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1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
2 Version 4.0.0a3
3 September 5, 2007
4
5 Release Notes
6
7 NEW FEATURES
8
9 The DHCP server in version 4.0.x of the ISC DHCP Distribution supports
10 DHCPv6 in addition to DHCP for IPv4.
11
12 Several new options have been added to the dhcpd executable, which are
13 documented in the man page. Several changes have been made to the
14 configuration file as well, which are also documented in the man
15 pages.
16
17 There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
18 release, which will be addressed shortly:
19
20 - Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
21
22 - There is no DHCPv6 Relay Agent implementation. There are only DHCPv6
23 Server and Client implementations.
24
25 - Only a single address is supported per IA.
26
27 - IA_TA addresses are not supported.
28
29 - IA_PD prefixes are not supported.
30
31 - DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages. These
32 should be configurable, and probably localized via gettext() or the
33 like.
34
35 - The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
36
37 - Dynamically allocated leases do not respond to Confirm messages.
38
39 - The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
40 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
41 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
42
43 For information on how to install, configure and run this software,
44 as well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult
45 the README file.
46
47 ISC DHCP now uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please
48 review the output of "./configure --help" to see what options are
49 available.
50
51 The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and
52 may not work on other platforms. Please report any problems and
53 suggested fixes to <dhcp-users@isc.org>.
54
55
56 Changes since 4.0.0a3
57
58 - The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
59 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
60
61 - Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
62 point out the problem.
63
64 Changes since 4.0.0a2
65
66 - Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
67 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
68
69 - Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
70
71 - Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
72 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
73 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
74
75 - Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
76
77 - DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
78 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
79
80 - An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
81 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
82 loaded from persistent storage.
83
84 - 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
85 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
86 necessary.
87
88 - Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
89 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
90 rapid-commit option.
91
92 - Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
93 non-128-bits in length were removed.
94
95 Changes since 4.0.0a1
96
97 - Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
98 and fix.
99
100 - Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
101
102 - Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
103
104 - Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
105 for when loading configuration.
106
107 - Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
108 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
109 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
110
111 - Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
112 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
113 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
114 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
115
116 - Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
117
118 - A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
119 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
120
121 - Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
122
123 - Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
124
125 - Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
126 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
127
128 - All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
129 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
130
131 - Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
132
133 - Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
134 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
135
136 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
137
138 - Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
139
140 - IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
141 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
142
143 - An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
144
145 - Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
146 initialized.
147
148 - Silenced several other compiler warnings.
149
150 - Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
151 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
152
153 - Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
154
155 - DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
156
157 - DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
158 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
159
160 - Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
161
162 - dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
163 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
164
165 - -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
166 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
167
168 - Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
169
170 - Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
171
172 - Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
173
174 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
175
176 - DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
177 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
178 no support currently for both.
179
180 - Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
181 IAADDR option.
182
183 - Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
184 options.
185
186 - Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
187
188 - Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
189 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
190
191 - The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
192 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
193 specifying type 1 or type 2).
194
195 - The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
196 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
197
198 - DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
199 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
200 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
201 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
202 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
203 differently, they both use the same code here).
204
205 - The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
206 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
207 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
208
209 - Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
210
211 - The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
212 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
213 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
214 it should not intercept.
215
216 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
217
218 - The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
219 failover protected subnets was removed.
220
221 Changes since 3.1.0b2
222
223 - Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
224 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
225 odd number of leases).
226
227 - The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
228 rebalance run, and one after.
229
230 - Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
231 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
232 processing these messages.
233
234 Changes since 3.1.0b1
235
236 - Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
237 objects.
238
239 - A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
240 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
241 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
242 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
243 at Allianz.
244
245 - Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
246 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
247
248 - A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
249 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
250
251 - Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
252 caused the server to abort.
253
254 - A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
255 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
256 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
257
258 - A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
259 by empty spaces would not get included.
