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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
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2 Version 4.3.0a1
3 17 December 2013
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0171be2d 5 Release Notes
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0171be2d 7 NEW FEATURES
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9ISC DHCP 4.2.x includes features that were not included in DHCP 4.1.x.
10These include:
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98bf1607 12Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
09afca0d 13The DHCP server or client can now continue with its processing while
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14awaiting replies from the DNS server.
15
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16There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
17release, which will be addressed in the future:
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01a54c17 19- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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21- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages, in
22 English. A method to reconfigure or support other languages would
23 be preferrable.
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25- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
26
98bd7ca0 27- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 28 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 29 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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31For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as
32well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the
33README file.
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35ISC DHCP uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please review the
36output of "./configure --help" to see what options are available.
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38The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and may not
39work on other platforms. Please report any problems and suggested fixes to
40<dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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6980ae03 42 Changes since 4.2.0 (new features)
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44- If a client renews before 'dhcp-cache-threshold' percent of its lease
45 has elapsed (default 25%), the server will reuse the allocated lease
46 (provide a lease within the currently allocated lease-time) rather
47 than extend or renew the lease. This absolves the server of needing
48 to perform an fsync() operation on the lease database before reply,
49 which improves performance. [ISC-Bugs #22228]
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50 Update this patch to support asynchronous DDNS. If the server is
51 attempting to do DDNS on a lease it should be udpated and written to
52 disk even if that wouldn't be necessary due to the thresholding
53 [ISC-Bugs #26311]
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55- The 'no available billing' log line now also logs the name of the last
56 matching billing class tried before failing to provide a billing.
57 [ISC-Bugs #21759]
58
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59- A problem with missing get_hw_addr function when --enable-use-sockets
60 was used is now solved on GNU/Linux, BSD and GNU/Hurd systems. Note
61 that use-sockets feature was not tested on those systems. Client and
62 server code no longer use MAX_PATH constant that is not defined on
3cb6f9bb 63 GNU/Hurd systems. [ISC-Bugs #25979]
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65- Add a perl script in the contrib directory, dhcp-lease-list.pl, which
66 can parse v4 lease files and output the lease information in a more
67 human friendly manner. This was written by Christian Hammers with
68 some updates by vom and ISC. This is contributed code and is not
69 supported by ISC; however it may be useful to some users.
70 [ISC-Bugs #20680]
71
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72- Add support in v6 for on-commit, on-expire and on-release.
73 [ISC-Bugs #27912
74
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75- Add support for using classes with v6.
76 [ISC-Bugs #26510]
77
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78- Update the DDNS code to current standards and allow for sharing
79 of DDNS entries between v4 and v6 clients. The new code is used
80 if the ddns-update-style is set to "standard", the older code is
81 still available if ddns-update-style is set to "interim". The
82 oldest DDNS code "ad-hoc" has been removed. Thanks to Thomas Pegeot
83 who submitted a patch for this issue. This patch is based on
84 that work with some modifications.
64fb661c 85 [ISC-Bugs #21139]
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87- Add a configuration option to the server to suppress using fsync().
88 Enabling this option will mean that fsync() is never called. This
89 may provide better performance but there is also a risk that a lease
90 will not be properly written to the disk after it has been issued
91 to a client and before the server stops. Using this option is
92 not recommended.
64fb661c 93 [ISC-Bugs #34810]
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95- Add some logging statements to indicate when the server is ready
96 to serve. One statement is emitted after the server has finished
97 reading its files and is about to enter the dispatch loop.
98 This is "Server starting service.".
99 The second is emitted when a server determines that both it and
100 its failover peer are in the normal state.
101 This is "failover peer <name>: Both servers normal."
64fb661c 102 [ISC-Bugs #33208]
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104- Add support for accessing options from v6 relays. The v6relay
105 statement allows the administrator to choose which relay to
106 use when searching for an option, see the dhcp-options man page
107 for a description. The host-identifer option has also been
108 updated to support the use of relay options see the dhcpd.conf
109 man page for a description.
110 [ISC-Bugs #19598]
111
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112- When doing DDNS if there isn't an appropriate zone statement attempt
113 to find a reasoanble nameserver via a DNS resolver. This restores
114 some functionality that was lost in the transition to asynchronous
115 DDNS. Due to the lack of security and increase in fragility of the
116 system when using this feature we strongly recommend the use of
117 appropriate zone statements rather than using this functionality.
118 [ISC-Bugs #30461]
119
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120- Add support for specifying the address from which to send
121 DDNS updates on the DHCP server. There are two new options
122 "ddns-local-address4" and "ddns-local-address6" that each take
123 one instance of their respective address types.
124 [ISC-Bugs #34779]
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126- Add ignore-client-uids option in the server. This option causes
127 the server to not record a client's uid in its lease. This
128 violates the specification but may also be useful when a client
129 can dual boot using different client ids but the same mac address.
08e6dad9 130 Thank you to Brian De Wolf at Cal Ply Pomona for the patch.
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131 [ISC-Bugs #32427]
132 [ISC-Bugs #35066]
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133
134- Extend the DHCPINFORM processing to honor the subnet selection option
135 and take host declarations into account.
136 Thanks to Christof Chen for testing and submitting the patch.
137 [ISC-Bugs #35015]
138
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140 Changes since 4.2.5
141
d0a10f6a 142- Address static analysis warnings.
9626483b 143 [ISC-Bugs #33510] [ISC-Bugs #33511]
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145- Silence benign static analysis warnings.
146 [ISC-Bugs #33428]
147
c5bc8b1a 148- Add check for 64-bit package for atf.
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149 [ISC-Bugs #32206]
150
151- Use newer auto* tool packages and turn on RFC_3542 support on Mac OS.
152 [ISC-Bugs #26303]
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154- Remove a variable when it isn't being used due to #ifdefs to avoid
155 a compiler warning on Solaris using GCC.
156 [ISC-Bugs #33032]
157
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158- Add a check for too much whitespace in a config or lease file.
159 Thanks to Paolo Pellegrino for finding the issue and a suggestion
160 for the patch.
161 [ISC-Bugs #33351]
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162
163- Fix several problems with using OMAPI to manipulate class and subclass
164 objects.
165 [ISC-Bugs #27452]
166
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167- Added a sleep call after killing the old client to allow time
168 for the sockets to be cleaned. This should allow the -r option
169 to work more consistently.
170 [ISC-Bugs #18175]
171
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172- Missing files for ISC DHCP Developer's Guide are now included in
173 the release tarballs. To generate this documentation, please use
174 make devel command in doc directory. [ISC-Bugs #32767]
175
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176- Update client script for use with openwrt.
177 [ISC-Bugs #29843]
178
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179- Fix the socket handling for DHCPv6 clients to allow multiple instances
180 of a client on a single machine to work properly. Previously only
181 one client would receive the packets. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat
182 for the bug report and a potential patch.
183 [ISC-Bugs #34784]
184
47e8308d 185- Added support for gentle shutdown after signal is received.
0895c955 186 [ISC-Bugs #32692] [ISC-Bugs 34945]
47e8308d 187
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188- Enhance the DHCPv6 server logging to include the addresses that are assigned
189 to the clients.
190 [ISC-Bugs #26377]
191
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192- Fix an operation in the DDDNS code to be a bitwise instead of logcial or.
193 [ISC-Bugs #35138]
194
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195 Changes since 4.2.4
196
197- Correct code to calculate timing values in client to compare
198 rebind value to infinity instead of renew value.
199 Thanks to Chenda Huang from H3C Technologies Co., Limited
200 for reporting this issue.
201 [ISC-Bugs #29062]
202
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203- Fix some issues in the code for parsing and printing options.
204 [ISC-Bugs #22625] - properly print options that have several fields
205 followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
206 [ISC-Bugs #27289] - properly parse options in declarations that have
207 several fields followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
208 [ISC-Bugs #27296] - properly determine if we parsed a 16 or 32 bit
209 value in evaluate_numeric_expression (extract-int).
210 [ISC-Bugs #27314] - properly parse a zero length option from
211 a lease file. Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski from SUSE for the report
212 and prototype patch for this ticket as well as ticket 27289.
213
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214! Previously the server code was relaxed to allow packets with zero
215 length client ids to be processed. Under some situations use of
216 zero length client ids can cause the server to go into an infinite
217 loop. As such ids are not valid according to RFC 2132 section 9.14
218 the server no longer accepts them. Client ids with a length of 1
219 are also invalid but the server still accepts them in order to
220 minimize disruption. The restriction will likely be tightened in
221 the future to disallow ids with a length of 1.
222 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
223 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
224 [ISC-Bugs #29851]
225 CVE: CVE-2012-3571
226
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227! When attempting to convert a DUID from a client id option
228 into a hardware address handle unexpected client ids properly.
229 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
230 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
231 [ISC-Bugs #29852]
232 CVE: CVE-2012-3570
233
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234! A pair of memory leaks were found and fixed. Thanks to
235 Glen Eustace of Massey University, New Zealand for finding
236 this issue.
237 [ISC-Bugs #30024]
df2c355e 238 CVE: CVE-2012-3954
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240- Existing legacy unit-tests have been migrated to Automated Test
241 Framework (ATF). Several new tests have been developed. To enable
242 unit-tests, please use --with-atf in configure script. A Developer's
243 Guide has been added. To generate it, please use make devel in
244 the doc directory. It is currently in early stages of development,
245 but is expected to grow in the near future. [ISC-Bugs 25901]
246
0b2ec8c9 247! An issue with the use of lease times was found and fixed. Making
03b44855 248 certain changes to the end time of an IPv6 lease could cause the
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249 server to abort. Thanks to Glen Eustace of Massey University,
250 New Zealand for finding this issue.
251 [ISC-Bugs #30281]
252 CVE: CVE-2012-3955
253
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254- Update the memory leakage debug code to work with v6.
