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5ddbe8e4 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
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2 Version 4.4.0
3 31 January 2018
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5ddbe8e4 5 Release Notes
72c7bd79 6
5ddbe8e4 7 NEW FEATURES
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9Please note that that ISC DHCP is now licensed under the Mozilla Public License,
10MPL 2.0. Please see https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/MPL/2.0/ to read the MPL 2.0
11license terms.
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13The areas of focus for ISC DHCP 4.4.0 were:
14
151. Dynamic DNS additions
162. dhclient improvements
173. Support for dynamic shared libraries
18
19Dynamic DNS Improvements:
20
21- We added three new server configuration parameters which influence DDNS
22 conflict resolution:
23
24 1. ddns-dual-stack-mixed-mode - alters DNS conflict resolution behavior
25 to mitigate issues with non-compliant clients in dual stack environments.
26
27 2. ddns-guard-id-must-match - relaxes the DHCID RR client id matching
28 requirement of DNS conflict resolution.
29
30 3. ddns-other-guard-is-dynamic - alters dual-stack-mixed-mode behavior to
31 allow unguarded DNS entries to be overwritten in certain cases
32
33- The server now honors update-static-leases parameter for static DHCPv6
34 hosts.
35
36dhclient Improvements:
37
a804fcc0 38 - We've added three command line parameters to dhclient:
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40 1. --prefix-len-hint - directs dhclient to use the given length as
41 the prefix length hint when requesting prefixes
42
a804fcc0 43 2. --decline-wait-time - instructs the client to wait the given number
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44 of seconds after declining an IPv4 address before issuing a discover
45
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46 3. --address-prefix-len - specifies the prefix length passed by dhclient
47 into the client script (via the environment variable ip6_prefixlen) with
48 each IPv6 address. We added this parameter because we have changed the
49 default value from 64 to 128 in order to be compliant with RFC3315bis
50 draft (-09, page 64) and RFC5942, Section 4, point 1.
51 **WARNING**: The new default value of 128 may not be backwardly compatible
52 with your environment. If you are operating without a router, such as
7932503f 53 between VMs on a host, you may find they cannot see each other with prefix
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54 length of 128. In such cases, you'll need to either provide routing or use
55 the command line parameter to set the value to 64. Alternatively you may
56 change the default at compile time by setting DHCLIENT_DEFAULT_PREFIX_LEN
57 in includes/site.h.
58
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59 - dhclient will now generate a DHCPv6 DECLINE message when the client script
60 indicates a DAD failure
61
62Dynamic shared library support:
63
64 Configure script, configure.ac+lt, which supports libtool is now provided
65 with the source tar ball. This script can be used to configure ISC DHCP
9de870cc 66 to build with libtool and thus use dynamic shared libraries.
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68Other Highlights:
69
70 - The server now supports dhcp-cache-threshold for DHCPv6 operations
71 - The server now supports DHPv6 address allocation based on EUI-64 DUIDs
72 - Experimental support for alternate relay port in the both the server
73 and relay for IPv4, IPv6 and 4o6 (see: draft-ietf-dhc-relay-port-10.txt)
74
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75For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as
76well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the
77README file.
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79ISC DHCP uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please review the
80output of "./configure --help" to see what options are available.
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82The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and may not
83work on other platforms. Please report any problems and suggested fixes to
84<dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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86ISC DHCP is open source software maintained by Internet Systems
87Consortium. This product includes cryptographic software written
88by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com).
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90 Changes since 4.4.0 (New Features)
91- none
92 Changes since 4.4.0 (Bugs)
93
94- A delayed-ack value of 0 (the default), now correctly disables the delayed
95 feature. A change in 4.4.0 prohibited lease updates marking leases active
96 from be written to the lease file when delayed-ack is 0. This in turn,
97 caused servers to lose active lease assignments upon restart.
98 [ISC-Bugs #47141]
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100 Changes since 4.4.0b1 (New Features)
101
102- Duplicate address detection when binding to a new IPv6 address was added
103 to the following dhclient scripts: linux,freebsd,netbsd,openbsd, and macos.
104 The scripts will check for DAD errors after binding to a new IPv6 address
105 for at most --dad-wait-time seconds. If a DAD error is detected the script
106 will exit with a value of 3, instructing dhclient to decline the address. If
107 dad-wait-time is zero (the default), DAD error checking is not peformed.
108 [ISC-Bugs 46805]
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110- Support for sending and receiving additional DHCP4 options has been added
111 to both the dhcpd and dhclient. Specifically: option codes 93,94, and 97
112 (RFC 4578); code 150 (RFC 5859); and codes 209,219, and 211 (RFC 5071).
113 Beyond configuring, sending, requesting, and receiving these options neither
114 server nor client apply any additional logic based on their values.
115 Thanks to Peter Lewis for requesting this change.
116 [ISC-Bugs 47062]
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118 Changes since 4.4.0b1 (Bug Fixes)
119
120- Added clarifying text to dhcpd.conf.5 explaining the class match expressions
121 cannot rely on the results of executable statements.
122 [ISC-Bugs #45451]
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124- Fixed a bug which causes dhcpd and dhclient to crash on certain
125 systems when given relative path names for lease or pid files on
126 the command line. Affected systems are those on which the C library
127 function, realpath() does not support a second parameter value of
128 NULL (see manpages for realpath(3)).
129 [ISC-Bugs #46957]
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131- Fixed a build issue when building with embedded BIND9 under OpenBSD that
132 was causing BIND9 build to not generate dns/enumclass.h and dns/enumtype.h.
133 [ISC-Bugs #46971]
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135- Added <dhcp>/m4/README to the distribution tarball. Some versions of
136 ac_local() treat the absence of the m4 subdirectory as error rather than
137 warning. This was causing the call to autoreconf, necessary for building
138 with libtool, to fail.
139 [ISC-Bugs #47075]
140
4aa6129a 141 Changes since 4.4.0a1 (New Features)
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143- Added experimental support for relay port (draft-ietf-dhc-relay-port-10.txt)
144 feature for DHCPv4, DHCPv6 and DHCPv4-over-DHCPv6. Relay port has to be
145 enabled at compile time via --enable-relay-port and is fully backward
146 compatible (i.e. works with previous implementations of servers and relays
147 using the standard ports). A new --rp <relay-port> command line option
148 specifies to dhcrelay an alternate source port for upstream (i.e. toward
149 the server) messages. Thanks to Naiming Shen and Enke Chen of Cisco
150 systems for submitting these patches.
151 [ISC-Bugs #44535]
152
153- Added --release-on-roam to dhcpd server. When enabled and the server detects
154 that a DHCPv6 client (IAID+DUID) has roamed to a new network, it will release
155 the pre-existing leases on the old network and emit a log statement similar
156 to the following:
157
158 "Client: <id> roamed to new network, releasing lease: <address>"
159
160 The server will carry out all of the same steps that would normally occur
161 when a client explicitly releases a lease. This behavior is disabled by
162 default and may only be specified globally. Prior to this the server renders
163 the leases unavailable until they expire or the server is restarted. Clients
164 that need leases in multiple networks must supply a unique IAID in each IA.
165 When release-on-roam is disabled (the default) the server maintains the
166 prior behavior of making such leases unavailable until they expire or the
167 server is restarted. Clients that need leases in multiple networks must
168 supply a unique IAID in each IA. This parameter may only be specified at
169 the global level. Thanks to Fernando Soto from BlueCat Networks for
170 suggesting this change.
171 [ISC-Bugs #44576]
172 [ISC-Bugs #46849]
173
174- Support for delayed-ack is now compiled in by default. Prior to this
175 it had to be enabled at compile time via --enable-delayed-acks. The
176 default value for delayed-ack, however, has been changed from 28 to 0
177 (i.e. disabled). This was done to minimize the impact on users not
178 currently using the feature. Please note that the delayed-ack feature
179 is not currently compatible with support for DHPCv4-over-DHCPv6 so
180 when a 4to6 port command line argument enables this in the server the
181 delayed-ack value is reset to 0.
182 [ISC-Bugs #42446]
183
184- The server (-6) now honors the parameter, update-static-leases, for static
185 (fixed-address6) DHCPv6 leases. It is worth noting that because stateful
186 data is not retained by the server for static leases, each time a client
187 requests or renews a static lease, the server will perform DDNS updates for
188 it. This may have significant performance implications for environments
189 with many clients that request or renew static leases often. Similarly,
190 the DNS entries will not be removed by server when a client issues a RELEASE
191 nor if the lease is deleted from the configuration. In such cases the DNS
192 entries must be removed manually. This feature is disabled by default.
193 Thanks to both Bill Shirley and dgutier-at-cern-dot-ch for requesting
194 this change.
195 [ISC-Bugs #34097]
196 [ISC-Bugs #41054]
197 [ISC-Bugs #41450]
198
199- Added to the server (-6) a new statement, local-address6, which specifies
200 the source address of packets sent by the server. An additional flag,
201 bind-local-address6, disabled by default, binds the service socket to
202 to local-address6. Note that bind-local-address does not work with direct
203 clients: a relay has to forward packets to the server using the
204 local-address6 destination.
205 [ISC-Bugs #46084]
206
207 Changes since 4.4.0a1 (Bugs)
208
209- The server now recognizes environment variables PATH_DHCPD_DB and
210 PATH_DHCPD_PID. These had been incorrectly compiled out of the code
211 unless DHCPv6 support was disabled. Additionally, the server man
212 pages were corrected to accurately reflect how the server chooses
213 file names (see lease-file-name and pid-file-name statements). Thanks
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214 to Fernando Soto at Bluecat Networks for bringing this matter to our
215 attention.
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216 [ISC-Bugs #46859]
217
218- Removed an "Impossible condition" error upon exit in the dhcpd server that
219 has been shutdown via OMAPI. This condition was only apparent under Solaris
220 when building with --enable-use-sockets and --enable-ipv4-pktinfo.
221 [ISC-Bugs #36118]
222
65eed5c1 223- Corrected some minor Coverity issues: CID 1426059, 1426058, and 1426057.
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224 [ISC-Bugs #46836]
225
226- Added missing text to dhclient.8 and expanded release note coverage
227 for --address-prefix-len changes.
7512d88b 228
0e76cb91 229 Changes since 4.3.6 (New Features)
3210786b 230
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231- Added --enable-bind-install to install embedded bind includes and
232 libraries. Default is to not install them (it was the previous
233 behavior). If you'd like to change the includedir and/or libdir
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234 installation directories to something different than for ISC DHCP
235 you must pass them using the --with-bind-extra-config configuration
236 arguments.
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237 [ISC-Bugs #39318]
238
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239- Added support of dynamic shared libraries with libtool. A new
240 --enable-libtool configuration parameter is available but
241 should not be used directly: *please* read the build configuration
242 section in the README file for the recommended procedure.
243 [ISC-Bugs #29402]
244
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245- IPv6 operation now supports an EUI-64 based address allocation which will
246 calculate addresses for clients with EUI-64 DUIDs based on those DUIDs when
247 enabled by setting use-eui-64 true. The parameter may defined down to the
248 pool scope. Note this feature must be compiled in by defining EUI_64 in
249 includes/site.h. This flag is undefined by default.
250 [ISC-Bugs #43927]
251
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252- The directory includes/isc-dhcp and it's only occupant, dst.h, have
253 been removed from the source tree. They are obsolete for branches
254 other than v4_1_esv.
255 [ISC-bugs #45541]
256
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257- Replaced ISC licensing with Mozilla Public License, MPL 2.0 licensing
258 throughout. Please see https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/MPL/2.0/ to read
259 the MPL 2.0 license terms.
260 [ISC-Bugs #45541]
261
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262- Load balancing for failover peers can now be disabled by setting
263 "load balance max secs" to 0. Doing so for both peers means both
264 servers will respond to all DHCPDISCOVERs or DHCPREQUESTs as soon as
265 they are received.
266 [ISC-Bugs #39669]
267
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268- Added a new dhclient command line parameter, --prefix-len-hint <length>.
269 When used in conjunction with -P, it directs dhclient to use the given
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270 length as the prefix length hint when requesting prefixes. Thanks to both
271 Indy, of the FireballISO open source project and H. Peter Anvin for
272 suggesting this change.
273 [ISC-Bugs #43792]
274 [ISC-Bugs #35112]
275 [ISC-Bugs #32228]
276 [ISC-Bugs #29470]
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278- dhclient will now wait for 10 seconds after declining an IPv4 address
279 before issuing a discover. This is in keeping with RFC 2131, section 3.1.5.
280 Prior to this dhclient did not wait at all. The amount of time dhclient
281 waits can be specified via a new command line parameter:
282 --decline-wait-time <seconds>. A value of zero equates to no wait at all.
ecf9f77b 283 Thanks to Pavel Kankovsky for bringing this matter to our attention.
9de870cc 284 **NOTE: THIS IS CHANGE IN DEFAULT BEHAVIOR.
3e88222f 285 [ISC-Bugs #45457]
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287- dhclient will now include the lease address when logging DHCPOFFERs,
288 DHCPREQUESTs, DHCPACKs, DHCPRELEASEs, and DHCPDECLINEs. Additionally,
289 DHCPOFFERs will be logged before their corresponding DHCPREQUESTs are
290 sent and logged.
291 [ISC-Bugs #2729]
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293- When given the -T command line argument, in addition to reading the
294 current lease file, the server will write the leases to a temporary
295 lease file. This can help detect issues in server configuration that
296 only surface when leases are written to the file. The current lease
297 file will not be modified and the temporary lease file is removed upon
298 completion of the test.
299 [ISC-Bugs #22267]
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301- dhclient will now generate a DHCPv6 DECLINE message containing all IA_NA
302 addresses which for which the client script indicates a DAD failure. After
303 receiving the DECLINE reply, dhclient will restart the solicit process.
304 Note, the client script must exit with a value of 3 to signify that the
305 address failed DAD. Thanks to Jiri Popelka of Red Hat for submitting the
306 patch that was the foundation for this change.
9de870cc 307 **NOTE: THIS IS CHANGE IN DEFAULT BEHAVIOR.
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308 [ISC-Bugs #21237]
309 [ISC-Bugs #23357]
f0f3555e 310 [ISC-Bugs #36966]
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312- Replaced compilation option, enable-secs-byteorder, with a run-time, server
313 configuration parameter, check-secs-byte-order. When enabled, the
314 server will check for clients that do the byte ordering on the secs field
315 incorrectly. This field should be in network byte order but some clients
316 get it wrong. When this parameter is enabled the server will examine the
317 secs field and if it looks wrong (high byte non zero and low byte zero) swap
318 the bytes. The default is disabled. This parameter is only useful when
319 doing load balancing within failover.
320 [ISC-Bugs #45364]
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322- The default value for server (-6) parameter, prefix-length-mode, has been
323 changed from "exact" to "prefer". In "prefer" mode the server will offer
324 the first available prefix with the same length as that requested by the
325 client. If none are found then it will offer the first available prefix of
326 any length. This is more in line with with RFC 8168 and should improve
327 the out-of-the-box user experience.
9de870cc 328 **NOTE: THIS IS CHANGE IN DEFAULT BEHAVIOR.
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329 [ISC-Bugs #45615]
330
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331- Added support for 'dhcp-cache-threshold' to IPv6 operation: If a client
332 renews before 'dhcp-cache-threshold' percent of its lease has elapsed
333 (default 25%), the server will reuse the allocated lease (provide a
334 lease within the currently allocated lease-time) rather than extend or
335 renew the lease. This allows the server to reply without needlessly
336 writing leases to disk. The preferred and valid lease lifetimes
337 sent to the client will be reduced by the age of the lease. The option
338 may be specified down to the pool level and is supported for all three
339 pool types: NA, TA, and PD.
340 [ISC-Bugs #45292]
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342- Added three new server configuration parameters which influence DDNS:
343 1. ddns-dual-stack-mixed-mode - alters DNS conflict resolution behavior
344 to mitigate issues with non-compliant clients in dual stack environments.
345
346 2. ddns-guard-id-must-match - relaxes the DHCID RR client id matching
347 requirement of DNS conflict resolution.
348
2f3eca17 349 3. ddns-other-guard-is-dynamic - alters dual-stack-mixed-mode behavior to
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350 allow unguarded DNS entries to be overwritten in certain cases
351 [ISC-Bugs #42620]
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352 [ISC-Bugs #42621]
353 [ISC-Bugs #44753]
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355- A "key-algorithm <algorithm>" statement has been added to omshell to
356 allow the specification of the key algorithm to use during transaction
357 authentication. Prior to this it was hard-coded to be hmac-md5. It now
358 supports all of the same algorithms as the dhcpd server: hmac-md5 (the
359 default), hmac-sha1, hmac-sha224, hmac-sha256, hmac-sha384, and hmac-sha512.
360 [ISC-Bugs #46771]
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362- Added a server configuration parameter, persist-eui-64-leases, which
363 determines whether or not EUI-64 based leases are written to the
364 leases file. Default is true.
365 [ISC-Bugs #45046]
366
140612c8 367- Changed the default value of the prefix length passed by dhclient into the
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368 client script for each IPv6 address from 64 to 128. This was done to comply
369 with RFC3315bis draft (-09, page 64) and RFC5942, Section 4, point 1.
370 In addition, dhclient now supports a command line argument,
371 --address-prefix-len, which may be used to override the default value.
372 **WARNING**: This change may not be backwardly compatible with your
373 environment. If you are operating without a router, such as between VMs on
374 a host, you may find they cannot see each with prefix length of 128. In
375 such cases, you'll need to either provide routing or use the command line
376 parameter to set the value to 64. Alternatively you may change the default
377 at compile time by setting DHCLIENT_DEFAULT_PREFIX_LEN in includes/site.h.
140612c8 378 [ISC-Bugs #23252]
fa6c4c08 379 [ISC-Bugs #37221]
140612c8 380
f1fc5ede 381- Modified dhclient (-6) to bypass sending a confirm (INIT REBOOT) when it has
a804fcc0 382 only expired address associations. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for
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383 raising the issue and submitting the patch.
384 [ISC-Bugs #22675]
0e76cb91 385 Changes since 4.3.6 (Bugs):
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387- Corrected an issue where the server would return a client's previously
388 released prefix lease even when the client provides a prefix length
389 hint that does not match the prior lease. Now the server will only
390 return the previous lease if it exactly matches the hint. If not
391 it will attempt to allocate a new prefix based on the hint and the
392 prefix-length-mode. Thanks to Tim DeNike - Lightspeed Communications
393 for pointing out the error of our ways.
