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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
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2 Version 4.3.0b1
3 20 January 2014
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0171be2d 7 NEW FEATURES
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9The major "theme" for ISC DHCP 4.3.x was to update the support for
10DHCPv6 to include several of the features that have been available
11for DHCPv4. These include:
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13- Support the use of classes
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15- Support for on_commit, on_expiry and on_release statements
16
4809ef5c 17- Better logging of address assignments
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19- Support for using DHCPv6 relay options in expressions
20
21This release also adds suppport for the standard DDNS as described in the
22current RFCs as well as enhancing support for dynamically adding and removing
23subclasses via OMAPI.
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25There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
26release, which will be addressed in the future:
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01a54c17 28- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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30- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages, in
31 English. A method to reconfigure or support other languages would
32 be preferrable.
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34- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
35
98bd7ca0 36- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 37 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 38 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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40For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as
41well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the
42README file.
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44ISC DHCP uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please review the
45output of "./configure --help" to see what options are available.
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47The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and may not
48work on other platforms. Please report any problems and suggested fixes to
49<dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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51ISC DHCP is open source software maintained by Internet Systems
52Consortium. This product includes cryptographic software written
53by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com).
54
6980ae03 55 Changes since 4.2.0 (new features)
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57- If a client renews before 'dhcp-cache-threshold' percent of its lease
58 has elapsed (default 25%), the server will reuse the allocated lease
59 (provide a lease within the currently allocated lease-time) rather
60 than extend or renew the lease. This absolves the server of needing
61 to perform an fsync() operation on the lease database before reply,
62 which improves performance. [ISC-Bugs #22228]
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63 Update this patch to support asynchronous DDNS. If the server is
64 attempting to do DDNS on a lease it should be udpated and written to
4809ef5c 65 disk even if that wouldn't be necessary due to the thresholding.
8cd88e20 66 [ISC-Bugs #26311]
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68- The 'no available billing' log line now also logs the name of the last
69 matching billing class tried before failing to provide a billing.
70 [ISC-Bugs #21759]
71
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72- A problem with missing get_hw_addr function when --enable-use-sockets
73 was used is now solved on GNU/Linux, BSD and GNU/Hurd systems. Note
74 that use-sockets feature was not tested on those systems. Client and
75 server code no longer use MAX_PATH constant that is not defined on
3cb6f9bb 76 GNU/Hurd systems. [ISC-Bugs #25979]
32e651c4 77
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78- Add a perl script in the contrib directory, dhcp-lease-list.pl, which
79 can parse v4 lease files and output the lease information in a more
80 human friendly manner. This was written by Christian Hammers with
81 some updates by vom and ISC. This is contributed code and is not
82 supported by ISC; however it may be useful to some users.
83 [ISC-Bugs #20680]
84
a7341359 85- Add support in v6 for on-commit, on-expire and on-release.
4809ef5c 86 [ISC-Bugs #27912]
a7341359 87
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88- Add support for using classes with v6.
89 [ISC-Bugs #26510]
90
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91- Update the DDNS code to current standards and allow for sharing
92 of DDNS entries between v4 and v6 clients. The new code is used
93 if the ddns-update-style is set to "standard", the older code is
94 still available if ddns-update-style is set to "interim". The
95 oldest DDNS code "ad-hoc" has been removed. Thanks to Thomas Pegeot
96 who submitted a patch for this issue. This patch is based on
97 that work with some modifications.
64fb661c 98 [ISC-Bugs #21139]
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100- Add a configuration option to the server to suppress using fsync().
101 Enabling this option will mean that fsync() is never called. This
102 may provide better performance but there is also a risk that a lease
103 will not be properly written to the disk after it has been issued
104 to a client and before the server stops. Using this option is
105 not recommended.
64fb661c 106 [ISC-Bugs #34810]
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108- Add some logging statements to indicate when the server is ready
109 to serve. One statement is emitted after the server has finished
110 reading its files and is about to enter the dispatch loop.
111 This is "Server starting service.".
112 The second is emitted when a server determines that both it and
113 its failover peer are in the normal state.
114 This is "failover peer <name>: Both servers normal."
64fb661c 115 [ISC-Bugs #33208]
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117- Add support for accessing options from v6 relays. The v6relay
118 statement allows the administrator to choose which relay to
119 use when searching for an option, see the dhcp-options man page
120 for a description. The host-identifer option has also been
121 updated to support the use of relay options see the dhcpd.conf
122 man page for a description.
123 [ISC-Bugs #19598]
124
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125- When doing DDNS if there isn't an appropriate zone statement attempt
126 to find a reasoanble nameserver via a DNS resolver. This restores
127 some functionality that was lost in the transition to asynchronous
128 DDNS. Due to the lack of security and increase in fragility of the
129 system when using this feature we strongly recommend the use of
130 appropriate zone statements rather than using this functionality.
131 [ISC-Bugs #30461]
132
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133- Add support for specifying the address from which to send
134 DDNS updates on the DHCP server. There are two new options
135 "ddns-local-address4" and "ddns-local-address6" that each take
136 one instance of their respective address types.
137 [ISC-Bugs #34779]
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139- Add ignore-client-uids option in the server. This option causes
140 the server to not record a client's uid in its lease. This
141 violates the specification but may also be useful when a client
142 can dual boot using different client ids but the same mac address.
08e6dad9 143 Thank you to Brian De Wolf at Cal Ply Pomona for the patch.
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144 [ISC-Bugs #32427]
145 [ISC-Bugs #35066]
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146
147- Extend the DHCPINFORM processing to honor the subnet selection option
148 and take host declarations into account.
149 Thanks to Christof Chen for testing and submitting the patch.
150 [ISC-Bugs #35015]
151
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152- Extend the hardware expression to look into the lease structure
153 for a hardware address if there is no packet. This allows the
154 server to find the hardware address during on-expiry processing.
155 [ISC-Bugs #24584]
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157- Add definitions for some options that have been specified by the IETF.
158 [ISC-Bugs #29268]
159
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160 Changes since 4.3.0b1
161
162- Tidy up receive packet processing.
163 Thanks to Brad Plank of GTA for reporting the issue and suggesting
164 a possible patch.
165 [ISC-Bugs #34447]
166
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167 Changes since 4.3.0a1
168
169- Modify the message displayed when a process hits a fatal error.
170 The new message is much shorter and simply points to the README
171 and our website for directions on bug submissions.
172 [ISC-Bugs #24789]
173
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174- Handle an absent resolv.conf file better.
175 [ISC-Bugs #35194]
176
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177 Changes since 4.2.5
178
d0a10f6a 179- Address static analysis warnings.
9626483b 180 [ISC-Bugs #33510] [ISC-Bugs #33511]
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182- Silence benign static analysis warnings.
183 [ISC-Bugs #33428]
184
c5bc8b1a 185- Add check for 64-bit package for atf.
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186 [ISC-Bugs #32206]
187
188- Use newer auto* tool packages and turn on RFC_3542 support on Mac OS.
189 [ISC-Bugs #26303]
c5bc8b1a 190
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191- Remove a variable when it isn't being used due to #ifdefs to avoid
192 a compiler warning on Solaris using GCC.
193 [ISC-Bugs #33032]
194
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195- Add a check for too much whitespace in a config or lease file.
196 Thanks to Paolo Pellegrino for finding the issue and a suggestion
197 for the patch.
198 [ISC-Bugs #33351]
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199
200- Fix several problems with using OMAPI to manipulate class and subclass
201 objects.
202 [ISC-Bugs #27452]
203
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204- Added a sleep call after killing the old client to allow time
205 for the sockets to be cleaned. This should allow the -r option
206 to work more consistently.
207 [ISC-Bugs #18175]
208
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209- Missing files for ISC DHCP Developer's Guide are now included in
210 the release tarballs. To generate this documentation, please use
211 make devel command in doc directory. [ISC-Bugs #32767]
212
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213- Update client script for use with openwrt.
214 [ISC-Bugs #29843]
215
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216- Fix the socket handling for DHCPv6 clients to allow multiple instances
217 of a client on a single machine to work properly. Previously only
218 one client would receive the packets. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat
219 for the bug report and a potential patch.
220 [ISC-Bugs #34784]
221
47e8308d 222- Added support for gentle shutdown after signal is received.
0895c955 223 [ISC-Bugs #32692] [ISC-Bugs 34945]
47e8308d 224
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225- Enhance the DHCPv6 server logging to include the addresses that are assigned
226 to the clients.
227 [ISC-Bugs #26377]
228
c5905ed0 229- Fix an operation in the DDNS code to be a bitwise instead of logical or.
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230 [ISC-Bugs #35138]
231
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232 Changes since 4.2.4
233
234- Correct code to calculate timing values in client to compare
235 rebind value to infinity instead of renew value.
236 Thanks to Chenda Huang from H3C Technologies Co., Limited
237 for reporting this issue.
238 [ISC-Bugs #29062]
239
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240- Fix some issues in the code for parsing and printing options.
241 [ISC-Bugs #22625] - properly print options that have several fields
242 followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
243 [ISC-Bugs #27289] - properly parse options in declarations that have
244 several fields followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
245 [ISC-Bugs #27296] - properly determine if we parsed a 16 or 32 bit
246 value in evaluate_numeric_expression (extract-int).
247 [ISC-Bugs #27314] - properly parse a zero length option from
248 a lease file. Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski from SUSE for the report
249 and prototype patch for this ticket as well as ticket 27289.
250
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251! Previously the server code was relaxed to allow packets with zero
252 length client ids to be processed. Under some situations use of
253 zero length client ids can cause the server to go into an infinite
254 loop. As such ids are not valid according to RFC 2132 section 9.14
255 the server no longer accepts them. Client ids with a length of 1
256 are also invalid but the server still accepts them in order to
257 minimize disruption. The restriction will likely be tightened in
258 the future to disallow ids with a length of 1.
