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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
7d1a2ce8 2 Version 4.3.1b1
5ade3c84 3 8 July 2014
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0171be2d 5 Release Notes
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0171be2d 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
14
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
21This release also adds suppport for the standard DDNS as described in the
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.
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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
57187138 55 Changes since 4.3.0
01a44a77 56
5ade3c84 57- Tidy up several small tickets.
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58 Correct parsing of DUID from config file, previously the LL type
59 was put in the wrong place in the DUID string.
60 [ISC-Bugs #20962]
61 Add code to parse "do-forward-updates" as well as "do-forward-update"
62 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
63 [ISC-Bugs #31328]
64 Remove log_priority as it isn't currently used.
65 [ISC-Bugs #33397]
66 Increase the size of the buffer used for reading interface information.
67 [ISC-Bugs #34858]
01a44a77 68
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69- Remove an extra set of the msg_controllen variable.
70 [ISC-Bugs #21035]
71
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72- Add a more understandable error message if a configuration attempts
73 to add multiple keys for a single zone. Thanks to a patch from Jiri
74 Popelka at Red Hat.
75 [ISC-Bugs #31892]
76
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77- Fix some minor issues in the dst code.
78 [ISC-Bugs #34172]
79
5ade3c84 80- Properly #ifdef functions so that the code can compile without NSUPDATE.
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81 [ISC-Bugs #35058]
82
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83- Update the partner's stos (start time of state, basically when we last
84 heard from this partner) field when updating the state in failover.
85 [ISC-Bugs #35549]
86
5ade3c84 87- Modify the overload processing to allow space for the remote agent ID.
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88 [ISC-Bugs #35569]
89 Handle the ordering of the SUBNET_MASK option even if it is the last
90 option in the list.
91 [ISC-Bugs #24580]
92
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93- Remove the code that allows a server to follow RFC3315 instead of
94 the subsequent errata from August 2010 when determining which IAs
95 to include if no addresses will be assigned.
2c4be1d7 96 [ISC-Bugs #28938]
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98- Remove unused RCSID tags.
99 [ISC-Bugs #35846]
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101- Correct the v6 client timing code. When doing the timing backoff
102 for MRT limit it to MRD.
5ade3c84 103 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and fix.
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104 [ISC-Bugs #21238
105
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106- Add a log entry when killing a client and remove the PID files
107 when a server, relay or client are killed.
108 [ISC-Bugs #16970]
109 [ISC-Bugs #17258]
110
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111- Some minor cleanups in the client code.
112 In addition to checking for dhcpc check for bootpc in the services list.
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113 [ISC-Bugs #18933]
114 Correct the client code to only try to get a lease once when the
115 given the "-1" argument.
5ade3c84 116 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and fix.
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117 [ISC-Bugs #26735]
118 When asked for the version don't send the output to syslog.
119 [ISC-Bugs #29772]
120 Add the next server information to the environment variables for
121 use by the client script. In order to avoid changing the client
122 lease file the next server information isn't written to it.
123 Thanks to Tomas Hozza at Red Hat for the suggestion and a prototype fix.
124 [ISC-Bugs #33098]
125
5ade3c84 126- Several updates to the dhcp server code.
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127 When not in quiet mode print out the files being used.
128 [ISC-Bugs #17551]
129 As accessing some pid files may require privileges move the dropping
130 of permission bits due to the paranoia patch to be after the pid code.
5ade3c84 131 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and fix.
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132 [ISC-Bugs #25806]
133 When processing a "--version" request don't output the version information
134 to syslog.
135
5ade3c84 136- Add the "enable-log-pid" build option to the configure script. When enabled
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137 this causes the client, server and relay programs to include the PID
138 number in syslog messages.
139 Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski for the suggestion and proto-patch.
140 [ISC-Bugs #29713]
141
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142- Add a #define to specify the prefix length used when a client attempts
143 to configure an address. This can be modified by editing includes/site.h.
144 By default it is set to 64. While 128 might be a better choice it would
145 also be a change for currently running systems, so we have left it at 64.
63c8800c 146 [ISC-Bugs #DHCP-2]
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148- Add a run time option to the client "-df" to allow the administrator to
149 point to a second lease file the client can search for a DUID. This can
150 be used to allow a v4 and a v6 instance of the client to share a DUID.
151 The second file will only be searched if there isn't a DUID in the main
152 lease file and the DUID will be written out to the main lease file.
153 [ISC-Bugs #34886]
154
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155- Have the client fsync the lease file to avoid lease corruption if the
156 client hibernates or otherwise shuts down.
157 [ISC-Bugs #35894]
158
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159- Add a check for L2VLAN in bpf.c to help support VLAN interfaces
160 Thanks to Steinar Haug for the suggestion.
161 [ISC-Bugs #36033]
162
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163- Modify the handling of the resolv.conf file to allow the DHCP
164 process to start up even if the resolv.conf file has problems.
165 [ISC-Bugs #35989]
166
a89fd0cd 167- Add threshold logging functionality. Two new options,
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168 log-threshold-low and log-threshold-high, indicate to the
169 server if and when it should log an error message as addresses
170 in a pool are used.
171 [ISC-Bugs #34487]
172
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173- Add code to properly dereference a pointer in the dhclient code
174 on an error condition.
e9326fd0 175 [ISC-Bugs #36194]
b05e05b7 176
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177- Add code to help clean up soft leases.
178 [ISC-Bugs #36304]
179
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180- Disable the gentle shutdown functionality until we can determine
181 the best way to present it to remove or reduce the side effects.
182 [ISC-Bugs #36066]
183
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184 Changes since 4.3.0rc1
185
186- None
187 Changes since 4.3.0b1
188
189- Tidy up receive packet processing.
190 Thanks to Brad Plank of GTA for reporting the issue and suggesting
191 a possible patch.
192 [ISC-Bugs #34447]
193
194 Changes since 4.3.0a1
195
196- Modify the message displayed when a process hits a fatal error.
197 The new message is much shorter and simply points to the README
198 and our website for directions on bug submissions.
199 [ISC-Bugs #24789]
200
201- Handle an absent resolv.conf file better.
202 [ISC-Bugs #35194]
203
6980ae03 204 Changes since 4.2.0 (new features)
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206- If a client renews before 'dhcp-cache-threshold' percent of its lease
207 has elapsed (default 25%), the server will reuse the allocated lease
208 (provide a lease within the currently allocated lease-time) rather
209 than extend or renew the lease. This absolves the server of needing
210 to perform an fsync() operation on the lease database before reply,
211 which improves performance. [ISC-Bugs #22228]
80778e94 212 Updated this patch to support asynchronous DDNS. If the server is
8cd88e20 213 attempting to do DDNS on a lease it should be udpated and written to
4809ef5c 214 disk even if that wouldn't be necessary due to the thresholding.
8cd88e20 215 [ISC-Bugs #26311]
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217- The 'no available billing' log line now also logs the name of the last
218 matching billing class tried before failing to provide a billing.
219 [ISC-Bugs #21759]
220
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221- A problem with missing get_hw_addr function when --enable-use-sockets
222 was used is now solved on GNU/Linux, BSD and GNU/Hurd systems. Note
223 that use-sockets feature was not tested on those systems. Client and
224 server code no longer use MAX_PATH constant that is not defined on
3cb6f9bb 225 GNU/Hurd systems. [ISC-Bugs #25979]
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227- Add a perl script in the contrib directory, dhcp-lease-list.pl, which
228 can parse v4 lease files and output the lease information in a more
229 human friendly manner. This was written by Christian Hammers with
230 some updates by vom and ISC. This is contributed code and is not
231 supported by ISC; however it may be useful to some users.
232 [ISC-Bugs #20680]
233
a7341359 234- Add support in v6 for on-commit, on-expire and on-release.
4809ef5c 235 [ISC-Bugs #27912]
a7341359 236
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237- Add support for using classes with v6.
238 [ISC-Bugs #26510]
239
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240- Update the DDNS code to current standards and allow for sharing
241 of DDNS entries between v4 and v6 clients. The new code is used
242 if the ddns-update-style is set to "standard", the older code is
243 still available if ddns-update-style is set to "interim". The
244 oldest DDNS code "ad-hoc" has been removed. Thanks to Thomas Pegeot
245 who submitted a patch for this issue. This patch is based on
246 that work with some modifications.
64fb661c 247 [ISC-Bugs #21139]
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249- Add a configuration option to the server to suppress using fsync().
250 Enabling this option will mean that fsync() is never called. This
251 may provide better performance but there is also a risk that a lease
252 will not be properly written to the disk after it has been issued
253 to a client and before the server stops. Using this option is
254 not recommended.
64fb661c 255 [ISC-Bugs #34810]
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257- Add some logging statements to indicate when the server is ready
258 to serve. One statement is emitted after the server has finished
259 reading its files and is about to enter the dispatch loop.
260 This is "Server starting service.".
261 The second is emitted when a server determines that both it and
262 its failover peer are in the normal state.
263 This is "failover peer <name>: Both servers normal."
64fb661c 264 [ISC-Bugs #33208]
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266- Add support for accessing options from v6 relays. The v6relay
267 statement allows the administrator to choose which relay to
268 use when searching for an option, see the dhcp-options man page
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269 for a description. The host-identifier option has also been
270 updated to support the use of relay options, see the dhcpd.conf
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271 man page for a description.
272 [ISC-Bugs #19598]
273
e54ff84f 274- When doing DDNS if there isn't an appropriate zone statement attempt
80778e94 275 to find a reasonable nameserver via a DNS resolver. This restores
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276 some functionality that was lost in the transition to asynchronous
277 DDNS. Due to the lack of security and increase in fragility of the
278 system when using this feature we strongly recommend the use of
279 appropriate zone statements rather than using this functionality.
280 [ISC-Bugs #30461]
281
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282- Add support for specifying the address from which to send
283 DDNS updates on the DHCP server. There are two new options
284 "ddns-local-address4" and "ddns-local-address6" that each take
285 one instance of their respective address types.
286 [ISC-Bugs #34779]
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288- Add ignore-client-uids option in the server. This option causes
289 the server to not record a client's uid in its lease. This
290 violates the specification but may also be useful when a client
291 can dual boot using different client ids but the same mac address.
6b9c9f87 292 Thank you to Brian De Wolf at Cal Poly Pomona for the patch.