394 [ISC-bugs #45780]
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a804fcc0 396- Added explicit include of BIND9 isc/util.h to adapt to revisions
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397 in BIND9 (see BIND9 ticket #46311). Prior to this the build was failing
398 with implicit function declarations errors for POST() and INSIST().
399 [ISC-bugs #46332]
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401- Added to code ignore empty IPv4 host name option (code 12). While RFC 2132
402 states the option cannot be empty, some clients are apparently capable of
403 sending it. Prior to this the server was attempting to use it and store it
404 in the lease file causing issues with DDNS and so forth.
405 [ISC-bugs #43786]
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407- Corrected dhclient command line parsing for --dad-wait-time that causes
408 even valid values to fail as invalid on some environments.
409 [ISC-Bugs #46535]
410
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411- Replaced iasubopt::heap_index with separate values for active and inactive
412 heaps: iasubopt::active_index and iasubopt::inactive_index. This was done
a804fcc0 413 to accommodate a change in behavior in BIND9 isc_heap_delete().
0e76cb91 414 [ISC-bugs #46719]
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416! Plugged a socket descriptor leak in OMAPI, that can occur when there is
417 data pending to be written to an OMAPI connection, when the connection
418 is closed by the reader. Thanks to Pavel Zhukov at RedHat for bringing
419 this issue to our attention and whose patch helped guide us in the right
420 direction.
421 [ISC-Bugs #46767]
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423- The ability of the server to send back dhcp6.vendor-opts values has been
424 restored. A change in 4.3.5 (see #29246) which enabled it to send back the
425 FQDN option unfortunately broke its ability send back dhcp6.vendor-opts.
426 Thanks to Sumant Gupta (sumantgupta at gmail dot com) of Landis+Gry for
427 bringing this issue to our attention.
428 [ISC-Bugs #46427]
429
0e76cb91 430 Changes since 4.3.6b1
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0e76cb91 432- None
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0e76cb91 434 Changes since 4.3.5
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436- The server now allows the client identifier (option 61) to own leases
437 in more than one subnet concurrently. Prior to this the server would
438 incorrectly release an existing lease in one subnet prior to assigning
439 a lease in another subnet. Note that the prior behavior can be still
440 be achieved by enabling one-lease-per-client. Thanks to both David Zych at
441 the University of Illinois and Norm Proffitt of Infoblox for reporting
442 the issue; and Norm for suggesting a solution.
443 [ISC-Bugs #41358]
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445- When replying to a DHCPINFORM, the server will now include options specified
446 at the pool scope, provided the ciaddr field of the DHCPINFORM is populated.
447 Prior to this the server only evaluated options down to the subnet scope.
448 Thanks to Fernando Soto at BlueCat Networks for reporting the issue.
449 [ISC-Bugs #43219]
450 [ISC-Bugs #45051]
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452- When memory allocation fails in a repeated way the process writes
453 "Run out of memory." on the standard error and exists with status 1.
454 [ISC-Bugs #32744]
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456- The new lmdb (Lightning Memory DataBase) bind9 configure option is
457 now disabled by default to avoid the presence of this library to be
458 detected which can lead to a link failure.
459 [ISC-Bugs #45069]
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461- The linux interface discovery code has been modified to use getifaddrs()
462 as is done for BSD and OS-X. Prior to this the code would only recognize
463 the first address on an interface and thereby omit vlans.
464 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Redhat, Marius Tomaschewski at SUSE, and Wei
465 Kong at Novell, who all submitted patches.
466 [ISC-Bugs #28761]
467 [ISC-Bugs #31992]
468 [ISC-Bugs #25428]
469 [ISC-Bugs #31940]
470 [ISC-Bugs #32935]
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472- Fixed a bug in OMAPI that causes omshell to crash when a name-value
473 pair with a zero length value is shipped in an object. Thanks to
474 Fernando Soto at BlueCat Networks for reporting the issue and
475 supplying the patch.
476 [ISC-Bugs #29108]
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478- On 64-bit platforms, dhclient now generates the correct value for the
479 script environment variable, "expiry", the lease expiry value exceeds
480 0x7FFFFFFF. Prior to this such values would produce negative values
481 for expiry in the script environment.
482 [ISC-Bugs #43326]
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484- Common timer logic was modified to cap the maximum timeout values at
485 0x7FFFFFFF - 1. Values larger than that were causing fatal timer out of
486 range errors on 64-bit platforms. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for
487 reporting the issue.
488 [ISC-Bugs #28038]
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490- DHCP6 FQDN option unpacking code now correctly handles values that contain
491 spaces, special, or non-printable characters. Prior to this the buffer
492 size needed was underestimated causing a conversion error message to
493 be logged and DNS updates to be skipped. Thanks to Fernando Soto at
494 BlueCat Networks for bringing the matter to our attention.
495 [ISC-Bugs #43592]
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497- When running in -6 mode, dhclient can enforce the require option statement
498 and will discard offered leases that do not contain all the required
499 options specified in the client configuration. If not enabled the client
500 will still consider such leases. This must be enabled at compile time
501 (see ENFORCE_DHCPV6_CLIENT_REQUIRE in includes/site.h). Thanks to
502 Mritunjaykumar Dubey at Nokia for reporting the issue.
503 [ISC-Bugs #41473]
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505- Altered DHCPv4 lease time calculation to avoid roll over errors on 64-bit
506 OS systems when using -1 or large values for default-lease-time. Rollover
507 values will be replaced with 0x7FFFFFFF - 1. This alleviates unintentionally
508 short expiration times being handed out when infinite lease times (-1) in
509 conjunction with failover. Our thanks to Alessandro Gherardi for bringing
510 the issue to our attention.
511 [ISC-Bugs #41976]
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513- Added new compile time option --with-srv-conf-file which specifies a
514 default location of the server configuration file.
515 [ISC-Bugs #44765]
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517- Added --dad-wait-time parameter to dhclient. It specifies the maximum time,
518 in seconds, that the client process should wait for the duplicate address
519 detection to complete before initiating DHCP requests. This value is
520 propagated to the dhclient script and the script is responsible for waiting
521 the specified amount of time or until DAD has completed. If the script does
522 not support it, specifying this parameter has no effect. The default value
523 is 0 which specifies that the script should not wait for DAD. With this
524 change the following scripts have been modified to support the new parameter:
525 freebsd, linux, macos, netbsd, openbsd.
526 [ISC-Bugs #36169]
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528- The server nows checks both the address and length of a prefix delegation
529 when attempting to match it to a prefix pool. This ensures the server
530 responds properly when pool configurations change such that once valid,
531 "in-pool" delegations are now treated as being invalid. During lease
532 file loading at startup, the server will discard any PD leases that
533 are deemed "out-of-pool" either by address or mis-matched prefix length.
534 Clients seeking to renew or rebind such leases will get a response of
535 No Binding in the case of the former, and the prefix delegation with
536 lifetimes set to zero in the case of the latter. Thanks to Mark Nejedlo
537 at TDS Telecom for reporting this issue.
538 [ISC-Bugs #35378]
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540- Modified DDNS support initialization such that DNS related ports will only be
541 opened by the server (dhcpd) at startup if ddns-update-style is not "none";
542 by dhclient only if and when the it first attempts an update; and never by
543 dhcrelay. Prior to this all three always did the initialization at startup
544 which causes them to always open on and listen for traffic on two random
545 ports. Thanks to Rodney Beede for reporting this issue.
546 [ISC-Bugs #45290]
547 [ISC-Bugs #33377]
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549- Added error logging to two memory allocation failure checks. Thanks to Bill
550 Parker (wp02855 at gmail dot com) for reporting the issue.
551 [ISC-Bugs #41185]
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553- Corrected a dhclient -6 issue that caused the client to crash with an
554 "Impossible condition" error after de-preferencing its only IA binding.
555 The crash occurred when server configuration changes rendered the existing
556 binding out-of-range and no other leases were available to offer. Thanks
557 to Pierre Clerissi for bringing this issue to our attention.
558 [ISC-Bugs #44373]
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560- By defining CALL_SCRIPT_ON_ONETRY_FAIL in includes/site.h, dhclient will
561 now call the script with reason set to FAIL when run with -1 (one try) and
562 there are no server responses. This applies to IPv4 mode only. Thanks for a
563 patch by Martin Pitt which got to us via Andrew Pollock.
564 [ISC-bugs #18183]
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566- The server now detects failover peers that are not referenced in at least
567 one pool when run with the command line option for test mode, -T. Prior to
568 this the check was performed too far down stream to be detected in test mode.
569 [ISC-Bugs #29892]
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571- Linux script updated. The script is now based on Debian version. It uses
572 ip tool from iproute2 package and ifconfig is no longer used. This also
573 addresses an issue of calling arping with inappropriate parameter.
574 [ISC-bugs #19430]
575 [ISC-bugs #18111]
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577- Changed severity of the log message indicating UDP checksum errors in
578 the received packets from 'info' to 'debug' to avoid logging excessive
579 number of false positives when UDP checksum offloading is enabled.
580 [ISC-bugs #41757]
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582- The directory minires has been removed from the source tree. It has
583 long been obsolete for branches other than v4_1_esv. Additionally,
584 includes/minires.h was renamed includes/ns_name.h.
585 [ISC-bugs #45471]
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587- Replaced ifconfig parameters "add" and "delete" with "alias" and "-alias"
588 for IPv6 mode in the client scripts, netbsd and openbsd. This was
589 preventing IPv6 addresses from being added or removed from interfaces.
590 Thanks to Tim Dean for reporting this issue.
591 [ISC-bugs #31573]
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595- Corrected a bug which could cause the server to sporadically crash while
596 loading lease files with the lease-id-format is set to "hex". Our thanks
597 to Jay Ford, University of Iowa for reporting the issue.
598 [ISC-Bugs #43185]
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600- Eliminated a noisy, but otherwise harmless debug log statment that may
601 appear during server startup when building with --enable-binary-leases
602 and configuring multiple pools in a shared network. Thanks to Fernando
603 Soto from BlueCat Networks for reporting the issue and supplying a patch.
604 [ISC-Bugs #43262]
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608- Fixed util/bindvar.sh error handling.
609 [ISC-Bugs #41973]
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611- Correct error message in relay to use remote id length instead
612 of circuit id length.
613 [ISC-Bugs #42556]
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615- Add logic to test directory Makefiles to avoid copying Attfile(s)
616 when building within the source tree. This eliminates a noisy but
617 otherwise harmless error message when running "make check".
618 [ISC-Bugs #41883]
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620- Leases are now scrubbed of certain prior use information when pool
621 re-balancing reassigns them from one FO peer to the other. This
622 corrects an issue where leases that were offered but not used
623 by the client retained the client hostname from the original
624 client. Thanks to Pavel Polacek, Jan Evangelista Purkyne University
625 for reporting the issue.
626 [ISC-Bugs #42008]
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628- In the LDAP code and schema add some missing '6' characters to use
629 the v6 instead of the v4 versions. Thanks to Denis Taranushin for
630 reporting this issue and supplying its patch.
631 [ISC-Bugs #42666]
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633- Correct how the pick-first-value expression is written to a lease
634 file. Previously it was written as a concat expression due to
635 a cut and paste error.
636 [ISC-Bugs #42253]
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638- Modify the DDNS code to clean up the PTR record even if there
639 are issues while cleaning up the A or AAAA records.
640 [ISC-Bugs #23954]
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642- Added global configuration parameter, abandon-lease-time, which determines
643 the amount of time a lease remains abandoned. The default is 84600 seconds.
644 Additionaly, the server now conducts a ping check (if ping checks are
645 enabled) prior to offering an abandoned lease to client. Our thanks to
646 David Zych at University of Illinois for reporting the issue and working
647 with us to produce a viable solution.
648 [ISC-Bugs #41815]
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650- Correct handling of interface names during interface discovery. This
651 addresses an issue where interface names of 15 characters in length
652 could lead to crashes or interface recognition errors during startup
653 of dhcpd, dhclient, and dhcrelay.
654 [ISC-Bugs #42226]
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656- Updates to contrib/dhcp-lease-list.pl to make it more friendly.
657 The updates are: looking for the lease file in more places and skipping
658 the "processing complete" output when creating machine readable
659 output. Thanks to Cameron Paine (cbp at null dot net) for the
660 patch.
661 [ISC-Bugs #42113]
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663- When reusing a lease for dhcp-cache-threshold return the hostname
664 to the original lease. Also if the host pointer, UID or hardware address
665 change don't allow reuse of the lease.
666 Thanks to Michael Vincent for reporting this and helping us
667 verify the problem and fix.
668 [ISC-Bugs #42849]
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670- Change dmalloc to use a size_t as the length argument to bring it
671 in line with the call it will make to malloc().
672 [ISC-Bugs #40843]
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674- If the failover socket can't be bound, close it. Otherwise if the
675 user configures an incorrect address in the failover stanza the
676 server will continue to open new sockets every 90 seconds until
677 it runs out.
678 [ISC-Bugs #42452]
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680- Add DHCPv4-mode, dhcrelay command line options, "-iu" and "-id", that
681 allow interfaces to be upstream or downstream respectively. Upstream
682 interfaces will accept and forward only BOOTP replies, while downstream
683 interfaces will accept and forward only BOOTP requests.
684 [ISC-Bugs #41547]
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686- Clean up some memory references in the vendor-class construct.
687 [ISC-Bugs #42984]
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695- Corrected a static analyzer warning in common/execute.c
696 [ISC-Bugs #40374]
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698- ISC DHCP now follows the common convention to use the base name a
699 program is invoked with (aka argv[0], vs. a builtin name) for
700 logs. This should help differentiate syslog entries for DHCPv4 and
701 DHCPv6 servers. You can define OLD_LOG_NAME in includes/site.h to
702 keep the previous behavior.
703 [ISC-Bugs #38692]
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705- The Linux packet filter code now correctly treats only the least significant
706 12 bits in an inbound packet's TCI value as the VLAN id (per IEEE 802.1Q).
707 Prior to this it was using the entire 16 bit value as the VLAN id and
708 incorrectly discarding packets. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for
709 reporting this issue and supplying its patch.
710 [ISC-Bugs #40591]
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712- Fixed several static analysis issues such as potential null
713 references, unchecked strdup returns. Thanks to Bill Parker (wp02855 at
714 gmail dot com) who identified these issues and supplied patches to
715 address them.
716 [ISC-Bugs #40754]
717 [ISC-Bugs #40823]
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719- Corrected compilation errors that prohibited building the server
720 and its ATF unit tests when failover is disabled.
721 [ISC-Bugs #40372]
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723- Added the lease address to the end of the debug level log message
724 emitted when an existing lease is renewed within the dhcp-cache-threshold.
725 Thanks to Nathan Neulinger at Missouri S&T for suggesting the change.
726 [ISC-Bugs #40598]
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728- Added dhcpv6 and delayed-ack to settings listed in the "Features:"
729 section of the configure script output. Additionally, all of the
730 features reported on will now always show either a "yes" or "no"
731 value. Prior to this features left to their default setting would
732 not show a value.
733 [ISC-Bugs #40381]
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735- Added a parameter, authoring-byte-order, to the lease file. This value
736 is automatically added to the top of new lease files by the server and
737 indicates the internal byte order (big endian or little endian) of the
738 server. This permits lease files generated on a server with one form of
739 byte order to be used on a server with the opposite form. Our thanks to
740 Timothe Litt for calling this to our attention and for the suggestions
741 he provided.
742 [ISC-Bugs #38396]
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744- Fixed a small memory leak in the DHCPv6 version of the client code.
745 This is unlikely to cause significant issues in actual use.
746 [ISC-Bugs #40990]
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748- Corrected a few minor memory leaks in omapi's dereferencing of
749 host objects. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for reporting
750 the issue and supplying the patches.
751 [ISC-Bugs #33990]
752 [ISC-Bugs #41325]
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754- Cleaned up some of the Make infrastructure to make --with-libbind
755 work better. Though it still only works with an absolute path.
756 [ISC-Bugs #39210]
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758- Made the embedded bind libraries able to be cross compiled
759 (please refer to the bind9 documentation to learn how to cross
760 compile DHCP and its bind library dependency).
761 [ISC-Bugs #38836]
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763- Update the client code to better support getting IA_NAs and IA_PDs
764 in the same packet, see RFC7550 for some discussion.
765 [ISC-Bugs #40190]
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767! Update the bounds checking when receiving a packet.
768 Thanks to Sebastian Poehn from Sophos for the bug report and a suggested
769 patch.
770 [ISC-Bugs #41267]
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773- When handling an incorrect command line for dhcpd, dhclient or dhcrelay
774 print out a specific error message about the first error in addition
775 to the usage string. This may be disabled by editing includes/site.h.
776 [ISC-Bugs #40321]
777 [ISC-Bugs #41454]
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779- The configure script will now exit with an error message if it cannot find
780 a GNU-style make tool (needed when building BIND libraries) or pkg-config
781 (needed to locate ATF used for building unit tests). Prior to this the
782 script would exit indicating success causing subsequent attempts to build
783 the software to fail.
784 [ISC-Bugs #40371]
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786- Properly terminate strings before passing them to regex and fix
787 a boundary error when creating certain new data strings.
788 Thanks to Andrey Jr. Melnikov for the bug report.
789 [ISC-Bugs #41217]
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791- Option expressions, such as prepend and append, are now supported when
792 running dhclient for IPv6. Prior to this such statements in the
793 client configuration file would be parsed but have no affect. Thanks
794 to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for reporting the issue.
795 [ISC-Bugs #39952]
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797- A failover primary server will now accept a binding status update from the
798 secondary which transitions a lease from ACTIVE to ABANDONED. This accounts
799 for instances in which a client declines a lease and only the secondary
800 server receives it. Prior to this the primary server would reject such an
801 update as an "invalid state transition".
802 [ISC_BUGS #25189]
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804- Properly allocate memory for a bpf filter.
805 Thanks to Bill Parker (wp02855 at gmail dot com) who identified this issue.
806 [ISC-Bugs #41485]
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808- Updated contrib/dhcp-lease-list.pl to handle garbage in the oui file better
809 and to print out the hostnames a bit better.
810 Thanks to Antoine Beaupré from Debian for the suggested patch.
811 [ISC-Bugs #41288]
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813- The DHCPv6 server now handles long valid and preferred lease times better.
814 Values that would cause the internal end time of the lease to wrap are
815 modified to work as infinite.
