version 2.61 Re-write interface discovery code on *BSD to use getifaddrs. This is more portable, more straightforward, and allows us to find the prefix length for IPv6 addresses. Add ra-names, ra-stateless and slaac keywords for DHCPv6. Dnsmasq can now synthesise AAAA records for dual-stack hosts which get IPv6 addresses via SLAAC. It is also now possible to use SLAAC and stateless DHCPv6, and to tell clients to use SLAAC addresses as well as DHCP ones. Thanks to Dave Taht for help with this. Add --dhcp-duid to allow DUID-EN uids to be used. Explicity send DHCPv6 replies to the correct port, instead of relying on clients to send requests with the correct source address, since at least one client in the wild gets this wrong. Thanks to Conrda Kostecki for help tracking this down. Send a preference value of 255 in DHCPv6 replies when --dhcp-authoritative is in effect. This tells clients not to wait around for other DHCP servers. Better logging of DHCPv6 options. Add --host-record. Thanks to Rob Zwissler for the suggestion. Invoke the DHCP script with action "tftp" when a TFTP file transfer completes. The size of the file, address to which it was sent and complete pathname are supplied. Note that version 2.60 introduced some script incompatibilties associated with DHCPv6, and this is a further change. To be safe, scripts should ignore unknown actions, and if not IPv6-aware, should exit if the environment variable DNSMASQ_IAID is set. The use-case for this is to track netboot/install. Suggestion from Shantanu Gadgil. Update contrib/port-forward/dnsmasq-portforward to reflect the above. Set the environment variable DNSMASQ_LOG_DHCP when running the script id --log-dhcp is in effect, so that script can taylor their logging verbosity. Suggestion from Malte Forkel. Arrange that addresses specified with --listen-address work even if there is no interface carrying the address. This is chiefly useful for IPv4 loopback addresses, where any address in 127.0.0.0/8 is a valid loopback address, but normally only 127.0.0.1 appears on the lo interface. Thanks to Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre for the idea and initial patch. Fix crash, introduced in 2.60, when a DHCPINFORM is received from a network which has no valid dhcp-range. Thanks to Stephane Glondu for the bug report. Add a new DHCP lease time keyword, "deprecated" for --dhcp-range. This is only valid for IPv6, and sets the preffered lease time for both DHCP and RA to zero. The effect is that clients can continue to use the address for existing connections, but new connections will use other addresses, if they exist. This makes hitless renumbering at least possible. Fix bug in address6_available() which caused DHCPv6 lease aquistion to fail if more than one dhcp-range in use. Provide RDNSS and DNSSL data in router advertisements, using the settings provided for DHCP options option6:domain-search and option6:dns-server. Tweak logo/favicon.ico to add some transparency. Thanks to SamLT for work on this. Don't cache data from non-recursive nameservers, since it may erroneously look like a valid CNAME to a non-exitant name. Thanks to Ben Winslow for finding this. Call SO_BINDTODEVICE on the DHCP socket(s) when doing DHCP on exacly one interface and --bind-interfaces is set. This makes the OpenStack use-case of one dnsmasq per virtual interface work. This is only available on Linux; it's not supported on other platforms. Thanks to Vishvananda Ishaya and the OpenStack team for the suggestion. Updated French translation. Thanks to Gildas Le Nadan. Give correct from-cache answers to explict CNAME queries. Thanks to Rob Zwissler for spotting this. Add --tftp-lowercase option. Thanks to Oliver Rath for the patch. version 2.60 Fix compilation problem in Mac OS X Lion. Thanks to Olaf Flebbe for the patch. Fix DHCP when using --listen-address with an IP address which is not the primary address of an interface. Add --dhcp-client-update option. Add Lua integration. Dnsmasq can now execute a DHCP lease-change script written in Lua. This needs to be enabled at compile time by setting HAVE_LUASCRIPT in src/config.h or running "make COPTS=-DHAVE_LUASCRIPT" Thanks to Jan-Piet Mens for the idea and proof-of-concept implementation. Tidied src/config.h to distinguish between platform-dependent compile-time options which are selected automatically, and builder-selectable compile time options. Document the latter better, and describe how to set them from the make command line. Tidied up IPPROTO_IP/SOL_IP (and IPv6 equivalent) confusion. IPPROTO_IP works everywhere now. Set TOS on DHCP sockets, this improves things on busy wireless networks. Thanks to Dave Taht for the patch. Determine VERSION automatically based on git magic: release tags or hash values. Improve start-up speed when reading large hosts files containing many distinct addresses. Fix problem if dnsmasq is started without the stdin, stdout and stderr file descriptors open. This can manifest itself as 100% CPU use. Thanks to Chris Moore for finding this. Fix shell-scripting bug in bld/pkg-wrapper. Thanks to Mark Mitchell for the patch. Allow the TFP server or boot server in --pxe-service, to be a domain name instead of an IP address. This allows for round-robin to multiple servers, in the same way as --dhcp-boot. A good suggestion from Cristiano Cumer. Support BUILDDIR