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293 [ISC-Bugs #32427]
294 [ISC-Bugs #35066]
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296- Extend the DHCPINFORM processing to honor the subnet selection option
297 and take host declarations into account.
298 Thanks to Christof Chen for testing and submitting the patch.
299 [ISC-Bugs #35015]
300
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301- Extend the hardware expression to look into the lease structure
302 for a hardware address if there is no packet. This allows the
303 server to find the hardware address during on-expiry processing.
304 [ISC-Bugs #24584]
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306- Add definitions for some options that have been specified by the IETF.
307 [ISC-Bugs #29268]
ccc2a367 308 [ISC-Bugs #35198]
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01a44a77 310 Changes since 4.2.0 (bug fixes)
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312- When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
313 is no longer truncated to one octet.
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01a44a77 315- Cleaned up an unused hardware address variable in nak_lease().
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317- Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
318 reflect support for prefix delegation.
4889a646 319
01a44a77 320- Cleaned up some compiler warnings
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322- An optimization described in the failover protocol draft is now included,
323 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
324 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
325 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
326 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
327 entry for each lease.
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01a44a77 329- Fix the trace code which was broken by the changes to the DDNS code.
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331- Update the fsync code to work with the changes to the DDNS code. It now
332 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
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334- When constructing the DNS name structure from a text string append
335 the root to relative names. This satisfies a requirement in the DNS
336 library that names be absolute instead of relative and prevents DHCP
337 from crashing. [ISC-Bugs #21054]
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339- "The LDAP Patch" that has been circulating for some time, written by
340 Brian Masney and S.Kalyanasundraram and maintained for application to
341 the DHCP-4 sources by David Cantrell has been included. Please be
342 advised that these sources were contributed, and do not yet meet the
343 high standards we place on production sources we include by default.
344 As a result, the LDAP features are only included by using a compile-time
345 option which defaults off, and if you enable it you do so under your
346 own recognizance. We will be improving this software over time.
347 [ISC-Bugs #17741]
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349- Prohibit including lease time information in a response to a DHCP INFORM.
350 [ISC-Bugs #21092]
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352! Accept a client id of length 0 while hashing. Previously the server would
353 exit if it attempted to hash a zero length client id, providing attackers
354 with a simple denial of service attack. [ISC-Bugs #21253]
355 CERT: VU#541921 - CVE: CVE-2010-2156
08b2d347 356
01a44a77 357- A memory leak in ddns processing was closed. [ISC-Bugs #21377]
08b2d347 358
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359- Modify the exception handling for initial context creation. Previously
360 we would try and clean up before exiting. This could present problems
361 when the cleanup required part of the context that wasn't available. It
362 also didn't do much as we exited afterwards anyway. Now we simply log
363 the error and exit. [ISC-Bugs #21093]
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365- A bug was fixed that could cause the DHCPv6 server to advertise/assign a
366 previously allocated (active) lease to a client that has changed subnets,
367 despite being on different shared networks. Dynamic prefixes specifically
368 allocated in shared networks also now are not offered if the client has
369 moved. [ISC-Bugs #21152]
3cb6f9bb 370
01a44a77 371- Add some debugging output for use with the DDNS code. [ISC-Bugs #20916]
f6dc164f 372
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373- Fix the trace code to handle timing events better and to truncate a file
374 before using instead of overwriting it. [ISC-Bugs #20969]
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376- Modify the determination of the default TTL to use for DDNS updates.
377 The user may still configure the ttl via ddns-ttl. The default for
378 both v4 and v6 is now 1/2 the (preferred) lease time with a limit. The
379 previous defaults (1/2 lease time without a limit for v4 and a default
380 value for v6) may be used by defining USE_OLD_DDNS_TTL in site.h
381 [ISC-Bugs #21126]
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383- libisc/libdns is now brought up to version 9.7.1rc1. This corrects
384 three reported flaws in ISC DHCP;
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386 o DHCP processes (dhcpd, dhclient) fail to start if one of either the
387 IPv4 or IPv6 address families is not present. [ISC-Bugs #21122]
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389 o Assertion failure when attempting to cancel a previously running DDNS
390 update. [ISC-Bugs #21133]
9f9265b6 391
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392 o Compilation failure of libisc/libdns due to the use of a flexible
393 array member. [ISC-Bugs #21316]
9f9265b6 394
01a44a77 395- Add declaration for variable in debug code in alloc.c. [ISC-Bugs #21472]
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397- Documentation cleanup covering multiple tickets
398 [ISC-Bugs #20265] [ISC-Bugs #20259] minor cleanup
399 [ISC-Bugs #20263] add text describing some default values
400 [ISC-Bugs #20193] single quotes at the start of a line indicate a control
401 line to nroff, escape them if we actually want a quote.
402 [ISC-Bugs #18916] sync the pointer to web pages amongst the different docs
de87ffe3 403
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404- 'get-host-names true;' now also works even if 'use-host-decl-names true;'
405 was also configured. The nature of this repair also fixes another
406 error; the host-name supplied by a client is no longer overridden by a
407 reverse lookup of the lease address. Thanks to a patch from Wilco Baan
408 Hofman supplied to us by the Debian package maintenance team.
409 [ISC-Bugs #21691] {Debian Bug#509445}
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411- The .TH tag for the dhcp-options manpage was typo repaired
412 thanks to a report from jidanni and the Debian package maintenance
413 team. [ISC-Bugs #21676] {Debian Bug#563613}
3bedb117 414
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415- More documentation changes - primarily to put the options in the dhclient
416 and dhcpd man pages into the standard form. Thanks in part to a patch
417 from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
418 [ISC-Bugs #20264] and parts of [ISC-Bugs #17744] dhclient.8 changes
18a28679 419
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420- Add code to clear the pointer to an object in an OMAPI handle when the
421 object is freed due to a dereference. [ISC-Bugs #21306]
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423- Fixed a bug that leaks host record references onto lease structures,
424 causing the server to apply configuration intended for one host to any
425 other innocent clients that come along later. [ISC-Bugs #22018]
67b2cb45 426
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427- Minor code fixes
428 [ISC-Bugs #19566] When trying to find the zone for a name for ddns allow
429 the name to be at the apex of the zone.
430 [ISC-Bugs #19617] Restrict length of interface name read from command line
431 in dhcpd - based on a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
432 [ISC-Bugs #20039] Correct some error messages in dhcpd.c
433 [ISC-Bugs #20070] Better range check on values when creating a DHCID.
434 [ISC-Bugs #20198] Avoid writing past the end of the field when adding
435 overly long file or server names to a packet and add a log message
436 if the configuration supplied overly long names for these fields.
437 Thanks to Martin Pala.
438 [ISC-Bugs #21497] Add a little more randomness to rng seed in client
439 thanks to a patch from Jeremiah Jinno.
74977c94 440
01a44a77 441- Correct error handling in DLPI [ISC-Bugs #20378]
30e42327 442
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443- Remove __sun__ and __hpux__ typedefs in osdep.h as they are now being
444 checked in configure. [ISC-Bugs #20443]
dbd65517 445
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446- Modify how the cmsg header is allocated the v6 send and received routines
447 to compile on more compilers. [ISC-Bugs #20524]
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449- When parsing a domain name free the memory for the name after we are
450 done with it. [ISC-Bugs #20824]
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452- Add an elapsed time option to the release message and refactor the
453 code to move most of the common code to a single routine.
454 [ISC-Bugs #21171].
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456- Two identical log messages for commit_leases() have been disambiguated.
457 [ISC-Bugs #18915]
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459- Parse date strings more properly - the code now handles semi-colons in
460 date strings correctly. Thanks to a patch from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
461 [ISC-Bugs #21501, #20598]
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463- Fixes to lease input and output.
464 [ISC-Bugs #20418] - Some systems don't support the "%s" argument to
465 strftime, paste together the same string using mktime instead.
466 [ISC-Bugs #19596] - When parsing iaid values accept printable
467 characters.
468 [ISC-Bugs #21585] - Always print time values in omshell as hex
469 instead of ascii if the values happen to be printable characters.
87132514 470
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471- Minor changes for scripts, configure.ac and Makefiles
472 [ISC-Bugs #19147] Use domain-search instead of domain-name in manual and
473 example conf file. Thanks to a patch from David Cantrell
474 at Red Hat.
475 [ISC-Bugs #19761] Restore address when doing a rebind in DHCPv6
476 [ISC-Bugs #19945] Properly close the quote on some arguments.
477 [ISC-Bugs #20952] Add 64 bit types to configure.ac
478 [ISC-Bugs #21308] Add "PATH=" to CLIENT_PATH envrionment variable
b047bd38 479
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480- Update the code to parse dhcpv6 lease files to accept a semi-colon at
481 the end of the max-life and preferred-life clauses. In order to be
482 backwards compatible with older lease files not finding a semi-colon
483 is also accepted. [ISC-Bugs #22303].
e3c94800 484
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485! Handle a relay forward message with an unspecified address in the
486 link address field. Previously such a message would cause the
487 server to crash. Thanks to a report from John Gibbons. [ISC-Bugs #21992]
488 CERT: VU#102047 CVE: CVE-2010-3611
dd9237c3 489
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490- ./configure on longer searches for -lcrypto to explicitly link against.
491 This fixes a bug where 'dhclient' would have shared library dependencies
492 on '/usr/lib'. [ISC-Bugs #21967]
d13db163 493
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494- Handle pipe failures more gracefully. Some OSes pass a SIGPIPE
495 signal to a process and will kill the process if the signal isn't
496 caught. This patch adds code to turn off the SIGPIPE signal via
497 a setsockopt() call. The signal is already being ignored as part
498 of the ISC library. [ISC-Bugs #22269]
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500- Restore printing of values in omshell to the style pre 21585. For
501 21585 we changed the print routines to always display time values
502 as a hex list. This had a side effect of printing all data strings
503 as a hex list. We shall investigate other ways of displaying time
504 values more usefully. [ISC-Bugs #22626]
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506! Fix the handling of connection requests on the failover port.
507 Previously a connection request from a source that wasn't
508 listed as a failover peer would cause the server to become
509 non-responsive. Thanks to a report from Brad Bendily, brad@bendily.com.
510 [ISC-Bugs #22679]
511 CERT: VU#159528 CVE: CVE-2010-3616
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513- Don't pass the ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to the omapi signal handlers.
