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5ddbe8e4 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
d618ba48 2 Version 4.4.0-pre-alpha
33dca28a 3 29 March 2016
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5ddbe8e4 5 Release Notes
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5ddbe8e4 7 NEW FEATURES
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5ade3c84 9The major "theme" for ISC DHCP 4.3.x was to update the support for
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10DHCPv6 to include several of the features that have been available
11for DHCPv4. These include:
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13- Support the use of classes
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15- Support for on_commit, on_expiry and on_release statements
16
4809ef5c 17- Better logging of address assignments
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19- Support for using DHCPv6 relay options in expressions
20
cb0d7e7c 21This release also adds support for the standard DDNS as described in the
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22current RFCs as well as enhancing support for dynamically adding and removing
23subclasses via OMAPI.
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25There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
26release, which will be addressed in the future:
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01a54c17 28- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
3a16098f 29
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30- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages, in
31 English. A method to reconfigure or support other languages would
80778e94 32 be preferable.
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34- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
35
98bd7ca0 36- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 37 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 38 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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40For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as
41well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the
42README file.
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44ISC DHCP uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please review the
45output of "./configure --help" to see what options are available.
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47The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and may not
48work on other platforms. Please report any problems and suggested fixes to
49<dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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51ISC DHCP is open source software maintained by Internet Systems
52Consortium. This product includes cryptographic software written
53by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com).
54
d618ba48 55 Changes since 4.3.0 (new features)
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57- Insert the raw data from a fully encapsualted option into the option cache.
58 This allows "exists" to check for the option if any sub options exist. It
59 also adds the raw data to the environment variables supplied to the client
60 script.
61 [ISC-Bugs #39863]
62
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63- Removed an extraneous expression in omapi socket callback function. Prior
64 to this change, the logic was techinically incorrect but other factors
65 ensured the outcome itself was correct. This change was made primarily
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66 for code clarity. Thanks to Ganesh Pinjala for bringing the issue to our
67 attention.
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68 [ISC-Bugs #42834]
69
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70- Corrected a bug which could cause the server to sporadically crash while
71 loading lease files with the lease-id-format is set to "hex". Our thanks
72 to Jay Ford, University of Iowa for reporting the issue.
73 [ISC-Bugs #43185]
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75- Pass configure arguments which begin with an upper case letter, e.g.
76 CFLAGS, to the embedded bind configure, so it is no longer required
77 to use environment variables to get the same effect.
78 [ISC-Bugs #35143]
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80- Added --enable-kqueue, --enable-epoll, --enable-devpoll and a more
81 general --with-bind-extra-config to pass extra options to the
82 embedded bind configure. Note we had mixed experiences with this
54ee18cf 83 so it is at the user risk, i.e., they are NOT SUPPORTED yet.
f285576d 84 [ISC-Bugs #20890]
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86- Changed the way the embedded bind Makefile is updated by configure.
87 The only user visible side effect is that --with-libbind now requires
88 either "no" or an (absolute) path, i.e. "yes" is no longer valid.
89 [ISC-Bugs #43227]
90
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91- Eliminated a noisy, but otherwise harmless debug log statment that may
92 appear during server startup when building with --enable-binary-leases
93 and configuring multiple pools in a shared network. Thanks to Fernando
94 Soto from BlueCat Networks for reporting the issue and supplying a patch.
95 [ISC-Bugs #43262]
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97- Added the support for git repositories in the util/bind.sh script.
98 When you build ISC DHCP from a git repo, i.e., without a "bind"
99 directory populated as in the release distribution file, you may now
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100 create the bind directory, change to it and clone the private
101 (repo.isc.org/proj/git/prod/bind9.git) or the public
290a7613 102 (https://source.isc.org/git/bind9.git) git repository into
d163c8f7 103 bind/bind9 and then invoke the util/bind.sh script as usual.
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104 Note this option is incompatible with "make dist" (and make "distcheck")
105 because no bind/bind.tar.gz nor bind/version.tmp files are available.
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106 [ISC-Bugs #43236]
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108- Use the embedded bind libraries where they are built (vs where they
109 are installed).
110 [ISC-Bugs #39319]
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112- Use last version (9.11) of plain embedded bind libraries in place of
113 older (9.9) version of export bind libraries.
114 [ISC-Bugs #43215]
115
5a2e8c37 116- Using "make distcheck" now works with external bind libraries (aka
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117 configure --with-libbind).
118 [ISC-Bugs #43285]
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120- The server now allows the client identifier (option 61) to own leases
121 in more than one subnet concurrently. Prior to this the server would
122 incorrectly release an existing lease in one subnet prior to assigning
123 a lease in another subnet. Note that the prior behavior can be still
124 be achieved by enabling one-lease-per-client. Thanks to both David Zych at
125 the University of Illinois and Norm Proffitt of Infoblox for reporting
126 the issue; and Norm for suggesting a solution.
127 [ISC-Bugs #41358]
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129- Added --enable-bind-install to install embedded bind includes and
130 libraries. Default is to not install them (it was the previous
131 behavior). If you'd like to change the includedir and/or libdir
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132 installation directories to something different than for ISC DHCP
133 you must pass them using the --with-bind-extra-config configuration
134 arguments.
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135 [ISC-Bugs #39318]
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137- Added support of dynamic shared libraries with libtool. A new
138 --enable-libtool configuration parameter is available but
139 should not be used directly: *please* read the build configuration
140 section in the README file for the recommended procedure.
141 [ISC-Bugs #29402]
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143- When replying to a DHCPINFORM, the server will now include options specified
144 at the pool scope, provided the ciaddr field of the DHCPINFORM is populated.
145 Prior to this the server only evaluated options down to the subnet scope.
146 Thanks to Fernando Soto at BlueCat Networks for reporting the issue.
147 [ISC-Bugs #43219]
148
d618ba48 149 Changes since 4.3.0 (bug fixes)
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151- Tidy up several small tickets.
152 Correct parsing of DUID from config file, previously the LL type
153 was put in the wrong place in the DUID string.
154 [ISC-Bugs #20962]
155 Add code to parse "do-forward-updates" as well as "do-forward-update"
156 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
157 [ISC-Bugs #31328]
158 Remove log_priority as it isn't currently used.
159 [ISC-Bugs #33397]
160 Increase the size of the buffer used for reading interface information.
161 [ISC-Bugs #34858]
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163- Remove an extra set of the msg_controllen variable.
164 [ISC-Bugs #21035]
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166- Add a more understandable error message if a configuration attempts
167 to add multiple keys for a single zone. Thanks to a patch from Jiri
168 Popelka at Red Hat.
169 [ISC-Bugs #31892]
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171- Fix some minor issues in the dst code.
172 [ISC-Bugs #34172]
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174- Properly #ifdef functions so that the code can compile without NSUPDATE.
175 [ISC-Bugs #35058]
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177- Update the partner's stos (start time of state, basically when we last
178 heard from this partner) field when updating the state in failover.
179 [ISC-Bugs #35549]
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181- Modify the overload processing to allow space for the remote agent ID.
182 [ISC-Bugs #35569]
183 Handle the ordering of the SUBNET_MASK option even if it is the last
184 option in the list.
185 [ISC-Bugs #24580]
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187- Remove the code that allows a server to follow RFC3315 instead of
188 the subsequent errata from August 2010 when determining which IAs
189 to include if no addresses will be assigned.
190 [ISC-Bugs #28938]
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192- Remove unused RCSID tags.
193 [ISC-Bugs #35846]
841d9a18 194
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195- Correct the v6 client timing code. When doing the timing backoff
196 for MRT limit it to MRD.
197 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and fix.
198 [ISC-Bugs #21238
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200- Add a log entry when killing a client and remove the PID files
201 when a server, relay or client are killed.
202 [ISC-Bugs #16970]
203 [ISC-Bugs #17258]
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205- Some minor cleanups in the client code.
206 In addition to checking for dhcpc check for bootpc in the services list.
207 [ISC-Bugs #18933]
208 Correct the client code to only try to get a lease once when the
209 given the "-1" argument.
210 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and fix.
211 [ISC-Bugs #26735]
212 When asked for the version don't send the output to syslog.
213 [ISC-Bugs #29772]
214 Add the next server information to the environment variables for
215 use by the client script. In order to avoid changing the client
216 lease file the next server information isn't written to it.
217 Thanks to Tomas Hozza at Red Hat for the suggestion and a prototype fix.
218 [ISC-Bugs #33098]
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220- Several updates to the dhcp server code.
221 When not in quiet mode print out the files being used.
222 [ISC-Bugs #17551]
223 As accessing some pid files may require privileges move the dropping
224 of permission bits due to the paranoia patch to be after the pid code.
225 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and fix.
226 [ISC-Bugs #25806]
227 When processing a "--version" request don't output the version information
228 to syslog.
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230- Add the "enable-log-pid" build option to the configure script. When enabled
231 this causes the client, server and relay programs to include the PID
232 number in syslog messages.
233 Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski for the suggestion and proto-patch.
234 [ISC-Bugs #29713]
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236- Add a #define to specify the prefix length used when a client attempts
237 to configure an address. This can be modified by editing includes/site.h.
238 By default it is set to 64. While 128 might be a better choice it would
239 also be a change for currently running systems, so we have left it at 64.
240 [ISC-Bugs #DHCP-2]
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242- Add a run time option to the client "-df" to allow the administrator to
243 point to a second lease file the client can search for a DUID. This can
244 be used to allow a v4 and a v6 instance of the client to share a DUID.
245 The second file will only be searched if there isn't a DUID in the main
246 lease file and the DUID will be written out to the main lease file.
247 [ISC-Bugs #34886]
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249- Have the client fsync the lease file to avoid lease corruption if the
250 client hibernates or otherwise shuts down.
251 [ISC-Bugs #35894]
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253- Add a check for L2VLAN in bpf.c to help support VLAN interfaces
254 Thanks to Steinar Haug for the suggestion.
255 [ISC-Bugs #36033]
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257- Modify the handling of the resolv.conf file to allow the DHCP
258 process to start up even if the resolv.conf file has problems.
259 [ISC-Bugs #35989]
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261- Add threshold logging functionality. Two new options,
262 log-threshold-low and log-threshold-high, indicate to the
263 server if and when it should log an error message as addresses
264 in a pool are used.
265 [ISC-Bugs #34487]
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267- Add code to properly dereference a pointer in the dhclient code
268 on an error condition.
269 [ISC-Bugs #36194]
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271- Add code to help clean up soft leases.
272 [ISC-Bugs #36304]
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274- Disable the gentle shutdown functionality until we can determine
275 the best way to present it to remove or reduce the side effects.
276 [ISC-Bugs #36066]
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278- Modify the message displayed when a process hits a fatal error.
279 The new message is much shorter and simply points to the README
280 and our website for directions on bug submissions.
281 [ISC-Bugs #24789]
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283- Handle an absent resolv.conf file better.
284 [ISC-Bugs #35194]
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286- Tidy up receive packet processing.
287 Thanks to Brad Plank of GTA for reporting the issue and suggesting
288 a possible patch.
289 [ISC-Bugs #34447]
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291- Corrected parser's right brace matching when a statement contains an error.
292 [ISC-Bugs #36021]
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294- TSIG-authenticated dynamic DNS updates now support the use of these
295 additional algorithms: hmac-sha1, hmac-sha224, hmac-sha256, hmac-sha384,
296 and hmac-sha512
297 [ISC-Bugs #36947]
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299- Added check for invalid failover message type. Thanks to Tobias Stoeckmann
300 working with the OpenBSD project who spotted the issue and provided the
4ce21cb6 301 patch.
d618ba48 302 [ISC-Bugs #36653]
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304- Corrected rate limiting checks for bad packet logging. Thanks to Tobias
305 Stoeckmann working with the OpenBSD project who spotted the issue and
306 provided the patch.
307 [ISC-Bugs #36897]
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309- Log statements depicting what files will be used by the server now occur
310 after the configuration file has been processed.
311 [ISC-Bugs #36671]
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313- Addressed Coverity issues reported as of 07-31-2014:
314 [ISC-Bugs #36712] Corrects Coverity reported "high" impact issues.
315 [ISC-Bugs #36933] Corrects Coverity reported "medium" impact issues
316 [ISC-Bugs #37708] Fixes compilation error in dst_api.c seen in older
317 compilers that was introduced by #36712
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319- Server now supports a failover split value of 256.
320 [ISC-Bugs] #36664]
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322- Remove unneeded error #defines. These defines were included in case
323 external programs required the older versions of the macro. They
324 have been #ifdeffed for now and will be removed at a future date.
325 See site.h for the #define to include them again, but you should
326 switch to using the DHCP_R_* versions instead of the ISC_R_* versions.
327 Also ISC_R_MULTIPLE has been removed as it is also defined in bind.
328 [ISC-Bugs #37128]
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330- Added checks in range6 and prefix6 statement parsing to ensure addresses
331 are within the declared subnet. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the
332 bug report and patch.
333 [ISC-Bugs #32453]
334 [ISC-Bugs #17766]
335 [ISC-Bugs #18510]
336 [ISC-Bugs #23698]
337 [ISC-Bugs #28883]
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339- Addressed checksum issues:
340 Added checksum readiness check to Linux packet filtering which eliminates
341 invalid packet drops due to checksum errors when checksum offloading is
342 in use. Based on dhcp-4.2.2-xen-checksum.patch made to the Fedora project.
343 [ISC-Bugs #22806]
344 [ISC-Bugs #15902]
345 [ISC-Bugs #17739]
346 [ISC-Bugs #18010]
347 [ISC-Bugs #22556]
348 [ISC-Bugs #29769]
349 Inbound packets with UDP checksums of 0xffff now validate correctly rather
350 than being dropped.
351 [ISC-Bugs #24216]
352 [ISC-Bugs #25587]
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354- Added the echo-client-id configuration parameter to the server configuration.
355 The server now supports RFC 6842 compliant behavior by setting a new
356 configuration parameter, echo-client-id. When enabled, the server will
357 include the client identifier option (Option code 61) if received, in its
358 responses. The server identifier returned in NAKs (if enabled) will now
359 be the globally defined value (if one) if the server cannot attribute the
360 inbound request to a known subnet.
361 [ISC-Bugs #35958]
362 [ISC-Bugs #32545]
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364- Added support of the configuration parameter, use-host-decl-names, to
365 BOOTP request handling.
366 [ISC-Bugs #36233]
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368- Added logic to ignore the signal, SIGPIPE, which ensures write failures
369 will be delivered as errors rather than as SIGPIPE signals on all OSs.
370 Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski from SUSE who reported the issue and provided
371 the patch upon which the fix is based.
372 [ISC-Bugs #32222]
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374- In the failover code, handle the case of communications being interrupted
375 when the servers are dealing with POTENTIAL-CONFLICT. This patch allows
376 the primary to accept the secondary moving from POTENTIAL-CONFLICT to
377 RESOLUTION-INTERRUPTED as well as handling the bind update process better.
378 In addition the code to resend update or update all requests has been
379 modified to send requests more often.
