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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
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2 Version 4.2.0
3 21 December 2012
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0171be2d 5 Release Notes
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0171be2d 7 NEW FEATURES
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9ISC DHCP 4.2.x includes features that were not included in DHCP 4.1.x.
10These include:
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12Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
13The DHCP server or client can now continue with it's processing while
14awaiting replies from the DNS server.
15
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16There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
17release, which will be addressed in the future:
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01a54c17 19- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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21- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages, in
22 English. A method to reconfigure or support other languages would
23 be preferrable.
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24
25- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
26
98bd7ca0 27- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 28 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 29 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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31For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as
32well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the
33README file.
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35ISC DHCP uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please review the
36output of "./configure --help" to see what options are available.
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38The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and may not
39work on other platforms. Please report any problems and suggested fixes to
40<dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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42 Changes since 4.2.0
43
44- Documentation cleanup covering multiple tickets
45 [ISC-Bugs #20265] [ISC-Bugs #20259] minor cleanup
46 [ISC-Bugs #20263] add text describing some default values
47 [ISC-Bugs #20193] single quotes at the start of a line indicate a control
48 line to nroff, escape them if we actually want a quote.
49 [ISC-Bugs #18916] sync the pointer to web pages amongst the different docs
50
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51- 'get-host-names true;' now also works even if 'use-host-decl-names true;'
52 was also configured. The nature of this repair also fixes another
53 error; the host-name supplied by a client is no longer overridden by a
54 reverse lookup of the lease address. Thanks to a patch from Wilco Baan
55 Hofman supplied to us by the Debian package maintenance team.
56 [ISC-Bugs #21691] {Debian Bug#509445}
57
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58- The .TH tag for the dhcp-options manpage was typo repaired
59 thanks to a report from jidanni and the Debian package maintenance
60 team. [ISC-Bugs #21676] {Debian Bug#563613}
61
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62- More documentation changes - primarily to put the options in the dhclient
63 and dhcpd man pages into the standard form. Thanks in part to a patch
64 from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
65 [ISC-Bugs #20264] and parts of [ISC-Bugs #17744] dhclient.8 changes
66
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67- Add code to clear the pointer to an object in an OMAPI handle when the
68 object is freed due to a dereference. [ISC-Bugs #21306]
69
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70- Fixed a bug that leaks host record references onto lease structures,
71 causing the server to apply configuration intended for one host to any
72 other innocent clients that come along later. [ISC-Bugs #22018]
73
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74- Minor code fixes
75 [ISC-Bugs #19566] When trying to find the zone for a name for ddns allow
76 the name to be at the apex of the zone.
77 [ISC-Bugs #19617] Restrict length of interface name read from command line
78 in dhcpd - based on a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
79 [ISC-Bugs #20039] Correct some error messages in dhcpd.c
80 [ISC-Bugs #20070] Better range check on values when creating a DHCID.
81 [ISC-Bugs #20198] Avoid writing past the end of the field when adding
82 overly long file or server names to a packet and add a log message
83 if the configuration supplied overly long names for these fields.
84 Thanks to Martin Pala.
85 [ISC-Bugs #21497] Add a little more randomness to rng seed in client
86 thanks to a patch from Jeremiah Jinno.
87
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88- Correct error handling in DLPI [ISC-Bugs #20378]
89
90- Remove __sun__ and __hpux__ typedefs in osdep.h as they are now being
91 checked in configure. [ISC-Bugs #20443]
92
93- Modify how the cmsg header is allocated the v6 send and received routines
94 to compile on more compilers. [ISC-Bugs #20524]
95
96- When parsing a domain name free the memory for the name after we are
97 done with it. [ISC-Bugs #20824]
98
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99- Add an elapsed time option to the release message and refactor the
100 code to move most of the common code to a single routine.
101 [ISC-Bugs #21171].
102
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103- Two identical log messages for commit_leases() have been disambiguated.
104 [ISC-Bugs #18915]
105
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106- Parse date strings more properly - the code now handles semi-colons in
107 date strings correctly. Thanks to a patch from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
108 [ISC-Bugs #21501, #20598]
109
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110- Fixes to lease input and output.
111 [ISC-Bugs #20418] - Some systems don't support the "%s" argument to
112 strftime, paste together the same string using mktime instead.
113 [ISC-Bugs #19596] - When parsing iaid values accept printable
114 characters.
115 [ISC-Bugs #21585] - Always print time values in omshell as hex
116 instead of ascii if the values happen to be printable characters.
117
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118- Minor changes for scripts, configure.ac and Makefiles
119 [ISC-Bugs #19147] Use domain-search instead of domain-name in manual and
120 example conf file. Thanks to a patch from David Cantrell
121 at Red Hat.
122 [ISC-Bugs #19761] Restore address when doing a rebind in DHCPv6
123 [ISC-Bugs #19945] Properly close the quote on some arguments.
124 [ISC-Bugs #20952] Add 64 bit types to configure.ac
125 [ISC-Bugs #21308] Add "PATH=" to CLIENT_PATH envrionment variable
126
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127- Update the code to parse dhcpv6 lease files to accept a semi-colon at
128 the end of the max-life and preferred-life clauses. In order to be
129 backwards compatible with older lease files not finding a semi-colon
130 is also accepted. [ISC-Bugs #22303].
131
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132! Handle a relay forward message with an unspecified address in the
133 link address field. Previously such a message would cause the
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134 server to crash. Thanks to a report from John Gibbons. [ISC-Bugs #21992]
135 CERT: VU#102047 CVE: CVE-2010-3611
136
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137- ./configure on longer searches for -lcrypto to explicitly link against.
138 This fixes a bug where 'dhclient' would have shared library dependencies
139 on '/usr/lib'. [ISC-Bugs #21967]
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141- Handle pipe failures more gracefully. Some OSes pass a SIGPIPE
142 signal to a process and will kill the process if the signal isn't
143 caught. This patch adds code to turn off the SIGPIPE signal via
144 a setsockopt() call. The signal is already being ignored as part
145 of the ISC library. [ISC-Bugs #22269]
146
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147- Restore printing of values in omshell to the style pre 21585. For
148 21585 we changed the print routines to always display time values
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149 as a hex list. This had a side effect of printing all data strings
150 as a hex list. We shall investigate other ways of displaying time
151 values more usefully. [ISC-Bugs #22626]
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153! Fix the handling of connection requests on the failover port.
