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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
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2 Version 4.2.0
3 21 December 2012
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0171be2d 5 Release Notes
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0171be2d 7 NEW FEATURES
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9ISC DHCP 4.2.x includes features that were not included in DHCP 4.1.x.
10These include:
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12Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
13The DHCP server or client can now continue with it's processing while
14awaiting replies from the DNS server.
15
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16There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
17release, which will be addressed in the future:
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01a54c17 19- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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21- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages, in
22 English. A method to reconfigure or support other languages would
23 be preferrable.
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24
25- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
26
98bd7ca0 27- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 28 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 29 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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31For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as
32well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the
33README file.
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35ISC DHCP uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please review the
36output of "./configure --help" to see what options are available.
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38The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and may not
39work on other platforms. Please report any problems and suggested fixes to
40<dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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42 Changes since 4.2.1
43
44! In dhclient check the data for some string options for
45 reasonableness before passing it along to the script that
46 interfaces with the OS.
47 [ISC-Bugs #23722]
48 CVE: CVE-2011-0997
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49
50- DHCPv6 server now responds properly if client asks for a prefix that
51 is already assigned to a different client. [ISC-Bugs #23948]
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52
53- Add the option "--no-pid" to the client, relay and server code,
54 to disable writing a pid file. Add the option "-pf pidfile"
55 to the relay to allow the user to supply the pidfile name at
56 runtime. Add the "with-relay6-pid-file" option to configure
57 to allow the user to supply the pidfile name for the relay
58 in v6 mode at configure time.
59 [ISC-Bugs #23351] [ISC-Bugs #17541]
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61- 'dhclient' no longer waits a random interval after first starting up to
62 begin in the INIT state. This conforms to RFC 2131, but elects not to
63 implement a 'SHOULD' direction in section 4.1. The goal of this change
73c83820 64 is to start up faster. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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66- Added 'initial-delay' parameter that specifies maximum amount of time
67 before client goes to the INIT state. The default value is 0. In previous
68 versions of the code client could wait up to 5 seconds. The old behavior
69 may be restored by using 'initial-delay 5;' in the client config file.
73c83820 70 [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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72- ICMP ping-check should now sit closer to precisely the number of seconds
73 configured (or default 1), due to making use of the new microsecond
74 scale timer internally to dhcpd. This corrects a bug where the server
75 may immediately timeout an ICMP ping-check if it was made late in the
73c83820 76 current second. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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78- The DHCP client will schedule renewal and rebinding events in
79 microseconds if the DHCP server provided a lease-time that would result
80 in sub-1-second timers. This corrects a bug where a 2-second or lower
81 lease-time would cause the DHCP client to enter an infinite loop by
73c83820 82 scheduling renewal at zero seconds. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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84- Client lease records are recorded at most once every 15 seconds. This
85 keeps the client from filling the lease database disk quickly on very small
73c83820 86 lease times. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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88- To defend against RFC 2131 non-compliant DHCP servers which fail to
89 advertise a lease-time (either mangled, or zero in value) the DHCP
90 client now adds the server to the reject list ACL and returns to INIT
91 state to hopefully find an RFC 2131 compliant server (or retry in INIT
73c83820 92 forever). [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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94- Parameters configured to evaluate from user defined function calls can
95 now be correctly written to dhcpd.leases (as on 'on events' or dynamic
96 host records inserted via OMAPI). [ISC-Bugs #22266]
97
98- If a 'next-server' parameter is configured in a dynamic host record via
99 OMAPI as a domain name, the syntax written to disk is now correctly parsed
100 upon restart. [ISC-Bugs #22266]
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102- The DHCP server now responds to DHCPLEASEQUERY messages from agents using
103 IP addresses not covered by a subnet in configuration. Whether or not to
104 respond to such an agent is still governed by the 'allow leasequery;'
105 configuration parameter, in the case of an agent not covered by a configured
106 subnet the root configuration area is examined. Server now also returns
107 vendor-class-id option, if client sent it. [ISC-Bugs #21094]
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109- Documentation fixes
110 [ISC-Bugs #17959] add text to AIX section describing how to have it send
111 responses to the all-ones address.
112 [ISC-Bugs #19615] update the includes in dhcpctl/dhcpctl.3 to be more correct
113 [ISC-Bugs #20676] update dhcpd.conf.5 to include the RFC numbers for DDNS
114
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115- Relay no longer crashes, when DHCP packet is received over interface without
116 any IPv4 address assigned. Also extended logging message about discarding
117 packets with invalid hlen with information about relevant interface name.
118 [ISC-Bugs #22409]
119
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120- Relay now properly logs that packet was received over interface without
121 global IPv6 address [ISC-Bugs #24070]
122
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123- Linux Packet Filter interface improvement. sockaddr_pkt structure is used,
124 rather than sockaddr. Packet ethertype is now forced to ETH_P_IP.
125 [ISC-Bugs #18975]
126
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127- Minor code cleanups - but note port change for #23196
128 [ISC-Bugs #23470] - Modify when an ignore return macro is defined to
129 handle unsed error return warnings for more versions of gcc.
130 [ISC-Bugs #23196] - Modify the reply handling in the server code to
131 send to a specified port rather than to the source port for the incoming
132 message. Sending to the source port was test code that should have
133 been removed. The previous functionality may be restored by defining
134 REPLY_TO_SOURCE_PORT in the includes/site.h file. We suggest you don't
135 enable this except for testing purposes.
136 [ISC-Bugs #22695] - Close a file descriptor in an error path.
137 [ISC-Bugs #19368] - Tidy up variable types in validate_port.
138
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139- Code cleanup: remove obsolete PROTO, KandR, INLINE and ANSI_DECL macros
140 [ISC-Bugs #13151]
141
142- Compilation problem with gcc4.5 and omshell.c resolved. [ISC-Bugs #23831]
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144- If a client renews before 'dhcp-cache-threshold' percent of its lease
145 has elapsed (default 25%), the server will reuse the allocated lease
146 (provide a lease within the currently allocated lease-time) rather
147 than extend or renew the lease. This absolves the server of needing
148 to perform an fsync() operation on the lease database before reply,
149 which improves performance. [ISC-Bugs #22228]
150
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151- Client Script fixes
152 [ISC-Bugs #23045] Typos in client/scripts/openbsd
153 [ISC-Bugs #23565] In the client scripts add a zone id (interface id) if
154 the domain search address is link local.
155 [ISC-Bugs #1277] In some of the client scripts add code to handle the
156 case of the default router information being changed without the address
157 being changed.