259 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
260 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
261 [ISC-Bugs #29851]
262 CVE: CVE-2012-3571
263
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264! When attempting to convert a DUID from a client id option
265 into a hardware address handle unexpected client ids properly.
266 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
267 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
268 [ISC-Bugs #29852]
269 CVE: CVE-2012-3570
270
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271! A pair of memory leaks were found and fixed. Thanks to
272 Glen Eustace of Massey University, New Zealand for finding
273 this issue.
274 [ISC-Bugs #30024]
df2c355e 275 CVE: CVE-2012-3954
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277- Existing legacy unit-tests have been migrated to Automated Test
278 Framework (ATF). Several new tests have been developed. To enable
279 unit-tests, please use --with-atf in configure script. A Developer's
280 Guide has been added. To generate it, please use make devel in
281 the doc directory. It is currently in early stages of development,
282 but is expected to grow in the near future. [ISC-Bugs 25901]
283
0b2ec8c9 284! An issue with the use of lease times was found and fixed. Making
03b44855 285 certain changes to the end time of an IPv6 lease could cause the
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286 server to abort. Thanks to Glen Eustace of Massey University,
287 New Zealand for finding this issue.
288 [ISC-Bugs #30281]
289 CVE: CVE-2012-3955
290
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291- Update the memory leakage debug code to work with v6.
292 [ISC-Bugs #30297]
293
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294- Relax the requirements for deleting an A or AAAA record.
295 Previously the DDNS removal code required both the A or AAAA
296 record and the TXT record to exist. This requirement could
297 cause problems if something interrupted the removal leaving
298 the TXT record alone. This relaxation was codified in RFC 4703.
299 [ISC-Bugs #30734]
300
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301- Modify the failover code to handle incorrect peer names
302 better. Previously the structure holding the name might
303 have been freed inappropriately in some cases and not
304 freed in other cases.
305 [ISC-Bugs #30320]
306
d5d868e7 307- Add a configure option, enable-secs-byteorder, to deal with
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308 clients that do the byte ordering on the secs field incorrectly.
309 This field should be in network byte order but some clients
310 get it wrong. When this option is enabled the server will examine
311 the secs field and if it looks wrong (high byte non zero and low
312 byte zero) swap the bytes. The default is disabled. This option
313 is only useful when doing load balancing within failover.
314 [ISC-Bugs #26108]
315
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316- Fix a set of issues that were discovered via a code inspection
317 tool. Thanks to Jiri Popelka and Tomas Hozza Red Hat for the logs
318 and patches.
319 [ISC-Bugs #23833]
320
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321- Parsing unquoted base64 strings improved. Parser now properly handles
322 strings that contain reserved names. [ISC-Bugs #23048]
323
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324- Modify the nak_lease function to make some attempts to find a
325 server-identifier option to use for the NAK.
326 [ISC-Bugs #25689]
327
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328- The client now passes information about the options it requested
329 from the server to the script code via environment variables.
330 These variables are of the form requested_<option_name>=1 with
331 the option name being the same as used in the new_* and old_*
332 variables.
3aa562f8 333 [ISC-Bugs #29068]
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335- Add support for a simple check that the server id in a request message
336 to a failover peer matches the server id of the server. This support
337 is enabled by editing the file includes/site.h and uncommenting the
338 definition for SERVER_ID_CHECK. The option has several restrictions
339 and issues - please read the comment in the site.h file before
340 enabling it.
341 [ISC-Bugs #31463]
342
d5d868e7 343- Tidy up some compiler issues in the debug code.
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344 [ISC-Bugs #26460]
345
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346- Move the dhcpd.conf exmample file to dhcpd.conf.example to avoid
347 overwriting the dhcpd.conf file when installing a new version of
348 ISC DHCP. The user will now need to manual copy and edit the
349 dhcpd.conf file as desired.
350 [ISC-Bugs #19337]
351
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352- Check the status value when trying to read from a connection to
353 see if it may have been closed. If it appears closed don't try
354 to read from it again. This avoids a potential busy-wait like
355 loop when the peer names are mismatched.
356 [ISC-Bugs #31231]
357
d5d868e7 358- Remove an unused variable to keep compilers happy.
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359 [ISC-Bugs #31983]
360
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361- Modify test makefiles to be more similar to standard makefiles
362 and comment out a currently unused test.
56c0e681 363 [ISC-Bugs #32089]
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365 Changes since 4.2.3
366
367! Add a check for a null pointer before calling the regexec function.
dc6908b4 368 Without this check we could, under some circumstances, pass
b95f1ee0 369 a null pointer to the regexec function causing it to segfault.
317d1182 370 Thanks to a report from BlueCat Networks.
b95f1ee0 371 [ISC-Bugs #26704].
846af1cd 372 CVE: CVE-2011-4539
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374! Modify the DDNS handling code. In a previous patch we added logging
375 code to the DDNS handling. This code included a bug that caused it
376 to attempt to dereference a NULL pointer and eventually segfault.
377 While reviewing the code as we addressed this problem, we determined
378 that some of the updates to the lease structures would not work as
379 planned since the structures being updated were in the process of
380 being freed: these updates were removed. In addition we removed an
381 incorrect call to the DDNS removal function that could cause a failure
382 during the removal of DDNS information from the DNS server.
383 Thanks to Jasper Jongmans for reporting this issue.
384 [ISC-Bugs #27078]
385 CVE: CVE-2011-4868
386
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387- Fixed the code that checks if an address the server is planning
388 to hand out is in a reserved range. This would appear as
389 the server being out of addresses in pools with particular ranges.
390 [ISC-Bugs #26498]
391
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392- In the DDNS code handle error conditions more gracefully and add more
393 logging code. The major change is to handle unexpected cancel events
394 from the DNS client code.
cfc49463 395 [ISC-Bugs #26287]
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cfc49463 397- Tidy up the receive calls and eliminate the need for found_pkt.
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398 [ISC-Bugs #25066]
399
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400- Add support for Infiniband over sockets to the server and
401 relay code. We've tested this on Solaris and hope to expand
402 support for Infiniband in the future. This patch also corrects
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403 some issues we found in the socket code.
404 [ISC-Bugs #24245]
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406- Add a compile time check for the presence of the noreturn attribute
407 and use it for log_fatal if it's available. This will help code
408 checking programs to eliminate false positives.
d13db163 409 [ISC-Bugs #27539]
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411- Fixed many compilation problems ("set, but not used" warnings) for
412 gcc 4.6 that may affect Ubuntu 11.10 users. [ISC-Bugs #27588]
413
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414- Modify the code that determines if an outstanding DDNS request
415 should be cancelled. This patch results in cancelling the
416 outstanding request less often. It fixes the problem caused
cfc49463 417 by a client doing a release where the TXT and PTR records
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418 weren't removed from the DNS.
419 [ISC-BUGS #27858]
420
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421- Use offsetof() instead of sizeof() to get the sizes for dhcpv6_relay_packet
422 and dhcpv6_packet in several more places. Thanks to a report from
423 Bruno Verstuyft and Vincent Demaertelaere of Excentis.
424 [ISC-Bugs #27941]
425
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426- Remove outdated note in the description of the bootp keyword about the
427 option not satisfying the requirement of failover peers for denying
428 dynamic bootp clients.
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429 [ISC-bugs #28574]
430
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431- Multiple items to clean up IPv6 address processing.
432 When processing an IA that we've seen check to see if the
433 addresses are usable (not in use by somebody else) before
434 handing it out.
435 When reading in leases from the file discard expired addresses.
436 When picking an address for a client include the IA ID in
437 addition to the client ID to generally pick different addresses
438 for different IAs.
439 [ISC-Bugs #23138] [ISC-Bugs #27945] [ISC-Bugs #25586]
440 [ISC-Bugs #27684]
441
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442- Remove unnecessary checks in the lease query code and clean up
443 several compiler issues (some dereferences of NULL and treating
444 an int as a boolean).
445 [ISC-Bugs #26203]
446
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447- Fix the NA and PD allocation code to handle the case where a client
448 provides a preference and the server doesn't have any addresses or
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449 prefixes available. Previously the server ignored the request with
450 this patch it replies with a NoAddrsAvail or NoPrefixAvail response.
d19fa5a1 451 By default the code performs according to the errata of August 2010
53394a8d 452 for RFC 3315 section 17.2.2; to enable the previous style see the
cfc49463 453 section on RFC3315_PRE_ERRATA_2010_08 in includes/site.h. This option
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454 may be removed in the future.
455 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
456 [ISC-Bugs #22676]
457
cfc49463 458- Fix up some issues found by static analysis.
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459 A potential memory leak and NULL dereference in omapi.
460 The use of a boolean test instead of a bitwise test in dst.
461 [ISC-Bugs #28941]
462
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463- Rotate the lease file when running in v6 mode.
464 Thanks to Christoph Moench-Tegeder at Astaro for the
465 report and the first version of the patch.
466 [ISC-Bugs #24887]
467
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468 Changes since 4.2.2
469
470- Fix the code that checks for an existing DDNS transaction to cancel
471 when removing DDNS information, so that we will continue with the
472 processing if we have a lease even if it doesn't have an outstanding
473 transaction. [ISC-Bugs #24682]
474
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475- Add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to configure.ac to avoid rebuilding
476 configuration files. [ISC-Bugs #24107]
477
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478- Add support for passing DDNS information to a DNS server over
479 an IPv6 address. [ISC-Bugs #22647]
480
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481- Enhanced patch for 23595 to handle IPv4 fixed addresses more
482 cleanly. [ISC-Bugs #23595]
483
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484 Changes since 4.2.1
485
486! In dhclient check the data for some string options for
487 reasonableness before passing it along to the script that
488 interfaces with the OS.
