Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
2890
2891 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8
2892
2893 - Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
2894 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
2895
2896 - Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
2897 malformed packets.
2898
2899 - In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
2900
2901 - On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
2902 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
2903 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
2904
2905 - Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
2906
2907 - Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
2908
2909 - Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
2910
2911 - Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
2912 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
2913
2914 - Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
2915 tcp connections from being played back.
2916
2917 - Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
2918 on exit.
2919
2920 - Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
2921
2922 - Add some configurability to the build system.
2923
2924 - Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
2925
2926 - Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
2927 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
2928 hadn't been noticed until now.
2929
2930 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
2931
2932 - Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
2933 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
2934
2935 - Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
2936 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
2937 conformant, but also didn't work).
2938
2939 - Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
2940 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
2941
2942 - When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
2943 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
2944
2945 - In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
2946 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
2947
2948 - Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
2949 variables to leases via OMAPI.
2950
2951 - If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
2952 doing failover.
2953
2954 - Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
2955 running on alpha processors.
2956
2957 - Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
2958 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
2959
2960 - Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
2961
2962 - Install omshell (including new documentation).
2963
2964 - Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
2965 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
2966
2967 - Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
2968
2969 - Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
2970 actually named (key names are domain names).
2971
2972 - Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
2973
2974 - Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
2975 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
2976
2977 - Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
2978 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
2979
2980 - Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
2981 statements.
2982
2983 - Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
2984 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
2985
2986 - Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
2987 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
2988 operating.
2989
2990 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 6
2991
2992 - Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
2993 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
2994 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
2995 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
2996
2997 - Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
2998 using omapi to manipulate leases.
2999
3000 - Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
3001
3002 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
3003
3004 - Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
3005 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
3006
3007 - Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
3008 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
3009 to the chain.
3010
3011 - Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
3012
3013 - Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
3014
3015 - Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
3016
3017 - Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
3018 attribute values in omshell.
3019
3020 - Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
3021
3022 - Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
3023
3024 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
3025
3026 - Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
3027 DHCPDECLINE.
3028
3029 - Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
3030
3031 - In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
3032 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
3033 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
3034
3035 - Fix some broken failover state transitions.
3036
3037 - Documentation fixes.
3038
3039 - Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
3040 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
3041
3042 - Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
3043 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
3044
3045 - Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
3046
3047 - Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
3048
3049 - Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
3050 case-insensitive.
3051
3052 - Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
3053
3054 - If a signature algorithm is not terminated with '.', terminate it so
3055 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
3056 consistently.
3057
3058 - Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
3059 systems with the probe not working correctly.
3060
3061 - Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
3062
3063 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 3
3064
3065 - Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
3066 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
3067 result of duplicate leases.
3068
3069 - Document OMAPI server objects.
3070
3071 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Patchlevel 1
3072
3073 - Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
3074 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
3075
3076 - Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
3077 core dumps.
3078
3079 - Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
3080 Friedrich.
3081
3082 - Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
3083
3084 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
3085
3086 - Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
3087 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
3088 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
3089 billing class code.
3090
3091 - Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
3092 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
3093
3094 - Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
3095 trace file.
3096
3097 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1 Patchlevel 1
3098
3099 - Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
3100 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
3101 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
3102 e.g., Digital Unix.
3103
3104 - Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
3105 when no error had occurred.
3106
3107 - Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
3108 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
3109 non-communicating state.
3110
3111 - Be smart about going into recover_wait.
3112
3113 - Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
3114 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
3115 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
3116
3117 - Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
3118 when the client lease expired.
3119
3120 - If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
3121 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
3122 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
3123 in testing.
3124
3125 - Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
3126 the command line, it would fail.
3127
3128 - Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
3129 user impact).
3130
3131 - Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
3132
3133 - Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
3134 they're executable.
3135
3136 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
3137
3138 - Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
3139 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
3140 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
3141 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
3142
3143 - Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
3144 Transmeta.
3145
3146 - There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
3147 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
3148 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
3149 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
3150
3151 - There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
3152 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
3153
3154 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 24
3155
3156 - Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
3157 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
3158
3159 - Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
3160
3161 - Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
3162
3163 - Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
3164
3165 - Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
3166
3167 - Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
3168
3169 - Update some parts of the README file.
3170
3171 - Support GCC on SCO.
3172
3173 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 23
3174
3175 - Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
3176 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
3177
3178 - When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
3179 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
3180 unbill the old class.
3181
3182 - When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
3183 process the state transition immediately.
3184
3185 - Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
3186 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
3187
3188 - Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
3189
3190 - Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
3191
3192 - Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
3193
3194 - Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
3195
3196 - Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
3197 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
3198 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
3199
3200 - If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
3201 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
3202
3203 - The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
3204 lease file.
3205
3206 - Don't overwrite tracefiles.
3207
3208 - Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
3209
3210 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 22
3211
3212 - Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
3213 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
3214
3215 - Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
3216
3217 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 21
3218
3219 - This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
3220
3221 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 20
3222
3223 - Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
3224
3225 - Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
3226 pl19.
3227
3228 - Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
3229 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
3230 past the regression test.
3231
3232 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 19
3233
3234 - Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
3235 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
3236
3237 - Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
3238 DHCPREQUEST.
3239
3240 - Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
3241
3242 - Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
3243
3244 - Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
3245
3246 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 18
3247
3248 - Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
3249 (Damien Neil)
3250
3251 - Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
3252 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
3253
3254 - Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
3255 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
3256 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
3257
3258 - Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
3259 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
3260 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
3261 message.
3262
3263 - Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
3264 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
3265 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
3266
3267 - Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
3268 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
3269 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
3270 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
3271 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
3272 this way will work.
