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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
01a44a77 2 Version 4.3.1-pre-beta
8c532cdd 3 3 February 2014
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0171be2d 5 Release Notes
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0171be2d 7 NEW FEATURES
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80778e94 9The major "theme" for ISC DHCP 4.3.x was to update the suport for
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10DHCPv6 to include several of the features that have been available
11for DHCPv4. These include:
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13- Support the use of classes
14
15- Support for on_commit, on_expiry and on_release statements
16
4809ef5c 17- Better logging of address assignments
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19- Support for using DHCPv6 relay options in expressions
20
21This release also adds suppport for the standard DDNS as described in the
22current RFCs as well as enhancing support for dynamically adding and removing
23subclasses via OMAPI.
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25There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
26release, which will be addressed in the future:
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01a54c17 28- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
3a16098f 29
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30- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages, in
31 English. A method to reconfigure or support other languages would
80778e94 32 be preferable.
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34- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
35
98bd7ca0 36- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 37 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 38 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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40For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as
41well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the
42README file.
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44ISC DHCP uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please review the
45output of "./configure --help" to see what options are available.
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47The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and may not
48work on other platforms. Please report any problems and suggested fixes to
49<dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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51ISC DHCP is open source software maintained by Internet Systems
52Consortium. This product includes cryptographic software written
53by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com).
54
57187138 55 Changes since 4.3.0
01a44a77 56
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57- Tidy up several small tickets
58 Correct parsing of DUID from config file, previously the LL type
59 was put in the wrong place in the DUID string.
60 [ISC-Bugs #20962]
61 Add code to parse "do-forward-updates" as well as "do-forward-update"
62 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
63 [ISC-Bugs #31328]
64 Remove log_priority as it isn't currently used.
65 [ISC-Bugs #33397]
66 Increase the size of the buffer used for reading interface information.
67 [ISC-Bugs #34858]
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69- Remove an extra set of the msg_controllen variable.
70 [ISC-Bugs #21035]
71
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72- Add a more understandable error message if a configuration attempts
73 to add multiple keys for a single zone. Thanks to a patch from Jiri
74 Popelka at Red Hat.
75 [ISC-Bugs #31892]
76
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77- Fix some minor issues in the dst code.
78 [ISC-Bugs #34172]
79
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80- Properly #ifdef functions so that the code can compile without NSUPDATE
81 [ISC-Bugs #35058]
82
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83- Update the partner's stos (start time of state, basically when we last
84 heard from this partner) field when updating the state in failover.
85 [ISC-Bugs #35549]
86
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87- Modify the overload processing to allow space for the remote agent ID
88 [ISC-Bugs #35569]
89 Handle the ordering of the SUBNET_MASK option even if it is the last
90 option in the list.
91 [ISC-Bugs #24580]
92
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93- Remove the code that allows a server to follow RFC3315 instead of
94 the subsequent errata from August 2010 when determining which IAs
95 to include if no addresses will be assigned.
2c4be1d7 96 [ISC-Bugs #28938]
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98- Remove unused RCSID tags.
99 [ISC-Bugs #35846]
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101- Correct the v6 client timing code. When doing the timing backoff
102 for MRT limit it to MRD.
103 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug and fix.
104 [ISC-Bugs #21238
105
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106- Add a log entry when killing a client and remove the PID files
107 when a server, relay or client are killed.
108 [ISC-Bugs #16970]
109 [ISC-Bugs #17258]
110
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111- Some minor cleanups in the client code
112 In addition to checking for dhcpc check for bootpc in the services list
113 [ISC-Bugs #18933]
114 Correct the client code to only try to get a lease once when the
115 given the "-1" argument.
116 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug and fix.
117 [ISC-Bugs #26735]
118 When asked for the version don't send the output to syslog.
119 [ISC-Bugs #29772]
120 Add the next server information to the environment variables for
121 use by the client script. In order to avoid changing the client
122 lease file the next server information isn't written to it.
123 Thanks to Tomas Hozza at Red Hat for the suggestion and a prototype fix.
124 [ISC-Bugs #33098]
125
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126- Several updates to the dhcp server code
127 When not in quiet mode print out the files being used.
128 [ISC-Bugs #17551]
129 As accessing some pid files may require privileges move the dropping
130 of permission bits due to the paranoia patch to be after the pid code.
131 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug and fix.
132 [ISC-Bugs #25806]
133 When processing a "--version" request don't output the version information
134 to syslog.
135
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136- Add the "enable-log-pid" option to the configure script. When enabled
137 this causes the client, server and relay programs to include the PID
138 number in syslog messages.
139 Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski for the suggestion and proto-patch.
140 [ISC-Bugs #29713]
141
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142- Add a #define to specify the prefix length used when a client attempts
143 to configure an address. This can be modified by editing includes/site.h.
144 By default it is set to 64. While 128 might be a better choice it would
145 also be a change for currently running systems, so we have left it at 64.
63c8800c 146 [ISC-Bugs #DHCP-2]
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148- Add a run time option to the client "-df" to allow the administrator to
149 point to a second lease file the client can search for a DUID. This can
150 be used to allow a v4 and a v6 instance of the client to share a DUID.
151 The second file will only be searched if there isn't a DUID in the main
152 lease file and the DUID will be written out to the main lease file.
153 [ISC-Bugs #34886]
154
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155- Have the client fsync the lease file to avoid lease corruption if the
156 client hibernates or otherwise shuts down.
157 [ISC-Bugs #35894]
158
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159- Add a check for L2VLAN in bpf.c to help support VLAN interfaces
160 Thanks to Steinar Haug for the suggestion.
161 [ISC-Bugs #36033]
162
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163- Modify the handling of the resolv.conf file to allow the DHCP
164 process to start up even if the resolv.conf file has problems.
165 [ISC-Bugs #35989]
166
a89fd0cd 167- Add threshold logging functionality. Two new options,
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168 log-threshold-low and log-threshold-high, indicate to the
169 server if and when it should log an error message as addresses
170 in a pool are used.
171 [ISC-Bugs #34487]
172
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173- Add code to properly dereference a pointer in the dhclient code
174 on an error condition.
175 [ISC-Bugs #36194
176
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177 Changes since 4.3.0rc1
178
179- None
180 Changes since 4.3.0b1
181
182- Tidy up receive packet processing.
183 Thanks to Brad Plank of GTA for reporting the issue and suggesting
184 a possible patch.
185 [ISC-Bugs #34447]
186
187 Changes since 4.3.0a1
188
189- Modify the message displayed when a process hits a fatal error.
190 The new message is much shorter and simply points to the README
191 and our website for directions on bug submissions.
192 [ISC-Bugs #24789]
193
194- Handle an absent resolv.conf file better.
195 [ISC-Bugs #35194]
196
6980ae03 197 Changes since 4.2.0 (new features)
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199- If a client renews before 'dhcp-cache-threshold' percent of its lease
200 has elapsed (default 25%), the server will reuse the allocated lease
201 (provide a lease within the currently allocated lease-time) rather
202 than extend or renew the lease. This absolves the server of needing
203 to perform an fsync() operation on the lease database before reply,
204 which improves performance. [ISC-Bugs #22228]
80778e94 205 Updated this patch to support asynchronous DDNS. If the server is
8cd88e20 206 attempting to do DDNS on a lease it should be udpated and written to
4809ef5c 207 disk even if that wouldn't be necessary due to the thresholding.
8cd88e20 208 [ISC-Bugs #26311]
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210- The 'no available billing' log line now also logs the name of the last
211 matching billing class tried before failing to provide a billing.
212 [ISC-Bugs #21759]
213
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214- A problem with missing get_hw_addr function when --enable-use-sockets
215 was used is now solved on GNU/Linux, BSD and GNU/Hurd systems. Note
216 that use-sockets feature was not tested on those systems. Client and
217 server code no longer use MAX_PATH constant that is not defined on
3cb6f9bb 218 GNU/Hurd systems. [ISC-Bugs #25979]
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220- Add a perl script in the contrib directory, dhcp-lease-list.pl, which
221 can parse v4 lease files and output the lease information in a more
222 human friendly manner. This was written by Christian Hammers with
223 some updates by vom and ISC. This is contributed code and is not
224 supported by ISC; however it may be useful to some users.
225 [ISC-Bugs #20680]
226
a7341359 227- Add support in v6 for on-commit, on-expire and on-release.
4809ef5c 228 [ISC-Bugs #27912]
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230- Add support for using classes with v6.
231 [ISC-Bugs #26510]
232
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233- Update the DDNS code to current standards and allow for sharing
234 of DDNS entries between v4 and v6 clients. The new code is used
235 if the ddns-update-style is set to "standard", the older code is
236 still available if ddns-update-style is set to "interim". The
237 oldest DDNS code "ad-hoc" has been removed. Thanks to Thomas Pegeot
238 who submitted a patch for this issue. This patch is based on
239 that work with some modifications.
64fb661c 240 [ISC-Bugs #21139]
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242- Add a configuration option to the server to suppress using fsync().
243 Enabling this option will mean that fsync() is never called. This
244 may provide better performance but there is also a risk that a lease
245 will not be properly written to the disk after it has been issued
246 to a client and before the server stops. Using this option is
247 not recommended.
64fb661c 248 [ISC-Bugs #34810]
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250- Add some logging statements to indicate when the server is ready
251 to serve. One statement is emitted after the server has finished
252 reading its files and is about to enter the dispatch loop.
253 This is "Server starting service.".
254 The second is emitted when a server determines that both it and
255 its failover peer are in the normal state.