816 [ISC-Bugs #40773]
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818- Updated support for cross compiling by allowing the library archiver
819 to be set at configure time via the environment variable 'AR'.
820 [ISC-Bugs #41536]
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822- The server will now match DHCPv6 relayed clients to host declarations
823 which include the "hardware" statement, if the relay connected to the
824 client supplies the client's hardware address via client-linklayer-address
825 option as per RFC 6939.
826 [ISC-Bugs #40334]
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828- Allow a filename to be specified instead of /dev/random during
829 configuration. This is passed to the BIND configuration to allow
830 for cross compilation.
831 [ISC-Bugs #33835]
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833- Add more option definitions.
834 [ISC-Bugs #40562]
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836- Correct outputting of long lines in the lease file when writing
837 a lease that includes long strings in an execute statement.
838 [ISC-Bugs #40994]
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840- The server will now correctly treat a lease as reserved when the client
841 requests an infinite lease time (i.e. OxFFFFFFFF) and "infinite-is-reserved"
842 is enabled. Prior to this the server would halt. In addition, corrections
843 were made to the server to allow a lease's flags field to be set via omapi.
844 Prior to this, the server, depending on the host architecture, would
845 incorrectly parse the new flags value from the omapi message.
846 [ISC-Bugs #31179]
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848- ISC DHCP can now be configured and built from a directory other than
849 the top level source directory. Note that "make distcheck" uses this
850 feature.
851 [ISC-Bugs #39262]
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853- Add support for RFC 3527 to dhcrelay. A new, dhcrelay command line argument,
854 "-U <interface>" enables the addition of a RFC 3527 compliant link selection
855 suboption to the agent option added for clients directly connected to the
856 relay.
857 [ISC-Bugs #34875]
858 [ISC-Bugs #41708]
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860- Add a new global DHCPv6 option, dhcpv6-set-tee-times, which when enabled
861 instructs the server to calculate T1 and T2 as recommended in RFC 3315,
862 Section 22.4.
863 [ISC-Bugs #25687]
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865- Corrected minor Coverity issues.
866 [ISC-Bugs #35144]
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868- Add support for RFC 7341 DHCPv4 over DHCPv6 with a new configuration
869 option "--enable-dhcpv4o6". Note this feature requires DHCPv6 support
870 and is not compatible with delayed-ack. Both client and server use 2
871 processes which communicate over UDP on a pair of sockets. The new
872 "-4o6 <port>" command line argument enables DHCPv4 over DHCPv6 support
873 and specifies the consecutive ports to use for inter-process communication.
874 Please look at doc/DHCPv4-over-DHCPv6 for more details.
875 [ISC-Bugs #35711]
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877- Correct interface name formation when using DLPI under Solaris 11. As of
878 Solaris 11, ethernet device files are located in "/dev/net". The configure
879 script has been modified to detect this situation and adjust the directory
880 used accordingly. Thanks to Jarkko Torppa for reporting this issue and
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882 [ISC-Bugs #37954]
883 [ISC-Bugs #40752]
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885- Add a dereference call when handling an error condition while
886 decoding a packet.
887 [ISC-Bugs #41774]
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889- Add a new parameter, lease-id-format, to both dhcpd and dhclient. The
890 parameter controls the format in which certain values are written to lease
891 files. Formats supported are octal - quoted string containing octal
892 escapes, and hex - unquoted, colon separated hex digits. Thanks to
893 Jay Ford, University of Iowa for bringing the issue to our attention.
894 [ISC-Bugs #26378]
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896! Add an option in site.h to limit the number of failover and control
897 connections the server will accept. By default this is 200.
898 [ISC-Bugs #41845]
899 CVE: CVE-2016-2774
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907- The server now does a better check to see if it can allocate the memory
908 for large blocks of v4 leases and should provide a slightly better error
909 message. Note well: the server pre-allocates v4 addresses, if you use
910 a large range, such as a /8, the server will attempt to use a large
911 amount of memory and may not start if there either isn't enough memory
912 or the size exceeds what the code supports.
913 [ISC-Bugs #38637]
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915- The server will now reject unicast Request, Renew, Decline, and Release
916 messages from a client unless the server would have sent that client the
917 dhcp6.unicast option. This behavior is in compliance with paragraph 1 in
918 each of the sections 18.2,1, 18.2.3, 18.2.6, and 18.2.7 of RFC 3315. Prior
919 to this, the server would simply accept the messages. Now, in order for
920 the server to accept such a message, the server configuration must include
921 the dhcp6.unicast option either globally or within the shared network to
922 which the requested lease belongs. In other words, the server will map
923 the first IA_XX address found within the client message to a shared-network
924 and look for the presence of the unicast option there and then globally.
925 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for this issue and his patch which
926 inspired the fix.
927 [ISC-Bugs #21235]
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929- The ATF (Automated Testing Framework) tools used for optional unit tests
930 can now be built from its embedded sources in bind, solving the
931 atf-run / atf-report issue with recent (>= 0.20) versions of ATF.
932 The new configuration option is "./configure --with-atf=bind".
933 [ISC-Bugs #38754, #39300]
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935- Corrected a compilation error introduced by the fix for ISC-Bugs #22806.
936 On older linuxes that do not include the tpacket_auxdata structure don't
937 bother allocating the cmsgbuf as it isn't necessary and we don't have
938 a proper length for it.
939 [ISC-Bugs #39209]
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941- Remove the dst directory. This was replaced in 4.2.0 with the dst
942 code from the Bind libraries but we continued to include it for
943 backwards compatibility. As we have now released 4.3.x it seems
944 reasonable to remove it.
945 [ISC-Buts #39019]
946
947- Write out the DUID server id on startup in all cases, previously if it
948 was read in from server-duid option in the config or lease files for
949 DHCPv4 it would not be written to the new lease file.
950 [ISC-Bugs #37791]
951
952- When parsing dates for leases convert dates past 2038 to "never".
953 This avoids problems with integer overflows in the date and time
954 handling code for people that decide to use very large lease times
955 or add a lease entry with a date far in the future.
956 [ISC-Bugs #33056]
957
958- Leave the siaddr field clear when sending a NACK as per RFC 2131
959 table 3.
960 [ISC-Bugs #38769]
961
962- In the client don't send expired addresses to the script as part of
963 the binding process. Thanks to Sven Trenkel at Google for reporting
964 the issue and suggesting the patch.
965 [ISC-Bugs #38631]
966
967- While parsing IPv6 addresses treat "add" as part of the address instead
968 of as a token.
969 [ISC-Bugs #39529]
970
971- Add support for accessing the v4 lease queues (active, free etc) in a
972 binary fashion instead of needing to walk through a linear list to
973 insert, find or remove an entry from the queues. In addition add a
974 compile time option "--enable-binary-leases" to enable the new code
975 or to continue using the old code. The old code is the default.
976 Thanks to Fernando Soto from BlueCat Networks for the patch.
977 [ISC-Bugs #39078]
978
979- Delayed-ack now works properly with Failover. Prior to this, bind updates
980 post startup were being queued but never delivered. Among other things, this
981 was causing leases to not transition from expired or released to free.
982 [ISC-Bugs #31474]
983
984- Clean up parsing of v6 lease files a bit to avoid infinite loops if the
985 lease file is corrupt in certain ways.
986 [ISC-Bugs #39760]
987
988- Corrected a crash in dhclient that occurs during lease renewal if the
989 client is performing its own DNS updates. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat
990 for the bug report.
991 [ISC-Bugs #38639]
992
993- Corrected an issue in v6 lease file parsing. Prior to this, when encountering
994 a lease with an address for which no configured pool exists, the server was
995 declaring the lease file corrupt and incorrectly skipping over the subsequent
996 entry in the file. The server will now emit a log message indicating that
997 no pool was found for the address (or prefix) and correctly resume parsing
998 with the next entry in the lease file. Our thanks to Michal Žejdl for
999 reporting the issue.
1000 [ISC-Bugs #39314]
1001
1002- Be more liberal in finding a subnet group associated with a static
1003 prefix. When we added the class matching code for v6 we also added
1004 a requirement that the static prefix must be within a subnet the
1005 client was in, in order to find the proper statements. We now
1006 look for a subnet based on the prefix, failing that on the static
1007 address for the client and failing that on the shared network
1008 itself.
1009 [ISC-Bugs #38329]
1010
1011- Add a new action expression "parse_vendor_options", which can be used
1012 to parse a vendor-encapsualted-option received by the server based on
1013 the encoding specified by the vendor-option-space statement.
1014 [ISC-Bugs #36449]
1015
1016- Enhance the PARANOIA patch to include fchown() the lease file to
1017 allow it to be manipulated after the server does a chown().
1018 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
1019 [ISC-Bugs #36978]
1020
1021- Relax the requirement that prefix pools must be within the subnet.
1022 This was added in as part of #32453 in order to avoid configuration
1023 mistakes but is being removed as prefixes aren't required to be
1024 within the same subnet and many people configure them in that fashion.
1025 [ISC-Bugs #40077]
1026
1027- Fixed a server crash that could occur when the server attempts to remove
1028 the billing class from the last lease billed to a dynamic class after said
1029 class has been deleted. Our thanks to Lasse Pesonen for reporting the
1030 issue.
1031 [ISC-Bugs #39978]
1032
1033- LDAP Patches - Numerous small patches submitted by contributors have
1034 been applied to the contributed code which supplies LDAP support.
1035 In addition, two larger submissions have also been included. The
1036 first adds support for IPv6 configuration and the second provides
1037 GSSAPI authentication. We would like to thank the following for their
1038 contributions (alphabetically):
1039 Alex Novak at SUSE
1040 Bill Parker (wp02855 at gmail dot com)
1041 Jiri Popelka at Red Hat
1042 Marius Tomaschewski at SUSE
1043 (william at adelaide.edu.au), The University of Adelaide
1044 [ISC-Bugs #39056]
1045 [ISC-Bugs #22742]
1046 [ISC-Bugs #24449]
1047 [ISC-Bugs #28545]
1048 [ISC-Bugs #29873]
1049 [ISC-Bugs #30183]
1050 [ISC-Bugs #30402]
1051 [ISC-Bugs #32217]
1052 [ISC-Bugs #32240]
1053 [ISC-Bugs #33176]
1054 [ISC-Bugs #33178]
1055 [ISC-Bugs #36409]
1056 [ISC-Bugs #36774]
1057 [ISC-Bugs #37876]
1058
1059- Handle an out of memory condition in the client a bit better.
1060 Thanks to Frédéric Perrin from Brocade for finding the issue
1061 and suggesting a patch.
1062 [ISC-Bugs #39279]
1063
1064 Changes since 4.3.2rc2
1065- None
1066
1067 Changes since 4.3.2rc1
1068
1069- Corrected a compilation error introduced by the fix for ISC-Bugs #37415.
1070 The error occurs on Linux variants that do not support VLAN tag information
1071 in packet auxiliary data. The configure script now only enables inclusion
1072 of the VLAN tag-based logic if it is supported by the underlying OS.
1073 [ISC-Bugs #38677]
1074
1075 Changes since 4.3.2b1
1076
1077- Specifying the option, --disable-debug, on the configure script command line
1078 now disables debug features. Prior to this, specifying --disable-debug
1079 incorrectly enabled debug features. Thanks to Gustavo Zacarias for reporting
1080 the issue.
1081 [ISC-Bugs #37780]
1082
1083- Unit test execution now uses a path augmented during configuration
1084 processing of the --with-atf option to locate ATF runtime tools, atf-run
1085 and atf-report. For most installations of ATF, this should alleviate the
1086 need to manually include them in the PATH, as was formerly required.
1087 If the configure script cannot locate the tools it will emit a warning,
1088 informing the user that the tools must be in the PATH when running unit
1089 tests.
1090 Secondly, please note that "make check" will now exit with a failure status
1091 code (non-zero) if one or more unit tests fail. This means that invoking
1092 "make check" from an upper level directory will cause the make process to
1093 STOP after the first test subdirectory with failed test(s). To force all
1094 tests in all subdirectories to run, regardless of individual test outcome,
1095 use the command "make -k check".
1096 [ISC-Bugs #38619]
1097
1098 Changes since 4.3.1
1099
1100- Corrected parser's right brace matching when a statement contains an error.
1101 [ISC-Bugs #36021]
1102
1103- TSIG-authenticated dynamic DNS updates now support the use of these
1104 additional algorithms: hmac-sha1, hmac-sha224, hmac-sha256, hmac-sha384,
1105 and hmac-sha512
1106 [ISC-Bugs #36947]
1107
1108- Added check for invalid failover message type. Thanks to Tobias Stoeckmann
1109 working with the OpenBSD project who spotted the issue and provided the
1110 patch.
1111 [ISC-Bugs #36653]
1112
1113- Corrected rate limiting checks for bad packet logging. Thanks to Tobias
1114 Stoeckmann working with the OpenBSD project who spotted the issue and
1115 provided the patch.
1116 [ISC-Bugs #36897]
1117
1118- Log statements depicting what files will be used by the server now occur
1119 after the configuration file has been processed.
1120 [ISC-Bugs #36671]
1121
1122- Addressed Coverity issues reported as of 07-31-2014:
1123 [ISC-Bugs #36712] Corrects Coverity reported "high" impact issues.
1124 [ISC-Bugs #36933] Corrects Coverity reported "medium" impact issues
1125 [ISC-Bugs #37708] Fixes compilation error in dst_api.c seen in older
1126 compilers that was introduced by #36712
1127
1128- Server now supports a failover split value of 256.
1129 [ISC-Bugs] #36664]
1130
1131- Remove unneeded error #defines. These defines were included in case
1132 external programs required the older versions of the macro. They
1133 have been #ifdeffed for now and will be removed at a future date.
1134 See site.h for the #define to include them again, but you should
1135 switch to using the DHCP_R_* versions instead of the ISC_R_* versions.
1136 Also ISC_R_MULTIPLE has been removed as it is also defined in bind.
1137 [ISC-Bugs #37128]
1138
1139- Added checks in range6 and prefix6 statement parsing to ensure addresses
1140 are within the declared subnet. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the
1141 bug report and patch.
1142 [ISC-Bugs #32453]
1143 [ISC-Bugs #17766]
1144 [ISC-Bugs #18510]
1145 [ISC-Bugs #23698]
1146 [ISC-Bugs #28883]
1147
1148- Addressed checksum issues:
1149 Added checksum readiness check to Linux packet filtering which eliminates
1150 invalid packet drops due to checksum errors when checksum offloading is
1151 in use. Based on dhcp-4.2.2-xen-checksum.patch made to the Fedora project.
1152 [ISC-Bugs #22806]
1153 [ISC-Bugs #15902]
1154 [ISC-Bugs #17739]
1155 [ISC-Bugs #18010]
1156 [ISC-Bugs #22556]
1157 [ISC-Bugs #29769]
1158 Inbound packets with UDP checksums of 0xffff now validate correctly rather
1159 than being dropped.
1160 [ISC-Bugs #24216]
1161 [ISC-Bugs #25587]
1162
1163- Added the echo-client-id configuration parameter to the server configuration.
1164 The server now supports RFC 6842 compliant behavior by setting a new
1165 configuration parameter, echo-client-id. When enabled, the server will
1166 include the client identifier option (Option code 61) if received, in its
1167 responses. The server identifier returned in NAKs (if enabled) will now
1168 be the globally defined value (if one) if the server cannot attribute the
1169 inbound request to a known subnet.
1170 [ISC-Bugs #35958]
1171 [ISC-Bugs #32545]
1172
1173- Added support of the configuration parameter, use-host-decl-names, to
1174 BOOTP request handling.
1175 [ISC-Bugs #36233]
1176
1177- Added logic to ignore the signal, SIGPIPE, which ensures write failures
1178 will be delivered as errors rather than as SIGPIPE signals on all OSs.
1179 Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski from SUSE who reported the issue and provided
1180 the patch upon which the fix is based.
1181 [ISC-Bugs #32222]
1182
1183- In the failover code, handle the case of communications being interrupted
1184 when the servers are dealing with POTENTIAL-CONFLICT. This patch allows
1185 the primary to accept the secondary moving from POTENTIAL-CONFLICT to
1186 RESOLUTION-INTERRUPTED as well as handling the bind update process better.
1187 In addition the code to resend update or update all requests has been
1188 modified to send requests more often.
1189 [ISC-Bugs #36810]
1190 [ISC-Bugs #20352]
1191
1192- By default, the server will now choose the value to use in the forward DNS
1193 name from the following in order of preference:
1194
1195 1. FQDN option if provided by the client
1196 2. Host name option if provided by the client
1197 3. Configured option host-name if defined
1198
1199 As before, this may be overridden by defining ddns-hostname to the desired
1200 value (or expression). In addition, the server logic has been extended to
1201 use the value of the host name declaration if use-host-decl-names is enabled
1202 and no other value is available.
1203 [ISC-Bugs #21323]
1204
1205- DNS updates were being attempted when dhcp-cache-threshold enabled the use of
1206 the existing lease and the forward DNS name had not changed. This has been
1207 corrected.
1208 [ISC-Bugs #37368]
1209 [ISC-Bugs #38636]
1210
1211- Corrected an issue which caused dhclient to incorrectly form the result when
1212 prepending or appending to the IPv4 domain-search option, received from the
1213 server, when either of the values being combined contain compressed
1214 components.
1215 [ISC-Bugs #20558]
1216
1217- Added the server-id-check parameter to the server configuration.
1218 This parameter allows run-time control over whether or not a server,
1219 participating in failover, verifies the dhcp-server-identifier option in
1220 DHCP REQUESTs against the server's id before processing the request.
1221 Formerly, enabling this behavior was done at compilation time through
1222 the use of the #define, SERVER_ID_CHECK, which has been removed from site.h
1223 The functionality is now only available through the new runtime parameter.
1224 [ISC-Bugs #37551]
1225
1226- During startup, when the server encounters a lease whose binding state is
1227 FTS_BACKUP but whose pool has no configured failover peer, it will reset the
1228 lease's binding state to FTS_FREE. This allows the leases to be reclaimed
1229 by the server after a pool's configuration has changed from failover to
1230 standalone. Prior to this such leases would remain stuck in the backup state
1231 making them unavailable for assignment. Note this conversion will occur
1232 whether or not the server is compiled for failover.