158
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159- Documentation cleanup
160 [ISC-Bugs #23326] Updated References document, several man page updates
161
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162- Server no longer complains about NULL pointer when configured
163 server-identifier expression fails to evaluate. [ISC-Bugs #24547]
164
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165- Convert ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to ISC_R_SUCCESS when called from other
166 than the dispatch handler. This fixes an issue where omshell, when
167 run from the same platform as the server, would appear to fail to
168 connect. This is a companion to #21839. [ISC-Bugs #23592]
169
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170 Changes since 4.2.0
171
172- Documentation cleanup covering multiple tickets
173 [ISC-Bugs #20265] [ISC-Bugs #20259] minor cleanup
174 [ISC-Bugs #20263] add text describing some default values
175 [ISC-Bugs #20193] single quotes at the start of a line indicate a control
176 line to nroff, escape them if we actually want a quote.
177 [ISC-Bugs #18916] sync the pointer to web pages amongst the different docs
178
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179- 'get-host-names true;' now also works even if 'use-host-decl-names true;'
180 was also configured. The nature of this repair also fixes another
181 error; the host-name supplied by a client is no longer overridden by a
182 reverse lookup of the lease address. Thanks to a patch from Wilco Baan
183 Hofman supplied to us by the Debian package maintenance team.
184 [ISC-Bugs #21691] {Debian Bug#509445}
185
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186- The .TH tag for the dhcp-options manpage was typo repaired
187 thanks to a report from jidanni and the Debian package maintenance
188 team. [ISC-Bugs #21676] {Debian Bug#563613}
189
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190- More documentation changes - primarily to put the options in the dhclient
191 and dhcpd man pages into the standard form. Thanks in part to a patch
192 from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
193 [ISC-Bugs #20264] and parts of [ISC-Bugs #17744] dhclient.8 changes
194
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195- Add code to clear the pointer to an object in an OMAPI handle when the
196 object is freed due to a dereference. [ISC-Bugs #21306]
197
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198- Fixed a bug that leaks host record references onto lease structures,
199 causing the server to apply configuration intended for one host to any
200 other innocent clients that come along later. [ISC-Bugs #22018]
201
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202- Minor code fixes
203 [ISC-Bugs #19566] When trying to find the zone for a name for ddns allow
204 the name to be at the apex of the zone.
205 [ISC-Bugs #19617] Restrict length of interface name read from command line
206 in dhcpd - based on a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
207 [ISC-Bugs #20039] Correct some error messages in dhcpd.c
208 [ISC-Bugs #20070] Better range check on values when creating a DHCID.
209 [ISC-Bugs #20198] Avoid writing past the end of the field when adding
210 overly long file or server names to a packet and add a log message
211 if the configuration supplied overly long names for these fields.
212 Thanks to Martin Pala.
213 [ISC-Bugs #21497] Add a little more randomness to rng seed in client
214 thanks to a patch from Jeremiah Jinno.
215
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216- Correct error handling in DLPI [ISC-Bugs #20378]
217
218- Remove __sun__ and __hpux__ typedefs in osdep.h as they are now being
219 checked in configure. [ISC-Bugs #20443]
220
221- Modify how the cmsg header is allocated the v6 send and received routines
222 to compile on more compilers. [ISC-Bugs #20524]
223
224- When parsing a domain name free the memory for the name after we are
225 done with it. [ISC-Bugs #20824]
226
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227- Add an elapsed time option to the release message and refactor the
228 code to move most of the common code to a single routine.
229 [ISC-Bugs #21171].
230
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231- Two identical log messages for commit_leases() have been disambiguated.
232 [ISC-Bugs #18915]
233
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234- Parse date strings more properly - the code now handles semi-colons in
235 date strings correctly. Thanks to a patch from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
236 [ISC-Bugs #21501, #20598]
237
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238- Fixes to lease input and output.
239 [ISC-Bugs #20418] - Some systems don't support the "%s" argument to
240 strftime, paste together the same string using mktime instead.
241 [ISC-Bugs #19596] - When parsing iaid values accept printable
242 characters.
243 [ISC-Bugs #21585] - Always print time values in omshell as hex
244 instead of ascii if the values happen to be printable characters.
245
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246- Minor changes for scripts, configure.ac and Makefiles
247 [ISC-Bugs #19147] Use domain-search instead of domain-name in manual and
248 example conf file. Thanks to a patch from David Cantrell
249 at Red Hat.
250 [ISC-Bugs #19761] Restore address when doing a rebind in DHCPv6
251 [ISC-Bugs #19945] Properly close the quote on some arguments.
252 [ISC-Bugs #20952] Add 64 bit types to configure.ac
253 [ISC-Bugs #21308] Add "PATH=" to CLIENT_PATH envrionment variable
254
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255- Update the code to parse dhcpv6 lease files to accept a semi-colon at
256 the end of the max-life and preferred-life clauses. In order to be
257 backwards compatible with older lease files not finding a semi-colon
258 is also accepted. [ISC-Bugs #22303].
259
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260! Handle a relay forward message with an unspecified address in the
261 link address field. Previously such a message would cause the
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262 server to crash. Thanks to a report from John Gibbons. [ISC-Bugs #21992]
263 CERT: VU#102047 CVE: CVE-2010-3611
264
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265- ./configure on longer searches for -lcrypto to explicitly link against.
266 This fixes a bug where 'dhclient' would have shared library dependencies
267 on '/usr/lib'. [ISC-Bugs #21967]
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269- Handle pipe failures more gracefully. Some OSes pass a SIGPIPE
270 signal to a process and will kill the process if the signal isn't
271 caught. This patch adds code to turn off the SIGPIPE signal via
272 a setsockopt() call. The signal is already being ignored as part
273 of the ISC library. [ISC-Bugs #22269]
274
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275- Restore printing of values in omshell to the style pre 21585. For
276 21585 we changed the print routines to always display time values
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277 as a hex list. This had a side effect of printing all data strings
278 as a hex list. We shall investigate other ways of displaying time
279 values more usefully. [ISC-Bugs #22626]
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281! Fix the handling of connection requests on the failover port.
282 Previously a connection request from a source that wasn't
283 listed as a failover peer would cause the server to become
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284 non-responsive. Thanks to a report from Brad Bendily, brad@bendily.com.
285 [ISC-Bugs #22679]
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286 CERT: VU#159528 CVE: CVE-2010-3616
287
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288- Don't pass the ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to the omapi signal handlers.
289 Passing it through to the handlers caused the omshell program to fail
290 to connect to the server. [ISC-Bugs #21839]
291
292- Fix the paranthesis in the code to process configuration statements
293 beginning with "auth". The previous arrangement caused
294 "auto-partner-down" to be processed incorrectly. [ISC-Bugs #21854]
295
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296- Limit the timeout period allowed in the dispatch code to 2^^32-1 seconds.
297 Thanks to a report from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
298 [ISC-Bugs #22033], [Red Hat Bug #628258]
299
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300- When processing the format flags for a given option consume the
301 flag indicating an optional value correctly. A symptom of this
302 bug was an infinite loop when trying to parse the slp-service-scope
303 option. Thanks to a patch from Marius Tomaschewski.