256 This is "failover peer <name>: Both servers normal."
64fb661c 257 [ISC-Bugs #33208]
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259- Add support for accessing options from v6 relays. The v6relay
260 statement allows the administrator to choose which relay to
261 use when searching for an option, see the dhcp-options man page
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262 for a description. The host-identifier option has also been
263 updated to support the use of relay options, see the dhcpd.conf
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264 man page for a description.
265 [ISC-Bugs #19598]
266
e54ff84f 267- When doing DDNS if there isn't an appropriate zone statement attempt
80778e94 268 to find a reasonable nameserver via a DNS resolver. This restores
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269 some functionality that was lost in the transition to asynchronous
270 DDNS. Due to the lack of security and increase in fragility of the
271 system when using this feature we strongly recommend the use of
272 appropriate zone statements rather than using this functionality.
273 [ISC-Bugs #30461]
274
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275- Add support for specifying the address from which to send
276 DDNS updates on the DHCP server. There are two new options
277 "ddns-local-address4" and "ddns-local-address6" that each take
278 one instance of their respective address types.
279 [ISC-Bugs #34779]
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281- Add ignore-client-uids option in the server. This option causes
282 the server to not record a client's uid in its lease. This
283 violates the specification but may also be useful when a client
284 can dual boot using different client ids but the same mac address.
6b9c9f87 285 Thank you to Brian De Wolf at Cal Poly Pomona for the patch.
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286 [ISC-Bugs #32427]
287 [ISC-Bugs #35066]
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289- Extend the DHCPINFORM processing to honor the subnet selection option
290 and take host declarations into account.
291 Thanks to Christof Chen for testing and submitting the patch.
292 [ISC-Bugs #35015]
293
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294- Extend the hardware expression to look into the lease structure
295 for a hardware address if there is no packet. This allows the
296 server to find the hardware address during on-expiry processing.
297 [ISC-Bugs #24584]
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299- Add definitions for some options that have been specified by the IETF.
300 [ISC-Bugs #29268]
ccc2a367 301 [ISC-Bugs #35198]
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01a44a77 303 Changes since 4.2.0 (bug fixes)
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305- When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
306 is no longer truncated to one octet.
8ee352ee 307
01a44a77 308- Cleaned up an unused hardware address variable in nak_lease().
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310- Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
311 reflect support for prefix delegation.
4889a646 312
01a44a77 313- Cleaned up some compiler warnings
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315- An optimization described in the failover protocol draft is now included,
316 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
317 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
318 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
319 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
320 entry for each lease.
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01a44a77 322- Fix the trace code which was broken by the changes to the DDNS code.
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324- Update the fsync code to work with the changes to the DDNS code. It now
325 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
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327- When constructing the DNS name structure from a text string append
328 the root to relative names. This satisfies a requirement in the DNS
329 library that names be absolute instead of relative and prevents DHCP
330 from crashing. [ISC-Bugs #21054]
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332- "The LDAP Patch" that has been circulating for some time, written by
333 Brian Masney and S.Kalyanasundraram and maintained for application to
334 the DHCP-4 sources by David Cantrell has been included. Please be
335 advised that these sources were contributed, and do not yet meet the
336 high standards we place on production sources we include by default.
337 As a result, the LDAP features are only included by using a compile-time
338 option which defaults off, and if you enable it you do so under your
339 own recognizance. We will be improving this software over time.
340 [ISC-Bugs #17741]
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342- Prohibit including lease time information in a response to a DHCP INFORM.
343 [ISC-Bugs #21092]
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345! Accept a client id of length 0 while hashing. Previously the server would
346 exit if it attempted to hash a zero length client id, providing attackers
347 with a simple denial of service attack. [ISC-Bugs #21253]
348 CERT: VU#541921 - CVE: CVE-2010-2156
08b2d347 349
01a44a77 350- A memory leak in ddns processing was closed. [ISC-Bugs #21377]
08b2d347 351
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352- Modify the exception handling for initial context creation. Previously
353 we would try and clean up before exiting. This could present problems
354 when the cleanup required part of the context that wasn't available. It
355 also didn't do much as we exited afterwards anyway. Now we simply log
356 the error and exit. [ISC-Bugs #21093]
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358- A bug was fixed that could cause the DHCPv6 server to advertise/assign a
359 previously allocated (active) lease to a client that has changed subnets,
360 despite being on different shared networks. Dynamic prefixes specifically
361 allocated in shared networks also now are not offered if the client has
362 moved. [ISC-Bugs #21152]
3cb6f9bb 363
01a44a77 364- Add some debugging output for use with the DDNS code. [ISC-Bugs #20916]
f6dc164f 365
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366- Fix the trace code to handle timing events better and to truncate a file
367 before using instead of overwriting it. [ISC-Bugs #20969]
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369- Modify the determination of the default TTL to use for DDNS updates.
370 The user may still configure the ttl via ddns-ttl. The default for
371 both v4 and v6 is now 1/2 the (preferred) lease time with a limit. The
372 previous defaults (1/2 lease time without a limit for v4 and a default
373 value for v6) may be used by defining USE_OLD_DDNS_TTL in site.h
374 [ISC-Bugs #21126]
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376- libisc/libdns is now brought up to version 9.7.1rc1. This corrects
377 three reported flaws in ISC DHCP;
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379 o DHCP processes (dhcpd, dhclient) fail to start if one of either the
380 IPv4 or IPv6 address families is not present. [ISC-Bugs #21122]
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382 o Assertion failure when attempting to cancel a previously running DDNS
383 update. [ISC-Bugs #21133]
9f9265b6 384
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385 o Compilation failure of libisc/libdns due to the use of a flexible
386 array member. [ISC-Bugs #21316]
9f9265b6 387
01a44a77 388- Add declaration for variable in debug code in alloc.c. [ISC-Bugs #21472]
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390- Documentation cleanup covering multiple tickets
391 [ISC-Bugs #20265] [ISC-Bugs #20259] minor cleanup
392 [ISC-Bugs #20263] add text describing some default values
393 [ISC-Bugs #20193] single quotes at the start of a line indicate a control
394 line to nroff, escape them if we actually want a quote.
395 [ISC-Bugs #18916] sync the pointer to web pages amongst the different docs
de87ffe3 396
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397- 'get-host-names true;' now also works even if 'use-host-decl-names true;'
398 was also configured. The nature of this repair also fixes another
399 error; the host-name supplied by a client is no longer overridden by a
400 reverse lookup of the lease address. Thanks to a patch from Wilco Baan
401 Hofman supplied to us by the Debian package maintenance team.
402 [ISC-Bugs #21691] {Debian Bug#509445}
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404- The .TH tag for the dhcp-options manpage was typo repaired
405 thanks to a report from jidanni and the Debian package maintenance
406 team. [ISC-Bugs #21676] {Debian Bug#563613}
3bedb117 407
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408- More documentation changes - primarily to put the options in the dhclient
409 and dhcpd man pages into the standard form. Thanks in part to a patch
410 from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
411 [ISC-Bugs #20264] and parts of [ISC-Bugs #17744] dhclient.8 changes
18a28679 412
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413- Add code to clear the pointer to an object in an OMAPI handle when the
414 object is freed due to a dereference. [ISC-Bugs #21306]
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416- Fixed a bug that leaks host record references onto lease structures,
417 causing the server to apply configuration intended for one host to any
418 other innocent clients that come along later. [ISC-Bugs #22018]
67b2cb45 419
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420- Minor code fixes
421 [ISC-Bugs #19566] When trying to find the zone for a name for ddns allow
422 the name to be at the apex of the zone.
423 [ISC-Bugs #19617] Restrict length of interface name read from command line
424 in dhcpd - based on a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
425 [ISC-Bugs #20039] Correct some error messages in dhcpd.c
426 [ISC-Bugs #20070] Better range check on values when creating a DHCID.
427 [ISC-Bugs #20198] Avoid writing past the end of the field when adding
428 overly long file or server names to a packet and add a log message
429 if the configuration supplied overly long names for these fields.
430 Thanks to Martin Pala.
431 [ISC-Bugs #21497] Add a little more randomness to rng seed in client
432 thanks to a patch from Jeremiah Jinno.
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01a44a77 434- Correct error handling in DLPI [ISC-Bugs #20378]
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436- Remove __sun__ and __hpux__ typedefs in osdep.h as they are now being
437 checked in configure. [ISC-Bugs #20443]
dbd65517 438
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439- Modify how the cmsg header is allocated the v6 send and received routines
440 to compile on more compilers. [ISC-Bugs #20524]
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442- When parsing a domain name free the memory for the name after we are
443 done with it. [ISC-Bugs #20824]
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445- Add an elapsed time option to the release message and refactor the
446 code to move most of the common code to a single routine.
447 [ISC-Bugs #21171].
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449- Two identical log messages for commit_leases() have been disambiguated.
450 [ISC-Bugs #18915]
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452- Parse date strings more properly - the code now handles semi-colons in
453 date strings correctly. Thanks to a patch from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
454 [ISC-Bugs #21501, #20598]
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456- Fixes to lease input and output.
457 [ISC-Bugs #20418] - Some systems don't support the "%s" argument to
458 strftime, paste together the same string using mktime instead.
459 [ISC-Bugs #19596] - When parsing iaid values accept printable
460 characters.
461 [ISC-Bugs #21585] - Always print time values in omshell as hex
462 instead of ascii if the values happen to be printable characters.
87132514 463
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464- Minor changes for scripts, configure.ac and Makefiles
465 [ISC-Bugs #19147] Use domain-search instead of domain-name in manual and
466 example conf file. Thanks to a patch from David Cantrell
467 at Red Hat.