variable in the Makefile. Allows builds for multiple archs from the same source tree with eg. make BUILDDIR=linux (relative to dnsmasq tree) make BUILDDIR=/tmp/openbsd (absolute path) If BUILDDIR is not set, compilation happens in the src directory, as before. Suggestion from Mark Mitchell. Support DHCPv6. Support is there for the sort of things the existing v4 server does, including tags, options, static addresses and relay support. Missing is prefix delegation, which is probably not required in the dnsmasq niche, and an easy way to accept prefix delegations from an upstream DHCPv6 server, which is. Future plans include support for DHCPv6 router option and MAC address option (to make selecting clients by MAC address work like IPv4). These will be added as the standards mature. This code has been tested, but this is the first release, so don't bet the farm on it just yet. Many thanks to all testers who have got it this far. Support IPv6 router advertisements. This is a simple-minded implementation, aimed at providing the vestigial RA needed to go alongside IPv6. Is picks up configuration from the DHCPv6 conf, and should just need enabling with --enable-ra. Fix long-standing wrinkle with --localise-queries that could result in wrong answers when DNS packets arrive via an interface other than the expected one. Thanks to Lorenzo Milesi and John Hanks for spotting this one. Update French translation. Thanks to Gildas Le Nadan. Update Polish translation. Thanks to Jan Psota. version 2.59 Fix regression in 2.58 which caused failure to start up with some combinations of dnsmasq config and IPv6 kernel network config. Thanks to Brielle Bruns for the bug report. Improve dnsmasq's behaviour when network interfaces are still doing duplicate address detection (DAD). Previously, dnsmasq would wait up to 20 seconds at start-up for the DAD state to terminate. This is broken for bridge interfaces on recent Linux kernels, which don't start DAD until the bridge comes up, and so can take arbitrary time. The new behaviour lets dnsmasq poll for an arbitrary time whilst providing service on other interfaces. Thanks to Stephen Hemminger for pointing out the problem. version 2.58 Provide a definition of the SA_SIZE macro where it's missing. Fixes build failure on openBSD. Don't include a zero terminator at the end of messages sent to /dev/log when /dev/log is a datagram socket. Thanks to Didier Rabound for spotting the problem. Add --dhcp-sequential-ip flag, to force allocation of IP addresses in ascending order. Note that the default pseudo-random mode is in general better but some server-deployment applications need this. Fix problem where a server-id of 0.0.0.0 is sent to a client when a dhcp-relay is in use if a client renews a lease after dnsmasq restart and before any clients on the subnet get a new lease. Thanks to Mike Ruiz for assistance in chasing this one down. Don't return NXDOMAIN to an AAAA query if we have CNAME which points to an A record only: NODATA is the correct reply in this case. Thanks to Tom Fernandes for spotting the problem. Relax the need to supply a netmask in --dhcp-range for networks which use a DHCP relay. Whilst this is still desireable, in the absence of a netmask dnsmasq will use a default based on the class (A, B, or C) of the address. This should at least remove a cause of mysterious failure for people using RFC1918 addresses and relays. Add support for Linux conntrack connection marking. If enabled with --conntrack, the connection mark for incoming DNS queries will be copied to the outgoing connections used to answer those queries. This allows clever firewall and accounting stuff. Only available if dnsmasq is compiled with HAVE_CONNTRACK and adds a dependency on libnetfilter-conntrack. Thanks to Ed Wildgoose for the initial idea, testing and sponsorship of this function. Provide a sane error message when someone attempts to match a tag in --dhcp-host. Tweak the behaviour of --domain-needed, to avoid problems with recursive nameservers downstream of dnsmasq. The new behaviour only stops A and AAAA queries, and returns NODATA rather than NXDOMAIN replies. Efficiency fix for very large DHCP configurations, thanks to James Gartrell and Mike Ruiz for help with this. Allow the TFTP-server address in --dhcp-boot to be a domain-name which is looked up in /etc/hosts. This can give multiple IP addresses which are used round-robin, thus doing TFTP server load-balancing. Thanks to Sushil Agrawal for the patch. When two tagged dhcp-options for a particular option number are both valid, use the one which is valid without a tag from the dhcp-range. Allows overriding of the value of a DHCP option for a particular host as well as per-network values. So --dhcp-range=set:interface1,...... --dhcp-host=set:myhost,..... --dhcp-option=tag:interface1,option:nis-domain,"domain1" --dhcp-option=tag:myhost,option:nis-domain,"domain2" will set the NIS-domain to domain1 for hosts in the range, but override that to domain2 for a particular host. Fix bug which resulted in truncated files and timeouts for some TFTP transfers. The bug only occurs with netascii transfers and needs an unfortunate relationship between file size, blocksize and the number of newlines in the last block before it manifests itself. Many thanks to Alkis Georgopoulos for spotting the problem and providing a comprehensive test-case. Fix regression in TFTP server on *BSD platforms introduced in version 2.56, due to confusion with sockaddr length. Many thanks to Loïc Pefferkorn for finding this. Support scope-ids in IPv6 addresses of nameservers from /etc/resolv.conf and in --server options. Eg nameserver fe80::202:a412:4512:7bbf%eth0 or server=fe80::202:a412:4512:7bbf%eth0. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for the suggestion. Update Polish translation, thanks to Jan Psota. Update French translation. Thanks to Gildas Le Nadan. version 2.57 Add patches to allow build under Android. Provide our own header for the DNS protocol, rather than relying on arpa/nameser.h. This has proved more or less defective over the years and the final straw is that it's effectively empty on Android. Fix regression in 2.56 which caused hex constants in configuration to be rejected if they contain the '*' wildcard. Correct wrong casts of arguments to ctype.h functions, isdigit(), isxdigit() etc. Thanks to Matthias Andree for spotting this. Allow build with IDN support independently from i18n. IDN support continues to be included automatically when i18n is included. 'make COPTS=-DHAVE_IDN' is the magic incantation. Modify check on extraneous command line junk (added in 2.56) so that it doesn't complain about extra _empty_ arguments. Otherwise this breaks libvirt. version 2.56 Add a patch to allow dnsmasq to get interface names right in a Solaris zone. Thanks to Dj Padzensky for this. Improve data-type parsing heuristics so that --dhcp-option=option:domain-search,. treats the value as a string and not an IP address. Thanks to Clemens Fischer for spotting that. Add IPv6 support to the TFTP server. Many thanks to Jan 'RedBully' Seiffert for the patches. Log DNS queries at level LOG_INFO, rather then LOG_DEBUG. This makes things consistent with DHCP logging. Thanks to Adam Pribyl for spotting the problem. Ensure that dnsmasq terminates cleanly when using --syslog-async even if it cannot make a connection to the syslogd. Add --add-mac option. This is to support currently experimental DNS filtering facilities. Thanks to Benjamin Petrin for the orignal patch. Fix bug which meant that tags were ignored in dhcp-range configuration specifying PXE-proxy service. Thanks to Cristiano Cumer for spotting this. Raise an error if there is extra junk, not part of an option, on the command line. Flag a couple of log messages in cache.c as coming from the DHCP subsystem. Thanks to Olaf Westrik for the patch. Omit timestamps from logs when a) logging to stderr and b) --keep-in-forground is set. The logging facility on the other end of stderr can be assumned to supply them. Thanks to John Hallam for the patch. Don't complain about strings longer than 255 characters in --txt-record, just split the long strings into 255 character chunks instead. Fix crash on double-free. This bug can only happen when dhcp-script is in use and then only in rare circumstances triggered by high DHCP transaction rate and a slow script. Thanks to Ferenc Wagner for finding the problem. Only log that a file has been sent by TFTP after the transfer has completed succesfully. A good suggestion from Ferenc Wagner: extend the --domain option to allow this sort of thing: --domain=thekelleys.org.uk,192.168.0.0/24,local which automatically creates --local=/thekelleys.org.uk/ --local=/0.168.192.in-addr.arpa/ Tighten up syntax checking of hex contants in the config file. Thanks to Fred Damen for spotting this. Add dnsmasq logo/icon, contributed by Justin Swift. Many thanks for that. Never cache DNS replies which have the 'cd' bit set, or which result from queries forwarded with the 'cd' bit set. The 'cd' bit instructs a DNSSEC validating server upstream to ignore signature failures and return replies anyway. Without this change it's possible to pollute the dnsmasq cache with bad data by making a query with the 'cd' bit set and subsequent queries would return this data without its being marked as suspect. Thanks to Anders Kaseorg for pointing out this problem. Add --proxy-dnssec flag, for compliance with RFC 4035. Dnsmasq will now clear the 'ad' bit in answers returned from upstream validating nameservers unless this option is set. Allow a filename of "-" for --conf-file to read stdin. Suggestion from Timothy Redaelli. Rotate the order of SRV records in replies, to provide round-robin load balancing when all the priorities are equal. Thanks to Peter McKinney for the suggestion. Edit contrib/MacOSX-launchd/uk.org.thekelleys.dnsmasq.plist so that it doesn't log all queries to a file by default. Thanks again to Peter McKinney. By default, setting an IPv4 address for a domain but not an IPv6 address causes dnsmasq to return an NODATA reply for IPv6 (or vice-versa). So --address=/google.com/1.2.3.4 stops IPv6 queries for *google.com from being forwarded. Make it possible to override this behaviour by defining the sematics if the same domain appears in both --server and --address. In that case, the --address has priority for the address family in which is appears, but the --server has priority of the address family which doesn't appear in --adddress So: --address=/google.com/1.2.3.4 --server=/google.com/# will return 1.2.3.4 for IPv4 queries for *.google.com but forward IPv6 queries to the normal upstream nameserver. Similarly when setting an IPv6 