1233 [ISC-Bugs #36960]
1234
1235- Fixed a small issue in the treatment of hosts in the inform processing
1236 that could cause the response to an inform to include information from
1237 the wrong scope. The two examples we've heard of are getting subnet
1238 instead of group information associated with a host entry, or getting
1239 global information instead of subnet if the host entry was built via
1240 omapi. Thanks to Julien Soula at University of Lille for finding the
1241 bug and supplying a patch.
1242 [ISC-Bugs #35712]
1243
1244- Avoid calling pool_timer() recursively from supersede_lease(). This could
1245 result in leases changing state incorrectly or delaying the running of the
1246 leae expiration code.
1247 [ISC-Bugs #38002]
1248
1249- Move the check for a PID file and process to be before we rewrite the
1250 lease file. This avoids the possibility of starting a second instance
1251 of a server which changes the current lease file confusing the first
1252 instance. This check is only included if the admin hasn't disabled PID
1253 files.
1254 [ISC-Bugs #38078]
1255 [ISC-Bugs #38143]
1256
1257- In the client code change the way preferred_life and max_life are printed
1258 for environment variables to be unsigned rather than signed.
1259 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and patch.
1260 [ISC-Bugs #37084]
1261
1262- Modified Linux packet handling such that packets received via VLAN are now
1263 seen only by the VLAN interface. Prior to this, such packets were seen by
1264 both the VLAN interface and its parent (physical) interface, causing the
1265 server to respond to both. Note this remains an issue for non-Linux OSs.
1266 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
1267 [ISC-Bugs #37415]
1268 [ISC-Bugs #37133]
1269 [ISC-Bugs #36668]
1270 [ISC-Bugs #36652]
1271
1272- Log content has been changed to more directly suggest that admins should
1273 check for multiple IPv6 clients attempting to use the same DUID when only
1274 abandoned addresses are available. Debug level logging will now emit counts
1275 of the total number of, in-use, and abandoned addresses in a shared subnet
1276 when the server finds no addresses available for a given DUID. Lastly,
1277 threshold logging is now automatically disabled for shared subnets whose
1278 total number of possible addresses exceeds (2^64)-1.
1279 [ISC-Bugs #26376]
1280 [ISC-Bugs #38131]
1281
1282- Added a global parameter, prefix-length-mode, which may be used to determine
1283 how the server uses a non-zero value for prefix-length supplied by clients
1284 when soliciting DHCPv6 prefixes. The server supports selection modes of:
1285 ignore, prefer, exact, minimum and maximum which are described in detail in
1286 the server man pages. The prior behavior of the server was to only offer a
1287 prefix whose length exactly matched the prefix-length value requested. If
1288 no such prefixes were available, the server returned a status of none
1289 available. Note the default mode, "exact", provides this same behavior.
1290 [ISC-Bugs #36780]
1291 [ISC-Bugs #32228]
1292
1293- Corrected inconsistencies in dhcrelay's setting the upper interface hop count
1294 limit such that it now sets it to 32 when the upstream address is a multicast
1295 address per RFC 3315 Section 20. Prior to this if the -u argument preceded
1296 the -l argument on the command line or if the same interface was specified
1297 for both; the logic to set the hop limit count for the upper interface was
1298 skipped. This caused the hop count limit to be set to the default value
1299 (typically 1) in the outbound upstream packets.
1300 [ISC-Bugs #37426]
1301
1302 Changes since 4.3.1b1
1303
1304- Modify the linux and openwrt dhclient scripts to process information
1305 from a stateless request. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the
1306 bug report and patch.
1307 [ISC-Bugs #36102]
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1309- Remove more unused RCSID tags. These weren't noticed in 4.3 as
1310 the code isn't used anymore but we remove them here to keep the
1311 code consistent across versions.
1312 [ISC-Bugs #36451]
01a44a77 1313
0e76cb91 1314 Changes since 4.3.0
01a44a77 1315
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1316- Tidy up several small tickets.
1317 Correct parsing of DUID from config file, previously the LL type
1318 was put in the wrong place in the DUID string.
1319 [ISC-Bugs #20962]
1320 Add code to parse "do-forward-updates" as well as "do-forward-update"
1321 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
1322 [ISC-Bugs #31328]
1323 Remove log_priority as it isn't currently used.
1324 [ISC-Bugs #33397]
1325 Increase the size of the buffer used for reading interface information.
1326 [ISC-Bugs #34858]
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1328- Remove an extra set of the msg_controllen variable.
1329 [ISC-Bugs #21035]
01a44a77 1330
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1331- Add a more understandable error message if a configuration attempts
1332 to add multiple keys for a single zone. Thanks to a patch from Jiri
1333 Popelka at Red Hat.
1334 [ISC-Bugs #31892]
f2e70402 1335
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1336- Fix some minor issues in the dst code.
1337 [ISC-Bugs #34172]
51ce5995 1338
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1339- Properly #ifdef functions so that the code can compile without NSUPDATE.
1340 [ISC-Bugs #35058]
9b7d458d 1341
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1342- Update the partner's stos (start time of state, basically when we last
1343 heard from this partner) field when updating the state in failover.
1344 [ISC-Bugs #35549]
9b7d458d 1345
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1346- Modify the overload processing to allow space for the remote agent ID.
1347 [ISC-Bugs #35569]
1348 Handle the ordering of the SUBNET_MASK option even if it is the last
1349 option in the list.
1350 [ISC-Bugs #24580]
9b7d458d 1351
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1352- Remove the code that allows a server to follow RFC3315 instead of
1353 the subsequent errata from August 2010 when determining which IAs
1354 to include if no addresses will be assigned.
1355 [ISC-Bugs #28938]
2c8a396a 1356
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1357- Remove unused RCSID tags.
1358 [ISC-Bugs #35846]
9b7d458d 1359
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1360- Correct the v6 client timing code. When doing the timing backoff
1361 for MRT limit it to MRD.
1362 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and fix.
1363 [ISC-Bugs #21238
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1365- Add a log entry when killing a client and remove the PID files
1366 when a server, relay or client are killed.
1367 [ISC-Bugs #16970]
1368 [ISC-Bugs #17258]
9b7d458d 1369
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1370- Some minor cleanups in the client code.
1371 In addition to checking for dhcpc check for bootpc in the services list.
1372 [ISC-Bugs #18933]
1373 Correct the client code to only try to get a lease once when the
1374 given the "-1" argument.
1375 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and fix.
1376 [ISC-Bugs #26735]
1377 When asked for the version don't send the output to syslog.
1378 [ISC-Bugs #29772]
1379 Add the next server information to the environment variables for
1380 use by the client script. In order to avoid changing the client
1381 lease file the next server information isn't written to it.
1382 Thanks to Tomas Hozza at Red Hat for the suggestion and a prototype fix.
1383 [ISC-Bugs #33098]
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1385- Several updates to the dhcp server code.
1386 When not in quiet mode print out the files being used.
1387 [ISC-Bugs #17551]
1388 As accessing some pid files may require privileges move the dropping
1389 of permission bits due to the paranoia patch to be after the pid code.
1390 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and fix.
1391 [ISC-Bugs #25806]
1392 When processing a "--version" request don't output the version information
1393 to syslog.
9b7d458d 1394
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1395- Add the "enable-log-pid" build option to the configure script. When enabled
1396 this causes the client, server and relay programs to include the PID
1397 number in syslog messages.
1398 Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski for the suggestion and proto-patch.
1399 [ISC-Bugs #29713]
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1401- Add a #define to specify the prefix length used when a client attempts
1402 to configure an address. This can be modified by editing includes/site.h.
1403 By default it is set to 64. While 128 might be a better choice it would
1404 also be a change for currently running systems, so we have left it at 64.
1405 [ISC-Bugs #DHCP-2]
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1407- Add a run time option to the client "-df" to allow the administrator to
1408 point to a second lease file the client can search for a DUID. This can
1409 be used to allow a v4 and a v6 instance of the client to share a DUID.
1410 The second file will only be searched if there isn't a DUID in the main
1411 lease file and the DUID will be written out to the main lease file.
1412 [ISC-Bugs #34886]
9b7d458d 1413
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1414- Have the client fsync the lease file to avoid lease corruption if the
1415 client hibernates or otherwise shuts down.
1416 [ISC-Bugs #35894]
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1418- Add a check for L2VLAN in bpf.c to help support VLAN interfaces
1419 Thanks to Steinar Haug for the suggestion.
1420 [ISC-Bugs #36033]
ece2d9da 1421
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1422- Modify the handling of the resolv.conf file to allow the DHCP
1423 process to start up even if the resolv.conf file has problems.
1424 [ISC-Bugs #35989]
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1426- Add threshold logging functionality. Two new options,
1427 log-threshold-low and log-threshold-high, indicate to the
1428 server if and when it should log an error message as addresses
1429 in a pool are used.
1430 [ISC-Bugs #34487]
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1432- Add code to properly dereference a pointer in the dhclient code
1433 on an error condition.
1434 [ISC-Bugs #36194]
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1436- Add code to help clean up soft leases.
1437 [ISC-Bugs #36304]
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1439- Disable the gentle shutdown functionality until we can determine
1440 the best way to present it to remove or reduce the side effects.
1441 [ISC-Bugs #36066]
d1489a35 1442
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1445- None
1446 Changes since 4.3.0b1
2d542e1e 1447
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1448- Tidy up receive packet processing.
1449 Thanks to Brad Plank of GTA for reporting the issue and suggesting
1450 a possible patch.
1451 [ISC-Bugs #34447]
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1453 Changes since 4.3.0a1
1454
1455- Modify the message displayed when a process hits a fatal error.
1456 The new message is much shorter and simply points to the README
1457 and our website for directions on bug submissions.
1458 [ISC-Bugs #24789]
1a6b62fe 1459
6980ae03 1460 Changes since 4.2.0 (new features)
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1462- If a client renews before 'dhcp-cache-threshold' percent of its lease
1463 has elapsed (default 25%), the server will reuse the allocated lease
1464 (provide a lease within the currently allocated lease-time) rather
1465 than extend or renew the lease. This absolves the server of needing
1466 to perform an fsync() operation on the lease database before reply,
1467 which improves performance. [ISC-Bugs #22228]
80778e94 1468 Updated this patch to support asynchronous DDNS. If the server is
adb95d23 1469 attempting to do DDNS on a lease it should be updated and written to
4809ef5c 1470 disk even if that wouldn't be necessary due to the thresholding.
8cd88e20 1471 [ISC-Bugs #26311]
51b8a8a0 1472
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1473- The 'no available billing' log line now also logs the name of the last
1474 matching billing class tried before failing to provide a billing.
1475 [ISC-Bugs #21759]
1476
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1477- A problem with missing get_hw_addr function when --enable-use-sockets
1478 was used is now solved on GNU/Linux, BSD and GNU/Hurd systems. Note
1479 that use-sockets feature was not tested on those systems. Client and
1480 server code no longer use MAX_PATH constant that is not defined on
3cb6f9bb 1481 GNU/Hurd systems. [ISC-Bugs #25979]
32e651c4 1482
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1483- Add a perl script in the contrib directory, dhcp-lease-list.pl, which
1484 can parse v4 lease files and output the lease information in a more
1485 human friendly manner. This was written by Christian Hammers with
1486 some updates by vom and ISC. This is contributed code and is not
1487 supported by ISC; however it may be useful to some users.
1488 [ISC-Bugs #20680]
1489
a7341359 1490- Add support in v6 for on-commit, on-expire and on-release.
4809ef5c 1491 [ISC-Bugs #27912]
a7341359 1492
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1493- Add support for using classes with v6.
1494 [ISC-Bugs #26510]
1495
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1496- Update the DDNS code to current standards and allow for sharing
1497 of DDNS entries between v4 and v6 clients. The new code is used
1498 if the ddns-update-style is set to "standard", the older code is
1499 still available if ddns-update-style is set to "interim". The
1500 oldest DDNS code "ad-hoc" has been removed. Thanks to Thomas Pegeot
1501 who submitted a patch for this issue. This patch is based on
1502 that work with some modifications.
64fb661c 1503 [ISC-Bugs #21139]
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1505- Add a configuration option to the server to suppress using fsync().
1506 Enabling this option will mean that fsync() is never called. This
1507 may provide better performance but there is also a risk that a lease
1508 will not be properly written to the disk after it has been issued
1509 to a client and before the server stops. Using this option is
1510 not recommended.
64fb661c 1511 [ISC-Bugs #34810]
cde11a4c 1512
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1513- Add some logging statements to indicate when the server is ready
1514 to serve. One statement is emitted after the server has finished
1515 reading its files and is about to enter the dispatch loop.
1516 This is "Server starting service.".
1517 The second is emitted when a server determines that both it and
1518 its failover peer are in the normal state.
1519 This is "failover peer <name>: Both servers normal."
64fb661c 1520 [ISC-Bugs #33208]
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1522- Add support for accessing options from v6 relays. The v6relay
1523 statement allows the administrator to choose which relay to
1524 use when searching for an option, see the dhcp-options man page
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1525 for a description. The host-identifier option has also been
1526 updated to support the use of relay options, see the dhcpd.conf
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1527 man page for a description.
1528 [ISC-Bugs #19598]
1529
e54ff84f 1530- When doing DDNS if there isn't an appropriate zone statement attempt
80778e94 1531 to find a reasonable nameserver via a DNS resolver. This restores
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1532 some functionality that was lost in the transition to asynchronous
1533 DDNS. Due to the lack of security and increase in fragility of the
1534 system when using this feature we strongly recommend the use of
1535 appropriate zone statements rather than using this functionality.
1536 [ISC-Bugs #30461]
1537
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1538- Add support for specifying the address from which to send
1539 DDNS updates on the DHCP server. There are two new options
1540 "ddns-local-address4" and "ddns-local-address6" that each take
1541 one instance of their respective address types.
1542 [ISC-Bugs #34779]
4d079f0e 1543
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1544- Add ignore-client-uids option in the server. This option causes
1545 the server to not record a client's uid in its lease. This
1546 violates the specification but may also be useful when a client
1547 can dual boot using different client ids but the same mac address.
6b9c9f87 1548 Thank you to Brian De Wolf at Cal Poly Pomona for the patch.
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1549 [ISC-Bugs #32427]
1550 [ISC-Bugs #35066]
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1551
1552- Extend the DHCPINFORM processing to honor the subnet selection option
1553 and take host declarations into account.
1554 Thanks to Christof Chen for testing and submitting the patch.
1555 [ISC-Bugs #35015]
1556
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1557- Extend the hardware expression to look into the lease structure
1558 for a hardware address if there is no packet. This allows the
1559 server to find the hardware address during on-expiry processing.
1560 [ISC-Bugs #24584]
61ef216b 1561
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1562- Add definitions for some options that have been specified by the IETF.
1563 [ISC-Bugs #29268]
ccc2a367 1564 [ISC-Bugs #35198]
bc30c84e 1565
01a44a77 1566 Changes since 4.2.0 (bug fixes)
8ee352ee 1567
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1568- When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
1569 is no longer truncated to one octet.
8ee352ee 1570
01a44a77 1571- Cleaned up an unused hardware address variable in nak_lease().
4889a646 1572
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1573- Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
1574 reflect support for prefix delegation.
4889a646 1575
01a44a77 1576- Cleaned up some compiler warnings
7dc4e69c 1577
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1578- An optimization described in the failover protocol draft is now included,
1579 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
1580 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
1581 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
1582 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
1583 entry for each lease.
c5bc8b1a 1584
01a44a77 1585- Fix the trace code which was broken by the changes to the DDNS code.
d0a10f6a 1586
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1587- Update the fsync code to work with the changes to the DDNS code. It now
1588 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
dc9d7b08 1589
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1590- When constructing the DNS name structure from a text string append
1591 the root to relative names. This satisfies a requirement in the DNS
1592 library that names be absolute instead of relative and prevents DHCP
1593 from crashing. [ISC-Bugs #21054]
a24b9f23 1594
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1595- "The LDAP Patch" that has been circulating for some time, written by
1596 Brian Masney and S.Kalyanasundraram and maintained for application to
1597 the DHCP-4 sources by David Cantrell has been included. Please be
1598 advised that these sources were contributed, and do not yet meet the
1599 high standards we place on production sources we include by default.
1600 As a result, the LDAP features are only included by using a compile-time
1601 option which defaults off, and if you enable it you do so under your
1602 own recognizance. We will be improving this software over time.
1603 [ISC-Bugs #17741]
c5bc8b1a 1604
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1605- Prohibit including lease time information in a response to a DHCP INFORM.
1606 [ISC-Bugs #21092]
cc17cbc3 1607
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1608! Accept a client id of length 0 while hashing. Previously the server would
1609 exit if it attempted to hash a zero length client id, providing attackers
1610 with a simple denial of service attack. [ISC-Bugs #21253]
1611 CERT: VU#541921 - CVE: CVE-2010-2156
08b2d347 1612
01a44a77 1613- A memory leak in ddns processing was closed. [ISC-Bugs #21377]
08b2d347 1614
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1615- Modify the exception handling for initial context creation. Previously
1616 we would try and clean up before exiting. This could present problems
1617 when the cleanup required part of the context that wasn't available. It
1618 also didn't do much as we exited afterwards anyway. Now we simply log
1619 the error and exit. [ISC-Bugs #21093]
ad4001ce 1620
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1621- A bug was fixed that could cause the DHCPv6 server to advertise/assign a
1622 previously allocated (active) lease to a client that has changed subnets,
1623 despite being on different shared networks. Dynamic prefixes specifically
1624 allocated in shared networks also now are not offered if the client has
1625 moved. [ISC-Bugs #21152]
3cb6f9bb 1626
01a44a77 1627- Add some debugging output for use with the DDNS code. [ISC-Bugs #20916]
f6dc164f 1628
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1629- Fix the trace code to handle timing events better and to truncate a file
1630 before using instead of overwriting it. [ISC-Bugs #20969]
4b8251a0 1631
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1632- Modify the determination of the default TTL to use for DDNS updates.