154 Previously a connection request from a source that wasn't
155 listed as a failover peer would cause the server to become
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156 non-responsive. Thanks to a report from Brad Bendily, brad@bendily.com.
157 [ISC-Bugs #22679]
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158 CERT: VU#159528 CVE: CVE-2010-3616
159
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160- Don't pass the ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to the omapi signal handlers.
161 Passing it through to the handlers caused the omshell program to fail
162 to connect to the server. [ISC-Bugs #21839]
163
164- Fix the paranthesis in the code to process configuration statements
165 beginning with "auth". The previous arrangement caused
166 "auto-partner-down" to be processed incorrectly. [ISC-Bugs #21854]
167
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168- Limit the timeout period allowed in the dispatch code to 2^^32-1 seconds.
169 Thanks to a report from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
170 [ISC-Bugs #22033], [Red Hat Bug #628258]
171
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172- When processing the format flags for a given option consume the
173 flag indicating an optional value correctly. A symptom of this
174 bug was an infinite loop when trying to parse the slp-service-scope
175 option. Thanks to a patch from Marius Tomaschewski.
176 [ISC-Bugs #22055]
177
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178- Disable the use of kqueue in the ISC library. This avoids a problem
179 between the fork and socket code that caused the dhcpd process to
180 use all available cpu if the program daemonized itself.
181 [ISC-Bugs #21911]
182
c8b189f1 183! When processing a request in the DHCPv6 server code that specifies
45918d36 184 an address that is tagged as abandoned (meaning we received a
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185 decline request for it previously) don't attempt to move it from
186 the inactive to active pool as doing so can result in the server
e8f330a1 187 crashing on an assert failure. Also retag the lease as active
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188 and reset it's timeout value.
189 [ISC-Bugs #21921]
190
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191- Removed the restriction on using IPv6 addresses in IPv4 mode. This
192 allows IPv4 options which contain IPv6 addresses to be specified. For
193 example the 6rd option can be specified and used like this:
194 [ISC-Bugs #23039]
195
196 option 6rd code 212 = { integer 8, integer 8,
197 ip6-address, array of ip-address };
198 option 6rd 16 10 2001:: 1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8;
199
200
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201- Handle some DDNS corner cases better. Maintain the DDNS transaction
202 information when updating a lease and cancel any existing transactions
203 when removing the ddns information.
204 [ISC-Bugs #23103]
205
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206 Changes since 4.2.0b2
207
208- Add declaration for variable in debug code in alloc.c. [ISC-Bugs #21472]
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210 Changes since 4.2.0b1
211
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212- Prohibit including lease time information in a response to a DHCP INFORM.
213 [ISC-Bugs #21092]
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215! Accept a client id of length 0 while hashing. Previously the server would
216 exit if it attempted to hash a zero length client id, providing attackers
d122accf 217 with a simple denial of service attack. [ISC-Bugs #21253]
63ff896a 218 CERT: VU#541921 - CVE: CVE-2010-2156
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220- A memory leak in ddns processing was closed. [ISC-Bugs #21377]
221
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222- Modify the exception handling for initial context creation. Previously
223 we would try and clean up before exiting. This could present problems
224 when the cleanup required part of the context that wasn't available. It
225 also didn't do much as we exited afterwards anyway. Now we simply log
226 the error and exit. [ISC-Bugs #21093]
227
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228- A bug was fixed that could cause the DHCPv6 server to advertise/assign a
229 previously allocated (active) lease to a client that has changed subnets,
230 despite being on different shared networks. Dynamic prefixes specifically
231 allocated in shared networks also now are not offered if the client has
232 moved. [ISC-Bugs #21152]
233
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234- Add some debugging output for use with the DDNS code. [ISC-Bugs #20916]
235
600ee619 236- Fix the trace code to handle timing events better and to truncate a file
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237 before using instead of overwriting it. [ISC-Bugs #20969]
238
239- Modify the determination of the default TTL to use for DDNS updates.
240 The user may still configure the ttl via ddns-ttl. The default for
241 both v4 and v6 is now 1/2 the (preferred) lease time with a limit. The
242 previous defaults (1/2 lease time without a limit for v4 and a default
243 value for v6) may be used by defining USE_OLD_DDNS_TTL in site.h
244 [ISC-Bugs #21126]
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246- libisc/libdns is now brought up to version 9.7.1rc1. This corrects
247 three reported flaws in ISC DHCP;
248
249 o DHCP processes (dhcpd, dhclient) fail to start if one of either the
250 IPv4 or IPv6 address families is not present. [ISC-Bugs #21122]
251
252 o Assertion failure when attempting to cancel a previously running DDNS
253 update. [ISC-Bugs #21133]
254
255 o Compilation failure of libisc/libdns due to the use of a flexible
256 array member. [ISC-Bugs #21316]
257
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258 Changes since 4.2.0a2
259
260- Update the fsync code to work with the changes to the DDNS code. It now
261 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
262
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263- When constructing the DNS name structure from a text string append
264 the root to relative names. This satisfies a requirement in the DNS
265 library that names be absolute instead of relative and prevents DHCP
d122accf 266 from crashing. [ISC-Bugs #21054]
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268- "The LDAP Patch" that has been circulating for some time, written by
269 Brian Masney and S.Kalyanasundraram and maintained for application to
270 the DHCP-4 sources by David Cantrell has been included. Please be
271 advised that these sources were contributed, and do not yet meet the
272 high standards we place on production sources we include by default.
273 As a result, the LDAP features are only included by using a compile-time
274 option which defaults off, and if you enable it you do so under your
275 own recognizance. We will be improving this software over time.