468 [ISC-Bugs #19761] Restore address when doing a rebind in DHCPv6
469 [ISC-Bugs #19945] Properly close the quote on some arguments.
470 [ISC-Bugs #20952] Add 64 bit types to configure.ac
471 [ISC-Bugs #21308] Add "PATH=" to CLIENT_PATH envrionment variable
b047bd38 472
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473- Update the code to parse dhcpv6 lease files to accept a semi-colon at
474 the end of the max-life and preferred-life clauses. In order to be
475 backwards compatible with older lease files not finding a semi-colon
476 is also accepted. [ISC-Bugs #22303].
e3c94800 477
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478! Handle a relay forward message with an unspecified address in the
479 link address field. Previously such a message would cause the
480 server to crash. Thanks to a report from John Gibbons. [ISC-Bugs #21992]
481 CERT: VU#102047 CVE: CVE-2010-3611
dd9237c3 482
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483- ./configure on longer searches for -lcrypto to explicitly link against.
484 This fixes a bug where 'dhclient' would have shared library dependencies
485 on '/usr/lib'. [ISC-Bugs #21967]
d13db163 486
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487- Handle pipe failures more gracefully. Some OSes pass a SIGPIPE
488 signal to a process and will kill the process if the signal isn't
489 caught. This patch adds code to turn off the SIGPIPE signal via
490 a setsockopt() call. The signal is already being ignored as part
491 of the ISC library. [ISC-Bugs #22269]
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493- Restore printing of values in omshell to the style pre 21585. For
494 21585 we changed the print routines to always display time values
495 as a hex list. This had a side effect of printing all data strings
496 as a hex list. We shall investigate other ways of displaying time
497 values more usefully. [ISC-Bugs #22626]
797aab67 498
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499! Fix the handling of connection requests on the failover port.
500 Previously a connection request from a source that wasn't
501 listed as a failover peer would cause the server to become
502 non-responsive. Thanks to a report from Brad Bendily, brad@bendily.com.
503 [ISC-Bugs #22679]
504 CERT: VU#159528 CVE: CVE-2010-3616
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506- Don't pass the ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to the omapi signal handlers.
507 Passing it through to the handlers caused the omshell program to fail
508 to connect to the server. [ISC-Bugs #21839]
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510- Fix the paranthesis in the code to process configuration statements
511 beginning with "auth". The previous arrangement caused
512 "auto-partner-down" to be processed incorrectly. [ISC-Bugs #21854]
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514- Limit the timeout period allowed in the dispatch code to 2^^32-1 seconds.
515 Thanks to a report from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
516 [ISC-Bugs #22033], [Red Hat Bug #628258]
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518- When processing the format flags for a given option consume the
519 flag indicating an optional value correctly. A symptom of this
520 bug was an infinite loop when trying to parse the slp-service-scope
521 option. Thanks to a patch from Marius Tomaschewski.
522 [ISC-Bugs #22055]
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524- Disable the use of kqueue in the ISC library. This avoids a problem
525 between the fork and socket code that caused the dhcpd process to
526 use all available cpu if the program daemonized itself.
527 [ISC-Bugs #21911]
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529! When processing a request in the DHCPv6 server code that specifies
530 an address that is tagged as abandoned (meaning we received a
531 decline request for it previously) don't attempt to move it from
532 the inactive to active pool as doing so can result in the server
533 crashing on an assert failure. Also retag the lease as active
534 and reset its timeout value.
535 [ISC-Bugs #21921]
536
537- Removed the restriction on using IPv6 addresses in IPv4 mode. This
538 allows IPv4 options which contain IPv6 addresses to be specified. For
539 example the 6rd option can be specified and used like this:
540 [ISC-Bugs #23039]
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542 option 6rd code 212 = { integer 8, integer 8,
543 ip6-address, array of ip-address };
544 option 6rd 16 10 2001:: 1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8;
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546- Handle some DDNS corner cases better. Maintain the DDNS transaction
547 information when updating a lease and cancel any existing transactions
548 when removing the ddns information.
549 [ISC-Bugs #23103]
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551- Some fixes for LDAP
552 [ISC-Bugs #21783] - Include lber library when building ldap
553 [ISC-Bugs #22888] - Enable the ldap code when buidling common
554 The above fixes are from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
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556- Modify the dlpi code to accept getmsg() returning a positive value.
557 [ISC-Bugs #22824]
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559! In dhclient check the data for some string options for
560 reasonableness before passing it along to the script that
561 interfaces with the OS.
562 [ISC-Bugs #23722]
563 CVE: CVE-2011-0997
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565- DHCPv6 server now responds properly if client asks for a prefix that
566 is already assigned to a different client. [ISC-Bugs #23948]
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568- Add the option "--no-pid" to the client, relay and server code,
569 to disable writing a pid file. Add the option "-pf pidfile"
570 to the relay to allow the user to supply the pidfile name at
571 runtime. Add the "with-relay6-pid-file" option to configure
572 to allow the user to supply the pidfile name for the relay
573 in v6 mode at configure time.
574 [ISC-Bugs #23351] [ISC-Bugs #17541]
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576- 'dhclient' no longer waits a random interval after first starting up to
577 begin in the INIT state. This conforms to RFC 2131, but elects not to
578 implement a 'SHOULD' direction in section 4.1. The goal of this change
73c83820 579 is to start up faster. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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581- Added 'initial-delay' parameter that specifies maximum amount of time
582 before client goes to the INIT state. The default value is 0. In previous
583 versions of the code client could wait up to 5 seconds. The old behavior
584 may be restored by using 'initial-delay 5;' in the client config file.
73c83820 585 [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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587- ICMP ping-check should now sit closer to precisely the number of seconds
588 configured (or default 1), due to making use of the new microsecond
589 scale timer internally to dhcpd. This corrects a bug where the server
590 may immediately timeout an ICMP ping-check if it was made late in the
73c83820 591 current second. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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593- The DHCP client will schedule renewal and rebinding events in
594 microseconds if the DHCP server provided a lease-time that would result
595 in sub-1-second timers. This corrects a bug where a 2-second or lower
596 lease-time would cause the DHCP client to enter an infinite loop by
73c83820 597 scheduling renewal at zero seconds. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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599- Client lease records are recorded at most once every 15 seconds. This
600 keeps the client from filling the lease database disk quickly on very small
73c83820 601 lease times. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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603- To defend against RFC 2131 non-compliant DHCP servers which fail to
604 advertise a lease-time (either mangled, or zero in value) the DHCP
605 client now adds the server to the reject list ACL and returns to INIT
606 state to hopefully find an RFC 2131 compliant server (or retry in INIT
73c83820 607 forever). [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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609- Parameters configured to evaluate from user defined function calls can
610 now be correctly written to dhcpd.leases (as on 'on events' or dynamic
611 host records inserted via OMAPI). [ISC-Bugs #22266]
612
613- If a 'next-server' parameter is configured in a dynamic host record via
614 OMAPI as a domain name, the syntax written to disk is now correctly parsed
615 upon restart. [ISC-Bugs #22266]
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617- The DHCP server now responds to DHCPLEASEQUERY messages from agents using
618 IP addresses not covered by a subnet in configuration. Whether or not to
619 respond to such an agent is still governed by the 'allow leasequery;'
620 configuration parameter, in the case of an agent not covered by a configured
621 subnet the root configuration area is examined. Server now also returns
622 vendor-class-id option, if client sent it. [ISC-Bugs #21094]
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624- Documentation fixes
625 [ISC-Bugs #17959] add text to AIX section describing how to have it send
626 responses to the all-ones address.
627 [ISC-Bugs #19615] update the includes in dhcpctl/dhcpctl.3 to be more correct
628 [ISC-Bugs #20676] update dhcpd.conf.5 to include the RFC numbers for DDNS
629
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630- Relay no longer crashes, when DHCP packet is received over interface without
631 any IPv4 address assigned. Also extended logging message about discarding
632 packets with invalid hlen with information about relevant interface name.
633 [ISC-Bugs #22409]
634
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635- Relay now properly logs that packet was received over interface without
636 global IPv6 address [ISC-Bugs #24070]
637
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638- Linux Packet Filter interface improvement. sockaddr_pkt structure is used,
639 rather than sockaddr. Packet ethertype is now forced to ETH_P_IP.
640 [ISC-Bugs #18975]
641
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642- Minor code cleanups - but note port change for #23196
643 [ISC-Bugs #23470] - Modify when an ignore return macro is defined to
644 handle unsed error return warnings for more versions of gcc.
645 [ISC-Bugs #23196] - Modify the reply handling in the server code to
646 send to a specified port rather than to the source port for the incoming
647 message. Sending to the source port was test code that should have
648 been removed. The previous functionality may be restored by defining
649 REPLY_TO_SOURCE_PORT in the includes/site.h file. We suggest you don't
650 enable this except for testing purposes.
651 [ISC-Bugs #22695] - Close a file descriptor in an error path.
652 [ISC-Bugs #19368] - Tidy up variable types in validate_port.
653
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654- Code cleanup: remove obsolete PROTO, KandR, INLINE and ANSI_DECL macros
655 [ISC-Bugs #13151]
656
657- Compilation problem with gcc4.5 and omshell.c resolved. [ISC-Bugs #23831]
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659- Client Script fixes
660 [ISC-Bugs #23045] Typos in client/scripts/openbsd
661 [ISC-Bugs #23565] In the client scripts add a zone id (interface id) if
662 the domain search address is link local.
663 [ISC-Bugs #1277] In some of the client scripts add code to handle the
664 case of the default router information being changed without the address
665 being changed.