1633 The user may still configure the ttl via ddns-ttl. The default for
1634 both v4 and v6 is now 1/2 the (preferred) lease time with a limit. The
1635 previous defaults (1/2 lease time without a limit for v4 and a default
1636 value for v6) may be used by defining USE_OLD_DDNS_TTL in site.h
1637 [ISC-Bugs #21126]
47e8308d 1638
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1639- libisc/libdns is now brought up to version 9.7.1rc1. This corrects
1640 three reported flaws in ISC DHCP;
d9b5c150 1641
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1642 o DHCP processes (dhcpd, dhclient) fail to start if one of either the
1643 IPv4 or IPv6 address families is not present. [ISC-Bugs #21122]
08e6dad9 1644
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1645 o Assertion failure when attempting to cancel a previously running DDNS
1646 update. [ISC-Bugs #21133]
9f9265b6 1647
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1648 o Compilation failure of libisc/libdns due to the use of a flexible
1649 array member. [ISC-Bugs #21316]
9f9265b6 1650
01a44a77 1651- Add declaration for variable in debug code in alloc.c. [ISC-Bugs #21472]
35de6c8c 1652
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1653- Documentation cleanup covering multiple tickets
1654 [ISC-Bugs #20265] [ISC-Bugs #20259] minor cleanup
1655 [ISC-Bugs #20263] add text describing some default values
1656 [ISC-Bugs #20193] single quotes at the start of a line indicate a control
1657 line to nroff, escape them if we actually want a quote.
1658 [ISC-Bugs #18916] sync the pointer to web pages amongst the different docs
de87ffe3 1659
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1660- 'get-host-names true;' now also works even if 'use-host-decl-names true;'
1661 was also configured. The nature of this repair also fixes another
1662 error; the host-name supplied by a client is no longer overridden by a
1663 reverse lookup of the lease address. Thanks to a patch from Wilco Baan
1664 Hofman supplied to us by the Debian package maintenance team.
1665 [ISC-Bugs #21691] {Debian Bug#509445}
e563ec2e 1666
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1667- The .TH tag for the dhcp-options manpage was typo repaired
1668 thanks to a report from jidanni and the Debian package maintenance
1669 team. [ISC-Bugs #21676] {Debian Bug#563613}
3bedb117 1670
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1671- More documentation changes - primarily to put the options in the dhclient
1672 and dhcpd man pages into the standard form. Thanks in part to a patch
1673 from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
1674 [ISC-Bugs #20264] and parts of [ISC-Bugs #17744] dhclient.8 changes
18a28679 1675
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1676- Add code to clear the pointer to an object in an OMAPI handle when the
1677 object is freed due to a dereference. [ISC-Bugs #21306]
0b2ec8c9 1678
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1679- Fixed a bug that leaks host record references onto lease structures,
1680 causing the server to apply configuration intended for one host to any
1681 other innocent clients that come along later. [ISC-Bugs #22018]
67b2cb45 1682
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1683- Minor code fixes
1684 [ISC-Bugs #19566] When trying to find the zone for a name for ddns allow
1685 the name to be at the apex of the zone.
1686 [ISC-Bugs #19617] Restrict length of interface name read from command line
1687 in dhcpd - based on a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
1688 [ISC-Bugs #20039] Correct some error messages in dhcpd.c
1689 [ISC-Bugs #20070] Better range check on values when creating a DHCID.
9a111ee8 1690 [ISC-Bugs #20198] Avoid writing past the end of the field when adding
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1691 overly long file or server names to a packet and add a log message
1692 if the configuration supplied overly long names for these fields.
1693 Thanks to Martin Pala.
1694 [ISC-Bugs #21497] Add a little more randomness to rng seed in client
1695 thanks to a patch from Jeremiah Jinno.
74977c94 1696
01a44a77 1697- Correct error handling in DLPI [ISC-Bugs #20378]
30e42327 1698
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1699- Remove __sun__ and __hpux__ typedefs in osdep.h as they are now being
1700 checked in configure. [ISC-Bugs #20443]
dbd65517 1701
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1702- Modify how the cmsg header is allocated the v6 send and received routines
1703 to compile on more compilers. [ISC-Bugs #20524]
0f750c4f 1704
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1705- When parsing a domain name free the memory for the name after we are
1706 done with it. [ISC-Bugs #20824]
b95f1ee0 1707
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1708- Add an elapsed time option to the release message and refactor the
1709 code to move most of the common code to a single routine.
1710 [ISC-Bugs #21171].
b95f1ee0 1711
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1712- Two identical log messages for commit_leases() have been disambiguated.
1713 [ISC-Bugs #18915]
0ef9a46e 1714
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1715- Parse date strings more properly - the code now handles semi-colons in
1716 date strings correctly. Thanks to a patch from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
1717 [ISC-Bugs #21501, #20598]
de6c9af6 1718
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1719- Fixes to lease input and output.
1720 [ISC-Bugs #20418] - Some systems don't support the "%s" argument to
1721 strftime, paste together the same string using mktime instead.
1722 [ISC-Bugs #19596] - When parsing iaid values accept printable
1723 characters.
1724 [ISC-Bugs #21585] - Always print time values in omshell as hex
1725 instead of ascii if the values happen to be printable characters.
87132514 1726
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1727- Minor changes for scripts, configure.ac and Makefiles
1728 [ISC-Bugs #19147] Use domain-search instead of domain-name in manual and
1729 example conf file. Thanks to a patch from David Cantrell
1730 at Red Hat.
1731 [ISC-Bugs #19761] Restore address when doing a rebind in DHCPv6
1732 [ISC-Bugs #19945] Properly close the quote on some arguments.
1733 [ISC-Bugs #20952] Add 64 bit types to configure.ac
adb95d23 1734 [ISC-Bugs #21308] Add "PATH=" to CLIENT_PATH environment variable
b047bd38 1735
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1736- Update the code to parse dhcpv6 lease files to accept a semi-colon at
1737 the end of the max-life and preferred-life clauses. In order to be
1738 backwards compatible with older lease files not finding a semi-colon
1739 is also accepted. [ISC-Bugs #22303].
e3c94800 1740
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1741! Handle a relay forward message with an unspecified address in the
1742 link address field. Previously such a message would cause the
e675b663 1743 server to crash. Thanks to a report from John Gibbins. [ISC-Bugs #21992]
01a44a77 1744 CERT: VU#102047 CVE: CVE-2010-3611
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1746- ./configure on longer searches for -lcrypto to explicitly link against.
1747 This fixes a bug where 'dhclient' would have shared library dependencies
1748 on '/usr/lib'. [ISC-Bugs #21967]
d13db163 1749
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1750- Handle pipe failures more gracefully. Some OSes pass a SIGPIPE
1751 signal to a process and will kill the process if the signal isn't
1752 caught. This patch adds code to turn off the SIGPIPE signal via
1753 a setsockopt() call. The signal is already being ignored as part
1754 of the ISC library. [ISC-Bugs #22269]
b342f2e7 1755
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1756- Restore printing of values in omshell to the style pre 21585. For
1757 21585 we changed the print routines to always display time values
1758 as a hex list. This had a side effect of printing all data strings
1759 as a hex list. We shall investigate other ways of displaying time
1760 values more usefully. [ISC-Bugs #22626]
797aab67 1761
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1762! Fix the handling of connection requests on the failover port.
1763 Previously a connection request from a source that wasn't
1764 listed as a failover peer would cause the server to become
1765 non-responsive. Thanks to a report from Brad Bendily, brad@bendily.com.
1766 [ISC-Bugs #22679]
9a111ee8 1767 CERT: VU#159528 CVE: CVE-2010-3616
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1769- Don't pass the ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to the omapi signal handlers.
1770 Passing it through to the handlers caused the omshell program to fail
1771 to connect to the server. [ISC-Bugs #21839]
d289ee68 1772
adb95d23 1773- Fix the parenthesis in the code to process configuration statements
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1774 beginning with "auth". The previous arrangement caused
1775 "auto-partner-down" to be processed incorrectly. [ISC-Bugs #21854]
d19fa5a1 1776
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1777- Limit the timeout period allowed in the dispatch code to 2^^32-1 seconds.
1778 Thanks to a report from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
1779 [ISC-Bugs #22033], [Red Hat Bug #628258]
bb9189c3 1780
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1781- When processing the format flags for a given option consume the
1782 flag indicating an optional value correctly. A symptom of this
1783 bug was an infinite loop when trying to parse the slp-service-scope
1784 option. Thanks to a patch from Marius Tomaschewski.
1785 [ISC-Bugs #22055]
cbbd2714 1786
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1787- Disable the use of kqueue in the ISC library. This avoids a problem
1788 between the fork and socket code that caused the dhcpd process to
1789 use all available cpu if the program daemonized itself.
1790 [ISC-Bugs #21911]
d208bb04 1791
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1792! When processing a request in the DHCPv6 server code that specifies
1793 an address that is tagged as abandoned (meaning we received a
1794 decline request for it previously) don't attempt to move it from
1795 the inactive to active pool as doing so can result in the server
1796 crashing on an assert failure. Also retag the lease as active
1797 and reset its timeout value.
1798 [ISC-Bugs #21921]
9a111ee8 1799
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1800- Removed the restriction on using IPv6 addresses in IPv4 mode. This
1801 allows IPv4 options which contain IPv6 addresses to be specified. For
1802 example the 6rd option can be specified and used like this:
1803 [ISC-Bugs #23039]
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1806 ip6-address, array of ip-address };
1807 option 6rd 16 10 2001:: 1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8;
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1809- Handle some DDNS corner cases better. Maintain the DDNS transaction
1810 information when updating a lease and cancel any existing transactions
9a111ee8 1811 when removing the ddns information.
01a44a77 1812 [ISC-Bugs #23103]
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1814- Some fixes for LDAP
1815 [ISC-Bugs #21783] - Include lber library when building ldap
1816 [ISC-Bugs #22888] - Enable the ldap code when buidling common
1817 The above fixes are from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
3221151b 1818
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1819- Modify the dlpi code to accept getmsg() returning a positive value.
1820 [ISC-Bugs #22824]
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1821
1822! In dhclient check the data for some string options for
1823 reasonableness before passing it along to the script that
1824 interfaces with the OS.
1825 [ISC-Bugs #23722]
1826 CVE: CVE-2011-0997
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1828- DHCPv6 server now responds properly if client asks for a prefix that
1829 is already assigned to a different client. [ISC-Bugs #23948]
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1830
1831- Add the option "--no-pid" to the client, relay and server code,
1832 to disable writing a pid file. Add the option "-pf pidfile"
1833 to the relay to allow the user to supply the pidfile name at
1834 runtime. Add the "with-relay6-pid-file" option to configure
1835 to allow the user to supply the pidfile name for the relay
1836 in v6 mode at configure time.
1837 [ISC-Bugs #23351] [ISC-Bugs #17541]
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1839- 'dhclient' no longer waits a random interval after first starting up to
1840 begin in the INIT state. This conforms to RFC 2131, but elects not to
9a111ee8 1841 implement a 'SHOULD' direction in section 4.1. The goal of this change
73c83820 1842 is to start up faster. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1844- Added 'initial-delay' parameter that specifies maximum amount of time
1845 before client goes to the INIT state. The default value is 0. In previous
1846 versions of the code client could wait up to 5 seconds. The old behavior
5d082abd 1847 may be restored by using 'initial-delay 5;' in the client config file.
73c83820 1848 [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1850- ICMP ping-check should now sit closer to precisely the number of seconds
1851 configured (or default 1), due to making use of the new microsecond
1852 scale timer internally to dhcpd. This corrects a bug where the server
1853 may immediately timeout an ICMP ping-check if it was made late in the
73c83820 1854 current second. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1856- The DHCP client will schedule renewal and rebinding events in
1857 microseconds if the DHCP server provided a lease-time that would result
1858 in sub-1-second timers. This corrects a bug where a 2-second or lower
1859 lease-time would cause the DHCP client to enter an infinite loop by
73c83820 1860 scheduling renewal at zero seconds. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1862- Client lease records are recorded at most once every 15 seconds. This
1863 keeps the client from filling the lease database disk quickly on very small
73c83820 1864 lease times. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1866- To defend against RFC 2131 non-compliant DHCP servers which fail to
1867 advertise a lease-time (either mangled, or zero in value) the DHCP
1868 client now adds the server to the reject list ACL and returns to INIT
1869 state to hopefully find an RFC 2131 compliant server (or retry in INIT
73c83820 1870 forever). [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1872- Parameters configured to evaluate from user defined function calls can
1873 now be correctly written to dhcpd.leases (as on 'on events' or dynamic
1874 host records inserted via OMAPI). [ISC-Bugs #22266]
1875
1876- If a 'next-server' parameter is configured in a dynamic host record via
1877 OMAPI as a domain name, the syntax written to disk is now correctly parsed
1878 upon restart. [ISC-Bugs #22266]
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1880- The DHCP server now responds to DHCPLEASEQUERY messages from agents using
1881 IP addresses not covered by a subnet in configuration. Whether or not to
1882 respond to such an agent is still governed by the 'allow leasequery;'
1883 configuration parameter, in the case of an agent not covered by a configured
1884 subnet the root configuration area is examined. Server now also returns
1885 vendor-class-id option, if client sent it. [ISC-Bugs #21094]
9a111ee8 1886
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1887- Documentation fixes
1888 [ISC-Bugs #17959] add text to AIX section describing how to have it send
1889 responses to the all-ones address.
1890 [ISC-Bugs #19615] update the includes in dhcpctl/dhcpctl.3 to be more correct
1891 [ISC-Bugs #20676] update dhcpd.conf.5 to include the RFC numbers for DDNS
1892
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1893- Relay no longer crashes, when DHCP packet is received over interface without
1894 any IPv4 address assigned. Also extended logging message about discarding
1895 packets with invalid hlen with information about relevant interface name.
1896 [ISC-Bugs #22409]
1897
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1898- Relay now properly logs that packet was received over interface without
1899 global IPv6 address [ISC-Bugs #24070]
1900
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1901- Linux Packet Filter interface improvement. sockaddr_pkt structure is used,
1902 rather than sockaddr. Packet ethertype is now forced to ETH_P_IP.
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1903 [ISC-Bugs #18975]
1904
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1905- Minor code cleanups - but note port change for #23196
1906 [ISC-Bugs #23470] - Modify when an ignore return macro is defined to
1907 handle unsed error return warnings for more versions of gcc.
1908 [ISC-Bugs #23196] - Modify the reply handling in the server code to
1909 send to a specified port rather than to the source port for the incoming
1910 message. Sending to the source port was test code that should have
1911 been removed. The previous functionality may be restored by defining
1912 REPLY_TO_SOURCE_PORT in the includes/site.h file. We suggest you don't
1913 enable this except for testing purposes.
1914 [ISC-Bugs #22695] - Close a file descriptor in an error path.
1915 [ISC-Bugs #19368] - Tidy up variable types in validate_port.
1916
c616de4f 1917- Code cleanup: remove obsolete PROTO, KandR, INLINE and ANSI_DECL macros
9a111ee8 1918 [ISC-Bugs #13151]
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1920- Compilation problem with gcc4.5 and omshell.c resolved. [ISC-Bugs #23831]
a34feb7d 1921
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1922- Client Script fixes
1923 [ISC-Bugs #23045] Typos in client/scripts/openbsd
1924 [ISC-Bugs #23565] In the client scripts add a zone id (interface id) if
1925 the domain search address is link local.
1926 [ISC-Bugs #1277] In some of the client scripts add code to handle the
1927 case of the default router information being changed without the address
1928 being changed.
1929
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1930- Documentation cleanup
1931 [ISC-Bugs #23326] Updated References document, several man page updates
1932
9a111ee8 1933- Server no longer complains about NULL pointer when configured
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1934 server-identifier expression fails to evaluate. [ISC-Bugs #24547]
1935
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1936- Convert ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to ISC_R_SUCCESS when called from other
1937 than the dispatch handler. This fixes an issue where omshell, when
1938 run from the same platform as the server, would appear to fail to
1939 connect. This is a companion to #21839. [ISC-Bugs #23592]
1940
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1941- Enlarge the buffer size used by the Omshell code and some of the
1942 print routines to allow for greater than 60 characters or, when
1943 printing as hex strings, 20 characters. [ISC-Bugs #22743]
1944
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1945- In Solaris 11 switch to using sockets instead of DLPI, thanks
1946 to a patch form Oracle. [ISC-Bugs #24634].
1947
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1948- Strict checks for content of domain-name DHCPv4 option can now be
1949 configured during compilation time. Even though RFC2132 does not allow
1950 to store more than one domain in domain-name option, such behavior is
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1951 now enabled by default, but this may change some time in the future.
1952 See ACCEPT_LIST_IN_DOMAIN_NAME define in includes/site.h.
1953 [ISC-Bugs #24167]
1954
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1955- DNS Update fix. A misconfigured server could crash during DNS update
1956 processing if the configuration included overlapping pools or
1957 multiple fixed-address entries for a single address. This issue
1958 affected both IPv4 and IPv6. The fix allows a server to detect such
1959 conditions, provides the user with extra information and recommended
1960 steps to fix the problem. If the user enables the appropriate option
1961 in site.h then server will be terminated
1962 [ISC-Bugs #23595]
1963
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1964! Two packets were found that cause a server to halt. The code
1965 has been updated to properly process or reject the packets as
1966 appropriate. Thanks to David Zych at University of Illinois
1967 for reporting this issue. [ISC-Bugs #24960]
1968 One CVE number for each class of packet.
1969 CVE-2011-2748
1970 CVE-2011-2749
1971
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1972- Fix the code that checks for an existing DDNS transaction to cancel
1973 when removing DDNS information, so that we will continue with the
1974 processing if we have a lease even if it doesn't have an outstanding
1975 transaction. [ISC-Bugs #24682]
5a38e43f 1976
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1977- Add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to configure.ac to avoid rebuilding
1978 configuration files. [ISC-Bugs #24107]
5a38e43f 1979
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1980- Add support for passing DDNS information to a DNS server over
1981 an IPv6 address. [ISC-Bugs #22647]
524705e5 1982
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1983- Enhanced patch for 23595 to handle IPv4 fixed addresses more
1984 cleanly. [ISC-Bugs #23595]
66be0ad1 1985
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1986! Add a check for a null pointer before calling the regexec function.
1987 Without this check we could, under some circumstances, pass
1988 a null pointer to the regexec function causing it to segfault.
1989 Thanks to a report from BlueCat Networks.
1990 [ISC-Bugs #26704].
1991 CVE: CVE-2011-4539
57fbc772 1992
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1993! Modify the DDNS handling code. In a previous patch we added logging
1994 code to the DDNS handling. This code included a bug that caused it
1995 to attempt to dereference a NULL pointer and eventually segfault.
1996 While reviewing the code as we addressed this problem, we determined
1997 that some of the updates to the lease structures would not work as
1998 planned since the structures being updated were in the process of
1999 being freed: these updates were removed. In addition we removed an
2000 incorrect call to the DDNS removal function that could cause a failure
2001 during the removal of DDNS information from the DNS server.