255 [ISC-Bugs #30297]
256
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257- Relax the requirements for deleting an A or AAAA record.
258 Previously the DDNS removal code required both the A or AAAA
259 record and the TXT record to exist. This requirement could
260 cause problems if something interrupted the removal leaving
261 the TXT record alone. This relaxation was codified in RFC 4703.
262 [ISC-Bugs #30734]
263
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264- Modify the failover code to handle incorrect peer names
265 better. Previously the structure holding the name might
266 have been freed inappropriately in some cases and not
267 freed in other cases.
268 [ISC-Bugs #30320]
269
d5d868e7 270- Add a configure option, enable-secs-byteorder, to deal with
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271 clients that do the byte ordering on the secs field incorrectly.
272 This field should be in network byte order but some clients
273 get it wrong. When this option is enabled the server will examine
274 the secs field and if it looks wrong (high byte non zero and low
275 byte zero) swap the bytes. The default is disabled. This option
276 is only useful when doing load balancing within failover.
277 [ISC-Bugs #26108]
278
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279- Fix a set of issues that were discovered via a code inspection
280 tool. Thanks to Jiri Popelka and Tomas Hozza Red Hat for the logs
281 and patches.
282 [ISC-Bugs #23833]
283
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284- Parsing unquoted base64 strings improved. Parser now properly handles
285 strings that contain reserved names. [ISC-Bugs #23048]
286
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287- Modify the nak_lease function to make some attempts to find a
288 server-identifier option to use for the NAK.
289 [ISC-Bugs #25689]
290
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291- The client now passes information about the options it requested
292 from the server to the script code via environment variables.
293 These variables are of the form requested_<option_name>=1 with
294 the option name being the same as used in the new_* and old_*
295 variables.
3aa562f8 296 [ISC-Bugs #29068]
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298- Add support for a simple check that the server id in a request message
299 to a failover peer matches the server id of the server. This support
300 is enabled by editing the file includes/site.h and uncommenting the
301 definition for SERVER_ID_CHECK. The option has several restrictions
302 and issues - please read the comment in the site.h file before
303 enabling it.
304 [ISC-Bugs #31463]
305
d5d868e7 306- Tidy up some compiler issues in the debug code.
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307 [ISC-Bugs #26460]
308
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309- Move the dhcpd.conf exmample file to dhcpd.conf.example to avoid
310 overwriting the dhcpd.conf file when installing a new version of
311 ISC DHCP. The user will now need to manual copy and edit the
312 dhcpd.conf file as desired.
313 [ISC-Bugs #19337]
314
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315- Check the status value when trying to read from a connection to
316 see if it may have been closed. If it appears closed don't try
317 to read from it again. This avoids a potential busy-wait like
318 loop when the peer names are mismatched.
319 [ISC-Bugs #31231]
320
d5d868e7 321- Remove an unused variable to keep compilers happy.
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322 [ISC-Bugs #31983]
323
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324- Modify test makefiles to be more similar to standard makefiles
325 and comment out a currently unused test.
56c0e681 326 [ISC-Bugs #32089]
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328 Changes since 4.2.3
329
330! Add a check for a null pointer before calling the regexec function.
dc6908b4 331 Without this check we could, under some circumstances, pass
b95f1ee0 332 a null pointer to the regexec function causing it to segfault.
317d1182 333 Thanks to a report from BlueCat Networks.
b95f1ee0 334 [ISC-Bugs #26704].
846af1cd 335 CVE: CVE-2011-4539
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337! Modify the DDNS handling code. In a previous patch we added logging
338 code to the DDNS handling. This code included a bug that caused it
339 to attempt to dereference a NULL pointer and eventually segfault.
340 While reviewing the code as we addressed this problem, we determined
341 that some of the updates to the lease structures would not work as
342 planned since the structures being updated were in the process of
343 being freed: these updates were removed. In addition we removed an
344 incorrect call to the DDNS removal function that could cause a failure
345 during the removal of DDNS information from the DNS server.
346 Thanks to Jasper Jongmans for reporting this issue.
347 [ISC-Bugs #27078]
348 CVE: CVE-2011-4868
349
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350- Fixed the code that checks if an address the server is planning
351 to hand out is in a reserved range. This would appear as
352 the server being out of addresses in pools with particular ranges.
353 [ISC-Bugs #26498]
354
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355- In the DDNS code handle error conditions more gracefully and add more
356 logging code. The major change is to handle unexpected cancel events
357 from the DNS client code.
cfc49463 358 [ISC-Bugs #26287]
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cfc49463 360- Tidy up the receive calls and eliminate the need for found_pkt.
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361 [ISC-Bugs #25066]
362
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363- Add support for Infiniband over sockets to the server and
364 relay code. We've tested this on Solaris and hope to expand
365 support for Infiniband in the future. This patch also corrects
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366 some issues we found in the socket code.
367 [ISC-Bugs #24245]
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369- Add a compile time check for the presence of the noreturn attribute
370 and use it for log_fatal if it's available. This will help code
371 checking programs to eliminate false positives.
d13db163 372 [ISC-Bugs #27539]
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374- Fixed many compilation problems ("set, but not used" warnings) for
375 gcc 4.6 that may affect Ubuntu 11.10 users. [ISC-Bugs #27588]
376
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377- Modify the code that determines if an outstanding DDNS request
378 should be cancelled. This patch results in cancelling the
379 outstanding request less often. It fixes the problem caused
cfc49463 380 by a client doing a release where the TXT and PTR records
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381 weren't removed from the DNS.
382 [ISC-BUGS #27858]
383
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384- Use offsetof() instead of sizeof() to get the sizes for dhcpv6_relay_packet
385 and dhcpv6_packet in several more places. Thanks to a report from
386 Bruno Verstuyft and Vincent Demaertelaere of Excentis.
387 [ISC-Bugs #27941]
388
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389- Remove outdated note in the description of the bootp keyword about the
390 option not satisfying the requirement of failover peers for denying
391 dynamic bootp clients.
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392 [ISC-bugs #28574]
393
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394- Multiple items to clean up IPv6 address processing.
395 When processing an IA that we've seen check to see if the
396 addresses are usable (not in use by somebody else) before
397 handing it out.
398 When reading in leases from the file discard expired addresses.
399 When picking an address for a client include the IA ID in
400 addition to the client ID to generally pick different addresses
401 for different IAs.
402 [ISC-Bugs #23138] [ISC-Bugs #27945] [ISC-Bugs #25586]
403 [ISC-Bugs #27684]
404
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405- Remove unnecessary checks in the lease query code and clean up
406 several compiler issues (some dereferences of NULL and treating
407 an int as a boolean).
408 [ISC-Bugs #26203]
409
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410- Fix the NA and PD allocation code to handle the case where a client
411 provides a preference and the server doesn't have any addresses or
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412 prefixes available. Previously the server ignored the request with
413 this patch it replies with a NoAddrsAvail or NoPrefixAvail response.
d19fa5a1 414 By default the code performs according to the errata of August 2010
53394a8d 415 for RFC 3315 section 17.2.2; to enable the previous style see the
cfc49463 416 section on RFC3315_PRE_ERRATA_2010_08 in includes/site.h. This option
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417 may be removed in the future.
418 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
419 [ISC-Bugs #22676]
420
cfc49463 421- Fix up some issues found by static analysis.
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422 A potential memory leak and NULL dereference in omapi.
423 The use of a boolean test instead of a bitwise test in dst.
424 [ISC-Bugs #28941]
425
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426- Rotate the lease file when running in v6 mode.
427 Thanks to Christoph Moench-Tegeder at Astaro for the
428 report and the first version of the patch.
429 [ISC-Bugs #24887]
430
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431 Changes since 4.2.2
432
433- Fix the code that checks for an existing DDNS transaction to cancel
434 when removing DDNS information, so that we will continue with the
435 processing if we have a lease even if it doesn't have an outstanding
436 transaction. [ISC-Bugs #24682]
437
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438- Add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to configure.ac to avoid rebuilding
439 configuration files. [ISC-Bugs #24107]
440
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441- Add support for passing DDNS information to a DNS server over
442 an IPv6 address. [ISC-Bugs #22647]
443
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444- Enhanced patch for 23595 to handle IPv4 fixed addresses more
445 cleanly. [ISC-Bugs #23595]
446
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447 Changes since 4.2.1
448
449! In dhclient check the data for some string options for
450 reasonableness before passing it along to the script that
451 interfaces with the OS.
452 [ISC-Bugs #23722]
453 CVE: CVE-2011-0997
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455- DHCPv6 server now responds properly if client asks for a prefix that
456 is already assigned to a different client. [ISC-Bugs #23948]
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458- Add the option "--no-pid" to the client, relay and server code,
459 to disable writing a pid file. Add the option "-pf pidfile"
460 to the relay to allow the user to supply the pidfile name at
461 runtime. Add the "with-relay6-pid-file" option to configure
462 to allow the user to supply the pidfile name for the relay
463 in v6 mode at configure time.
464 [ISC-Bugs #23351] [ISC-Bugs #17541]
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466- 'dhclient' no longer waits a random interval after first starting up to
467 begin in the INIT state. This conforms to RFC 2131, but elects not to
468 implement a 'SHOULD' direction in section 4.1. The goal of this change
73c83820 469 is to start up faster. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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471- Added 'initial-delay' parameter that specifies maximum amount of time
472 before client goes to the INIT state. The default value is 0. In previous
473 versions of the code client could wait up to 5 seconds. The old behavior
474 may be restored by using 'initial-delay 5;' in the client config file.