380 [ISC-Bugs #36810]
381 [ISC-Bugs #20352]
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383- By default, the server will now choose the value to use in the forward DNS
384 name from the following in order of preference:
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386 1. FQDN option if provided by the client
387 2. Host name option if provided by the client
388 3. Configured option host-name if defined
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390 As before, this may be overridden by defining ddns-hostname to the desired
391 value (or expression). In addition, the server logic has been extended to
392 use the value of the host name declaration if use-host-decl-names is enabled
393 and no other value is available.
394 [ISC-Bugs #21323]
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396- DNS updates were being attempted when dhcp-cache-threshold enabled the use of
397 the existing lease and the forward DNS name had not changed. This has been
398 corrected.
399 [ISC-Bugs #37368]
400 [ISC-Bugs #38636]
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402- Corrected an issue which caused dhclient to incorrectly form the result when
403 prepending or appending to the IPv4 domain-search option, received from the
404 server, when either of the values being combined contain compressed
405 components.
406 [ISC-Bugs #20558]
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408- Added the server-id-check parameter to the server configuration.
409 This parameter allows run-time control over whether or not a server,
410 participating in failover, verifies the dhcp-server-identifier option in
411 DHCP REQUESTs against the server's id before processing the request.
412 Formerly, enabling this behavior was done at compilation time through
413 the use of the #define, SERVER_ID_CHECK, which has been removed from site.h
414 The functionality is now only available through the new runtime parameter.
415 [ISC-Bugs #37551]
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417- During startup, when the server encounters a lease whose binding state is
418 FTS_BACKUP but whose pool has no configured failover peer, it will reset the
419 lease's binding state to FTS_FREE. This allows the leases to be reclaimed
420 by the server after a pool's configuration has changed from failover to
421 standalone. Prior to this such leases would remain stuck in the backup state
422 making them unavailable for assignment. Note this conversion will occur
423 whether or not the server is compiled for failover.
424 [ISC-Bugs #36960]
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426- Fixed a small issue in the treatment of hosts in the inform processing
427 that could cause the response to an inform to include information from
428 the wrong scope. The two examples we've heard of are getting subnet
429 instead of group information associated with a host entry, or getting
430 global information instead of subnet if the host entry was built via
431 omapi. Thanks to Julien Soula at University of Lille for finding the
432 bug and supplying a patch.
433 [ISC-Bugs #35712]
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435- Avoid calling pool_timer() recursively from supersede_lease(). This could
436 result in leases changing state incorrectly or delaying the running of the
437 leae expiration code.
438 [ISC-Bugs #38002]
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440- Move the check for a PID file and process to be before we rewrite the
441 lease file. This avoids the possibility of starting a second instance
442 of a server which changes the current lease file confusing the first
443 instance. This check is only included if the admin hasn't disabled PID
444 files.
445 [ISC-Bugs #38078]
446 [ISC-Bugs #38143]
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448- In the client code change the way preferred_life and max_life are printed
449 for environment variables to be unsigned rather than signed.
450 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and patch.
451 [ISC-Bugs #37084]
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453- Modified Linux packet handling such that packets received via VLAN are now
454 seen only by the VLAN interface. Prior to this, such packets were seen by
455 both the VLAN interface and its parent (physical) interface, causing the
456 server to respond to both. Note this remains an issue for non-Linux OSs.
457 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
458 [ISC-Bugs #37415]
459 [ISC-Bugs #37133]
460 [ISC-Bugs #36668]
461 [ISC-Bugs #36652]
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463- Log content has been changed to more directly suggest that admins should
464 check for multiple IPv6 clients attempting to use the same DUID when only
465 abandoned addresses are available. Debug level logging will now emit counts
466 of the total number of, in-use, and abandoned addresses in a shared subnet
467 when the server finds no addresses available for a given DUID. Lastly,
468 threshold logging is now automatically disabled for shared subnets whose
469 total number of possible addresses exceeds (2^64)-1.
470 [ISC-Bugs #26376]
471 [ISC-Bugs #38131]
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473- Added a global parameter, prefix-length-mode, which may be used to determine
474 how the server uses a non-zero value for prefix-length supplied by clients
475 when soliciting DHCPv6 prefixes. The server supports selection modes of:
476 ignore, prefer, exact, minimum and maximum which are described in detail in
477 the server man pages. The prior behavior of the server was to only offer a
478 prefix whose length exactly matched the prefix-length value requested. If
479 no such prefixes were available, the server returned a status of none
480 available. Note the default mode, "exact", provides this same behavior.
481 [ISC-Bugs #36780]
482 [ISC-Bugs #32228]
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484- Corrected inconsistencies in dhcrelay's setting the upper interface hop count
485 limit such that it now sets it to 32 when the upstream address is a multicast
486 address per RFC 3315 Section 20. Prior to this if the -u argument preceded
487 the -l argument on the command line or if the same interface was specified
488 for both; the logic to set the hop limit count for the upper interface was
489 skipped. This caused the hop count limit to be set to the default value
490 (typically 1) in the outbound upstream packets.
491 [ISC-Bugs #37426]
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493- Modify the linux and openwrt dhclient scripts to process information
494 from a stateless request. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the
495 bug report and patch.
496 [ISC-Bugs #36102]
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498- Remove more unused RCSID tags. These weren't noticed in 4.3 as
499 the code isn't used anymore but we remove them here to keep the
500 code consistent across versions.
501 [ISC-Bugs #36451]
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503- The server now does a better check to see if it can allocate the memory
504 for large blocks of v4 leases and should provide a slightly better error
505 message. Note well: the server pre-allocates v4 addresses, if you use
506 a large range, such as a /8, the server will attempt to use a large
507 amount of memory and may not start if there either isn't enough memory
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508 or the size exceeds what the code supports.
509 [ISC-Bugs #38637]
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511- The server will now reject unicast Request, Renew, Decline, and Release
512 messages from a client unless the server would have sent that client the
513 dhcp6.unicast option. This behavior is in compliance with paragraph 1 in
514 each of the sections 18.2,1, 18.2.3, 18.2.6, and 18.2.7 of RFC 3315. Prior
515 to this, the server would simply accept the messages. Now, in order for
516 the server to accept such a message, the server configuration must include
517 the dhcp6.unicast option either globally or within the shared network to
518 which the requested lease belongs. In other words, the server will map
519 the first IA_XX address found within the client message to a shared-network
520 and look for the presence of the unicast option there and then globally.
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522 inspired the fix.
b31fe1d5 523 [ISC-Bugs #21235]
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525- The ATF (Automated Testing Framework) tools used for optional unit tests
526 can now be built from its embedded sources in bind, solving the
527 atf-run / atf-report issue with recent (>= 0.20) versions of ATF.
528 The new configuration option is "./configure --with-atf=bind".
1b245c91 529 [ISC-Bugs #38754, #39300]
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532 On older linuxes that do not include the tpacket_auxdata structure don't
533 bother allocating the cmsgbuf as it isn't necessary and we don't have
534 a proper length for it.
535 [ISC-Bugs #39209]
536
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537- Remove the dst directory. This was replaced in 4.2.0 with the dst
538 code from the Bind libraries but we continued to include it for
539 backwards compatibility. As we have now released 4.3.x it seems
540 reasonable to remove it.
541 [ISC-Buts #39019]
542
90a062fb 543- Write out the DUID server id on startup in all cases, previously if it
cacce092 544 was read in from server-duid option in the config or lease files for
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545 DHCPv4 it would not be written to the new lease file.
546 [ISC-Bugs #37791]
547
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548- When parsing dates for leases convert dates past 2038 to "never".
549 This avoids problems with integer overflows in the date and time
550 handling code for people that decide to use very large lease times
551 or add a lease entry with a date far in the future.
552 [ISC-Bugs #33056]
553
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554- Leave the siaddr field clear when sending a NACK as per RFC 2131
555 table 3.
556 [ISC-Bugs #38769]
557
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558- In the client don't send expired addresses to the script as part of
559 the binding process. Thanks to Sven Trenkel at Google for reporting
560 the issue and suggesting the patch.
561 [ISC-Bugs #38631]
562
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563- While parsing IPv6 addresses treat "add" as part of the address instead
564 of as a token.
565 [ISC-Bugs #39529]
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567- Add support for accessing the v4 lease queues (active, free etc) in a
568 binary fashion instead of needing to walk through a linear list to
569 insert, find or remove an entry from the queues. In addition add a
570 compile time option "--enable-binary-leases" to enable the new code
571 or to continue using the old code. The old code is the default.
572 Thanks to Fernando Soto from BlueCat Networks for the patch.
573 [ISC-Bugs #39078]
574
cca6a648 575- Delayed-ack now works properly with Failover. Prior to this, bind updates
576 post startup were being queued but never delivered. Among other things, this
577 was causing leases to not transition from expired or released to free.
578 [ISC-Bugs #31474]
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580- Clean up parsing of v6 lease files a bit to avoid infinite loops if the
581 lease file is corrupt in certain ways.
582 [ISC-Bugs #39760]
583
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586 for the bug report.
cca6a648 587 [ISC-Bugs #38639]
588
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589- Corrected an issue in v6 lease file parsing. Prior to this, when encountering
590 a lease with an address for which no configured pool exists, the server was
591 declaring the lease file corrupt and incorrectly skipping over the subsequent
592 entry in the file. The server will now emit a log message indicating that
593 no pool was found for the address (or prefix) and correctly resume parsing
cacce092 594 with the next entry in the lease file. Our thanks to Michal Žejdl for
673137b1 595 reporting the issue.
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598- Be more liberal in finding a subnet group associated with a static
599 prefix. When we added the class matching code for v6 we also added
600 a requirement that the static prefix must be within a subnet the
601 client was in, in order to find the proper statements. We now
602 look for a subnet based on the prefix, failing that on the static
603 address for the client and failing that on the shared network
604 itself.
605 [ISC-Bugs #38329]
606
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607- Add a new action expression "parse_vendor_options", which can be used
608 to parse a vendor-encapsualted-option received by the server based on
609 the encoding specified by the vendor-option-space statement.
610 [ISC-Bugs #36449]
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612- Enhance the PARANOIA patch to include fchown() the lease file to
613 allow it to be manipulated after the server does a chown().
614 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
615 [ISC-Bugs #36978]
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617- Relax the requirement that prefix pools must be within the subnet.
618 This was added in as part of #32453 in order to avoid configuration
619 mistakes but is being removed as prefixes aren't required to be
620 within the same subnet and many people configure them in that fashion.
621 [ISC-Bugs #40077]
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624 the billing class from the last lease billed to a dynamic class after said
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625 class has been deleted. Our thanks to Lasse Pesonen for reporting the
626 issue.
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628
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630 been applied to the contributed code which supplies LDAP support.
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632 first adds support for IPv6 configuration and the second provides
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634 contributions (alphabetically):
635 Alex Novak at SUSE
db48f927 636 Bill Parker (wp02855 at gmail dot com)
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638 Marius Tomaschewski at SUSE
405fccfc 639 (william at adelaide.edu.au), The University of Adelaide
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640 [ISC-Bugs #39056]
641 [ISC-Bugs #22742]
642 [ISC-Bugs #24449]
643 [ISC-Bugs #28545]
644 [ISC-Bugs #29873]
645 [ISC-Bugs #30183]
646 [ISC-Bugs #30402]
647 [ISC-Bugs #32217]
648 [ISC-Bugs #32240]
649 [ISC-Bugs #33176]
650 [ISC-Bugs #33178]
651 [ISC-Bugs #36409]
652 [ISC-Bugs #36774]
653 [ISC-Bugs #37876]
654
af25ded3 655- Handle an out of memory condition in the client a bit better.
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657 and suggesting a patch.
2932b357 658 [ISC-Bugs #39279]
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660- Corrected a compilation error introduced by the fix for ISC-Bugs #37415.
661 The error occurs on Linux variants that do not support VLAN tag information
662 in packet auxiliary data. The configure script now only enables inclusion
663 of the VLAN tag-based logic if it is supported by the underlying OS.
664 [ISC-Bugs #38677]
665
45adf35c 666- Specifying the option, --disable-debug, on the configure script command line
4e1bf548 667 now disables debug features. Prior to this, specifying --disable-debug
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668 incorrectly enabled debug features. Thanks to Gustavo Zacarias for reporting
669 the issue.
4e1bf548 670 [ISC-Bugs #37780]
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672- Unit test execution now uses a path augmented during configuration
673 processing of the --with-atf option to locate ATF runtime tools, atf-run
674 and atf-report. For most installations of ATF, this should alleviate the
675 need to manually include them in the PATH, as was formerly required.
676 If the configure script cannot locate the tools it will emit a warning,
677 informing the user that the tools must be in the PATH when running unit
678 tests.
679 Secondly, please note that "make check" will now exit with a failure status
680 code (non-zero) if one or more unit tests fail. This means that invoking
681 "make check" from an upper level directory will cause the make process to
682 STOP after the first test subdirectory with failed test(s). To force all
683 tests in all subdirectories to run, regardless of individual test outcome,
684 use the command "make -k check".
685 [ISC-Bugs #38619]
686
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687- Corrected a static analyzer warning in common/execute.c
688 [ISC-Bugs #40374]
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690- ISC DHCP now follows the common convention to use the base name a
691 program is invoked with (aka argv[0], vs. a builtin name) for
692 logs. This should help differentiate syslog entries for DHCPv4 and
693 DHCPv6 servers. You can define OLD_LOG_NAME in includes/site.h to
694 keep the previous behavior.
695 [ISC-Bugs #38692]
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697- The Linux packet filter code now correctly treats only the least significant
698 12 bits in an inbound packet's TCI value as the VLAN id (per IEEE 802.1Q).
699 Prior to this it was using the entire 16 bit value as the VLAN id and
700 incorrectly discarding packets. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for
701 reporting this issue and supplying its patch.
702 [ISC-Bugs #40591]
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704- Fixed several static analysis issues such as potential null
705 references, unchecked strdup returns. Thanks to Bill Parker (wp02855 at
706 gmail dot com) who identified these issues and supplied patches to
707 address them.
708 [ISC-Bugs #40754]
709 [ISC-Bugs #40823]
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711- Corrected compilation errors that prohibited building the server
712 and its ATF unit tests when failover is disabled.
713 [ISC-Bugs #40372]
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715- Added the lease address to the end of the debug level log message
716 emitted when an existing lease is renewed within the dhcp-cache-threshold.
717 Thanks to Nathan Neulinger at Missouri S&T for suggesting the change.
718 [ISC-Bugs #40598]
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720- Added dhcpv6 and delayed-ack to settings listed in the "Features:"
721 section of the configure script output. Additionally, all of the
722 features reported on will now always show either a "yes" or "no"
723 value. Prior to this features left to their default setting would
724 not show a value.