276 [ISC-Bugs #17741]
277
3c941d42 278 Changes since 4.2.0a1
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279
280- When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
281 is no longer truncated to one octet.
282
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283- Cleaned up an unused hardware address variable in nak_lease().
284
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285- Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
286 reflect support for prefix delegation.
287
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288- Cleaned up some compiler warnings
289
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290- An optimization described in the failover protocol draft is now included,
291 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
292 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
293 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
294 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
295 entry for each lease.
296
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297- Fix the trace code which was broken by the changes to the DDNS code.
298
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299 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
300
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301- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
302 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 303 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
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305- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
306 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
307 Cantrell at Red Hat.
308
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309- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
310 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
311
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312- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
313
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314- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
315 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
316 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
317 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
318 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
319 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
320
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321- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
322 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
323 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
324 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
325 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
326 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
327 FQDN options by default).
328
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329- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
330 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
331 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
332 determined lease time) are omitted.
333
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334- Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
335 The DHCP server or client can now continue with it's processing while
336 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
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337
338- The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
339 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
340 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
341
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342 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
343
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344- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
345
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346- Validate the argument to the -p option.
347
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348- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
349 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
350 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
351 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
352 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
353
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354- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
355
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356- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
357 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
358 had been deleted from configuration.
359
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360- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
361 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
571c38b0 362 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
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363 were being ignored.
364
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365- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
366
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367- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
368 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
369 Nordahl.
370
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371- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
372 dhcpv6 disabled.
373
8d7dca58 374- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 375 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
819186b7 376
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377- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
378 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
379
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380- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
381 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
382 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
383
384- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
385 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
386 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
387 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
388 fewer system calls.
389
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390- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
391 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
392 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
393 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
394 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
395 Christof Chen.
396
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397- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
398 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
399 and in normal state.
400
401- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
402 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
403
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404- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
405
406- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
407 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
408 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
409
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410- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
411 rather than restarting the listener.
412
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413- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
414 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
415
416- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
417 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
418 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
419
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420- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
421 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
422 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
423 timeouts).
424
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425- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
426 in failover state records.
427
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428! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
429 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
430 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 431 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
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433- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
434 processing a DHCPINFORM.
435
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436- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
437 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
438 last option definition is used.
439
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440- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
441 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
442 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
443
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444- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
445 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
446
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447- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
448 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
449 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
450 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
451 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
452 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
453
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454- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
455 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
456 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
457 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
458
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459! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
460 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
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462- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
463 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
464
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465- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
466 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
467 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
468 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
469 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
571c38b0 470 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
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471 configuration.
472
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473- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
474 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
475
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476- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
477 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
478 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
479 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
480
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481- Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
482 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
483 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
484 was always properly set.
485
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488- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
489 be recognized.
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491 Changes since 4.1.0a2
492
493- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
494 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
495 "abandoned".
496
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497- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
498
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499- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
500 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
501
502- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
503 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
504
505- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 506 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
1387545f 507
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508- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
509
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510- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
511 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
512 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
513 in future releases.
514
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515- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
516 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
517
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518- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
519 'dhclient -6' support.
520
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521- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
522 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
523 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
524 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
525
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527
528- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
529
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530- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
531
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532- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
533 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
534 only the latter. Fixed.
535
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536- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
537
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538- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
539 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
540
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541- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
542
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543- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
544
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545- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
546 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
547 --enable-early-chroot.
548
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549- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
550 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
551
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552- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
553 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
554 parameter.
555
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556- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
557 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
558
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559- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
560 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
561
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562- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
563
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564- Merged IA_XX related structures.
565
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566- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
567
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568- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
569
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570- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
571 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
572 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
573
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574- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
575 support.
576
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577- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
578 repaired.
579
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580- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
581
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582- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
583
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584- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
585 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
586
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587- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
588 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
589
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590- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
591 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
592
593- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
594 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
595 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
596 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
597 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
598 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
599 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
600 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
601 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
602 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
603 shared-network.
604
605- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
606 configured option values.
607
608- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
609 support class statements.
610
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611- Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
612 selection were repaired.
613
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614- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
615 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
616 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
617 by the OS.
618
619- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
620 address.
621
622- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
623 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
624
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625- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
626
627- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
628
629- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
630 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
631
01a54c17 632 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
3c12f746 633
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634- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
635
4cafb815 636- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 637 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
4cafb815 638
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639- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
640 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
641 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
642
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643- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
644 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
645
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646- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
647
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648- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
649 reserved IDs avoided).
650
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651- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
652
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653- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
654 carries a rapid-commit option.
655
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656- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
657 an empty active lease.
658
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659- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
660
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661- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
662 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
663 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
664 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
665
666- MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
667
668- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
669 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
670 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
671 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
672 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
673 Christof Chen.
674
675 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
676
677- DHCP now builds on AIX.
678
679- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
680 config file but -6 is not specified.
681
682- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
683
684- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
685 be more helpful.
686
687- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
688 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
689 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
690
691- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
692 was repaired.
693
694- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
695 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
696 been repaired.
697
698- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
699 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
700 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
701
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702- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
703 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
704
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705- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
706 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
707 IPv4 address.
708
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709- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
710 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
711 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
712 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
713 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
714
715- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
716 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
717 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
718
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719- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
720
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721- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
722
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723- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
724 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
725 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
726 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
727 unnecessary logging.
728
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729- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
730 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
731
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732- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
733 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
734 is incompatible is printed.
735
736- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
737 a previously undefined option code.
738
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739- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
740 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
741
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742- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
743 than the year 2000.
744
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745- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
746
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747- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
748
5d89d60f
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749- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
750
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751 Changes since 4.0.0b3
752
753- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
754 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
755 configuration.
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757- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
758 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
759
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760- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
761 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
762 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
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764- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
765 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
766 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
767 a requested address.
768
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769- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
770 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
771 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
772 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
773
774- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
775 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
776 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
777 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
778
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779- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
780 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
781 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
782
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783- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
784 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
785
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786- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
787
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788- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
789 codes through some conditions.