73c83820 475 [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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477- ICMP ping-check should now sit closer to precisely the number of seconds
478 configured (or default 1), due to making use of the new microsecond
479 scale timer internally to dhcpd. This corrects a bug where the server
480 may immediately timeout an ICMP ping-check if it was made late in the
73c83820 481 current second. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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483- The DHCP client will schedule renewal and rebinding events in
484 microseconds if the DHCP server provided a lease-time that would result
485 in sub-1-second timers. This corrects a bug where a 2-second or lower
486 lease-time would cause the DHCP client to enter an infinite loop by
73c83820 487 scheduling renewal at zero seconds. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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489- Client lease records are recorded at most once every 15 seconds. This
490 keeps the client from filling the lease database disk quickly on very small
73c83820 491 lease times. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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493- To defend against RFC 2131 non-compliant DHCP servers which fail to
494 advertise a lease-time (either mangled, or zero in value) the DHCP
495 client now adds the server to the reject list ACL and returns to INIT
496 state to hopefully find an RFC 2131 compliant server (or retry in INIT
73c83820 497 forever). [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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499- Parameters configured to evaluate from user defined function calls can
500 now be correctly written to dhcpd.leases (as on 'on events' or dynamic
501 host records inserted via OMAPI). [ISC-Bugs #22266]
502
503- If a 'next-server' parameter is configured in a dynamic host record via
504 OMAPI as a domain name, the syntax written to disk is now correctly parsed
505 upon restart. [ISC-Bugs #22266]
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507- The DHCP server now responds to DHCPLEASEQUERY messages from agents using
508 IP addresses not covered by a subnet in configuration. Whether or not to
509 respond to such an agent is still governed by the 'allow leasequery;'
510 configuration parameter, in the case of an agent not covered by a configured
511 subnet the root configuration area is examined. Server now also returns
512 vendor-class-id option, if client sent it. [ISC-Bugs #21094]
bea17697 513
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515 [ISC-Bugs #17959] add text to AIX section describing how to have it send
516 responses to the all-ones address.
517 [ISC-Bugs #19615] update the includes in dhcpctl/dhcpctl.3 to be more correct
518 [ISC-Bugs #20676] update dhcpd.conf.5 to include the RFC numbers for DDNS
519
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520- Relay no longer crashes, when DHCP packet is received over interface without
521 any IPv4 address assigned. Also extended logging message about discarding
522 packets with invalid hlen with information about relevant interface name.
523 [ISC-Bugs #22409]
524
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525- Relay now properly logs that packet was received over interface without
526 global IPv6 address [ISC-Bugs #24070]
527
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528- Linux Packet Filter interface improvement. sockaddr_pkt structure is used,
529 rather than sockaddr. Packet ethertype is now forced to ETH_P_IP.
530 [ISC-Bugs #18975]
531
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532- Minor code cleanups - but note port change for #23196
533 [ISC-Bugs #23470] - Modify when an ignore return macro is defined to
534 handle unsed error return warnings for more versions of gcc.
535 [ISC-Bugs #23196] - Modify the reply handling in the server code to
536 send to a specified port rather than to the source port for the incoming
537 message. Sending to the source port was test code that should have
538 been removed. The previous functionality may be restored by defining
539 REPLY_TO_SOURCE_PORT in the includes/site.h file. We suggest you don't
540 enable this except for testing purposes.
541 [ISC-Bugs #22695] - Close a file descriptor in an error path.
542 [ISC-Bugs #19368] - Tidy up variable types in validate_port.
543
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544- Code cleanup: remove obsolete PROTO, KandR, INLINE and ANSI_DECL macros
545 [ISC-Bugs #13151]
546
547- Compilation problem with gcc4.5 and omshell.c resolved. [ISC-Bugs #23831]
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549- Client Script fixes
550 [ISC-Bugs #23045] Typos in client/scripts/openbsd
551 [ISC-Bugs #23565] In the client scripts add a zone id (interface id) if
552 the domain search address is link local.
553 [ISC-Bugs #1277] In some of the client scripts add code to handle the
554 case of the default router information being changed without the address
555 being changed.
556
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557- Documentation cleanup
558 [ISC-Bugs #23326] Updated References document, several man page updates
559
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560- Server no longer complains about NULL pointer when configured
561 server-identifier expression fails to evaluate. [ISC-Bugs #24547]
562
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563- Convert ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to ISC_R_SUCCESS when called from other
564 than the dispatch handler. This fixes an issue where omshell, when
565 run from the same platform as the server, would appear to fail to
566 connect. This is a companion to #21839. [ISC-Bugs #23592]
567
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568- Enlarge the buffer size used by the Omshell code and some of the
569 print routines to allow for greater than 60 characters or, when
570 printing as hex strings, 20 characters. [ISC-Bugs #22743]
571
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572- In Solaris 11 switch to using sockets instead of DLPI, thanks
573 to a patch form Oracle. [ISC-Bugs #24634].
574
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575- Strict checks for content of domain-name DHCPv4 option can now be
576 configured during compilation time. Even though RFC2132 does not allow
577 to store more than one domain in domain-name option, such behavior is
578 now enabled by default, but this may change some time in the future.
579 See ACCEPT_LIST_IN_DOMAIN_NAME define in includes/site.h.
580 [ISC-Bugs #24167]
581
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582- DNS Update fix. A misconfigured server could crash during DNS update
583 processing if the configuration included overlapping pools or
584 multiple fixed-address entries for a single address. This issue
585 affected both IPv4 and IPv6. The fix allows a server to detect such
586 conditions, provides the user with extra information and recommended
587 steps to fix the problem. If the user enables the appropriate option
588 in site.h then server will be terminated
589 [ISC-Bugs #23595]
590
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591! Two packets were found that cause a server to halt. The code
592 has been updated to properly process or reject the packets as
593 appropriate. Thanks to David Zych at University of Illinois
594 for reporting this issue. [ISC-Bugs #24960]
595 One CVE number for each class of packet.
596 CVE-2011-2748
597 CVE-2011-2749
598
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599 Changes since 4.2.0
600
601- Documentation cleanup covering multiple tickets
602 [ISC-Bugs #20265] [ISC-Bugs #20259] minor cleanup
603 [ISC-Bugs #20263] add text describing some default values
604 [ISC-Bugs #20193] single quotes at the start of a line indicate a control
605 line to nroff, escape them if we actually want a quote.
606 [ISC-Bugs #18916] sync the pointer to web pages amongst the different docs
607
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608- 'get-host-names true;' now also works even if 'use-host-decl-names true;'
609 was also configured. The nature of this repair also fixes another
610 error; the host-name supplied by a client is no longer overridden by a
611 reverse lookup of the lease address. Thanks to a patch from Wilco Baan
612 Hofman supplied to us by the Debian package maintenance team.
613 [ISC-Bugs #21691] {Debian Bug#509445}
614
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615- The .TH tag for the dhcp-options manpage was typo repaired
616 thanks to a report from jidanni and the Debian package maintenance
617 team. [ISC-Bugs #21676] {Debian Bug#563613}
618
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619- More documentation changes - primarily to put the options in the dhclient
620 and dhcpd man pages into the standard form. Thanks in part to a patch
621 from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
622 [ISC-Bugs #20264] and parts of [ISC-Bugs #17744] dhclient.8 changes
623
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624- Add code to clear the pointer to an object in an OMAPI handle when the
625 object is freed due to a dereference. [ISC-Bugs #21306]
626
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627- Fixed a bug that leaks host record references onto lease structures,
628 causing the server to apply configuration intended for one host to any
629 other innocent clients that come along later. [ISC-Bugs #22018]
630
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631- Minor code fixes
632 [ISC-Bugs #19566] When trying to find the zone for a name for ddns allow
633 the name to be at the apex of the zone.
634 [ISC-Bugs #19617] Restrict length of interface name read from command line
635 in dhcpd - based on a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
636 [ISC-Bugs #20039] Correct some error messages in dhcpd.c
637 [ISC-Bugs #20070] Better range check on values when creating a DHCID.
638 [ISC-Bugs #20198] Avoid writing past the end of the field when adding
639 overly long file or server names to a packet and add a log message
640 if the configuration supplied overly long names for these fields.
641 Thanks to Martin Pala.
642 [ISC-Bugs #21497] Add a little more randomness to rng seed in client
643 thanks to a patch from Jeremiah Jinno.
644
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645- Correct error handling in DLPI [ISC-Bugs #20378]
646
647- Remove __sun__ and __hpux__ typedefs in osdep.h as they are now being
648 checked in configure. [ISC-Bugs #20443]
649
650- Modify how the cmsg header is allocated the v6 send and received routines
651 to compile on more compilers. [ISC-Bugs #20524]
652
653- When parsing a domain name free the memory for the name after we are
654 done with it. [ISC-Bugs #20824]
655
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656- Add an elapsed time option to the release message and refactor the
657 code to move most of the common code to a single routine.
658 [ISC-Bugs #21171].
659
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660- Two identical log messages for commit_leases() have been disambiguated.
661 [ISC-Bugs #18915]
662
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663- Parse date strings more properly - the code now handles semi-colons in
664 date strings correctly. Thanks to a patch from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
665 [ISC-Bugs #21501, #20598]
666
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667- Fixes to lease input and output.
668 [ISC-Bugs #20418] - Some systems don't support the "%s" argument to
669 strftime, paste together the same string using mktime instead.
670 [ISC-Bugs #19596] - When parsing iaid values accept printable
671 characters.
672 [ISC-Bugs #21585] - Always print time values in omshell as hex
673 instead of ascii if the values happen to be printable characters.