725 [ISC-Bugs #40381]
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727- Added a parameter, authoring-byte-order, to the lease file. This value
728 is automatically added to the top of new lease files by the server and
729 indicates the internal byte order (big endian or little endian) of the
730 server. This permits lease files generated on a server with one form of
731 byte order to be used on a server with the opposite form. Our thanks to
732 Timothe Litt for calling this to our attention and for the suggestions
733 he provided.
734 [ISC-Bugs #38396]
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736- Fixed a small memory leak in the DHCPv6 version of the client code.
737 This is unlikely to cause significant issues in actual use.
738 [ISC-Bugs #40990]
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740- Corrected a few minor memory leaks in omapi's dereferencing of
741 host objects. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for reporting
742 the issue and supplying the patches.
743 [ISC-Bugs #33990]
744 [ISC-Bugs #41325]
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746- Cleaned up some of the Make infrastructure to make --with-libbind
747 work better. Though it still only works with an absolute path.
748 [ISC-Bugs #39210]
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750- Made the embedded bind libraries able to be cross compiled
751 (please refer to the bind9 documentation to learn how to cross
752 compile DHCP and its bind library dependency).
753 [ISC-Bugs #38836]
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755- Update the client code to better support getting IA_NAs and IA_PDs
756 in the same packet, see RFC7550 for some discussion.
757 [ISC-Bugs #40190]
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759! Update the bounds checking when receiving a packet.
760 Thanks to Sebastian Poehn from Sophos for the bug report and a suggested
761 patch.
762 [ISC-Bugs #41267]
763 CVE: CVE-2015-8605
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765- When handling an incorrect command line for dhcpd, dhclient or dhcrelay
766 print out a specific error message about the first error in addition
767 to the usage string. This may be disabled by editing includes/site.h.
768 [ISC-Bugs #40321]
769 [ISC-Bugs #41454]
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771- The configure script will now exit with an error message if it cannot find
772 a GNU-style make tool (needed when building BIND libraries) or pkg-config
773 (needed to locate ATF used for building unit tests). Prior to this the
774 script would exit indicating success causing subsequent attempts to build
775 the software to fail.
776 [ISC-Bugs #40371]
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778- Properly terminate strings before passing them to regex and fix
779 a boundary error when creating certain new data strings.
780 Thanks to Andrey Jr. Melnikov for the bug report.
781 [ISC-Bugs #41217]
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783- Option expressions, such as prepend and append, are now supported when
784 running dhclient for IPv6. Prior to this such statements in the
785 client configuration file would be parsed but have no affect. Thanks
786 to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for reporting the issue.
787 [ISC-Bugs #39952]
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789- A failover primary server will now accept a binding status update from the
790 secondary which transitions a lease from ACTIVE to ABANDONED. This accounts
791 for instances in which a client declines a lease and only the secondary
792 server receives it. Prior to this the primary server would reject such an
793 update as an "invalid state transition".
794 [ISC_BUGS #25189]
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796- Properly allocate memory for a bpf filter.
797 Thanks to Bill Parker (wp02855 at gmail dot com) who identified this issue.
798 [ISC-Bugs #41485]
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800- Updated contrib/dhcp-lease-list.pl to handle garbage in the oui file better
801 and to print out the hostnames a bit better.
802 Thanks to Antoine Beaupré from Debian for the suggested patch.
803 [ISC-Bugs #41288]
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805- The DHCPv6 server now handles long valid and preferred lease times better.
806 Values that would cause the internal end time of the lease to wrap are
807 modified to work as infinite.
808 [ISC-Bugs #40773]
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810- Updated support for cross compiling by allowing the library archiver
811 to be set at configure time via the environment variable 'AR'.
812 [ISC-Bugs #41536]
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814- The server will now match DHCPv6 relayed clients to host declarations
815 which include the "hardware" statement, if the relay connected to the
816 client supplies the client's hardware address via client-linklayer-address
817 option as per RFC 6939.
818 [ISC-Bugs #40334]
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820- Allow a filename to be specified instead of /dev/random during
821 configuration. This is passed to the BIND configuration to allow
822 for cross compilation.
823 [ISC-Bugs #33835]
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825- Add more option definitions.
826 [ISC-Bugs #40562]
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828- Correct outputting of long lines in the lease file when writing
829 a lease that includes long strings in an execute statement.
830 [ISC-Bugs #40994]
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832- The server will now correctly treat a lease as reserved when the client
833 requests an infinite lease time (i.e. OxFFFFFFFF) and "infinite-is-reserved"
834 is enabled. Prior to this the server would halt. In addition, corrections
835 were made to the server to allow a lease's flags field to be set via omapi.
836 Prior to this, the server, depending on the host architecture, would
837 incorrectly parse the new flags value from the omapi message.
838 [ISC-Bugs #31179]
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840- ISC DHCP can now be configured and built from a directory other than
841 the top level source directory. Note that "make distcheck" uses this
842 feature.
843 [ISC-Bugs #39262]
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845- Add support for RFC 3527 to dhcrelay. A new, dhcrelay command line argument,
846 "-U <interface>" enables the addition of a RFC 3527 compliant link selection
847 suboption to the agent option added for clients directly connected to the
848 relay.
849 [ISC-Bugs #34875]
850 [ISC-Bugs #41708]
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852- Add a new global DHCPv6 option, dhcpv6-set-tee-times, which when enabled
853 instructs the server to calculate T1 and T2 as recommended in RFC 3315,
854 Section 22.4.
855 [ISC-Bugs #25687]
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857- Corrected minor Coverity issues.
858 [ISC-Bugs #35144]
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860- Add support for RFC 7341 DHCPv4 over DHCPv6 with a new configuration
861 option "--enable-dhcpv4o6". Note this feature requires DHCPv6 support
862 and is not compatible with delayed-ack. Both client and server use 2
863 processes which communicate over UDP on a pair of sockets. The new
864 "-4o6 <port>" command line argument enables DHCPv4 over DHCPv6 support
865 and specifies the consecutive ports to use for inter-process communication.
866 Please look at doc/DHCPv4-over-DHCPv6 for more details.
867 [ISC-Bugs #35711]
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869- Correct interface name formation when using DLPI under Solaris 11. As of
870 Solaris 11, ethernet device files are located in "/dev/net". The configure
871 script has been modified to detect this situation and adjust the directory
872 used accordingly. Thanks to Jarkko Torppa for reporting this issue and
873 submitting a patch
874 [ISC-Bugs #37954]
875 [ISC-Bugs #40752]
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877- Add a dereference call when handling an error condition while
878 decoding a packet.
879 [ISC-Bugs #41774]
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881- Add a new parameter, lease-id-format, to both dhcpd and dhclient. The
882 parameter controls the format in which certain values are written to lease
883 files. Formats supported are octal - quoted string containing octal
884 escapes, and hex - unquoted, colon separated hex digits. Thanks to
885 Jay Ford, University of Iowa for bringing the issue to our attention.
886 [ISC-Bugs #26378]
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889 connections the server will accept. By default this is 200.
890 [ISC-Bugs #41845]
891 CVE: CVE-2016-2774
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893- Fixed util/bindvar.sh error handling.
894 [ISC-Bugs #41973]
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896- Correct error message in relay to use remote id length instead
897 of circuit id length.
898 [ISC-Bugs #42556]
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900- Add support for including an encapsulated option in a response
901 from the DHCPv6 server. This allows the v6 FQDN option to be
902 returned in responses.
903 [ISC-Bugs #29246]
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906 when building within the source tree. This eliminates a noisy but
907 otherwise harmless error message when running "make check".
908 [ISC-Bugs #41883]
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910- Leases are now scrubbed of certain prior use information when pool
911 re-balancing reassigns them from one FO peer to the other. This
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912 corrects an issue where leases that were offered but not used
913 by the client retained the client hostname from the original
914 client. Thanks to Pavel Polacek, Jan Evangelista Purkyne University
915 for reporting the issue.
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919 the v6 instead of the v4 versions. Thanks to Denis Taranushin for
920 reporting this issue and supplying its patch.
921 [ISC-Bugs #42666]
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923- Correct how the pick-first-value expression is written to a lease
924 file. Previously it was written as a concat expression due to
925 a cut and paste error.
926 [ISC-Bugs #42253]
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929 are issues while cleaning up the A or AAAA records.
930 [ISC-Bugs #23954]
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933 the amount of time a lease remains abandoned. The default is 84600 seconds.
934 Additionaly, the server now conducts a ping check (if ping checks are
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936 David Zych at University of Illinois for reporting the issue and working
937 with us to produce a viable solution.
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940- Correct handling of interface names during interface discovery. This
941 addresses an issue where interface names of 15 characters in length
942 could lead to crashes or interface recognition errors during startup
943 of dhcpd, dhclient, and dhcrelay.
944 [ISC-Bugs #42226]
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2b5c8201 947 The updates are: looking for the lease file in more places and skipping
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950 patch.
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953- When reusing a lease for dhcp-cache-threshold return the hostname
954 to the original lease. Also if the host pointer, UID or hardware address
955 change don't allow reuse of the lease.
956 Thanks to Michael Vincent for reporting this and helping us
957 verify the problem and fix.
958 [ISC-Bugs #42849]
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960- Change dmalloc to use a size_t as the length argument to bring it
961 in line with the call it will make to malloc().
962 [ISC-Bugs #40843]
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966 server will continue to open new sockets every 90 seconds until
967 it runs out.
968 [ISC-Bugs #42452]
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971 allow interfaces to be upstream or downstream respectively. Upstream
972 interfaces will accept and forward only BOOTP replies, while downstream
973 interfaces will accept and forward only BOOTP requests.
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977 [ISC-Bugs #42984]
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981- If a client renews before 'dhcp-cache-threshold' percent of its lease
982 has elapsed (default 25%), the server will reuse the allocated lease
983 (provide a lease within the currently allocated lease-time) rather
984 than extend or renew the lease. This absolves the server of needing
985 to perform an fsync() operation on the lease database before reply,
986 which improves performance. [ISC-Bugs #22228]
80778e94 987 Updated this patch to support asynchronous DDNS. If the server is
adb95d23 988 attempting to do DDNS on a lease it should be updated and written to
4809ef5c 989 disk even if that wouldn't be necessary due to the thresholding.
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993 matching billing class tried before failing to provide a billing.
994 [ISC-Bugs #21759]
995
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997 was used is now solved on GNU/Linux, BSD and GNU/Hurd systems. Note
998 that use-sockets feature was not tested on those systems. Client and
999 server code no longer use MAX_PATH constant that is not defined on
3cb6f9bb 1000 GNU/Hurd systems. [ISC-Bugs #25979]
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1002- Add a perl script in the contrib directory, dhcp-lease-list.pl, which
1003 can parse v4 lease files and output the lease information in a more
1004 human friendly manner. This was written by Christian Hammers with
1005 some updates by vom and ISC. This is contributed code and is not
1006 supported by ISC; however it may be useful to some users.
1007 [ISC-Bugs #20680]
1008
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1013 [ISC-Bugs #26510]
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1016 of DDNS entries between v4 and v6 clients. The new code is used
1017 if the ddns-update-style is set to "standard", the older code is
1018 still available if ddns-update-style is set to "interim". The
1019 oldest DDNS code "ad-hoc" has been removed. Thanks to Thomas Pegeot
1020 who submitted a patch for this issue. This patch is based on
1021 that work with some modifications.
64fb661c 1022 [ISC-Bugs #21139]
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1024- Add a configuration option to the server to suppress using fsync().
1025 Enabling this option will mean that fsync() is never called. This
1026 may provide better performance but there is also a risk that a lease
1027 will not be properly written to the disk after it has been issued
1028 to a client and before the server stops. Using this option is
1029 not recommended.
64fb661c 1030 [ISC-Bugs #34810]
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1032- Add some logging statements to indicate when the server is ready
1033 to serve. One statement is emitted after the server has finished
1034 reading its files and is about to enter the dispatch loop.
1035 This is "Server starting service.".
1036 The second is emitted when a server determines that both it and
1037 its failover peer are in the normal state.
1038 This is "failover peer <name>: Both servers normal."
64fb661c 1039 [ISC-Bugs #33208]
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1041- Add support for accessing options from v6 relays. The v6relay
1042 statement allows the administrator to choose which relay to
1043 use when searching for an option, see the dhcp-options man page
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1044 for a description. The host-identifier option has also been
1045 updated to support the use of relay options, see the dhcpd.conf
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1046 man page for a description.
1047 [ISC-Bugs #19598]
1048
e54ff84f 1049- When doing DDNS if there isn't an appropriate zone statement attempt
80778e94 1050 to find a reasonable nameserver via a DNS resolver. This restores
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1051 some functionality that was lost in the transition to asynchronous
1052 DDNS. Due to the lack of security and increase in fragility of the
1053 system when using this feature we strongly recommend the use of
1054 appropriate zone statements rather than using this functionality.
1055 [ISC-Bugs #30461]
1056
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1057- Add support for specifying the address from which to send
1058 DDNS updates on the DHCP server. There are two new options
1059 "ddns-local-address4" and "ddns-local-address6" that each take
1060 one instance of their respective address types.
1061 [ISC-Bugs #34779]
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1063- Add ignore-client-uids option in the server. This option causes
1064 the server to not record a client's uid in its lease. This
1065 violates the specification but may also be useful when a client
1066 can dual boot using different client ids but the same mac address.
6b9c9f87 1067 Thank you to Brian De Wolf at Cal Poly Pomona for the patch.
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1068 [ISC-Bugs #32427]
1069 [ISC-Bugs #35066]
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1071- Extend the DHCPINFORM processing to honor the subnet selection option
1072 and take host declarations into account.
1073 Thanks to Christof Chen for testing and submitting the patch.
1074 [ISC-Bugs #35015]
1075
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1076- Extend the hardware expression to look into the lease structure
1077 for a hardware address if there is no packet. This allows the
1078 server to find the hardware address during on-expiry processing.
1079 [ISC-Bugs #24584]
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1081- Add definitions for some options that have been specified by the IETF.
1082 [ISC-Bugs #29268]
ccc2a367 1083 [ISC-Bugs #35198]
bc30c84e 1084
01a44a77 1085 Changes since 4.2.0 (bug fixes)
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1087- When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
1088 is no longer truncated to one octet.
8ee352ee 1089
01a44a77 1090- Cleaned up an unused hardware address variable in nak_lease().
4889a646 1091
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1092- Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
1093 reflect support for prefix delegation.
4889a646 1094
01a44a77 1095- Cleaned up some compiler warnings
7dc4e69c 1096
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1097- An optimization described in the failover protocol draft is now included,
1098 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
1099 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
1100 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
1101 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
1102 entry for each lease.
c5bc8b1a 1103
01a44a77 1104- Fix the trace code which was broken by the changes to the DDNS code.
d0a10f6a 1105
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1106- Update the fsync code to work with the changes to the DDNS code. It now
1107 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
dc9d7b08 1108
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1109- When constructing the DNS name structure from a text string append
1110 the root to relative names. This satisfies a requirement in the DNS
1111 library that names be absolute instead of relative and prevents DHCP
1112 from crashing. [ISC-Bugs #21054]
a24b9f23 1113
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1114- "The LDAP Patch" that has been circulating for some time, written by
1115 Brian Masney and S.Kalyanasundraram and maintained for application to
1116 the DHCP-4 sources by David Cantrell has been included. Please be
1117 advised that these sources were contributed, and do not yet meet the
1118 high standards we place on production sources we include by default.