514 Passing it through to the handlers caused the omshell program to fail
515 to connect to the server. [ISC-Bugs #21839]
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517- Fix the paranthesis in the code to process configuration statements
518 beginning with "auth". The previous arrangement caused
519 "auto-partner-down" to be processed incorrectly. [ISC-Bugs #21854]
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521- Limit the timeout period allowed in the dispatch code to 2^^32-1 seconds.
522 Thanks to a report from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
523 [ISC-Bugs #22033], [Red Hat Bug #628258]
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525- When processing the format flags for a given option consume the
526 flag indicating an optional value correctly. A symptom of this
527 bug was an infinite loop when trying to parse the slp-service-scope
528 option. Thanks to a patch from Marius Tomaschewski.
529 [ISC-Bugs #22055]
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531- Disable the use of kqueue in the ISC library. This avoids a problem
532 between the fork and socket code that caused the dhcpd process to
533 use all available cpu if the program daemonized itself.
534 [ISC-Bugs #21911]
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536! When processing a request in the DHCPv6 server code that specifies
537 an address that is tagged as abandoned (meaning we received a
538 decline request for it previously) don't attempt to move it from
539 the inactive to active pool as doing so can result in the server
540 crashing on an assert failure. Also retag the lease as active
541 and reset its timeout value.
542 [ISC-Bugs #21921]
543
544- Removed the restriction on using IPv6 addresses in IPv4 mode. This
545 allows IPv4 options which contain IPv6 addresses to be specified. For
546 example the 6rd option can be specified and used like this:
547 [ISC-Bugs #23039]
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549 option 6rd code 212 = { integer 8, integer 8,
550 ip6-address, array of ip-address };
551 option 6rd 16 10 2001:: 1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8;
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553- Handle some DDNS corner cases better. Maintain the DDNS transaction
554 information when updating a lease and cancel any existing transactions
555 when removing the ddns information.
556 [ISC-Bugs #23103]
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558- Some fixes for LDAP
559 [ISC-Bugs #21783] - Include lber library when building ldap
560 [ISC-Bugs #22888] - Enable the ldap code when buidling common
561 The above fixes are from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
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563- Modify the dlpi code to accept getmsg() returning a positive value.
564 [ISC-Bugs #22824]
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565
566! In dhclient check the data for some string options for
567 reasonableness before passing it along to the script that
568 interfaces with the OS.
569 [ISC-Bugs #23722]
570 CVE: CVE-2011-0997
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572- DHCPv6 server now responds properly if client asks for a prefix that
573 is already assigned to a different client. [ISC-Bugs #23948]
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575- Add the option "--no-pid" to the client, relay and server code,
576 to disable writing a pid file. Add the option "-pf pidfile"
577 to the relay to allow the user to supply the pidfile name at
578 runtime. Add the "with-relay6-pid-file" option to configure
579 to allow the user to supply the pidfile name for the relay
580 in v6 mode at configure time.
581 [ISC-Bugs #23351] [ISC-Bugs #17541]
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583- 'dhclient' no longer waits a random interval after first starting up to
584 begin in the INIT state. This conforms to RFC 2131, but elects not to
585 implement a 'SHOULD' direction in section 4.1. The goal of this change
73c83820 586 is to start up faster. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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588- Added 'initial-delay' parameter that specifies maximum amount of time
589 before client goes to the INIT state. The default value is 0. In previous
590 versions of the code client could wait up to 5 seconds. The old behavior
591 may be restored by using 'initial-delay 5;' in the client config file.
73c83820 592 [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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594- ICMP ping-check should now sit closer to precisely the number of seconds
595 configured (or default 1), due to making use of the new microsecond
596 scale timer internally to dhcpd. This corrects a bug where the server
597 may immediately timeout an ICMP ping-check if it was made late in the
73c83820 598 current second. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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600- The DHCP client will schedule renewal and rebinding events in
601 microseconds if the DHCP server provided a lease-time that would result
602 in sub-1-second timers. This corrects a bug where a 2-second or lower
603 lease-time would cause the DHCP client to enter an infinite loop by
73c83820 604 scheduling renewal at zero seconds. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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606- Client lease records are recorded at most once every 15 seconds. This
607 keeps the client from filling the lease database disk quickly on very small
73c83820 608 lease times. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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610- To defend against RFC 2131 non-compliant DHCP servers which fail to
611 advertise a lease-time (either mangled, or zero in value) the DHCP
612 client now adds the server to the reject list ACL and returns to INIT
613 state to hopefully find an RFC 2131 compliant server (or retry in INIT
73c83820 614 forever). [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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616- Parameters configured to evaluate from user defined function calls can
617 now be correctly written to dhcpd.leases (as on 'on events' or dynamic
618 host records inserted via OMAPI). [ISC-Bugs #22266]
619
620- If a 'next-server' parameter is configured in a dynamic host record via
621 OMAPI as a domain name, the syntax written to disk is now correctly parsed
622 upon restart. [ISC-Bugs #22266]
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624- The DHCP server now responds to DHCPLEASEQUERY messages from agents using
625 IP addresses not covered by a subnet in configuration. Whether or not to
626 respond to such an agent is still governed by the 'allow leasequery;'
627 configuration parameter, in the case of an agent not covered by a configured
628 subnet the root configuration area is examined. Server now also returns
629 vendor-class-id option, if client sent it. [ISC-Bugs #21094]
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632 [ISC-Bugs #17959] add text to AIX section describing how to have it send
633 responses to the all-ones address.
634 [ISC-Bugs #19615] update the includes in dhcpctl/dhcpctl.3 to be more correct
635 [ISC-Bugs #20676] update dhcpd.conf.5 to include the RFC numbers for DDNS
636
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637- Relay no longer crashes, when DHCP packet is received over interface without
638 any IPv4 address assigned. Also extended logging message about discarding
639 packets with invalid hlen with information about relevant interface name.
640 [ISC-Bugs #22409]
641
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642- Relay now properly logs that packet was received over interface without
643 global IPv6 address [ISC-Bugs #24070]
644
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645- Linux Packet Filter interface improvement. sockaddr_pkt structure is used,
646 rather than sockaddr. Packet ethertype is now forced to ETH_P_IP.
647 [ISC-Bugs #18975]
648
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649- Minor code cleanups - but note port change for #23196
650 [ISC-Bugs #23470] - Modify when an ignore return macro is defined to
651 handle unsed error return warnings for more versions of gcc.
652 [ISC-Bugs #23196] - Modify the reply handling in the server code to
653 send to a specified port rather than to the source port for the incoming
654 message. Sending to the source port was test code that should have
655 been removed. The previous functionality may be restored by defining
656 REPLY_TO_SOURCE_PORT in the includes/site.h file. We suggest you don't
657 enable this except for testing purposes.
658 [ISC-Bugs #22695] - Close a file descriptor in an error path.
659 [ISC-Bugs #19368] - Tidy up variable types in validate_port.
660
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661- Code cleanup: remove obsolete PROTO, KandR, INLINE and ANSI_DECL macros
662 [ISC-Bugs #13151]
663
664- Compilation problem with gcc4.5 and omshell.c resolved. [ISC-Bugs #23831]
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666- Client Script fixes
667 [ISC-Bugs #23045] Typos in client/scripts/openbsd
668 [ISC-Bugs #23565] In the client scripts add a zone id (interface id) if
669 the domain search address is link local.
670 [ISC-Bugs #1277] In some of the client scripts add code to handle the
671 case of the default router information being changed without the address
672 being changed.
673
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674- Documentation cleanup
675 [ISC-Bugs #23326] Updated References document, several man page updates
676
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677- Server no longer complains about NULL pointer when configured
678 server-identifier expression fails to evaluate. [ISC-Bugs #24547]
679
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680- Convert ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to ISC_R_SUCCESS when called from other
681 than the dispatch handler. This fixes an issue where omshell, when
682 run from the same platform as the server, would appear to fail to
683 connect. This is a companion to #21839. [ISC-Bugs #23592]
684
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685- Enlarge the buffer size used by the Omshell code and some of the
686 print routines to allow for greater than 60 characters or, when
687 printing as hex strings, 20 characters. [ISC-Bugs #22743]
688
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689- In Solaris 11 switch to using sockets instead of DLPI, thanks
690 to a patch form Oracle. [ISC-Bugs #24634].
691
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692- Strict checks for content of domain-name DHCPv4 option can now be
693 configured during compilation time. Even though RFC2132 does not allow
694 to store more than one domain in domain-name option, such behavior is
695 now enabled by default, but this may change some time in the future.
696 See ACCEPT_LIST_IN_DOMAIN_NAME define in includes/site.h.
697 [ISC-Bugs #24167]
698
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699- DNS Update fix. A misconfigured server could crash during DNS update
700 processing if the configuration included overlapping pools or
701 multiple fixed-address entries for a single address. This issue
702 affected both IPv4 and IPv6. The fix allows a server to detect such
703 conditions, provides the user with extra information and recommended
704 steps to fix the problem. If the user enables the appropriate option
705 in site.h then server will be terminated
706 [ISC-Bugs #23595]
707
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708! Two packets were found that cause a server to halt. The code
709 has been updated to properly process or reject the packets as
710 appropriate. Thanks to David Zych at University of Illinois
711 for reporting this issue. [ISC-Bugs #24960]
712 One CVE number for each class of packet.
713 CVE-2011-2748
714 CVE-2011-2749
715
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716- Fix the code that checks for an existing DDNS transaction to cancel
717 when removing DDNS information, so that we will continue with the
718 processing if we have a lease even if it doesn't have an outstanding
719 transaction. [ISC-Bugs #24682]
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721- Add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to configure.ac to avoid rebuilding
722 configuration files. [ISC-Bugs #24107]
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724- Add support for passing DDNS information to a DNS server over
725 an IPv6 address. [ISC-Bugs #22647]
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727- Enhanced patch for 23595 to handle IPv4 fixed addresses more
728 cleanly. [ISC-Bugs #23595]
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730! Add a check for a null pointer before calling the regexec function.
731 Without this check we could, under some circumstances, pass
732 a null pointer to the regexec function causing it to segfault.
733 Thanks to a report from BlueCat Networks.
734 [ISC-Bugs #26704].
735 CVE: CVE-2011-4539
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737! Modify the DDNS handling code. In a previous patch we added logging
738 code to the DDNS handling. This code included a bug that caused it
739 to attempt to dereference a NULL pointer and eventually segfault.