674
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675- Minor changes for scripts, configure.ac and Makefiles
676 [ISC-Bugs #19147] Use domain-search instead of domain-name in manual and
677 example conf file. Thanks to a patch from David Cantrell
678 at Red Hat.
679 [ISC-Bugs #19761] Restore address when doing a rebind in DHCPv6
680 [ISC-Bugs #19945] Properly close the quote on some arguments.
681 [ISC-Bugs #20952] Add 64 bit types to configure.ac
682 [ISC-Bugs #21308] Add "PATH=" to CLIENT_PATH envrionment variable
683
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684- Update the code to parse dhcpv6 lease files to accept a semi-colon at
685 the end of the max-life and preferred-life clauses. In order to be
686 backwards compatible with older lease files not finding a semi-colon
687 is also accepted. [ISC-Bugs #22303].
688
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689! Handle a relay forward message with an unspecified address in the
690 link address field. Previously such a message would cause the
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691 server to crash. Thanks to a report from John Gibbons. [ISC-Bugs #21992]
692 CERT: VU#102047 CVE: CVE-2010-3611
693
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694- ./configure on longer searches for -lcrypto to explicitly link against.
695 This fixes a bug where 'dhclient' would have shared library dependencies
696 on '/usr/lib'. [ISC-Bugs #21967]
4dc5a6b1 697
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698- Handle pipe failures more gracefully. Some OSes pass a SIGPIPE
699 signal to a process and will kill the process if the signal isn't
700 caught. This patch adds code to turn off the SIGPIPE signal via
701 a setsockopt() call. The signal is already being ignored as part
702 of the ISC library. [ISC-Bugs #22269]
703
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704- Restore printing of values in omshell to the style pre 21585. For
705 21585 we changed the print routines to always display time values
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706 as a hex list. This had a side effect of printing all data strings
707 as a hex list. We shall investigate other ways of displaying time
708 values more usefully. [ISC-Bugs #22626]
3004baba 709
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710! Fix the handling of connection requests on the failover port.
711 Previously a connection request from a source that wasn't
712 listed as a failover peer would cause the server to become
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713 non-responsive. Thanks to a report from Brad Bendily, brad@bendily.com.
714 [ISC-Bugs #22679]
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715 CERT: VU#159528 CVE: CVE-2010-3616
716
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717- Don't pass the ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to the omapi signal handlers.
718 Passing it through to the handlers caused the omshell program to fail
719 to connect to the server. [ISC-Bugs #21839]
720
721- Fix the paranthesis in the code to process configuration statements
722 beginning with "auth". The previous arrangement caused
723 "auto-partner-down" to be processed incorrectly. [ISC-Bugs #21854]
724
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725- Limit the timeout period allowed in the dispatch code to 2^^32-1 seconds.
726 Thanks to a report from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
727 [ISC-Bugs #22033], [Red Hat Bug #628258]
728
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729- When processing the format flags for a given option consume the
730 flag indicating an optional value correctly. A symptom of this
731 bug was an infinite loop when trying to parse the slp-service-scope
732 option. Thanks to a patch from Marius Tomaschewski.
733 [ISC-Bugs #22055]
734
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735- Disable the use of kqueue in the ISC library. This avoids a problem
736 between the fork and socket code that caused the dhcpd process to
737 use all available cpu if the program daemonized itself.
738 [ISC-Bugs #21911]
739
c8b189f1 740! When processing a request in the DHCPv6 server code that specifies
45918d36 741 an address that is tagged as abandoned (meaning we received a
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742 decline request for it previously) don't attempt to move it from
743 the inactive to active pool as doing so can result in the server
e8f330a1 744 crashing on an assert failure. Also retag the lease as active
09afca0d 745 and reset its timeout value.
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746 [ISC-Bugs #21921]
747
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748- Removed the restriction on using IPv6 addresses in IPv4 mode. This
749 allows IPv4 options which contain IPv6 addresses to be specified. For
750 example the 6rd option can be specified and used like this:
751 [ISC-Bugs #23039]
752
753 option 6rd code 212 = { integer 8, integer 8,
754 ip6-address, array of ip-address };
755 option 6rd 16 10 2001:: 1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8;
756
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757- Handle some DDNS corner cases better. Maintain the DDNS transaction
758 information when updating a lease and cancel any existing transactions
759 when removing the ddns information.
760 [ISC-Bugs #23103]
761
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762- Some fixes for LDAP
763 [ISC-Bugs #21783] - Include lber library when building ldap
764 [ISC-Bugs #22888] - Enable the ldap code when buidling common
765 The above fixes are from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
766
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767- Modify the dlpi code to accept getmsg() returning a positive value.
768 [ISC-Bugs #22824]
769
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770 Changes since 4.2.0b2
771
772- Add declaration for variable in debug code in alloc.c. [ISC-Bugs #21472]
0d8c3d6e 773
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774 Changes since 4.2.0b1
775
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776- Prohibit including lease time information in a response to a DHCP INFORM.
777 [ISC-Bugs #21092]
1e05d095 778
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779! Accept a client id of length 0 while hashing. Previously the server would
780 exit if it attempted to hash a zero length client id, providing attackers
d122accf 781 with a simple denial of service attack. [ISC-Bugs #21253]
63ff896a 782 CERT: VU#541921 - CVE: CVE-2010-2156
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784- A memory leak in ddns processing was closed. [ISC-Bugs #21377]
785
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786- Modify the exception handling for initial context creation. Previously
787 we would try and clean up before exiting. This could present problems
788 when the cleanup required part of the context that wasn't available. It
789 also didn't do much as we exited afterwards anyway. Now we simply log
790 the error and exit. [ISC-Bugs #21093]
791
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792- A bug was fixed that could cause the DHCPv6 server to advertise/assign a
793 previously allocated (active) lease to a client that has changed subnets,
794 despite being on different shared networks. Dynamic prefixes specifically
795 allocated in shared networks also now are not offered if the client has
796 moved. [ISC-Bugs #21152]
797
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798- Add some debugging output for use with the DDNS code. [ISC-Bugs #20916]
799
600ee619 800- Fix the trace code to handle timing events better and to truncate a file
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801 before using instead of overwriting it. [ISC-Bugs #20969]
802
803- Modify the determination of the default TTL to use for DDNS updates.
804 The user may still configure the ttl via ddns-ttl. The default for
805 both v4 and v6 is now 1/2 the (preferred) lease time with a limit. The
806 previous defaults (1/2 lease time without a limit for v4 and a default
807 value for v6) may be used by defining USE_OLD_DDNS_TTL in site.h
808 [ISC-Bugs #21126]
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810- libisc/libdns is now brought up to version 9.7.1rc1. This corrects
811 three reported flaws in ISC DHCP;
812
813 o DHCP processes (dhcpd, dhclient) fail to start if one of either the
814 IPv4 or IPv6 address families is not present. [ISC-Bugs #21122]
815
816 o Assertion failure when attempting to cancel a previously running DDNS
817 update. [ISC-Bugs #21133]
818
819 o Compilation failure of libisc/libdns due to the use of a flexible
820 array member. [ISC-Bugs #21316]
821
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822 Changes since 4.2.0a2
823
824- Update the fsync code to work with the changes to the DDNS code. It now
825 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
826
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827- When constructing the DNS name structure from a text string append
828 the root to relative names. This satisfies a requirement in the DNS
829 library that names be absolute instead of relative and prevents DHCP
d122accf 830 from crashing. [ISC-Bugs #21054]
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832- "The LDAP Patch" that has been circulating for some time, written by
833 Brian Masney and S.Kalyanasundraram and maintained for application to
834 the DHCP-4 sources by David Cantrell has been included. Please be
835 advised that these sources were contributed, and do not yet meet the
836 high standards we place on production sources we include by default.
837 As a result, the LDAP features are only included by using a compile-time
838 option which defaults off, and if you enable it you do so under your
839 own recognizance. We will be improving this software over time.
840 [ISC-Bugs #17741]
841
3c941d42 842 Changes since 4.2.0a1
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843
844- When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
845 is no longer truncated to one octet.
846
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847- Cleaned up an unused hardware address variable in nak_lease().
848
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849- Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
850 reflect support for prefix delegation.
851
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852- Cleaned up some compiler warnings
853
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854- An optimization described in the failover protocol draft is now included,
855 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
856 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
857 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
858 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
859 entry for each lease.
860
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861- Fix the trace code which was broken by the changes to the DDNS code.
862
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863 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
864
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865- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
866 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 867 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
adbef119 868
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869- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
870 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
871 Cantrell at Red Hat.
872
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873- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
874 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
875
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876- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
877
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878- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
879 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
880 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
881 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
882 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
883 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
884
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885- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
886 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
887 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
888 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
889 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
890 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
891 FQDN options by default).
892
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893- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
894 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
895 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
896 determined lease time) are omitted.
897
98bf1607 898- Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
09afca0d 899 The DHCP server or client can now continue with its processing while
98bf1607 900 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
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901
902- The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
903 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
904 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
905
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906 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
907
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908- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
909
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910- Validate the argument to the -p option.
911
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912- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
913 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
914 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
915 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
916 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
917
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918- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
919
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920- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
921 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
922 had been deleted from configuration.
923
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924- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
925 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
571c38b0 926 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
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927 were being ignored.
928
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929- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
930
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931- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
932 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
933 Nordahl.
934
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935- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
936 dhcpv6 disabled.
937
8d7dca58 938- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 939 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
819186b7 940
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941- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
942 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
943
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944- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
945 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
946 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
947
948- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
949 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
950 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
951 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
952 fewer system calls.
953
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954- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
955 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
956 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
957 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
958 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
959 Christof Chen.
960
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961- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
962 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
963 and in normal state.