1119 As a result, the LDAP features are only included by using a compile-time
1120 option which defaults off, and if you enable it you do so under your
1121 own recognizance. We will be improving this software over time.
1122 [ISC-Bugs #17741]
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1124- Prohibit including lease time information in a response to a DHCP INFORM.
1125 [ISC-Bugs #21092]
cc17cbc3 1126
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1127! Accept a client id of length 0 while hashing. Previously the server would
1128 exit if it attempted to hash a zero length client id, providing attackers
1129 with a simple denial of service attack. [ISC-Bugs #21253]
1130 CERT: VU#541921 - CVE: CVE-2010-2156
08b2d347 1131
01a44a77 1132- A memory leak in ddns processing was closed. [ISC-Bugs #21377]
08b2d347 1133
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1134- Modify the exception handling for initial context creation. Previously
1135 we would try and clean up before exiting. This could present problems
1136 when the cleanup required part of the context that wasn't available. It
1137 also didn't do much as we exited afterwards anyway. Now we simply log
1138 the error and exit. [ISC-Bugs #21093]
ad4001ce 1139
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1140- A bug was fixed that could cause the DHCPv6 server to advertise/assign a
1141 previously allocated (active) lease to a client that has changed subnets,
1142 despite being on different shared networks. Dynamic prefixes specifically
1143 allocated in shared networks also now are not offered if the client has
1144 moved. [ISC-Bugs #21152]
3cb6f9bb 1145
01a44a77 1146- Add some debugging output for use with the DDNS code. [ISC-Bugs #20916]
f6dc164f 1147
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1148- Fix the trace code to handle timing events better and to truncate a file
1149 before using instead of overwriting it. [ISC-Bugs #20969]
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1151- Modify the determination of the default TTL to use for DDNS updates.
1152 The user may still configure the ttl via ddns-ttl. The default for
1153 both v4 and v6 is now 1/2 the (preferred) lease time with a limit. The
1154 previous defaults (1/2 lease time without a limit for v4 and a default
1155 value for v6) may be used by defining USE_OLD_DDNS_TTL in site.h
1156 [ISC-Bugs #21126]
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1158- libisc/libdns is now brought up to version 9.7.1rc1. This corrects
1159 three reported flaws in ISC DHCP;
d9b5c150 1160
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1161 o DHCP processes (dhcpd, dhclient) fail to start if one of either the
1162 IPv4 or IPv6 address families is not present. [ISC-Bugs #21122]
08e6dad9 1163
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1164 o Assertion failure when attempting to cancel a previously running DDNS
1165 update. [ISC-Bugs #21133]
9f9265b6 1166
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1167 o Compilation failure of libisc/libdns due to the use of a flexible
1168 array member. [ISC-Bugs #21316]
9f9265b6 1169
01a44a77 1170- Add declaration for variable in debug code in alloc.c. [ISC-Bugs #21472]
35de6c8c 1171
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1172- Documentation cleanup covering multiple tickets
1173 [ISC-Bugs #20265] [ISC-Bugs #20259] minor cleanup
1174 [ISC-Bugs #20263] add text describing some default values
1175 [ISC-Bugs #20193] single quotes at the start of a line indicate a control
1176 line to nroff, escape them if we actually want a quote.
1177 [ISC-Bugs #18916] sync the pointer to web pages amongst the different docs
de87ffe3 1178
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1179- 'get-host-names true;' now also works even if 'use-host-decl-names true;'
1180 was also configured. The nature of this repair also fixes another
1181 error; the host-name supplied by a client is no longer overridden by a
1182 reverse lookup of the lease address. Thanks to a patch from Wilco Baan
1183 Hofman supplied to us by the Debian package maintenance team.
1184 [ISC-Bugs #21691] {Debian Bug#509445}
e563ec2e 1185
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1186- The .TH tag for the dhcp-options manpage was typo repaired
1187 thanks to a report from jidanni and the Debian package maintenance
1188 team. [ISC-Bugs #21676] {Debian Bug#563613}
3bedb117 1189
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1190- More documentation changes - primarily to put the options in the dhclient
1191 and dhcpd man pages into the standard form. Thanks in part to a patch
1192 from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
1193 [ISC-Bugs #20264] and parts of [ISC-Bugs #17744] dhclient.8 changes
18a28679 1194
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1195- Add code to clear the pointer to an object in an OMAPI handle when the
1196 object is freed due to a dereference. [ISC-Bugs #21306]
0b2ec8c9 1197
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1198- Fixed a bug that leaks host record references onto lease structures,
1199 causing the server to apply configuration intended for one host to any
1200 other innocent clients that come along later. [ISC-Bugs #22018]
67b2cb45 1201
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1202- Minor code fixes
1203 [ISC-Bugs #19566] When trying to find the zone for a name for ddns allow
1204 the name to be at the apex of the zone.
1205 [ISC-Bugs #19617] Restrict length of interface name read from command line
1206 in dhcpd - based on a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
1207 [ISC-Bugs #20039] Correct some error messages in dhcpd.c
1208 [ISC-Bugs #20070] Better range check on values when creating a DHCID.
9a111ee8 1209 [ISC-Bugs #20198] Avoid writing past the end of the field when adding
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1210 overly long file or server names to a packet and add a log message
1211 if the configuration supplied overly long names for these fields.
1212 Thanks to Martin Pala.
1213 [ISC-Bugs #21497] Add a little more randomness to rng seed in client
1214 thanks to a patch from Jeremiah Jinno.
74977c94 1215
01a44a77 1216- Correct error handling in DLPI [ISC-Bugs #20378]
30e42327 1217
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1218- Remove __sun__ and __hpux__ typedefs in osdep.h as they are now being
1219 checked in configure. [ISC-Bugs #20443]
dbd65517 1220
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1221- Modify how the cmsg header is allocated the v6 send and received routines
1222 to compile on more compilers. [ISC-Bugs #20524]
0f750c4f 1223
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1224- When parsing a domain name free the memory for the name after we are
1225 done with it. [ISC-Bugs #20824]
b95f1ee0 1226
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1227- Add an elapsed time option to the release message and refactor the
1228 code to move most of the common code to a single routine.
1229 [ISC-Bugs #21171].
b95f1ee0 1230
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1231- Two identical log messages for commit_leases() have been disambiguated.
1232 [ISC-Bugs #18915]
0ef9a46e 1233
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1234- Parse date strings more properly - the code now handles semi-colons in
1235 date strings correctly. Thanks to a patch from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
1236 [ISC-Bugs #21501, #20598]
de6c9af6 1237
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1238- Fixes to lease input and output.
1239 [ISC-Bugs #20418] - Some systems don't support the "%s" argument to
1240 strftime, paste together the same string using mktime instead.
1241 [ISC-Bugs #19596] - When parsing iaid values accept printable
1242 characters.
1243 [ISC-Bugs #21585] - Always print time values in omshell as hex
1244 instead of ascii if the values happen to be printable characters.
87132514 1245
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1246- Minor changes for scripts, configure.ac and Makefiles
1247 [ISC-Bugs #19147] Use domain-search instead of domain-name in manual and
1248 example conf file. Thanks to a patch from David Cantrell
1249 at Red Hat.
1250 [ISC-Bugs #19761] Restore address when doing a rebind in DHCPv6
1251 [ISC-Bugs #19945] Properly close the quote on some arguments.
1252 [ISC-Bugs #20952] Add 64 bit types to configure.ac
adb95d23 1253 [ISC-Bugs #21308] Add "PATH=" to CLIENT_PATH environment variable
b047bd38 1254
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1255- Update the code to parse dhcpv6 lease files to accept a semi-colon at
1256 the end of the max-life and preferred-life clauses. In order to be
1257 backwards compatible with older lease files not finding a semi-colon
1258 is also accepted. [ISC-Bugs #22303].
e3c94800 1259
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1260! Handle a relay forward message with an unspecified address in the
1261 link address field. Previously such a message would cause the
e675b663 1262 server to crash. Thanks to a report from John Gibbins. [ISC-Bugs #21992]
01a44a77 1263 CERT: VU#102047 CVE: CVE-2010-3611
dd9237c3 1264
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1265- ./configure on longer searches for -lcrypto to explicitly link against.
1266 This fixes a bug where 'dhclient' would have shared library dependencies
1267 on '/usr/lib'. [ISC-Bugs #21967]
d13db163 1268
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1269- Handle pipe failures more gracefully. Some OSes pass a SIGPIPE
1270 signal to a process and will kill the process if the signal isn't
1271 caught. This patch adds code to turn off the SIGPIPE signal via
1272 a setsockopt() call. The signal is already being ignored as part
1273 of the ISC library. [ISC-Bugs #22269]
b342f2e7 1274
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1275- Restore printing of values in omshell to the style pre 21585. For
1276 21585 we changed the print routines to always display time values
1277 as a hex list. This had a side effect of printing all data strings
1278 as a hex list. We shall investigate other ways of displaying time
1279 values more usefully. [ISC-Bugs #22626]
797aab67 1280
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1281! Fix the handling of connection requests on the failover port.
1282 Previously a connection request from a source that wasn't
1283 listed as a failover peer would cause the server to become
1284 non-responsive. Thanks to a report from Brad Bendily, brad@bendily.com.
1285 [ISC-Bugs #22679]
9a111ee8 1286 CERT: VU#159528 CVE: CVE-2010-3616
bc7f8b8e 1287
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1288- Don't pass the ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to the omapi signal handlers.
1289 Passing it through to the handlers caused the omshell program to fail
1290 to connect to the server. [ISC-Bugs #21839]
d289ee68 1291
adb95d23 1292- Fix the parenthesis in the code to process configuration statements
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1293 beginning with "auth". The previous arrangement caused
1294 "auto-partner-down" to be processed incorrectly. [ISC-Bugs #21854]
d19fa5a1 1295
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1296- Limit the timeout period allowed in the dispatch code to 2^^32-1 seconds.
1297 Thanks to a report from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
1298 [ISC-Bugs #22033], [Red Hat Bug #628258]
bb9189c3 1299
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1300- When processing the format flags for a given option consume the
1301 flag indicating an optional value correctly. A symptom of this
1302 bug was an infinite loop when trying to parse the slp-service-scope
1303 option. Thanks to a patch from Marius Tomaschewski.
1304 [ISC-Bugs #22055]
cbbd2714 1305
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1306- Disable the use of kqueue in the ISC library. This avoids a problem
1307 between the fork and socket code that caused the dhcpd process to
1308 use all available cpu if the program daemonized itself.
1309 [ISC-Bugs #21911]
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1311! When processing a request in the DHCPv6 server code that specifies
1312 an address that is tagged as abandoned (meaning we received a
1313 decline request for it previously) don't attempt to move it from
1314 the inactive to active pool as doing so can result in the server
1315 crashing on an assert failure. Also retag the lease as active
1316 and reset its timeout value.
1317 [ISC-Bugs #21921]
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1319- Removed the restriction on using IPv6 addresses in IPv4 mode. This
1320 allows IPv4 options which contain IPv6 addresses to be specified. For
1321 example the 6rd option can be specified and used like this:
1322 [ISC-Bugs #23039]
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1325 ip6-address, array of ip-address };
1326 option 6rd 16 10 2001:: 1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8;
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1328- Handle some DDNS corner cases better. Maintain the DDNS transaction
1329 information when updating a lease and cancel any existing transactions
9a111ee8 1330 when removing the ddns information.
01a44a77 1331 [ISC-Bugs #23103]
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1333- Some fixes for LDAP
1334 [ISC-Bugs #21783] - Include lber library when building ldap
1335 [ISC-Bugs #22888] - Enable the ldap code when buidling common
1336 The above fixes are from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
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1338- Modify the dlpi code to accept getmsg() returning a positive value.
1339 [ISC-Bugs #22824]
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1341! In dhclient check the data for some string options for
1342 reasonableness before passing it along to the script that
1343 interfaces with the OS.
1344 [ISC-Bugs #23722]
1345 CVE: CVE-2011-0997
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1347- DHCPv6 server now responds properly if client asks for a prefix that
1348 is already assigned to a different client. [ISC-Bugs #23948]
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1350- Add the option "--no-pid" to the client, relay and server code,
1351 to disable writing a pid file. Add the option "-pf pidfile"
1352 to the relay to allow the user to supply the pidfile name at
1353 runtime. Add the "with-relay6-pid-file" option to configure
1354 to allow the user to supply the pidfile name for the relay
1355 in v6 mode at configure time.
1356 [ISC-Bugs #23351] [ISC-Bugs #17541]
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1358- 'dhclient' no longer waits a random interval after first starting up to
1359 begin in the INIT state. This conforms to RFC 2131, but elects not to
9a111ee8 1360 implement a 'SHOULD' direction in section 4.1. The goal of this change
73c83820 1361 is to start up faster. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1363- Added 'initial-delay' parameter that specifies maximum amount of time
1364 before client goes to the INIT state. The default value is 0. In previous
1365 versions of the code client could wait up to 5 seconds. The old behavior
5d082abd 1366 may be restored by using 'initial-delay 5;' in the client config file.
73c83820 1367 [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1369- ICMP ping-check should now sit closer to precisely the number of seconds
1370 configured (or default 1), due to making use of the new microsecond
1371 scale timer internally to dhcpd. This corrects a bug where the server
1372 may immediately timeout an ICMP ping-check if it was made late in the
73c83820 1373 current second. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1375- The DHCP client will schedule renewal and rebinding events in
1376 microseconds if the DHCP server provided a lease-time that would result
1377 in sub-1-second timers. This corrects a bug where a 2-second or lower
1378 lease-time would cause the DHCP client to enter an infinite loop by
73c83820 1379 scheduling renewal at zero seconds. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1381- Client lease records are recorded at most once every 15 seconds. This
1382 keeps the client from filling the lease database disk quickly on very small
73c83820 1383 lease times. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1385- To defend against RFC 2131 non-compliant DHCP servers which fail to
1386 advertise a lease-time (either mangled, or zero in value) the DHCP
1387 client now adds the server to the reject list ACL and returns to INIT
1388 state to hopefully find an RFC 2131 compliant server (or retry in INIT
73c83820 1389 forever). [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1391- Parameters configured to evaluate from user defined function calls can
1392 now be correctly written to dhcpd.leases (as on 'on events' or dynamic
1393 host records inserted via OMAPI). [ISC-Bugs #22266]
1394
1395- If a 'next-server' parameter is configured in a dynamic host record via
1396 OMAPI as a domain name, the syntax written to disk is now correctly parsed
1397 upon restart. [ISC-Bugs #22266]
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1399- The DHCP server now responds to DHCPLEASEQUERY messages from agents using
1400 IP addresses not covered by a subnet in configuration. Whether or not to
1401 respond to such an agent is still governed by the 'allow leasequery;'
1402 configuration parameter, in the case of an agent not covered by a configured
1403 subnet the root configuration area is examined. Server now also returns
1404 vendor-class-id option, if client sent it. [ISC-Bugs #21094]
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1407 [ISC-Bugs #17959] add text to AIX section describing how to have it send
1408 responses to the all-ones address.