740 While reviewing the code as we addressed this problem, we determined
741 that some of the updates to the lease structures would not work as
742 planned since the structures being updated were in the process of
743 being freed: these updates were removed. In addition we removed an
744 incorrect call to the DDNS removal function that could cause a failure
745 during the removal of DDNS information from the DNS server.
746 Thanks to Jasper Jongmans for reporting this issue.
747 [ISC-Bugs #27078]
748 CVE: CVE-2011-4868
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750- Fixed the code that checks if an address the server is planning
751 to hand out is in a reserved range. This would appear as
752 the server being out of addresses in pools with particular ranges.
753 [ISC-Bugs #26498]
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755- In the DDNS code handle error conditions more gracefully and add more
756 logging code. The major change is to handle unexpected cancel events
757 from the DNS client code.
758 [ISC-Bugs #26287]
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760- Tidy up the receive calls and eliminate the need for found_pkt.
761 [ISC-Bugs #25066]
762
763- Add support for Infiniband over sockets to the server and
764 relay code. We've tested this on Solaris and hope to expand
765 support for Infiniband in the future. This patch also corrects
766 some issues we found in the socket code.
767 [ISC-Bugs #24245]
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769- Add a compile time check for the presence of the noreturn attribute
770 and use it for log_fatal if it's available. This will help code
771 checking programs to eliminate false positives.
772 [ISC-Bugs #27539]
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774- Fixed many compilation problems ("set, but not used" warnings) for
775 gcc 4.6 that may affect Ubuntu 11.10 users. [ISC-Bugs #27588]
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777- Modify the code that determines if an outstanding DDNS request
778 should be cancelled. This patch results in cancelling the
779 outstanding request less often. It fixes the problem caused
780 by a client doing a release where the TXT and PTR records
781 weren't removed from the DNS.
782 [ISC-BUGS #27858]
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784- Use offsetof() instead of sizeof() to get the sizes for dhcpv6_relay_packet
785 and dhcpv6_packet in several more places. Thanks to a report from
786 Bruno Verstuyft and Vincent Demaertelaere of Excentis.
787 [ISC-Bugs #27941]
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789- Remove outdated note in the description of the bootp keyword about the
790 option not satisfying the requirement of failover peers for denying
791 dynamic bootp clients.
792 [ISC-bugs #28574]
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794- Multiple items to clean up IPv6 address processing.
795 When processing an IA that we've seen check to see if the
796 addresses are usable (not in use by somebody else) before
797 handing it out.
798 When reading in leases from the file discard expired addresses.
799 When picking an address for a client include the IA ID in
800 addition to the client ID to generally pick different addresses
801 for different IAs.
802 [ISC-Bugs #23138] [ISC-Bugs #27945] [ISC-Bugs #25586]
803 [ISC-Bugs #27684]
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805- Remove unnecessary checks in the lease query code and clean up
806 several compiler issues (some dereferences of NULL and treating
807 an int as a boolean).
808 [ISC-Bugs #26203]
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810- Fix the NA and PD allocation code to handle the case where a client
811 provides a preference and the server doesn't have any addresses or
812 prefixes available. Previously the server ignored the request with
813 this patch it replies with a NoAddrsAvail or NoPrefixAvail response.
814 By default the code performs according to the errata of August 2010
815 for RFC 3315 section 17.2.2; to enable the previous style see the
816 section on RFC3315_PRE_ERRATA_2010_08 in includes/site.h. This option
817 may be removed in the future.
818 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
819 [ISC-Bugs #22676]
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821- Fix up some issues found by static analysis.
822 A potential memory leak and NULL dereference in omapi.
823 The use of a boolean test instead of a bitwise test in dst.
824 [ISC-Bugs #28941]
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826- Rotate the lease file when running in v6 mode.
827 Thanks to Christoph Moench-Tegeder at Astaro for the
828 report and the first version of the patch.
829 [ISC-Bugs #24887]
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831- Correct code to calculate timing values in client to compare
832 rebind value to infinity instead of renew value.
833 Thanks to Chenda Huang from H3C Technologies Co., Limited
834 for reporting this issue.
835 [ISC-Bugs #29062]
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837- Fix some issues in the code for parsing and printing options.
838 [ISC-Bugs #22625] - properly print options that have several fields
839 followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
840 [ISC-Bugs #27289] - properly parse options in declarations that have
841 several fields followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
842 [ISC-Bugs #27296] - properly determine if we parsed a 16 or 32 bit
843 value in evaluate_numeric_expression (extract-int).
844 [ISC-Bugs #27314] - properly parse a zero length option from
845 a lease file. Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski from SUSE for the report
846 and prototype patch for this ticket as well as ticket 27289.
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848! Previously the server code was relaxed to allow packets with zero
849 length client ids to be processed. Under some situations use of
850 zero length client ids can cause the server to go into an infinite
851 loop. As such ids are not valid according to RFC 2132 section 9.14
852 the server no longer accepts them. Client ids with a length of 1
853 are also invalid but the server still accepts them in order to
854 minimize disruption. The restriction will likely be tightened in
855 the future to disallow ids with a length of 1.
856 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
857 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
858 [ISC-Bugs #29851]
859 CVE: CVE-2012-3571
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861! When attempting to convert a DUID from a client id option
862 into a hardware address handle unexpected client ids properly.
863 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
864 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
865 [ISC-Bugs #29852]
866 CVE: CVE-2012-3570
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868! A pair of memory leaks were found and fixed. Thanks to
869 Glen Eustace of Massey University, New Zealand for finding
870 this issue.
871 [ISC-Bugs #30024]
872 CVE: CVE-2012-3954
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874- Existing legacy unit-tests have been migrated to Automated Test
875 Framework (ATF). Several new tests have been developed. To enable
876 unit-tests, please use --with-atf in configure script. A Developer's
877 Guide has been added. To generate it, please use make devel in
878 the doc directory. It is currently in early stages of development,
879 but is expected to grow in the near future. [ISC-Bugs 25901]
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881! An issue with the use of lease times was found and fixed. Making
882 certain changes to the end time of an IPv6 lease could cause the
883 server to abort. Thanks to Glen Eustace of Massey University,
884 New Zealand for finding this issue.
885 [ISC-Bugs #30281]
886 CVE: CVE-2012-3955
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888- Update the memory leakage debug code to work with v6.
889 [ISC-Bugs #30297]
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891- Relax the requirements for deleting an A or AAAA record.
892 Previously the DDNS removal code required both the A or AAAA
893 record and the TXT record to exist. This requirement could
894 cause problems if something interrupted the removal leaving
895 the TXT record alone. This relaxation was codified in RFC 4703.
896 [ISC-Bugs #30734]
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898- Modify the failover code to handle incorrect peer names
899 better. Previously the structure holding the name might
900 have been freed inappropriately in some cases and not
901 freed in other cases.
902 [ISC-Bugs #30320]
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904- Add a configure option, enable-secs-byteorder, to deal with
905 clients that do the byte ordering on the secs field incorrectly.
906 This field should be in network byte order but some clients
907 get it wrong. When this option is enabled the server will examine
908 the secs field and if it looks wrong (high byte non zero and low
909 byte zero) swap the bytes. The default is disabled. This option
910 is only useful when doing load balancing within failover.
911 [ISC-Bugs #26108]
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913- Fix a set of issues that were discovered via a code inspection
914 tool. Thanks to Jiri Popelka and Tomas Hozza Red Hat for the logs
915 and patches.
916 [ISC-Bugs #23833]
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918- Parsing unquoted base64 strings improved. Parser now properly handles
919 strings that contain reserved names. [ISC-Bugs #23048]
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921- Modify the nak_lease function to make some attempts to find a
922 server-identifier option to use for the NAK.
923 [ISC-Bugs #25689]
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925- The client now passes information about the options it requested
926 from the server to the script code via environment variables.
927 These variables are of the form requested_<option_name>=1 with
928 the option name being the same as used in the new_* and old_*
929 variables.
930 [ISC-Bugs #29068]
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932- Add support for a simple check that the server id in a request message
933 to a failover peer matches the server id of the server. This support
934 is enabled by editing the file includes/site.h and uncommenting the
935 definition for SERVER_ID_CHECK. The option has several restrictions
936 and issues - please read the comment in the site.h file before
937 enabling it.
938 [ISC-Bugs #31463]
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940- Tidy up some compiler issues in the debug code.
941 [ISC-Bugs #26460]
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943- Move the dhcpd.conf exmample file to dhcpd.conf.example to avoid
944 overwriting the dhcpd.conf file when installing a new version of
945 ISC DHCP. The user will now need to manual copy and edit the
946 dhcpd.conf file as desired.
947 [ISC-Bugs #19337]
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949- Check the status value when trying to read from a connection to
950 see if it may have been closed. If it appears closed don't try
951 to read from it again. This avoids a potential busy-wait like
952 loop when the peer names are mismatched.
953 [ISC-Bugs #31231]
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955- Remove an unused variable to keep compilers happy.
956 [ISC-Bugs #31983]
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958- Modify test makefiles to be more similar to standard makefiles
959 and comment out a currently unused test.
960 [ISC-Bugs #32089]
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962- Address static analysis warnings.
963 [ISC-Bugs #33510] [ISC-Bugs #33511]
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965- Silence benign static analysis warnings.
966 [ISC-Bugs #33428]
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968- Add check for 64-bit package for atf.
969 [ISC-Bugs #32206]
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971- Use newer auto* tool packages and turn on RFC_3542 support on Mac OS.
972 [ISC-Bugs #26303]
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974- Remove a variable when it isn't being used due to #ifdefs to avoid
975 a compiler warning on Solaris using GCC.
976 [ISC-Bugs #33032]
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978- Add a check for too much whitespace in a config or lease file.
979 Thanks to Paolo Pellegrino for finding the issue and a suggestion
980 for the patch.
981 [ISC-Bugs #33351]
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983- Fix several problems with using OMAPI to manipulate class and subclass
984 objects.
985 [ISC-Bugs #27452]
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987- Added a sleep call after killing the old client to allow time
988 for the sockets to be cleaned. This should allow the -r option
989 to work more consistently.
990 [ISC-Bugs #18175]
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992- Missing files for ISC DHCP Developer's Guide are now included in
993 the release tarballs. To generate this documentation, please use
994 make devel command in doc directory. [ISC-Bugs #32767]
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996- Update client script for use with openwrt.