964
965- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
966 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
967
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968- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
969
970- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
971 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
972 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
973
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974- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
975 rather than restarting the listener.
976
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977- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
978 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
979
980- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
981 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
982 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
983
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984- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
985 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
986 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
987 timeouts).
988
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989- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
990 in failover state records.
991
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992! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
993 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
994 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 995 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
8a4e543b 996
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997- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
998 processing a DHCPINFORM.
999
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1000- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
1001 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
1002 last option definition is used.
1003
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1004- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
1005 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
1006 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
1007
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1008- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
1009 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
1010
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1011- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
1012 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
1013 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
1014 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
1015 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
1016 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
1017
583c1c16
DH
1018- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
1019 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
1020 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
1021 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
1022
e4e3a2ab
DH
1023! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
1024 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
95f5d38c 1025
875e99dc
SR
1026- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
1027 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
1028
2267da84
DH
1029- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
1030 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
1031 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
1032 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
1033 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
571c38b0 1034 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
2267da84
DH
1035 configuration.
1036
cd3f0b9b
DH
1037- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
1038 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
1039
0493fdca
SR
1040- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
1041 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
1042 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
1043 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
1044
95bba8b6
SR
1045- Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
1046 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
1047 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
1048 was always properly set.
1049
adbef119 1050 Changes since 4.1.0b1
ebf076fe
EH
1051
1052- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
1053 be recognized.
61d75ea2 1054
a4ffedd1
DH
1055 Changes since 4.1.0a2
1056
1057- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
1058 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
1059 "abandoned".
1060
6ff3b26d
FD
1061- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
1062
1387545f
DH
1063- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
1064 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
1065
1066- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
1067 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
1068
1069- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 1070 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
1387545f 1071
399d3dbe
DH
1072- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
1073
fbcee149
DH
1074- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
1075 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
1076 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
1077 in future releases.
1078
f1672d89
DH
1079- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
1080 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
1081
236d3a99
DH
1082- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
1083 'dhclient -6' support.
1084
efa5e6b9
DH
1085- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
1086 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
1087 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
1088 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
1089
7d6180be 1090 Changes since 4.1.0a1
edcb5c46
EH
1091
1092- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
1093
51e7687f
EH
1094- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
1095
20210a7b
EH
1096- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
1097 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
1098 only the latter. Fixed.
1099
535485df
EH
1100- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
1101
8fbb55ff
DH
1102- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
1103 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
1104
61220a00
EH
1105- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
1106
c40e954c
EH
1107- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
1108
63971a83
DH
1109- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
1110 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
1111 --enable-early-chroot.
1112
66cebfcb
DH
1113- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
1114 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
1115
f8cbf390
DH
1116- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
1117 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
1118 parameter.
1119
8269561d
DH
1120- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
1121 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
1122
b445a411
DH
1123- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
1124 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
1125
bd72740e
FD
1126- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
1127
9322442f
FD
1128- Merged IA_XX related structures.
1129
8dea7ba7
FD
1130- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
1131
4619c0a2
DH
1132- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
1133
9ac4206a
DH
1134- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
1135 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
1136 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
1137
420d8b3f
FD
1138- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
1139 support.
1140
40ec5f38
DH
1141- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
1142 repaired.
1143
80097764
FD
1144- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
1145
ffbaa880
FD
1146- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
1147
7de20a95
EH
1148- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
1149 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
1150
d352732e
EH
1151- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
1152 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
1153
7d6180be
DH
1154- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
1155 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
1156
1157- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
1158 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
1159 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
1160 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
1161 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
1162 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
1163 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
1164 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
1165 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
1166 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
1167 shared-network.
1168
1169- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
1170 configured option values.
1171
1172- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
1173 support class statements.
1174
dd484ced
DH
1175- Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
1176 selection were repaired.
1177
ecddae64
DH
1178- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
1179 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
1180 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
1181 by the OS.
1182
1183- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
1184 address.
1185
1186- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
1187 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
1188
d104d45b
DH
1189- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
1190
1191- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
1192
1193- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
1194 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
1195
01a54c17 1196 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
3c12f746 1197
6d7f9584
FD
1198- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
1199
4cafb815 1200- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 1201 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
4cafb815 1202
022fe95e
EH
1203- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
1204 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
1205 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
1206
1dcc3612
SK
1207- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
1208 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
1209
aabfa4de
FD
1210- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
1211
0674055a
FD
1212- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
1213 reserved IDs avoided).
1214
b51c785f
FD
1215- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
1216
900405e9
FD
1217- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
1218 carries a rapid-commit option.
1219
96b620e5
FD
1220- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
1221 an empty active lease.
1222
be62cf06
FD
1223- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
1224
01a54c17
EH
1225- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
1226 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
1227 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
1228 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
1229
1230- MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
1231
1232- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
1233 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
1234 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
1235 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
1236 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
1237 Christof Chen.
1238
1239 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
1240
1241- DHCP now builds on AIX.
1242
1243- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
1244 config file but -6 is not specified.
1245
1246- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
1247
1248- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
1249 be more helpful.
1250
1251- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
1252 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
1253 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
1254
1255- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
1256 was repaired.
1257
1258- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
1259 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
1260 been repaired.
1261
1262- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
1263 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
1264 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
1265
49f61135
DH
1266- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
1267 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
1268
41d4652f
DH
1269- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
1270 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
1271 IPv4 address.
1272
2c9bf1f4
DH
1273- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
1274 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
1275 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
1276 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
1277 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
1278
1279- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
1280 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
1281 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
1282
cff9b78f
SK
1283- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
1284
c4d29896
SK
1285- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
1286
57fcb8d9
SK
1287- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
1288 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
1289 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
1290 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
1291 unnecessary logging.
1292
219a65eb
DH
1293- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
1294 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
1295
ffdf3c8c
DH
1296- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
1297 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
1298 is incompatible is printed.
1299
1300- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
1301 a previously undefined option code.
1302
00a002fc
MA
1303- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
1304 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
1305
7e9f7a1b
FD
1306- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
1307 than the year 2000.
1308
e2cfde76
FD
1309- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
1310
cabdb9b1
FD
1311- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
1312
5d89d60f
FD
1313- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
1314
61d75ea2
DH
1315 Changes since 4.0.0b3
1316
1317- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
1318 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
1319 configuration.
76db44f9 1320
e32529a5
EH
1321- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
1322 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
1323
76db44f9
SK
1324- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
1325 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
1326 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
e4a6be15 1327
6f76de58
SK
1328- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
1329 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
1330 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
1331 a requested address.
1332
703873ab
DH
1333- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
1334 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
1335 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
1336 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
1337
1338- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
1339 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
1340 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
1341 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
1342
b024480e
DH
1343- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
1344 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
1345 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
1346
c0216cb7
DH
1347- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
1348 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
1349
1ac57173
FD
1350- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
1351
83835822
DH
1352- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
1353 codes through some conditions.
1354
c54db708
FD
1355- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
1356 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
1357
e5d83524
DH
1358- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
1359 seemingly random values.
1360
821f2dda
DH
1361- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
1362
f8b3c6f4
DH
1363- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
1364 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
1365 one ever has.
1366
b9137d42
SK
1367- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
1368 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
1369 to a REQUEST.
1370
9f1d5a2f
DH
1371- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
1372 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
1373 level.
1374
e4a6be15
DH
1375 Changes since 4.0.0b2
1376
65cf86d7
EH
1377- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
1378
b1d3778c
DH
1379- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
1380 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
1381 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
1382 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
1383 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
1384
bead14ea
DH
1385- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
1386 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
1387 new address.
1388
f765ec36
SK
1389 Changes since 4.0.0b1
1390
75135a3f
EH
1391- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
1392 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
1393 simultaneously on a single interface.
1394
5c2d55c7
EH
1395- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
1396 of service under unusual server configurations
1397
1398- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
1399
f765ec36
SK
1400- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
1401 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
fa9b593d 1402
edb1283e
DH
1403- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
1404 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
1405 on every pool rebalance run.
1406
c71c6399
DH
1407- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
1408 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
1409
5279b8f3
DH
1410- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
1411 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
1412
ab3a540f 1413 Changes since 4.0.0a3
763cba6b 1414
884a458f
SK
1415- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
1416 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
1417
fa9b593d
DH
1418- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
1419 point out the problem.
1420
1b5053b5
SK
1421- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
1422 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
1423 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
1424
c886c298
SK
1425- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
1426 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
1427
eaf7eb17
DH
1428- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
1429 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
1430 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
1431
109e00db
DH
1432- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
1433
3ad9d48f
SK
1434- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
1435 fixed by Marcus Goller.
1436
8eab95f2
DH
1437- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
1438 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
1439 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
1440 regardless of the existence of bindings.
1441
07b9a351
DH
1442- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
1443
7285af30
DH
1444- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
1445 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
1446 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
1447 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
1448 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
1449
2394b26b
DH
1450- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
1451
ab3a540f
SK
1452 Changes since 4.0.0a2
1453
97050349
SK
1454- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
1455 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
1456
763cba6b 1457- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
e889ded1 1458
237f8d3a
SK
1459- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
1460 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
1461 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
1462
28868515
SK
1463- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
1464
d00d373a
SK
1465- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
1466 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
1467
8dfd5744
DH
1468- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
1469 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
1470 loaded from persistent storage.
1471
45d545f0 1472- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
0c20eab3
DH
1473 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
1474 necessary.
1475
f800f4f6
SK
1476- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
1477 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
1478 rapid-commit option.
1479
845e9677
DH
1480- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
1481 non-128-bits in length were removed.