260
261 - A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
262 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
263
264 - 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
265 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
266
267 - A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
268 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
269
270 - Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
271 on the parameter request list.
272
273 Changes since 3.1.0a3
274
275 - Some spelling fixes.
276
277 Changes since 3.1.0a2
278
279 - A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
280 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
281
282 - A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
283 domain-search option syntax.
284
285 Changes since 3.1.0a1
286
287 - A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
288 hash table was repaired.
289
290 - The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
291 entering normal state.
292
293 - UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
294 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
295 'xid mismatch' log messages.
296
297 - An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
298 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
299
300 - Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
301 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
302 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
303 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
304
305 - Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
306 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
307 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
308 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
309 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
310 to their needs.
311
312 - The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
313 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
314 run will attempt balance.
315
316 - A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
317
318 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
319
320 - A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
321 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
322 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
323 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
324
325 - Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
326 was introduced.
327
328 - Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
329 via OMAPI.
330
331 - The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
332 the protocol draft.
333
334 - 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
335 one does not already exist on the system.
336
337 - RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
338
339 - The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
340 matches RFC 3074.
341
342 - lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
343 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
344 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
345
346 - The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
347 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
348 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
349
350 - The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
351 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
352 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
353 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
354
355 - The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
356 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
357 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
358 priority over the client's parameter request list.
359
360 - Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
361 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
362 DHCPv6 support.
363
364 - A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
365 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
366 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
367
368 - Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
369 have been incorporated.
370
371 - Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
372 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
373 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
374 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
375 that belong to the peer in need.
376
377 - The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
378 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
379
380 - Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
381 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
382 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
383
384 - The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
385 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
386
387 - A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
388 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
389 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
390 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
391 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
392
393 - In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
394 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
395 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
396 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
397
398 - 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
399 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
400 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
401 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
402 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
403 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
404 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
405 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
406 ignoring this aspect of their request.
407
408 - Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
409 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
410
411 - The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
412 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
413 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
414 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
415
416 - DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
417 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
418 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
419 hardware and funding the development.
420
421 - A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
422 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
423 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
424 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
425 via Robin Breathe.
426
427 - A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
428 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
429 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
430 from Christof Chen.
431
432 - Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
433 formally supported.
434
435 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
436
437 - supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
438 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
439
440 Changes since 3.0.5
441
442 - Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
443 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
444 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
445 they actually received.
446
447 - UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
448
449 - A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
450 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
451 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
452 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
453
454 - A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
455
456 - A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
457 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
458
459 - In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
460 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
461 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
462 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
463 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
464 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
465 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
466 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
467
468 - A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
469 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
470 'file' field.
471
472 - A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
473 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
474
475 - Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
476 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
477 a patch from Kevin Steves.
478
479 - A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
480 from Chris Wagner.
481
482 - Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
483 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
484 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
485
486 - Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
487 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
488 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
489 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
490 was set.
491
492 - dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
493 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
494
495 - The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
496 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
497 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
498 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
499 active ones.
500
501 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
502
503 - A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
504 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
505 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
506 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
507 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
508
509 - DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
510 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
511
512 Changes since 3.0.4
513
514 - A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
515 scopes are actually global has been added.
516
517 - The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
518 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
519 known to be damaging.
520
521 - Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
522 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
523 balancing).
524
525 - Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
526 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
527 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
528
529 - A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
530 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
531 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
532
533 - The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
534 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
535 more clear now.
536
537 - If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
538 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
539 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
540 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
541 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
542 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
543
544 - The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
545 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
546
547 - A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
548 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
549 made possible.
550
551 - The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
552 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
553 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
554
555 - Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
556 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
557
558 - Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
559 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
560 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
561
562 - Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
563 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
564 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
565 value with the later configured value).
566
567 - Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
568 have been named and documented.