2002 Thanks to Jasper Jongmans for reporting this issue.
2003 [ISC-Bugs #27078]
2004 CVE: CVE-2011-4868
57fbc772 2005
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2006- Fixed the code that checks if an address the server is planning
2007 to hand out is in a reserved range. This would appear as
2008 the server being out of addresses in pools with particular ranges.
2009 [ISC-Bugs #26498]
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2011- In the DDNS code handle error conditions more gracefully and add more
2012 logging code. The major change is to handle unexpected cancel events
2013 from the DNS client code.
2014 [ISC-Bugs #26287]
57fbc772 2015
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2016- Tidy up the receive calls and eliminate the need for found_pkt.
2017 [ISC-Bugs #25066]
9a111ee8 2018
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2019- Add support for Infiniband over sockets to the server and
2020 relay code. We've tested this on Solaris and hope to expand
2021 support for Infiniband in the future. This patch also corrects
2022 some issues we found in the socket code.
2023 [ISC-Bugs #24245]
197c917e 2024
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2025- Add a compile time check for the presence of the noreturn attribute
2026 and use it for log_fatal if it's available. This will help code
2027 checking programs to eliminate false positives.
2028 [ISC-Bugs #27539]
8bd445a1 2029
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2030- Fixed many compilation problems ("set, but not used" warnings) for
2031 gcc 4.6 that may affect Ubuntu 11.10 users. [ISC-Bugs #27588]
83d409ae 2032
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2033- Modify the code that determines if an outstanding DDNS request
2034 should be cancelled. This patch results in cancelling the
2035 outstanding request less often. It fixes the problem caused
2036 by a client doing a release where the TXT and PTR records
2037 weren't removed from the DNS.
2038 [ISC-BUGS #27858]
6aaaf6a4 2039
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2040- Use offsetof() instead of sizeof() to get the sizes for dhcpv6_relay_packet
2041 and dhcpv6_packet in several more places. Thanks to a report from
2042 Bruno Verstuyft and Vincent Demaertelaere of Excentis.
2043 [ISC-Bugs #27941]
4e0997c6 2044
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2045- Remove outdated note in the description of the bootp keyword about the
2046 option not satisfying the requirement of failover peers for denying
2047 dynamic bootp clients.
2048 [ISC-bugs #28574]
ad59838e 2049
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2050- Multiple items to clean up IPv6 address processing.
2051 When processing an IA that we've seen check to see if the
2052 addresses are usable (not in use by somebody else) before
2053 handing it out.
2054 When reading in leases from the file discard expired addresses.
2055 When picking an address for a client include the IA ID in
2056 addition to the client ID to generally pick different addresses
2057 for different IAs.
2058 [ISC-Bugs #23138] [ISC-Bugs #27945] [ISC-Bugs #25586]
2059 [ISC-Bugs #27684]
f33dc722 2060
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2061- Remove unnecessary checks in the lease query code and clean up
2062 several compiler issues (some dereferences of NULL and treating
2063 an int as a boolean).
2064 [ISC-Bugs #26203]
4dc5a6b1 2065
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2066- Fix the NA and PD allocation code to handle the case where a client
2067 provides a preference and the server doesn't have any addresses or
2068 prefixes available. Previously the server ignored the request with
2069 this patch it replies with a NoAddrsAvail or NoPrefixAvail response.
2070 By default the code performs according to the errata of August 2010
2071 for RFC 3315 section 17.2.2; to enable the previous style see the
2072 section on RFC3315_PRE_ERRATA_2010_08 in includes/site.h. This option
2073 may be removed in the future.
2074 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
2075 [ISC-Bugs #22676]
3004baba 2076
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2077- Fix up some issues found by static analysis.
2078 A potential memory leak and NULL dereference in omapi.
2079 The use of a boolean test instead of a bitwise test in dst.
2080 [ISC-Bugs #28941]
3004baba 2081
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2082- Rotate the lease file when running in v6 mode.
2083 Thanks to Christoph Moench-Tegeder at Astaro for the
2084 report and the first version of the patch.
2085 [ISC-Bugs #24887]
9d97e644 2086
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2087- Correct code to calculate timing values in client to compare
2088 rebind value to infinity instead of renew value.
2089 Thanks to Chenda Huang from H3C Technologies Co., Limited
2090 for reporting this issue.
2091 [ISC-Bugs #29062]
23d39ae2 2092
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2093- Fix some issues in the code for parsing and printing options.
2094 [ISC-Bugs #22625] - properly print options that have several fields
2095 followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
2096 [ISC-Bugs #27289] - properly parse options in declarations that have
2097 several fields followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
2098 [ISC-Bugs #27296] - properly determine if we parsed a 16 or 32 bit
2099 value in evaluate_numeric_expression (extract-int).
2100 [ISC-Bugs #27314] - properly parse a zero length option from
2101 a lease file. Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski from SUSE for the report
2102 and prototype patch for this ticket as well as ticket 27289.
23d39ae2 2103
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2104! Previously the server code was relaxed to allow packets with zero
2105 length client ids to be processed. Under some situations use of
2106 zero length client ids can cause the server to go into an infinite
2107 loop. As such ids are not valid according to RFC 2132 section 9.14
2108 the server no longer accepts them. Client ids with a length of 1
2109 are also invalid but the server still accepts them in order to
2110 minimize disruption. The restriction will likely be tightened in
2111 the future to disallow ids with a length of 1.
2112 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
9a111ee8 2113 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
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2114 [ISC-Bugs #29851]
2115 CVE: CVE-2012-3571
0c9d3a81 2116
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2117! When attempting to convert a DUID from a client id option
2118 into a hardware address handle unexpected client ids properly.
2119 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
9a111ee8 2120 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
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2121 [ISC-Bugs #29852]
2122 CVE: CVE-2012-3570
e1a40211 2123
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2124! A pair of memory leaks were found and fixed. Thanks to
2125 Glen Eustace of Massey University, New Zealand for finding
2126 this issue.
2127 [ISC-Bugs #30024]
2128 CVE: CVE-2012-3954
e7e17397 2129
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2130- Existing legacy unit-tests have been migrated to Automated Test
2131 Framework (ATF). Several new tests have been developed. To enable
2132 unit-tests, please use --with-atf in configure script. A Developer's
2133 Guide has been added. To generate it, please use make devel in
2134 the doc directory. It is currently in early stages of development,
2135 but is expected to grow in the near future. [ISC-Bugs 25901]
ef86959b 2136
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2137! An issue with the use of lease times was found and fixed. Making
2138 certain changes to the end time of an IPv6 lease could cause the
2139 server to abort. Thanks to Glen Eustace of Massey University,
2140 New Zealand for finding this issue.
2141 [ISC-Bugs #30281]
2142 CVE: CVE-2012-3955
ef86959b 2143
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2144- Update the memory leakage debug code to work with v6.
2145 [ISC-Bugs #30297]
919f1407 2146
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2147- Relax the requirements for deleting an A or AAAA record.
2148 Previously the DDNS removal code required both the A or AAAA
2149 record and the TXT record to exist. This requirement could
2150 cause problems if something interrupted the removal leaving
2151 the TXT record alone. This relaxation was codified in RFC 4703.
2152 [ISC-Bugs #30734]
8a0d9ca4 2153
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2154- Modify the failover code to handle incorrect peer names
2155 better. Previously the structure holding the name might
2156 have been freed inappropriately in some cases and not
2157 freed in other cases.
2158 [ISC-Bugs #30320]
17a8f0e2 2159
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2160- Add a configure option, enable-secs-byteorder, to deal with
2161 clients that do the byte ordering on the secs field incorrectly.
2162 This field should be in network byte order but some clients
2163 get it wrong. When this option is enabled the server will examine
2164 the secs field and if it looks wrong (high byte non zero and low
2165 byte zero) swap the bytes. The default is disabled. This option
2166 is only useful when doing load balancing within failover.
2167 [ISC-Bugs #26108]
badc999d 2168
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2169- Fix a set of issues that were discovered via a code inspection
2170 tool. Thanks to Jiri Popelka and Tomas Hozza Red Hat for the logs
2171 and patches.
2172 [ISC-Bugs #23833]
0d8c3d6e 2173
9a111ee8 2174- Parsing unquoted base64 strings improved. Parser now properly handles
01a44a77 2175 strings that contain reserved names. [ISC-Bugs #23048]
1e05d095 2176
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2177- Modify the nak_lease function to make some attempts to find a
2178 server-identifier option to use for the NAK.
2179 [ISC-Bugs #25689]
1e05d095 2180
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2181- The client now passes information about the options it requested
2182 from the server to the script code via environment variables.
2183 These variables are of the form requested_<option_name>=1 with
2184 the option name being the same as used in the new_* and old_*
2185 variables.
2186 [ISC-Bugs #29068]
1943bbf8 2187
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2188- Add support for a simple check that the server id in a request message
2189 to a failover peer matches the server id of the server. This support
2190 is enabled by editing the file includes/site.h and uncommenting the
2191 definition for SERVER_ID_CHECK. The option has several restrictions
2192 and issues - please read the comment in the site.h file before
2193 enabling it.
2194 [ISC-Bugs #31463]
8a513c43 2195
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2196- Tidy up some compiler issues in the debug code.
2197 [ISC-Bugs #26460]
d122accf 2198
adb95d23 2199- Move the dhcpd.conf example file to dhcpd.conf.example to avoid
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2200 overwriting the dhcpd.conf file when installing a new version of
2201 ISC DHCP. The user will now need to manual copy and edit the
2202 dhcpd.conf file as desired.
2203 [ISC-Bugs #19337]
0d8c3d6e 2204
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2205- Check the status value when trying to read from a connection to
2206 see if it may have been closed. If it appears closed don't try
2207 to read from it again. This avoids a potential busy-wait like
2208 loop when the peer names are mismatched.
2209 [ISC-Bugs #31231]
590298e7 2210
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2211- Remove an unused variable to keep compilers happy.
2212 [ISC-Bugs #31983]
2b58b865 2213
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2214- Modify test makefiles to be more similar to standard makefiles
2215 and comment out a currently unused test.
2216 [ISC-Bugs #32089]
600ee619 2217
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2218- Address static analysis warnings.
2219 [ISC-Bugs #33510] [ISC-Bugs #33511]
a5c7bf77 2220
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2221- Silence benign static analysis warnings.
2222 [ISC-Bugs #33428]
a5c7bf77 2223
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2224- Add check for 64-bit package for atf.
2225 [ISC-Bugs #32206]
a5c7bf77 2226
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2227- Use newer auto* tool packages and turn on RFC_3542 support on Mac OS.
2228 [ISC-Bugs #26303]
a5c7bf77 2229
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2230- Remove a variable when it isn't being used due to #ifdefs to avoid
2231 a compiler warning on Solaris using GCC.
2232 [ISC-Bugs #33032]
0585235c 2233
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2234- Add a check for too much whitespace in a config or lease file.
2235 Thanks to Paolo Pellegrino for finding the issue and a suggestion
2236 for the patch.
2237 [ISC-Bugs #33351]
0585235c 2238
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2239- Fix several problems with using OMAPI to manipulate class and subclass
2240 objects.
2241 [ISC-Bugs #27452]
f4bc8261 2242
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2243- Added a sleep call after killing the old client to allow time
2244 for the sockets to be cleaned. This should allow the -r option
2245 to work more consistently.
2246 [ISC-Bugs #18175]
33692791 2247
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2248- Missing files for ISC DHCP Developer's Guide are now included in
2249 the release tarballs. To generate this documentation, please use
2250 make devel command in doc directory. [ISC-Bugs #32767]
928618dd 2251
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2252- Update client script for use with openwrt.
2253 [ISC-Bugs #29843]
928618dd 2254
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2255- Fix the socket handling for DHCPv6 clients to allow multiple instances
2256 of a client on a single machine to work properly. Previously only
2257 one client would receive the packets. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat
2258 for the bug report and a potential patch.
2259 [ISC-Bugs #34784]
3c941d42 2260
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2261- Added support for gentle shutdown after signal is received.
2262 [ISC-Bugs #32692] [ISC-Bugs 34945]
bdd8e747 2263
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2264- Enhance the DHCPv6 server logging to include the addresses that are assigned
2265 to the clients.
2266 [ISC-Bugs #26377]
3da71461 2267
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2268- Fix an operation in the DDNS code to be a bitwise instead of logical or.
2269 [ISC-Bugs #35138]
fdfebedf 2270
7aa153b8 2271
adbef119
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2272 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
2273
d340bc24
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2274- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
2275 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 2276 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
adbef119 2277
0829d595
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2278- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
2279 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
2280 Cantrell at Red Hat.
2281
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2282- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
2283 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
2284
a41d7a25
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2285- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
2286
9e3eb22a
DH
2287- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
2288 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
2289 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
2290 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
2291 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
2292 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
2293
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2294- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
2295 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
2296 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
2297 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
2298 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
2299 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
2300 FQDN options by default).
2301
5a671e87
DH
2302- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
2303 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
2304 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
2305 determined lease time) are omitted.
2306
adb95d23 2307- Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asynchronous fashion,
45adf35c 2308 the DHCP server or client can now continue with its processing while
98bf1607 2309 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
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2310
2311- The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
2312 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
2313 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
2314
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2315 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
2316
62f6843d
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2317- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
2318
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2319- Validate the argument to the -p option.
2320
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DH
2321- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
2322 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
2323 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
2324 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
2325 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
2326
159c89d7
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2327- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
2328
1aa0fe5e
DH
2329- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
2330 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
2331 had been deleted from configuration.
2332
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2333- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
2334 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
571c38b0 2335 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
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2336 were being ignored.
2337
64e1823d
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2338- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
2339
26e59ee9
DH
2340- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
2341 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
2342 Nordahl.
2343
70ea9345
PS
2344- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
2345 dhcpv6 disabled.
2346
8d7dca58 2347- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 2348 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
819186b7 2349
f4534b17
DH
2350- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
2351 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
2352
f9453d21
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2353- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
2354 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
2355 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
2356
2357- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
2358 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
2359 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
2360 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
2361 fewer system calls.
2362
a3dcc0b1
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2363- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
2364 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
2365 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
2366 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
2367 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
2368 Christof Chen.
2369
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2370- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
2371 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
2372 and in normal state.
2373
2374- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
2375 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
2376
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2377- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
2378
2379- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
2380 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
2381 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
2382
dedde1ba
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2383- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
2384 rather than restarting the listener.
2385
a57df74a
DH
2386- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
2387 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
2388
2389- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
2390 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
2391 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
2392
350576c5
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2393- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
2394 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
2395 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
2396 timeouts).
2397
792156a9
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2398- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
2399 in failover state records.
2400
8a4e543b
DH
2401! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
2402 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
2403 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 2404 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
8a4e543b 2405
a1308b64
DH
2406- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
2407 processing a DHCPINFORM.
2408
1b12d999
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2409- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
2410 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
2411 last option definition is used.
2412
d453265f
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2413- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
2414 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
2415 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
2416
3e29af1e
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2417- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
2418 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
2419
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2420- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
2421 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
2422 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
2423 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
2424 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
2425 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
2426
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2427- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
2428 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
2429 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
2430 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
2431
e4e3a2ab
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2432! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
2433 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
95f5d38c 2434
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2435- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
2436 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
2437
2267da84
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2438- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
2439 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
2440 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
2441 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
2442 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
571c38b0 2443 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
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2444 configuration.
2445
cd3f0b9b
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2446- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
2447 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
2448
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2449- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
2450 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
2451 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
2452 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
2453
95bba8b6
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2454- Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
2455 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
2456 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
9a111ee8 2457 was always properly set.
95bba8b6 2458
adbef119 2459 Changes since 4.1.0b1
ebf076fe
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2460
2461- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
2462 be recognized.
61d75ea2 2463
a4ffedd1
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2464 Changes since 4.1.0a2
2465
2466- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
2467 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
2468 "abandoned".
2469
6ff3b26d
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2470- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
2471
1387545f
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2472- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
2473 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
2474
2475- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
2476 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
2477
2478- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 2479 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
1387545f 2480
399d3dbe
DH
2481- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
2482
fbcee149
DH
2483- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
2484 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
2485 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
2486 in future releases.
2487
f1672d89
DH
2488- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
2489 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
2490
236d3a99
DH
2491- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
2492 'dhclient -6' support.
2493
efa5e6b9
DH
2494- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
2495 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
2496 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
2497 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
2498
7d6180be 2499 Changes since 4.1.0a1
edcb5c46
EH
2500
2501- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
2502
51e7687f
EH
2503- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
2504
20210a7b
EH
2505- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
2506 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
2507 only the latter. Fixed.
2508
535485df
EH
2509- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
2510
8fbb55ff
DH
2511- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
2512 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
2513
61220a00
EH
2514- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
2515
c40e954c
EH
2516- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
2517
63971a83
DH
2518- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
2519 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
2520 --enable-early-chroot.
2521
66cebfcb
DH
2522- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
2523 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
2524
f8cbf390
DH
2525- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
2526 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
2527 parameter.
2528
8269561d
DH
2529- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
2530 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
2531
b445a411
DH
2532- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
2533 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
2534
bd72740e
FD
2535- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
2536
9322442f
FD
2537- Merged IA_XX related structures.
2538
8dea7ba7
FD
2539- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
2540
4619c0a2
DH
2541- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
2542
9ac4206a
DH
2543- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
2544 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
2545 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
2546
420d8b3f
FD
2547- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
2548 support.
2549
40ec5f38
DH
2550- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
2551 repaired.
2552
80097764
FD
2553- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
2554
ffbaa880
FD
2555- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
2556
7de20a95
EH
2557- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
2558 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
2559
d352732e
EH
2560- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
2561 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
2562
7d6180be
DH
2563- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
2564 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
2565
2566- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
2567 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
2568 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
2569 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
2570 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
2571 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
2572 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
2573 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
2574 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
2575 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
2576 shared-network.
2577
2578- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
2579 configured option values.
2580
2581- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
2582 support class statements.
2583
adb95d23 2584- Compilation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
dd484ced
DH
2585 selection were repaired.
2586
ecddae64
DH
2587- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
2588 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
2589 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
2590 by the OS.
2591
2592- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
2593 address.