1482
76c944da
SK
1483 Changes since 4.0.0a1
1484
71765b58
SK
1485- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
1486 and fix.
1487
847e7000
SK
1488- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
1489
bda33169
SK
1490- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
1491
9b21e73e
SK
1492- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
1493 for when loading configuration.
1494
8da06bb1
DH
1495- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
1496 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
1497 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
1498
dd328225
DH
1499- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
1500 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
1501 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
1502 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
1503
76c944da
SK
1504- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
1505
f796f70a
DH
1506- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
1507 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 1508
c11f349d
EH
1509- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
1510
af5fa176
EH
1511- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
1512
1513- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
1514 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
1515
a546f2a7
EH
1516- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
1517 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
1518
b55d0d5f
EH
1519- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
1520
26be82af
DH
1521- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
1522 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
1523
98bd7ca0
DH
1524 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
1525
d9b43370
SK
1526- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
1527
8c1752d2
DH
1528- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
1529 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
1530
98bd7ca0
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1531- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
1532
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1533- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
1534 initialized.
1535
1536- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
1537
1538- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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1539 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
1540
1541- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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1543- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
1544
1545- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
1546 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
1547
1548- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
1549
8ea19a71 1550- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 1551 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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1552
1553- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
1554 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
1555
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1556- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
1557
1558- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
1559
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1560- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
1561
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1562 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
1563
1564- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
1565 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
1566 no support currently for both.
1567
1568- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
1569 IAADDR option.
1570
1571- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
1572 options.
1573
1574- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
1575
1576- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
1577 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
1578
1579- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
1580 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
1581 specifying type 1 or type 2).
1582
1583- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
1584 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
1585
1586- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
1587 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
1588 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
1589 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
1590 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
1591 differently, they both use the same code here).
1592
1593- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
1594 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
1595 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
1596
1597- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
1598
1599- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
1600 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
1601 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
1602 it should not intercept.
1603
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1604 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
1605
1606- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
1607 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
1608 between primary and secondary.
1609
1610- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
1611 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
1612 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
1613
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1614- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
1615
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1616- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
1617 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
1618 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
1619 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
1620 or REQUEST messages.
1621
1622- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
1623 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
1624
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1625- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
1626
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1627 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
1628
1629- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
1630 failover protected subnets was removed.
1631
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1632 Changes since 3.1.0b2
1633
1634- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
1635 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
1636 odd number of leases).
1637
1638- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
1639 rebalance run, and one after.
1640
1641- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
1642 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
1643 processing these messages.
1644
fe5b0fdd 1645 Changes since 3.1.0b1
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1647- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
1648 objects.
1649
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1650- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
1651 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
1652 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
1653 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
1654 at Allianz.
1655
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1656- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
1657 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
1658
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1659- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
1660 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
1661
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1662- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
1663 caused the server to abort.
1664
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1665- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
1666 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
1667 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
1668
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1669- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
1670 by empty spaces would not get included.
1671
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1672- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
1673 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
1674
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1675- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
1676 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
1677
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1678- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
1679 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
1680
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1681- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
1682 on the parameter request list.
1683
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1684 Changes since 3.1.0a3
1685
1686- Some spelling fixes.
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1688 Changes since 3.1.0a2
1689
1690- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
1691 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
1692
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1693- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
1694 domain-search option syntax.
1695
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1696 Changes since 3.1.0a1
1697
1698- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
1699 hash table was repaired.
1700
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1701- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
1702 entering normal state.
1703
1704- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
1705 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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1706 'xid mismatch' log messages.
1707
1708- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
1709 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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1711- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
1712 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
1713 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
1714 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
1715
45d545f0 1716- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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1717 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
1718 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
1719 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
1720 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
1721 to their needs.
1722
1723- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
1724 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
1725 run will attempt balance.
1726
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1727- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
1728
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1729 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
1730
1731- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
1732 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
1733 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
1734 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
1735
98bd7ca0 1736- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 1737 was introduced.
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1738
1739- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
1740 via OMAPI.
1741
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1742- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
1743 the protocol draft.
1744
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1745- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
1746 one does not already exist on the system.
1747
b43c87ad 1748- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
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1750- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
1751 matches RFC 3074.
1752
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1753- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
1754 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 1755 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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1757- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
1758 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 1759 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
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1761- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
1762 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
1763 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
1764 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
1765
1766- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
1767 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
1768 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
1769 priority over the client's parameter request list.
1770
f7fdb216 1771- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 1772 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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1773 DHCPv6 support.
1774
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1775- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
1776 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
1777 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
1778
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1779- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
1780 have been incorporated.
1781
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1782- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
1783 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
1784 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
1785 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
1786 that belong to the peer in need.
1787
1788- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
1789 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
1790
1791- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
1792 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
1793 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
1794
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1795- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
1796 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
1797
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1798- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
1799 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
1800 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
1801 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
1802 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
1803
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1804- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
1805 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
1806 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
1807 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
1808
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1809- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
1810 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
1811 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
1812 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
1813 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
1814 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
1815 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
1816 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
1817 ignoring this aspect of their request.
1818
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1819- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
1820 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
1821
41e45067 1822- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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1823 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
1824 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
1825 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
1826
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1827- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
1828 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
1829 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
1830 hardware and funding the development.
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1832- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
1833 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
1834 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
1835 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
1836 via Robin Breathe.
1837
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1838- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
1839 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
1840 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
1841 from Christof Chen.
1842
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1843- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
1844 formally supported.
1845
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1846 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
1847
1848- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
1849 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
1850
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1851 Changes since 3.0.5
1852
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1853- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
1854 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
1855 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 1856 they actually received.
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1857
1858- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
1859
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1860- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
1861 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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1862 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
1863 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
c1e6c832 1864
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1865- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
1866
d69fb6a8 1867- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 1868 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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1870- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
1871 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
1872 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
1873 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
1874 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
1875 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
1876 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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1877 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
1878
1879- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
1880 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
1881 'file' field.
02428754 1882
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1883- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
1884 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
1885
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1886- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
1887 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
1888 a patch from Kevin Steves.
1889
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1890- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
1891 from Chris Wagner.
1892
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1893- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
1894 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
1895 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
1896
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1897- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
1898 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
1899 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
1900 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
1901 was set.
1902
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1903- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
1904 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
1905
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1906- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
1907 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
1908 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
1909 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
1910 active ones.
1911
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0a73b7b6 1913
901306d5 1914- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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1915 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
1916 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
1917 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
1918 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
1919
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1920- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
1921 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
1922
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1923 Changes since 3.0.4
1924
1925- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
1926 scopes are actually global has been added.
1927
1928- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
1929 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
1930 known to be damaging.
1931
1932- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
1933 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
1934 balancing).
1935
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1936- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
1937 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
1938 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
1939
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1940- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
1941 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
1942 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
1943
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1944- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
1945 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
1946 more clear now.
1947
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1948- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
1949 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
1950 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
1951 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
1952 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 1953 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
6cbc6629 1954
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1955- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
1956 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
1957
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1958- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
1959 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
1960 made possible.
1961
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1962- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
1963 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
1964 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
1965
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1966- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
1967 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
1968
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1969- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
1970 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
1971 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
1972
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1973- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
1974 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
1975 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
1976 value with the later configured value).
1977
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1978- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
1979 have been named and documented.
1980
1981- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
1982 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
1983 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
1984 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
1985 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
1986 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
1987 write new output.
1988
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1989 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
1990
1991- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
1992 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
1993
1994 Changes since 3.0.4b3
1995
1996- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
1997 mailing list.
1998
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1999 Changes since 3.0.4b2
2000
45d545f0 2001- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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2002 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
2003
2004- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
2005 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
2006
2007- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
2008 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
2009 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
2010 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
2011
2012- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
2013 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
2014 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
2015 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
2016 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
2017 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
2018 transition (properly).
2019
2020- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
2021
2022 Changes since 3.0.4b1
2023
2024- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
2025 STDIN after reading one line.
2026
2027- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
2028 descriptor it opened twice.
2029
2030- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
2031 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
2032 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
2033
2034 Changes since 3.0.3
2035
2036- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
2037 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
2038 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
2039
2040- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
2041 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
2042 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
2043
2044- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
2045 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 2046 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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2047 leases to allocate.
2048
2049- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 2050 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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2051 than the entire block of them.
2052
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2053! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
2054 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
2055 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
2056 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
2057 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
2058 to a patch from infamous42md.
2059
2060! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
2061 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
2062 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
2063 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
2064 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
2065 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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2066
2067- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
2068 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
2069 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
2070
2071- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 2072 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2073
2074- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
2075 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
2076 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
2077 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
2078 transitional states.
2079
2080- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
2081 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
2082 once it detects the old db does not exist.
2083
2084- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
2085 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
2086 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
2087
2088- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 2089 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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2090
2091- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
2092 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
2093
2094- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
2095 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
2096 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
2097
2098- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
2099 patch from 'infamous42md'.
2100
2101- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
2102 repaired.
2103
2104- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
2105 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
2106 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
2107 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
2108
2109- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
2110 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
2111 data.
2112
2113- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
2114 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
2115 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
2116 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
2117 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
2118
2119- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
2120 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
2121 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
2122 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
2123 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
2124
2125- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
2126 has been repaired.
2127
2128- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
2129 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
2130 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
2131 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 2132 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2133
2134- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 2135 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
88cd8aca 2136
45d545f0 2137- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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2138 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
2139 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
2140 move to 3.[01].x.
2141
2142- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
2143 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
2144
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2145 Changes since 3.0.3b3
2146
2147- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
2148 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
2149
2150- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
2151 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
2152 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
2153 workaround.