569
570 - Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
571 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
572 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
573 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
574 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
575 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
576 write new output.
577
578 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
579
580 - The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
581 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
582
583 Changes since 3.0.4b3
584
585 - Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
586 mailing list.
587
588 Changes since 3.0.4b2
589
590 - Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
591 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
592
593 - The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
594 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
595
596 - DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
597 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
598 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
599 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
600
601 - The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
602 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
603 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
604 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
605 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
606 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
607 transition (properly).
608
609 - The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
610
611 Changes since 3.0.4b1
612
613 - Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
614 STDIN after reading one line.
615
616 - The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
617 descriptor it opened twice.
618
619 - Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
620 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
621 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
622
623 Changes since 3.0.3
624
625 - A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
626 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
627 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
628
629 - The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
630 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
631 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
632
633 - Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
634 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
635 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
636 leases to allocate.
637
638 - Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
639 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
640 than the entire block of them.
641
642 ! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
643 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
644 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
645 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
646 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
647 to a patch from infamous42md.
648
649 ! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
650 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
651 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
652 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
653 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
654 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
655
656 - dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
657 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
658 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
659
660 - Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
661 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
662
663 - A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
664 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
665 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
666 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
667 transitional states.
668
669 - If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
670 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
671 once it detects the old db does not exist.
672
673 - dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
674 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
675 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
676
677 - Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
678 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
679
680 - Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
681 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
682
683 - Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
684 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
685 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
686
687 - An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
688 patch from 'infamous42md'.
689
690 - An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
691 repaired.
692
693 - Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
694 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
695 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
696 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
697
698 - When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
699 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
700 data.
701
702 - The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
703 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
704 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
705 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
706 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
707
708 - The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
709 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
710 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
711 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
712 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
713
714 - Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
715 has been repaired.
716
717 - "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
718 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
719 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
720 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
721 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
722
723 - File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
724 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
725
726 - The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
727 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
728 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
729 move to 3.[01].x.
730
731 - The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
732 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
733
734 Changes since 3.0.3b3
735
736 - dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
737 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
738
739 - In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
740 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
741 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
742 workaround.
743
744 Changes since 3.0.3b2
745
746 - An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
747 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
748
749 Changes since 3.0.3b1
750
751 - A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
752 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
753 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
754
755 - The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
756 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
757 dynamic updates were also retouched.
758
759 Changes since 3.0.2
760
761 - A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
762 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
763 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
764
765 - In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
766 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
767 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
768 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
769 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
770
771 - The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
772 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
773 Jason Vas Dias at Redhat.
774
775 - Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
776 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
777 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at RedHat.
778
779 - decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
780 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
781 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
782 Peter Poeml.
783
784 - An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
785 Dr. Peter Poeml.
786
787 - A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
788 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
789 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
790 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
791 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
792 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
793
794 - The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
795 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
796 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
797 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
798
799 - mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
800 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
801 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
802 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
803
804 - A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
805 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
806
807 - Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
808 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
809 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
810
811 - A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
812 7 bytes, and failover.
813
814 - Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
815 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
816 at Redhat.
817
818 - Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
819 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
820 should work better.
821
822 - In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
823 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
824 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
825
826 - Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
827 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
828 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
829
830 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
831
832 - A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
833 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
834
835 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
836
837 - Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
838 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
839 overloading. This was repaired.
840
841 - A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
842 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
843 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
844 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
845 three chunks to fit.
846
847 - Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
848 were repaired.
849
850 - An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
851 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
852 leak).
853
854 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
855
856 - allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
857 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
858
859 Changes since 3.0.2b1
860
861 - Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
862
863 Changes since 3.0.1
864
865 - A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
866 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
867 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
868
869 - The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
870 name was not provided by the server.
871
872 - A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
873 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
874
875 - Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
876 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
877
878 - One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
879 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
880
881 - Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
882
883 - A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
884
885 - Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
886 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
887 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
888 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
889 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
890
891 - The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
892 the configuration be globally scoped.