2594
2595- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
2596 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
2597
d104d45b
DH
2598- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
2599
2600- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
2601
2602- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
2603 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
2604
01a54c17 2605 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
3c12f746 2606
6d7f9584
FD
2607- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
2608
4cafb815 2609- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 2610 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
4cafb815 2611
022fe95e
EH
2612- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
2613 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
2614 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
2615
9a111ee8 2616- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
1dcc3612
SK
2617 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
2618
aabfa4de
FD
2619- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
2620
0674055a
FD
2621- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
2622 reserved IDs avoided).
2623
b51c785f
FD
2624- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
2625
900405e9
FD
2626- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
2627 carries a rapid-commit option.
2628
96b620e5
FD
2629- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
2630 an empty active lease.
2631
be62cf06
FD
2632- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
2633
01a54c17
EH
2634- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
2635 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
2636 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
2637 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
2638
adb95d23 2639- MINUS tokens should be parsable again.
01a54c17
EH
2640
2641- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
2642 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
2643 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
2644 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
2645 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
2646 Christof Chen.
2647
2648 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
2649
2650- DHCP now builds on AIX.
2651
2652- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
2653 config file but -6 is not specified.
2654
2655- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
2656
2657- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
2658 be more helpful.
2659
2660- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
2661 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
2662 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
2663
2664- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
2665 was repaired.
2666
2667- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
2668 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
2669 been repaired.
2670
2671- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
2672 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
2673 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
2674
49f61135
DH
2675- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
2676 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
2677
41d4652f
DH
2678- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
2679 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
2680 IPv4 address.
2681
2c9bf1f4
DH
2682- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
2683 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
2684 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
2685 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
2686 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
2687
2688- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
2689 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
2690 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
2691
cff9b78f
SK
2692- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
2693
c4d29896
SK
2694- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
2695
57fcb8d9
SK
2696- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
2697 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
2698 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
9a111ee8 2699 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
57fcb8d9
SK
2700 unnecessary logging.
2701
219a65eb
DH
2702- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
2703 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
2704
ffdf3c8c
DH
2705- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
2706 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
2707 is incompatible is printed.
2708
2709- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
2710 a previously undefined option code.
2711
00a002fc
MA
2712- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
2713 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
2714
9a111ee8 2715- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
7e9f7a1b
FD
2716 than the year 2000.
2717
e2cfde76
FD
2718- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
2719
cabdb9b1
FD
2720- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
2721
5d89d60f
FD
2722- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
2723
61d75ea2
DH
2724 Changes since 4.0.0b3
2725
2726- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
2727 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
2728 configuration.
76db44f9 2729
e32529a5
EH
2730- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
2731 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
2732
9a111ee8 2733- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
76db44f9
SK
2734 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
2735 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
e4a6be15 2736
9a111ee8
TM
2737- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
2738 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
6f76de58
SK
2739 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
2740 a requested address.
2741
703873ab
DH
2742- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
2743 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
2744 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
2745 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
2746
2747- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
2748 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
2749 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
2750 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
2751
b024480e
DH
2752- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
2753 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
2754 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
2755
c0216cb7
DH
2756- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
2757 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
2758
1ac57173
FD
2759- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
2760
83835822
DH
2761- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
2762 codes through some conditions.
2763
c54db708
FD
2764- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
2765 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
2766
e5d83524
DH
2767- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
2768 seemingly random values.
2769
821f2dda
DH
2770- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
2771
f8b3c6f4
DH
2772- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
2773 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
2774 one ever has.
2775
9a111ee8
TM
2776- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
2777 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
b9137d42
SK
2778 to a REQUEST.
2779
9f1d5a2f
DH
2780- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
2781 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
2782 level.
2783
e4a6be15
DH
2784 Changes since 4.0.0b2
2785
65cf86d7
EH
2786- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
2787
b1d3778c
DH
2788- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
2789 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
2790 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
2791 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
2792 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
2793
bead14ea
DH
2794- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
2795 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
2796 new address.
2797
f765ec36
SK
2798 Changes since 4.0.0b1
2799
75135a3f 2800- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
adb95d23 2801 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protocols can be run
75135a3f
EH
2802 simultaneously on a single interface.
2803
5c2d55c7
EH
2804- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
2805 of service under unusual server configurations
2806
2807- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
2808
9a111ee8 2809- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
f765ec36 2810 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
fa9b593d 2811
edb1283e
DH
2812- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
2813 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
2814 on every pool rebalance run.
2815
c71c6399
DH
2816- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
2817 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
2818
5279b8f3
DH
2819- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
2820 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
2821
ab3a540f 2822 Changes since 4.0.0a3
763cba6b 2823
9a111ee8 2824- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
884a458f
SK
2825 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
2826
fa9b593d
DH
2827- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
2828 point out the problem.
2829
9a111ee8 2830- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
1b5053b5
SK
2831 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
2832 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
2833
c886c298
SK
2834- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
2835 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
2836
eaf7eb17
DH
2837- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
2838 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
2839 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
2840
109e00db
DH
2841- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
2842
9a111ee8 2843- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
3ad9d48f
SK
2844 fixed by Marcus Goller.
2845
8eab95f2
DH
2846- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
2847 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
2848 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
2849 regardless of the existence of bindings.
2850
07b9a351
DH
2851- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
2852
7285af30
DH
2853- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
2854 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
2855 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
2856 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
2857 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
2858
2394b26b
DH
2859- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
2860
ab3a540f
SK
2861 Changes since 4.0.0a2
2862
97050349
SK
2863- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
2864 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
2865
763cba6b 2866- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
e889ded1 2867
237f8d3a 2868- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
9a111ee8 2869 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
237f8d3a
SK
2870 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
2871
28868515
SK
2872- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
2873
d00d373a
SK
2874- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
2875 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
2876
8dfd5744
DH
2877- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
2878 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
2879 loaded from persistent storage.
2880
45d545f0 2881- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
0c20eab3
DH
2882 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
2883 necessary.
2884
9a111ee8
TM
2885- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
2886 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
f800f4f6
SK
2887 rapid-commit option.
2888
845e9677
DH
2889- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
2890 non-128-bits in length were removed.
2891
76c944da
SK
2892 Changes since 4.0.0a1
2893
71765b58
SK
2894- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
2895 and fix.
2896
847e7000
SK
2897- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
2898
bda33169
SK
2899- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
2900
9b21e73e
SK
2901- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
2902 for when loading configuration.
2903
8da06bb1
DH
2904- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
2905 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
2906 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
2907
dd328225
DH
2908- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
2909 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
2910 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
2911 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
2912
76c944da
SK
2913- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
2914
f796f70a
DH
2915- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
2916 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 2917
c11f349d
EH
2918- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
2919
af5fa176
EH
2920- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
2921
2922- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
2923 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
2924
a546f2a7
EH
2925- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
2926 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
2927
b55d0d5f
EH
2928- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
2929
26be82af
DH
2930- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
2931 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
2932
98bd7ca0
DH
2933 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
2934
d9b43370
SK
2935- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
2936
8c1752d2
DH
2937- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
2938 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
2939
98bd7ca0
DH
2940- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
2941
a512d11b
DH
2942- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
2943 initialized.
2944
2945- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
2946
2947- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
f66f02cc
DH
2948 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
2949
2950- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
a512d11b 2951
4ba58919
DH
2952- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
2953
2954- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
2955 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
2956
2957- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
2958
8ea19a71 2959- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 2960 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
8ea19a71
DH
2961
2962- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
2963 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
2964
2cf8d0bd
DH
2965- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
2966
2967- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
2968
fe5b0fdd
DH
2969- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
2970
98bd7ca0
DH
2971 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
2972
2973- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
2974 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
2975 no support currently for both.
2976
2977- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
2978 IAADDR option.
2979
2980- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
2981 options.
2982
2983- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
2984
2985- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
2986 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
2987
2988- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
2989 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
2990 specifying type 1 or type 2).
2991
2992- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
2993 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
2994
2995- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
2996 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
2997 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
2998 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
2999 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
3000 differently, they both use the same code here).
3001
3002- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
3003 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
3004 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
3005
3006- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
3007
3008- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
3009 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
3010 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
3011 it should not intercept.
3012
1418fd11
DH
3013 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
3014
3015- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
3016 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
3017 between primary and secondary.
3018
3019- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
3020 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
3021 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
3022
aa3e348e
DH
3023- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
3024
e9c59645
DH
3025- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
3026 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
3027 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
3028 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
3029 or REQUEST messages.
3030
3031- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
3032 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
3033
c104546d
DH
3034- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
3035
b9d0cc05
DH
3036 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
3037
adb95d23 3038- The parse warning that 'deny dynamic bootp;' must be configured for
b9d0cc05
DH
3039 failover protected subnets was removed.
3040
a512cc3a
DH
3041 Changes since 3.1.0b2
3042
3043- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
3044 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
3045 odd number of leases).
3046
3047- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
3048 rebalance run, and one after.
3049
3050- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
3051 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
3052 processing these messages.
3053
fe5b0fdd 3054 Changes since 3.1.0b1
27837f95 3055
74dc3e0b
EH
3056- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
3057 objects.
3058
1ba87b37
EH
3059- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
3060 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
3061 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
3062 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
3063 at Allianz.
3064
a58da042
EH
3065- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
3066 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
3067
61252edf
EH
3068- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
3069 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
3070
27837f95
DH
3071- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
3072 caused the server to abort.
3073
4d2eaafb
DH
3074- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
3075 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
3076 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
3077
06211b40
DH
3078- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
3079 by empty spaces would not get included.
3080
d6614ea2
DH
3081- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
3082 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
3083
132d38f2
DH
3084- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
3085 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
3086
fc3b9c90
DH
3087- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
3088 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
3089
c9feb859
DH
3090- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
3091 on the parameter request list.
3092
c57db45c
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3093 Changes since 3.1.0a3
3094
3095- Some spelling fixes.
98311e4b 3096
bd2bc2fa
DH
3097 Changes since 3.1.0a2
3098
3099- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
3100 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
3101
85edef5c
DH
3102- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
3103 domain-search option syntax.
3104
bdddcb7d
DH
3105 Changes since 3.1.0a1
3106
3107- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
3108 hash table was repaired.
3109
616d67cb
DH
3110- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
3111 entering normal state.
3112
3113- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
3114 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
66c8f734
DH
3115 'xid mismatch' log messages.
3116
3117- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
3118 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
616d67cb 3119
6708d944
DH
3120- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
3121 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
3122 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
3123 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
3124
45d545f0 3125- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
6708d944
DH
3126 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
3127 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
3128 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
3129 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
3130 to their needs.
3131
3132- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
3133 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
3134 run will attempt balance.
3135
a7ee93fe
DH
3136- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
3137
98311e4b
DH
3138 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
3139
3140- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
3141 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
3142 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
3143 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
3144
98bd7ca0 3145- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 3146 was introduced.
98311e4b
DH
3147
3148- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
3149 via OMAPI.
3150
a55ccdd0
DH
3151- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
3152 the protocol draft.
3153
98311e4b
DH
3154- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
3155 one does not already exist on the system.
3156
b43c87ad 3157- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 3158
0b17f049
DH
3159- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
3160 matches RFC 3074.
3161
2727c1cf
DH
3162- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
3163 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 3164 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2727c1cf 3165
febbd402
DH
3166- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
3167 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 3168 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 3169
ee912528
DH
3170- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
3171 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
3172 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
3173 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
3174
3175- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
3176 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
3177 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
3178 priority over the client's parameter request list.
3179
f7fdb216 3180- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 3181 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
f7fdb216
DH
3182 DHCPv6 support.
3183
5e864416
DH
3184- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
3185 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
3186 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
3187
b500bd4c
DH
3188- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
3189 have been incorporated.
3190
2426234f
DH
3191- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
3192 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
3193 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
3194 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
3195 that belong to the peer in need.
3196
3197- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
3198 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
3199
3200- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
3201 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
3202 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
3203
334bf491
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3204- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
3205 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
3206
3004bebf
DH
3207- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
3208 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
3209 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
3210 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
3211 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
3212
567e8561
DH
3213- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
3214 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
3215 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
3216 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
3217
a396d25f
DH
3218- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
3219 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
3220 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
3221 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
3222 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
3223 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
3224 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
3225 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
3226 ignoring this aspect of their request.
3227
dba5803b
DH
3228- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
3229 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
3230
41e45067 3231- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
6d103865
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3232 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
3233 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
3234 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
3235
41e45067
DH
3236- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
3237 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
3238 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
3239 hardware and funding the development.
6d103865 3240
b543fea9
DH
3241- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
3242 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
3243 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
3244 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
3245 via Robin Breathe.
3246
b22de500
DH
3247- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
3248 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
3249 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
3250 from Christof Chen.
3251
96bbe8c5
SK
3252- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
3253 formally supported.
3254
b8221d95
DH
3255 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
3256
3257- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
3258 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
3259
c1e6c832
DH
3260 Changes since 3.0.5
3261
f546c28b
DH
3262- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
3263 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
3264 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 3265 they actually received.
f546c28b
DH
3266
3267- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
3268
c1e6c832
DH
3269- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
3270 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
23e10d37
DH
3271 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
3272 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
c1e6c832 3273
75ab3070
DH
3274- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
3275
d69fb6a8 3276- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 3277 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
d69fb6a8 3278
02428754
DH
3279- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
3280 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
3281 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
3282 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
3283 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
3284 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
3285 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
23e10d37
DH
3286 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
3287
3288- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
3289 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
3290 'file' field.
02428754 3291
ecde99a3
DH
3292- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
3293 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
3294
67674ffb
DH
3295- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
3296 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
3297 a patch from Kevin Steves.
3298
830ebc4c
DH
3299- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
3300 from Chris Wagner.
3301
c759db75
DH
3302- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
3303 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
3304 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
3305
9aa3f3a5
DH
3306- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
3307 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
3308 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
3309 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
3310 was set.
3311
3d0c598a
DH
3312- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
3313 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
3314
d5b6835f
DH
3315- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
3316 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
3317 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
3318 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
3319 active ones.
3320
02428754 3321 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
0a73b7b6 3322
901306d5 3323- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
0a73b7b6
SK
3324 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
3325 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
3326 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
3327 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
3328
87a08ccc
DH
3329- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
3330 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
3331
6da113fb
DH
3332 Changes since 3.0.4
3333
3334- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
3335 scopes are actually global has been added.
3336
3337- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
3338 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
3339 known to be damaging.
3340
3341- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
3342 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
3343 balancing).
3344
dcc557db
DH
3345- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
3346 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
3347 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
3348
1b2ab55f
DH
3349- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
3350 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
3351 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
3352
e48891e8
DH
3353- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
3354 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
3355 more clear now.
3356
6cbc6629
DH
3357- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
3358 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
3359 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
3360 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
3361 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 3362 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
6cbc6629 3363
c5fec5fa
DH
3364- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
3365 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
3366
33e1cb2b
DH
3367- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
3368 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
3369 made possible.
3370
2bddf829
DH
3371- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
3372 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
3373 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
3374
87578987
DH
3375- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
3376 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
3377
e77c575f
DH
3378- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
3379 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
3380 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
3381
2178df03
DH
3382- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
3383 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
3384 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
3385 value with the later configured value).
3386
d5341d9b
SK
3387- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
3388 have been named and documented.
3389
3390- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
3391 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
3392 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
3393 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
3394 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
3395 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
3396 write new output.
3397
6da113fb
DH
3398 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
3399
3400- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
3401 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
3402
3403 Changes since 3.0.4b3
3404
3405- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
3406 mailing list.
3407
88cd8aca
DH
3408 Changes since 3.0.4b2
3409
45d545f0 3410- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
88cd8aca
DH
3411 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
3412
3413- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
3414 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
3415
3416- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
3417 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
3418 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
3419 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
3420
3421- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
3422 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
3423 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
3424 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
3425 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
3426 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
3427 transition (properly).
3428
3429- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
3430
3431 Changes since 3.0.4b1
3432
3433- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
3434 STDIN after reading one line.
3435
3436- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
3437 descriptor it opened twice.
3438
3439- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
3440 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
3441 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
3442
3443 Changes since 3.0.3
3444
3445- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
3446 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
3447 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
3448
3449- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
3450 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
3451 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
3452
3453- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
3454 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 3455 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
88cd8aca
DH
3456 leases to allocate.
3457
3458- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 3459 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
88cd8aca
DH
3460 than the entire block of them.
3461
3a16098f
DH
3462! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
3463 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
3464 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
3465 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
3466 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
3467 to a patch from infamous42md.
3468
3469! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
3470 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
3471 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
3472 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
3473 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
3474 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
88cd8aca
DH
3475
3476- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
3477 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
3478 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
3479
3480- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 3481 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
88cd8aca
DH
3482
3483- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
3484 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
3485 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
3486 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
3487 transitional states.
3488
3489- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
3490 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
3491 once it detects the old db does not exist.
3492
3493- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
3494 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
3495 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
3496
3497- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 3498 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
88cd8aca
DH
3499
3500- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
3501 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
3502
3503- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
3504 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
3505 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
3506
3507- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
3508 patch from 'infamous42md'.
3509
3510- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
3511 repaired.
3512
3513- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
3514 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
3515 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
3516 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
3517
3518- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
3519 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
3520 data.
3521
3522- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
3523 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
3524 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
3525 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
3526 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
3527
3528- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
3529 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
3530 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
3531 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
3532 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
3533
3534- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
3535 has been repaired.
3536
3537- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
3538 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
3539 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
3540 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 3541 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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3542
3543- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 3544 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
88cd8aca 3545
45d545f0 3546- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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3547 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
3548 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
3549 move to 3.[01].x.
3550
3551- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
3552 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
3553
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3554 Changes since 3.0.3b3
3555
3556- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
3557 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
3558
3559- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
3560 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
3561 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
3562 workaround.
3563
3564 Changes since 3.0.3b2
3565
3566- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
3567 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
3568
3569 Changes since 3.0.3b1
3570
3571- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
3572 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
3573 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
3574
3575- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
3576 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
3577 dynamic updates were also retouched.
3578
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3579 Changes since 3.0.2
3580
3581- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 3582 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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3583 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
3584
3585- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
3586 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
3587 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
3588 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
3589 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
3590
3591- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
3592 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 3593 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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3594
3595- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
3596 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 3597 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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3598
3599- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
3600 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
3601 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
3602 Peter Poeml.
3603
3604- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
3605 Dr. Peter Poeml.
3606
3607- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
3608 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
3609 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
3610 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
3611 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
3612 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
3613
3614- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
3615 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
3616 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
3617 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
3618
3619- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
3620 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
3621 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
3622 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
3623
3624- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
3625 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
3626
3627- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
3628 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
3629 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
3630
3631- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
3632 7 bytes, and failover.