2154
2155 Changes since 3.0.3b2
2156
2157- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
2158 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
2159
2160 Changes since 3.0.3b1
2161
2162- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
2163 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
2164 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
2165
2166- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
2167 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
2168 dynamic updates were also retouched.
2169
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2170 Changes since 3.0.2
2171
2172- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 2173 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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2174 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
2175
2176- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
2177 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
2178 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
2179 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
2180 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
2181
2182- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
2183 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 2184 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2185
2186- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
2187 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 2188 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2189
2190- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
2191 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
2192 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
2193 Peter Poeml.
2194
2195- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
2196 Dr. Peter Poeml.
2197
2198- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
2199 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
2200 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
2201 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
2202 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
2203 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
2204
2205- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
2206 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
2207 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
2208 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
2209
2210- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
2211 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
2212 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
2213 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
2214
2215- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
2216 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
2217
2218- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
2219 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
2220 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
2221
2222- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
2223 7 bytes, and failover.
2224
2225- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
2226 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 2227 at Red Hat.
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2228
2229- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
2230 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
2231 should work better.
2232
2233- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
2234 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
2235 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
2236
2237- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
2238 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
2239 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
2240
2241 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
2242
2243- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
2244 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
2245
2246 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
2247
45d545f0 2248- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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2249 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
2250 overloading. This was repaired.
2251
2252- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
2253 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
2254 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
2255 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
2256 three chunks to fit.
2257
2258- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
2259 were repaired.
2260
2261- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
2262 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
2263 leak).
2264
2265 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
2266
2267- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
2268 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
2269
2270 Changes since 3.0.2b1
2271
2272- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
2273
2274 Changes since 3.0.1
2275
2276- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
2277 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
2278 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
2279
2280- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
2281 name was not provided by the server.
2282
2283- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
2284 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
2285
2286- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
2287 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
2288
2289- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
2290 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
2291
2292- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
2293
2294- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
2295
2296- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
2297 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
2298 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
2299 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
2300 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
2301
2302- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
2303 the configuration be globally scoped.
2304
2305- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
2306 Farkas.
2307
2308- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
2309 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
2310
2311- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
2312 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
2313
2314- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
2315 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2316
2317- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
2318 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
2319 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
2320 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
2321
2322- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
2323 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
2324 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
2325 respond to POOLREQ messages.
2326
2327- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
2328 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
2329 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
2330
2331- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
2332
2333- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
2334 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
2335 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
2336
2337- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
2338 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
2339 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
2340 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
2341 Fjone and directconnect.no.
2342
2343- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
2344 to Andreas Gustafsson.
2345
2346- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
2347 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
2348
2349- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
2350 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
2351 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
2352 DISCOVER timeout handling.
2353
2354- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
2355 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
2356
2357- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
2358 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
2359 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
2360
2361- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
2362 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
2363 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
2364 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
2365 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
2366 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
2367
2368- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
2369 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
2370 Infoblox.
2371
2372- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
2373
2374- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
2375 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
2376 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
2377 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
2378 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
2379 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
2380 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
2381
2382- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
2383 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
2384 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
2385
2386- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
2387 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
2388 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
2389
2390- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
2391
2392 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
2393
2394- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
2395 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
2396 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
2397 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
2398 systems either.
2399
2400- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
2401
2402- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
2403 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
2404 is false.
2405
2406- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
2407 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
2408
2409- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
2410
2411 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
2412
2413! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
2414 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
2415 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
2416 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
2417 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
2418 both finding and solving the problem.
2419
2420! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
45d545f0 2421 in log_*() functions was evidenced, on some specific platforms where
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2422 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
2423 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
2424 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
2425 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
2426 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
2427 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
2428 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
2429 published version of ISC DHCP.
2430
2431- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
2432
2433- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
2434
2435 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
2436
2437- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
2438 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
2439 Richard Hirst.
2440
2441- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
2442 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
2443 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
2444
2445- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
2446
2447- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
2448 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
2449 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
2450 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
2451
2452- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 2453 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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2454
2455- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
2456 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
2457
2458- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
2459
2460 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
2461
2462- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
2463 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
2464
2465- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
2466 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
2467 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
2468
2469- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
2470 by name was fixed.
2471
45d545f0 2472- Declaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
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2473 longer result in error.
2474
2475- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
2476
2477- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
2478 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
2479 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
2480
2481- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
2482 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
2483
2484- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
2485 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
2486 Blapp.
2487
2488- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
2489 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
2490 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
2491 Martin Blapp.
2492
2493- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
2494 expiry times in failover configurations.
2495
2496- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
2497 Steve G.
2498
2499- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
2500 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
2501
2502- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
2503 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
2504 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
2505 now "unknown-144".
2506
2507- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
2508 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
2509
2510 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
2511
2512- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
2513
2514- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
2515 not be bash.
2516
2517- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
2518
2519- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
2520 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
2521 that errored before will now work properly.
2522
2523- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
2524 names was repaired.
2525
2526- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
2527 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
2528 configuration file.
2529
2530- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
2531 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2532
2533- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
2534 error rather than a null dereference.
2535
2536 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
2537
2538- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
2539
2540- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
2541
2542- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
2543 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
2544
2545- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
2546
2547- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
2548
2549- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
2550 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
2551 self-corrupting lease databases.
2552
2553- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
2554
2555- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
2556 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
2557
2558- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
2559
2560- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
2561
2562- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
2563 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
2564 Ling Gou.
2565
2566- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
2567 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2568
2569- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
2570 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
2571 Ted Lemon for the patch.
2572
2573- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
2574 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
2575
2576 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
2577
2578- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
2579 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
2580
2581- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
2582
2583- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
2584 a memory leak.
2585
2586- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
2587 script.
2588
2589- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
2590
2591- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
2592
2593- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
2594
2595- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
2596
2597- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
2598
2599- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
2600
2601- Increment the hop count when relaying.
2602
2603- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
2604
2605- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
2606
2607- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
2608
2609- Change the type of rbuf_max.
2610
2611- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
2612
2613 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
2614
2615- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
2616 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
2617 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
2618
2619 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
2620
2621- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
2622 to be renewed.
2623
2624- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
2625 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
2626
2627- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
2628 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
2629
2630- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
2631 that two permit lists matched.
2632
2633- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
2634 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
2635
2636- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
2637
2638- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
2639 requested it, contrary to the standard.
2640
2641- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
2642
2643- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
2644
2645- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
2646 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
2647 going to update its A record.
2648
2649- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
2650 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
2651 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
2652 DNS server.
2653
2654- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
2655
2656- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
2657
2658- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
2659 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
2660 NetBSD project).
2661
2662- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
2663 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
2664
2665- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
2666 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
2667
2668- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
2669
2670- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
2671
2672- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
2673 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
2674 failover protocol standard.
2675
2676- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
2677 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
2678 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
2679
2680- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
2681 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
2682 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
2683 do so.
2684
2685- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
2686
2687 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
2688
2689- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
2690
2691- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
2692 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
2693
2694- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
2695 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
2696
2697- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
2698 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
2699 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
2700
2701- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
2702 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
2703 network, merge the two pools.
2704
2705- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
2706 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
2707 fix this bug.
2708
2709 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
2710
2711- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
2712 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
2713
2714- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
2715 the same case.
2716
2717- Additional documentation.
2718
2719- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
2720 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
2721
2722 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
2723
2724- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
2725- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
2726
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2728
2729- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
2730 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
2731 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
2732 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
2733 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
2734
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2736
2737- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
2738 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
2739 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
2740 wasn't the one that removed it.
2741
2742- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
2743 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
2744 were not configured.
2745
2746- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
2747
2748- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
2749 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
2750 routing information.
2751
2752- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
2753 request being sent.
2754
2755- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
2756 done.
2757
2758- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
2759 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
2760 were pending.
2761
2762- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
2763 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
2764 problems with failover.
2765
2766- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
2767 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
2768 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
2769
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2771
2772- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
2773 smash in the subclass allocation code.
2774
2775- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
2776 no object is open, it dumps core.
2777
2778- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
2779
2780- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
2781
2782- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
2783
2784- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
2785 a host object attribute with a null value.
2786
2787 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
2788
2789- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
2790
2791- Fix an obscure core dump.
2792
2793- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
2794 when crucial information is left out.
2795
2796- Log "no free leases" as an error.
2797
2798- Documentation updates.
2799
2800 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
2801
2802- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
2803
2804- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
2805 structure wasn't zeroed.
2806
2807- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
2808 incorrectly.
2809
2810- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
2811 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
2812 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
2813 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
2814 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
2815 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
2816 restarted.
2817
2818 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
2819
2820- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
2821 in failover-enabled pools.
2822
2823- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
2824 declarations).
2825
2826- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
2827 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
2828
2829- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
2830 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
2831
2832- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
2833
2834- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
2835 defined but not referenced by any pools.
2836
2837- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
2838
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2840
2841- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
2842
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2843 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 2
2844
2845- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
2846
2847- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
2848
2849- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
2850
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2851 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 1
2852
2853- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
2854 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
2855 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
2856
2857- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
2858 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
2859 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
2860 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
2861 string.
2862
2863- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
2864
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2865 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8
2866
2867- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
2868 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
2869
2870- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
2871 malformed packets.
2872
2873- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
2874
2875- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
2876 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
2877 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
2878
2879- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
2880
2881- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
2882
2883- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
2884
2885- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
2886 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
2887
2888- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
2889 tcp connections from being played back.
2890
2891- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
2892 on exit.
2893
2894- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
2895
2896- Add some configurability to the build system.
2897
2898- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
2899
2900- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
2901 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
2902 hadn't been noticed until now.
2903
2904 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
2905
2906- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
2907 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
2908
2909- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
2910 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
2911 conformant, but also didn't work).