997 [ISC-Bugs #29843]
928618dd 998
01a44a77
SR
999- Fix the socket handling for DHCPv6 clients to allow multiple instances
1000 of a client on a single machine to work properly. Previously only
1001 one client would receive the packets. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat
1002 for the bug report and a potential patch.
1003 [ISC-Bugs #34784]
3c941d42 1004
01a44a77
SR
1005- Added support for gentle shutdown after signal is received.
1006 [ISC-Bugs #32692] [ISC-Bugs 34945]
bdd8e747 1007
01a44a77
SR
1008- Enhance the DHCPv6 server logging to include the addresses that are assigned
1009 to the clients.
1010 [ISC-Bugs #26377]
3da71461 1011
01a44a77
SR
1012- Fix an operation in the DDNS code to be a bitwise instead of logical or.
1013 [ISC-Bugs #35138]
fdfebedf 1014
7aa153b8 1015
adbef119
DH
1016 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
1017
d340bc24
DH
1018- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
1019 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 1020 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
adbef119 1021
0829d595
DH
1022- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
1023 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
1024 Cantrell at Red Hat.
1025
8a3c1e33
PS
1026- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
1027 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
1028
a41d7a25
PS
1029- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
1030
9e3eb22a
DH
1031- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
1032 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
1033 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
1034 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
1035 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
1036 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
1037
33ea4622
DH
1038- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
1039 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
1040 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
1041 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
1042 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
1043 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
1044 FQDN options by default).
1045
5a671e87
DH
1046- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
1047 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
1048 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
1049 determined lease time) are omitted.
1050
98bf1607 1051- Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
09afca0d 1052 The DHCP server or client can now continue with its processing while
98bf1607 1053 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
c900c5b2
DH
1054
1055- The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
1056 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
1057 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
1058
59112e84
SR
1059 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
1060
62f6843d
MA
1061- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
1062
59112e84
SR
1063- Validate the argument to the -p option.
1064
47e6eb82
DH
1065- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
1066 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
1067 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
1068 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
1069 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
1070
159c89d7
EH
1071- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
1072
1aa0fe5e
DH
1073- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
1074 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
1075 had been deleted from configuration.
1076
cd51403d
SR
1077- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
1078 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
571c38b0 1079 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
cd51403d
SR
1080 were being ignored.
1081
64e1823d
DH
1082- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
1083
26e59ee9
DH
1084- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
1085 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
1086 Nordahl.
1087
70ea9345
PS
1088- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
1089 dhcpv6 disabled.
1090
8d7dca58 1091- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 1092 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
819186b7 1093
f4534b17
DH
1094- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
1095 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
1096
f9453d21
DH
1097- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
1098 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
1099 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
1100
1101- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
1102 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
1103 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
1104 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
1105 fewer system calls.
1106
a3dcc0b1
DH
1107- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
1108 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
1109 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
1110 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
1111 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
1112 Christof Chen.
1113
95fd7038
DH
1114- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
1115 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
1116 and in normal state.
1117
1118- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
1119 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
1120
8a3c1e33
PS
1121- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
1122
1123- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
1124 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
1125 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
1126
dedde1ba
DH
1127- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
1128 rather than restarting the listener.
1129
a57df74a
DH
1130- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
1131 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
1132
1133- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
1134 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
1135 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
1136
350576c5
DH
1137- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
1138 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
1139 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
1140 timeouts).
1141
792156a9
DH
1142- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
1143 in failover state records.
1144
8a4e543b
DH
1145! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
1146 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
1147 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 1148 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
8a4e543b 1149
a1308b64
DH
1150- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
1151 processing a DHCPINFORM.
1152
1b12d999
DH
1153- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
1154 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
1155 last option definition is used.
1156
d453265f
PS
1157- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
1158 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
1159 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
1160
3e29af1e
PS
1161- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
1162 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
1163
b8d45c67
DH
1164- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
1165 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
1166 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
1167 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
1168 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
1169 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
1170
583c1c16
DH
1171- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
1172 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
1173 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
1174 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
1175
e4e3a2ab
DH
1176! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
1177 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
95f5d38c 1178
875e99dc
SR
1179- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
1180 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
1181
2267da84
DH
1182- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
1183 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
1184 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
1185 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
1186 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
571c38b0 1187 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
2267da84
DH
1188 configuration.
1189
cd3f0b9b
DH
1190- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
1191 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
1192
0493fdca
SR
1193- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
1194 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
1195 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
1196 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
1197
95bba8b6
SR
1198- Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
1199 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
1200 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
1201 was always properly set.
1202
adbef119 1203 Changes since 4.1.0b1
ebf076fe
EH
1204
1205- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
1206 be recognized.
61d75ea2 1207
a4ffedd1
DH
1208 Changes since 4.1.0a2
1209
1210- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
1211 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
1212 "abandoned".
1213
6ff3b26d
FD
1214- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
1215
1387545f
DH
1216- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
1217 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
1218
1219- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
1220 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
1221
1222- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 1223 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
1387545f 1224
399d3dbe
DH
1225- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
1226
fbcee149
DH
1227- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
1228 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
1229 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
1230 in future releases.
1231
f1672d89
DH
1232- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
1233 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
1234
236d3a99
DH
1235- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
1236 'dhclient -6' support.
1237
efa5e6b9
DH
1238- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
1239 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
1240 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
1241 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
1242
7d6180be 1243 Changes since 4.1.0a1
edcb5c46
EH
1244
1245- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
1246
51e7687f
EH
1247- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
1248
20210a7b
EH
1249- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
1250 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
1251 only the latter. Fixed.
1252
535485df
EH
1253- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
1254
8fbb55ff
DH
1255- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
1256 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
1257
61220a00
EH
1258- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
1259
c40e954c
EH
1260- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
1261
63971a83
DH
1262- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
1263 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
1264 --enable-early-chroot.
1265
66cebfcb
DH
1266- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
1267 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
1268
f8cbf390
DH
1269- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
1270 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
1271 parameter.
1272
8269561d
DH
1273- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
1274 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
1275
b445a411
DH
1276- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
1277 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
1278
bd72740e
FD
1279- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
1280
9322442f
FD
1281- Merged IA_XX related structures.
1282
8dea7ba7
FD
1283- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
1284
4619c0a2
DH
1285- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
1286
9ac4206a
DH
1287- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
1288 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
1289 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
1290
420d8b3f
FD
1291- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
1292 support.
1293
40ec5f38
DH
1294- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
1295 repaired.
1296
80097764
FD
1297- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
1298
ffbaa880
FD
1299- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
1300
7de20a95
EH
1301- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
1302 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
1303
d352732e
EH
1304- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
1305 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
1306
7d6180be
DH
1307- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
1308 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
1309
1310- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
1311 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
1312 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
1313 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
1314 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
1315 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
1316 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
1317 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
1318 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
1319 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
1320 shared-network.
1321
1322- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
1323 configured option values.
1324
1325- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
1326 support class statements.
1327
dd484ced
DH
1328- Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
1329 selection were repaired.
1330
ecddae64
DH
1331- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
1332 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
1333 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
1334 by the OS.
1335
1336- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
1337 address.
1338
1339- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
1340 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
1341
d104d45b
DH
1342- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
1343
1344- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
1345
1346- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
1347 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
1348
01a54c17 1349 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
3c12f746 1350
6d7f9584
FD
1351- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
1352
4cafb815 1353- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 1354 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
4cafb815 1355
022fe95e
EH
1356- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
1357 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
1358 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
1359
1dcc3612
SK
1360- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
1361 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
1362
aabfa4de
FD
1363- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
1364
0674055a
FD
1365- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
1366 reserved IDs avoided).
1367
b51c785f
FD
1368- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
1369
900405e9
FD
1370- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
1371 carries a rapid-commit option.
1372
96b620e5
FD
1373- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
1374 an empty active lease.
1375
be62cf06
FD
1376- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
1377
01a54c17
EH
1378- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
1379 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
1380 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
1381 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
1382
1383- MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
1384
1385- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
1386 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
1387 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
1388 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
1389 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
1390 Christof Chen.
1391
1392 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
1393
1394- DHCP now builds on AIX.
1395
1396- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
1397 config file but -6 is not specified.
1398
1399- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
1400
1401- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
1402 be more helpful.
1403
1404- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
1405 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
1406 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
1407
1408- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
1409 was repaired.
1410
1411- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
1412 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
1413 been repaired.
1414
1415- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
1416 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
1417 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
1418
49f61135
DH
1419- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
1420 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
1421
41d4652f
DH
1422- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
1423 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
1424 IPv4 address.
1425
2c9bf1f4
DH
1426- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
1427 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
1428 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
1429 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
1430 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
1431
1432- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
1433 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
1434 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
1435
cff9b78f
SK
1436- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
1437
c4d29896
SK
1438- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
1439
57fcb8d9
SK
1440- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
1441 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
1442 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
1443 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
1444 unnecessary logging.
1445
219a65eb
DH
1446- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
1447 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
1448
ffdf3c8c
DH
1449- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
1450 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
1451 is incompatible is printed.
1452
1453- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
1454 a previously undefined option code.
1455
00a002fc
MA
1456- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
1457 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
1458
7e9f7a1b
FD
1459- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
1460 than the year 2000.
1461
e2cfde76
FD
1462- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
1463
cabdb9b1
FD
1464- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
1465
5d89d60f
FD
1466- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
1467
61d75ea2
DH
1468 Changes since 4.0.0b3
1469
1470- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
1471 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
1472 configuration.
76db44f9 1473
e32529a5
EH
1474- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
1475 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
1476
76db44f9
SK
1477- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
1478 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
1479 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
e4a6be15 1480
6f76de58
SK
1481- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
1482 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
1483 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
1484 a requested address.
1485
703873ab
DH
1486- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
1487 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
1488 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
1489 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
1490
1491- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
1492 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
1493 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
1494 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
1495
b024480e
DH
1496- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
1497 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
1498 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
1499
c0216cb7
DH
1500- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
1501 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
1502
1ac57173
FD
1503- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
1504
83835822
DH
1505- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
1506 codes through some conditions.
1507
c54db708
FD
1508- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
1509 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
1510
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1511- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
1512 seemingly random values.
1513
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1514- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
1515
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1516- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
1517 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
1518 one ever has.
1519
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1520- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
1521 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
1522 to a REQUEST.
1523
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1524- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
1525 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
1526 level.