790
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791- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
792 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
793
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794- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
795 seemingly random values.
796
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797- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
798
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799- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
800 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
801 one ever has.
802
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803- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
804 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
805 to a REQUEST.
806
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807- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
808 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
809 level.
810
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811 Changes since 4.0.0b2
812
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813- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
814
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815- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
816 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
817 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
818 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
819 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
820
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821- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
822 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
823 new address.
824
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825 Changes since 4.0.0b1
826
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827- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
828 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
829 simultaneously on a single interface.
830
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831- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
832 of service under unusual server configurations
833
834- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
835
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836- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
837 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
fa9b593d 838
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839- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
840 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
841 on every pool rebalance run.
842
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843- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
844 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
845
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846- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
847 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
848
ab3a540f 849 Changes since 4.0.0a3
763cba6b 850
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851- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
852 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
853
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854- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
855 point out the problem.
856
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857- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
858 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
859 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
860
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861- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
862 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
863
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864- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
865 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
866 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
867
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868- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
869
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870- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
871 fixed by Marcus Goller.
872
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873- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
874 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
875 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
876 regardless of the existence of bindings.
877
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878- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
879
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880- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
881 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
882 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
883 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
884 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
885
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886- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
887
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888 Changes since 4.0.0a2
889
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890- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
891 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
892
763cba6b 893- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
e889ded1 894
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895- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
896 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
897 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
898
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899- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
900
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901- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
902 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
903
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904- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
905 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
906 loaded from persistent storage.
907
45d545f0 908- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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909 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
910 necessary.
911
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912- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
913 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
914 rapid-commit option.
915
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916- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
917 non-128-bits in length were removed.
918
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919 Changes since 4.0.0a1
920
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921- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
922 and fix.
923
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924- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
925
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926- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
927
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928- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
929 for when loading configuration.
930
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931- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
932 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
933 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
934
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935- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
936 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
937 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
938 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
939
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940- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
941
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942- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
943 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 944
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945- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
946
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947- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
948
949- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
950 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
951
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952- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
953 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
954
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955- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
956
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957- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
958 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
959
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960 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
961
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962- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
963
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964- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
965 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
966
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967- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
968
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969- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
970 initialized.
971
972- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
973
974- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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975 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
976
977- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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979- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
980
981- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
982 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
983
984- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
985
8ea19a71 986- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 987 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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988
989- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
990 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
991
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992- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
993
994- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
995
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996- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
997
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998 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
999
1000- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
1001 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
1002 no support currently for both.
1003
1004- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
1005 IAADDR option.
1006
1007- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
1008 options.
1009
1010- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
1011
1012- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
1013 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
1014
1015- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
1016 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
1017 specifying type 1 or type 2).
1018
1019- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
1020 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
1021
1022- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
1023 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
1024 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
1025 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
1026 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
1027 differently, they both use the same code here).
1028
1029- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
1030 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
1031 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
1032
1033- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
1034
1035- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
1036 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
1037 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
1038 it should not intercept.
1039
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1040 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
1041
1042- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
1043 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
1044 between primary and secondary.
1045
1046- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
1047 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
1048 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
1049
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1050- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
1051
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1052- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
1053 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
1054 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
1055 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
1056 or REQUEST messages.
1057
1058- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
1059 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
1060
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1061- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
1062
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1063 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
1064
1065- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
1066 failover protected subnets was removed.
1067
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1068 Changes since 3.1.0b2
1069
1070- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
1071 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
1072 odd number of leases).
1073
1074- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
1075 rebalance run, and one after.
1076
1077- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
1078 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
1079 processing these messages.
1080
fe5b0fdd 1081 Changes since 3.1.0b1
27837f95 1082
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1083- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
1084 objects.
1085
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1086- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
1087 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
1088 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
1089 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
1090 at Allianz.
1091
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1092- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
1093 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
1094
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1095- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
1096 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
1097
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1098- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
1099 caused the server to abort.
1100
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1101- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
1102 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
1103 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
1104
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1105- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
1106 by empty spaces would not get included.
1107
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1108- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
1109 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
1110
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1111- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
1112 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
1113
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1114- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
1115 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
1116
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1117- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
1118 on the parameter request list.
1119
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1120 Changes since 3.1.0a3
1121
1122- Some spelling fixes.
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1124 Changes since 3.1.0a2
1125
1126- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
1127 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
1128
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1129- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
1130 domain-search option syntax.
1131
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1132 Changes since 3.1.0a1
1133
1134- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
1135 hash table was repaired.
1136
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1137- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
1138 entering normal state.
1139
1140- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
1141 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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1142 'xid mismatch' log messages.
1143
1144- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
1145 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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1147- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
1148 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
1149 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
1150 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
1151
45d545f0 1152- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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1153 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
1154 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
1155 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
1156 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
1157 to their needs.
1158
1159- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
1160 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
1161 run will attempt balance.
1162
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1163- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
1164
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1165 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
1166
1167- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
1168 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
1169 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
1170 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
1171
98bd7ca0 1172- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 1173 was introduced.
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1174
1175- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
1176 via OMAPI.
1177
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1178- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
1179 the protocol draft.
1180
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1181- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
1182 one does not already exist on the system.
1183
b43c87ad 1184- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 1185
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1186- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
1187 matches RFC 3074.
1188
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1189- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
1190 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 1191 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2727c1cf 1192
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1193- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
1194 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 1195 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 1196
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1197- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
1198 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
1199 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
1200 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
1201
1202- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
1203 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
1204 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
1205 priority over the client's parameter request list.
1206
f7fdb216 1207- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 1208 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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1209 DHCPv6 support.
1210
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1211- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
1212 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
1213 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
1214
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1215- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
1216 have been incorporated.
1217
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1218- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
1219 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
1220 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
1221 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
1222 that belong to the peer in need.
1223
1224- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
1225 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
1226
1227- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
1228 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
1229 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
1230
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1231- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
1232 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
1233
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1234- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
1235 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
1236 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
1237 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
1238 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
1239
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1240- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
1241 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
1242 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
1243 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
1244
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1245- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
1246 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
1247 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
1248 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
1249 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
1250 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
1251 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
1252 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
1253 ignoring this aspect of their request.