address only this will allow forwarding of IPv4 queries. Thanks to William for pointing out the need for this. Allow more than one --dhcp-optsfile and --dhcp-hostsfile and make them understand directories as arguments in the same way as --addn-hosts. Suggestion from John Hanks. Ignore rebinding requests for leases we don't know about. Rebind is broadcast, so we might get to overhear a request meant for another DHCP server. NAKing this is wrong. Thanks to Brad D'Hondt for assistance with this. Fix cosmetic bug which produced strange output when dumping cache statistics with some configurations. Thanks to Fedor Kozhevnikov for spotting this. version 2.55 Fix crash when /etc/ethers is in use. Thanks to Gianluigi Tiesi for finding this. Fix crash in netlink_multicast(). Thanks to Arno Wald for finding this one. Allow the empty domain "." in dhcp domain-search (119) options. version 2.54 There is no version 2.54 to avoid confusion with 2.53, which incorrectly identifies itself as 2.54. version 2.53 Fix failure to compile on Debian/kFreeBSD. Thanks to Axel Beckert and Petr Salinger. Fix code to avoid scary strict-aliasing warnings generated by gcc 4.4. Added FAQ entry warning about DHCP failures with Vista when firewalls block 255.255.255.255. Fixed bug which caused bad things to happen if a resolv.conf file which exists is subsequently removed. Thanks to Nikolai Saoukh for the patch. Rationalised the DHCP tag system. Every configuration item which can set a tag does so by adding "set:" and every configuration item which is conditional on a tag is made so by "tag:". The NOT operator changes to '!', which is a bit more intuitive too. Dhcp-host directives can set more than one tag now. The old '#' NOT, "net:" prefix and no-prefixes are still honoured, so no existing config file needs to be changed, but the documentation and new-style config files should be much less confusing. Added --tag-if to allow boolean operations on tags. This allows complicated logic to be clearer and more general. A great suggestion from Richard Voigt. Add broadcast/unicast information to DHCP logging. Allow --dhcp-broadcast to be unconditional. Fixed incorrect behaviour with NOT conditionals in dhcp-options. Thanks to Max Turkewitz for assistance finding this. If we send vendor-class encapsulated options based on the vendor-class supplied by the client, and no explicit vendor-class option is given, echo back the vendor-class from the client. Fix bug which stopped dnsmasq from matching both a circuitid and a remoteid. Thanks to Ignacio Bravo for finding this. Add --dhcp-proxy, which makes it possible to configure dnsmasq to use a DHCP relay agent as a full proxy, with all DHCP messages passing through the proxy. This is useful if the relay adds extra information to the packets it forwards, but cannot be configured with the RFC 5107 server-override option. Added interface: part to dhcp-range. The semantics of this are very odd at first sight, but it allows a single line of the form dhcp-range=interface:virt0,192.168.0.4,192.168.0.200 to be added to dnsmasq configuration which then supplies DHCP and DNS services to that interface, without affecting what services are supplied to other interfaces and irrespective of the existance or lack of interface= lines elsewhere in the dnsmasq configuration. The idea is that such a line can be added automatically by libvirt or equivalent systems, without disturbing any manual configuration. Similarly to the above, allow --enable-tftp= Allow a TFTP root to be set separately for requests via different interfaces, --tftp-root=, Correctly handle and log clashes between CNAMES and DNS names being given to DHCP leases. This fixes a bug which caused nonsense IP addresses to be logged. Thanks to Sergei Zhirikov for finding and analysing the problem. Tweak flush_log so as to avoid leaving the log file in non-blocking mode. O_NONBLOCK is a property of the file, not the process/descriptor. Fix contrib/Solaris10/create_package (/usr/man -> /usr/share/man) Thanks to Vita Batrla. Fix a problem where, if a client got a lease, then went to another subnet and got another lease, then moved back, it couldn't resume the old lease, but would instead get a new address. Thanks to Leonardo Rodrigues for spotting this and testing the fix. Fix weird bug which sometimes omitted certain characters from the start of quoted strings in dhcp-options. Thanks to Dayton Turner for spotting the problem. Add facility to redirect some domains to the standard upstream servers: this allows something like --server=/google.com/1.2.3.4 --server=/www.google.com/# which will send queries for *.google.com to 1.2.3.4, except *www.google.com which will be forwarded as usual. Thanks to AJ Weber for prompting this addition. Improve the hash-algorithm used to generate IP addresses from MAC addresses during initial DHCP address allocation. This improves performance when large numbers of hosts with similar MAC addresses all try and get an IP address at the same time. Thanks to Paul Smith for his work on this. Tweak DHCP code so that --bridge-interface can be used to select which IP alias of an interface should be used for DHCP purposes on Linux. If eth0 has an alias eth0:dhcp then adding --bridge-interface=eth0:dhcp,eth0 will use the address of eth0:dhcp to determine the correct subnet for DHCP address allocation. Thanks