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.