1527
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1528 Changes since 4.0.0b2
1529
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1530- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
1531
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1532- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
1533 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
1534 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
1535 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
1536 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
1537
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1538- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
1539 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
1540 new address.
1541
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1542 Changes since 4.0.0b1
1543
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1544- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
1545 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
1546 simultaneously on a single interface.
1547
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1548- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
1549 of service under unusual server configurations
1550
1551- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
1552
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1553- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
1554 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
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1556- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
1557 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
1558 on every pool rebalance run.
1559
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1560- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
1561 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
1562
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1563- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
1564 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
1565
ab3a540f 1566 Changes since 4.0.0a3
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1568- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
1569 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
1570
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1571- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
1572 point out the problem.
1573
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1574- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
1575 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
1576 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
1577
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1578- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
1579 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
1580
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1581- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
1582 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
1583 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
1584
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1585- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
1586
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1587- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
1588 fixed by Marcus Goller.
1589
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1590- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
1591 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
1592 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
1593 regardless of the existence of bindings.
1594
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1595- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
1596
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1597- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
1598 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
1599 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
1600 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
1601 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
1602
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1603- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
1604
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1605 Changes since 4.0.0a2
1606
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1607- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
1608 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
1609
763cba6b 1610- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
e889ded1 1611
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1612- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
1613 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
1614 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
1615
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1616- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
1617
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1618- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
1619 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
1620
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1621- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
1622 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
1623 loaded from persistent storage.
1624
45d545f0 1625- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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1626 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
1627 necessary.
1628
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1629- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
1630 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
1631 rapid-commit option.
1632
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1633- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
1634 non-128-bits in length were removed.
1635
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1636 Changes since 4.0.0a1
1637
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1638- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
1639 and fix.
1640
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1641- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
1642
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1643- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
1644
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1645- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
1646 for when loading configuration.
1647
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1648- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
1649 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
1650 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
1651
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1652- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
1653 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
1654 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
1655 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
1656
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1657- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
1658
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1659- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
1660 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 1661
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1662- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
1663
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1664- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
1665
1666- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
1667 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
1668
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1669- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
1670 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
1671
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1672- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
1673
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1674- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
1675 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
1676
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1677 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
1678
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1679- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
1680
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1681- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
1682 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
1683
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1684- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
1685
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1686- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
1687 initialized.
1688
1689- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
1690
1691- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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1692 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
1693
1694- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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1696- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
1697
1698- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
1699 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
1700
1701- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
1702
8ea19a71 1703- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 1704 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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1705
1706- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
1707 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
1708
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1709- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
1710
1711- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
1712
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1713- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
1714
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1715 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
1716
1717- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
1718 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
1719 no support currently for both.
1720
1721- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
1722 IAADDR option.
1723
1724- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
1725 options.
1726
1727- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
1728
1729- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
1730 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
1731
1732- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
1733 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
1734 specifying type 1 or type 2).
1735
1736- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
1737 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
1738
1739- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
1740 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
1741 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
1742 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
1743 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
1744 differently, they both use the same code here).
1745
1746- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
1747 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
1748 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
1749
1750- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
1751
1752- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
1753 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
1754 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
1755 it should not intercept.
1756
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1757 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
1758
1759- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
1760 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
1761 between primary and secondary.
1762
1763- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
1764 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
1765 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
1766
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1767- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
1768
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1769- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
1770 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
1771 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
1772 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
1773 or REQUEST messages.
1774
1775- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
1776 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
1777
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1778- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
1779
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1780 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
1781
1782- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
1783 failover protected subnets was removed.
1784
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1785 Changes since 3.1.0b2
1786
1787- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
1788 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
1789 odd number of leases).
1790
1791- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
1792 rebalance run, and one after.
1793
1794- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
1795 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
1796 processing these messages.
1797
fe5b0fdd 1798 Changes since 3.1.0b1
27837f95 1799
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1800- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
1801 objects.
1802
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1803- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
1804 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
1805 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
1806 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
1807 at Allianz.
1808
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1809- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
1810 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
1811
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1812- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
1813 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
1814
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1815- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
1816 caused the server to abort.
1817
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1818- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
1819 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
1820 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
1821
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1822- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
1823 by empty spaces would not get included.
1824
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1825- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
1826 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
1827
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1828- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
1829 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
1830
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1831- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
1832 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
1833
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1834- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
1835 on the parameter request list.
1836
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1837 Changes since 3.1.0a3
1838
1839- Some spelling fixes.
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1841 Changes since 3.1.0a2
1842
1843- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
1844 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
1845
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1846- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
1847 domain-search option syntax.
1848
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1849 Changes since 3.1.0a1
1850
1851- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
1852 hash table was repaired.
1853
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1854- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
1855 entering normal state.
1856
1857- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
1858 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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1859 'xid mismatch' log messages.
1860
1861- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
1862 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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1864- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
1865 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
1866 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
1867 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
1868
45d545f0 1869- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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1870 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
1871 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
1872 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
1873 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
1874 to their needs.
1875
1876- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
1877 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
1878 run will attempt balance.
1879
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1880- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
1881
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1882 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
1883
1884- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
1885 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
1886 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
1887 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
1888
98bd7ca0 1889- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 1890 was introduced.
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1891
1892- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
1893 via OMAPI.
1894
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1895- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
1896 the protocol draft.
1897
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1898- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
1899 one does not already exist on the system.
1900
b43c87ad 1901- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 1902
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1903- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
1904 matches RFC 3074.
1905
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1906- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
1907 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 1908 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2727c1cf 1909
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1910- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
1911 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 1912 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 1913
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1914- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
1915 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
1916 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
1917 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
1918
1919- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
1920 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
1921 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
1922 priority over the client's parameter request list.
1923
f7fdb216 1924- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 1925 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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1926 DHCPv6 support.
1927
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1928- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
1929 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
1930 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
1931
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1932- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
1933 have been incorporated.
1934
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1935- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
1936 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
1937 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
1938 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
1939 that belong to the peer in need.
1940
1941- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
1942 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
1943
1944- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
1945 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
1946 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
1947
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1948- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
1949 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
1950
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1951- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
1952 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
1953 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
1954 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
1955 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
1956
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1957- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
1958 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
1959 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
1960 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
1961
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1962- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
1963 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
1964 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
1965 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
1966 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
1967 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
1968 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
1969 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
1970 ignoring this aspect of their request.
1971
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1972- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
1973 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
1974
41e45067 1975- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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1976 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
1977 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
1978 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
1979
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1980- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
1981 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
1982 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
1983 hardware and funding the development.
6d103865 1984
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1985- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
1986 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
1987 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
1988 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
1989 via Robin Breathe.
1990
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1991- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
1992 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
1993 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
1994 from Christof Chen.
1995
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1996- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
1997 formally supported.
1998
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1999 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
2000
2001- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
2002 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
2003
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2004 Changes since 3.0.5
2005
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2006- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
2007 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
2008 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 2009 they actually received.
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2010
2011- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
2012
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2013- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
2014 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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2015 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
2016 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
c1e6c832 2017
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2018- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
2019
d69fb6a8 2020- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 2021 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
d69fb6a8 2022
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2023- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
2024 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
2025 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
2026 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
2027 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
2028 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
2029 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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2030 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
2031
2032- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
2033 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
2034 'file' field.
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2036- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
2037 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
2038
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2039- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
2040 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
2041 a patch from Kevin Steves.
2042
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2043- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
2044 from Chris Wagner.
2045
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2046- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
2047 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
2048 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
2049
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2050- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
2051 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
2052 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
2053 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
2054 was set.
2055
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2056- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
2057 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
2058
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2059- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
2060 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
2061 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
2062 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
2063 active ones.
2064
02428754 2065 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
0a73b7b6 2066
901306d5 2067- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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2068 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
2069 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
2070 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
2071 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
2072
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2073- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
2074 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
2075
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2076 Changes since 3.0.4
2077
2078- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
2079 scopes are actually global has been added.
2080
2081- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
2082 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
2083 known to be damaging.
2084
2085- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
2086 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
2087 balancing).
2088
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2089- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
2090 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
2091 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
2092
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2093- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
2094 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
2095 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
2096
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2097- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
2098 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
2099 more clear now.
2100
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2101- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
2102 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
2103 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
2104 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
2105 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 2106 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
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2108- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
2109 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
2110
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2111- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
2112 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
2113 made possible.
2114
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2115- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
2116 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
2117 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
2118
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2119- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
2120 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
2121
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2122- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
2123 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
2124 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
2125
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2126- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
2127 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
2128 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
2129 value with the later configured value).
2130
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2131- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
2132 have been named and documented.
2133
2134- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
2135 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
2136 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
2137 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
2138 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
2139 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
2140 write new output.
2141
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2142 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
2143
2144- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
2145 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
2146
2147 Changes since 3.0.4b3
2148
2149- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
2150 mailing list.
2151
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2152 Changes since 3.0.4b2
2153
45d545f0 2154- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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2155 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
2156
2157- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
2158 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
2159
2160- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
2161 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
2162 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
2163 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
2164
2165- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
2166 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
2167 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
2168 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
2169 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
2170 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
2171 transition (properly).
2172
2173- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
2174
2175 Changes since 3.0.4b1
2176
2177- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
2178 STDIN after reading one line.
2179
2180- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
2181 descriptor it opened twice.
2182
2183- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
2184 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
2185 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
2186
2187 Changes since 3.0.3
2188
2189- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
2190 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
2191 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
2192
2193- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
2194 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
2195 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
2196
2197- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
2198 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 2199 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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2200 leases to allocate.
2201
2202- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 2203 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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2204 than the entire block of them.
2205
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2206! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
2207 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
2208 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
2209 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
2210 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
2211 to a patch from infamous42md.
2212
2213! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
2214 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
2215 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
2216 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
2217 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
2218 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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2219
2220- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
2221 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
2222 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
2223
2224- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 2225 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2226
2227- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
2228 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
2229 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
2230 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
2231 transitional states.
2232
2233- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
2234 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
2235 once it detects the old db does not exist.
2236
2237- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
2238 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
2239 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
2240
2241- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 2242 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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2243
2244- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
2245 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
2246
2247- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
2248 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
2249 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
2250
2251- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
2252 patch from 'infamous42md'.
2253
2254- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
2255 repaired.
2256
2257- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
2258 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
2259 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
2260 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
2261
2262- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
2263 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
2264 data.