666
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667- Documentation cleanup
668 [ISC-Bugs #23326] Updated References document, several man page updates
669
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670- Server no longer complains about NULL pointer when configured
671 server-identifier expression fails to evaluate. [ISC-Bugs #24547]
672
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673- Convert ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to ISC_R_SUCCESS when called from other
674 than the dispatch handler. This fixes an issue where omshell, when
675 run from the same platform as the server, would appear to fail to
676 connect. This is a companion to #21839. [ISC-Bugs #23592]
677
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678- Enlarge the buffer size used by the Omshell code and some of the
679 print routines to allow for greater than 60 characters or, when
680 printing as hex strings, 20 characters. [ISC-Bugs #22743]
681
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682- In Solaris 11 switch to using sockets instead of DLPI, thanks
683 to a patch form Oracle. [ISC-Bugs #24634].
684
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685- Strict checks for content of domain-name DHCPv4 option can now be
686 configured during compilation time. Even though RFC2132 does not allow
687 to store more than one domain in domain-name option, such behavior is
688 now enabled by default, but this may change some time in the future.
689 See ACCEPT_LIST_IN_DOMAIN_NAME define in includes/site.h.
690 [ISC-Bugs #24167]
691
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692- DNS Update fix. A misconfigured server could crash during DNS update
693 processing if the configuration included overlapping pools or
694 multiple fixed-address entries for a single address. This issue
695 affected both IPv4 and IPv6. The fix allows a server to detect such
696 conditions, provides the user with extra information and recommended
697 steps to fix the problem. If the user enables the appropriate option
698 in site.h then server will be terminated
699 [ISC-Bugs #23595]
700
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701! Two packets were found that cause a server to halt. The code
702 has been updated to properly process or reject the packets as
703 appropriate. Thanks to David Zych at University of Illinois
704 for reporting this issue. [ISC-Bugs #24960]
705 One CVE number for each class of packet.
706 CVE-2011-2748
707 CVE-2011-2749
708
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709- Fix the code that checks for an existing DDNS transaction to cancel
710 when removing DDNS information, so that we will continue with the
711 processing if we have a lease even if it doesn't have an outstanding
712 transaction. [ISC-Bugs #24682]
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714- Add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to configure.ac to avoid rebuilding
715 configuration files. [ISC-Bugs #24107]
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717- Add support for passing DDNS information to a DNS server over
718 an IPv6 address. [ISC-Bugs #22647]
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720- Enhanced patch for 23595 to handle IPv4 fixed addresses more
721 cleanly. [ISC-Bugs #23595]
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723! Add a check for a null pointer before calling the regexec function.
724 Without this check we could, under some circumstances, pass
725 a null pointer to the regexec function causing it to segfault.
726 Thanks to a report from BlueCat Networks.
727 [ISC-Bugs #26704].
728 CVE: CVE-2011-4539
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730! Modify the DDNS handling code. In a previous patch we added logging
731 code to the DDNS handling. This code included a bug that caused it
732 to attempt to dereference a NULL pointer and eventually segfault.
733 While reviewing the code as we addressed this problem, we determined
734 that some of the updates to the lease structures would not work as
735 planned since the structures being updated were in the process of
736 being freed: these updates were removed. In addition we removed an
737 incorrect call to the DDNS removal function that could cause a failure
738 during the removal of DDNS information from the DNS server.
739 Thanks to Jasper Jongmans for reporting this issue.
740 [ISC-Bugs #27078]
741 CVE: CVE-2011-4868
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743- Fixed the code that checks if an address the server is planning
744 to hand out is in a reserved range. This would appear as
745 the server being out of addresses in pools with particular ranges.
746 [ISC-Bugs #26498]
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748- In the DDNS code handle error conditions more gracefully and add more
749 logging code. The major change is to handle unexpected cancel events
750 from the DNS client code.
751 [ISC-Bugs #26287]
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753- Tidy up the receive calls and eliminate the need for found_pkt.
754 [ISC-Bugs #25066]
755
756- Add support for Infiniband over sockets to the server and
757 relay code. We've tested this on Solaris and hope to expand
758 support for Infiniband in the future. This patch also corrects
759 some issues we found in the socket code.
760 [ISC-Bugs #24245]
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762- Add a compile time check for the presence of the noreturn attribute
763 and use it for log_fatal if it's available. This will help code
764 checking programs to eliminate false positives.
765 [ISC-Bugs #27539]
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767- Fixed many compilation problems ("set, but not used" warnings) for
768 gcc 4.6 that may affect Ubuntu 11.10 users. [ISC-Bugs #27588]
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770- Modify the code that determines if an outstanding DDNS request
771 should be cancelled. This patch results in cancelling the
772 outstanding request less often. It fixes the problem caused
773 by a client doing a release where the TXT and PTR records
774 weren't removed from the DNS.
775 [ISC-BUGS #27858]
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777- Use offsetof() instead of sizeof() to get the sizes for dhcpv6_relay_packet
778 and dhcpv6_packet in several more places. Thanks to a report from
779 Bruno Verstuyft and Vincent Demaertelaere of Excentis.
780 [ISC-Bugs #27941]
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782- Remove outdated note in the description of the bootp keyword about the
783 option not satisfying the requirement of failover peers for denying
784 dynamic bootp clients.
785 [ISC-bugs #28574]
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787- Multiple items to clean up IPv6 address processing.
788 When processing an IA that we've seen check to see if the
789 addresses are usable (not in use by somebody else) before
790 handing it out.
791 When reading in leases from the file discard expired addresses.
792 When picking an address for a client include the IA ID in
793 addition to the client ID to generally pick different addresses
794 for different IAs.
795 [ISC-Bugs #23138] [ISC-Bugs #27945] [ISC-Bugs #25586]
796 [ISC-Bugs #27684]
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798- Remove unnecessary checks in the lease query code and clean up
799 several compiler issues (some dereferences of NULL and treating
800 an int as a boolean).
801 [ISC-Bugs #26203]
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803- Fix the NA and PD allocation code to handle the case where a client
804 provides a preference and the server doesn't have any addresses or
805 prefixes available. Previously the server ignored the request with
806 this patch it replies with a NoAddrsAvail or NoPrefixAvail response.
807 By default the code performs according to the errata of August 2010
808 for RFC 3315 section 17.2.2; to enable the previous style see the
809 section on RFC3315_PRE_ERRATA_2010_08 in includes/site.h. This option
810 may be removed in the future.
811 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
812 [ISC-Bugs #22676]
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814- Fix up some issues found by static analysis.
815 A potential memory leak and NULL dereference in omapi.
816 The use of a boolean test instead of a bitwise test in dst.
817 [ISC-Bugs #28941]
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819- Rotate the lease file when running in v6 mode.
820 Thanks to Christoph Moench-Tegeder at Astaro for the
821 report and the first version of the patch.
822 [ISC-Bugs #24887]
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824- Correct code to calculate timing values in client to compare
825 rebind value to infinity instead of renew value.
826 Thanks to Chenda Huang from H3C Technologies Co., Limited
827 for reporting this issue.
828 [ISC-Bugs #29062]
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830- Fix some issues in the code for parsing and printing options.
831 [ISC-Bugs #22625] - properly print options that have several fields
832 followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
833 [ISC-Bugs #27289] - properly parse options in declarations that have
834 several fields followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
835 [ISC-Bugs #27296] - properly determine if we parsed a 16 or 32 bit
836 value in evaluate_numeric_expression (extract-int).
837 [ISC-Bugs #27314] - properly parse a zero length option from
838 a lease file. Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski from SUSE for the report
839 and prototype patch for this ticket as well as ticket 27289.
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841! Previously the server code was relaxed to allow packets with zero
842 length client ids to be processed. Under some situations use of
843 zero length client ids can cause the server to go into an infinite
844 loop. As such ids are not valid according to RFC 2132 section 9.14
845 the server no longer accepts them. Client ids with a length of 1
846 are also invalid but the server still accepts them in order to
847 minimize disruption. The restriction will likely be tightened in
848 the future to disallow ids with a length of 1.
849 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
850 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
851 [ISC-Bugs #29851]
852 CVE: CVE-2012-3571
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854! When attempting to convert a DUID from a client id option
855 into a hardware address handle unexpected client ids properly.
856 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
857 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
858 [ISC-Bugs #29852]
859 CVE: CVE-2012-3570
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861! A pair of memory leaks were found and fixed. Thanks to
862 Glen Eustace of Massey University, New Zealand for finding
863 this issue.
864 [ISC-Bugs #30024]
865 CVE: CVE-2012-3954
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867- Existing legacy unit-tests have been migrated to Automated Test
868 Framework (ATF). Several new tests have been developed. To enable
869 unit-tests, please use --with-atf in configure script. A Developer's
870 Guide has been added. To generate it, please use make devel in
871 the doc directory. It is currently in early stages of development,
872 but is expected to grow in the near future. [ISC-Bugs 25901]
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874! An issue with the use of lease times was found and fixed. Making
875 certain changes to the end time of an IPv6 lease could cause the
876 server to abort. Thanks to Glen Eustace of Massey University,
877 New Zealand for finding this issue.
878 [ISC-Bugs #30281]
879 CVE: CVE-2012-3955
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881- Update the memory leakage debug code to work with v6.
882 [ISC-Bugs #30297]
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884- Relax the requirements for deleting an A or AAAA record.
885 Previously the DDNS removal code required both the A or AAAA
886 record and the TXT record to exist. This requirement could
887 cause problems if something interrupted the removal leaving
888 the TXT record alone. This relaxation was codified in RFC 4703.