to Pawel Golaszewski for prompting this and Eric Cooper for further testing. Add --dhcp-generate-names. Suggestion by Ferenc Wagner. Tweak DNS server selection algorithm when there is more than one server available for a domain, eg. --server=/mydomain/1.1.1.1 --server=/mydomain/2.2.2.2 Thanks to Alberto Cuesta-Canada for spotting a weakness here. Add --max-ttl. Thanks to Fredrik Ringertz for the patch. Allow --log-facility=- to force all logging to stderr. Suggestion from Clemens Fischer. Fix regression which caused configuration like --address=/.domain.com/1.2.3.4 to be rejected. The dot to the left of the domain has been implied and not required for a long time, but it should be accepted for backward compatibility. Thanks to Andrew Burcin for spotting this. Add --rebind-domain-ok and --rebind-localhost-ok. Suggestion from Clemens Fischer. Log replies to queries of type TXT, when --log-queries is set. Fix compiler warnings when compiled with -DNO_DHCP. Thanks to Shantanu Gadgil for the patch. Updated French translation. Thanks to Gildas Le Nadan. Updated Polish translation. Thanks to Jan Psota. Updated German translation. Thanks to Matthias Andree. Added contrib/static-arp, thanks to Darren Hoo. Fix corruption of the domain when a name from /etc/hosts overrides one supplied by a DHCP client. Thanks to Fedor Kozhevnikov for spotting the problem. Updated Spanish translation. Thanks to Chris Chatham. version 2.52 Work around a Linux kernel bug which insists that the length of the option passed to setsockopt must be at least sizeof(int) bytes, even if we're calling SO_BINDTODEVICE and the device name is "lo". Note that this is fixed in kernel 2.6.31, but the workaround is harmless and allows earlier kernels to be used. Also fix dnsmasq bug which reported the wrong address when this failed. Thanks to Fedor for finding this. The API for IPv6 PKTINFO changed around Linux kernel 2.6.14. Workaround the case where dnsmasq is compiled against newer headers, but then run on an old kernel: necessary for some *WRT distros. Re-read the set of network interfaces when re-loading /etc/resolv.conf if --bind-interfaces is not set. This handles the case that loopback interfaces do not exist when dnsmasq is first started. Tweak the PXE code to support port 4011. This should reduce broadcasts and make things more reliable when other servers are around. It also improves inter-operability with certain clients. Make a pxe-service configuration with no filename or boot service type legal: this does a local boot. eg. pxe-service=x86PC, "Local boot" Be more conservative in detecting "A for A" queries. Dnsmasq checks if the name in a type=A query looks like a dotted-quad IP address and answers the query itself if so, rather than forwarding it. Previously dnsmasq relied in the library function inet_addr() to convert addresses, and that will accept some things which are confusing in this context, like 1.2.3 or even just 1234. Now we only do A for A processing for four decimal numbers delimited by dots. A couple of tweaks to fix compilation on Solaris. Thanks to Joel Macklow for help with this. Another Solaris compilation tweak, needed for Solaris 2009.06. Thanks to Lee Essen for that. Added extract packaging stuff from Lee Essen to contrib/Solaris10. Increased the default limit on number of leases to 1000 (from 150). This is mainly a defence against DoS attacks, and for the average "one for two class C networks" installation, IP address exhaustion does that just as well. Making the limit greater than the number of IP addresses available in such an installation removes a surprise which otherwise can catch people out. Removed extraneous trailing space in the value of the DNSMASQ_TIME_REMAINING DNSMASQ_LEASE_LENGTH and DNSMASQ_LEASE_EXPIRES environment variables. Thanks to Gildas Le Nadan for spotting this. Provide the network-id tags for a DHCP transaction to the lease-change script in the environment variable DNSMASQ_TAGS. A good suggestion from Gildas Le Nadan. Add support for RFC3925 "Vendor-Identifying Vendor Options". The syntax looks like this: --dhcp-option=vi-encap:, ......... Add support to --dhcp-match to allow matching against RFC3925 "Vendor-Identifying Vendor Classes". The syntax looks like this: --dhcp-match=tag,vi-encap, Add some application specific code to assist in implementing the Broadband forum TR069 CPE-WAN specification. The details are in contrib/CPE-WAN/README Increase the default DNS packet size limit to 4096, as recommended by RFC5625 section 4.4.3. This can be reconfigured using --edns-packet-max if needed. Thanks to Francis Dupont for pointing this out. Rewrite query-ids even for TSIG signed packets, since this is allowed by RFC5625 section 4.5. Use getopt_long by default on OS X. It has been supported since version 10.3.0. Thanks to Arek Dreyer for spotting this. Added up-to-date startup configuration for MacOSX/launchd in contrib/MacOSX-launchd. Thanks to Arek Dreyer for providing this. Fix link error when including Dbus but excluding DHCP. Thanks to Oschtan for the bug report. Updated French translation. Thanks to Gildas Le Nadan. Updated Polish translation. Thanks to Jan Psota. Updated Spanish translation. Thanks to Chris Chatham. Fixed confusion about domains, when looking up DHCP hosts in /etc/hosts. This could cause spurious "Ignoring domain..." messages. Thanks