2265
2266- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
2267 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
2268 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
2269 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
2270 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
2271
2272- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
2273 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
2274 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
2275 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
2276 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
2277
2278- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
2279 has been repaired.
2280
2281- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
2282 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
2283 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
2284 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 2285 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2286
2287- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 2288 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
88cd8aca 2289
45d545f0 2290- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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2291 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
2292 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
2293 move to 3.[01].x.
2294
2295- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
2296 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
2297
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2298 Changes since 3.0.3b3
2299
2300- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
2301 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
2302
2303- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
2304 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
2305 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
2306 workaround.
2307
2308 Changes since 3.0.3b2
2309
2310- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
2311 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
2312
2313 Changes since 3.0.3b1
2314
2315- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
2316 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
2317 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
2318
2319- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
2320 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
2321 dynamic updates were also retouched.
2322
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2323 Changes since 3.0.2
2324
2325- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 2326 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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2327 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
2328
2329- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
2330 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
2331 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
2332 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
2333 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
2334
2335- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
2336 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 2337 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2338
2339- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
2340 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 2341 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2342
2343- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
2344 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
2345 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
2346 Peter Poeml.
2347
2348- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
2349 Dr. Peter Poeml.
2350
2351- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
2352 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
2353 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
2354 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
2355 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
2356 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
2357
2358- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
2359 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
2360 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
2361 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
2362
2363- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
2364 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
2365 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
2366 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
2367
2368- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
2369 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
2370
2371- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
2372 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
2373 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
2374
2375- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
2376 7 bytes, and failover.
2377
2378- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
2379 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 2380 at Red Hat.
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2381
2382- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
2383 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
2384 should work better.
2385
2386- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
2387 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
2388 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
2389
2390- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
2391 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
2392 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
2393
2394 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
2395
2396- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
2397 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
2398
2399 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
2400
45d545f0 2401- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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2402 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
2403 overloading. This was repaired.
2404
2405- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
2406 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
2407 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
2408 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
2409 three chunks to fit.
2410
2411- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
2412 were repaired.
2413
2414- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
2415 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
2416 leak).
2417
2418 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
2419
2420- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
2421 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
2422
2423 Changes since 3.0.2b1
2424
2425- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
2426
2427 Changes since 3.0.1
2428
2429- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
2430 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
2431 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
2432
2433- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
2434 name was not provided by the server.
2435
2436- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
2437 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
2438
2439- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
2440 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
2441
2442- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
2443 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
2444
2445- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
2446
2447- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
2448
2449- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
2450 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
2451 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
2452 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
2453 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
2454
2455- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
2456 the configuration be globally scoped.
2457
2458- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
2459 Farkas.
2460
2461- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
2462 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
2463
2464- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
2465 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
2466
2467- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
2468 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2469
2470- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
2471 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
2472 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
2473 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
2474
2475- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
2476 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
2477 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
2478 respond to POOLREQ messages.
2479
2480- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
2481 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
2482 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
2483
2484- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
2485
2486- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
2487 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
2488 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
2489
2490- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
2491 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
2492 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
2493 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
2494 Fjone and directconnect.no.
2495
2496- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
2497 to Andreas Gustafsson.
2498
2499- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
2500 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
2501
2502- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
2503 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
2504 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
2505 DISCOVER timeout handling.
2506
2507- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
2508 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
2509
2510- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
2511 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
2512 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
2513
2514- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
2515 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
2516 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
2517 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
2518 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
2519 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
2520
2521- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
2522 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
2523 Infoblox.
2524
2525- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
2526
2527- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
2528 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
2529 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
2530 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
2531 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
2532 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
2533 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
2534
2535- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
2536 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
2537 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
2538
2539- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
2540 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
2541 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
2542
2543- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
2544
2545 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
2546
2547- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
2548 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
2549 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
2550 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
2551 systems either.
2552
2553- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
2554
2555- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
2556 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
2557 is false.
2558
2559- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
2560 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
2561
2562- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
2563
2564 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
2565
2566! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
2567 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
2568 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
2569 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
2570 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
2571 both finding and solving the problem.
2572
2573! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
45d545f0 2574 in log_*() functions was evidenced, on some specific platforms where
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2575 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
2576 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
2577 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
2578 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
2579 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
2580 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
2581 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
2582 published version of ISC DHCP.
2583
2584- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
2585
2586- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
2587
2588 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
2589
2590- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
2591 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
2592 Richard Hirst.
2593
2594- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
2595 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
2596 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
2597
2598- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
2599
2600- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
2601 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
2602 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
2603 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
2604
2605- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 2606 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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2607
2608- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
2609 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
2610
2611- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
2612
2613 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
2614
2615- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
2616 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
2617
2618- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
2619 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
2620 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
2621
2622- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
2623 by name was fixed.
2624
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2626 longer result in error.
2627
2628- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
2629
2630- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
2631 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
2632 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
2633
2634- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
2635 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
2636
2637- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
2638 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
2639 Blapp.
2640
2641- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
2642 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
2643 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
2644 Martin Blapp.
2645
2646- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
2647 expiry times in failover configurations.
2648
2649- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
2650 Steve G.
2651
2652- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
2653 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
2654
2655- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
2656 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
2657 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
2658 now "unknown-144".
2659
2660- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
2661 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
2662
2663 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
2664
2665- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
2666
2667- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
2668 not be bash.
2669
2670- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
2671
2672- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
2673 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
2674 that errored before will now work properly.
2675
2676- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
2677 names was repaired.
2678
2679- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
2680 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
2681 configuration file.
2682
2683- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
2684 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2685
2686- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
2687 error rather than a null dereference.
2688
2689 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
2690
2691- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
2692
2693- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
2694
2695- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
2696 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
2697
2698- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
2699
2700- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
2701
2702- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
2703 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
2704 self-corrupting lease databases.
2705
2706- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
2707
2708- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
2709 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
2710
2711- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
2712
2713- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
2714
2715- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
2716 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
2717 Ling Gou.
2718
2719- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
2720 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2721
2722- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
2723 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
2724 Ted Lemon for the patch.
2725
2726- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
2727 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
2728
2729 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
2730
2731- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
2732 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
2733
2734- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
2735
2736- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
2737 a memory leak.
2738
2739- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
2740 script.
2741
2742- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
2743
2744- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
2745
2746- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
2747
2748- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
2749
2750- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
2751
2752- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
2753
2754- Increment the hop count when relaying.
2755
2756- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
2757
2758- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
2759
2760- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
2761
2762- Change the type of rbuf_max.
2763
2764- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
2765
2766 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
2767
2768- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
2769 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
2770 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
2771
2772 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
2773
2774- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
2775 to be renewed.
2776
2777- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
2778 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
2779
2780- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
2781 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
2782
2783- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
2784 that two permit lists matched.
2785
2786- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
2787 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
2788
2789- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
2790
2791- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
2792 requested it, contrary to the standard.
2793
2794- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
2795
2796- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
2797
2798- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
2799 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
2800 going to update its A record.
2801
2802- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
2803 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
2804 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
2805 DNS server.
2806
2807- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
2808
2809- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
2810
2811- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
2812 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
2813 NetBSD project).
2814
2815- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
2816 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
2817
2818- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
2819 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
2820
2821- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
2822
2823- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
2824
2825- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
2826 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
2827 failover protocol standard.
2828
2829- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
2830 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
2831 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
2832
2833- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
2834 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
2835 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
2836 do so.
2837
2838- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
2839
2840 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
2841
2842- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
2843
2844- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
2845 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
2846
2847- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
2848 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
2849
2850- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
2851 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
2852 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
2853
2854- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
2855 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
2856 network, merge the two pools.
2857
2858- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
2859 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
2860 fix this bug.
2861
2862 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
2863
2864- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
2865 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
2866
2867- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
2868 the same case.
2869
2870- Additional documentation.
2871
2872- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
2873 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
2874
2875 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
2876
2877- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
2878- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
2879
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2881
2882- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
2883 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
2884 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
2885 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
2886 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
2887
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2889
2890- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
2891 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
2892 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
2893 wasn't the one that removed it.
2894
2895- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
2896 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
2897 were not configured.
2898
2899- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
2900
2901- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
2902 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
2903 routing information.
2904
2905- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
2906 request being sent.
2907
2908- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
2909 done.
2910
2911- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
2912 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
2913 were pending.
2914
2915- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
2916 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
2917 problems with failover.
2918
2919- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
2920 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
2921 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
2922
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2924
2925- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
2926 smash in the subclass allocation code.
2927
2928- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
2929 no object is open, it dumps core.
2930
2931- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
2932
2933- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
2934
2935- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
2936
2937- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
2938 a host object attribute with a null value.
2939
2940 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
2941
2942- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
2943
2944- Fix an obscure core dump.
2945
2946- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
2947 when crucial information is left out.
2948
2949- Log "no free leases" as an error.
2950
2951- Documentation updates.
2952
2953 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
2954
2955- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
2956
2957- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
2958 structure wasn't zeroed.
2959
2960- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
2961 incorrectly.
2962
2963- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
2964 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
2965 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
2966 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
2967 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
2968 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
2969 restarted.
2970
2971 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
2972
2973- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
2974 in failover-enabled pools.
2975
2976- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
2977 declarations).
2978
2979- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
2980 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
2981
2982- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
2983 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
2984
2985- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
2986
2987- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
2988 defined but not referenced by any pools.
2989
2990- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
2991
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2993
2994- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
2995
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2997
2998- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
2999
3000- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
3001
3002- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
3003
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3004 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 1
3005
3006- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
3007 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
3008 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
3009
3010- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
3011 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
3012 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
3013 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
3014 string.
3015
3016- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
3017
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3018 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8
3019
3020- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
3021 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
3022
3023- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
3024 malformed packets.
3025
3026- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
3027
3028- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
3029 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
3030 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
3031
3032- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
3033
3034- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
3035
3036- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
3037
3038- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
3039 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
3040
3041- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
3042 tcp connections from being played back.
3043
3044- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
3045 on exit.
3046
3047- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
3048
3049- Add some configurability to the build system.
3050
3051- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
3052
3053- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
3054 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
3055 hadn't been noticed until now.
3056
3057 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
3058
3059- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
3060 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
3061
3062- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
3063 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
3064 conformant, but also didn't work).
3065
3066- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
3067 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
3068
3069- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
3070 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
3071
3072- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
3073 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
3074
3075- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
3076 variables to leases via OMAPI.
