Internet Software Consortium DHCP Distribution Version 3, Beta 2, Patchlevel 9 October 15, 2000 Release Notes This is a development snapshot of Version 3 of the Internet Software Consortium DHCP Distribution. NEW FEATURES Version 3, Beta 2 of the ISC DHCP Distribution includes the following features that are new since version 2.0: - DHCP Failover Protocol support - OMAPI, an API for accessing and modifying the DHCP server and client state. - Conditional behaviour - Storing arbitrary information on leases - Address pools with access control - Client classing - Address allocation restriction by class - Relay agent information option support - Dynamic DNS updates - Many bug fixes, performance enhancements, and minor new DHCP protocol features. This beta release is quite new, and is running in production at only a few sites. We strongly recommend that you exercise caution in installing it. The 3.0 Beta 2 lease file is not backwards compatible with the 3.0 Beta 1 lease file, so if you have to go back, you will have to convert your lease files back to the 3.0 Beta 1 format - if you try to run a 3.0 Beta 1 server on a 3.0 Beta 2 lease file, it will cheerfully delete all your leases. Having said that, of course the way that new releases of open source software become stable is by people using them, finding the bugs, and reporting the bugs. So while we urge you to exercise caution, we would also appreciate any testing or production use you can safely do. For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the README file. The Dynamic DNS Update support is a descendent of an implementation done by Lans Carstensen and Brian Dols at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Jim Watt at Perkin-Elmer, Irina Goble at Integrated Measurement Systems, and Brian Murrell at BC Tel Advanced Communications. I'd like to express my thanks to all of these good people here, both for working on the code and for prodding me into improving it. Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8 - Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length bounds-checking. Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7 - Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it. Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 6 - Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be possible to exploit it any further than that. - Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN option. - Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the client, request options in that space from the server (which must define the same option space), and then use those options in the client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used meaningfully. - Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust. - Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking this one down! - Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking down and fixing this problem. Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5 - Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code to support arbitrary-length interface lists. - Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script environment. - Fix suffix operator. - Fix NetWare/IP option parsing. - Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi connection code. - Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code. - Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds. - Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere). - Add some more safety checks in error logging code. - Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code. - Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command line, the relay agent does not dump core. - Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or spawn with. - Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database. - Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code for OMAPI. - Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI can install in host declarations. Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4 - Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the comments)! - Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :') - Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my request for help on this with patches! - Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is lost, they never reconnect. - Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page. - Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core dump. - Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for catching this one. Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3 - In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values of options, so that the client configuration can overried, e.g., the lease renewal time. - Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was declared without a key. - Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems. - Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that caused values not to be recorded on leases. - If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to determine the maximum size of the response. Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2 - Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated incorrectly, resulting in a core dump. - Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a RENEWING client. - Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak. - Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about using memcmp(). Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1 - Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer - allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for pointing this out. - In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and exit. - Don't ever record a state of 'startup'. - Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.