893
894 - Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
895 Farkas.
896
897 - Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
898 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
899
900 - Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
901 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
902
903 - Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
904 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
905
906 - Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
907 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
908 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
909 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
910
911 - Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
912 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
913 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
914 respond to POOLREQ messages.
915
916 - Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
917 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
918 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
919
920 - "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
921
922 - If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
923 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
924 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
925
926 - log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
927 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
928 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
929 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
930 Fjone and directconnect.no.
931
932 - Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
933 to Andreas Gustafsson.
934
935 - The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
936 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
937
938 - How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
939 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
940 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
941 DISCOVER timeout handling.
942
943 - Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
944 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
945
946 - A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
947 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
948 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
949
950 - Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
951 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
952 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
953 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
954 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
955 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
956
957 - A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
958 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
959 Infoblox.
960
961 - 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
962
963 - A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
964 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
965 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
966 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
967 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
968 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
969 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
970
971 - A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
972 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
973 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
974
975 - A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
976 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
977 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
978
979 - A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
980
981 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
982
983 - The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
984 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
985 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
986 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
987 systems either.
988
989 - A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
990
991 - AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
992 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
993 is false.
994
995 - The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
996 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
997
998 - omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
999
1000 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
1001
1002 ! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
1003 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
1004 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
1005 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
1006 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
1007 both finding and solving the problem.
1008
1009 ! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
1010 in log_*() functions was evidenced, on some specific platforms where
1011 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
1012 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
1013 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
1014 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
1015 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
1016 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
1017 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
1018 published version of ISC DHCP.
1019
1020 - Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
1021
1022 - 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
1023
1024 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
1025
1026 - Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
1027 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
1028 Richard Hirst.
1029
1030 - Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
1031 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
1032 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
1033
1034 - Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
1035
1036 - Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
1037 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
1038 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
1039 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
1040
1041 - The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
1042 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
1043
1044 - A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
1045 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
1046
1047 - dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
1048
1049 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
1050
1051 - A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
1052 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
1053
1054 - A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
1055 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
1056 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
1057
1058 - A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
1059 by name was fixed.
1060
1061 - Declaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
1062 longer result in error.
1063
1064 - The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
1065
1066 - Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
1067 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
1068 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
1069
1070 - contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
1071 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
1072
1073 - Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
1074 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
1075 Blapp.
1076
1077 - The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
1078 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
1079 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
1080 Martin Blapp.
1081
1082 - A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
1083 expiry times in failover configurations.
1084
1085 - A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
1086 Steve G.
1087
1088 - The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
1089 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
1090
1091 - Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
1092 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
1093 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
1094 now "unknown-144".
1095
1096 - Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
1097 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
1098
1099 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
1100
1101 - Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
1102
1103 - A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
1104 not be bash.
1105
1106 - Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1107
1108 - A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
1109 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
1110 that errored before will now work properly.
1111
1112 - Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
1113 names was repaired.
1114
1115 - Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
1116 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
1117 configuration file.
1118
1119 - Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
1120 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1121
1122 - Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
1123 error rather than a null dereference.
1124
1125 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
1126
1127 - A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
1128
1129 - A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
1130
1131 - The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
1132 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
1133
1134 - A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
1135
1136 - A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
1137
1138 - Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
1139 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
1140 self-corrupting lease databases.
1141
1142 - dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
1143
1144 - A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
1145 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
1146
1147 - Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
1148
1149 - Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
1150
1151 - A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
1152 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
1153 Ling Gou.
1154
1155 - A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
1156 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1157
1158 - A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
1159 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
1160 Ted Lemon for the patch.
1161
1162 - Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
1163 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
1164
1165 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
1166
1167 - Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
1168 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
1169
1170 - Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
1171
1172 - Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
1173 a memory leak.