1409 [ISC-Bugs #19615] update the includes in dhcpctl/dhcpctl.3 to be more correct
1410 [ISC-Bugs #20676] update dhcpd.conf.5 to include the RFC numbers for DDNS
1411
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1412- Relay no longer crashes, when DHCP packet is received over interface without
1413 any IPv4 address assigned. Also extended logging message about discarding
1414 packets with invalid hlen with information about relevant interface name.
1415 [ISC-Bugs #22409]
1416
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1417- Relay now properly logs that packet was received over interface without
1418 global IPv6 address [ISC-Bugs #24070]
1419
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1420- Linux Packet Filter interface improvement. sockaddr_pkt structure is used,
1421 rather than sockaddr. Packet ethertype is now forced to ETH_P_IP.
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1422 [ISC-Bugs #18975]
1423
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1424- Minor code cleanups - but note port change for #23196
1425 [ISC-Bugs #23470] - Modify when an ignore return macro is defined to
1426 handle unsed error return warnings for more versions of gcc.
1427 [ISC-Bugs #23196] - Modify the reply handling in the server code to
1428 send to a specified port rather than to the source port for the incoming
1429 message. Sending to the source port was test code that should have
1430 been removed. The previous functionality may be restored by defining
1431 REPLY_TO_SOURCE_PORT in the includes/site.h file. We suggest you don't
1432 enable this except for testing purposes.
1433 [ISC-Bugs #22695] - Close a file descriptor in an error path.
1434 [ISC-Bugs #19368] - Tidy up variable types in validate_port.
1435
c616de4f 1436- Code cleanup: remove obsolete PROTO, KandR, INLINE and ANSI_DECL macros
9a111ee8 1437 [ISC-Bugs #13151]
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1439- Compilation problem with gcc4.5 and omshell.c resolved. [ISC-Bugs #23831]
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1441- Client Script fixes
1442 [ISC-Bugs #23045] Typos in client/scripts/openbsd
1443 [ISC-Bugs #23565] In the client scripts add a zone id (interface id) if
1444 the domain search address is link local.
1445 [ISC-Bugs #1277] In some of the client scripts add code to handle the
1446 case of the default router information being changed without the address
1447 being changed.
1448
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1449- Documentation cleanup
1450 [ISC-Bugs #23326] Updated References document, several man page updates
1451
9a111ee8 1452- Server no longer complains about NULL pointer when configured
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1453 server-identifier expression fails to evaluate. [ISC-Bugs #24547]
1454
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1455- Convert ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to ISC_R_SUCCESS when called from other
1456 than the dispatch handler. This fixes an issue where omshell, when
1457 run from the same platform as the server, would appear to fail to
1458 connect. This is a companion to #21839. [ISC-Bugs #23592]
1459
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1460- Enlarge the buffer size used by the Omshell code and some of the
1461 print routines to allow for greater than 60 characters or, when
1462 printing as hex strings, 20 characters. [ISC-Bugs #22743]
1463
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1464- In Solaris 11 switch to using sockets instead of DLPI, thanks
1465 to a patch form Oracle. [ISC-Bugs #24634].
1466
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1467- Strict checks for content of domain-name DHCPv4 option can now be
1468 configured during compilation time. Even though RFC2132 does not allow
1469 to store more than one domain in domain-name option, such behavior is
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1470 now enabled by default, but this may change some time in the future.
1471 See ACCEPT_LIST_IN_DOMAIN_NAME define in includes/site.h.
1472 [ISC-Bugs #24167]
1473
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1474- DNS Update fix. A misconfigured server could crash during DNS update
1475 processing if the configuration included overlapping pools or
1476 multiple fixed-address entries for a single address. This issue
1477 affected both IPv4 and IPv6. The fix allows a server to detect such
1478 conditions, provides the user with extra information and recommended
1479 steps to fix the problem. If the user enables the appropriate option
1480 in site.h then server will be terminated
1481 [ISC-Bugs #23595]
1482
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1483! Two packets were found that cause a server to halt. The code
1484 has been updated to properly process or reject the packets as
1485 appropriate. Thanks to David Zych at University of Illinois
1486 for reporting this issue. [ISC-Bugs #24960]
1487 One CVE number for each class of packet.
1488 CVE-2011-2748
1489 CVE-2011-2749
1490
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1491- Fix the code that checks for an existing DDNS transaction to cancel
1492 when removing DDNS information, so that we will continue with the
1493 processing if we have a lease even if it doesn't have an outstanding
1494 transaction. [ISC-Bugs #24682]
5a38e43f 1495
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1496- Add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to configure.ac to avoid rebuilding
1497 configuration files. [ISC-Bugs #24107]
5a38e43f 1498
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1499- Add support for passing DDNS information to a DNS server over
1500 an IPv6 address. [ISC-Bugs #22647]
524705e5 1501
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1502- Enhanced patch for 23595 to handle IPv4 fixed addresses more
1503 cleanly. [ISC-Bugs #23595]
66be0ad1 1504
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1505! Add a check for a null pointer before calling the regexec function.
1506 Without this check we could, under some circumstances, pass
1507 a null pointer to the regexec function causing it to segfault.
1508 Thanks to a report from BlueCat Networks.
1509 [ISC-Bugs #26704].
1510 CVE: CVE-2011-4539
57fbc772 1511
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1512! Modify the DDNS handling code. In a previous patch we added logging
1513 code to the DDNS handling. This code included a bug that caused it
1514 to attempt to dereference a NULL pointer and eventually segfault.
1515 While reviewing the code as we addressed this problem, we determined
1516 that some of the updates to the lease structures would not work as
1517 planned since the structures being updated were in the process of
1518 being freed: these updates were removed. In addition we removed an
1519 incorrect call to the DDNS removal function that could cause a failure
1520 during the removal of DDNS information from the DNS server.
1521 Thanks to Jasper Jongmans for reporting this issue.
1522 [ISC-Bugs #27078]
1523 CVE: CVE-2011-4868
57fbc772 1524
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1525- Fixed the code that checks if an address the server is planning
1526 to hand out is in a reserved range. This would appear as
1527 the server being out of addresses in pools with particular ranges.
1528 [ISC-Bugs #26498]
57fbc772 1529
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1530- In the DDNS code handle error conditions more gracefully and add more
1531 logging code. The major change is to handle unexpected cancel events
1532 from the DNS client code.
1533 [ISC-Bugs #26287]
57fbc772 1534
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1535- Tidy up the receive calls and eliminate the need for found_pkt.
1536 [ISC-Bugs #25066]
9a111ee8 1537
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1538- Add support for Infiniband over sockets to the server and
1539 relay code. We've tested this on Solaris and hope to expand
1540 support for Infiniband in the future. This patch also corrects
1541 some issues we found in the socket code.
1542 [ISC-Bugs #24245]
197c917e 1543
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1544- Add a compile time check for the presence of the noreturn attribute
1545 and use it for log_fatal if it's available. This will help code
1546 checking programs to eliminate false positives.
1547 [ISC-Bugs #27539]
8bd445a1 1548
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1549- Fixed many compilation problems ("set, but not used" warnings) for
1550 gcc 4.6 that may affect Ubuntu 11.10 users. [ISC-Bugs #27588]
83d409ae 1551
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1552- Modify the code that determines if an outstanding DDNS request
1553 should be cancelled. This patch results in cancelling the
1554 outstanding request less often. It fixes the problem caused
1555 by a client doing a release where the TXT and PTR records
1556 weren't removed from the DNS.
1557 [ISC-BUGS #27858]
6aaaf6a4 1558
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1559- Use offsetof() instead of sizeof() to get the sizes for dhcpv6_relay_packet
1560 and dhcpv6_packet in several more places. Thanks to a report from
1561 Bruno Verstuyft and Vincent Demaertelaere of Excentis.
1562 [ISC-Bugs #27941]
4e0997c6 1563
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1564- Remove outdated note in the description of the bootp keyword about the
1565 option not satisfying the requirement of failover peers for denying
1566 dynamic bootp clients.
1567 [ISC-bugs #28574]
ad59838e 1568
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1569- Multiple items to clean up IPv6 address processing.
1570 When processing an IA that we've seen check to see if the
1571 addresses are usable (not in use by somebody else) before
1572 handing it out.
1573 When reading in leases from the file discard expired addresses.
1574 When picking an address for a client include the IA ID in
1575 addition to the client ID to generally pick different addresses
1576 for different IAs.
1577 [ISC-Bugs #23138] [ISC-Bugs #27945] [ISC-Bugs #25586]
1578 [ISC-Bugs #27684]
f33dc722 1579
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1580- Remove unnecessary checks in the lease query code and clean up
1581 several compiler issues (some dereferences of NULL and treating
1582 an int as a boolean).
1583 [ISC-Bugs #26203]
4dc5a6b1 1584
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1585- Fix the NA and PD allocation code to handle the case where a client
1586 provides a preference and the server doesn't have any addresses or
1587 prefixes available. Previously the server ignored the request with
1588 this patch it replies with a NoAddrsAvail or NoPrefixAvail response.
1589 By default the code performs according to the errata of August 2010
1590 for RFC 3315 section 17.2.2; to enable the previous style see the
1591 section on RFC3315_PRE_ERRATA_2010_08 in includes/site.h. This option
1592 may be removed in the future.
1593 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
1594 [ISC-Bugs #22676]
3004baba 1595
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1596- Fix up some issues found by static analysis.
1597 A potential memory leak and NULL dereference in omapi.
1598 The use of a boolean test instead of a bitwise test in dst.
1599 [ISC-Bugs #28941]
3004baba 1600
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1601- Rotate the lease file when running in v6 mode.
1602 Thanks to Christoph Moench-Tegeder at Astaro for the
1603 report and the first version of the patch.
1604 [ISC-Bugs #24887]
9d97e644 1605
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1606- Correct code to calculate timing values in client to compare
1607 rebind value to infinity instead of renew value.
1608 Thanks to Chenda Huang from H3C Technologies Co., Limited
1609 for reporting this issue.
1610 [ISC-Bugs #29062]
23d39ae2 1611
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1612- Fix some issues in the code for parsing and printing options.
1613 [ISC-Bugs #22625] - properly print options that have several fields
1614 followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
1615 [ISC-Bugs #27289] - properly parse options in declarations that have
1616 several fields followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
1617 [ISC-Bugs #27296] - properly determine if we parsed a 16 or 32 bit
1618 value in evaluate_numeric_expression (extract-int).
1619 [ISC-Bugs #27314] - properly parse a zero length option from
1620 a lease file. Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski from SUSE for the report
1621 and prototype patch for this ticket as well as ticket 27289.
23d39ae2 1622
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1623! Previously the server code was relaxed to allow packets with zero
1624 length client ids to be processed. Under some situations use of
1625 zero length client ids can cause the server to go into an infinite
1626 loop. As such ids are not valid according to RFC 2132 section 9.14
1627 the server no longer accepts them. Client ids with a length of 1
1628 are also invalid but the server still accepts them in order to
1629 minimize disruption. The restriction will likely be tightened in
1630 the future to disallow ids with a length of 1.
1631 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
9a111ee8 1632 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
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1633 [ISC-Bugs #29851]
1634 CVE: CVE-2012-3571
0c9d3a81 1635
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1636! When attempting to convert a DUID from a client id option
1637 into a hardware address handle unexpected client ids properly.
1638 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
9a111ee8 1639 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
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1640 [ISC-Bugs #29852]
1641 CVE: CVE-2012-3570
e1a40211 1642
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1643! A pair of memory leaks were found and fixed. Thanks to
1644 Glen Eustace of Massey University, New Zealand for finding
1645 this issue.
1646 [ISC-Bugs #30024]
1647 CVE: CVE-2012-3954
e7e17397 1648
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1649- Existing legacy unit-tests have been migrated to Automated Test
1650 Framework (ATF). Several new tests have been developed. To enable
1651 unit-tests, please use --with-atf in configure script. A Developer's
1652 Guide has been added. To generate it, please use make devel in
1653 the doc directory. It is currently in early stages of development,
1654 but is expected to grow in the near future. [ISC-Bugs 25901]
ef86959b 1655
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1656! An issue with the use of lease times was found and fixed. Making
1657 certain changes to the end time of an IPv6 lease could cause the
1658 server to abort. Thanks to Glen Eustace of Massey University,
1659 New Zealand for finding this issue.
1660 [ISC-Bugs #30281]
1661 CVE: CVE-2012-3955
ef86959b 1662
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1663- Update the memory leakage debug code to work with v6.
1664 [ISC-Bugs #30297]
919f1407 1665
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1666- Relax the requirements for deleting an A or AAAA record.
1667 Previously the DDNS removal code required both the A or AAAA
1668 record and the TXT record to exist. This requirement could
1669 cause problems if something interrupted the removal leaving
1670 the TXT record alone. This relaxation was codified in RFC 4703.
1671 [ISC-Bugs #30734]
8a0d9ca4 1672
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1673- Modify the failover code to handle incorrect peer names
1674 better. Previously the structure holding the name might
1675 have been freed inappropriately in some cases and not
1676 freed in other cases.
1677 [ISC-Bugs #30320]
17a8f0e2 1678
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1679- Add a configure option, enable-secs-byteorder, to deal with
1680 clients that do the byte ordering on the secs field incorrectly.
1681 This field should be in network byte order but some clients
1682 get it wrong. When this option is enabled the server will examine
1683 the secs field and if it looks wrong (high byte non zero and low
1684 byte zero) swap the bytes. The default is disabled. This option
1685 is only useful when doing load balancing within failover.
1686 [ISC-Bugs #26108]
badc999d 1687
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1688- Fix a set of issues that were discovered via a code inspection
1689 tool. Thanks to Jiri Popelka and Tomas Hozza Red Hat for the logs
1690 and patches.
1691 [ISC-Bugs #23833]
0d8c3d6e 1692
9a111ee8 1693- Parsing unquoted base64 strings improved. Parser now properly handles
01a44a77 1694 strings that contain reserved names. [ISC-Bugs #23048]
1e05d095 1695
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1696- Modify the nak_lease function to make some attempts to find a
1697 server-identifier option to use for the NAK.
1698 [ISC-Bugs #25689]
1e05d095 1699
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1700- The client now passes information about the options it requested
1701 from the server to the script code via environment variables.
1702 These variables are of the form requested_<option_name>=1 with
1703 the option name being the same as used in the new_* and old_*
1704 variables.
1705 [ISC-Bugs #29068]
1943bbf8 1706
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1707- Add support for a simple check that the server id in a request message
1708 to a failover peer matches the server id of the server. This support
1709 is enabled by editing the file includes/site.h and uncommenting the
1710 definition for SERVER_ID_CHECK. The option has several restrictions
1711 and issues - please read the comment in the site.h file before
1712 enabling it.