889 [ISC-Bugs #30734]
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891- Modify the failover code to handle incorrect peer names
892 better. Previously the structure holding the name might
893 have been freed inappropriately in some cases and not
894 freed in other cases.
895 [ISC-Bugs #30320]
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897- Add a configure option, enable-secs-byteorder, to deal with
898 clients that do the byte ordering on the secs field incorrectly.
899 This field should be in network byte order but some clients
900 get it wrong. When this option is enabled the server will examine
901 the secs field and if it looks wrong (high byte non zero and low
902 byte zero) swap the bytes. The default is disabled. This option
903 is only useful when doing load balancing within failover.
904 [ISC-Bugs #26108]
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906- Fix a set of issues that were discovered via a code inspection
907 tool. Thanks to Jiri Popelka and Tomas Hozza Red Hat for the logs
908 and patches.
909 [ISC-Bugs #23833]
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911- Parsing unquoted base64 strings improved. Parser now properly handles
912 strings that contain reserved names. [ISC-Bugs #23048]
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914- Modify the nak_lease function to make some attempts to find a
915 server-identifier option to use for the NAK.
916 [ISC-Bugs #25689]
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918- The client now passes information about the options it requested
919 from the server to the script code via environment variables.
920 These variables are of the form requested_<option_name>=1 with
921 the option name being the same as used in the new_* and old_*
922 variables.
923 [ISC-Bugs #29068]
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925- Add support for a simple check that the server id in a request message
926 to a failover peer matches the server id of the server. This support
927 is enabled by editing the file includes/site.h and uncommenting the
928 definition for SERVER_ID_CHECK. The option has several restrictions
929 and issues - please read the comment in the site.h file before
930 enabling it.
931 [ISC-Bugs #31463]
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933- Tidy up some compiler issues in the debug code.
934 [ISC-Bugs #26460]
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936- Move the dhcpd.conf exmample file to dhcpd.conf.example to avoid
937 overwriting the dhcpd.conf file when installing a new version of
938 ISC DHCP. The user will now need to manual copy and edit the
939 dhcpd.conf file as desired.
940 [ISC-Bugs #19337]
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942- Check the status value when trying to read from a connection to
943 see if it may have been closed. If it appears closed don't try
944 to read from it again. This avoids a potential busy-wait like
945 loop when the peer names are mismatched.
946 [ISC-Bugs #31231]
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948- Remove an unused variable to keep compilers happy.
949 [ISC-Bugs #31983]
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951- Modify test makefiles to be more similar to standard makefiles
952 and comment out a currently unused test.
953 [ISC-Bugs #32089]
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955- Address static analysis warnings.
956 [ISC-Bugs #33510] [ISC-Bugs #33511]
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958- Silence benign static analysis warnings.
959 [ISC-Bugs #33428]
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961- Add check for 64-bit package for atf.
962 [ISC-Bugs #32206]
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964- Use newer auto* tool packages and turn on RFC_3542 support on Mac OS.
965 [ISC-Bugs #26303]
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967- Remove a variable when it isn't being used due to #ifdefs to avoid
968 a compiler warning on Solaris using GCC.
969 [ISC-Bugs #33032]
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971- Add a check for too much whitespace in a config or lease file.
972 Thanks to Paolo Pellegrino for finding the issue and a suggestion
973 for the patch.
974 [ISC-Bugs #33351]
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976- Fix several problems with using OMAPI to manipulate class and subclass
977 objects.
978 [ISC-Bugs #27452]
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980- Added a sleep call after killing the old client to allow time
981 for the sockets to be cleaned. This should allow the -r option
982 to work more consistently.
983 [ISC-Bugs #18175]
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985- Missing files for ISC DHCP Developer's Guide are now included in
986 the release tarballs. To generate this documentation, please use
987 make devel command in doc directory. [ISC-Bugs #32767]
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989- Update client script for use with openwrt.
990 [ISC-Bugs #29843]
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992- Fix the socket handling for DHCPv6 clients to allow multiple instances
993 of a client on a single machine to work properly. Previously only
994 one client would receive the packets. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat
995 for the bug report and a potential patch.
996 [ISC-Bugs #34784]
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998- Added support for gentle shutdown after signal is received.
999 [ISC-Bugs #32692] [ISC-Bugs 34945]
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1001- Enhance the DHCPv6 server logging to include the addresses that are assigned
1002 to the clients.
1003 [ISC-Bugs #26377]
3da71461 1004
01a44a77
SR
1005- Fix an operation in the DDNS code to be a bitwise instead of logical or.
1006 [ISC-Bugs #35138]
fdfebedf 1007
7aa153b8 1008
adbef119
DH
1009 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
1010
d340bc24
DH
1011- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
1012 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 1013 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
adbef119 1014
0829d595
DH
1015- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
1016 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
1017 Cantrell at Red Hat.
1018
8a3c1e33
PS
1019- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
1020 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
1021
a41d7a25
PS
1022- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
1023
9e3eb22a
DH
1024- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
1025 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
1026 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
1027 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
1028 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
1029 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
1030
33ea4622
DH
1031- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
1032 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
1033 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
1034 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
1035 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
1036 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
1037 FQDN options by default).
1038
5a671e87
DH
1039- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
1040 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
1041 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
1042 determined lease time) are omitted.
1043
98bf1607 1044- Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
09afca0d 1045 The DHCP server or client can now continue with its processing while
98bf1607 1046 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
c900c5b2
DH
1047
1048- The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
1049 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
1050 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
1051
59112e84
SR
1052 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
1053
62f6843d
MA
1054- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
1055
59112e84
SR
1056- Validate the argument to the -p option.
1057
47e6eb82
DH
1058- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
1059 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
1060 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
1061 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
1062 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
1063
159c89d7
EH
1064- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
1065
1aa0fe5e
DH
1066- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
1067 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
1068 had been deleted from configuration.
1069
cd51403d
SR
1070- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
1071 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
571c38b0 1072 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
cd51403d
SR
1073 were being ignored.
1074
64e1823d
DH
1075- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
1076
26e59ee9
DH
1077- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
1078 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
1079 Nordahl.
1080
70ea9345
PS
1081- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
1082 dhcpv6 disabled.
1083
8d7dca58 1084- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 1085 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
819186b7 1086
f4534b17
DH
1087- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
1088 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
1089
f9453d21
DH
1090- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
1091 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
1092 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
1093
1094- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
1095 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
1096 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
1097 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
1098 fewer system calls.
1099
a3dcc0b1
DH
1100- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
1101 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
1102 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
1103 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
1104 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
1105 Christof Chen.
1106
95fd7038
DH
1107- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
1108 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
1109 and in normal state.
1110
1111- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
1112 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
1113
8a3c1e33
PS
1114- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
1115
1116- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
1117 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
1118 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
1119
dedde1ba
DH
1120- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
1121 rather than restarting the listener.
1122
a57df74a
DH
1123- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
1124 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
1125
1126- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
1127 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
1128 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
1129
350576c5
DH
1130- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
1131 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
1132 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
1133 timeouts).
1134
792156a9
DH
1135- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
1136 in failover state records.
1137
8a4e543b
DH
1138! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
1139 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
1140 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 1141 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
8a4e543b 1142
a1308b64
DH
1143- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
1144 processing a DHCPINFORM.
1145
1b12d999
DH
1146- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
1147 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
1148 last option definition is used.
1149
d453265f
PS
1150- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
1151 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
1152 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
1153
3e29af1e
PS
1154- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
1155 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
1156
b8d45c67
DH
1157- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
1158 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
1159 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
1160 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
1161 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
1162 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
1163
583c1c16
DH
1164- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
1165 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
1166 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
1167 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
1168
e4e3a2ab
DH
1169! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
1170 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
95f5d38c 1171
875e99dc
SR
1172- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
1173 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
1174
2267da84
DH
1175- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
1176 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
1177 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
1178 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
1179 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
571c38b0 1180 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
2267da84
DH
1181 configuration.
1182
cd3f0b9b
DH
1183- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
1184 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
1185
0493fdca
SR
1186- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
1187 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
1188 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
1189 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
1190
95bba8b6
SR
1191- Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
1192 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
1193 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
1194 was always properly set.
1195
adbef119 1196 Changes since 4.1.0b1
ebf076fe
EH
1197
1198- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
1199 be recognized.
61d75ea2 1200
a4ffedd1
DH
1201 Changes since 4.1.0a2
1202
1203- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
1204 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
1205 "abandoned".
1206
6ff3b26d
FD
1207- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
1208
1387545f
DH
1209- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
1210 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
1211
1212- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
1213 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
1214
1215- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 1216 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
1387545f 1217
399d3dbe
DH
1218- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
1219
fbcee149
DH
1220- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
1221 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
1222 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
1223 in future releases.
1224
f1672d89
DH
1225- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
1226 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
1227
236d3a99
DH
1228- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
1229 'dhclient -6' support.
1230
efa5e6b9
DH
1231- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
1232 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
1233 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
1234 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
1235
7d6180be 1236 Changes since 4.1.0a1
edcb5c46
EH
1237
1238- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
1239
51e7687f
EH
1240- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
1241
20210a7b
EH
1242- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
1243 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
1244 only the latter. Fixed.
1245
535485df
EH
1246- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
1247
8fbb55ff
DH
1248- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
1249 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
1250
61220a00
EH
1251- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
1252
c40e954c
EH
1253- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
1254
63971a83
DH
1255- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
1256 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
1257 --enable-early-chroot.
1258
66cebfcb
DH
1259- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
1260 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
1261
f8cbf390
DH
1262- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
1263 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
1264 parameter.