489 [ISC-Bugs #23722]
490 CVE: CVE-2011-0997
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492- DHCPv6 server now responds properly if client asks for a prefix that
493 is already assigned to a different client. [ISC-Bugs #23948]
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495- Add the option "--no-pid" to the client, relay and server code,
496 to disable writing a pid file. Add the option "-pf pidfile"
497 to the relay to allow the user to supply the pidfile name at
498 runtime. Add the "with-relay6-pid-file" option to configure
499 to allow the user to supply the pidfile name for the relay
500 in v6 mode at configure time.
501 [ISC-Bugs #23351] [ISC-Bugs #17541]
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503- 'dhclient' no longer waits a random interval after first starting up to
504 begin in the INIT state. This conforms to RFC 2131, but elects not to
505 implement a 'SHOULD' direction in section 4.1. The goal of this change
73c83820 506 is to start up faster. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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508- Added 'initial-delay' parameter that specifies maximum amount of time
509 before client goes to the INIT state. The default value is 0. In previous
510 versions of the code client could wait up to 5 seconds. The old behavior
511 may be restored by using 'initial-delay 5;' in the client config file.
73c83820 512 [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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514- ICMP ping-check should now sit closer to precisely the number of seconds
515 configured (or default 1), due to making use of the new microsecond
516 scale timer internally to dhcpd. This corrects a bug where the server
517 may immediately timeout an ICMP ping-check if it was made late in the
73c83820 518 current second. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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520- The DHCP client will schedule renewal and rebinding events in
521 microseconds if the DHCP server provided a lease-time that would result
522 in sub-1-second timers. This corrects a bug where a 2-second or lower
523 lease-time would cause the DHCP client to enter an infinite loop by
73c83820 524 scheduling renewal at zero seconds. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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526- Client lease records are recorded at most once every 15 seconds. This
527 keeps the client from filling the lease database disk quickly on very small
73c83820 528 lease times. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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530- To defend against RFC 2131 non-compliant DHCP servers which fail to
531 advertise a lease-time (either mangled, or zero in value) the DHCP
532 client now adds the server to the reject list ACL and returns to INIT
533 state to hopefully find an RFC 2131 compliant server (or retry in INIT
73c83820 534 forever). [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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535
536- Parameters configured to evaluate from user defined function calls can
537 now be correctly written to dhcpd.leases (as on 'on events' or dynamic
538 host records inserted via OMAPI). [ISC-Bugs #22266]
539
540- If a 'next-server' parameter is configured in a dynamic host record via
541 OMAPI as a domain name, the syntax written to disk is now correctly parsed
542 upon restart. [ISC-Bugs #22266]
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543
544- The DHCP server now responds to DHCPLEASEQUERY messages from agents using
545 IP addresses not covered by a subnet in configuration. Whether or not to
546 respond to such an agent is still governed by the 'allow leasequery;'
547 configuration parameter, in the case of an agent not covered by a configured
548 subnet the root configuration area is examined. Server now also returns
549 vendor-class-id option, if client sent it. [ISC-Bugs #21094]
bea17697 550
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551- Documentation fixes
552 [ISC-Bugs #17959] add text to AIX section describing how to have it send
553 responses to the all-ones address.
554 [ISC-Bugs #19615] update the includes in dhcpctl/dhcpctl.3 to be more correct
555 [ISC-Bugs #20676] update dhcpd.conf.5 to include the RFC numbers for DDNS
556
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557- Relay no longer crashes, when DHCP packet is received over interface without
558 any IPv4 address assigned. Also extended logging message about discarding
559 packets with invalid hlen with information about relevant interface name.
560 [ISC-Bugs #22409]
561
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562- Relay now properly logs that packet was received over interface without
563 global IPv6 address [ISC-Bugs #24070]
564
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565- Linux Packet Filter interface improvement. sockaddr_pkt structure is used,
566 rather than sockaddr. Packet ethertype is now forced to ETH_P_IP.
567 [ISC-Bugs #18975]
568
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569- Minor code cleanups - but note port change for #23196
570 [ISC-Bugs #23470] - Modify when an ignore return macro is defined to
571 handle unsed error return warnings for more versions of gcc.
572 [ISC-Bugs #23196] - Modify the reply handling in the server code to
573 send to a specified port rather than to the source port for the incoming
574 message. Sending to the source port was test code that should have
575 been removed. The previous functionality may be restored by defining
576 REPLY_TO_SOURCE_PORT in the includes/site.h file. We suggest you don't
577 enable this except for testing purposes.
578 [ISC-Bugs #22695] - Close a file descriptor in an error path.
579 [ISC-Bugs #19368] - Tidy up variable types in validate_port.
580
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581- Code cleanup: remove obsolete PROTO, KandR, INLINE and ANSI_DECL macros
582 [ISC-Bugs #13151]
583
584- Compilation problem with gcc4.5 and omshell.c resolved. [ISC-Bugs #23831]
a34feb7d 585
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586- Client Script fixes
587 [ISC-Bugs #23045] Typos in client/scripts/openbsd
588 [ISC-Bugs #23565] In the client scripts add a zone id (interface id) if
589 the domain search address is link local.
590 [ISC-Bugs #1277] In some of the client scripts add code to handle the
591 case of the default router information being changed without the address
592 being changed.
593
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594- Documentation cleanup
595 [ISC-Bugs #23326] Updated References document, several man page updates
596
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597- Server no longer complains about NULL pointer when configured
598 server-identifier expression fails to evaluate. [ISC-Bugs #24547]
599
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600- Convert ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to ISC_R_SUCCESS when called from other
601 than the dispatch handler. This fixes an issue where omshell, when
602 run from the same platform as the server, would appear to fail to
603 connect. This is a companion to #21839. [ISC-Bugs #23592]
604
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605- Enlarge the buffer size used by the Omshell code and some of the
606 print routines to allow for greater than 60 characters or, when
607 printing as hex strings, 20 characters. [ISC-Bugs #22743]
608
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609- In Solaris 11 switch to using sockets instead of DLPI, thanks
610 to a patch form Oracle. [ISC-Bugs #24634].
611
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612- Strict checks for content of domain-name DHCPv4 option can now be
613 configured during compilation time. Even though RFC2132 does not allow
614 to store more than one domain in domain-name option, such behavior is
615 now enabled by default, but this may change some time in the future.
616 See ACCEPT_LIST_IN_DOMAIN_NAME define in includes/site.h.
617 [ISC-Bugs #24167]
618
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619- DNS Update fix. A misconfigured server could crash during DNS update
620 processing if the configuration included overlapping pools or
621 multiple fixed-address entries for a single address. This issue
622 affected both IPv4 and IPv6. The fix allows a server to detect such
623 conditions, provides the user with extra information and recommended
624 steps to fix the problem. If the user enables the appropriate option
625 in site.h then server will be terminated
626 [ISC-Bugs #23595]
627
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628! Two packets were found that cause a server to halt. The code
629 has been updated to properly process or reject the packets as
630 appropriate. Thanks to David Zych at University of Illinois
631 for reporting this issue. [ISC-Bugs #24960]
632 One CVE number for each class of packet.
633 CVE-2011-2748
634 CVE-2011-2749
635
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636 Changes since 4.2.0
637
638- Documentation cleanup covering multiple tickets
639 [ISC-Bugs #20265] [ISC-Bugs #20259] minor cleanup
640 [ISC-Bugs #20263] add text describing some default values
641 [ISC-Bugs #20193] single quotes at the start of a line indicate a control
642 line to nroff, escape them if we actually want a quote.
643 [ISC-Bugs #18916] sync the pointer to web pages amongst the different docs
644
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645- 'get-host-names true;' now also works even if 'use-host-decl-names true;'
646 was also configured. The nature of this repair also fixes another
647 error; the host-name supplied by a client is no longer overridden by a
648 reverse lookup of the lease address. Thanks to a patch from Wilco Baan
649 Hofman supplied to us by the Debian package maintenance team.
650 [ISC-Bugs #21691] {Debian Bug#509445}
651
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652- The .TH tag for the dhcp-options manpage was typo repaired
653 thanks to a report from jidanni and the Debian package maintenance
654 team. [ISC-Bugs #21676] {Debian Bug#563613}
655
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656- More documentation changes - primarily to put the options in the dhclient
657 and dhcpd man pages into the standard form. Thanks in part to a patch
658 from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
659 [ISC-Bugs #20264] and parts of [ISC-Bugs #17744] dhclient.8 changes
660
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661- Add code to clear the pointer to an object in an OMAPI handle when the
662 object is freed due to a dereference. [ISC-Bugs #21306]
663
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664- Fixed a bug that leaks host record references onto lease structures,
665 causing the server to apply configuration intended for one host to any
666 other innocent clients that come along later. [ISC-Bugs #22018]
667
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668- Minor code fixes
669 [ISC-Bugs #19566] When trying to find the zone for a name for ddns allow
670 the name to be at the apex of the zone.
671 [ISC-Bugs #19617] Restrict length of interface name read from command line
672 in dhcpd - based on a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
673 [ISC-Bugs #20039] Correct some error messages in dhcpd.c
674 [ISC-Bugs #20070] Better range check on values when creating a DHCID.
675 [ISC-Bugs #20198] Avoid writing past the end of the field when adding
676 overly long file or server names to a packet and add a log message
677 if the configuration supplied overly long names for these fields.
678 Thanks to Martin Pala.
679 [ISC-Bugs #21497] Add a little more randomness to rng seed in client
680 thanks to a patch from Jeremiah Jinno.
681
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682- Correct error handling in DLPI [ISC-Bugs #20378]
683
684- Remove __sun__ and __hpux__ typedefs in osdep.h as they are now being
685 checked in configure. [ISC-Bugs #20443]
686
687- Modify how the cmsg header is allocated the v6 send and received routines
688 to compile on more compilers. [ISC-Bugs #20524]
689
690- When parsing a domain name free the memory for the name after we are
691 done with it. [ISC-Bugs #20824]
692
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693- Add an elapsed time option to the release message and refactor the
694 code to move most of the common code to a single routine.