1713 [ISC-Bugs #31463]
8a513c43 1714
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1715- Tidy up some compiler issues in the debug code.
1716 [ISC-Bugs #26460]
d122accf 1717
adb95d23 1718- Move the dhcpd.conf example file to dhcpd.conf.example to avoid
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1719 overwriting the dhcpd.conf file when installing a new version of
1720 ISC DHCP. The user will now need to manual copy and edit the
1721 dhcpd.conf file as desired.
1722 [ISC-Bugs #19337]
0d8c3d6e 1723
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1724- Check the status value when trying to read from a connection to
1725 see if it may have been closed. If it appears closed don't try
1726 to read from it again. This avoids a potential busy-wait like
1727 loop when the peer names are mismatched.
1728 [ISC-Bugs #31231]
590298e7 1729
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1730- Remove an unused variable to keep compilers happy.
1731 [ISC-Bugs #31983]
2b58b865 1732
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1733- Modify test makefiles to be more similar to standard makefiles
1734 and comment out a currently unused test.
1735 [ISC-Bugs #32089]
600ee619 1736
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1737- Address static analysis warnings.
1738 [ISC-Bugs #33510] [ISC-Bugs #33511]
a5c7bf77 1739
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1740- Silence benign static analysis warnings.
1741 [ISC-Bugs #33428]
a5c7bf77 1742
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1743- Add check for 64-bit package for atf.
1744 [ISC-Bugs #32206]
a5c7bf77 1745
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1746- Use newer auto* tool packages and turn on RFC_3542 support on Mac OS.
1747 [ISC-Bugs #26303]
a5c7bf77 1748
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1749- Remove a variable when it isn't being used due to #ifdefs to avoid
1750 a compiler warning on Solaris using GCC.
1751 [ISC-Bugs #33032]
0585235c 1752
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1753- Add a check for too much whitespace in a config or lease file.
1754 Thanks to Paolo Pellegrino for finding the issue and a suggestion
1755 for the patch.
1756 [ISC-Bugs #33351]
0585235c 1757
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1758- Fix several problems with using OMAPI to manipulate class and subclass
1759 objects.
1760 [ISC-Bugs #27452]
f4bc8261 1761
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1762- Added a sleep call after killing the old client to allow time
1763 for the sockets to be cleaned. This should allow the -r option
1764 to work more consistently.
1765 [ISC-Bugs #18175]
33692791 1766
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1767- Missing files for ISC DHCP Developer's Guide are now included in
1768 the release tarballs. To generate this documentation, please use
1769 make devel command in doc directory. [ISC-Bugs #32767]
928618dd 1770
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1771- Update client script for use with openwrt.
1772 [ISC-Bugs #29843]
928618dd 1773
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1774- Fix the socket handling for DHCPv6 clients to allow multiple instances
1775 of a client on a single machine to work properly. Previously only
1776 one client would receive the packets. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat
1777 for the bug report and a potential patch.
1778 [ISC-Bugs #34784]
3c941d42 1779
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1780- Added support for gentle shutdown after signal is received.
1781 [ISC-Bugs #32692] [ISC-Bugs 34945]
bdd8e747 1782
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1783- Enhance the DHCPv6 server logging to include the addresses that are assigned
1784 to the clients.
1785 [ISC-Bugs #26377]
3da71461 1786
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1787- Fix an operation in the DDNS code to be a bitwise instead of logical or.
1788 [ISC-Bugs #35138]
fdfebedf 1789
7aa153b8 1790
adbef119
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1791 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
1792
d340bc24
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1793- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
1794 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 1795 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
adbef119 1796
0829d595
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1797- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
1798 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
1799 Cantrell at Red Hat.
1800
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1801- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
1802 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
1803
a41d7a25
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1804- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
1805
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1806- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
1807 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
1808 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
1809 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
1810 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
1811 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
1812
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1813- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
1814 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
1815 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
1816 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
1817 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
1818 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
1819 FQDN options by default).
1820
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1821- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
1822 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
1823 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
1824 determined lease time) are omitted.
1825
adb95d23 1826- Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asynchronous fashion,
45adf35c 1827 the DHCP server or client can now continue with its processing while
98bf1607 1828 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
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1829
1830- The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
1831 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
1832 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
1833
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1834 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
1835
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1836- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
1837
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1838- Validate the argument to the -p option.
1839
47e6eb82
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1840- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
1841 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
1842 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
1843 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
1844 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
1845
159c89d7
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1846- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
1847
1aa0fe5e
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1848- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
1849 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
1850 had been deleted from configuration.
1851
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1852- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
1853 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
571c38b0 1854 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
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1855 were being ignored.
1856
64e1823d
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1857- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
1858
26e59ee9
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1859- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
1860 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
1861 Nordahl.
1862
70ea9345
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1863- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
1864 dhcpv6 disabled.
1865
8d7dca58 1866- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 1867 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
819186b7 1868
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1869- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
1870 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
1871
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1872- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
1873 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
1874 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
1875
1876- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
1877 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
1878 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
1879 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
1880 fewer system calls.
1881
a3dcc0b1
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1882- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
1883 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
1884 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
1885 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
1886 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
1887 Christof Chen.
1888
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1889- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
1890 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
1891 and in normal state.
1892
1893- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
1894 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
1895
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1896- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
1897
1898- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
1899 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
1900 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
1901
dedde1ba
DH
1902- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
1903 rather than restarting the listener.
1904
a57df74a
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1905- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
1906 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
1907
1908- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
1909 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
1910 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
1911
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1912- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
1913 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
1914 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
1915 timeouts).
1916
792156a9
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1917- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
1918 in failover state records.
1919
8a4e543b
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1920! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
1921 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
1922 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 1923 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
8a4e543b 1924
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1925- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
1926 processing a DHCPINFORM.
1927
1b12d999
DH
1928- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
1929 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
1930 last option definition is used.
1931
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1932- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
1933 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
1934 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
1935
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1936- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
1937 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
1938
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1939- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
1940 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
1941 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
1942 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
1943 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
1944 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
1945
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1946- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
1947 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
1948 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
1949 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
1950
e4e3a2ab
DH
1951! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
1952 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
95f5d38c 1953
875e99dc
SR
1954- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
1955 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
1956
2267da84
DH
1957- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
1958 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
1959 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
1960 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
1961 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
571c38b0 1962 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
2267da84
DH
1963 configuration.
1964
cd3f0b9b
DH
1965- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
1966 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
1967
0493fdca
SR
1968- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
1969 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
1970 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
1971 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
1972
95bba8b6
SR
1973- Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
1974 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
1975 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
9a111ee8 1976 was always properly set.
95bba8b6 1977
adbef119 1978 Changes since 4.1.0b1
ebf076fe
EH
1979
1980- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
1981 be recognized.
61d75ea2 1982
a4ffedd1
DH
1983 Changes since 4.1.0a2
1984
1985- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
1986 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
1987 "abandoned".
1988
6ff3b26d
FD
1989- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
1990
1387545f
DH
1991- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
1992 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
1993
1994- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
1995 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
1996
1997- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 1998 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
1387545f 1999
399d3dbe
DH
2000- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
2001
fbcee149
DH
2002- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
2003 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
2004 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
2005 in future releases.
2006
f1672d89
DH
2007- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
2008 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
2009
236d3a99
DH
2010- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
2011 'dhclient -6' support.
2012
efa5e6b9
DH
2013- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
2014 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
2015 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
2016 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
2017
7d6180be 2018 Changes since 4.1.0a1
edcb5c46
EH
2019
2020- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
2021
51e7687f
EH
2022- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
2023
20210a7b
EH
2024- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
2025 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
2026 only the latter. Fixed.
2027
535485df
EH
2028- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
2029
8fbb55ff
DH
2030- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
2031 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
2032
61220a00
EH
2033- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
2034
c40e954c
EH
2035- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
2036
63971a83
DH
2037- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
2038 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
2039 --enable-early-chroot.
2040
66cebfcb
DH
2041- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
2042 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
2043
f8cbf390
DH
2044- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
2045 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
2046 parameter.
2047
8269561d
DH
2048- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
2049 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
2050
b445a411
DH
2051- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
2052 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
2053
bd72740e
FD
2054- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
2055
9322442f
FD
2056- Merged IA_XX related structures.
2057
8dea7ba7
FD
2058- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
2059
4619c0a2
DH
2060- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
2061
9ac4206a
DH
2062- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
2063 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
2064 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
2065
420d8b3f
FD
2066- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
2067 support.
2068
40ec5f38
DH
2069- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
2070 repaired.
2071
80097764
FD
2072- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
2073
ffbaa880
FD
2074- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
2075
7de20a95
EH
2076- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
2077 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
2078
d352732e
EH
2079- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
2080 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
2081
7d6180be
DH
2082- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
2083 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
2084
2085- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
2086 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
2087 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
2088 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
2089 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
2090 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
2091 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
2092 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
2093 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
2094 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
2095 shared-network.
2096
2097- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
2098 configured option values.
2099
2100- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
2101 support class statements.
2102
adb95d23 2103- Compilation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
dd484ced
DH
2104 selection were repaired.
2105
ecddae64
DH
2106- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
2107 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
2108 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
2109 by the OS.
2110
2111- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
2112 address.
2113
2114- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
2115 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
2116
d104d45b
DH
2117- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
2118
2119- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
2120
2121- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
2122 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
2123
01a54c17 2124 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
3c12f746 2125
6d7f9584
FD
2126- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
2127
4cafb815 2128- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 2129 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
4cafb815 2130
022fe95e
EH
2131- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
2132 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
2133 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
2134
9a111ee8 2135- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
1dcc3612
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2136 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
2137
aabfa4de
FD
2138- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
2139
0674055a
FD
2140- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
2141 reserved IDs avoided).
2142
b51c785f
FD
2143- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
2144
900405e9
FD
2145- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
2146 carries a rapid-commit option.
2147
96b620e5
FD
2148- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
2149 an empty active lease.
2150
be62cf06
FD
2151- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
2152
01a54c17
EH
2153- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
2154 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
2155 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
2156 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
2157
adb95d23 2158- MINUS tokens should be parsable again.
01a54c17
EH
2159
2160- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
2161 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
2162 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
2163 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
2164 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
2165 Christof Chen.
2166
2167 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
2168
2169- DHCP now builds on AIX.
2170
2171- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
2172 config file but -6 is not specified.
2173
2174- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
2175
2176- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
2177 be more helpful.
2178
2179- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
2180 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
2181 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
2182
2183- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
2184 was repaired.
2185
2186- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
2187 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
2188 been repaired.
2189
2190- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
2191 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
2192 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
2193
49f61135
DH
2194- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
2195 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
2196
41d4652f
DH
2197- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
2198 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
2199 IPv4 address.
2200
2c9bf1f4
DH
2201- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
2202 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
2203 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
2204 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
2205 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
2206
2207- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
2208 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
2209 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
2210
cff9b78f
SK
2211- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
2212
c4d29896
SK
2213- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
2214
57fcb8d9
SK
2215- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
2216 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
2217 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
9a111ee8 2218 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
57fcb8d9
SK
2219 unnecessary logging.
2220
219a65eb
DH
2221- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
2222 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
2223
ffdf3c8c
DH
2224- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
2225 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
2226 is incompatible is printed.
2227
2228- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
2229 a previously undefined option code.
2230
00a002fc
MA
2231- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
2232 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
2233
9a111ee8 2234- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
7e9f7a1b
FD
2235 than the year 2000.
2236
e2cfde76
FD
2237- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
2238
cabdb9b1
FD
2239- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
2240
5d89d60f
FD
2241- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
2242
61d75ea2
DH
2243 Changes since 4.0.0b3
2244
2245- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
2246 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
2247 configuration.
76db44f9 2248
e32529a5
EH
2249- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
2250 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
2251
9a111ee8 2252- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
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SK
2253 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
2254 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
e4a6be15 2255
9a111ee8
TM
2256- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
2257 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
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SK
2258 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
2259 a requested address.
2260
703873ab
DH
2261- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
2262 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
2263 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
2264 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
2265
2266- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
2267 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
2268 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
2269 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
2270
b024480e
DH
2271- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
2272 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
2273 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
2274
c0216cb7
DH
2275- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
2276 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
2277
1ac57173
FD
2278- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
2279
83835822
DH
2280- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
2281 codes through some conditions.
2282
c54db708
FD
2283- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
2284 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
2285
e5d83524
DH
2286- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
2287 seemingly random values.
2288
821f2dda
DH
2289- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
2290
f8b3c6f4
DH
2291- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
2292 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
2293 one ever has.
2294
9a111ee8
TM
2295- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
2296 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
b9137d42
SK
2297 to a REQUEST.
2298
9f1d5a2f
DH
2299- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
2300 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
2301 level.
2302
e4a6be15
DH
2303 Changes since 4.0.0b2
2304
65cf86d7
EH
2305- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
2306
b1d3778c
DH
2307- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
2308 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
2309 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
2310 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
2311 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
2312
bead14ea
DH
2313- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
2314 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
2315 new address.
2316
f765ec36
SK
2317 Changes since 4.0.0b1
2318
75135a3f 2319- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
adb95d23 2320 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protocols can be run
75135a3f
EH
2321 simultaneously on a single interface.
2322
5c2d55c7
EH
2323- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
2324 of service under unusual server configurations
2325
2326- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
2327
9a111ee8 2328- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
f765ec36 2329 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
fa9b593d 2330
edb1283e
DH
2331- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
2332 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
2333 on every pool rebalance run.
2334
c71c6399
DH
2335- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
2336 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
2337
5279b8f3
DH
2338- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
2339 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
2340
ab3a540f 2341 Changes since 4.0.0a3
763cba6b 2342
9a111ee8 2343- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
884a458f
SK
2344 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
2345
fa9b593d
DH
2346- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
2347 point out the problem.
2348
9a111ee8 2349- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
1b5053b5
SK
2350 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
2351 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
2352
c886c298
SK
2353- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
2354 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
2355
eaf7eb17
DH
2356- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
2357 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
2358 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
2359
109e00db
DH
2360- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
2361
9a111ee8 2362- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
3ad9d48f
SK
2363 fixed by Marcus Goller.
2364
8eab95f2
DH
2365- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
2366 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
2367 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
2368 regardless of the existence of bindings.
2369
07b9a351
DH
2370- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
2371
7285af30
DH
2372- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
2373 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
2374 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
2375 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
2376 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
2377
2394b26b
DH
2378- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
2379
ab3a540f
SK
2380 Changes since 4.0.0a2
2381
97050349
SK
2382- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
2383 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
2384
763cba6b 2385- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
e889ded1 2386
237f8d3a 2387- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
9a111ee8 2388 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
237f8d3a
SK
2389 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
2390
28868515
SK
2391- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
2392
d00d373a
SK
2393- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
2394 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
2395
8dfd5744
DH
2396- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
2397 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
2398 loaded from persistent storage.