3077
3078- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
3079 doing failover.
3080
3081- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
3082 running on alpha processors.
3083
3084- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
3085 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
3086
3087- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
3088
3089- Install omshell (including new documentation).
3090
3091- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
3092 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
3093
3094- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
3095
3096- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
3097 actually named (key names are domain names).
3098
3099- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
3100
3101- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
3102 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
3103
3104- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
3105 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
3106
3107- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
3108 statements.
3109
3110- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
3111 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
3112
3113- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
3114 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
3115 operating.
3116
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3118
3119- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
3120 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
3121 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
3122 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
3123
3124- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
3125 using omapi to manipulate leases.
3126
3127- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
3128
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3129 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
3130
3131- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
3132 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
3133
3134- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
3135 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
3136 to the chain.
3137
3138- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
3139
3140- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
3141
3142- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
3143
98311e4b 3144- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
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3145 attribute values in omshell.
3146
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3148
3149- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
3150
3151 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
3152
3153- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
3154 DHCPDECLINE.
3155
3156- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
3157
3158- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
3159 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
3160 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
3161
3162- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
3163
3164- Documentation fixes.
3165
3166- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
3167 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
3168
3169- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
3170 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
3171
3172- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
3173
3174- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
3175
3176- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
3177 case-insensitive.
3178
3179- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
3180
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3182 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
3183 consistently.
3184
3185- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
3186 systems with the probe not working correctly.
3187
3188- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
3189
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3190 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 3
3191
3192- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
3193 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
3194 result of duplicate leases.
3195
3196- Document OMAPI server objects.
3197
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3198 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Patchlevel 1
3199
3200- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
3201 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
3202
3203- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
3204 core dumps.
3205
3206- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
3207 Friedrich.
3208
3209- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
3210
3211 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
3212
3213- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
3214 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 3215 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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3216 billing class code.
3217
3218- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
3219 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
3220
3221- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
3222 trace file.
3223
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3226- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
3227 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
3228 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
3229 e.g., Digital Unix.
3230
3231- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
3232 when no error had occurred.
3233
3234- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
3235 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
3236 non-communicating state.
3237
3238- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
3239
3240- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
3241 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
3242 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
3243
3244- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
3245 when the client lease expired.
3246
3247- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
3248 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
3249 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
3250 in testing.
3251
3252- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
3253 the command line, it would fail.
3254
3255- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
3256 user impact).
3257
3258- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
3259
3260- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
3261 they're executable.
3262
3263 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
87784777
TL
3264
3265- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
3266 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
3267 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
3268 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
3269
79ea3de8
TL
3270- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
3271 Transmeta.
3272
87784777
TL
3273- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
3274 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
3275 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
3276 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
3277
3278- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
3279 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
3280
6d779c72
TL
3281 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 24
3282
3283- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
3284 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
3285
3286- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
3287
3288- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
3289
3290- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
3291
3292- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
3293
3294- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
3295
3296- Update some parts of the README file.
3297
3298- Support GCC on SCO.
3299
adbef119 3300 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 23
de57e64b
TL
3301
3302- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
3303 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
3304
3305- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
3306 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
3307 unbill the old class.
3308
3309- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
3310 process the state transition immediately.
3311
3312- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
3313 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
3314
3315- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
3316
3317- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
3318
3319- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
3320
3321- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
3322
3323- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
3324 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
3325 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
3326
3327- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
3328 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
3329
3330- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
3331 lease file.
3332
3333- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
3334
3335- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
2aa36519 3336
adbef119 3337 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 22
140158d3
TL
3338
3339- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
3340 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
3341
3342- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
3343
adbef119 3344 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 21
3a395e60
TL
3345
3346- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
3347
adbef119 3348 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 20
fc74dd0c
TL
3349
3350- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
3351
3352- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
3353 pl19.
3354
3355- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
3356 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
3357 past the regression test.
3358
adbef119 3359 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 19
ed5ee591
TL
3360
3361- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
3362 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
3363
3364- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
3365 DHCPREQUEST.
3366
3367- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
3368
3369- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
3370
3371- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
3372
adbef119 3373 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 18
b3fad8ac 3374
3350f5b7
TL
3375- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
3376 (Damien Neil)
3377
3378- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
3379 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
3380
3381- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
3382 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
3383 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
3384
3385- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
3386 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
3387 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
3388 message.
3389
3390- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
3391 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
3392 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
3393
98311e4b 3394- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
3350f5b7
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3395 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
3396 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
3397 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
3398 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
3399 this way will work.
3400
b3fad8ac
TL
3401- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
3402
3403- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
3404 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
3405 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
3406 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
3407
3408 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
3409
3410 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
3411
3412- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
3413 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
3414 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
3415
3416- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
3417 Hermann Lauer.
3418
3419- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
3420 messages.
3421
3350f5b7
TL
3422- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
3423 it contained quoted strings.
3424
b3fad8ac
TL
3425 ** there was no pl17 **
3426
adbef119 3427 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 16
e6d30fd6 3428
6da9db9d
TL
3429- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
3430 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
3431 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
3432 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
3433 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
3434 tracking down memory leaks.
3435
3436- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
3437 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
3438 Solaris.
3439
3440- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
3441 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
3442 corruption and core dumps.
3443
3444- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
3445 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
3446
3447- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
3448
3449- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
3450 and implemented by Damien Neil.
3451
3452- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
3453 name and version to standard output.
3454
3455- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
3456
e6d30fd6
TL
3457- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
3458 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
3459
6da9db9d
TL
3460- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
3461
3462- Lots of documentation updates.
3463
3464- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
3465 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
3466
3467- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
3468
3469- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
3470 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
3471
adbef119 3472 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 15
af49fdff
TL
3473
3474- Some documentation tweaks.
3475
3476- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
3477
3478- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
3479
3480- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
3481 agent options into them.
3482
3483- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
3484
c5b569f8
TL
3485- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
3486 options.
3487
adbef119 3488 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 14
754ae3e9
TL
3489
3490- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
3491 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
3492 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
3493 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
3494 used in class statements to control address allocation.
3495
3496- Fix up documentation.
3497
3498- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
3499 significantly in a high-demand situation.
3500
3501- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
3502
3503- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
3504
3505- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
3506 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
3507 practical use otherwise.
3508
3509- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
3510 for debugging.
3511
adbef119 3512 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 13
2f2e7960
TL
3513
3514- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
3515 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
3516 dump on some systems.
3517
3518- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
3519 option.
3520
3521- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
3522 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
3523
3524- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
3525 that were not printing enough information.
3526
3527- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
3528 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
3529
3530- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
3531 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
3532 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
3533 were answering.
3534
3535- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
3536 the transition.
3537
3538
adbef119 3539 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 12
66e98927
TL
3540
3541- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
3542
a1e2e3d6
TL
3543 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
3544
3545- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
3546 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
3547 representation from working correctly.
3548
3549- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
3550 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
3551 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
3552 could spin.
3553
3554- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
3555 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
3556
3557- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
3558 interface name on the command line.
3559
3560- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
3561 client state.
3562
3563- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
3564 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
3565 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
3566 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
3567 added by Ted Lemon.
3568
3569- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
3570 be made to log debugging information and other information.
3571
3572- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
3573 end option.
3574
3575- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
3576 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
3577 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
3578
3579- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
3580 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
3581 face of a null hardware address on input.
3582
3583- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
3584 specified unqualified.
3585
3586- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
3587 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
3588
3589- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
3590 RFC.
3591
3592- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
3593
3594- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
3595
3596- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
3597 it works.
3598
6c68ec36
TL
3599 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
3600
3601- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
3602 to CVS.
3603
9fd337e7
TL
3604 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
3605
3606- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
3607
3608- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
3609 in patchlevel 9.
3610
3611- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
3612 options at renewal time.
3613
3614- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
3615 configuration language.
3616
3617- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
3618
3619- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
3620 done when no client hostname was received.
3621
3622- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
3623
3624- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
3625 the DHCP option space.
3626
3627- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
3628
3629- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
3630 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
3631
3632- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
3633 silently dropped.
3634
3635- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
3636 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
3637
3638- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
3639 will be correctly updated.
3640
3922772a
TL
3641 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
3642
3643- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
3644 bounds-checking.
3645
3646 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
848c2547
TL
3647
3648- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
3649
3922772a 3650 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 6
0f6045f8 3651
f8572308
TL
3652- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
3653 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
3654 possible to exploit it any further than that.
3655
3656- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
3657 option.
3658
3659- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
3660 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
3661 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
3662 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
3663 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
3664 meaningfully.
3665
3666- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
3667 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
3668 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
3669
3670- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
3671 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
3672 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
3673 this one down!
3674
3675- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
3676 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
3677 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
3678 down and fixing this problem.
3679
3680 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
3681
0f6045f8
TL
3682- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
3683 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
3684
3685- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
3686 environment.
3687
3688- Fix suffix operator.
3689
3690- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
3691
3692- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
3693 connection code.
3694
3695- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
3696
3697- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
3698
3699- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
3700 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
3701
3702- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
3703
3704- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
3705
3706- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
3707 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
3708
3709- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
3710 spawn with.
3711
3712- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
3713 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
3714
3715- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
3716 for OMAPI.
3717
3718- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
3719 can install in host declarations.
3720
801de092
TL
3721 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
3722
3723- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
3724 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
3725 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
3726 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
3727 comments)!
3728
3729- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
3730
6ed7a93d
TL
3731- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
3732 request for help on this with patches!
3733
3734- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
3735 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
3736 lost, they never reconnect.
3737
3738- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
3739 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
3740
3741- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
3742 dump.
3743
3744- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
3745 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
3746 catching this one.
3747
490eb5e7
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3748 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
3749
3750- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 3751 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
490eb5e7
TL
3752 lease renewal time.
3753
3754- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
3755 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
3756 declared without a key.
3757
3758- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
3759
3760- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
3761 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
3762
3763- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
3764 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
3765 determine the maximum size of the response.
3766
592d8153
TL
3767 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
3768
359b023e
TL
3769- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
3770 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
3771
592d8153
TL
3772- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
3773 RENEWING client.
3774
3775- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
3776
3777- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
3778 using memcmp().
3779
2aa36519
TL
3780 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
3781
3782- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
3783 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
3784 pointing this out.
3785
3786- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
3787 exit.
3788
3789- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
3790
3791- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
3792 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.