Dnsmasq version 2.53 is now available from http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/dnsmasq-2.53.tar.gz
or http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/dnsmasq-2.53.tar.lzma Thanks to all who contributed to this release: they are mentioned in the CHANGELOG, reproduced below. Cheers, Simon. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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:<tag>" and every configuration item which is conditional on a tag is made so by "tag:<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 <tag> 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:<iface name> 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=<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=<interface> Allow a TFTP root to be set separately for requests via different interfaces, --tftp-root=<path>,<interface> 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.