1174
1175 - Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
1176 script.
1177
1178 - Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
1179
1180 - Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
1181
1182 - Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
1183
1184 - Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
1185
1186 - Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
1187
1188 - Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
1189
1190 - Increment the hop count when relaying.
1191
1192 - Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
1193
1194 - Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
1195
1196 - Fix a reversed test in the parser.
1197
1198 - Change the type of rbuf_max.
1199
1200 - Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
1201
1202 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
1203
1204 - Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
1205 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
1206 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
1207
1208 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
1209
1210 - Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
1211 to be renewed.
1212
1213 - Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
1214 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
1215
1216 - Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
1217 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
1218
1219 - Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
1220 that two permit lists matched.
1221
1222 - Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
1223 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
1224
1225 - Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
1226
1227 - Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
1228 requested it, contrary to the standard.
1229
1230 - On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
1231
1232 - On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
1233
1234 - Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
1235 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
1236 going to update its A record.
1237
1238 - In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
1239 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
1240 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
1241 DNS server.
1242
1243 - Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
1244
1245 - Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
1246
1247 - Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
1248 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
1249 NetBSD project).
1250
1251 - Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
1252 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
1253
1254 - Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
1255 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
1256
1257 - Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
1258
1259 - Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
1260
1261 - Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
1262 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
1263 failover protocol standard.
1264
1265 - Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
1266 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
1267 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
1268
1269 - In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
1270 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
1271 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
1272 do so.
1273
1274 - Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
1275
1276 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
1277
1278 - Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
1279
1280 - Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
1281 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
1282
1283 - Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
1284 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
1285
1286 - Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
1287 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
1288 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
1289
1290 - If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
1291 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
1292 network, merge the two pools.
1293
1294 - Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
1295 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
1296 fix this bug.
1297
1298 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
1299
1300 - Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
1301 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
1302
1303 - Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
1304 the same case.
1305
1306 - Additional documentation.
1307
1308 - Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
1309 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
1310
1311 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
1312
1313 - A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
1314 - Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
1315
1316 Changes since 3.0.1rc2
1317
1318 - Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
1319 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
1320 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
1321 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
1322 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
1323
1324 Changes since 3.0.1rc1
1325
1326 - Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
1327 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
1328 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
1329 wasn't the one that removed it.
1330
1331 - Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
1332 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
1333 were not configured.
1334
1335 - Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
1336
1337 - Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
1338 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
1339 routing information.
1340
1341 - Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
1342 request being sent.
1343
1344 - Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
1345 done.
1346
1347 - Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
1348 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
1349 were pending.
1350
1351 - Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
1352 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
1353 problems with failover.
1354
1355 - Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
1356 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
1357 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
1358
1359 Changes since 3.0
1360
1361 - Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
1362 smash in the subclass allocation code.
1363
1364 - Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
1365 no object is open, it dumps core.
1366
1367 - Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
1368
1369 - Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
1370
1371 - Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
1372
1373 - Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
1374 a host object attribute with a null value.
1375
1376 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
1377
1378 - Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
1379
1380 - Fix an obscure core dump.
1381
1382 - Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
1383 when crucial information is left out.
1384
1385 - Log "no free leases" as an error.
1386
1387 - Documentation updates.
1388
1389 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
1390
1391 - Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
1392
1393 - Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
1394 structure wasn't zeroed.
1395
1396 - Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
1397 incorrectly.
1398
1399 - When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
1400 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
1401 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
1402 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
1403 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
1404 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
1405 restarted.
1406
1407 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
1408
1409 - Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
1410 in failover-enabled pools.
1411
1412 - Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
1413 declarations).
1414
1415 - Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
1416 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
1417
1418 - Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
1419 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
1420
1421 - Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
1422
1423 - Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
1424 defined but not referenced by any pools.
1425
1426 - Correct a confusing error message in failover.
1427
1428 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 9
1429
1430 - Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
1431
1432 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 2
1433
1434 - Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
1435
1436 - Document failover-state OMAPI object.