695 [ISC-Bugs #21171].
696
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697- Two identical log messages for commit_leases() have been disambiguated.
698 [ISC-Bugs #18915]
699
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700- Parse date strings more properly - the code now handles semi-colons in
701 date strings correctly. Thanks to a patch from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
702 [ISC-Bugs #21501, #20598]
703
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704- Fixes to lease input and output.
705 [ISC-Bugs #20418] - Some systems don't support the "%s" argument to
706 strftime, paste together the same string using mktime instead.
707 [ISC-Bugs #19596] - When parsing iaid values accept printable
708 characters.
709 [ISC-Bugs #21585] - Always print time values in omshell as hex
710 instead of ascii if the values happen to be printable characters.
711
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712- Minor changes for scripts, configure.ac and Makefiles
713 [ISC-Bugs #19147] Use domain-search instead of domain-name in manual and
714 example conf file. Thanks to a patch from David Cantrell
715 at Red Hat.
716 [ISC-Bugs #19761] Restore address when doing a rebind in DHCPv6
717 [ISC-Bugs #19945] Properly close the quote on some arguments.
718 [ISC-Bugs #20952] Add 64 bit types to configure.ac
719 [ISC-Bugs #21308] Add "PATH=" to CLIENT_PATH envrionment variable
720
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721- Update the code to parse dhcpv6 lease files to accept a semi-colon at
722 the end of the max-life and preferred-life clauses. In order to be
723 backwards compatible with older lease files not finding a semi-colon
724 is also accepted. [ISC-Bugs #22303].
725
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726! Handle a relay forward message with an unspecified address in the
727 link address field. Previously such a message would cause the
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728 server to crash. Thanks to a report from John Gibbons. [ISC-Bugs #21992]
729 CERT: VU#102047 CVE: CVE-2010-3611
730
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731- ./configure on longer searches for -lcrypto to explicitly link against.
732 This fixes a bug where 'dhclient' would have shared library dependencies
733 on '/usr/lib'. [ISC-Bugs #21967]
4dc5a6b1 734
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735- Handle pipe failures more gracefully. Some OSes pass a SIGPIPE
736 signal to a process and will kill the process if the signal isn't
737 caught. This patch adds code to turn off the SIGPIPE signal via
738 a setsockopt() call. The signal is already being ignored as part
739 of the ISC library. [ISC-Bugs #22269]
740
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741- Restore printing of values in omshell to the style pre 21585. For
742 21585 we changed the print routines to always display time values
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743 as a hex list. This had a side effect of printing all data strings
744 as a hex list. We shall investigate other ways of displaying time
745 values more usefully. [ISC-Bugs #22626]
3004baba 746
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747! Fix the handling of connection requests on the failover port.
748 Previously a connection request from a source that wasn't
749 listed as a failover peer would cause the server to become
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750 non-responsive. Thanks to a report from Brad Bendily, brad@bendily.com.
751 [ISC-Bugs #22679]
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752 CERT: VU#159528 CVE: CVE-2010-3616
753
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754- Don't pass the ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to the omapi signal handlers.
755 Passing it through to the handlers caused the omshell program to fail
756 to connect to the server. [ISC-Bugs #21839]
757
758- Fix the paranthesis in the code to process configuration statements
759 beginning with "auth". The previous arrangement caused
760 "auto-partner-down" to be processed incorrectly. [ISC-Bugs #21854]
761
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762- Limit the timeout period allowed in the dispatch code to 2^^32-1 seconds.
763 Thanks to a report from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
764 [ISC-Bugs #22033], [Red Hat Bug #628258]
765
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766- When processing the format flags for a given option consume the
767 flag indicating an optional value correctly. A symptom of this
768 bug was an infinite loop when trying to parse the slp-service-scope
769 option. Thanks to a patch from Marius Tomaschewski.
770 [ISC-Bugs #22055]
771
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772- Disable the use of kqueue in the ISC library. This avoids a problem
773 between the fork and socket code that caused the dhcpd process to
774 use all available cpu if the program daemonized itself.
775 [ISC-Bugs #21911]
776
c8b189f1 777! When processing a request in the DHCPv6 server code that specifies
45918d36 778 an address that is tagged as abandoned (meaning we received a
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779 decline request for it previously) don't attempt to move it from
780 the inactive to active pool as doing so can result in the server
e8f330a1 781 crashing on an assert failure. Also retag the lease as active
09afca0d 782 and reset its timeout value.
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783 [ISC-Bugs #21921]
784
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785- Removed the restriction on using IPv6 addresses in IPv4 mode. This
786 allows IPv4 options which contain IPv6 addresses to be specified. For
787 example the 6rd option can be specified and used like this:
788 [ISC-Bugs #23039]
789
790 option 6rd code 212 = { integer 8, integer 8,
791 ip6-address, array of ip-address };
792 option 6rd 16 10 2001:: 1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8;
793
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794- Handle some DDNS corner cases better. Maintain the DDNS transaction
795 information when updating a lease and cancel any existing transactions
796 when removing the ddns information.
797 [ISC-Bugs #23103]
798
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799- Some fixes for LDAP
800 [ISC-Bugs #21783] - Include lber library when building ldap
801 [ISC-Bugs #22888] - Enable the ldap code when buidling common
802 The above fixes are from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
803
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804- Modify the dlpi code to accept getmsg() returning a positive value.
805 [ISC-Bugs #22824]
806
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807 Changes since 4.2.0b2
808
809- Add declaration for variable in debug code in alloc.c. [ISC-Bugs #21472]
0d8c3d6e 810
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811 Changes since 4.2.0b1
812
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813- Prohibit including lease time information in a response to a DHCP INFORM.
814 [ISC-Bugs #21092]
1e05d095 815
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816! Accept a client id of length 0 while hashing. Previously the server would
817 exit if it attempted to hash a zero length client id, providing attackers
d122accf 818 with a simple denial of service attack. [ISC-Bugs #21253]
63ff896a 819 CERT: VU#541921 - CVE: CVE-2010-2156
1943bbf8 820
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821- A memory leak in ddns processing was closed. [ISC-Bugs #21377]
822
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823- Modify the exception handling for initial context creation. Previously
824 we would try and clean up before exiting. This could present problems
825 when the cleanup required part of the context that wasn't available. It
826 also didn't do much as we exited afterwards anyway. Now we simply log
827 the error and exit. [ISC-Bugs #21093]
828
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829- A bug was fixed that could cause the DHCPv6 server to advertise/assign a
830 previously allocated (active) lease to a client that has changed subnets,
831 despite being on different shared networks. Dynamic prefixes specifically
832 allocated in shared networks also now are not offered if the client has
833 moved. [ISC-Bugs #21152]
834
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835- Add some debugging output for use with the DDNS code. [ISC-Bugs #20916]
836
600ee619 837- Fix the trace code to handle timing events better and to truncate a file
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838 before using instead of overwriting it. [ISC-Bugs #20969]
839
840- Modify the determination of the default TTL to use for DDNS updates.
841 The user may still configure the ttl via ddns-ttl. The default for
842 both v4 and v6 is now 1/2 the (preferred) lease time with a limit. The
843 previous defaults (1/2 lease time without a limit for v4 and a default
844 value for v6) may be used by defining USE_OLD_DDNS_TTL in site.h
845 [ISC-Bugs #21126]
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847- libisc/libdns is now brought up to version 9.7.1rc1. This corrects
848 three reported flaws in ISC DHCP;
849
850 o DHCP processes (dhcpd, dhclient) fail to start if one of either the
851 IPv4 or IPv6 address families is not present. [ISC-Bugs #21122]
852
853 o Assertion failure when attempting to cancel a previously running DDNS
854 update. [ISC-Bugs #21133]
855
856 o Compilation failure of libisc/libdns due to the use of a flexible
857 array member. [ISC-Bugs #21316]
858
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859 Changes since 4.2.0a2
860
861- Update the fsync code to work with the changes to the DDNS code. It now
862 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
863
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864- When constructing the DNS name structure from a text string append
865 the root to relative names. This satisfies a requirement in the DNS
866 library that names be absolute instead of relative and prevents DHCP
d122accf 867 from crashing. [ISC-Bugs #21054]
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869- "The LDAP Patch" that has been circulating for some time, written by
870 Brian Masney and S.Kalyanasundraram and maintained for application to
871 the DHCP-4 sources by David Cantrell has been included. Please be
872 advised that these sources were contributed, and do not yet meet the
873 high standards we place on production sources we include by default.
874 As a result, the LDAP features are only included by using a compile-time
875 option which defaults off, and if you enable it you do so under your
876 own recognizance. We will be improving this software over time.
877 [ISC-Bugs #17741]
878
3c941d42 879 Changes since 4.2.0a1
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880
881- When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
882 is no longer truncated to one octet.
883
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884- Cleaned up an unused hardware address variable in nak_lease().
885
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886- Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
887 reflect support for prefix delegation.
888
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889- Cleaned up some compiler warnings
890
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891- An optimization described in the failover protocol draft is now included,
892 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
893 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
894 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
895 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
896 entry for each lease.
897
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898- Fix the trace code which was broken by the changes to the DDNS code.
899
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900 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
901
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902- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
903 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 904 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
adbef119 905
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906- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
907 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
908 Cantrell at Red Hat.
909
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910- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
911 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
912
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913- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
914
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915- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
916 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
917 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
918 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
919 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
920 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
921
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922- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
923 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
924 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
925 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
926 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
927 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
928 FQDN options by default).
929
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930- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
931 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
932 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
933 determined lease time) are omitted.
934
98bf1607 935- Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
09afca0d 936 The DHCP server or client can now continue with its processing while
98bf1607 937 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
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938
939- The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
940 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
941 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
942
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943 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
944
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945- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
946
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947- Validate the argument to the -p option.