1254
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1255- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
1256 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
1257
41e45067 1258- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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1259 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
1260 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
1261 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
1262
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1263- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
1264 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
1265 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
1266 hardware and funding the development.
6d103865 1267
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1268- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
1269 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
1270 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
1271 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
1272 via Robin Breathe.
1273
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1274- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
1275 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
1276 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
1277 from Christof Chen.
1278
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1279- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
1280 formally supported.
1281
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1282 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
1283
1284- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
1285 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
1286
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1287 Changes since 3.0.5
1288
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1289- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
1290 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
1291 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 1292 they actually received.
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1293
1294- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
1295
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1296- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
1297 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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1298 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
1299 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
c1e6c832 1300
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1301- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
1302
d69fb6a8 1303- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 1304 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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1306- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
1307 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
1308 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
1309 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
1310 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
1311 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
1312 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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1313 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
1314
1315- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
1316 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
1317 'file' field.
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1319- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
1320 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
1321
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1322- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
1323 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
1324 a patch from Kevin Steves.
1325
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1326- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
1327 from Chris Wagner.
1328
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1329- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
1330 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
1331 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
1332
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1333- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
1334 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
1335 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
1336 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
1337 was set.
1338
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1339- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
1340 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
1341
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1342- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
1343 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
1344 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
1345 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
1346 active ones.
1347
02428754 1348 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
0a73b7b6 1349
901306d5 1350- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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1351 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
1352 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
1353 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
1354 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
1355
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1356- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
1357 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
1358
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1359 Changes since 3.0.4
1360
1361- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
1362 scopes are actually global has been added.
1363
1364- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
1365 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
1366 known to be damaging.
1367
1368- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
1369 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
1370 balancing).
1371
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1372- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
1373 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
1374 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
1375
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1376- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
1377 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
1378 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
1379
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1380- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
1381 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
1382 more clear now.
1383
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1384- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
1385 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
1386 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
1387 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
1388 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 1389 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
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1391- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
1392 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
1393
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1394- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
1395 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
1396 made possible.
1397
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1398- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
1399 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
1400 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
1401
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1402- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
1403 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
1404
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1405- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
1406 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
1407 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
1408
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1409- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
1410 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
1411 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
1412 value with the later configured value).
1413
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1414- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
1415 have been named and documented.
1416
1417- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
1418 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
1419 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
1420 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
1421 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
1422 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
1423 write new output.
1424
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1425 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
1426
1427- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
1428 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
1429
1430 Changes since 3.0.4b3
1431
1432- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
1433 mailing list.
1434
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1435 Changes since 3.0.4b2
1436
45d545f0 1437- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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1438 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
1439
1440- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
1441 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
1442
1443- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
1444 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
1445 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
1446 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
1447
1448- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
1449 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
1450 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
1451 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
1452 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
1453 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
1454 transition (properly).
1455
1456- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
1457
1458 Changes since 3.0.4b1
1459
1460- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
1461 STDIN after reading one line.
1462
1463- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
1464 descriptor it opened twice.
1465
1466- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
1467 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
1468 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
1469
1470 Changes since 3.0.3
1471
1472- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
1473 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
1474 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
1475
1476- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
1477 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
1478 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
1479
1480- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
1481 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 1482 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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1483 leases to allocate.
1484
1485- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 1486 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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1487 than the entire block of them.
1488
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1489! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
1490 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
1491 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
1492 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
1493 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
1494 to a patch from infamous42md.
1495
1496! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
1497 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
1498 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
1499 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
1500 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
1501 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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1502
1503- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
1504 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
1505 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
1506
1507- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 1508 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1509
1510- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
1511 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
1512 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
1513 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
1514 transitional states.
1515
1516- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
1517 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
1518 once it detects the old db does not exist.
1519
1520- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
1521 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
1522 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
1523
1524- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 1525 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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1526
1527- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
1528 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
1529
1530- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
1531 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
1532 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
1533
1534- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
1535 patch from 'infamous42md'.
1536
1537- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
1538 repaired.
1539
1540- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
1541 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
1542 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
1543 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
1544
1545- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
1546 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
1547 data.
1548
1549- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
1550 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
1551 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
1552 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
1553 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
1554
1555- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
1556 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
1557 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
1558 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
1559 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
1560
1561- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
1562 has been repaired.
1563
1564- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
1565 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
1566 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
1567 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 1568 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1569
1570- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 1571 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
88cd8aca 1572
45d545f0 1573- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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1574 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
1575 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
1576 move to 3.[01].x.
1577
1578- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
1579 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
1580
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1581 Changes since 3.0.3b3
1582
1583- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
1584 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
1585
1586- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
1587 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
1588 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
1589 workaround.
1590
1591 Changes since 3.0.3b2
1592
1593- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
1594 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
1595
1596 Changes since 3.0.3b1
1597
1598- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
1599 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
1600 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
1601
1602- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
1603 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
1604 dynamic updates were also retouched.
1605
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1606 Changes since 3.0.2
1607
1608- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 1609 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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1610 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
1611
1612- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
1613 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
1614 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
1615 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
1616 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
1617
1618- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
1619 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 1620 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1621
1622- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
1623 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 1624 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1625
1626- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
1627 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
1628 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
1629 Peter Poeml.
1630
1631- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
1632 Dr. Peter Poeml.
1633
1634- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
1635 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
1636 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
1637 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
1638 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
1639 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
1640
1641- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
1642 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
1643 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
1644 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
1645
1646- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
1647 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
1648 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
1649 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
1650
1651- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
1652 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
1653
1654- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
1655 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
1656 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
1657
1658- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
1659 7 bytes, and failover.
1660
1661- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
1662 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 1663 at Red Hat.
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1664
1665- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
1666 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
1667 should work better.