304 [ISC-Bugs #22055]
305
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306- Disable the use of kqueue in the ISC library. This avoids a problem
307 between the fork and socket code that caused the dhcpd process to
308 use all available cpu if the program daemonized itself.
309 [ISC-Bugs #21911]
310
c8b189f1 311! When processing a request in the DHCPv6 server code that specifies
45918d36 312 an address that is tagged as abandoned (meaning we received a
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313 decline request for it previously) don't attempt to move it from
314 the inactive to active pool as doing so can result in the server
e8f330a1 315 crashing on an assert failure. Also retag the lease as active
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316 and reset it's timeout value.
317 [ISC-Bugs #21921]
318
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319- Removed the restriction on using IPv6 addresses in IPv4 mode. This
320 allows IPv4 options which contain IPv6 addresses to be specified. For
321 example the 6rd option can be specified and used like this:
322 [ISC-Bugs #23039]
323
324 option 6rd code 212 = { integer 8, integer 8,
325 ip6-address, array of ip-address };
326 option 6rd 16 10 2001:: 1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8;
327
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328- Handle some DDNS corner cases better. Maintain the DDNS transaction
329 information when updating a lease and cancel any existing transactions
330 when removing the ddns information.
331 [ISC-Bugs #23103]
332
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333- Some fixes for LDAP
334 [ISC-Bugs #21783] - Include lber library when building ldap
335 [ISC-Bugs #22888] - Enable the ldap code when buidling common
336 The above fixes are from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
337
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338- Modify the dlpi code to accept getmsg() returning a positive value.
339 [ISC-Bugs #22824]
340
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341 Changes since 4.2.0b2
342
343- Add declaration for variable in debug code in alloc.c. [ISC-Bugs #21472]
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345 Changes since 4.2.0b1
346
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347- Prohibit including lease time information in a response to a DHCP INFORM.
348 [ISC-Bugs #21092]
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350! Accept a client id of length 0 while hashing. Previously the server would
351 exit if it attempted to hash a zero length client id, providing attackers
d122accf 352 with a simple denial of service attack. [ISC-Bugs #21253]
63ff896a 353 CERT: VU#541921 - CVE: CVE-2010-2156
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355- A memory leak in ddns processing was closed. [ISC-Bugs #21377]
356
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357- Modify the exception handling for initial context creation. Previously
358 we would try and clean up before exiting. This could present problems
359 when the cleanup required part of the context that wasn't available. It
360 also didn't do much as we exited afterwards anyway. Now we simply log
361 the error and exit. [ISC-Bugs #21093]
362
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363- A bug was fixed that could cause the DHCPv6 server to advertise/assign a
364 previously allocated (active) lease to a client that has changed subnets,
365 despite being on different shared networks. Dynamic prefixes specifically
366 allocated in shared networks also now are not offered if the client has
367 moved. [ISC-Bugs #21152]
368
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369- Add some debugging output for use with the DDNS code. [ISC-Bugs #20916]
370
600ee619 371- Fix the trace code to handle timing events better and to truncate a file
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372 before using instead of overwriting it. [ISC-Bugs #20969]
373
374- Modify the determination of the default TTL to use for DDNS updates.
375 The user may still configure the ttl via ddns-ttl. The default for
376 both v4 and v6 is now 1/2 the (preferred) lease time with a limit. The
377 previous defaults (1/2 lease time without a limit for v4 and a default
378 value for v6) may be used by defining USE_OLD_DDNS_TTL in site.h
379 [ISC-Bugs #21126]
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381- libisc/libdns is now brought up to version 9.7.1rc1. This corrects
382 three reported flaws in ISC DHCP;
383
384 o DHCP processes (dhcpd, dhclient) fail to start if one of either the
385 IPv4 or IPv6 address families is not present. [ISC-Bugs #21122]
386
387 o Assertion failure when attempting to cancel a previously running DDNS
388 update. [ISC-Bugs #21133]
389
390 o Compilation failure of libisc/libdns due to the use of a flexible
391 array member. [ISC-Bugs #21316]
392
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393 Changes since 4.2.0a2
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395- Update the fsync code to work with the changes to the DDNS code. It now
396 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
397
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398- When constructing the DNS name structure from a text string append
399 the root to relative names. This satisfies a requirement in the DNS
400 library that names be absolute instead of relative and prevents DHCP
d122accf 401 from crashing. [ISC-Bugs #21054]
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403- "The LDAP Patch" that has been circulating for some time, written by
404 Brian Masney and S.Kalyanasundraram and maintained for application to
405 the DHCP-4 sources by David Cantrell has been included. Please be
406 advised that these sources were contributed, and do not yet meet the
407 high standards we place on production sources we include by default.
408 As a result, the LDAP features are only included by using a compile-time
409 option which defaults off, and if you enable it you do so under your
410 own recognizance. We will be improving this software over time.
411 [ISC-Bugs #17741]
412
3c941d42 413 Changes since 4.2.0a1
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415- When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
416 is no longer truncated to one octet.
417
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418- Cleaned up an unused hardware address variable in nak_lease().
419
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420- Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
421 reflect support for prefix delegation.
422
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423- Cleaned up some compiler warnings
424
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425- An optimization described in the failover protocol draft is now included,
426 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
427 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
428 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
429 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
430 entry for each lease.
431
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432- Fix the trace code which was broken by the changes to the DDNS code.
433
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434 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
435
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436- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
437 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 438 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
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440- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
441 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
442 Cantrell at Red Hat.
443
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444- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
445 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
446
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447- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
448
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449- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
450 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
451 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
452 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
453 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
454 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
455
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456- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
457 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
458 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
459 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
460 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
461 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
462 FQDN options by default).
463
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464- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
465 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
466 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
467 determined lease time) are omitted.
468
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469- Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
470 The DHCP server or client can now continue with it's processing while
471 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
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473- The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
474 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
475 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
476
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477 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
478
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479- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
480
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481- Validate the argument to the -p option.
482
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483- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
484 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
485 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
486 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
487 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
488
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489- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
490
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491- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
492 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
493 had been deleted from configuration.
494
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495- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
496 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
571c38b0 497 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
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498 were being ignored.
499
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500- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
501
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502- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
503 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
504 Nordahl.
505
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506- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
507 dhcpv6 disabled.
508
8d7dca58 509- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 510 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
819186b7 511
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512- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
513 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
514
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515- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
516 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
517 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
518
519- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
520 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
521 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
522 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
523 fewer system calls.
524
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525- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
526 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
527 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
528 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
529 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
530 Christof Chen.
531
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532- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
533 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
534 and in normal state.
535
536- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
537 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
538
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539- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
540
541- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
542 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
543 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
544
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545- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
546 rather than restarting the listener.
547
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548- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
549 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
550
551- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
552 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
553 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
554
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555- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
556 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
557 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
558 timeouts).
559
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560- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
561 in failover state records.