1437
1438 - Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
1439
1440 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 1
1441
1442 - Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
1443 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
1444 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
1445
1446 - Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
1447 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
1448 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
1449 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
1450 string.
1451
1452 - Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
1453
1454 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8
1455
1456 - Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
1457 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
1458
1459 - Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
1460 malformed packets.
1461
1462 - In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
1463
1464 - On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
1465 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
1466 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
1467
1468 - Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
1469
1470 - Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
1471
1472 - Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
1473
1474 - Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
1475 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
1476
1477 - Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
1478 tcp connections from being played back.
1479
1480 - Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
1481 on exit.
1482
1483 - Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
1484
1485 - Add some configurability to the build system.
1486
1487 - Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
1488
1489 - Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
1490 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
1491 hadn't been noticed until now.
1492
1493 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
1494
1495 - Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
1496 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
1497
1498 - Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
1499 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
1500 conformant, but also didn't work).
1501
1502 - Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
1503 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
1504
1505 - When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
1506 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
1507
1508 - In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
1509 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
1510
1511 - Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
1512 variables to leases via OMAPI.
1513
1514 - If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
1515 doing failover.
1516
1517 - Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
1518 running on alpha processors.
1519
1520 - Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
1521 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
1522
1523 - Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
1524
1525 - Install omshell (including new documentation).
1526
1527 - Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
1528 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
1529
1530 - Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
1531
1532 - Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
1533 actually named (key names are domain names).
1534
1535 - Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
1536
1537 - Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
1538 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
1539
1540 - Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
1541 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
1542
1543 - Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
1544 statements.
1545
1546 - Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
1547 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
1548
1549 - Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
1550 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
1551 operating.
1552
1553 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 6
1554
1555 - Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
1556 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
1557 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
1558 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
1559
1560 - Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
1561 using omapi to manipulate leases.
1562
1563 - Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
1564
1565
1566 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
1567
1568 - Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
1569 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
1570
1571 - Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
1572 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
1573 to the chain.
1574
1575 - Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
1576
1577 - Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
1578
1579 - Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
1580
1581 - Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
1582 attribute values in omshell.
1583
1584 - Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
1585
1586 - Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
1587
1588 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
1589
1590 - Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
1591 DHCPDECLINE.
1592
1593 - Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
1594
1595 - In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
1596 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
1597 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
1598
1599 - Fix some broken failover state transitions.
1600
1601 - Documentation fixes.
1602
1603 - Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
1604 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
1605
1606 - Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
1607 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
1608
1609 - Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
1610
1611 - Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
1612
1613 - Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
1614 case-insensitive.
1615
1616 - Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
1617
1618 - If a signature algorithm is not terminated with '.', terminate it so
1619 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
1620 consistently.
1621
1622 - Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
1623 systems with the probe not working correctly.
1624
1625 - Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
1626
1627 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 3
1628
1629 - Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
1630 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
1631 result of duplicate leases.
1632
1633 - Document OMAPI server objects.
1634
1635 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Patchlevel 1
1636
1637 - Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
1638 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
1639
1640 - Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
1641 core dumps.
1642
1643 - Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
1644 Friedrich.
1645
1646 - Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
1647
1648 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
1649
1650 - Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
1651 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
1652 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
1653 billing class code.
1654
1655 - Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
1656 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
1657
1658 - Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
1659 trace file.
1660
1661 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1 Patchlevel 1
1662
1663 - Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
1664 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
1665 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
1666 e.g., Digital Unix.
1667
1668 - Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
1669 when no error had occurred.
1670
1671 - Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
1672 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
1673 non-communicating state.
1674
1675 - Be smart about going into recover_wait.
1676
1677 - Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
1678 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
1679 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
1680
1681 - Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
1682 when the client lease expired.
1683
1684 - If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
1685 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
1686 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
1687 in testing.
1688
1689 - Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
1690 the command line, it would fail.