1265
8269561d
DH
1266- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
1267 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
1268
b445a411
DH
1269- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
1270 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
1271
bd72740e
FD
1272- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
1273
9322442f
FD
1274- Merged IA_XX related structures.
1275
8dea7ba7
FD
1276- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
1277
4619c0a2
DH
1278- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
1279
9ac4206a
DH
1280- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
1281 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
1282 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
1283
420d8b3f
FD
1284- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
1285 support.
1286
40ec5f38
DH
1287- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
1288 repaired.
1289
80097764
FD
1290- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
1291
ffbaa880
FD
1292- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
1293
7de20a95
EH
1294- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
1295 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
1296
d352732e
EH
1297- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
1298 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
1299
7d6180be
DH
1300- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
1301 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
1302
1303- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
1304 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
1305 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
1306 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
1307 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
1308 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
1309 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
1310 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
1311 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
1312 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
1313 shared-network.
1314
1315- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
1316 configured option values.
1317
1318- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
1319 support class statements.
1320
dd484ced
DH
1321- Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
1322 selection were repaired.
1323
ecddae64
DH
1324- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
1325 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
1326 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
1327 by the OS.
1328
1329- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
1330 address.
1331
1332- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
1333 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
1334
d104d45b
DH
1335- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
1336
1337- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
1338
1339- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
1340 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
1341
01a54c17 1342 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
3c12f746 1343
6d7f9584
FD
1344- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
1345
4cafb815 1346- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 1347 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
4cafb815 1348
022fe95e
EH
1349- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
1350 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
1351 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
1352
1dcc3612
SK
1353- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
1354 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
1355
aabfa4de
FD
1356- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
1357
0674055a
FD
1358- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
1359 reserved IDs avoided).
1360
b51c785f
FD
1361- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
1362
900405e9
FD
1363- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
1364 carries a rapid-commit option.
1365
96b620e5
FD
1366- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
1367 an empty active lease.
1368
be62cf06
FD
1369- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
1370
01a54c17
EH
1371- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
1372 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
1373 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
1374 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
1375
1376- MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
1377
1378- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
1379 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
1380 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
1381 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
1382 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
1383 Christof Chen.
1384
1385 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
1386
1387- DHCP now builds on AIX.
1388
1389- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
1390 config file but -6 is not specified.
1391
1392- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
1393
1394- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
1395 be more helpful.
1396
1397- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
1398 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
1399 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
1400
1401- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
1402 was repaired.
1403
1404- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
1405 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
1406 been repaired.
1407
1408- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
1409 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
1410 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
1411
49f61135
DH
1412- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
1413 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
1414
41d4652f
DH
1415- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
1416 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
1417 IPv4 address.
1418
2c9bf1f4
DH
1419- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
1420 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
1421 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
1422 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
1423 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
1424
1425- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
1426 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
1427 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
1428
cff9b78f
SK
1429- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
1430
c4d29896
SK
1431- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
1432
57fcb8d9
SK
1433- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
1434 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
1435 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
1436 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
1437 unnecessary logging.
1438
219a65eb
DH
1439- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
1440 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
1441
ffdf3c8c
DH
1442- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
1443 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
1444 is incompatible is printed.
1445
1446- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
1447 a previously undefined option code.
1448
00a002fc
MA
1449- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
1450 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
1451
7e9f7a1b
FD
1452- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
1453 than the year 2000.
1454
e2cfde76
FD
1455- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
1456
cabdb9b1
FD
1457- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
1458
5d89d60f
FD
1459- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
1460
61d75ea2
DH
1461 Changes since 4.0.0b3
1462
1463- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
1464 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
1465 configuration.
76db44f9 1466
e32529a5
EH
1467- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
1468 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
1469
76db44f9
SK
1470- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
1471 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
1472 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
e4a6be15 1473
6f76de58
SK
1474- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
1475 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
1476 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
1477 a requested address.
1478
703873ab
DH
1479- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
1480 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
1481 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
1482 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
1483
1484- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
1485 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
1486 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
1487 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
1488
b024480e
DH
1489- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
1490 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
1491 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
1492
c0216cb7
DH
1493- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
1494 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
1495
1ac57173
FD
1496- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
1497
83835822
DH
1498- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
1499 codes through some conditions.
1500
c54db708
FD
1501- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
1502 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
1503
e5d83524
DH
1504- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
1505 seemingly random values.
1506
821f2dda
DH
1507- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
1508
f8b3c6f4
DH
1509- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
1510 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
1511 one ever has.
1512
b9137d42
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1513- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
1514 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
1515 to a REQUEST.
1516
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1517- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
1518 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
1519 level.
1520
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1521 Changes since 4.0.0b2
1522
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1523- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
1524
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1525- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
1526 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
1527 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
1528 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
1529 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
1530
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1531- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
1532 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
1533 new address.
1534
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1535 Changes since 4.0.0b1
1536
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1537- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
1538 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
1539 simultaneously on a single interface.
1540
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1541- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
1542 of service under unusual server configurations
1543
1544- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
1545
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1546- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
1547 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
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1549- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
1550 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
1551 on every pool rebalance run.
1552
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1553- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
1554 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
1555
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1556- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
1557 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
1558
ab3a540f 1559 Changes since 4.0.0a3
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1561- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
1562 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
1563
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1564- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
1565 point out the problem.
1566
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1567- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
1568 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
1569 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
1570
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1571- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
1572 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
1573
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1574- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
1575 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
1576 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
1577
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1578- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
1579
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1580- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
1581 fixed by Marcus Goller.
1582
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1583- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
1584 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
1585 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
1586 regardless of the existence of bindings.
1587
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1588- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
1589
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1590- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
1591 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
1592 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
1593 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
1594 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
1595
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1596- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
1597
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1598 Changes since 4.0.0a2
1599
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1600- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
1601 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
1602
763cba6b 1603- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
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1605- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
1606 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
1607 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
1608
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1609- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
1610
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1611- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
1612 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
1613
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1614- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
1615 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
1616 loaded from persistent storage.
1617
45d545f0 1618- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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1619 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
1620 necessary.
1621
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1622- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
1623 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
1624 rapid-commit option.
1625
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1626- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
1627 non-128-bits in length were removed.
1628
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1629 Changes since 4.0.0a1
1630
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1631- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
1632 and fix.
1633
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1634- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
1635
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1636- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
1637
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1638- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
1639 for when loading configuration.
1640
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1641- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
1642 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
1643 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
1644
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1645- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
1646 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
1647 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
1648 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
1649
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1650- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
1651
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1652- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
1653 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 1654
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1655- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
1656
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1657- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
1658
1659- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
1660 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
1661
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1662- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
1663 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
1664
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1665- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
1666
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1667- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
1668 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
1669
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1670 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
1671
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1672- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
1673
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1674- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
1675 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
1676
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1677- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
1678
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1679- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
1680 initialized.
1681
1682- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
1683
1684- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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1685 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
1686
1687- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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1689- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
1690
1691- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
1692 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
1693
1694- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
1695
8ea19a71 1696- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 1697 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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1698
1699- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
1700 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
1701
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1702- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
1703
1704- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
1705
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1706- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
1707
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1708 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
1709
1710- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
1711 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
1712 no support currently for both.
1713
1714- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
1715 IAADDR option.
1716
1717- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
1718 options.
1719
1720- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
1721
1722- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
1723 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
1724
1725- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
1726 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
1727 specifying type 1 or type 2).
1728
1729- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
1730 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
1731
1732- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
1733 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
1734 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
1735 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
1736 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
1737 differently, they both use the same code here).
1738
1739- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
1740 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
1741 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
1742
1743- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
1744
1745- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
1746 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
1747 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
1748 it should not intercept.
1749
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1750 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
1751
1752- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
1753 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
1754 between primary and secondary.
1755
1756- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
1757 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
1758 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
1759
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1760- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
1761
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1762- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
1763 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
1764 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
1765 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
1766 or REQUEST messages.
1767
1768- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
1769 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
1770
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1771- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
1772
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1773 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
1774
1775- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
1776 failover protected subnets was removed.
1777
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1778 Changes since 3.1.0b2
1779
1780- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
1781 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
1782 odd number of leases).
1783
1784- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
1785 rebalance run, and one after.
1786
1787- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
1788 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
1789 processing these messages.
1790
fe5b0fdd 1791 Changes since 3.1.0b1
27837f95 1792
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1793- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
1794 objects.
1795
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1796- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
1797 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
1798 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
1799 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
1800 at Allianz.
1801
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1802- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
1803 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
1804
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1805- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
1806 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
1807
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1808- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
1809 caused the server to abort.
1810
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1811- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
1812 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
1813 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
1814
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1815- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
1816 by empty spaces would not get included.
1817
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1818- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
1819 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
1820
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1821- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
1822 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
1823
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1824- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
1825 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
1826
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1827- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
1828 on the parameter request list.
1829
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1830 Changes since 3.1.0a3
1831
1832- Some spelling fixes.
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1834 Changes since 3.1.0a2
1835
1836- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
1837 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
1838
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1839- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
1840 domain-search option syntax.
1841
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1842 Changes since 3.1.0a1
1843
1844- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
1845 hash table was repaired.
1846
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1847- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
1848 entering normal state.
1849
1850- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
1851 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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1852 'xid mismatch' log messages.
1853
1854- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
1855 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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1857- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
1858 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
1859 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
1860 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
1861
45d545f0 1862- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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1863 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
1864 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
1865 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
1866 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
1867 to their needs.
1868
1869- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
1870 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
1871 run will attempt balance.