562
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563! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
564 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
565 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 566 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
8a4e543b 567
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568- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
569 processing a DHCPINFORM.
570
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571- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
572 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
573 last option definition is used.
574
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575- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
576 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
577 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
578
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579- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
580 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
581
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582- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
583 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
584 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
585 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
586 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
587 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
588
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589- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
590 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
591 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
592 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
593
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594! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
595 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
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597- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
598 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
599
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600- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
601 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
602 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
603 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
604 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
571c38b0 605 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
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606 configuration.
607
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608- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
609 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
610
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611- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
612 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
613 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
614 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
615
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616- Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
617 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
618 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
619 was always properly set.
620
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622
623- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
624 be recognized.
61d75ea2 625
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626 Changes since 4.1.0a2
627
628- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
629 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
630 "abandoned".
631
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632- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
633
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634- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
635 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
636
637- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
638 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
639
640- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 641 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
1387545f 642
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643- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
644
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645- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
646 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
647 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
648 in future releases.
649
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650- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
651 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
652
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653- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
654 'dhclient -6' support.
655
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656- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
657 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
658 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
659 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
660
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662
663- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
664
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665- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
666
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667- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
668 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
669 only the latter. Fixed.
670
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671- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
672
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673- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
674 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
675
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676- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
677
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678- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
679
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680- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
681 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
682 --enable-early-chroot.
683
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684- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
685 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
686
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687- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
688 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
689 parameter.
690
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691- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
692 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
693
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694- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
695 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
696
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697- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
698
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699- Merged IA_XX related structures.
700
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701- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
702
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703- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
704
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705- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
706 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
707 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
708
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709- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
710 support.
711
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712- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
713 repaired.
714
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715- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
716
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717- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
718
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719- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
720 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
721
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722- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
723 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
724
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725- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
726 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
727
728- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
729 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
730 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
731 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
732 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
733 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
734 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
735 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
736 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
737 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
738 shared-network.
739
740- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
741 configured option values.
742
743- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
744 support class statements.
745
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746- Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
747 selection were repaired.
748
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749- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
750 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
751 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
752 by the OS.
753
754- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
755 address.
756
757- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
758 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
759
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760- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
761
762- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
763
764- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
765 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
766
01a54c17 767 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
3c12f746 768
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769- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
770
4cafb815 771- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 772 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
4cafb815 773
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774- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
775 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
776 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
777
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778- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
779 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
780
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781- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
782
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783- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
784 reserved IDs avoided).
785
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786- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
787
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788- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
789 carries a rapid-commit option.
790
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791- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
792 an empty active lease.
793
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794- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
795
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796- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
797 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
798 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
799 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
800
801- MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
802
803- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
804 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
805 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
806 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
807 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
808 Christof Chen.
809
810 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
811
812- DHCP now builds on AIX.
813
814- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
815 config file but -6 is not specified.
816
817- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
818
819- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
820 be more helpful.
821
822- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
823 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
824 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
825
826- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
827 was repaired.
828
829- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
830 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
831 been repaired.
832
833- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
834 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
835 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
836
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837- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
838 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
839
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840- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
841 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
842 IPv4 address.
843
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844- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
845 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
846 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
847 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
848 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
849
850- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
851 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
852 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
853
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854- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
855
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856- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
857
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858- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
859 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
860 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
861 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
862 unnecessary logging.
863
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864- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
865 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
866
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867- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
868 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
869 is incompatible is printed.
870
871- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
872 a previously undefined option code.
873
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874- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
875 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
876
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877- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
878 than the year 2000.
879
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880- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
881
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882- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
883
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884- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
885
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886 Changes since 4.0.0b3
887
888- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
889 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
890 configuration.
76db44f9 891
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892- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
893 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
894
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895- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
896 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
897 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
e4a6be15 898
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899- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
900 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
901 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
902 a requested address.
903
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904- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
905 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
906 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
907 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
908
909- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
910 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
911 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
912 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
913
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914- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
915 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
916 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
917
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918- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
919 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
920
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921- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
922
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923- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
924 codes through some conditions.
925
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926- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
927 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
928
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929- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
930 seemingly random values.
931
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932- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
933
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934- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
935 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
936 one ever has.
937
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938- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
939 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
940 to a REQUEST.
941
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942- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
943 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
944 level.
945
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946 Changes since 4.0.0b2
947
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948- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
949
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950- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
951 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
952 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
953 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
954 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
955
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956- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
957 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
958 new address.
959
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960 Changes since 4.0.0b1
961
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962- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
963 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
964 simultaneously on a single interface.
965
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966- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
967 of service under unusual server configurations
968
969- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
970
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971- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
972 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
fa9b593d 973
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974- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
975 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
976 on every pool rebalance run.
977
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978- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
979 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
980
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981- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
982 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
983
ab3a540f 984 Changes since 4.0.0a3
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986- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
987 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
988
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989- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
990 point out the problem.
991
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992- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
993 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
994 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
995
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996- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
997 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
998
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999- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
1000 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
1001 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
1002
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1003- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
1004
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1005- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
1006 fixed by Marcus Goller.
1007
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1008- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
1009 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
1010 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
1011 regardless of the existence of bindings.
1012
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1013- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
1014
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1015- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
1016 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
1017 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
1018 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
1019 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
1020
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1021- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
1022
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1023 Changes since 4.0.0a2
1024
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1025- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
1026 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
1027
763cba6b 1028- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
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1030- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
1031 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
1032 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
1033
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1034- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
1035
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1036- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
1037 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
1038
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1039- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
1040 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
1041 loaded from persistent storage.
1042
45d545f0 1043- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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1044 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
1045 necessary.
1046
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1047- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
1048 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
1049 rapid-commit option.
1050
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1051- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
1052 non-128-bits in length were removed.
1053
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1054 Changes since 4.0.0a1
1055
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1056- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
1057 and fix.
1058
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1059- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
1060
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1061- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
1062
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1063- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
1064 for when loading configuration.
1065
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1066- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
1067 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
1068 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
1069
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1070- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
1071 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
1072 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
1073 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
1074
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1075- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
1076
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1077- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
1078 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 1079
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1080- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
1081
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1082- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
1083
1084- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
1085 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
1086
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1087- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
1088 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
1089
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1090- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
1091
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1092- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
1093 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
1094
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1095 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
1096
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1097- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
1098
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1099- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
1100 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
1101
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1102- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
1103
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1104- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
1105 initialized.
1106
1107- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
1108
1109- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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1110 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
1111
1112- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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1114- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
1115
1116- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
1117 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
1118
1119- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
1120
8ea19a71 1121- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 1122 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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1123
1124- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
1125 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
1126
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1127- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
1128
1129- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
1130
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1131- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
1132
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1133 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
1134
1135- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
1136 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
1137 no support currently for both.
1138
1139- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
1140 IAADDR option.
1141
1142- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
1143 options.