1691
1692 - Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
1693 user impact).
1694
1695 - Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
1696
1697 - Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
1698 they're executable.
1699
1700 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
1701
1702 - Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
1703 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
1704 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
1705 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
1706
1707 - Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
1708 Transmeta.
1709
1710 - There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
1711 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
1712 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
1713 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
1714
1715 - There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
1716 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
1717
1718 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 24
1719
1720 - Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
1721 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
1722
1723 - Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
1724
1725 - Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
1726
1727 - Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
1728
1729 - Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
1730
1731 - Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
1732
1733 - Update some parts of the README file.
1734
1735 - Support GCC on SCO.
1736
1737 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 23
1738
1739 - Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
1740 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
1741
1742 - When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
1743 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
1744 unbill the old class.
1745
1746 - When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
1747 process the state transition immediately.
1748
1749 - Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
1750 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
1751
1752 - Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
1753
1754 - Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
1755
1756 - Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
1757
1758 - Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
1759
1760 - Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
1761 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
1762 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
1763
1764 - If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
1765 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
1766
1767 - The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
1768 lease file.
1769
1770 - Don't overwrite tracefiles.
1771
1772 - Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
1773
1774 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 22
1775
1776 - Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
1777 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
1778
1779 - Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
1780
1781 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 21
1782
1783 - This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
1784
1785 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 20
1786
1787 - Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
1788
1789 - Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
1790 pl19.
1791
1792 - Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
1793 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
1794 past the regression test.
1795
1796 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 19
1797
1798 - Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
1799 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
1800
1801 - Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
1802 DHCPREQUEST.
1803
1804 - Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
1805
1806 - Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
1807
1808 - Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
1809
1810 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 18
1811
1812 - Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
1813 (Damien Neil)
1814
1815 - Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
1816 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
1817
1818 - Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
1819 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
1820 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
1821
1822 - Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
1823 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
1824 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
1825 message.
1826
1827 - Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
1828 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
1829 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
1830
1831 - Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
1832 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
1833 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
1834 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
1835 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
1836 this way will work.
1837
1838 - Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
1839
1840 - Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
1841 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
1842 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
1843 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
1844
1845 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
1846
1847 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
1848
1849 - Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
1850 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
1851 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
1852
1853 - Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
1854 Hermann Lauer.
1855
1856 - Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
1857 messages.
1858
1859 - Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
1860 it contained quoted strings.
1861
1862 ** there was no pl17 **
1863
1864 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 16
1865
1866 - Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
1867 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
1868 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
1869 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
1870 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
1871 tracking down memory leaks.
1872
1873 - Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
1874 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
1875 Solaris.
1876
1877 - Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
1878 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
1879 corruption and core dumps.
1880
1881 - Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
1882 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
1883
1884 - Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
1885
1886 - Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
1887 and implemented by Damien Neil.
1888
1889 - Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
1890 name and version to standard output.
1891
1892 - Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
1893
1894 - A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
1895 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
1896
1897 - Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
1898
1899 - Lots of documentation updates.
1900
1901 - Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
1902 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
1903
1904 - Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
1905
1906 - Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
1907 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
1908
1909
1910 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 15
1911
1912 - Some documentation tweaks.
1913
1914 - Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
1915
1916 - Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
1917
1918 - Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
1919 agent options into them.
1920
1921 - Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
1922
1923 - Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
1924 options.
1925
1926 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 14
1927
1928 - Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
1929 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
1930 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
1931 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
1932 used in class statements to control address allocation.
1933
1934 - Fix up documentation.
1935
1936 - Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
1937 significantly in a high-demand situation.
1938
1939 - Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
1940
1941 - Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
1942
1943 - Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
1944 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
1945 practical use otherwise.
1946
1947 - Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
1948 for debugging.
1949
1950 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 13
1951
1952 - Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
1953 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
1954 dump on some systems.
1955
1956 - Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
1957 option.
1958
1959 - Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
1960 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
1961
1962 - Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
1963 that were not printing enough information.