948
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949- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
950 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
951 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
952 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
953 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
954
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955- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
956
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957- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
958 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
959 had been deleted from configuration.
960
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961- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
962 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
571c38b0 963 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
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964 were being ignored.
965
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966- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
967
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968- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
969 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
970 Nordahl.
971
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972- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
973 dhcpv6 disabled.
974
8d7dca58 975- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 976 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
819186b7 977
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978- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
979 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
980
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981- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
982 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
983 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
984
985- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
986 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
987 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
988 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
989 fewer system calls.
990
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991- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
992 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
993 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
994 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
995 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
996 Christof Chen.
997
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998- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
999 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
1000 and in normal state.
1001
1002- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
1003 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
1004
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1005- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
1006
1007- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
1008 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
1009 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
1010
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1011- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
1012 rather than restarting the listener.
1013
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1014- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
1015 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
1016
1017- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
1018 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
1019 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
1020
350576c5
DH
1021- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
1022 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
1023 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
1024 timeouts).
1025
792156a9
DH
1026- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
1027 in failover state records.
1028
8a4e543b
DH
1029! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
1030 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
1031 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 1032 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
8a4e543b 1033
a1308b64
DH
1034- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
1035 processing a DHCPINFORM.
1036
1b12d999
DH
1037- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
1038 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
1039 last option definition is used.
1040
d453265f
PS
1041- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
1042 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
1043 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
1044
3e29af1e
PS
1045- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
1046 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
1047
b8d45c67
DH
1048- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
1049 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
1050 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
1051 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
1052 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
1053 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
1054
583c1c16
DH
1055- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
1056 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
1057 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
1058 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
1059
e4e3a2ab
DH
1060! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
1061 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
95f5d38c 1062
875e99dc
SR
1063- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
1064 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
1065
2267da84
DH
1066- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
1067 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
1068 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
1069 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
1070 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
571c38b0 1071 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
2267da84
DH
1072 configuration.
1073
cd3f0b9b
DH
1074- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
1075 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
1076
0493fdca
SR
1077- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
1078 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
1079 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
1080 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
1081
95bba8b6
SR
1082- Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
1083 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
1084 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
1085 was always properly set.
1086
adbef119 1087 Changes since 4.1.0b1
ebf076fe
EH
1088
1089- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
1090 be recognized.
61d75ea2 1091
a4ffedd1
DH
1092 Changes since 4.1.0a2
1093
1094- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
1095 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
1096 "abandoned".
1097
6ff3b26d
FD
1098- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
1099
1387545f
DH
1100- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
1101 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
1102
1103- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
1104 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
1105
1106- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 1107 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
1387545f 1108
399d3dbe
DH
1109- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
1110
fbcee149
DH
1111- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
1112 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
1113 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
1114 in future releases.
1115
f1672d89
DH
1116- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
1117 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
1118
236d3a99
DH
1119- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
1120 'dhclient -6' support.
1121
efa5e6b9
DH
1122- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
1123 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
1124 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
1125 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
1126
7d6180be 1127 Changes since 4.1.0a1
edcb5c46
EH
1128
1129- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
1130
51e7687f
EH
1131- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
1132
20210a7b
EH
1133- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
1134 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
1135 only the latter. Fixed.
1136
535485df
EH
1137- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
1138
8fbb55ff
DH
1139- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
1140 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
1141
61220a00
EH
1142- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
1143
c40e954c
EH
1144- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
1145
63971a83
DH
1146- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
1147 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
1148 --enable-early-chroot.
1149
66cebfcb
DH
1150- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
1151 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
1152
f8cbf390
DH
1153- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
1154 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
1155 parameter.
1156
8269561d
DH
1157- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
1158 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
1159
b445a411
DH
1160- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
1161 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
1162
bd72740e
FD
1163- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
1164
9322442f
FD
1165- Merged IA_XX related structures.
1166
8dea7ba7
FD
1167- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
1168
4619c0a2
DH
1169- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
1170
9ac4206a
DH
1171- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
1172 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
1173 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
1174
420d8b3f
FD
1175- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
1176 support.
1177
40ec5f38
DH
1178- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
1179 repaired.
1180
80097764
FD
1181- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
1182
ffbaa880
FD
1183- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
1184
7de20a95
EH
1185- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
1186 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
1187
d352732e
EH
1188- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
1189 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
1190
7d6180be
DH
1191- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
1192 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
1193
1194- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
1195 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
1196 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
1197 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
1198 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
1199 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
1200 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
1201 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
1202 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
1203 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
1204 shared-network.
1205
1206- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
1207 configured option values.
1208
1209- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
1210 support class statements.
1211
dd484ced
DH
1212- Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
1213 selection were repaired.
1214
ecddae64
DH
1215- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
1216 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
1217 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
1218 by the OS.
1219
1220- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
1221 address.
1222
1223- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
1224 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
1225
d104d45b
DH
1226- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
1227
1228- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
1229
1230- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
1231 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
1232
01a54c17 1233 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
3c12f746 1234
6d7f9584
FD
1235- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
1236
4cafb815 1237- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 1238 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
4cafb815 1239
022fe95e
EH
1240- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
1241 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
1242 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
1243
1dcc3612
SK
1244- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
1245 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
1246
aabfa4de
FD
1247- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
1248
0674055a
FD
1249- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
1250 reserved IDs avoided).
1251
b51c785f
FD
1252- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
1253
900405e9
FD
1254- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
1255 carries a rapid-commit option.
1256
96b620e5
FD
1257- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
1258 an empty active lease.
1259
be62cf06
FD
1260- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
1261
01a54c17
EH
1262- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
1263 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
1264 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
1265 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
1266
1267- MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
1268
1269- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
1270 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
1271 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
1272 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
1273 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
1274 Christof Chen.
1275
1276 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
1277
1278- DHCP now builds on AIX.
1279
1280- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
1281 config file but -6 is not specified.
1282
1283- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
1284
1285- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
1286 be more helpful.
1287
1288- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
1289 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
1290 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
1291
1292- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
1293 was repaired.
1294
1295- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
1296 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
1297 been repaired.
1298
1299- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
1300 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
1301 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
1302
49f61135
DH
1303- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
1304 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
1305
41d4652f
DH
1306- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
1307 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
1308 IPv4 address.
1309
2c9bf1f4
DH
1310- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
1311 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
1312 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
1313 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
1314 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
1315
1316- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
1317 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
1318 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
1319
cff9b78f
SK
1320- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
1321
c4d29896
SK
1322- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
1323
57fcb8d9
SK
1324- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
1325 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
1326 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
1327 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
1328 unnecessary logging.
1329
219a65eb
DH
1330- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
1331 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
1332
ffdf3c8c
DH
1333- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
1334 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
1335 is incompatible is printed.
1336
1337- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
1338 a previously undefined option code.
1339
00a002fc
MA
1340- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
1341 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
1342
7e9f7a1b
FD
1343- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
1344 than the year 2000.
1345
e2cfde76
FD
1346- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
1347
cabdb9b1
FD
1348- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
1349
5d89d60f
FD
1350- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
1351
61d75ea2
DH
1352 Changes since 4.0.0b3
1353
1354- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
1355 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
1356 configuration.
76db44f9 1357
e32529a5
EH
1358- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
1359 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
1360
76db44f9
SK
1361- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
1362 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
1363 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
e4a6be15 1364
6f76de58
SK
1365- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
1366 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
1367 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
1368 a requested address.
1369
703873ab
DH
1370- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
1371 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
1372 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
1373 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
1374
1375- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
1376 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
1377 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
1378 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
1379
b024480e
DH
1380- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
1381 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
1382 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
1383
c0216cb7
DH
1384- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
1385 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
1386
1ac57173
FD
1387- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
1388
83835822
DH
1389- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
1390 codes through some conditions.
1391
c54db708
FD
1392- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
1393 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
1394
e5d83524
DH
1395- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
1396 seemingly random values.
1397
821f2dda
DH
1398- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
1399
f8b3c6f4
DH
1400- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
1401 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
1402 one ever has.
1403
b9137d42
SK
1404- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
1405 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
1406 to a REQUEST.
1407
9f1d5a2f
DH
1408- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
1409 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
1410 level.
1411
e4a6be15
DH
1412 Changes since 4.0.0b2
1413
65cf86d7
EH
1414- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
1415
b1d3778c
DH
1416- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
1417 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
1418 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
1419 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
1420 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
1421
bead14ea
DH
1422- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
1423 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
1424 new address.
1425
f765ec36
SK
1426 Changes since 4.0.0b1
1427
75135a3f
EH
1428- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
1429 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
1430 simultaneously on a single interface.
1431
5c2d55c7
EH
1432- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
1433 of service under unusual server configurations
1434
1435- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
1436
f765ec36
SK
1437- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
1438 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
fa9b593d 1439
edb1283e
DH
1440- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
1441 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
1442 on every pool rebalance run.
1443
c71c6399
DH
1444- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
1445 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
1446
5279b8f3
DH
1447- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
1448 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
1449
ab3a540f 1450 Changes since 4.0.0a3
763cba6b 1451
884a458f
SK
1452- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
1453 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
1454
fa9b593d
DH
1455- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
1456 point out the problem.
1457
1b5053b5
SK
1458- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
1459 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
1460 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
1461
c886c298
SK
1462- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
1463 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
1464
eaf7eb17
DH
1465- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
1466 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
1467 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
1468
109e00db
DH
1469- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
1470
3ad9d48f
SK
1471- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
1472 fixed by Marcus Goller.
1473
8eab95f2
DH
1474- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
1475 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
1476 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
1477 regardless of the existence of bindings.