to Fedor Kozhevnikov for finding and analysing the problem. version 2.51 Add support for internationalised DNS. Non-ASCII characters in domain names found in /etc/hosts, /etc/ethers and /etc/dnsmasq.conf will be correctly handled by translation to punycode, as specified in RFC3490. This function is only available if dnsmasq is compiled with internationalisation support, and adds a dependency on GNU libidn. Without i18n support, dnsmasq continues to be compilable with just standard tools. Thanks to Yves Dorfsman for the suggestion. Add two more environment variables for lease-change scripts: First, DNSMASQ_SUPPLIED_HOSTNAME; this is set to the hostname supplied by a client, even if the actual hostname used is over-ridden by dhcp-host or dhcp-ignore-names directives. Also DNSMASQ_RELAY_ADDRESS which gives the address of a DHCP relay, if used. Suggestions from Michael Rack. Fix regression which broke echo of relay-agent options. Thanks to Michael Rack for spotting this. Don't treat option 67 as being interchangeable with dhcp-boot parameters if it's specified as dhcp-option-force. Make the code to call scripts on lease-change compile-time optional. It can be switched off by editing src/config.h or building with "make COPTS=-DNO_SCRIPT". Make the TFTP server cope with filenames from Windows/DOS which use '\' as pathname separator. Thanks to Ralf for the patch. Updated Polish translation. Thanks to Jan Psota. Warn if an IP address is duplicated in /etc/ethers. Thanks to Felix Schwarz for pointing this out. Teach --conf-dir to take an option list of file suffices which will be ignored when scanning the directory. Useful for backup files etc. Thanks to Helmut Hullen for the suggestion. Add new DHCP option named tftpserver-address, which corresponds to the third argument of dhcp-boot. This allows the complete functionality of dhcp-boot to be replicated with dhcp-option. Useful when using dhcp-optsfile. Test which upstream nameserver to use every 10 seconds or 50 queries and not just when a query times out and is retried. This should improve performance when there is a slow nameserver in the list. Thanks to Joe for the suggestion. Don't do any PXE processing, even for clients with the correct vendorclass, unless at least one pxe-prompt or pxe-service option is given. This stops dnsmasq interfering with proxy PXE subsystems when it is just the DHCP server. Thanks to Spencer Clark for spotting this. Limit the blocksize used for TFTP transfers to a value which avoids packet fragmentation, based on the MTU of the local interface. Many netboot ROMs can't cope with fragmented packets. Honour dhcp-ignore configuration for PXE and proxy-PXE requests. Thanks to Niels Basjes for the bug report. Updated French translation. Thanks to Gildas Le Nadan. version 2.50 Fix security problem which allowed any host permitted to do TFTP to possibly compromise dnsmasq by remote buffer overflow when TFTP enabled. Thanks to Core Security Technologies and Iván Arce, Pablo Hernán Jorge, Alejandro Pablo Rodriguez, Martín Coco, Alberto Soliño Testa and Pablo Annetta. This problem has Bugtraq id: 36121 and CVE: 2009-2957 Fix a problem which allowed a malicious TFTP client to crash dnsmasq. Thanks to Steve Grubb at Red Hat for spotting this. This problem has Bugtraq id: 36120 and CVE: 2009-2958 version 2.49 Fix regression in 2.48 which disables the lease-change script. Thanks to Jose Luis Duran for spotting this. Log TFTP "file not found" errors. These were not logged, since a normal PXELinux boot generates many of them, but the lack of the messages seems to be more confusing than routinely seeing them when there is no real error. Update Spanish translation. Thanks to Chris Chatham. version 2.48 Archived the extensive, backwards, changelog to CHANGELOG.archive. The current changelog now runs from version 2.43 and runs conventionally. Fixed bug which broke binding of servers to physical interfaces when interface names were longer than four characters. Thanks to MURASE Katsunori for the patch. Fixed netlink code to check that messages come from the correct source, and not another userspace process. Thanks to Steve Grubb for the patch. Maintainability drive: removed bug and missing feature workarounds for some old platforms. Solaris 9, OpenBSD older than 4.1, Glibc older than 2.2, Linux 2.2.x and DBus older than 1.1.x are no longer supported. Don't read included configuration files more than once: allows complex configuration structures without problems. Mark log messages from the various subsystems in dnsmasq: messages from the DHCP subsystem now have the ident string "dnsmasq-dhcp" and messages from TFTP have ident "dnsmasq-tftp". Thanks to Olaf Westrik for the patch. Fix possible infinite DHCP protocol loop when an IP address nailed to a hostname (not a MAC address) and a host sometimes provides the name, sometimes not. Allow --addn-hosts to take a directory: all the files in the directory are read. Thanks to Phil Cornelius for the suggestion. Support --bridge-interface on all platforms, not just BSD. Added support for advanced PXE functions. It's now possible to define a prompt and menu options which will be displayed when a client PXE boots. It's also possible to hand-off booting to other boot servers. Proxy-DHCP, where dnsmasq just supplies the PXE information and another DHCP server does address