1964
1965 - It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
1966 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
1967
1968 - Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
1969 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
1970 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
1971 were answering.
1972
1973 - When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
1974 the transition.
1975
1976
1977 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 12
1978
1979 - Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
1980
1981 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
1982
1983 - Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
1984 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
1985 representation from working correctly.
1986
1987 - Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
1988 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
1989 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
1990 could spin.
1991
1992 - Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
1993 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
1994
1995 - Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
1996 interface name on the command line.
1997
1998 - Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
1999 client state.
2000
2001 - Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
2002 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
2003 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
2004 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
2005 added by Ted Lemon.
2006
2007 - Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
2008 be made to log debugging information and other information.
2009
2010 - Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
2011 end option.
2012
2013 - Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
2014 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
2015 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
2016
2017 - Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
2018 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
2019 face of a null hardware address on input.
2020
2021 - Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
2022 specified unqualified.
2023
2024 - Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
2025 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
2026
2027 - Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
2028 RFC.
2029
2030 - Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
2031
2032 - Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
2033
2034 - Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
2035 it works.
2036
2037 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
2038
2039 - Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
2040 to CVS.
2041
2042 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
2043
2044 - Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
2045
2046 - Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
2047 in patchlevel 9.
2048
2049 - Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
2050 options at renewal time.
2051
2052 - Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
2053 configuration language.
2054
2055 - Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
2056
2057 - Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
2058 done when no client hostname was received.
2059
2060 - Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
2061
2062 - Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
2063 the DHCP option space.
2064
2065 - Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
2066
2067 - Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
2068 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
2069
2070 - Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
2071 silently dropped.
2072
2073 - Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
2074 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
2075
2076 - Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
2077 will be correctly updated.
2078
2079 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
2080
2081 - Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
2082 bounds-checking.
2083
2084 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
2085
2086 - Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
2087
2088 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 6
2089
2090 - Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
2091 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
2092 possible to exploit it any further than that.
2093
2094 - Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
2095 option.
2096
2097 - Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
2098 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
2099 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
2100 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
2101 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
2102 meaningfully.
2103
2104 - Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
2105 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
2106 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
2107
2108 - Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
2109 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
2110 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
2111 this one down!
2112
2113 - Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
2114 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
2115 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
2116 down and fixing this problem.
2117
2118 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
2119
2120 - Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
2121 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
2122
2123 - Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
2124 environment.
2125
2126 - Fix suffix operator.
2127
2128 - Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
2129
2130 - Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
2131 connection code.
2132
2133 - Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
2134
2135 - Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
2136
2137 - Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
2138 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
2139
2140 - Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
2141
2142 - Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
2143
2144 - Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
2145 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
2146
2147 - Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
2148 spawn with.
2149
2150 - Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
2151 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
2152
2153 - Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
2154 for OMAPI.
2155
2156 - Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
2157 can install in host declarations.
2158
2159 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
2160
2161 - Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
2162 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
2163 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
2164 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
2165 comments)!
2166
2167 - Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
2168
2169 - Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
2170 request for help on this with patches!
2171
2172 - Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
2173 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
2174 lost, they never reconnect.
2175
2176 - Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
2177 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
2178
2179 - Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
2180 dump.
2181
2182 - Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
2183 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
2184 catching this one.
2185
2186 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
2187
2188 - In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
2189 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
2190 lease renewal time.
2191
2192 - Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
2193 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
2194 declared without a key.
2195
2196 - Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
2197
2198 - Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
2199 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
2200
2201 - If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
2202 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
2203 determine the maximum size of the response.
2204
2205 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
2206
2207 - Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
2208 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
2209
2210 - Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
2211 RENEWING client.
2212
2213 - Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
2214
2215 - Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
2216 using memcmp().
2217
2218 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
2219
2220 - Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
2221 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
2222 pointing this out.
2223
2224 - In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
2225 exit.
2226
2227 - Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
2228
2229 - Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
2230 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.