1668
1669- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
1670 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
1671 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
1672
1673- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
1674 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
1675 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
1676
1677 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
1678
1679- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
1680 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
1681
1682 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
1683
45d545f0 1684- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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1685 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
1686 overloading. This was repaired.
1687
1688- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
1689 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
1690 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
1691 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
1692 three chunks to fit.
1693
1694- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
1695 were repaired.
1696
1697- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
1698 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
1699 leak).
1700
1701 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
1702
1703- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
1704 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
1705
1706 Changes since 3.0.2b1
1707
1708- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
1709
1710 Changes since 3.0.1
1711
1712- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
1713 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
1714 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
1715
1716- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
1717 name was not provided by the server.
1718
1719- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
1720 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
1721
1722- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
1723 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
1724
1725- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
1726 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
1727
1728- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
1729
1730- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
1731
1732- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
1733 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
1734 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
1735 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
1736 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
1737
1738- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
1739 the configuration be globally scoped.
1740
1741- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
1742 Farkas.
1743
1744- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
1745 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1746
1747- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
1748 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
1749
1750- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
1751 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
1752
1753- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
1754 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
1755 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
1756 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
1757
1758- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
1759 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
1760 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
1761 respond to POOLREQ messages.
1762
1763- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
1764 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
1765 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
1766
1767- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
1768
1769- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
1770 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
1771 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
1772
1773- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
1774 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
1775 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
1776 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
1777 Fjone and directconnect.no.
1778
1779- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
1780 to Andreas Gustafsson.
1781
1782- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
1783 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
1784
1785- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
1786 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
1787 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
1788 DISCOVER timeout handling.
1789
1790- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
1791 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
1792
1793- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
1794 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
1795 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
1796
1797- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
1798 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
1799 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
1800 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
1801 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
1802 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
1803
1804- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
1805 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
1806 Infoblox.
1807
1808- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
1809
1810- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
1811 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
1812 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
1813 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
1814 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
1815 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
1816 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
1817
1818- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
1819 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
1820 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
1821
1822- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
1823 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
1824 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
1825
1826- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
1827
1828 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
1829
1830- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
1831 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
1832 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
1833 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
1834 systems either.
1835
1836- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
1837
1838- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
1839 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
1840 is false.
1841
1842- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
1843 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
1844
1845- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
1846
1847 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
1848
1849! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
1850 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
1851 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
1852 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
1853 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
1854 both finding and solving the problem.
1855
1856! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
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1858 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
1859 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
1860 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
1861 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
1862 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
1863 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
1864 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
1865 published version of ISC DHCP.
1866
1867- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
1868
1869- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
1870
1871 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
1872
1873- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
1874 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
1875 Richard Hirst.
1876
1877- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
1878 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
1879 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
1880
1881- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
1882
1883- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
1884 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
1885 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
1886 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
1887
1888- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 1889 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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1890
1891- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
1892 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
1893
1894- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
1895
1896 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
1897
1898- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
1899 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
1900
1901- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
1902 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
1903 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
1904
1905- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
1906 by name was fixed.
1907
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1909 longer result in error.
1910
1911- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
1912
1913- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
1914 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
1915 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
1916
1917- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
1918 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
1919
1920- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
1921 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
1922 Blapp.
1923
1924- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
1925 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
1926 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
1927 Martin Blapp.
1928
1929- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
1930 expiry times in failover configurations.
1931
1932- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
1933 Steve G.
1934
1935- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
1936 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
1937
1938- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
1939 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
1940 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
1941 now "unknown-144".
1942
1943- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
1944 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
1945
1946 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
1947
1948- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
1949
1950- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
1951 not be bash.
1952
1953- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1954
1955- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
1956 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
1957 that errored before will now work properly.
1958
1959- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
1960 names was repaired.
1961
1962- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
1963 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
1964 configuration file.
1965
1966- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
1967 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1968
1969- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
1970 error rather than a null dereference.
1971
1972 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
1973
1974- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
1975
1976- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
1977
1978- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
1979 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
1980
1981- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
1982
1983- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
1984
1985- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
1986 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
1987 self-corrupting lease databases.
1988
1989- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
1990
1991- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
1992 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
1993
1994- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
1995
1996- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
1997
1998- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
1999 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
2000 Ling Gou.
2001
2002- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
2003 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2004
2005- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
2006 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
2007 Ted Lemon for the patch.
2008
2009- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
2010 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
2011
2012 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
2013
2014- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
2015 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
2016
2017- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
2018
2019- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
2020 a memory leak.
2021
2022- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
2023 script.
2024
2025- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
2026
2027- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
2028
2029- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
2030
2031- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
2032
2033- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
2034
2035- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
2036
2037- Increment the hop count when relaying.
2038
2039- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
2040
2041- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
2042
2043- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
2044
2045- Change the type of rbuf_max.
2046
2047- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
2048
2049 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
2050
2051- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
2052 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
2053 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
2054
2055 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
2056
2057- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
2058 to be renewed.
2059
2060- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
2061 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
2062
2063- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
2064 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
2065
2066- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
2067 that two permit lists matched.
2068
2069- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
2070 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
2071
2072- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
2073
2074- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
2075 requested it, contrary to the standard.
2076
2077- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
2078
2079- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
2080
2081- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
2082 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
2083 going to update its A record.
2084
2085- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
2086 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
2087 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
2088 DNS server.
2089
2090- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
2091
2092- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
2093
2094- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
2095 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
2096 NetBSD project).
2097
2098- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
2099 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
2100
2101- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
2102 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
2103
2104- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
2105
2106- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
2107
2108- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
2109 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
2110 failover protocol standard.
2111
2112- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
2113 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
2114 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
2115
2116- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
2117 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
2118 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
2119 do so.
2120
2121- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
2122
2123 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
2124
2125- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
2126
2127- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
2128 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
2129
2130- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
2131 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
2132
2133- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
2134 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
2135 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
2136
2137- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
2138 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
2139 network, merge the two pools.
2140
2141- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
2142 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
2143 fix this bug.
2144
2145 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
2146
2147- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
2148 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
2149
2150- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
2151 the same case.