1478
07b9a351
DH
1479- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
1480
7285af30
DH
1481- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
1482 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
1483 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
1484 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
1485 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
1486
2394b26b
DH
1487- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
1488
ab3a540f
SK
1489 Changes since 4.0.0a2
1490
97050349
SK
1491- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
1492 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
1493
763cba6b 1494- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
e889ded1 1495
237f8d3a
SK
1496- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
1497 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
1498 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
1499
28868515
SK
1500- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
1501
d00d373a
SK
1502- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
1503 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
1504
8dfd5744
DH
1505- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
1506 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
1507 loaded from persistent storage.
1508
45d545f0 1509- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
0c20eab3
DH
1510 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
1511 necessary.
1512
f800f4f6
SK
1513- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
1514 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
1515 rapid-commit option.
1516
845e9677
DH
1517- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
1518 non-128-bits in length were removed.
1519
76c944da
SK
1520 Changes since 4.0.0a1
1521
71765b58
SK
1522- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
1523 and fix.
1524
847e7000
SK
1525- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
1526
bda33169
SK
1527- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
1528
9b21e73e
SK
1529- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
1530 for when loading configuration.
1531
8da06bb1
DH
1532- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
1533 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
1534 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
1535
dd328225
DH
1536- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
1537 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
1538 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
1539 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
1540
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1541- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
1542
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1543- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
1544 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
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1546- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
1547
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1548- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
1549
1550- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
1551 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
1552
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1553- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
1554 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
1555
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1556- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
1557
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1558- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
1559 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
1560
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1561 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
1562
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1563- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
1564
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1565- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
1566 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
1567
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1568- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
1569
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1570- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
1571 initialized.
1572
1573- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
1574
1575- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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1576 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
1577
1578- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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1580- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
1581
1582- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
1583 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
1584
1585- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
1586
8ea19a71 1587- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 1588 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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1589
1590- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
1591 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
1592
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1593- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
1594
1595- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
1596
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1597- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
1598
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1599 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
1600
1601- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
1602 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
1603 no support currently for both.
1604
1605- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
1606 IAADDR option.
1607
1608- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
1609 options.
1610
1611- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
1612
1613- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
1614 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
1615
1616- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
1617 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
1618 specifying type 1 or type 2).
1619
1620- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
1621 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
1622
1623- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
1624 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
1625 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
1626 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
1627 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
1628 differently, they both use the same code here).
1629
1630- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
1631 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
1632 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
1633
1634- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
1635
1636- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
1637 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
1638 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
1639 it should not intercept.
1640
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1641 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
1642
1643- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
1644 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
1645 between primary and secondary.
1646
1647- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
1648 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
1649 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
1650
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1651- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
1652
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1653- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
1654 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
1655 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
1656 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
1657 or REQUEST messages.
1658
1659- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
1660 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
1661
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1662- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
1663
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1664 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
1665
1666- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
1667 failover protected subnets was removed.
1668
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1669 Changes since 3.1.0b2
1670
1671- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
1672 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
1673 odd number of leases).
1674
1675- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
1676 rebalance run, and one after.
1677
1678- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
1679 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
1680 processing these messages.
1681
fe5b0fdd 1682 Changes since 3.1.0b1
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1684- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
1685 objects.
1686
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1687- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
1688 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
1689 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
1690 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
1691 at Allianz.
1692
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1693- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
1694 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
1695
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1696- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
1697 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
1698
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1699- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
1700 caused the server to abort.
1701
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1702- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
1703 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
1704 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
1705
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1706- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
1707 by empty spaces would not get included.
1708
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1709- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
1710 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
1711
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1712- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
1713 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
1714
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1715- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
1716 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
1717
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1718- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
1719 on the parameter request list.
1720
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1721 Changes since 3.1.0a3
1722
1723- Some spelling fixes.
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1725 Changes since 3.1.0a2
1726
1727- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
1728 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
1729
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1730- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
1731 domain-search option syntax.
1732
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1733 Changes since 3.1.0a1
1734
1735- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
1736 hash table was repaired.
1737
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1738- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
1739 entering normal state.
1740
1741- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
1742 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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1743 'xid mismatch' log messages.
1744
1745- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
1746 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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1748- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
1749 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
1750 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
1751 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
1752
45d545f0 1753- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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1754 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
1755 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
1756 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
1757 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
1758 to their needs.
1759
1760- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
1761 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
1762 run will attempt balance.
1763
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1764- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
1765
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1766 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
1767
1768- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
1769 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
1770 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
1771 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
1772
98bd7ca0 1773- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 1774 was introduced.
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1775
1776- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
1777 via OMAPI.
1778
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1779- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
1780 the protocol draft.
1781
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1782- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
1783 one does not already exist on the system.
1784
b43c87ad 1785- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 1786
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1787- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
1788 matches RFC 3074.
1789
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1790- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
1791 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 1792 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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1794- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
1795 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 1796 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
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1798- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
1799 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
1800 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
1801 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
1802
1803- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
1804 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
1805 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
1806 priority over the client's parameter request list.
1807
f7fdb216 1808- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 1809 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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1810 DHCPv6 support.
1811
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1812- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
1813 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
1814 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
1815
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1816- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
1817 have been incorporated.
1818
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1819- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
1820 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
1821 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
1822 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
1823 that belong to the peer in need.
1824
1825- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
1826 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
1827
1828- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
1829 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
1830 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
1831
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1832- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
1833 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
1834
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1835- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
1836 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
1837 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
1838 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
1839 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
1840
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1841- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
1842 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
1843 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
1844 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
1845
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1846- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
1847 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
1848 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
1849 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
1850 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
1851 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
1852 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
1853 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
1854 ignoring this aspect of their request.
1855
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1856- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
1857 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
1858
41e45067 1859- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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1860 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
1861 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
1862 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
1863
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1864- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
1865 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
1866 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
1867 hardware and funding the development.
6d103865 1868
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1869- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
1870 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
1871 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
1872 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
1873 via Robin Breathe.
1874
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1875- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
1876 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
1877 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
1878 from Christof Chen.
1879
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1880- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
1881 formally supported.
1882
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1883 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
1884
1885- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
1886 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
1887
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1888 Changes since 3.0.5
1889
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1890- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
1891 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
1892 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 1893 they actually received.
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1894
1895- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
1896
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1897- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
1898 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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1899 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
1900 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
c1e6c832 1901
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1902- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
1903
d69fb6a8 1904- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 1905 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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1907- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
1908 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
1909 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
1910 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
1911 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
1912 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
1913 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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1914 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
1915
1916- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
1917 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
1918 'file' field.
02428754 1919
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1920- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
1921 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
1922
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1923- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
1924 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
1925 a patch from Kevin Steves.
1926
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1927- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
1928 from Chris Wagner.
1929
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1930- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
1931 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
1932 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
1933
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1934- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
1935 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
1936 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
1937 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
1938 was set.
1939
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1940- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
1941 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
1942
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1943- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
1944 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
1945 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
1946 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
1947 active ones.
1948
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0a73b7b6 1950
901306d5 1951- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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1952 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
1953 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
1954 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
1955 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
1956
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1957- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
1958 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
1959
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1960 Changes since 3.0.4
1961
1962- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
1963 scopes are actually global has been added.
1964
1965- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
1966 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
1967 known to be damaging.
1968
1969- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
1970 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
1971 balancing).
1972
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1973- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
1974 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
1975 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
1976
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1977- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
1978 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
1979 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
1980
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1981- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
1982 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
1983 more clear now.
1984
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1985- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
1986 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
1987 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
1988 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
1989 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 1990 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
6cbc6629 1991
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1992- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
1993 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
1994
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1995- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
1996 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
1997 made possible.
1998
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1999- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
2000 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
2001 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
2002
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2003- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
2004 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
2005
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2006- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
2007 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
2008 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
2009
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2010- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
2011 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
2012 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
2013 value with the later configured value).
2014
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2015- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
2016 have been named and documented.
2017
2018- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
2019 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
2020 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
2021 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
2022 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
2023 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
2024 write new output.
2025
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2026 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
2027
2028- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
2029 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
2030
2031 Changes since 3.0.4b3
2032
2033- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
2034 mailing list.
2035
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2036 Changes since 3.0.4b2
2037
45d545f0 2038- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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2039 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
2040
2041- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
2042 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
2043
2044- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
2045 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
2046 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
2047 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
2048
2049- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
2050 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
2051 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
2052 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
2053 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
2054 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
2055 transition (properly).
2056
2057- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
2058
2059 Changes since 3.0.4b1
2060
2061- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
2062 STDIN after reading one line.
2063
2064- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
2065 descriptor it opened twice.
2066
2067- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
2068 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
2069 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
2070
2071 Changes since 3.0.3
2072
2073- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
2074 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
2075 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
2076
2077- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
2078 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
2079 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
2080
2081- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
2082 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 2083 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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2084 leases to allocate.
2085
2086- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 2087 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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2088 than the entire block of them.
2089
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2090! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
2091 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
2092 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
2093 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
2094 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
2095 to a patch from infamous42md.
2096
2097! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
2098 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
2099 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
2100 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
2101 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
2102 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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2103
2104- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
2105 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
2106 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
2107
2108- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 2109 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2110
2111- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
2112 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
2113 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
2114 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
2115 transitional states.
2116
2117- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
2118 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
2119 once it detects the old db does not exist.
2120
2121- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
2122 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
2123 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
2124
2125- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 2126 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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2127
2128- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
2129 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
2130
2131- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
2132 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
2133 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
2134
2135- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
2136 patch from 'infamous42md'.
2137
2138- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
2139 repaired.
2140
2141- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
2142 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
2143 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
2144 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
2145
2146- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
2147 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
2148 data.
2149
2150- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
2151 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
2152 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
2153 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
2154 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
2155
2156- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
2157 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
2158 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
2159 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
2160 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
2161
2162- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
2163 has been repaired.