1144
1145- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
1146
1147- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
1148 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
1149
1150- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
1151 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
1152 specifying type 1 or type 2).
1153
1154- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
1155 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
1156
1157- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
1158 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
1159 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
1160 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
1161 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
1162 differently, they both use the same code here).
1163
1164- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
1165 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
1166 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
1167
1168- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
1169
1170- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
1171 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
1172 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
1173 it should not intercept.
1174
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1175 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
1176
1177- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
1178 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
1179 between primary and secondary.
1180
1181- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
1182 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
1183 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
1184
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1185- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
1186
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1187- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
1188 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
1189 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
1190 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
1191 or REQUEST messages.
1192
1193- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
1194 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
1195
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1196- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
1197
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1198 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
1199
1200- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
1201 failover protected subnets was removed.
1202
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1203 Changes since 3.1.0b2
1204
1205- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
1206 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
1207 odd number of leases).
1208
1209- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
1210 rebalance run, and one after.
1211
1212- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
1213 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
1214 processing these messages.
1215
fe5b0fdd 1216 Changes since 3.1.0b1
27837f95 1217
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1218- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
1219 objects.
1220
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1221- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
1222 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
1223 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
1224 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
1225 at Allianz.
1226
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1227- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
1228 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
1229
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1230- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
1231 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
1232
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1233- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
1234 caused the server to abort.
1235
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1236- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
1237 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
1238 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
1239
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1240- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
1241 by empty spaces would not get included.
1242
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1243- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
1244 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
1245
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1246- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
1247 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
1248
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1249- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
1250 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
1251
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1252- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
1253 on the parameter request list.
1254
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1255 Changes since 3.1.0a3
1256
1257- Some spelling fixes.
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1259 Changes since 3.1.0a2
1260
1261- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
1262 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
1263
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1264- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
1265 domain-search option syntax.
1266
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1267 Changes since 3.1.0a1
1268
1269- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
1270 hash table was repaired.
1271
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1272- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
1273 entering normal state.
1274
1275- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
1276 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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1277 'xid mismatch' log messages.
1278
1279- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
1280 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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1282- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
1283 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
1284 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
1285 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
1286
45d545f0 1287- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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1288 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
1289 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
1290 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
1291 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
1292 to their needs.
1293
1294- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
1295 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
1296 run will attempt balance.
1297
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1298- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
1299
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1300 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
1301
1302- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
1303 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
1304 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
1305 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
1306
98bd7ca0 1307- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 1308 was introduced.
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1309
1310- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
1311 via OMAPI.
1312
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1313- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
1314 the protocol draft.
1315
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1316- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
1317 one does not already exist on the system.
1318
b43c87ad 1319- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 1320
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1321- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
1322 matches RFC 3074.
1323
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1324- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
1325 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 1326 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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1328- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
1329 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 1330 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 1331
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1332- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
1333 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
1334 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
1335 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
1336
1337- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
1338 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
1339 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
1340 priority over the client's parameter request list.
1341
f7fdb216 1342- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 1343 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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1344 DHCPv6 support.
1345
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1346- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
1347 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
1348 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
1349
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1350- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
1351 have been incorporated.
1352
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1353- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
1354 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
1355 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
1356 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
1357 that belong to the peer in need.
1358
1359- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
1360 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
1361
1362- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
1363 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
1364 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
1365
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1366- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
1367 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
1368
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1369- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
1370 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
1371 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
1372 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
1373 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
1374
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1375- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
1376 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
1377 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
1378 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
1379
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1380- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
1381 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
1382 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
1383 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
1384 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
1385 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
1386 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
1387 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
1388 ignoring this aspect of their request.
1389
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1390- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
1391 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
1392
41e45067 1393- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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1394 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
1395 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
1396 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
1397
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1398- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
1399 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
1400 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
1401 hardware and funding the development.
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1403- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
1404 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
1405 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
1406 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
1407 via Robin Breathe.
1408
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1409- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
1410 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
1411 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
1412 from Christof Chen.
1413
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1414- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
1415 formally supported.
1416
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1417 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
1418
1419- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
1420 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
1421
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1422 Changes since 3.0.5
1423
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1424- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
1425 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
1426 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 1427 they actually received.
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1428
1429- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
1430
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1431- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
1432 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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1433 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
1434 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
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1436- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
1437
d69fb6a8 1438- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 1439 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
d69fb6a8 1440
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1441- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
1442 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
1443 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
1444 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
1445 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
1446 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
1447 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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1448 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
1449
1450- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
1451 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
1452 'file' field.
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1454- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
1455 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
1456
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1457- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
1458 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
1459 a patch from Kevin Steves.
1460
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1461- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
1462 from Chris Wagner.
1463
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1464- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
1465 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
1466 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
1467
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1468- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
1469 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
1470 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
1471 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
1472 was set.
1473
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1474- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
1475 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
1476
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1477- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
1478 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
1479 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
1480 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
1481 active ones.
1482
02428754 1483 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
0a73b7b6 1484
901306d5 1485- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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1486 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
1487 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
1488 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
1489 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
1490
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1491- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
1492 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
1493
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1494 Changes since 3.0.4
1495
1496- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
1497 scopes are actually global has been added.
1498
1499- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
1500 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
1501 known to be damaging.
1502
1503- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
1504 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
1505 balancing).
1506
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1507- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
1508 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
1509 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
1510
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1511- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
1512 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
1513 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
1514
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1515- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
1516 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
1517 more clear now.
1518
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1519- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
1520 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
1521 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
1522 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
1523 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 1524 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
6cbc6629 1525
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1526- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
1527 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
1528
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1529- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
1530 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
1531 made possible.
1532
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1533- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
1534 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
1535 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
1536
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1537- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
1538 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
1539
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1540- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
1541 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
1542 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
1543
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1544- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
1545 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
1546 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
1547 value with the later configured value).
1548
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1549- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
1550 have been named and documented.
1551
1552- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
1553 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
1554 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
1555 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
1556 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
1557 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
1558 write new output.
1559
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1560 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
1561
1562- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
1563 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
1564
1565 Changes since 3.0.4b3
1566
1567- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
1568 mailing list.
1569
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1570 Changes since 3.0.4b2
1571
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1573 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
1574
1575- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
1576 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
1577
1578- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
1579 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
1580 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
1581 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
1582
1583- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
1584 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
1585 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
1586 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
1587 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
1588 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
1589 transition (properly).
1590
1591- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
1592
1593 Changes since 3.0.4b1
1594
1595- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
1596 STDIN after reading one line.
1597
1598- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
1599 descriptor it opened twice.
1600
1601- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
1602 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
1603 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
1604
1605 Changes since 3.0.3
1606
1607- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
1608 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
1609 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
1610
1611- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
1612 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
1613 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
1614
1615- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
1616 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 1617 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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1618 leases to allocate.