2152
2153- Additional documentation.
2154
2155- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
2156 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
2157
2158 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
2159
2160- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
2161- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
2162
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2164
2165- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
2166 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
2167 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
2168 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
2169 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
2170
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2172
2173- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
2174 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
2175 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
2176 wasn't the one that removed it.
2177
2178- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
2179 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
2180 were not configured.
2181
2182- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
2183
2184- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
2185 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
2186 routing information.
2187
2188- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
2189 request being sent.
2190
2191- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
2192 done.
2193
2194- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
2195 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
2196 were pending.
2197
2198- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
2199 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
2200 problems with failover.
2201
2202- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
2203 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
2204 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
2205
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2207
2208- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
2209 smash in the subclass allocation code.
2210
2211- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
2212 no object is open, it dumps core.
2213
2214- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
2215
2216- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
2217
2218- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
2219
2220- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
2221 a host object attribute with a null value.
2222
2223 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
2224
2225- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
2226
2227- Fix an obscure core dump.
2228
2229- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
2230 when crucial information is left out.
2231
2232- Log "no free leases" as an error.
2233
2234- Documentation updates.
2235
2236 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
2237
2238- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
2239
2240- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
2241 structure wasn't zeroed.
2242
2243- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
2244 incorrectly.
2245
2246- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
2247 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
2248 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
2249 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
2250 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
2251 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
2252 restarted.
2253
2254 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
2255
2256- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
2257 in failover-enabled pools.
2258
2259- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
2260 declarations).
2261
2262- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
2263 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
2264
2265- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
2266 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
2267
2268- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
2269
2270- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
2271 defined but not referenced by any pools.
2272
2273- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
2274
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2276
2277- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
2278
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2279 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 2
2280
2281- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
2282
2283- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
2284
2285- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
2286
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2287 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 1
2288
2289- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
2290 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
2291 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
2292
2293- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
2294 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
2295 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
2296 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
2297 string.
2298
2299- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
2300
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2301 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8
2302
2303- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
2304 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
2305
2306- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
2307 malformed packets.
2308
2309- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
2310
2311- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
2312 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
2313 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
2314
2315- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
2316
2317- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
2318
2319- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
2320
2321- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
2322 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
2323
2324- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
2325 tcp connections from being played back.
2326
2327- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
2328 on exit.
2329
2330- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
2331
2332- Add some configurability to the build system.
2333
2334- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
2335
2336- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
2337 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
2338 hadn't been noticed until now.
2339
2340 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
2341
2342- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
2343 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
2344
2345- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
2346 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
2347 conformant, but also didn't work).
2348
2349- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
2350 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
2351
2352- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
2353 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
2354
2355- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
2356 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
2357
2358- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
2359 variables to leases via OMAPI.
2360
2361- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
2362 doing failover.
2363
2364- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
2365 running on alpha processors.
2366
2367- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
2368 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
2369
2370- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
2371
2372- Install omshell (including new documentation).
2373
2374- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
2375 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
2376
2377- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
2378
2379- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
2380 actually named (key names are domain names).
2381
2382- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
2383
2384- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
2385 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
2386
2387- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
2388 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
2389
2390- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
2391 statements.
2392
2393- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
2394 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
2395
2396- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
2397 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
2398 operating.
2399
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2401
2402- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
2403 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
2404 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
2405 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
2406
2407- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
2408 using omapi to manipulate leases.
2409
2410- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
2411
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2412 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
2413
2414- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
2415 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
2416
2417- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
2418 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
2419 to the chain.
2420
2421- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
2422
2423- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
2424
2425- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
2426
98311e4b 2427- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
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2428 attribute values in omshell.
2429
98311e4b 2430- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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2431
2432- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
2433
2434 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
2435
2436- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
2437 DHCPDECLINE.
2438
2439- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
2440
2441- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
2442 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
2443 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
2444
2445- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
2446
2447- Documentation fixes.
2448
2449- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
2450 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
2451
2452- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
2453 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
2454
2455- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
2456
2457- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
2458
2459- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
2460 case-insensitive.
2461
2462- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
2463
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2465 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
2466 consistently.
2467
2468- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
2469 systems with the probe not working correctly.
2470
2471- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
2472
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2473 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 3
2474
2475- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
2476 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
2477 result of duplicate leases.
2478
2479- Document OMAPI server objects.
2480
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2481 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Patchlevel 1
2482
2483- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
2484 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
2485
2486- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
2487 core dumps.
2488
2489- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
2490 Friedrich.
2491
2492- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
2493
2494 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
2495
2496- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
2497 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 2498 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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2499 billing class code.
2500
2501- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
2502 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
2503
2504- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
2505 trace file.
2506
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2509- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
2510 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
2511 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
2512 e.g., Digital Unix.
2513
2514- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
2515 when no error had occurred.
2516
2517- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
2518 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
2519 non-communicating state.
2520
2521- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
2522
2523- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
2524 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
2525 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
2526
2527- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
2528 when the client lease expired.
2529
2530- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
2531 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
2532 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
2533 in testing.
2534
2535- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
2536 the command line, it would fail.
2537
2538- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
2539 user impact).
2540
2541- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
2542
2543- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
2544 they're executable.
2545
2546 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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2547
2548- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
2549 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
2550 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
2551 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
2552
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2553- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
2554 Transmeta.
2555
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2556- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
2557 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
2558 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
2559 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
2560
2561- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
2562 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
2563
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2564 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 24
2565
2566- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
2567 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
2568
2569- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
2570
2571- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
2572
2573- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
2574
2575- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
2576
2577- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
2578
2579- Update some parts of the README file.
2580
2581- Support GCC on SCO.
2582
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2584
2585- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
2586 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
2587
2588- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
2589 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
2590 unbill the old class.
2591
2592- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
2593 process the state transition immediately.
2594
2595- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
2596 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
2597
2598- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
2599
2600- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
2601
2602- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
2603
2604- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
2605
2606- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
2607 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
2608 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
2609
2610- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
2611 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
2612
2613- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
2614 lease file.