3633
3634- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
3635 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 3636 at Red Hat.
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3637
3638- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
3639 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
3640 should work better.
3641
3642- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
3643 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
3644 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
3645
3646- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
3647 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
3648 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
3649
3650 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
3651
3652- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
3653 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
3654
3655 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
3656
45d545f0 3657- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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3658 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
3659 overloading. This was repaired.
3660
3661- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
3662 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
3663 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
3664 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
3665 three chunks to fit.
3666
3667- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
3668 were repaired.
3669
3670- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
3671 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
3672 leak).
3673
3674 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
3675
3676- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
3677 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
3678
3679 Changes since 3.0.2b1
3680
3681- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
3682
3683 Changes since 3.0.1
3684
3685- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
3686 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
3687 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
3688
3689- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
3690 name was not provided by the server.
3691
3692- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
3693 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
3694
3695- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
3696 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
3697
3698- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
3699 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
3700
3701- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
3702
3703- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
3704
3705- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
adb95d23 3706 previously were assumed to not include dynamic bootp clients are now
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3707 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
3708 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
3709 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
3710
3711- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
3712 the configuration be globally scoped.
3713
3714- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
3715 Farkas.
3716
3717- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
3718 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
3719
3720- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
3721 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
3722
3723- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
3724 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
3725
3726- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
3727 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
3728 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
3729 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
3730
3731- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
3732 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
3733 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
3734 respond to POOLREQ messages.
3735
3736- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
3737 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
3738 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
3739
3740- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
3741
3742- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
3743 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
3744 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
3745
3746- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
3747 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
3748 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
3749 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
3750 Fjone and directconnect.no.
3751
3752- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
3753 to Andreas Gustafsson.
3754
3755- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
3756 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
3757
3758- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
3759 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
3760 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
3761 DISCOVER timeout handling.
3762
3763- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
3764 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
3765
3766- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
3767 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
3768 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
3769
3770- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
3771 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
3772 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
3773 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
3774 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
3775 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
3776
3777- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
3778 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
3779 Infoblox.
3780
3781- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
3782
3783- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
3784 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
3785 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
3786 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
3787 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
3788 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
3789 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
3790
3791- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
3792 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
3793 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
3794
3795- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
3796 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
3797 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
3798
3799- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
3800
3801 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
3802
3803- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
3804 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
3805 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
3806 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
3807 systems either.
3808
3809- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
3810
3811- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
3812 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
3813 is false.
3814
3815- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
3816 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
3817
3818- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
3819
3820 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
3821
3822! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
3823 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
3824 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
3825 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
3826 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
3827 both finding and solving the problem.
3828
3829! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
45d545f0 3830 in log_*() functions was evidenced, on some specific platforms where
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3831 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
3832 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
3833 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
3834 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
3835 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
3836 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
3837 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
3838 published version of ISC DHCP.
3839
3840- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
3841
3842- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
3843
3844 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
3845
3846- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
3847 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
3848 Richard Hirst.
3849
3850- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
3851 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
3852 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
3853
3854- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
3855
3856- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
3857 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
3858 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
3859 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
3860
3861- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 3862 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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3863
3864- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
3865 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
3866
3867- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
3868
3869 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
3870
3871- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
3872 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
3873
3874- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
3875 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
3876 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
3877
3878- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
3879 by name was fixed.
3880
45d545f0 3881- Declaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
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3882 longer result in error.
3883
3884- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
3885
3886- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
3887 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
3888 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
3889
3890- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
3891 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
3892
3893- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
3894 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
3895 Blapp.
3896
3897- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
3898 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
3899 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
3900 Martin Blapp.
3901
3902- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
3903 expiry times in failover configurations.
3904
3905- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
3906 Steve G.
3907
3908- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
3909 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
3910
3911- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
3912 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
3913 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
3914 now "unknown-144".
3915
3916- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
3917 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
3918
3919 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
3920
3921- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
3922
3923- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
3924 not be bash.
3925
3926- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
3927
3928- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
3929 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
3930 that errored before will now work properly.
3931
3932- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
3933 names was repaired.
3934
3935- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
3936 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
3937 configuration file.
3938
3939- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
3940 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
3941
3942- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
3943 error rather than a null dereference.
3944
3945 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
3946
3947- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
3948
3949- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
3950
3951- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
3952 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
3953
3954- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
3955
3956- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
3957
3958- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
3959 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
3960 self-corrupting lease databases.
3961
3962- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
3963
3964- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
3965 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
3966
3967- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
3968
3969- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
3970
3971- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
3972 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
3973 Ling Gou.
3974
3975- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
3976 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
3977
3978- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
3979 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
3980 Ted Lemon for the patch.
3981
3982- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
3983 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
3984
3985 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
3986
3987- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
3988 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
3989
3990- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
3991
3992- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
3993 a memory leak.
3994
3995- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
3996 script.
3997
3998- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
3999
4000- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
4001
4002- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
4003
4004- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
4005
4006- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
4007
4008- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
4009
4010- Increment the hop count when relaying.
4011
4012- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
4013
4014- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
4015
4016- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
4017
4018- Change the type of rbuf_max.
4019
4020- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
4021
4022 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
4023
4024- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
4025 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
4026 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
4027
4028 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
4029
4030- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
4031 to be renewed.
4032
4033- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
4034 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
4035
4036- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
4037 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
4038
4039- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
4040 that two permit lists matched.
4041
4042- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
4043 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
4044
4045- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
4046
4047- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
4048 requested it, contrary to the standard.
4049
4050- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
4051
4052- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
4053
4054- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
4055 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
4056 going to update its A record.
4057
4058- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
4059 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
4060 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
4061 DNS server.
4062
4063- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
4064
4065- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
4066
4067- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
4068 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
4069 NetBSD project).
4070
4071- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
4072 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
4073
4074- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
4075 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
4076
4077- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
4078
4079- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
4080
4081- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
4082 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
4083 failover protocol standard.
4084
4085- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
4086 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
4087 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
4088
4089- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
4090 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
4091 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
4092 do so.
4093
4094- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
4095
4096 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
4097
4098- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
4099
4100- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
4101 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
4102
4103- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
4104 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
4105
4106- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
4107 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
4108 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
4109
4110- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
4111 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
4112 network, merge the two pools.
4113
4114- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
4115 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
4116 fix this bug.
4117
4118 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
4119
4120- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
4121 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
4122
4123- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
4124 the same case.
4125
4126- Additional documentation.
4127
4128- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
4129 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
4130
4131 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
4132
4133- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
4134- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
4135
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4137
4138- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
4139 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
4140 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
4141 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
4142 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
4143
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4145
4146- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
4147 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
4148 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
4149 wasn't the one that removed it.
4150
4151- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
4152 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
4153 were not configured.
4154
4155- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
4156
4157- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
4158 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
4159 routing information.
4160
4161- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
4162 request being sent.
4163
4164- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
4165 done.
4166
4167- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
4168 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
4169 were pending.
4170
4171- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
4172 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
4173 problems with failover.
4174
4175- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
4176 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
4177 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
4178
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4180
4181- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
4182 smash in the subclass allocation code.
4183
4184- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
4185 no object is open, it dumps core.
4186
4187- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
4188
4189- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
4190
4191- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
4192
4193- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
4194 a host object attribute with a null value.
4195
4196 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
4197
4198- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
4199
4200- Fix an obscure core dump.
4201
4202- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
4203 when crucial information is left out.
4204
4205- Log "no free leases" as an error.
4206
4207- Documentation updates.
4208
4209 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
4210
4211- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
4212
4213- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
4214 structure wasn't zeroed.
4215
4216- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
4217 incorrectly.
4218
4219- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
4220 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
4221 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
4222 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
4223 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
4224 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
4225 restarted.
4226
4227 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
4228
4229- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
4230 in failover-enabled pools.
4231
4232- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
4233 declarations).
4234
4235- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
4236 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
4237
4238- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
4239 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
4240
4241- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
4242
4243- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
4244 defined but not referenced by any pools.
4245
4246- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
4247
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4248 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 9
4249
4250- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
4251
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4252 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 2
4253
4254- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
4255
4256- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
4257
4258- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
4259
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4260 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 1
4261
4262- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
4263 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
4264 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
4265
4266- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
4267 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
4268 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
4269 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
9a111ee8 4270 string.
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4271
4272- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
4273
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4274 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8
4275
4276- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
4277 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
4278
4279- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
4280 malformed packets.
4281
4282- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
4283
4284- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
4285 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
4286 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
4287
4288- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
4289
4290- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
4291
4292- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
4293
4294- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
4295 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
4296
4297- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
4298 tcp connections from being played back.
4299
4300- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
4301 on exit.
4302
4303- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
4304
4305- Add some configurability to the build system.
4306
4307- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
4308
4309- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
4310 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
4311 hadn't been noticed until now.
4312
4313 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
4314
4315- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
4316 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
4317
4318- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
4319 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
4320 conformant, but also didn't work).
4321
4322- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
4323 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
4324
4325- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
4326 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
4327
4328- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
4329 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
4330
4331- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
4332 variables to leases via OMAPI.
4333
4334- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
4335 doing failover.
4336
4337- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
4338 running on alpha processors.
4339
4340- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
4341 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
4342
4343- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
4344
4345- Install omshell (including new documentation).
4346
4347- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
4348 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
4349
4350- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
4351
4352- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
4353 actually named (key names are domain names).
4354
4355- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
4356
4357- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
4358 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
4359
4360- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
4361 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
4362
4363- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
4364 statements.
4365
4366- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
4367 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
4368
4369- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
4370 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
4371 operating.
4372
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4373 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 6
4374
4375- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
4376 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
4377 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
4378 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
4379
4380- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
4381 using omapi to manipulate leases.
4382
4383- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
4384
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4385 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
4386
4387- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
4388 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
4389
4390- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
4391 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
4392 to the chain.
4393
4394- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
4395
4396- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
4397
4398- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
4399
98311e4b 4400- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
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4401 attribute values in omshell.
4402
98311e4b 4403- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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4404
4405- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
4406
4407 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
4408
4409- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
4410 DHCPDECLINE.
4411
4412- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
4413
4414- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
4415 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
4416 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
4417
4418- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
4419
4420- Documentation fixes.
4421
4422- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
4423 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
4424
4425- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
4426 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
4427
4428- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
4429
4430- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
4431
4432- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
4433 case-insensitive.
4434
4435- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
4436
98311e4b 4437- If a signature algorithm is not terminated with '.', terminate it so
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4438 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
4439 consistently.
4440
4441- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
4442 systems with the probe not working correctly.
4443
4444- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
4445
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4446 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 3
4447
4448- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
4449 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
4450 result of duplicate leases.
4451
4452- Document OMAPI server objects.
4453
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4454 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Patchlevel 1
4455
4456- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
4457 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
4458
4459- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
4460 core dumps.
4461
4462- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
4463 Friedrich.
4464
4465- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
4466
4467 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
4468
4469- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
4470 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 4471 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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4472 billing class code.
4473
4474- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
4475 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
4476
4477- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
4478 trace file.
4479
79ea3de8 4480 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1 Patchlevel 1
87784777 4481
79ea3de8
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4482- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
4483 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
4484 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
4485 e.g., Digital Unix.
4486
4487- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
4488 when no error had occurred.
4489
4490- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
4491 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
4492 non-communicating state.
4493
4494- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
4495
4496- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
4497 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
4498 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
4499
4500- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
4501 when the client lease expired.
4502
4503- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
4504 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
4505 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
4506 in testing.
4507
4508- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
4509 the command line, it would fail.
4510
4511- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
4512 user impact).
4513
4514- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
4515
4516- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
4517 they're executable.
4518
4519 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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4520
4521- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
4522 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
4523 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
4524 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
4525
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4526- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
4527 Transmeta.
4528
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4529- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
4530 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
4531 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
4532 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
4533
4534- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
4535 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
4536
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4537 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 24
4538
4539- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
4540 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
4541
4542- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
4543
4544- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
4545
4546- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
4547
4548- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
4549
4550- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
4551
4552- Update some parts of the README file.
4553
4554- Support GCC on SCO.
4555
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4557
4558- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
4559 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
4560
4561- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
4562 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
4563 unbill the old class.
4564
4565- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
4566 process the state transition immediately.
4567
4568- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
4569 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
4570
4571- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
4572
4573- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
4574
4575- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
4576
4577- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
4578
4579- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
4580 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
4581 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
4582
4583- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
4584 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
4585
4586- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
4587 lease file.
4588
4589- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
4590
4591- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
2aa36519 4592
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4594
4595- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
4596 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
4597
4598- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
4599
adbef119 4600 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 21
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4601
4602- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
4603
adbef119 4604 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 20
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4605
4606- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
4607
4608- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
4609 pl19.
4610
4611- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
4612 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
4613 past the regression test.
4614
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4616
4617- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
4618 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
4619
4620- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
4621 DHCPREQUEST.
4622
4623- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
4624
4625- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
4626
4627- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
4628
adbef119 4629 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 18
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4631- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
4632 (Damien Neil)
4633
4634- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
4635 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
4636
4637- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
4638 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
4639 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
4640
4641- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
4642 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
4643 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
4644 message.
4645
4646- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
4647 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
4648 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
4649
98311e4b 4650- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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4651 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
4652 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
4653 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
4654 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
4655 this way will work.
4656
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4657- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
4658
4659- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
4660 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
4661 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
4662 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
4663
4664 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
4665
4666 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
4667
4668- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
4669 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
4670 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
4671
4672- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
4673 Hermann Lauer.
4674
4675- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
4676 messages.
4677
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4678- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
4679 it contained quoted strings.
4680
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4681 ** there was no pl17 **
4682
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4685- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
4686 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
4687 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
4688 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
4689 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
4690 tracking down memory leaks.
4691
4692- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
4693 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
4694 Solaris.
4695
4696- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
4697 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
4698 corruption and core dumps.
4699
4700- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
4701 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
4702
4703- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
4704
4705- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
4706 and implemented by Damien Neil.
4707
4708- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
4709 name and version to standard output.
4710
4711- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
4712
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4713- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
4714 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
4715
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4716- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
4717
4718- Lots of documentation updates.
4719
4720- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
4721 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
4722
4723- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
4724
4725- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
4726 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
4727
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4729
4730- Some documentation tweaks.
4731
4732- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
4733
4734- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
4735
4736- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
4737 agent options into them.
4738
4739- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
4740
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4741- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
4742 options.
4743
adbef119 4744 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 14
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4745
4746- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
4747 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
4748 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
4749 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
4750 used in class statements to control address allocation.
4751
4752- Fix up documentation.
4753
4754- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
4755 significantly in a high-demand situation.
4756
4757- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
4758
4759- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
4760
4761- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
4762 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
4763 practical use otherwise.
4764
4765- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
4766 for debugging.
4767
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4769
4770- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
4771 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
4772 dump on some systems.
4773
4774- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
4775 option.
4776
4777- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
4778 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
4779
4780- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
4781 that were not printing enough information.
4782
4783- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
4784 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
4785
4786- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
4787 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
4788 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
4789 were answering.
4790
4791- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
4792 the transition.
9a111ee8 4793
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4796
4797- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
4798
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4799 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
4800
4801- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
4802 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
4803 representation from working correctly.
4804
4805- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
4806 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
4807 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
4808 could spin.
4809
4810- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
4811 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
4812
4813- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
4814 interface name on the command line.
4815
4816- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
4817 client state.
4818
4819- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
4820 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
4821 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
4822 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
4823 added by Ted Lemon.
4824
4825- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
4826 be made to log debugging information and other information.
4827
4828- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
4829 end option.
4830
4831- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
4832 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
4833 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
4834
4835- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
4836 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
4837 face of a null hardware address on input.
4838
4839- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
4840 specified unqualified.
4841
4842- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
4843 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
4844
4845- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
4846 RFC.
4847
4848- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
4849
4850- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
4851
4852- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
4853 it works.
4854
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4855 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
4856
4857- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
4858 to CVS.
4859
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4860 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
4861
4862- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
4863
4864- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
4865 in patchlevel 9.
4866
4867- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
4868 options at renewal time.
4869
4870- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
4871 configuration language.
4872
4873- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
4874
4875- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
4876 done when no client hostname was received.
4877
4878- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
4879
4880- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
4881 the DHCP option space.
4882
4883- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
4884
4885- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
4886 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
4887
4888- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
4889 silently dropped.
4890
4891- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
4892 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
4893
4894- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
4895 will be correctly updated.
4896
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4897 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
4898
4899- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
4900 bounds-checking.
4901
4902 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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4904- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
4905
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4908- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
4909 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
4910 possible to exploit it any further than that.
4911
4912- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
4913 option.
4914
4915- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
4916 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
4917 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
4918 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
4919 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
4920 meaningfully.
4921
4922- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
4923 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
4924 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
4925
4926- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
4927 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
4928 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
4929 this one down!
4930
4931- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
4932 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
4933 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
4934 down and fixing this problem.
4935
4936 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
4937
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4938- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
4939 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
4940
4941- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
4942 environment.
4943
4944- Fix suffix operator.
4945
4946- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
4947
4948- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
4949 connection code.
4950
4951- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
4952
4953- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
4954
4955- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
4956 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
4957
4958- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
4959
4960- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
4961
4962- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
4963 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
4964
4965- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
4966 spawn with.
4967
4968- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
4969 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
4970
4971- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
4972 for OMAPI.
4973
4974- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
4975 can install in host declarations.
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4978
4979- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
4980 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
4981 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
4982 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
4983 comments)!
4984
4985- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
4986
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4987- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
4988 request for help on this with patches!
4989
4990- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
4991 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
4992 lost, they never reconnect.
4993
4994- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
4995 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
4996
4997- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
4998 dump.
4999
5000- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
5001 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
5002 catching this one.
5003
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5005
5006- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 5007 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
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5008 lease renewal time.
5009
5010- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
5011 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
5012 declared without a key.
5013
5014- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
5015
5016- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
5017 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
5018
5019- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
5020 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
5021 determine the maximum size of the response.
5022
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5024
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5025- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
5026 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
5027
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5028- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
5029 RENEWING client.
5030
5031- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
5032
5033- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
5034 using memcmp().
5035
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5036 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
5037
5038- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
5039 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
5040 pointing this out.
5041
5042- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
5043 exit.
5044
5045- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
5046
5047- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
5048 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.