2164
2165- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
2166 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
2167 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
2168 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 2169 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2170
2171- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 2172 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
88cd8aca 2173
45d545f0 2174- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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2175 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
2176 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
2177 move to 3.[01].x.
2178
2179- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
2180 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
2181
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2182 Changes since 3.0.3b3
2183
2184- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
2185 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
2186
2187- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
2188 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
2189 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
2190 workaround.
2191
2192 Changes since 3.0.3b2
2193
2194- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
2195 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
2196
2197 Changes since 3.0.3b1
2198
2199- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
2200 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
2201 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
2202
2203- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
2204 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
2205 dynamic updates were also retouched.
2206
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2207 Changes since 3.0.2
2208
2209- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 2210 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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2211 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
2212
2213- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
2214 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
2215 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
2216 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
2217 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
2218
2219- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
2220 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 2221 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2222
2223- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
2224 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 2225 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2226
2227- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
2228 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
2229 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
2230 Peter Poeml.
2231
2232- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
2233 Dr. Peter Poeml.
2234
2235- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
2236 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
2237 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
2238 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
2239 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
2240 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
2241
2242- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
2243 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
2244 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
2245 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
2246
2247- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
2248 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
2249 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
2250 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
2251
2252- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
2253 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
2254
2255- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
2256 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
2257 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
2258
2259- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
2260 7 bytes, and failover.
2261
2262- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
2263 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 2264 at Red Hat.
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2265
2266- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
2267 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
2268 should work better.
2269
2270- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
2271 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
2272 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
2273
2274- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
2275 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
2276 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
2277
2278 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
2279
2280- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
2281 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
2282
2283 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
2284
45d545f0 2285- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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2286 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
2287 overloading. This was repaired.
2288
2289- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
2290 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
2291 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
2292 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
2293 three chunks to fit.
2294
2295- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
2296 were repaired.
2297
2298- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
2299 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
2300 leak).
2301
2302 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
2303
2304- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
2305 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
2306
2307 Changes since 3.0.2b1
2308
2309- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
2310
2311 Changes since 3.0.1
2312
2313- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
2314 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
2315 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
2316
2317- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
2318 name was not provided by the server.
2319
2320- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
2321 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
2322
2323- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
2324 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
2325
2326- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
2327 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
2328
2329- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
2330
2331- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
2332
2333- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
2334 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
2335 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
2336 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
2337 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
2338
2339- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
2340 the configuration be globally scoped.
2341
2342- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
2343 Farkas.
2344
2345- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
2346 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
2347
2348- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
2349 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
2350
2351- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
2352 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2353
2354- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
2355 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
2356 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
2357 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
2358
2359- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
2360 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
2361 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
2362 respond to POOLREQ messages.
2363
2364- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
2365 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
2366 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
2367
2368- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
2369
2370- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
2371 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
2372 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
2373
2374- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
2375 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
2376 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
2377 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
2378 Fjone and directconnect.no.
2379
2380- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
2381 to Andreas Gustafsson.
2382
2383- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
2384 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
2385
2386- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
2387 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
2388 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
2389 DISCOVER timeout handling.
2390
2391- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
2392 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
2393
2394- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
2395 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
2396 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
2397
2398- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
2399 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
2400 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
2401 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
2402 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
2403 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
2404
2405- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
2406 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
2407 Infoblox.
2408
2409- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
2410
2411- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
2412 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
2413 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
2414 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
2415 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
2416 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
2417 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
2418
2419- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
2420 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
2421 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
2422
2423- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
2424 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
2425 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
2426
2427- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
2428
2429 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
2430
2431- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
2432 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
2433 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
2434 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
2435 systems either.
2436
2437- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
2438
2439- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
2440 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
2441 is false.
2442
2443- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
2444 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
2445
2446- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
2447
2448 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
2449
2450! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
2451 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
2452 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
2453 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
2454 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
2455 both finding and solving the problem.
2456
2457! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
45d545f0 2458 in log_*() functions was evidenced, on some specific platforms where
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2459 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
2460 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
2461 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
2462 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
2463 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
2464 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
2465 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
2466 published version of ISC DHCP.
2467
2468- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
2469
2470- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
2471
2472 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
2473
2474- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
2475 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
2476 Richard Hirst.
2477
2478- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
2479 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
2480 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
2481
2482- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
2483
2484- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
2485 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
2486 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
2487 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
2488
2489- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 2490 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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2491
2492- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
2493 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
2494
2495- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
2496
2497 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
2498
2499- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
2500 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
2501
2502- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
2503 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
2504 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
2505
2506- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
2507 by name was fixed.
2508
45d545f0 2509- Declaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
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2510 longer result in error.
2511
2512- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
2513
2514- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
2515 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
2516 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
2517
2518- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
2519 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
2520
2521- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
2522 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
2523 Blapp.
2524
2525- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
2526 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
2527 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
2528 Martin Blapp.
2529
2530- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
2531 expiry times in failover configurations.
2532
2533- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
2534 Steve G.
2535
2536- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
2537 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
2538
2539- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
2540 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
2541 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
2542 now "unknown-144".
2543
2544- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
2545 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
2546
2547 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
2548
2549- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
2550
2551- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
2552 not be bash.
2553
2554- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
2555
2556- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
2557 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
2558 that errored before will now work properly.
2559
2560- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
2561 names was repaired.
2562
2563- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
2564 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
2565 configuration file.
2566
2567- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
2568 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2569
2570- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
2571 error rather than a null dereference.
2572
2573 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
2574
2575- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
2576
2577- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
2578
2579- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
2580 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
2581
2582- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
2583
2584- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
2585
2586- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
2587 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
2588 self-corrupting lease databases.
2589
2590- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
2591
2592- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
2593 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
2594
2595- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
2596
2597- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
2598
2599- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
2600 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
2601 Ling Gou.
2602
2603- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
2604 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2605
2606- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
2607 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
2608 Ted Lemon for the patch.
2609
2610- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
2611 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
2612
2613 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
2614
2615- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
2616 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
2617
2618- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
2619
2620- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
2621 a memory leak.
2622
2623- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
2624 script.
2625
2626- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
2627
2628- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
2629
2630- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
2631
2632- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
2633
2634- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
2635
2636- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
2637
2638- Increment the hop count when relaying.
2639
2640- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
2641
2642- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
2643
2644- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
2645
2646- Change the type of rbuf_max.
2647
2648- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
2649
2650 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
2651
2652- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
2653 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
2654 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
2655
2656 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
2657
2658- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
2659 to be renewed.
2660
2661- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
2662 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
2663
2664- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
2665 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
2666
2667- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
2668 that two permit lists matched.
2669
2670- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
2671 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
2672
2673- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
2674
2675- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
2676 requested it, contrary to the standard.
2677
2678- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
2679
2680- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
2681
2682- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
2683 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
2684 going to update its A record.
2685
2686- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
2687 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
2688 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
2689 DNS server.
2690
2691- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
2692
2693- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
2694
2695- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
2696 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
2697 NetBSD project).
2698
2699- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
2700 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
2701
2702- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
2703 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
2704
2705- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
2706
2707- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
2708
2709- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
2710 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
2711 failover protocol standard.
2712
2713- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
2714 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
2715 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
2716
2717- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
2718 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
2719 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
2720 do so.
2721
2722- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
2723
2724 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
2725
2726- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
2727
2728- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
2729 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
2730
2731- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
2732 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
2733
2734- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
2735 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
2736 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
2737
2738- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
2739 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
2740 network, merge the two pools.
2741
2742- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
2743 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
2744 fix this bug.
2745
2746 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
2747
2748- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
2749 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
2750
2751- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
2752 the same case.
2753
2754- Additional documentation.
2755
2756- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
2757 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
2758
2759 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
2760
2761- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
2762- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
2763
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2765
2766- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
2767 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
2768 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
2769 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
2770 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
2771
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2773
2774- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
2775 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
2776 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
2777 wasn't the one that removed it.
2778
2779- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
2780 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
2781 were not configured.
2782
2783- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
2784
2785- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
2786 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
2787 routing information.
2788
2789- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
2790 request being sent.
2791
2792- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
2793 done.
2794
2795- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
2796 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
2797 were pending.
2798
2799- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
2800 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
2801 problems with failover.
2802
2803- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
2804 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
2805 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
2806
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2808
2809- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
2810 smash in the subclass allocation code.
2811
2812- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
2813 no object is open, it dumps core.
2814
2815- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
2816
2817- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
2818
2819- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
2820
2821- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
2822 a host object attribute with a null value.
2823
2824 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
2825
2826- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
2827
2828- Fix an obscure core dump.
2829
2830- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
2831 when crucial information is left out.
2832
2833- Log "no free leases" as an error.
2834
2835- Documentation updates.
2836
2837 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
2838
2839- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
2840
2841- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
2842 structure wasn't zeroed.
2843
2844- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
2845 incorrectly.
2846
2847- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
2848 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
2849 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
2850 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
2851 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
2852 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
2853 restarted.
2854
2855 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
2856
2857- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
2858 in failover-enabled pools.
2859
2860- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
2861 declarations).
2862
2863- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
2864 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
2865
2866- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
2867 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
2868
2869- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
2870
2871- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
2872 defined but not referenced by any pools.
2873
2874- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
2875
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2877
2878- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
2879
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2880 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 2
2881
2882- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
2883
2884- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
2885
2886- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
2887
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2888 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 1
2889
2890- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
2891 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
2892 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
2893
2894- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
2895 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
2896 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
2897 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
2898 string.
2899
2900- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
2901
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2902 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8
2903
2904- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
2905 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
2906
2907- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
2908 malformed packets.
2909
2910- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
2911
2912- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
2913 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
2914 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
2915
2916- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
2917
2918- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
2919
2920- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
2921
2922- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
2923 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
2924
2925- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
2926 tcp connections from being played back.
2927
2928- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
2929 on exit.
2930
2931- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
2932
2933- Add some configurability to the build system.