2615
2616- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
2617
2618- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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2621
2622- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
2623 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
2624
2625- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
2626
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2628
2629- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
2630
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2632
2633- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
2634
2635- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
2636 pl19.
2637
2638- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
2639 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
2640 past the regression test.
2641
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2643
2644- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
2645 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
2646
2647- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
2648 DHCPREQUEST.
2649
2650- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
2651
2652- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
2653
2654- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
2655
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2658- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
2659 (Damien Neil)
2660
2661- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
2662 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
2663
2664- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
2665 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
2666 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
2667
2668- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
2669 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
2670 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
2671 message.
2672
2673- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
2674 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
2675 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
2676
98311e4b 2677- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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2678 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
2679 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
2680 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
2681 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
2682 this way will work.
2683
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2684- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
2685
2686- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
2687 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
2688 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
2689 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
2690
2691 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
2692
2693 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
2694
2695- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
2696 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
2697 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
2698
2699- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
2700 Hermann Lauer.
2701
2702- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
2703 messages.
2704
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2705- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
2706 it contained quoted strings.
2707
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2708 ** there was no pl17 **
2709
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2712- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
2713 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
2714 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
2715 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
2716 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
2717 tracking down memory leaks.
2718
2719- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
2720 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
2721 Solaris.
2722
2723- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
2724 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
2725 corruption and core dumps.
2726
2727- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
2728 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
2729
2730- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
2731
2732- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
2733 and implemented by Damien Neil.
2734
2735- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
2736 name and version to standard output.
2737
2738- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
2739
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2740- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
2741 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
2742
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2743- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
2744
2745- Lots of documentation updates.
2746
2747- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
2748 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
2749
2750- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
2751
2752- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
2753 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
2754
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2756
2757- Some documentation tweaks.
2758
2759- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
2760
2761- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
2762
2763- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
2764 agent options into them.
2765
2766- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
2767
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2768- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
2769 options.
2770
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2772
2773- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
2774 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
2775 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
2776 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
2777 used in class statements to control address allocation.
2778
2779- Fix up documentation.
2780
2781- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
2782 significantly in a high-demand situation.
2783
2784- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
2785
2786- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
2787
2788- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
2789 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
2790 practical use otherwise.
2791
2792- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
2793 for debugging.
2794
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2796
2797- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
2798 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
2799 dump on some systems.
2800
2801- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
2802 option.
2803
2804- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
2805 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
2806
2807- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
2808 that were not printing enough information.
2809
2810- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
2811 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
2812
2813- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
2814 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
2815 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
2816 were answering.
2817
2818- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
2819 the transition.
2820
2821
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2823
2824- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
2825
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2826 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
2827
2828- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
2829 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
2830 representation from working correctly.
2831
2832- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
2833 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
2834 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
2835 could spin.
2836
2837- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
2838 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
2839
2840- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
2841 interface name on the command line.
2842
2843- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
2844 client state.
2845
2846- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
2847 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
2848 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
2849 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
2850 added by Ted Lemon.
2851
2852- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
2853 be made to log debugging information and other information.
2854
2855- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
2856 end option.
2857
2858- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
2859 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
2860 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
2861
2862- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
2863 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
2864 face of a null hardware address on input.
2865
2866- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
2867 specified unqualified.
2868
2869- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
2870 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
2871
2872- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
2873 RFC.
2874
2875- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
2876
2877- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
2878
2879- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
2880 it works.
2881
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2882 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
2883
2884- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
2885 to CVS.
2886
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2887 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
2888
2889- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
2890
2891- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
2892 in patchlevel 9.
2893
2894- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
2895 options at renewal time.
2896
2897- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
2898 configuration language.
2899
2900- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
2901
2902- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
2903 done when no client hostname was received.
2904
2905- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
2906
2907- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
2908 the DHCP option space.
2909
2910- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
2911
2912- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
2913 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
2914
2915- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
2916 silently dropped.
2917
2918- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
2919 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
2920
2921- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
2922 will be correctly updated.
2923
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2924 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
2925
2926- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
2927 bounds-checking.
2928
2929 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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2930
2931- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
2932
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2935- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
2936 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
2937 possible to exploit it any further than that.
2938
2939- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
2940 option.
2941
2942- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
2943 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
2944 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
2945 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
2946 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
2947 meaningfully.
2948
2949- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
2950 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
2951 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
2952
2953- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
2954 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
2955 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
2956 this one down!
2957
2958- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
2959 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
2960 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
2961 down and fixing this problem.
2962
2963 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
2964
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2965- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
2966 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
2967
2968- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
2969 environment.
2970
2971- Fix suffix operator.
2972
2973- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
2974
2975- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
2976 connection code.
2977
2978- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
2979
2980- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
2981
2982- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
2983 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
2984
2985- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
2986
2987- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
2988
2989- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
2990 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
2991
2992- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
2993 spawn with.
2994
2995- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
2996 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
2997
2998- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
2999 for OMAPI.
3000
3001- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
3002 can install in host declarations.
3003
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3004 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
3005
3006- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
3007 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
3008 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
3009 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
3010 comments)!
3011
3012- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
3013
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3014- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
3015 request for help on this with patches!
3016
3017- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
3018 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
3019 lost, they never reconnect.
3020
3021- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
3022 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
3023
3024- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
3025 dump.
3026
3027- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
3028 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
3029 catching this one.
3030
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3031 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
3032
3033- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 3034 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
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3035 lease renewal time.
3036
3037- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
3038 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
3039 declared without a key.
3040
3041- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
3042
3043- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
3044 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
3045
3046- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
3047 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
3048 determine the maximum size of the response.
3049
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3050 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
3051
359b023e
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3052- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
3053 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
3054
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3055- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
3056 RENEWING client.
3057
3058- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
3059
3060- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
3061 using memcmp().
3062
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3063 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
3064
3065- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
3066 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
3067 pointing this out.
3068
3069- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
3070 exit.
3071
3072- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
3073
3074- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
3075 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.