2399
45d545f0 2400- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
0c20eab3
DH
2401 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
2402 necessary.
2403
9a111ee8
TM
2404- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
2405 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
f800f4f6
SK
2406 rapid-commit option.
2407
845e9677
DH
2408- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
2409 non-128-bits in length were removed.
2410
76c944da
SK
2411 Changes since 4.0.0a1
2412
71765b58
SK
2413- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
2414 and fix.
2415
847e7000
SK
2416- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
2417
bda33169
SK
2418- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
2419
9b21e73e
SK
2420- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
2421 for when loading configuration.
2422
8da06bb1
DH
2423- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
2424 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
2425 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
2426
dd328225
DH
2427- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
2428 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
2429 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
2430 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
2431
76c944da
SK
2432- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
2433
f796f70a
DH
2434- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
2435 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 2436
c11f349d
EH
2437- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
2438
af5fa176
EH
2439- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
2440
2441- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
2442 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
2443
a546f2a7
EH
2444- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
2445 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
2446
b55d0d5f
EH
2447- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
2448
26be82af
DH
2449- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
2450 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
2451
98bd7ca0
DH
2452 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
2453
d9b43370
SK
2454- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
2455
8c1752d2
DH
2456- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
2457 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
2458
98bd7ca0
DH
2459- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
2460
a512d11b
DH
2461- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
2462 initialized.
2463
2464- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
2465
2466- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
f66f02cc
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2467 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
2468
2469- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
a512d11b 2470
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2471- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
2472
2473- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
2474 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
2475
2476- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
2477
8ea19a71 2478- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 2479 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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2480
2481- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
2482 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
2483
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2484- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
2485
2486- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
2487
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2488- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
2489
98bd7ca0
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2490 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
2491
2492- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
2493 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
2494 no support currently for both.
2495
2496- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
2497 IAADDR option.
2498
2499- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
2500 options.
2501
2502- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
2503
2504- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
2505 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
2506
2507- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
2508 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
2509 specifying type 1 or type 2).
2510
2511- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
2512 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
2513
2514- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
2515 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
2516 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
2517 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
2518 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
2519 differently, they both use the same code here).
2520
2521- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
2522 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
2523 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
2524
2525- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
2526
2527- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
2528 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
2529 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
2530 it should not intercept.
2531
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2532 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
2533
2534- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
2535 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
2536 between primary and secondary.
2537
2538- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
2539 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
2540 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
2541
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2542- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
2543
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2544- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
2545 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
2546 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
2547 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
2548 or REQUEST messages.
2549
2550- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
2551 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
2552
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2553- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
2554
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2555 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
2556
adb95d23 2557- The parse warning that 'deny dynamic bootp;' must be configured for
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2558 failover protected subnets was removed.
2559
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2560 Changes since 3.1.0b2
2561
2562- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
2563 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
2564 odd number of leases).
2565
2566- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
2567 rebalance run, and one after.
2568
2569- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
2570 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
2571 processing these messages.
2572
fe5b0fdd 2573 Changes since 3.1.0b1
27837f95 2574
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2575- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
2576 objects.
2577
1ba87b37
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2578- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
2579 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
2580 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
2581 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
2582 at Allianz.
2583
a58da042
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2584- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
2585 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
2586
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2587- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
2588 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
2589
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2590- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
2591 caused the server to abort.
2592
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2593- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
2594 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
2595 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
2596
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2597- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
2598 by empty spaces would not get included.
2599
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2600- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
2601 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
2602
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2603- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
2604 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
2605
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2606- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
2607 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
2608
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2609- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
2610 on the parameter request list.
2611
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2612 Changes since 3.1.0a3
2613
2614- Some spelling fixes.
98311e4b 2615
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2616 Changes since 3.1.0a2
2617
2618- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
2619 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
2620
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2621- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
2622 domain-search option syntax.
2623
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2624 Changes since 3.1.0a1
2625
2626- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
2627 hash table was repaired.
2628
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2629- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
2630 entering normal state.
2631
2632- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
2633 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
66c8f734
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2634 'xid mismatch' log messages.
2635
2636- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
2637 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
616d67cb 2638
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2639- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
2640 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
2641 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
2642 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
2643
45d545f0 2644- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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2645 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
2646 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
2647 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
2648 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
2649 to their needs.
2650
2651- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
2652 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
2653 run will attempt balance.
2654
a7ee93fe
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2655- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
2656
98311e4b
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2657 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
2658
2659- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
2660 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
2661 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
2662 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
2663
98bd7ca0 2664- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 2665 was introduced.
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2666
2667- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
2668 via OMAPI.
2669
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2670- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
2671 the protocol draft.
2672
98311e4b
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2673- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
2674 one does not already exist on the system.
2675
b43c87ad 2676- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 2677
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2678- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
2679 matches RFC 3074.
2680
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2681- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
2682 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 2683 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2727c1cf 2684
febbd402
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2685- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
2686 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 2687 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 2688
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2689- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
2690 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
2691 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
2692 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
2693
2694- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
2695 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
2696 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
2697 priority over the client's parameter request list.
2698
f7fdb216 2699- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 2700 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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2701 DHCPv6 support.
2702
5e864416
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2703- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
2704 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
2705 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
2706
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2707- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
2708 have been incorporated.
2709
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2710- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
2711 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
2712 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
2713 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
2714 that belong to the peer in need.
2715
2716- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
2717 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
2718
2719- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
2720 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
2721 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
2722
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2723- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
2724 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
2725
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2726- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
2727 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
2728 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
2729 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
2730 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
2731
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2732- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
2733 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
2734 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
2735 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
2736
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2737- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
2738 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
2739 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
2740 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
2741 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
2742 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
2743 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
2744 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
2745 ignoring this aspect of their request.
2746
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2747- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
2748 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
2749
41e45067 2750- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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2751 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
2752 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
2753 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
2754
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2755- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
2756 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
2757 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
2758 hardware and funding the development.
6d103865 2759
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2760- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
2761 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
2762 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
2763 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
2764 via Robin Breathe.
2765
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2766- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
2767 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
2768 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
2769 from Christof Chen.
2770
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2771- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
2772 formally supported.
2773
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2774 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
2775
2776- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
2777 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
2778
c1e6c832
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2779 Changes since 3.0.5
2780
f546c28b
DH
2781- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
2782 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
2783 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 2784 they actually received.
f546c28b
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2785
2786- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
2787
c1e6c832
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2788- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
2789 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
23e10d37
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2790 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
2791 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
c1e6c832 2792
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2793- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
2794
d69fb6a8 2795- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 2796 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
d69fb6a8 2797
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2798- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
2799 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
2800 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
2801 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
2802 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
2803 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
2804 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
23e10d37
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2805 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
2806
2807- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
2808 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
2809 'file' field.
02428754 2810
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2811- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
2812 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
2813
67674ffb
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2814- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
2815 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
2816 a patch from Kevin Steves.
2817
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2818- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
2819 from Chris Wagner.
2820
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2821- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
2822 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
2823 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
2824
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2825- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
2826 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
2827 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
2828 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
2829 was set.
2830
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2831- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
2832 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
2833
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2834- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
2835 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
2836 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
2837 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
2838 active ones.
2839
02428754 2840 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
0a73b7b6 2841
901306d5 2842- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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2843 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
2844 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
2845 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
2846 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
2847
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2848- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
2849 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
2850
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2851 Changes since 3.0.4
2852
2853- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
2854 scopes are actually global has been added.
2855
2856- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
2857 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
2858 known to be damaging.
2859
2860- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
2861 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
2862 balancing).
2863
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2864- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
2865 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
2866 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
2867
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2868- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
2869 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
2870 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
2871
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2872- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
2873 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
2874 more clear now.
2875
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2876- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
2877 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
2878 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
2879 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
2880 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 2881 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
6cbc6629 2882
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2883- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
2884 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
2885
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2886- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
2887 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
2888 made possible.
2889
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2890- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
2891 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
2892 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
2893
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2894- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
2895 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
2896
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2897- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
2898 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
2899 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
2900
2178df03
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2901- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
2902 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
2903 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
2904 value with the later configured value).
2905
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2906- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
2907 have been named and documented.
2908
2909- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
2910 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
2911 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
2912 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
2913 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
2914 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
2915 write new output.
2916
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2917 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
2918
2919- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
2920 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
2921
2922 Changes since 3.0.4b3
2923
2924- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
2925 mailing list.
2926
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2927 Changes since 3.0.4b2
2928
45d545f0 2929- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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2930 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
2931
2932- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
2933 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
2934
2935- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
2936 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
2937 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
2938 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
2939
2940- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
2941 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
2942 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
2943 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
2944 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
2945 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
2946 transition (properly).
2947
2948- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
2949
2950 Changes since 3.0.4b1
2951
2952- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
2953 STDIN after reading one line.
2954
2955- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
2956 descriptor it opened twice.
2957
2958- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
2959 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
2960 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
2961
2962 Changes since 3.0.3
2963
2964- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
2965 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
2966 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
2967
2968- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
2969 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
2970 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
2971
2972- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
2973 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 2974 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
88cd8aca
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2975 leases to allocate.
2976
2977- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 2978 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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2979 than the entire block of them.
2980
3a16098f
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2981! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
2982 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
2983 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
2984 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
2985 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
2986 to a patch from infamous42md.
2987
2988! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
2989 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
2990 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
2991 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
2992 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
2993 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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2994
2995- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
2996 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
2997 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
2998
2999- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 3000 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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3001
3002- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
3003 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
3004 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
3005 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
3006 transitional states.
3007
3008- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
3009 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
3010 once it detects the old db does not exist.
3011
3012- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
3013 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
3014 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
3015
3016- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 3017 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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3018
3019- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
3020 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
3021
3022- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
3023 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
3024 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
3025
3026- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
3027 patch from 'infamous42md'.
3028
3029- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
3030 repaired.
3031
3032- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
3033 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
3034 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
3035 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
3036
3037- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
3038 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
3039 data.
3040
3041- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
3042 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
3043 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
3044 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
3045 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
3046
3047- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
3048 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
3049 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
3050 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
3051 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
3052
3053- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
3054 has been repaired.
3055
3056- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
3057 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
3058 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
3059 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 3060 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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3061
3062- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 3063 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
88cd8aca 3064
45d545f0 3065- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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3066 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
3067 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
3068 move to 3.[01].x.
3069
3070- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
3071 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
3072
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3073 Changes since 3.0.3b3
3074
3075- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
3076 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
3077
3078- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
3079 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
3080 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
3081 workaround.
3082
3083 Changes since 3.0.3b2
3084
3085- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
3086 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
3087
3088 Changes since 3.0.3b1
3089
3090- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
3091 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
3092 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
3093
3094- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
3095 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
3096 dynamic updates were also retouched.
3097
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3098 Changes since 3.0.2
3099
3100- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 3101 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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3102 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
3103
3104- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
3105 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
3106 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
3107 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
3108 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
3109
3110- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
3111 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 3112 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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3113
3114- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
3115 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 3116 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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3117
3118- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
3119 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
3120 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
3121 Peter Poeml.
3122
3123- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
3124 Dr. Peter Poeml.
3125
3126- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
3127 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
3128 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
3129 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
3130 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
3131 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
3132
3133- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
3134 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
3135 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
3136 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
3137
3138- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
3139 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
3140 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
3141 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
3142
3143- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
3144 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
3145
3146- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
3147 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
3148 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
3149
3150- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
3151 7 bytes, and failover.
3152
3153- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
3154 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 3155 at Red Hat.
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3156
3157- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
3158 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
3159 should work better.
3160
3161- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
3162 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
3163 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
3164
3165- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
3166 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
3167 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
3168
3169 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
3170
3171- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
3172 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
3173
3174 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
3175
45d545f0 3176- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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3177 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
3178 overloading. This was repaired.
3179
3180- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
3181 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
3182 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
3183 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
3184 three chunks to fit.
3185
3186- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
3187 were repaired.
3188
3189- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
3190 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
3191 leak).
3192
3193 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
3194
3195- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
3196 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
3197
3198 Changes since 3.0.2b1
3199
3200- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
3201
3202 Changes since 3.0.1
3203
3204- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
3205 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
3206 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
3207
3208- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
3209 name was not provided by the server.
3210
3211- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
3212 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
3213
3214- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
3215 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
3216
3217- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
3218 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
3219
3220- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
3221
3222- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
3223
3224- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
adb95d23 3225 previously were assumed to not include dynamic bootp clients are now
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3226 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
3227 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
3228 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
3229
3230- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
3231 the configuration be globally scoped.
3232
3233- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
3234 Farkas.
3235
3236- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
3237 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
3238
3239- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
3240 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
3241
3242- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
3243 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
3244
3245- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
3246 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
3247 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
3248 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
3249
3250- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
3251 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
3252 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
3253 respond to POOLREQ messages.
3254
3255- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
3256 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
3257 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
3258
3259- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
3260
3261- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
3262 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
3263 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
3264
3265- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
3266 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
3267 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
3268 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
3269 Fjone and directconnect.no.
3270
3271- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
3272 to Andreas Gustafsson.
3273
3274- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
3275 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
3276
3277- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
3278 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
3279 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
3280 DISCOVER timeout handling.
3281
3282- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
3283 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
3284
3285- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
3286 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
3287 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
3288
3289- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
3290 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
3291 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
3292 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
3293 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
3294 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
3295
3296- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
3297 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
3298 Infoblox.
3299
3300- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
3301
3302- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
3303 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
3304 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
3305 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
3306 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
3307 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
3308 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
3309
3310- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
3311 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
3312 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
3313
3314- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
3315 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
3316 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
3317
3318- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
3319
3320 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
3321
3322- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
3323 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
3324 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
3325 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
3326 systems either.
3327
3328- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
3329
3330- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
3331 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
3332 is false.
3333
3334- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
3335 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
3336
3337- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
3338
3339 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
3340
3341! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
3342 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
3343 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
3344 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
3345 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
3346 both finding and solving the problem.
3347
3348! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
45d545f0 3349 in log_*() functions was evidenced, on some specific platforms where
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3350 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
3351 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
3352 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
3353 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
3354 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
3355 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
3356 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
3357 published version of ISC DHCP.
3358
3359- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
3360
3361- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
3362
3363 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
3364
3365- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
3366 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
3367 Richard Hirst.
3368
3369- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
3370 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
3371 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
3372
3373- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
3374
3375- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
3376 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
3377 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
3378 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
3379
3380- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 3381 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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3382
3383- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
3384 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
3385
3386- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
3387
3388 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
3389
3390- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
3391 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
3392
3393- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
3394 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
3395 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
3396
3397- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
3398 by name was fixed.
3399
45d545f0 3400- Declaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
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3401 longer result in error.
3402
3403- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
3404
3405- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
3406 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
3407 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
3408
3409- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
3410 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
3411
3412- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
3413 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
3414 Blapp.
3415
3416- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
3417 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
3418 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
3419 Martin Blapp.
3420
3421- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
3422 expiry times in failover configurations.