1619
1620- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 1621 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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1622 than the entire block of them.
1623
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1624! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
1625 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
1626 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
1627 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
1628 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
1629 to a patch from infamous42md.
1630
1631! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
1632 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
1633 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
1634 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
1635 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
1636 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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1637
1638- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
1639 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
1640 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
1641
1642- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 1643 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1644
1645- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
1646 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
1647 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
1648 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
1649 transitional states.
1650
1651- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
1652 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
1653 once it detects the old db does not exist.
1654
1655- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
1656 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
1657 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
1658
1659- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 1660 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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1661
1662- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
1663 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
1664
1665- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
1666 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
1667 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
1668
1669- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
1670 patch from 'infamous42md'.
1671
1672- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
1673 repaired.
1674
1675- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
1676 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
1677 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
1678 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
1679
1680- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
1681 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
1682 data.
1683
1684- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
1685 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
1686 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
1687 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
1688 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
1689
1690- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
1691 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
1692 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
1693 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
1694 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
1695
1696- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
1697 has been repaired.
1698
1699- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
1700 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
1701 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
1702 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 1703 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1704
1705- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 1706 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
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45d545f0 1708- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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1709 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
1710 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
1711 move to 3.[01].x.
1712
1713- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
1714 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
1715
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1716 Changes since 3.0.3b3
1717
1718- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
1719 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
1720
1721- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
1722 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
1723 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
1724 workaround.
1725
1726 Changes since 3.0.3b2
1727
1728- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
1729 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
1730
1731 Changes since 3.0.3b1
1732
1733- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
1734 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
1735 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
1736
1737- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
1738 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
1739 dynamic updates were also retouched.
1740
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1741 Changes since 3.0.2
1742
1743- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 1744 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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1745 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
1746
1747- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
1748 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
1749 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
1750 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
1751 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
1752
1753- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
1754 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 1755 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1756
1757- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
1758 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 1759 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1760
1761- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
1762 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
1763 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
1764 Peter Poeml.
1765
1766- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
1767 Dr. Peter Poeml.
1768
1769- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
1770 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
1771 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
1772 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
1773 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
1774 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
1775
1776- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
1777 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
1778 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
1779 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
1780
1781- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
1782 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
1783 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
1784 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
1785
1786- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
1787 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
1788
1789- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
1790 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
1791 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
1792
1793- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
1794 7 bytes, and failover.
1795
1796- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
1797 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 1798 at Red Hat.
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1799
1800- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
1801 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
1802 should work better.
1803
1804- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
1805 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
1806 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
1807
1808- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
1809 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
1810 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
1811
1812 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
1813
1814- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
1815 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
1816
1817 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
1818
45d545f0 1819- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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1820 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
1821 overloading. This was repaired.
1822
1823- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
1824 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
1825 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
1826 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
1827 three chunks to fit.
1828
1829- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
1830 were repaired.
1831
1832- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
1833 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
1834 leak).
1835
1836 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
1837
1838- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
1839 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
1840
1841 Changes since 3.0.2b1
1842
1843- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
1844
1845 Changes since 3.0.1
1846
1847- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
1848 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
1849 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
1850
1851- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
1852 name was not provided by the server.
1853
1854- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
1855 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
1856
1857- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
1858 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
1859
1860- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
1861 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
1862
1863- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
1864
1865- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
1866
1867- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
1868 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
1869 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
1870 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
1871 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
1872
1873- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
1874 the configuration be globally scoped.
1875
1876- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
1877 Farkas.
1878
1879- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
1880 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1881
1882- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
1883 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
1884
1885- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
1886 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
1887
1888- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
1889 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
1890 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
1891 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
1892
1893- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
1894 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
1895 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
1896 respond to POOLREQ messages.
1897
1898- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
1899 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
1900 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
1901
1902- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
1903
1904- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
1905 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
1906 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
1907
1908- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
1909 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
1910 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
1911 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
1912 Fjone and directconnect.no.
1913
1914- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
1915 to Andreas Gustafsson.
1916
1917- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
1918 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
1919
1920- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
1921 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
1922 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
1923 DISCOVER timeout handling.
1924
1925- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
1926 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
1927
1928- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
1929 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
1930 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
1931
1932- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
1933 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
1934 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
1935 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
1936 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
1937 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
1938
1939- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
1940 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
1941 Infoblox.
1942
1943- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
1944
1945- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
1946 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
1947 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
1948 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
1949 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
1950 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
1951 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
1952
1953- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
1954 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
1955 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
1956
1957- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
1958 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
1959 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
1960
1961- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
1962
1963 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
1964
1965- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
1966 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
1967 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
1968 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
1969 systems either.
1970
1971- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
1972
1973- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
1974 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
1975 is false.
1976
1977- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
1978 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
1979
1980- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
1981
1982 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
1983
1984! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
1985 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
1986 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
1987 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
1988 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
1989 both finding and solving the problem.
1990
1991! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
45d545f0 1992 in log_*() functions was evidenced, on some specific platforms where
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1993 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
1994 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
1995 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
1996 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
1997 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
1998 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
1999 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
2000 published version of ISC DHCP.
2001
2002- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
2003
2004- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
2005
2006 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
2007
2008- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
2009 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
2010 Richard Hirst.
2011
2012- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
2013 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
2014 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
2015
2016- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
2017
2018- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
2019 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
2020 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
2021 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
2022
2023- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 2024 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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2025
2026- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
2027 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
2028
2029- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
2030
2031 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
2032
2033- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
2034 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
2035
2036- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
2037 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
2038 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
2039
2040- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
2041 by name was fixed.
2042
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2044 longer result in error.
2045
2046- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
2047
2048- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
2049 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
2050 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
2051
2052- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
2053 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
2054
2055- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
2056 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
2057 Blapp.
2058
2059- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
2060 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
2061 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
2062 Martin Blapp.
2063
2064- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
2065 expiry times in failover configurations.
2066
2067- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
2068 Steve G.
2069
2070- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
2071 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
2072
2073- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
2074 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
2075 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
2076 now "unknown-144".
2077
2078- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
2079 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
2080
2081 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
2082
2083- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
2084
2085- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
2086 not be bash.
2087
2088- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
2089
2090- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
2091 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
2092 that errored before will now work properly.
2093
2094- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
2095 names was repaired.
2096
2097- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
2098 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
2099 configuration file.
2100
2101- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
2102 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2103
2104- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
2105 error rather than a null dereference.
2106
2107 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
2108
2109- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
2110
2111- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
2112
2113- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
2114 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
2115
2116- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
2117
2118- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
2119
2120- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
2121 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
2122 self-corrupting lease databases.
2123
2124- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
2125
2126- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
2127 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
2128
2129- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
2130
2131- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
2132
2133- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
2134 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
2135 Ling Gou.
2136
2137- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
2138 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2139
2140- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
2141 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
2142 Ted Lemon for the patch.
2143
2144- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
2145 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
2146
2147 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
2148
2149- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
2150 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
2151
2152- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
2153
2154- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
2155 a memory leak.