2934
2935- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
2936
2937- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
2938 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
2939 hadn't been noticed until now.
2940
2941 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
2942
2943- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
2944 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
2945
2946- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
2947 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
2948 conformant, but also didn't work).
2949
2950- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
2951 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
2952
2953- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
2954 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
2955
2956- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
2957 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
2958
2959- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
2960 variables to leases via OMAPI.
2961
2962- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
2963 doing failover.
2964
2965- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
2966 running on alpha processors.
2967
2968- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
2969 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
2970
2971- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
2972
2973- Install omshell (including new documentation).
2974
2975- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
2976 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
2977
2978- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
2979
2980- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
2981 actually named (key names are domain names).
2982
2983- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
2984
2985- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
2986 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
2987
2988- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
2989 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
2990
2991- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
2992 statements.
2993
2994- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
2995 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
2996
2997- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
2998 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
2999 operating.
3000
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3001 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 6
3002
3003- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
3004 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
3005 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
3006 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
3007
3008- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
3009 using omapi to manipulate leases.
3010
3011- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
3012
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3013 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
3014
3015- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
3016 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
3017
3018- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
3019 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
3020 to the chain.
3021
3022- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
3023
3024- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
3025
3026- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
3027
98311e4b 3028- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
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3029 attribute values in omshell.
3030
98311e4b 3031- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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3032
3033- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
3034
3035 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
3036
3037- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
3038 DHCPDECLINE.
3039
3040- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
3041
3042- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
3043 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
3044 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
3045
3046- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
3047
3048- Documentation fixes.
3049
3050- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
3051 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
3052
3053- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
3054 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
3055
3056- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
3057
3058- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
3059
3060- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
3061 case-insensitive.
3062
3063- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
3064
98311e4b 3065- If a signature algorithm is not terminated with '.', terminate it so
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3066 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
3067 consistently.
3068
3069- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
3070 systems with the probe not working correctly.
3071
3072- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
3073
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3074 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 3
3075
3076- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
3077 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
3078 result of duplicate leases.
3079
3080- Document OMAPI server objects.
3081
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3082 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Patchlevel 1
3083
3084- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
3085 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
3086
3087- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
3088 core dumps.
3089
3090- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
3091 Friedrich.
3092
3093- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
3094
3095 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
3096
3097- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
3098 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 3099 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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3100 billing class code.
3101
3102- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
3103 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
3104
3105- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
3106 trace file.
3107
79ea3de8 3108 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1 Patchlevel 1
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3110- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
3111 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
3112 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
3113 e.g., Digital Unix.
3114
3115- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
3116 when no error had occurred.
3117
3118- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
3119 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
3120 non-communicating state.
3121
3122- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
3123
3124- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
3125 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
3126 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
3127
3128- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
3129 when the client lease expired.
3130
3131- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
3132 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
3133 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
3134 in testing.
3135
3136- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
3137 the command line, it would fail.
3138
3139- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
3140 user impact).
3141
3142- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
3143
3144- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
3145 they're executable.
3146
3147 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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3148
3149- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
3150 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
3151 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
3152 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
3153
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3154- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
3155 Transmeta.
3156
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3157- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
3158 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
3159 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
3160 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
3161
3162- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
3163 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
3164
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3165 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 24
3166
3167- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
3168 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
3169
3170- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
3171
3172- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
3173
3174- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
3175
3176- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
3177
3178- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
3179
3180- Update some parts of the README file.
3181
3182- Support GCC on SCO.
3183
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3185
3186- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
3187 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
3188
3189- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
3190 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
3191 unbill the old class.
3192
3193- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
3194 process the state transition immediately.
3195
3196- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
3197 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
3198
3199- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
3200
3201- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
3202
3203- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
3204
3205- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
3206
3207- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
3208 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
3209 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
3210
3211- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
3212 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
3213
3214- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
3215 lease file.
3216
3217- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
3218
3219- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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3222
3223- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
3224 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
3225
3226- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
3227
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3229
3230- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
3231
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3233
3234- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
3235
3236- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
3237 pl19.
3238
3239- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
3240 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
3241 past the regression test.
3242
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3244
3245- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
3246 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
3247
3248- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
3249 DHCPREQUEST.
3250
3251- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
3252
3253- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
3254
3255- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
3256
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3259- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
3260 (Damien Neil)
3261
3262- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
3263 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
3264
3265- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
3266 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
3267 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
3268
3269- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
3270 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
3271 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
3272 message.
3273
3274- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
3275 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
3276 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
3277
98311e4b 3278- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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3279 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
3280 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
3281 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
3282 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
3283 this way will work.
3284
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3285- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
3286
3287- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
3288 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
3289 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
3290 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
3291
3292 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
3293
3294 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
3295
3296- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
3297 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
3298 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
3299
3300- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
3301 Hermann Lauer.
3302
3303- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
3304 messages.
3305
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3306- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
3307 it contained quoted strings.
3308
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3309 ** there was no pl17 **
3310
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3313- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
3314 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
3315 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
3316 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
3317 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
3318 tracking down memory leaks.
3319
3320- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
3321 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
3322 Solaris.
3323
3324- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
3325 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
3326 corruption and core dumps.
3327
3328- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
3329 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
3330
3331- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
3332
3333- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
3334 and implemented by Damien Neil.
3335
3336- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
3337 name and version to standard output.
3338
3339- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
3340
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3341- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
3342 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
3343
6da9db9d
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3344- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
3345
3346- Lots of documentation updates.
3347
3348- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
3349 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
3350
3351- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
3352
3353- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
3354 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
3355
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3357
3358- Some documentation tweaks.
3359
3360- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
3361
3362- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
3363
3364- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
3365 agent options into them.
3366
3367- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
3368
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3369- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
3370 options.
3371
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3373
3374- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
3375 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
3376 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
3377 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
3378 used in class statements to control address allocation.
3379
3380- Fix up documentation.
3381
3382- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
3383 significantly in a high-demand situation.
3384
3385- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
3386
3387- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
3388
3389- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
3390 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
3391 practical use otherwise.
3392
3393- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
3394 for debugging.
3395
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3397
3398- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
3399 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
3400 dump on some systems.
3401
3402- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
3403 option.
3404
3405- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
3406 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
3407
3408- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
3409 that were not printing enough information.
3410
3411- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
3412 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
3413
3414- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
3415 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
3416 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
3417 were answering.
3418
3419- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
3420 the transition.
3421
3422
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3424
3425- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
3426
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3427 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
3428
3429- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
3430 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
3431 representation from working correctly.
3432
3433- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
3434 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
3435 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
3436 could spin.
3437
3438- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
3439 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
3440
3441- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
3442 interface name on the command line.
3443
3444- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
3445 client state.
3446
3447- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
3448 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
3449 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
3450 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
3451 added by Ted Lemon.
3452
3453- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
3454 be made to log debugging information and other information.
3455
3456- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
3457 end option.
3458
3459- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
3460 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
3461 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
3462
3463- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
3464 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
3465 face of a null hardware address on input.
3466
3467- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
3468 specified unqualified.
3469
3470- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
3471 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
3472
3473- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
3474 RFC.
3475
3476- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
3477
3478- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
3479
3480- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
3481 it works.
3482
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3483 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
3484
3485- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
3486 to CVS.
3487
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3488 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
3489
3490- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
3491
3492- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
3493 in patchlevel 9.
3494
3495- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
3496 options at renewal time.
3497
3498- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
3499 configuration language.
3500
3501- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
3502
3503- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
3504 done when no client hostname was received.
3505
3506- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
3507
3508- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
3509 the DHCP option space.
3510
3511- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
3512
3513- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
3514 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
3515
3516- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
3517 silently dropped.
3518
3519- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
3520 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
3521
3522- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
3523 will be correctly updated.
3524
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3525 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
3526
3527- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
3528 bounds-checking.
3529
3530 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
848c2547
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3531
3532- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
3533
3922772a 3534 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 6
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3536- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
3537 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
3538 possible to exploit it any further than that.
3539
3540- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
3541 option.
3542
3543- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
3544 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
3545 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
3546 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
3547 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
3548 meaningfully.
3549
3550- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
3551 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
3552 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
3553
3554- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
3555 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
3556 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
3557 this one down!
3558
3559- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
3560 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
3561 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
3562 down and fixing this problem.
3563
3564 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
3565
0f6045f8
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3566- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
3567 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
3568
3569- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
3570 environment.
3571
3572- Fix suffix operator.
3573
3574- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
3575
3576- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
3577 connection code.
3578
3579- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
3580
3581- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
3582
3583- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
3584 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
3585
3586- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
3587
3588- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
3589
3590- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
3591 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
3592
3593- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
3594 spawn with.
3595
3596- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
3597 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
3598
3599- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
3600 for OMAPI.
3601
3602- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
3603 can install in host declarations.
3604
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3605 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
3606
3607- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
3608 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
3609 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
3610 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
3611 comments)!
3612
3613- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
3614
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3615- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
3616 request for help on this with patches!
3617
3618- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
3619 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
3620 lost, they never reconnect.
3621
3622- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
3623 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
3624
3625- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
3626 dump.
3627
3628- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
3629 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
3630 catching this one.
3631
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3632 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
3633
3634- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 3635 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
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3636 lease renewal time.
3637
3638- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
3639 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
3640 declared without a key.
3641
3642- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
3643
3644- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
3645 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
3646
3647- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
3648 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
3649 determine the maximum size of the response.
3650
592d8153
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3651 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
3652
359b023e
TL
3653- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
3654 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
3655
592d8153
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3656- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
3657 RENEWING client.
3658
3659- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
3660
3661- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
3662 using memcmp().
3663
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3664 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
3665
3666- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
3667 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
3668 pointing this out.
3669
3670- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
3671 exit.
3672
3673- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
3674
3675- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
3676 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.