2912
2913- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
2914 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
2915
2916- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
2917 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
2918
2919- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
2920 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
2921
2922- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
2923 variables to leases via OMAPI.
2924
2925- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
2926 doing failover.
2927
2928- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
2929 running on alpha processors.
2930
2931- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
2932 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
2933
2934- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
2935
2936- Install omshell (including new documentation).
2937
2938- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
2939 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
2940
2941- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
2942
2943- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
2944 actually named (key names are domain names).
2945
2946- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
2947
2948- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
2949 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
2950
2951- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
2952 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
2953
2954- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
2955 statements.
2956
2957- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
2958 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
2959
2960- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
2961 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
2962 operating.
2963
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2964 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 6
2965
2966- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
2967 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
2968 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
2969 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
2970
2971- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
2972 using omapi to manipulate leases.
2973
2974- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
2975
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2976 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
2977
2978- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
2979 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
2980
2981- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
2982 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
2983 to the chain.
2984
2985- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
2986
2987- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
2988
2989- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
2990
98311e4b 2991- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
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2992 attribute values in omshell.
2993
98311e4b 2994- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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2995
2996- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
2997
2998 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
2999
3000- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
3001 DHCPDECLINE.
3002
3003- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
3004
3005- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
3006 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
3007 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
3008
3009- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
3010
3011- Documentation fixes.
3012
3013- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
3014 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
3015
3016- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
3017 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
3018
3019- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
3020
3021- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
3022
3023- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
3024 case-insensitive.
3025
3026- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
3027
98311e4b 3028- If a signature algorithm is not terminated with '.', terminate it so
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3029 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
3030 consistently.
3031
3032- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
3033 systems with the probe not working correctly.
3034
3035- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
3036
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3037 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 3
3038
3039- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
3040 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
3041 result of duplicate leases.
3042
3043- Document OMAPI server objects.
3044
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3045 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Patchlevel 1
3046
3047- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
3048 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
3049
3050- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
3051 core dumps.
3052
3053- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
3054 Friedrich.
3055
3056- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
3057
3058 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
3059
3060- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
3061 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 3062 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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3063 billing class code.
3064
3065- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
3066 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
3067
3068- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
3069 trace file.
3070
79ea3de8 3071 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1 Patchlevel 1
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79ea3de8
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3073- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
3074 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
3075 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
3076 e.g., Digital Unix.
3077
3078- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
3079 when no error had occurred.
3080
3081- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
3082 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
3083 non-communicating state.
3084
3085- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
3086
3087- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
3088 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
3089 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
3090
3091- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
3092 when the client lease expired.
3093
3094- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
3095 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
3096 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
3097 in testing.
3098
3099- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
3100 the command line, it would fail.
3101
3102- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
3103 user impact).
3104
3105- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
3106
3107- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
3108 they're executable.
3109
3110 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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3111
3112- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
3113 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
3114 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
3115 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
3116
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3117- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
3118 Transmeta.
3119
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3120- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
3121 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
3122 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
3123 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
3124
3125- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
3126 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
3127
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3128 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 24
3129
3130- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
3131 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
3132
3133- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
3134
3135- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
3136
3137- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
3138
3139- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
3140
3141- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
3142
3143- Update some parts of the README file.
3144
3145- Support GCC on SCO.
3146
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3148
3149- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
3150 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
3151
3152- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
3153 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
3154 unbill the old class.
3155
3156- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
3157 process the state transition immediately.
3158
3159- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
3160 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
3161
3162- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
3163
3164- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
3165
3166- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
3167
3168- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
3169
3170- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
3171 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
3172 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
3173
3174- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
3175 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
3176
3177- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
3178 lease file.
3179
3180- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
3181
3182- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
2aa36519 3183
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3185
3186- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
3187 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
3188
3189- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
3190
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3192
3193- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
3194
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3196
3197- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
3198
3199- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
3200 pl19.
3201
3202- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
3203 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
3204 past the regression test.
3205
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3207
3208- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
3209 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
3210
3211- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
3212 DHCPREQUEST.
3213
3214- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
3215
3216- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
3217
3218- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
3219
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3222- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
3223 (Damien Neil)
3224
3225- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
3226 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
3227
3228- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
3229 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
3230 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
3231
3232- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
3233 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
3234 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
3235 message.
3236
3237- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
3238 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
3239 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
3240
98311e4b 3241- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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3242 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
3243 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
3244 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
3245 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
3246 this way will work.
3247
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3248- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
3249
3250- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
3251 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
3252 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
3253 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
3254
3255 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
3256
3257 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
3258
3259- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
3260 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
3261 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
3262
3263- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
3264 Hermann Lauer.
3265
3266- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
3267 messages.
3268
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3269- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
3270 it contained quoted strings.
3271
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3272 ** there was no pl17 **
3273
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3276- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
3277 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
3278 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
3279 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
3280 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
3281 tracking down memory leaks.
3282
3283- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
3284 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
3285 Solaris.
3286
3287- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
3288 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
3289 corruption and core dumps.
3290
3291- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
3292 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
3293
3294- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
3295
3296- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
3297 and implemented by Damien Neil.
3298
3299- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
3300 name and version to standard output.
3301
3302- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
3303
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3304- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
3305 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
3306
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3307- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
3308
3309- Lots of documentation updates.
3310
3311- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
3312 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
3313
3314- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
3315
3316- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
3317 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
3318
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3320
3321- Some documentation tweaks.
3322
3323- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
3324
3325- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
3326
3327- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
3328 agent options into them.
3329
3330- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
3331
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3332- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
3333 options.
3334
adbef119 3335 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 14
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3336
3337- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
3338 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
3339 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
3340 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
3341 used in class statements to control address allocation.
3342
3343- Fix up documentation.
3344
3345- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
3346 significantly in a high-demand situation.
3347
3348- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
3349
3350- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
3351
3352- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
3353 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
3354 practical use otherwise.
3355
3356- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
3357 for debugging.
3358
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3360
3361- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
3362 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
3363 dump on some systems.
3364
3365- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
3366 option.
3367
3368- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
3369 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
3370
3371- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
3372 that were not printing enough information.
3373
3374- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
3375 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
3376
3377- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
3378 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
3379 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
3380 were answering.
3381
3382- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
3383 the transition.
3384
3385
adbef119 3386 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 12
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3387
3388- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
3389
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3390 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
3391
3392- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
3393 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
3394 representation from working correctly.
3395
3396- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
3397 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
3398 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
3399 could spin.
3400
3401- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
3402 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
3403
3404- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
3405 interface name on the command line.
3406
3407- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
3408 client state.
3409
3410- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
3411 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
3412 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
3413 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
3414 added by Ted Lemon.
3415
3416- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
3417 be made to log debugging information and other information.
3418
3419- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
3420 end option.
3421
3422- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
3423 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
3424 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
3425
3426- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
3427 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
3428 face of a null hardware address on input.
3429
3430- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
3431 specified unqualified.
3432
3433- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
3434 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
3435
3436- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
3437 RFC.
3438
3439- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
3440
3441- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
3442
3443- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
3444 it works.
3445
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3446 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
3447
3448- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
3449 to CVS.
3450
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3451 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
3452
3453- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
3454
3455- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
3456 in patchlevel 9.
3457
3458- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
3459 options at renewal time.
3460
3461- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
3462 configuration language.
3463
3464- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
3465
3466- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
3467 done when no client hostname was received.
3468
3469- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
3470
3471- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
3472 the DHCP option space.
3473
3474- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
3475
3476- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
3477 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
3478
3479- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
3480 silently dropped.
3481
3482- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
3483 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
3484
3485- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
3486 will be correctly updated.
3487
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3488 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
3489
3490- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
3491 bounds-checking.
3492
3493 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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3494
3495- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
3496
3922772a 3497 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 6
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3499- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
3500 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
3501 possible to exploit it any further than that.
3502
3503- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
3504 option.
3505
3506- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
3507 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
3508 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
3509 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
3510 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
3511 meaningfully.
3512
3513- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
3514 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
3515 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
3516
3517- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
3518 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
3519 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
3520 this one down!
3521
3522- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
3523 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
3524 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
3525 down and fixing this problem.
3526
3527 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
3528
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3529- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
3530 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
3531
3532- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
3533 environment.
3534
3535- Fix suffix operator.
3536
3537- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
3538
3539- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
3540 connection code.
3541
3542- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
3543
3544- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
3545
3546- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
3547 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
3548
3549- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
3550
3551- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
3552
3553- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
3554 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
3555
3556- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
3557 spawn with.
3558
3559- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
3560 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
3561
3562- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
3563 for OMAPI.
3564
3565- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
3566 can install in host declarations.
3567
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3568 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
3569
3570- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
3571 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
3572 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
3573 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
3574 comments)!
3575
3576- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
3577
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3578- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
3579 request for help on this with patches!
3580
3581- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
3582 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
3583 lost, they never reconnect.
3584
3585- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
3586 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
3587
3588- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
3589 dump.
3590
3591- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
3592 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
3593 catching this one.
3594
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3595 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
3596
3597- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 3598 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
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3599 lease renewal time.
3600
3601- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
3602 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
3603 declared without a key.
3604
3605- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
3606
3607- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
3608 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
3609
3610- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
3611 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
3612 determine the maximum size of the response.
3613
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3614 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
3615
359b023e
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3616- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
3617 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
3618
592d8153
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3619- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
3620 RENEWING client.
3621
3622- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
3623
3624- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
3625 using memcmp().
3626
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3627 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
3628
3629- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
3630 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
3631 pointing this out.
3632
3633- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
3634 exit.
3635
3636- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
3637
3638- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
3639 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.