allocation, is also allowed. See the --pxe-prompt and --pxe-service keywords. Thanks to Alkis Georgopoulos for the suggestion and Guilherme Moro and Michael Brown for assistance. Improvements to DHCP logging. Thanks to Tom Metro for useful suggestions. Add ability to build dnsmasq without DHCP support. To do this, edit src/config.h or build with "make COPTS=-DNO_DHCP". Thanks to Mahavir Jain for the patch. Added --test command-line switch - syntax check configuration files only. Updated French translation. Thanks to Gildas Le Nadan. version 2.47 Updated French translation. Thanks to Gildas Le Nadan. Fixed interface enumeration code to work on NetBSD 5.0. Thanks to Roy Marples for the patch. Updated config.h to use the same location for the lease file on NetBSD as the other *BSD variants. Also allow LEASEFILE and CONFFILE symbols to be overriden in CFLAGS. Handle duplicate address detection on IPv6 more intelligently. In IPv6, an interface can have an address which is not usable, because it is still undergoing DAD (such addresses are marked "tentative"). Attempting to bind to an address in this state returns an error, EADDRNOTAVAIL. Previously, on getting such an error, dnsmasq would silently abandon the address, and never listen on it. Now, it retries once per second for 20 seconds before generating a fatal error. 20 seconds should be long enough for any DAD process to complete, but can be adjusted in src/config.h if necessary. Thanks to Martin Krafft for the bug report. Add DBus introspection. Patch from Jeremy Laine. Update Dbus configuration file. Patch from Colin Walters. Fix for this bug: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18961 Support arbitrarily encapsulated DHCP options, suggestion and initial patch from Samium Gromoff. This is useful for (eg) gPXE, which expect all its private options to be encapsulated inside a single option 175. So, eg, dhcp-option = encap:175, 190, "iscsi-client0" dhcp-option = encap:175, 191, "iscsi-client0-secret" will provide iSCSI parameters to gPXE. Enhance --dhcp-match to allow testing of the contents of a client-sent option, as well as its presence. This application in mind for this is RFC 4578 client-architecture specifiers, but it's generally useful. Joey Korkames suggested the enhancement. Move from using the IP_XMIT_IF ioctl to IP_BOUND_IF on OpenSolaris. Thanks to Bastian Machek for the heads-up. No longer complain about blank lines in /etc/ethers. Thanks to Jon Nelson for the patch. Fix binding of servers to physical devices, eg --server=/domain/1.2.3.4@eth0 which was broken from 2.43 onwards unless --query-port=0 set. Thanks to Peter Naulls for the bug report. Reply to DHCPINFORM requests even when the supplied ciaddr doesn't fall in any dhcp-range. In this case it's not possible to supply a complete configuration, but individually-configured options (eg PAC) may be useful. Allow the source address of an alias to be a range: --alias=192.168.0.0,10.0.0.0,255.255.255.0 maps the whole subnet 192.168.0.0->192.168.0.255 to 10.0.0.0->10.0.0.255, as before. --alias=192.168.0.10-192.168.0.40,10.0.0.0,255.255.255.0 maps only the 192.168.0.10->192.168.0.40 region. Thanks to Ib Uhrskov for the suggestion. Don't dynamically allocate DHCP addresses which may break Windows. Addresses which end in .255 or .0 are broken in Windows even when using supernetting. --dhcp-range=192.168.0.1,192.168.1.254,255,255,254.0 means 192.168.0.255 is a valid IP address, but not for Windows. See Microsoft KB281579. We therefore no longer allocate these addresses to avoid hard-to-diagnose problems. Update Polish translation. Thanks to Jan Psota. Delete the PID-file when dnsmasq shuts down. Note that by this time, dnsmasq is normally not running as root, so this will fail if the PID-file is stored in a root-owned directory; such failure is silently ignored. To take advantage of this feature, the PID-file must be stored in a directory owned and write-able by the user running dnsmasq. version 2.46 Allow --bootp-dynamic to take a netid tag, so that it may be selectively enabled. Thanks to Olaf Westrik for the suggestion. Remove ISC-leasefile reading code. This has been deprecated for a long time, and last time I removed it, it ended up going back by request of one user. This time, it's gone for good; otherwise it would need to be re-worked to support multiple domains (see below). Support DHCP clients in multiple DNS domains. This is a long-standing request. Clients are assigned to a domain based in their IP address. Add --dhcp-fqdn flag, which changes behaviour if DNS names assigned to DHCP clients. When this is set, there must be a domain associated with each client, and only fully-qualified domain names are added to the DNS. The advantage is that the only the FQDN needs to be unique, so that two or more DHCP clients can share a hostname, as long as they are in different domains. Set environment variable DNSMASQ_DOMAIN when invoking lease-change script. This may be useful information to have now that it's variable. Tighten up data-checking code for DNS packet handling. Thanks to Steve Dodd who found certain illegal packets which could crash dnsmasq. No memory overwrite was possible, so this is not a security issue beyond the DoS potential. Update example config dhcp option 47, the previous suggestion generated an illegal, zero-length, option. Thanks