2156
2157- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
2158 script.
2159
2160- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
2161
2162- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
2163
2164- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
2165
2166- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
2167
2168- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
2169
2170- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
2171
2172- Increment the hop count when relaying.
2173
2174- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
2175
2176- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
2177
2178- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
2179
2180- Change the type of rbuf_max.
2181
2182- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
2183
2184 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
2185
2186- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
2187 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
2188 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
2189
2190 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
2191
2192- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
2193 to be renewed.
2194
2195- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
2196 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
2197
2198- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
2199 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
2200
2201- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
2202 that two permit lists matched.
2203
2204- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
2205 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
2206
2207- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
2208
2209- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
2210 requested it, contrary to the standard.
2211
2212- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
2213
2214- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
2215
2216- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
2217 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
2218 going to update its A record.
2219
2220- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
2221 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
2222 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
2223 DNS server.
2224
2225- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
2226
2227- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
2228
2229- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
2230 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
2231 NetBSD project).
2232
2233- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
2234 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
2235
2236- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
2237 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
2238
2239- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
2240
2241- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
2242
2243- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
2244 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
2245 failover protocol standard.
2246
2247- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
2248 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
2249 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
2250
2251- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
2252 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
2253 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
2254 do so.
2255
2256- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
2257
2258 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
2259
2260- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
2261
2262- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
2263 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
2264
2265- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
2266 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
2267
2268- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
2269 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
2270 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
2271
2272- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
2273 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
2274 network, merge the two pools.
2275
2276- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
2277 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
2278 fix this bug.
2279
2280 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
2281
2282- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
2283 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
2284
2285- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
2286 the same case.
2287
2288- Additional documentation.
2289
2290- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
2291 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
2292
2293 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
2294
2295- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
2296- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
2297
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2299
2300- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
2301 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
2302 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
2303 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
2304 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
2305
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2307
2308- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
2309 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
2310 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
2311 wasn't the one that removed it.
2312
2313- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
2314 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
2315 were not configured.
2316
2317- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
2318
2319- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
2320 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
2321 routing information.
2322
2323- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
2324 request being sent.
2325
2326- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
2327 done.
2328
2329- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
2330 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
2331 were pending.
2332
2333- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
2334 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
2335 problems with failover.
2336
2337- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
2338 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
2339 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
2340
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2342
2343- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
2344 smash in the subclass allocation code.
2345
2346- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
2347 no object is open, it dumps core.
2348
2349- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
2350
2351- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
2352
2353- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
2354
2355- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
2356 a host object attribute with a null value.
2357
2358 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
2359
2360- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
2361
2362- Fix an obscure core dump.
2363
2364- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
2365 when crucial information is left out.
2366
2367- Log "no free leases" as an error.
2368
2369- Documentation updates.
2370
2371 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
2372
2373- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
2374
2375- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
2376 structure wasn't zeroed.
2377
2378- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
2379 incorrectly.
2380
2381- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
2382 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
2383 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
2384 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
2385 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
2386 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
2387 restarted.
2388
2389 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
2390
2391- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
2392 in failover-enabled pools.
2393
2394- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
2395 declarations).
2396
2397- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
2398 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
2399
2400- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
2401 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
2402
2403- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
2404
2405- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
2406 defined but not referenced by any pools.
2407
2408- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
2409
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2411
2412- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
2413
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2414 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 2
2415
2416- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
2417
2418- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
2419
2420- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
2421
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2422 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 1
2423
2424- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
2425 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
2426 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
2427
2428- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
2429 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
2430 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
2431 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
2432 string.
2433
2434- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
2435
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2436 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8
2437
2438- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
2439 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
2440
2441- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
2442 malformed packets.
2443
2444- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
2445
2446- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
2447 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
2448 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
2449
2450- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
2451
2452- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
2453
2454- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
2455
2456- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
2457 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
2458
2459- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
2460 tcp connections from being played back.
2461
2462- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
2463 on exit.
2464
2465- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
2466
2467- Add some configurability to the build system.
2468
2469- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
2470
2471- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
2472 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
2473 hadn't been noticed until now.
2474
2475 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
2476
2477- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
2478 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
2479
2480- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
2481 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
2482 conformant, but also didn't work).
2483
2484- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
2485 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
2486
2487- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
2488 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
2489
2490- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
2491 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
2492
2493- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
2494 variables to leases via OMAPI.
2495
2496- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
2497 doing failover.
2498
2499- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
2500 running on alpha processors.
2501
2502- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
2503 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
2504
2505- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
2506
2507- Install omshell (including new documentation).
2508
2509- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
2510 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
2511
2512- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
2513
2514- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
2515 actually named (key names are domain names).
2516
2517- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
2518
2519- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
2520 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
2521
2522- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
2523 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
2524
2525- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
2526 statements.
2527
2528- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
2529 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
2530
2531- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
2532 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
2533 operating.
2534
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2535 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 6
2536
2537- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
2538 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
2539 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
2540 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
2541
2542- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
2543 using omapi to manipulate leases.
2544
2545- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
2546
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2547 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
2548
2549- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
2550 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
2551
2552- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
2553 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
2554 to the chain.
2555
2556- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
2557
2558- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
2559
2560- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
2561
98311e4b 2562- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
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2563 attribute values in omshell.
2564
98311e4b 2565- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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2566
2567- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
2568
2569 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
2570
2571- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
2572 DHCPDECLINE.
2573
2574- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
2575
2576- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
2577 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
2578 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
2579
2580- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
2581
2582- Documentation fixes.
2583
2584- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
2585 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
2586
2587- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
2588 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
2589
2590- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
2591
2592- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
2593
2594- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
2595 case-insensitive.
2596
2597- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
2598
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2600 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
2601 consistently.
2602
2603- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
2604 systems with the probe not working correctly.
2605
2606- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
2607
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2608 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 3
2609
2610- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
2611 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
2612 result of duplicate leases.
2613
2614- Document OMAPI server objects.
2615
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2616 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Patchlevel 1
2617
2618- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
2619 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
2620
2621- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
2622 core dumps.
2623
2624- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
2625 Friedrich.
2626
2627- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
2628
2629 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
2630
2631- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
2632 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 2633 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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2634 billing class code.
2635
2636- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
2637 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
2638
2639- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
2640 trace file.
2641
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2644- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
2645 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
2646 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
2647 e.g., Digital Unix.
2648
2649- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
2650 when no error had occurred.
2651
2652- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
2653 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
2654 non-communicating state.
2655
2656- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
2657
2658- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
2659 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
2660 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
2661
2662- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
2663 when the client lease expired.
2664
2665- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
2666 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
2667 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
2668 in testing.
2669
2670- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
2671 the command line, it would fail.