1872
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1873- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
1874
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1875 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
1876
1877- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
1878 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
1879 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
1880 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
1881
98bd7ca0 1882- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 1883 was introduced.
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1884
1885- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
1886 via OMAPI.
1887
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1888- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
1889 the protocol draft.
1890
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1891- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
1892 one does not already exist on the system.
1893
b43c87ad 1894- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 1895
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1896- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
1897 matches RFC 3074.
1898
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1899- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
1900 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 1901 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2727c1cf 1902
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1903- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
1904 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 1905 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 1906
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1907- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
1908 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
1909 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
1910 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
1911
1912- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
1913 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
1914 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
1915 priority over the client's parameter request list.
1916
f7fdb216 1917- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 1918 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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1919 DHCPv6 support.
1920
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1921- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
1922 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
1923 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
1924
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1925- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
1926 have been incorporated.
1927
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1928- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
1929 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
1930 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
1931 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
1932 that belong to the peer in need.
1933
1934- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
1935 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
1936
1937- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
1938 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
1939 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
1940
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1941- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
1942 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
1943
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1944- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
1945 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
1946 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
1947 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
1948 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
1949
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1950- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
1951 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
1952 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
1953 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
1954
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1955- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
1956 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
1957 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
1958 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
1959 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
1960 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
1961 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
1962 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
1963 ignoring this aspect of their request.
1964
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1965- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
1966 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
1967
41e45067 1968- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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1969 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
1970 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
1971 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
1972
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1973- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
1974 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
1975 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
1976 hardware and funding the development.
6d103865 1977
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1978- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
1979 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
1980 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
1981 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
1982 via Robin Breathe.
1983
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1984- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
1985 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
1986 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
1987 from Christof Chen.
1988
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1989- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
1990 formally supported.
1991
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1992 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
1993
1994- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
1995 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
1996
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1997 Changes since 3.0.5
1998
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1999- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
2000 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
2001 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 2002 they actually received.
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2003
2004- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
2005
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2006- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
2007 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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2008 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
2009 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
c1e6c832 2010
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2011- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
2012
d69fb6a8 2013- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 2014 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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2016- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
2017 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
2018 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
2019 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
2020 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
2021 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
2022 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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2023 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
2024
2025- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
2026 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
2027 'file' field.
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2029- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
2030 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
2031
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2032- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
2033 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
2034 a patch from Kevin Steves.
2035
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2036- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
2037 from Chris Wagner.
2038
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2039- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
2040 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
2041 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
2042
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2043- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
2044 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
2045 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
2046 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
2047 was set.
2048
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2049- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
2050 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
2051
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2052- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
2053 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
2054 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
2055 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
2056 active ones.
2057
02428754 2058 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
0a73b7b6 2059
901306d5 2060- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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2061 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
2062 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
2063 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
2064 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
2065
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2066- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
2067 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
2068
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2069 Changes since 3.0.4
2070
2071- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
2072 scopes are actually global has been added.
2073
2074- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
2075 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
2076 known to be damaging.
2077
2078- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
2079 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
2080 balancing).
2081
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2082- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
2083 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
2084 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
2085
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2086- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
2087 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
2088 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
2089
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2090- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
2091 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
2092 more clear now.
2093
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2094- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
2095 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
2096 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
2097 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
2098 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 2099 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
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2101- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
2102 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
2103
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2104- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
2105 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
2106 made possible.
2107
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2108- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
2109 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
2110 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
2111
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2112- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
2113 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
2114
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2115- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
2116 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
2117 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
2118
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2119- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
2120 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
2121 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
2122 value with the later configured value).
2123
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2124- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
2125 have been named and documented.
2126
2127- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
2128 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
2129 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
2130 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
2131 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
2132 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
2133 write new output.
2134
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2135 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
2136
2137- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
2138 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
2139
2140 Changes since 3.0.4b3
2141
2142- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
2143 mailing list.
2144
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2145 Changes since 3.0.4b2
2146
45d545f0 2147- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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2148 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
2149
2150- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
2151 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
2152
2153- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
2154 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
2155 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
2156 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
2157
2158- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
2159 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
2160 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
2161 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
2162 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
2163 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
2164 transition (properly).
2165
2166- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
2167
2168 Changes since 3.0.4b1
2169
2170- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
2171 STDIN after reading one line.
2172
2173- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
2174 descriptor it opened twice.
2175
2176- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
2177 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
2178 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
2179
2180 Changes since 3.0.3
2181
2182- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
2183 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
2184 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
2185
2186- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
2187 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
2188 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
2189
2190- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
2191 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 2192 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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2193 leases to allocate.
2194
2195- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 2196 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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2197 than the entire block of them.
2198
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2199! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
2200 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
2201 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
2202 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
2203 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
2204 to a patch from infamous42md.
2205
2206! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
2207 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
2208 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
2209 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
2210 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
2211 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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2212
2213- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
2214 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
2215 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
2216
2217- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 2218 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2219
2220- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
2221 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
2222 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
2223 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
2224 transitional states.
2225
2226- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
2227 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
2228 once it detects the old db does not exist.
2229
2230- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
2231 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
2232 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
2233
2234- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 2235 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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2236
2237- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
2238 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
2239
2240- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
2241 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
2242 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
2243
2244- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
2245 patch from 'infamous42md'.
2246
2247- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
2248 repaired.
2249
2250- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
2251 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
2252 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
2253 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
2254
2255- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
2256 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
2257 data.
2258
2259- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
2260 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
2261 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
2262 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
2263 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
2264
2265- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
2266 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
2267 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
2268 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
2269 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
2270
2271- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
2272 has been repaired.
2273
2274- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
2275 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
2276 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
2277 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 2278 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2279
2280- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 2281 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
88cd8aca 2282
45d545f0 2283- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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2284 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
2285 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
2286 move to 3.[01].x.
2287
2288- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
2289 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
2290
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2291 Changes since 3.0.3b3
2292
2293- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
2294 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
2295
2296- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
2297 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
2298 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
2299 workaround.
2300
2301 Changes since 3.0.3b2
2302
2303- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
2304 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
2305
2306 Changes since 3.0.3b1
2307
2308- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
2309 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
2310 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
2311
2312- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
2313 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
2314 dynamic updates were also retouched.
2315
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2316 Changes since 3.0.2
2317
2318- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 2319 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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2320 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
2321
2322- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
2323 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
2324 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
2325 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
2326 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
2327
2328- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
2329 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 2330 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2331
2332- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
2333 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 2334 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2335
2336- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
2337 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
2338 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
2339 Peter Poeml.
2340
2341- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
2342 Dr. Peter Poeml.
2343
2344- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
2345 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
2346 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
2347 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
2348 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
2349 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
2350
2351- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
2352 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
2353 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
2354 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
2355
2356- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
2357 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
2358 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
2359 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
2360
2361- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
2362 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
2363
2364- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
2365 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
2366 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
2367
2368- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
2369 7 bytes, and failover.
2370
2371- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
2372 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 2373 at Red Hat.
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2374
2375- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
2376 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
2377 should work better.
2378
2379- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
2380 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
2381 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
2382
2383- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
2384 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
2385 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
2386
2387 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
2388
2389- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
2390 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
2391
2392 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
2393
45d545f0 2394- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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2395 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
2396 overloading. This was repaired.
2397
2398- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
2399 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
2400 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
2401 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
2402 three chunks to fit.
2403
2404- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
2405 were repaired.
2406
2407- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
2408 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
2409 leak).
2410
2411 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
2412
2413- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
2414 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
2415
2416 Changes since 3.0.2b1
2417
2418- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
2419
2420 Changes since 3.0.1
2421
2422- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
2423 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
2424 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
2425
2426- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
2427 name was not provided by the server.
2428
2429- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
2430 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
2431
2432- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
2433 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
2434
2435- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
2436 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
2437
2438- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
2439
2440- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
2441
2442- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
2443 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
2444 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
2445 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
2446 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
2447
2448- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
2449 the configuration be globally scoped.
2450
2451- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
2452 Farkas.
2453
2454- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
2455 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
2456
2457- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
2458 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
2459
2460- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
2461 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2462
2463- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
2464 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
2465 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
2466 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
2467
2468- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
2469 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
2470 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
2471 respond to POOLREQ messages.
2472
2473- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
2474 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
2475 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
2476
2477- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
2478
2479- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
2480 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
2481 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
2482
2483- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
2484 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
2485 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
2486 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
2487 Fjone and directconnect.no.
2488
2489- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
2490 to Andreas Gustafsson.
2491
2492- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
2493 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
2494
2495- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
2496 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
2497 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
2498 DISCOVER timeout handling.
2499
2500- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
2501 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
2502
2503- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
2504 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
2505 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
2506
2507- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
2508 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
2509 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
2510 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
2511 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
2512 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
2513
2514- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
2515 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
2516 Infoblox.
2517
2518- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
2519
2520- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
2521 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
2522 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
2523 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
2524 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
2525 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
2526 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
2527
2528- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
2529 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
2530 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
2531
2532- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
2533 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
2534 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
2535
2536- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
2537
2538 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
2539
2540- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
2541 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
2542 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
2543 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
2544 systems either.
2545
2546- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
2547
2548- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
2549 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
2550 is false.
2551
2552- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
2553 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
2554
2555- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
2556
2557 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
2558
2559! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
2560 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
2561 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
2562 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
2563 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
2564 both finding and solving the problem.
2565
2566! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
45d545f0 2567 in log_*() functions was evidenced, on some specific platforms where
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2568 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
2569 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
2570 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
2571 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
2572 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
2573 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
2574 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
2575 published version of ISC DHCP.