to Matthias Andree for finding this. Rewrite hosts-file reading code to remove the limit of 1024 characters per line. John C Meuser found this. Create a net-id tag with the name of the interface on which the DHCP request was received. Fixed minor memory leak in DBus code, thanks to Jeremy Laine for the patch. Emit DBus signals as the DHCP lease database changes. Thanks to Jeremy Laine for the patch. Allow for more that one MAC address in a dhcp-host line. This configuration tells dnsmasq that it's OK to abandon a DHCP lease of the fixed address to one MAC address, if another MAC address in the dhcp-host statement asks for an address. This is useful to give a fixed address to a host which has two network interfaces (say, a laptop with wired and wireless interfaces.) It's very important to ensure that only one interface at a time is up, since dnsmasq abandons the first lease and re-uses the address before the leased time has elapsed. John Gray suggested this. Tweak the response to a DHCP request packet with a wrong server-id when --dhcp-authoritative is set; dnsmasq now returns a DHCPNAK, rather than silently ignoring the packet. Thanks to Chris Marget for spotting this improvement. Add --cname option. This provides a limited alias function, usable for DHCP names. Thanks to AJ Weber for suggestions on this. Updated contrib/webmin with latest version from Neil Fisher. Updated Polish translation. Thanks to Jan Psota. Correct the text names for DHCP options 64 and 65 to be "nis+-domain" and "nis+-servers". Updated Spanish translation. Thanks to Chris Chatham. Force re-reading of /etc/resolv.conf when an "interface up" event occurs. version 2.45 Fix total DNS failure in release 2.44 unless --min-port specified. Thanks to Steven Barth and Grant Coady for bugreport. Also reject out-of-range port spec, which could break things too: suggestion from Gilles Espinasse. version 2.44 Fix crash when unknown client attempts to renew a DHCP lease, problem introduced in version 2.43. Thanks to Carlos Carvalho for help chasing this down. Fix potential crash when a host which doesn't have a lease does DHCPINFORM. Again introduced in 2.43. This bug has never been reported in the wild. Fix crash in netlink code introduced in 2.43. Thanks to Jean Wolter for finding this. Change implementation of min_port to work even if min-port is large. Patch to enable compilation of latest Mac OS X. Thanks to David Gilman. Update Spanish translation. Thanks to Christopher Chatham. version 2.43 Updated Polish translation. Thanks to Jan Psota. Flag errors when configuration options are repeated illegally. Further tweaks for GNU/kFreeBSD Add --no-wrap to msgmerge call - provides nicer .po file format. Honour lease-time spec in dhcp-host lines even for BOOTP. The user is assumed to known what they are doing in this case. (Hosts without the time spec still get infinite leases for BOOTP, over-riding the default in the dhcp-range.) Thanks to Peter Katzmann for uncovering this. Fix problem matching relay-agent ids. Thanks to Michael Rack for the bug report. Add --naptr-record option. Suggestion from Johan Bergquist. Implement RFC 5107 server-id-override DHCP relay agent option. Apply patches from Stefan Kruger for compilation on Solaris 10 under Sun studio. Yet more tweaking of Linux capability code, to suppress pointless wingeing from kernel 2.6.25 and above. Improve error checking during startup. Previously, some errors which occurred during startup would be worked around, with dnsmasq still starting up. Some were logged, some silent. Now, they all cause a fatal error and dnsmasq terminates with a non-zero exit code. The errors are those associated with changing uid and gid, setting process capabilities and writing the pidfile. Thanks to Uwe Gansert and the Suse security team for pointing out this improvement, and Bill Reimers for good implementation suggestions. Provide NO_LARGEFILE compile option to switch off largefile support when compiling against versions of uclibc which don't support it. Thanks to Stephane Billiart for the patch. Implement random source ports for interactions with upstream nameservers. New spoofing attacks have been found against nameservers which do not do this, though it is not clear if dnsmasq is vulnerable, since to doesn't implement recursion. By default dnsmasq will now use a different source port (and socket) for each query it sends upstream. This behaviour can suppressed using the --query-port option, and the old default behaviour restored using --query-port=0. Explicit source-port specifications in --server configs are still honoured. Replace the random number generator, for better security. On most BSD systems, dnsmasq uses the arc4random() RNG, which is secure, but on other platforms, it relied on the C-library RNG, which may be guessable and therefore allow spoofing. This release replaces the libc RNG with the SURF RNG, from Daniel J. Berstein's DJBDNS package. Don't attempt to change user or group or set capabilities if dnsmasq is run as a non-root user. Without this, the change from soft to hard errors when these fail causes problems for non-root daemons listening on high ports. Thanks to Patrick McLean for spotting this. Updated French translation. Thanks to Gildas Le Nadan. version 2.42 The changelog for version 2.42 and earlier is available in CHANGELOG.archive.