3273
3274 - Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
3275
3276 - Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
3277 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
3278 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
3279 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
3280
3281 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
3282
3283 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
3284
3285 - Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
3286 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
3287 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
3288
3289 - Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
3290 Hermann Lauer.
3291
3292 - Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
3293 messages.
3294
3295 - Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
3296 it contained quoted strings.
3297
3298 ** there was no pl17 **
3299
3300 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 16
3301
3302 - Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
3303 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
3304 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
3305 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
3306 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
3307 tracking down memory leaks.
3308
3309 - Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
3310 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
3311 Solaris.
3312
3313 - Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
3314 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
3315 corruption and core dumps.
3316
3317 - Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
3318 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
3319
3320 - Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
3321
3322 - Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
3323 and implemented by Damien Neil.
3324
3325 - Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
3326 name and version to standard output.
3327
3328 - Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
3329
3330 - A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
3331 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
3332
3333 - Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
3334
3335 - Lots of documentation updates.
3336
3337 - Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
3338 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
3339
3340 - Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
3341
3342 - Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
3343 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
3344
3345 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 15
3346
3347 - Some documentation tweaks.
3348
3349 - Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
3350
3351 - Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
3352
3353 - Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
3354 agent options into them.
3355
3356 - Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
3357
3358 - Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
3359 options.
3360
3361 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 14
3362
3363 - Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
3364 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
3365 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
3366 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
3367 used in class statements to control address allocation.
3368
3369 - Fix up documentation.
3370
3371 - Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
3372 significantly in a high-demand situation.
3373
3374 - Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
3375
3376 - Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
3377
3378 - Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
3379 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
3380 practical use otherwise.
3381
3382 - Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
3383 for debugging.
3384
3385 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 13
3386
3387 - Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
3388 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
3389 dump on some systems.
3390
3391 - Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
3392 option.
3393
3394 - Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
3395 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
3396
3397 - Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
3398 that were not printing enough information.
3399
3400 - It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
3401 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
3402
3403 - Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
3404 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
3405 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
3406 were answering.
3407
3408 - When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
3409 the transition.
3410
3411
3412 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 12
3413
3414 - Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
3415
3416 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
3417
3418 - Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
3419 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
3420 representation from working correctly.
3421
3422 - Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
3423 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
3424 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
3425 could spin.
3426
3427 - Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
3428 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
3429
3430 - Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
3431 interface name on the command line.
3432
3433 - Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
3434 client state.
3435
3436 - Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
3437 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
3438 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
3439 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
3440 added by Ted Lemon.
3441
3442 - Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
3443 be made to log debugging information and other information.
3444
3445 - Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
3446 end option.
3447
3448 - Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
3449 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
3450 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
3451
3452 - Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
3453 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
3454 face of a null hardware address on input.
3455
3456 - Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
3457 specified unqualified.
3458
3459 - Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
3460 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
3461
3462 - Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
3463 RFC.
3464
3465 - Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
3466
3467 - Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
3468
3469 - Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
3470 it works.
3471
3472 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
3473
3474 - Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
3475 to CVS.
3476
3477 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
3478
3479 - Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
3480
3481 - Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
3482 in patchlevel 9.
3483
3484 - Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
3485 options at renewal time.
3486
3487 - Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
3488 configuration language.
3489
3490 - Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
3491
3492 - Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
3493 done when no client hostname was received.
3494
3495 - Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
3496
3497 - Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
3498 the DHCP option space.
3499
3500 - Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
3501
3502 - Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
3503 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
3504
3505 - Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
3506 silently dropped.
3507
3508 - Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
3509 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
3510
3511 - Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
3512 will be correctly updated.
3513
3514 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
3515
3516 - Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
3517 bounds-checking.
3518
3519 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
3520
3521 - Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
3522
3523 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 6
3524
3525 - Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
3526 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
3527 possible to exploit it any further than that.
3528
3529 - Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
3530 option.
3531
3532 - Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
3533 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
3534 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
3535 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
3536 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
3537 meaningfully.
3538
3539 - Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
3540 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
3541 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
3542
3543 - Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
3544 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
3545 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
3546 this one down!
3547
3548 - Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
3549 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
3550 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
3551 down and fixing this problem.
3552
3553 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
3554
3555 - Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
3556 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
3557
3558 - Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
3559 environment.
3560
3561 - Fix suffix operator.
3562
3563 - Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
3564
3565 - Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
3566 connection code.
3567
3568 - Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
3569
3570 - Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
3571
3572 - Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
3573 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
3574
3575 - Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
3576
3577 - Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
3578
3579 - Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
3580 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
3581
3582 - Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
3583 spawn with.
3584
3585 - Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
3586 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
3587
3588 - Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
3589 for OMAPI.
3590
3591 - Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
3592 can install in host declarations.
3593
3594 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
3595
3596 - Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
3597 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
3598 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
3599 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
3600 comments)!
3601
3602 - Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
3603
3604 - Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
3605 request for help on this with patches!
3606
3607 - Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
3608 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
3609 lost, they never reconnect.
3610
3611 - Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
3612 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
3613
3614 - Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
3615 dump.
3616
3617 - Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
3618 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
3619 catching this one.
3620
3621 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
3622
3623 - In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
3624 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
3625 lease renewal time.
3626
3627 - Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
3628 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
3629 declared without a key.
3630
3631 - Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
3632
3633 - Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
3634 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
3635
3636 - If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
3637 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
3638 determine the maximum size of the response.
3639
3640 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
3641
3642 - Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
3643 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
3644
3645 - Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
3646 RENEWING client.
3647
3648 - Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
3649
3650 - Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
3651 using memcmp().
3652
3653 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
3654
3655 - Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
3656 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
3657 pointing this out.
3658
3659 - In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
3660 exit.
3661
3662 - Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
3663
3664 - Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
3665 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.