3423
3424- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
3425 Steve G.
3426
3427- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
3428 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
3429
3430- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
3431 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
3432 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
3433 now "unknown-144".
3434
3435- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
3436 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
3437
3438 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
3439
3440- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
3441
3442- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
3443 not be bash.
3444
3445- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
3446
3447- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
3448 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
3449 that errored before will now work properly.
3450
3451- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
3452 names was repaired.
3453
3454- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
3455 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
3456 configuration file.
3457
3458- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
3459 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
3460
3461- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
3462 error rather than a null dereference.
3463
3464 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
3465
3466- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
3467
3468- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
3469
3470- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
3471 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
3472
3473- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
3474
3475- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
3476
3477- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
3478 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
3479 self-corrupting lease databases.
3480
3481- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
3482
3483- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
3484 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
3485
3486- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
3487
3488- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
3489
3490- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
3491 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
3492 Ling Gou.
3493
3494- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
3495 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
3496
3497- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
3498 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
3499 Ted Lemon for the patch.
3500
3501- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
3502 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
3503
3504 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
3505
3506- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
3507 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
3508
3509- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
3510
3511- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
3512 a memory leak.
3513
3514- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
3515 script.
3516
3517- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
3518
3519- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
3520
3521- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
3522
3523- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
3524
3525- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
3526
3527- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
3528
3529- Increment the hop count when relaying.
3530
3531- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
3532
3533- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
3534
3535- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
3536
3537- Change the type of rbuf_max.
3538
3539- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
3540
3541 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
3542
3543- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
3544 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
3545 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
3546
3547 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
3548
3549- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
3550 to be renewed.
3551
3552- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
3553 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
3554
3555- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
3556 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
3557
3558- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
3559 that two permit lists matched.
3560
3561- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
3562 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
3563
3564- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
3565
3566- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
3567 requested it, contrary to the standard.
3568
3569- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
3570
3571- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
3572
3573- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
3574 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
3575 going to update its A record.
3576
3577- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
3578 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
3579 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
3580 DNS server.
3581
3582- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
3583
3584- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
3585
3586- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
3587 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
3588 NetBSD project).
3589
3590- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
3591 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
3592
3593- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
3594 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
3595
3596- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
3597
3598- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
3599
3600- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
3601 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
3602 failover protocol standard.
3603
3604- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
3605 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
3606 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
3607
3608- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
3609 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
3610 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
3611 do so.
3612
3613- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
3614
3615 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
3616
3617- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
3618
3619- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
3620 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
3621
3622- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
3623 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
3624
3625- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
3626 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
3627 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
3628
3629- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
3630 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
3631 network, merge the two pools.
3632
3633- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
3634 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
3635 fix this bug.
3636
3637 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
3638
3639- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
3640 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
3641
3642- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
3643 the same case.
3644
3645- Additional documentation.
3646
3647- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
3648 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
3649
3650 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
3651
3652- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
3653- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
3654
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3656
3657- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
3658 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
3659 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
3660 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
3661 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
3662
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3664
3665- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
3666 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
3667 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
3668 wasn't the one that removed it.
3669
3670- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
3671 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
3672 were not configured.
3673
3674- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
3675
3676- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
3677 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
3678 routing information.
3679
3680- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
3681 request being sent.
3682
3683- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
3684 done.
3685
3686- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
3687 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
3688 were pending.
3689
3690- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
3691 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
3692 problems with failover.
3693
3694- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
3695 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
3696 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
3697
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3699
3700- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
3701 smash in the subclass allocation code.
3702
3703- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
3704 no object is open, it dumps core.
3705
3706- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
3707
3708- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
3709
3710- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
3711
3712- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
3713 a host object attribute with a null value.
3714
3715 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
3716
3717- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
3718
3719- Fix an obscure core dump.
3720
3721- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
3722 when crucial information is left out.
3723
3724- Log "no free leases" as an error.
3725
3726- Documentation updates.
3727
3728 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
3729
3730- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
3731
3732- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
3733 structure wasn't zeroed.
3734
3735- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
3736 incorrectly.
3737
3738- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
3739 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
3740 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
3741 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
3742 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
3743 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
3744 restarted.
3745
3746 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
3747
3748- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
3749 in failover-enabled pools.
3750
3751- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
3752 declarations).
3753
3754- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
3755 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
3756
3757- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
3758 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
3759
3760- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
3761
3762- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
3763 defined but not referenced by any pools.
3764
3765- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
3766
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3768
3769- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
3770
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3771 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 2
3772
3773- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
3774
3775- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
3776
3777- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
3778
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3779 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 1
3780
3781- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
3782 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
3783 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
3784
3785- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
3786 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
3787 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
3788 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
9a111ee8 3789 string.
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3790
3791- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
3792
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3793 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8
3794
3795- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
3796 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
3797
3798- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
3799 malformed packets.
3800
3801- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
3802
3803- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
3804 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
3805 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
3806
3807- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
3808
3809- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
3810
3811- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
3812
3813- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
3814 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
3815
3816- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
3817 tcp connections from being played back.
3818
3819- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
3820 on exit.
3821
3822- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
3823
3824- Add some configurability to the build system.
3825
3826- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
3827
3828- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
3829 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
3830 hadn't been noticed until now.
3831
3832 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
3833
3834- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
3835 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
3836
3837- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
3838 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
3839 conformant, but also didn't work).
3840
3841- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
3842 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
3843
3844- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
3845 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
3846
3847- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
3848 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
3849
3850- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
3851 variables to leases via OMAPI.
3852
3853- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
3854 doing failover.
3855
3856- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
3857 running on alpha processors.
3858
3859- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
3860 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
3861
3862- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
3863
3864- Install omshell (including new documentation).
3865
3866- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
3867 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
3868
3869- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
3870
3871- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
3872 actually named (key names are domain names).
3873
3874- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
3875
3876- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
3877 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
3878
3879- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
3880 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
3881
3882- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
3883 statements.
3884
3885- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
3886 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
3887
3888- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
3889 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
3890 operating.
3891
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3893
3894- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
3895 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
3896 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
3897 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
3898
3899- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
3900 using omapi to manipulate leases.
3901
3902- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
3903
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3904 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
3905
3906- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
3907 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
3908
3909- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
3910 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
3911 to the chain.
3912
3913- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
3914
3915- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
3916
3917- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
3918
98311e4b 3919- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
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3920 attribute values in omshell.
3921
98311e4b 3922- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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3923
3924- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
3925
3926 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
3927
3928- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
3929 DHCPDECLINE.
3930
3931- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
3932
3933- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
3934 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
3935 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
3936
3937- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
3938
3939- Documentation fixes.
3940
3941- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
3942 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
3943
3944- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
3945 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
3946
3947- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
3948
3949- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
3950
3951- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
3952 case-insensitive.
3953
3954- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
3955
98311e4b 3956- If a signature algorithm is not terminated with '.', terminate it so
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3957 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
3958 consistently.
3959
3960- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
3961 systems with the probe not working correctly.
3962
3963- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
3964
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3965 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 3
3966
3967- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
3968 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
3969 result of duplicate leases.
3970
3971- Document OMAPI server objects.
3972
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3973 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Patchlevel 1
3974
3975- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
3976 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
3977
3978- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
3979 core dumps.
3980
3981- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
3982 Friedrich.
3983
3984- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
3985
3986 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
3987
3988- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
3989 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 3990 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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3991 billing class code.
3992
3993- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
3994 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
3995
3996- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
3997 trace file.
3998
79ea3de8 3999 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1 Patchlevel 1
87784777 4000
79ea3de8
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4001- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
4002 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
4003 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
4004 e.g., Digital Unix.
4005
4006- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
4007 when no error had occurred.
4008
4009- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
4010 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
4011 non-communicating state.
4012
4013- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
4014
4015- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
4016 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
4017 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
4018
4019- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
4020 when the client lease expired.
4021
4022- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
4023 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
4024 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
4025 in testing.
4026
4027- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
4028 the command line, it would fail.
4029
4030- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
4031 user impact).
4032
4033- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
4034
4035- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
4036 they're executable.
4037
4038 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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4039
4040- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
4041 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
4042 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
4043 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
4044
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4045- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
4046 Transmeta.
4047
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4048- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
4049 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
4050 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
4051 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
4052
4053- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
4054 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
4055
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4056 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 24
4057
4058- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
4059 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
4060
4061- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
4062
4063- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
4064
4065- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
4066
4067- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
4068
4069- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
4070
4071- Update some parts of the README file.
4072
4073- Support GCC on SCO.
4074
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4076
4077- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
4078 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
4079
4080- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
4081 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
4082 unbill the old class.
4083
4084- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
4085 process the state transition immediately.
4086
4087- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
4088 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
4089
4090- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
4091
4092- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
4093
4094- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
4095
4096- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
4097
4098- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
4099 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
4100 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
4101
4102- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
4103 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
4104
4105- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
4106 lease file.
4107
4108- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
4109
4110- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
2aa36519 4111
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4113
4114- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
4115 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
4116
4117- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
4118
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4120
4121- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
4122
adbef119 4123 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 20
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4124
4125- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
4126
4127- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
4128 pl19.
4129
4130- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
4131 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
4132 past the regression test.
4133
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4135
4136- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
4137 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
4138
4139- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
4140 DHCPREQUEST.
4141
4142- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
4143
4144- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
4145
4146- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
4147
adbef119 4148 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 18
b3fad8ac 4149
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4150- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
4151 (Damien Neil)
4152
4153- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
4154 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
4155
4156- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
4157 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
4158 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
4159
4160- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
4161 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
4162 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
4163 message.
4164
4165- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
4166 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
4167 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
4168
98311e4b 4169- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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4170 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
4171 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
4172 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
4173 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
4174 this way will work.
4175
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4176- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
4177
4178- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
4179 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
4180 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
4181 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
4182
4183 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
4184
4185 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
4186
4187- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
4188 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
4189 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
4190
4191- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
4192 Hermann Lauer.
4193
4194- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
4195 messages.
4196
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4197- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
4198 it contained quoted strings.
4199
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4200 ** there was no pl17 **
4201
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4204- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
4205 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
4206 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
4207 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
4208 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
4209 tracking down memory leaks.
4210
4211- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
4212 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
4213 Solaris.
4214
4215- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
4216 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
4217 corruption and core dumps.
4218
4219- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
4220 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
4221
4222- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
4223
4224- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
4225 and implemented by Damien Neil.
4226
4227- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
4228 name and version to standard output.
4229
4230- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
4231
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4232- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
4233 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
4234
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4235- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
4236
4237- Lots of documentation updates.
4238
4239- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
4240 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
4241
4242- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
4243
4244- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
4245 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
4246
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4248
4249- Some documentation tweaks.
4250
4251- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
4252
4253- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
4254
4255- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
4256 agent options into them.
4257
4258- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
4259
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4260- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
4261 options.
4262
adbef119 4263 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 14
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4264
4265- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
4266 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
4267 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
4268 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
4269 used in class statements to control address allocation.
4270
4271- Fix up documentation.
4272
4273- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
4274 significantly in a high-demand situation.
4275
4276- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
4277
4278- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
4279
4280- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
4281 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
4282 practical use otherwise.
4283
4284- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
4285 for debugging.
4286
adbef119 4287 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 13
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4288
4289- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
4290 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
4291 dump on some systems.
4292
4293- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
4294 option.
4295
4296- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
4297 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
4298
4299- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
4300 that were not printing enough information.
4301
4302- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
4303 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
4304
4305- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
4306 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
4307 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
4308 were answering.
4309
4310- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
4311 the transition.
9a111ee8 4312
2f2e7960 4313
adbef119 4314 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 12
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4315
4316- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
4317
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4318 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
4319
4320- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
4321 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
4322 representation from working correctly.
4323
4324- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
4325 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
4326 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
4327 could spin.
4328
4329- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
4330 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
4331
4332- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
4333 interface name on the command line.
4334
4335- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
4336 client state.
4337
4338- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
4339 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
4340 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
4341 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
4342 added by Ted Lemon.
4343
4344- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
4345 be made to log debugging information and other information.
4346
4347- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
4348 end option.
4349
4350- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
4351 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
4352 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
4353
4354- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
4355 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
4356 face of a null hardware address on input.
4357
4358- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
4359 specified unqualified.
4360
4361- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
4362 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
4363
4364- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
4365 RFC.
4366
4367- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
4368
4369- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
4370
4371- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
4372 it works.
4373
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4374 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
4375
4376- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
4377 to CVS.
4378
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4379 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
4380
4381- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
4382
4383- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
4384 in patchlevel 9.
4385
4386- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
4387 options at renewal time.
4388
4389- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
4390 configuration language.
4391
4392- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
4393
4394- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
4395 done when no client hostname was received.
4396
4397- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
4398
4399- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
4400 the DHCP option space.
4401
4402- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
4403
4404- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
4405 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
4406
4407- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
4408 silently dropped.
4409
4410- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
4411 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
4412
4413- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
4414 will be correctly updated.
4415
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4416 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
4417
4418- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
4419 bounds-checking.
4420
4421 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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4422
4423- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
4424
3922772a 4425 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 6
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4427- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
4428 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
4429 possible to exploit it any further than that.
4430
4431- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
4432 option.
4433
4434- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
4435 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
4436 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
4437 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
4438 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
4439 meaningfully.
4440
4441- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
4442 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
4443 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
4444
4445- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
4446 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
4447 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
4448 this one down!
4449
4450- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
4451 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
4452 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
4453 down and fixing this problem.
4454
4455 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
4456
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4457- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
4458 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
4459
4460- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
4461 environment.
4462
4463- Fix suffix operator.
4464
4465- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
4466
4467- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
4468 connection code.
4469
4470- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
4471
4472- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
4473
4474- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
4475 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
4476
4477- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
4478
4479- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
4480
4481- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
4482 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
4483
4484- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
4485 spawn with.
4486
4487- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
4488 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
4489
4490- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
4491 for OMAPI.
4492
4493- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
4494 can install in host declarations.
4495
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4496 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
4497
4498- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
4499 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
4500 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
4501 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
4502 comments)!
4503
4504- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
4505
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4506- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
4507 request for help on this with patches!
4508
4509- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
4510 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
4511 lost, they never reconnect.
4512
4513- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
4514 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
4515
4516- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
4517 dump.
4518
4519- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
4520 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
4521 catching this one.
4522
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4523 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
4524
4525- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 4526 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
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4527 lease renewal time.
4528
4529- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
4530 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
4531 declared without a key.
4532
4533- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
4534
4535- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
4536 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
4537
4538- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
4539 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
4540 determine the maximum size of the response.
4541
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4542 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
4543
359b023e
TL
4544- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
4545 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
4546
592d8153
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4547- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
4548 RENEWING client.
4549
4550- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
4551
4552- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
4553 using memcmp().
4554
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4555 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
4556
4557- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
4558 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
4559 pointing this out.
4560
4561- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
4562 exit.
4563
4564- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
4565
4566- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
4567 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.