2672
2673- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
2674 user impact).
2675
2676- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
2677
2678- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
2679 they're executable.
2680
2681 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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2682
2683- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
2684 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
2685 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
2686 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
2687
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2688- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
2689 Transmeta.
2690
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2691- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
2692 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
2693 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
2694 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
2695
2696- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
2697 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
2698
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2700
2701- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
2702 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
2703
2704- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
2705
2706- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
2707
2708- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
2709
2710- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
2711
2712- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
2713
2714- Update some parts of the README file.
2715
2716- Support GCC on SCO.
2717
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2719
2720- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
2721 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
2722
2723- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
2724 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
2725 unbill the old class.
2726
2727- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
2728 process the state transition immediately.
2729
2730- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
2731 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
2732
2733- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
2734
2735- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
2736
2737- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
2738
2739- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
2740
2741- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
2742 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
2743 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
2744
2745- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
2746 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
2747
2748- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
2749 lease file.
2750
2751- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
2752
2753- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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2756
2757- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
2758 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
2759
2760- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
2761
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2763
2764- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
2765
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2767
2768- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
2769
2770- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
2771 pl19.
2772
2773- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
2774 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
2775 past the regression test.
2776
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2778
2779- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
2780 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
2781
2782- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
2783 DHCPREQUEST.
2784
2785- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
2786
2787- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
2788
2789- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
2790
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2793- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
2794 (Damien Neil)
2795
2796- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
2797 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
2798
2799- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
2800 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
2801 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
2802
2803- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
2804 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
2805 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
2806 message.
2807
2808- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
2809 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
2810 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
2811
98311e4b 2812- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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2813 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
2814 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
2815 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
2816 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
2817 this way will work.
2818
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2819- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
2820
2821- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
2822 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
2823 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
2824 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
2825
2826 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
2827
2828 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
2829
2830- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
2831 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
2832 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
2833
2834- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
2835 Hermann Lauer.
2836
2837- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
2838 messages.
2839
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2840- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
2841 it contained quoted strings.
2842
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2843 ** there was no pl17 **
2844
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2847- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
2848 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
2849 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
2850 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
2851 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
2852 tracking down memory leaks.
2853
2854- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
2855 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
2856 Solaris.
2857
2858- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
2859 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
2860 corruption and core dumps.
2861
2862- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
2863 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
2864
2865- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
2866
2867- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
2868 and implemented by Damien Neil.
2869
2870- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
2871 name and version to standard output.
2872
2873- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
2874
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2875- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
2876 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
2877
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2878- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
2879
2880- Lots of documentation updates.
2881
2882- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
2883 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
2884
2885- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
2886
2887- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
2888 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
2889
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2891
2892- Some documentation tweaks.
2893
2894- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
2895
2896- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
2897
2898- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
2899 agent options into them.
2900
2901- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
2902
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2903- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
2904 options.
2905
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2907
2908- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
2909 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
2910 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
2911 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
2912 used in class statements to control address allocation.
2913
2914- Fix up documentation.
2915
2916- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
2917 significantly in a high-demand situation.
2918
2919- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
2920
2921- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
2922
2923- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
2924 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
2925 practical use otherwise.
2926
2927- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
2928 for debugging.
2929
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2931
2932- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
2933 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
2934 dump on some systems.
2935
2936- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
2937 option.
2938
2939- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
2940 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
2941
2942- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
2943 that were not printing enough information.
2944
2945- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
2946 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
2947
2948- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
2949 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
2950 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
2951 were answering.
2952
2953- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
2954 the transition.
2955
2956
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2958
2959- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
2960
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2961 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
2962
2963- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
2964 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
2965 representation from working correctly.
2966
2967- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
2968 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
2969 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
2970 could spin.
2971
2972- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
2973 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
2974
2975- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
2976 interface name on the command line.
2977
2978- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
2979 client state.
2980
2981- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
2982 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
2983 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
2984 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
2985 added by Ted Lemon.
2986
2987- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
2988 be made to log debugging information and other information.
2989
2990- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
2991 end option.
2992
2993- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
2994 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
2995 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
2996
2997- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
2998 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
2999 face of a null hardware address on input.
3000
3001- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
3002 specified unqualified.
3003
3004- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
3005 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
3006
3007- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
3008 RFC.
3009
3010- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
3011
3012- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
3013
3014- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
3015 it works.
3016
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3017 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
3018
3019- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
3020 to CVS.
3021
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3022 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
3023
3024- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
3025
3026- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
3027 in patchlevel 9.
3028
3029- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
3030 options at renewal time.
3031
3032- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
3033 configuration language.
3034
3035- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
3036
3037- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
3038 done when no client hostname was received.
3039
3040- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
3041
3042- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
3043 the DHCP option space.
3044
3045- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
3046
3047- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
3048 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
3049
3050- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
3051 silently dropped.
3052
3053- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
3054 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
3055
3056- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
3057 will be correctly updated.
3058
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3059 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
3060
3061- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
3062 bounds-checking.
3063
3064 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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3065
3066- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
3067
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3070- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
3071 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
3072 possible to exploit it any further than that.
3073
3074- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
3075 option.
3076
3077- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
3078 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
3079 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
3080 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
3081 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
3082 meaningfully.
3083
3084- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
3085 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
3086 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
3087
3088- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
3089 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
3090 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
3091 this one down!
3092
3093- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
3094 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
3095 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
3096 down and fixing this problem.
3097
3098 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
3099
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3100- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
3101 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
3102
3103- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
3104 environment.
3105
3106- Fix suffix operator.
3107
3108- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
3109
3110- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
3111 connection code.
3112
3113- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
3114
3115- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
3116
3117- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
3118 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
3119
3120- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
3121
3122- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
3123
3124- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
3125 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
3126
3127- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
3128 spawn with.
3129
3130- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
3131 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
3132
3133- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
3134 for OMAPI.
3135
3136- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
3137 can install in host declarations.
3138
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3139 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
3140
3141- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
3142 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
3143 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
3144 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
3145 comments)!
3146
3147- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
3148
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3149- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
3150 request for help on this with patches!
3151
3152- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
3153 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
3154 lost, they never reconnect.
3155
3156- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
3157 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
3158
3159- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
3160 dump.
3161
3162- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
3163 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
3164 catching this one.
3165
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3166 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
3167
3168- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 3169 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
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3170 lease renewal time.
3171
3172- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
3173 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
3174 declared without a key.
3175
3176- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
3177
3178- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
3179 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
3180
3181- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
3182 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
3183 determine the maximum size of the response.
3184
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3185 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
3186
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3187- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
3188 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
3189
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3190- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
3191 RENEWING client.
3192
3193- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
3194
3195- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
3196 using memcmp().
3197
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3198 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
3199
3200- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
3201 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
3202 pointing this out.
3203
3204- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
3205 exit.
3206
3207- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
3208
3209- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
3210 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.