2576
2577- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
2578
2579- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
2580
2581 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
2582
2583- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
2584 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
2585 Richard Hirst.
2586
2587- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
2588 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
2589 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
2590
2591- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
2592
2593- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
2594 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
2595 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
2596 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
2597
2598- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 2599 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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2600
2601- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
2602 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
2603
2604- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
2605
2606 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
2607
2608- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
2609 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
2610
2611- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
2612 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
2613 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
2614
2615- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
2616 by name was fixed.
2617
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2619 longer result in error.
2620
2621- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
2622
2623- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
2624 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
2625 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
2626
2627- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
2628 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
2629
2630- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
2631 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
2632 Blapp.
2633
2634- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
2635 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
2636 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
2637 Martin Blapp.
2638
2639- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
2640 expiry times in failover configurations.
2641
2642- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
2643 Steve G.
2644
2645- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
2646 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
2647
2648- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
2649 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
2650 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
2651 now "unknown-144".
2652
2653- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
2654 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
2655
2656 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
2657
2658- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
2659
2660- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
2661 not be bash.
2662
2663- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
2664
2665- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
2666 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
2667 that errored before will now work properly.
2668
2669- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
2670 names was repaired.
2671
2672- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
2673 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
2674 configuration file.
2675
2676- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
2677 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2678
2679- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
2680 error rather than a null dereference.
2681
2682 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
2683
2684- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
2685
2686- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
2687
2688- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
2689 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
2690
2691- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
2692
2693- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
2694
2695- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
2696 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
2697 self-corrupting lease databases.
2698
2699- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
2700
2701- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
2702 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
2703
2704- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
2705
2706- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
2707
2708- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
2709 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
2710 Ling Gou.
2711
2712- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
2713 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2714
2715- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
2716 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
2717 Ted Lemon for the patch.
2718
2719- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
2720 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
2721
2722 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
2723
2724- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
2725 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
2726
2727- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
2728
2729- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
2730 a memory leak.
2731
2732- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
2733 script.
2734
2735- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
2736
2737- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
2738
2739- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
2740
2741- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
2742
2743- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
2744
2745- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
2746
2747- Increment the hop count when relaying.
2748
2749- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
2750
2751- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
2752
2753- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
2754
2755- Change the type of rbuf_max.
2756
2757- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
2758
2759 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
2760
2761- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
2762 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
2763 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
2764
2765 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
2766
2767- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
2768 to be renewed.
2769
2770- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
2771 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
2772
2773- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
2774 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
2775
2776- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
2777 that two permit lists matched.
2778
2779- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
2780 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
2781
2782- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
2783
2784- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
2785 requested it, contrary to the standard.
2786
2787- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
2788
2789- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
2790
2791- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
2792 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
2793 going to update its A record.
2794
2795- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
2796 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
2797 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
2798 DNS server.
2799
2800- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
2801
2802- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
2803
2804- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
2805 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
2806 NetBSD project).
2807
2808- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
2809 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
2810
2811- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
2812 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
2813
2814- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
2815
2816- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
2817
2818- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
2819 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
2820 failover protocol standard.
2821
2822- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
2823 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
2824 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
2825
2826- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
2827 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
2828 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
2829 do so.
2830
2831- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
2832
2833 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
2834
2835- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
2836
2837- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
2838 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
2839
2840- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
2841 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
2842
2843- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
2844 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
2845 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
2846
2847- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
2848 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
2849 network, merge the two pools.
2850
2851- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
2852 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
2853 fix this bug.
2854
2855 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
2856
2857- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
2858 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
2859
2860- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
2861 the same case.
2862
2863- Additional documentation.
2864
2865- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
2866 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
2867
2868 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
2869
2870- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
2871- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
2872
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2874
2875- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
2876 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
2877 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
2878 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
2879 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
2880
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2882
2883- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
2884 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
2885 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
2886 wasn't the one that removed it.
2887
2888- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
2889 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
2890 were not configured.
2891
2892- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
2893
2894- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
2895 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
2896 routing information.
2897
2898- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
2899 request being sent.
2900
2901- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
2902 done.
2903
2904- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
2905 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
2906 were pending.
2907
2908- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
2909 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
2910 problems with failover.
2911
2912- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
2913 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
2914 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
2915
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2917
2918- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
2919 smash in the subclass allocation code.
2920
2921- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
2922 no object is open, it dumps core.
2923
2924- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
2925
2926- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
2927
2928- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
2929
2930- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
2931 a host object attribute with a null value.
2932
2933 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
2934
2935- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
2936
2937- Fix an obscure core dump.
2938
2939- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
2940 when crucial information is left out.
2941
2942- Log "no free leases" as an error.
2943
2944- Documentation updates.
2945
2946 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
2947
2948- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
2949
2950- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
2951 structure wasn't zeroed.
2952
2953- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
2954 incorrectly.
2955
2956- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
2957 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
2958 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
2959 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
2960 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
2961 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
2962 restarted.
2963
2964 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
2965
2966- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
2967 in failover-enabled pools.
2968
2969- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
2970 declarations).
2971
2972- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
2973 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
2974
2975- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
2976 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
2977
2978- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
2979
2980- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
2981 defined but not referenced by any pools.
2982
2983- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
2984
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2986
2987- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
2988
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2990
2991- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
2992
2993- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
2994
2995- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
2996
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2997 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 1
2998
2999- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
3000 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
3001 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
3002
3003- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
3004 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
3005 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
3006 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
3007 string.
3008
3009- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
3010
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3011 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8
3012
3013- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
3014 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
3015
3016- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
3017 malformed packets.
3018
3019- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
3020
3021- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
3022 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
3023 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
3024
3025- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
3026
3027- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
3028
3029- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
3030
3031- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
3032 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
3033
3034- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
3035 tcp connections from being played back.
3036
3037- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
3038 on exit.
3039
3040- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
3041
3042- Add some configurability to the build system.
3043
3044- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
3045
3046- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
3047 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
3048 hadn't been noticed until now.
3049
3050 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
3051
3052- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
3053 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
3054
3055- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
3056 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
3057 conformant, but also didn't work).
3058
3059- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
3060 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
3061
3062- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
3063 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
3064
3065- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
3066 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
3067
3068- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
3069 variables to leases via OMAPI.
3070
3071- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
3072 doing failover.
3073
3074- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
3075 running on alpha processors.
3076
3077- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
3078 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
3079
3080- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
3081
3082- Install omshell (including new documentation).
3083
3084- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
3085 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
3086
3087- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
3088
3089- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
3090 actually named (key names are domain names).
3091
3092- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
3093
3094- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
3095 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
3096
3097- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
3098 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
3099
3100- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
3101 statements.
3102
3103- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
3104 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
3105
3106- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
3107 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
3108 operating.
3109
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3111
3112- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
3113 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
3114 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
3115 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
3116
3117- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
3118 using omapi to manipulate leases.
3119
3120- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
3121
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3122 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
3123
3124- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
3125 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
3126
3127- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
3128 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
3129 to the chain.
3130
3131- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
3132
3133- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
3134
3135- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
3136
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3138 attribute values in omshell.
3139
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3141
3142- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
3143
3144 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
3145
3146- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
3147 DHCPDECLINE.
3148
3149- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
3150
3151- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
3152 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
3153 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
3154
3155- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
3156
3157- Documentation fixes.
3158
3159- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
3160 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
3161
3162- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
3163 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
3164
3165- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
3166
3167- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
3168
3169- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
3170 case-insensitive.
3171
3172- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
3173
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3175 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
3176 consistently.
3177
3178- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
3179 systems with the probe not working correctly.
3180
3181- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
3182
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3183 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 3
3184
3185- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
3186 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
3187 result of duplicate leases.
3188
3189- Document OMAPI server objects.
3190
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3191 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Patchlevel 1
3192
3193- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
3194 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
3195
3196- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
3197 core dumps.
3198
3199- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
3200 Friedrich.
3201
3202- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
3203
3204 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
3205
3206- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
3207 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 3208 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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3209 billing class code.
3210
3211- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
3212 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
3213
3214- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
3215 trace file.
3216
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3219- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
3220 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
3221 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
3222 e.g., Digital Unix.
3223
3224- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
3225 when no error had occurred.
3226
3227- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
3228 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
3229 non-communicating state.
3230
3231- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
3232
3233- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
3234 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
3235 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
3236
3237- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
3238 when the client lease expired.
3239
3240- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
3241 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
3242 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
3243 in testing.
3244
3245- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
3246 the command line, it would fail.
3247
3248- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
3249 user impact).
3250
3251- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
3252
3253- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
3254 they're executable.
3255
3256 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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3257
3258- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
3259 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
3260 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
3261 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
3262
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3263- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
3264 Transmeta.
3265
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3266- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
3267 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
3268 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
3269 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
3270
3271- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
3272 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
3273
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3274 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 24
3275
3276- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
3277 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
3278
3279- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
3280
3281- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
3282
3283- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
3284
3285- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
3286
3287- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
3288
3289- Update some parts of the README file.
3290
3291- Support GCC on SCO.
3292
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3294
3295- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
3296 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
3297
3298- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
3299 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
3300 unbill the old class.
3301
3302- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
3303 process the state transition immediately.
3304
3305- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
3306 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
3307
3308- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
3309
3310- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
3311
3312- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
3313
3314- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
3315
3316- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
3317 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
3318 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
3319
3320- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
3321 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
3322
3323- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
3324 lease file.
3325
3326- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
3327
3328- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
2aa36519 3329
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3331
3332- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
3333 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
3334
3335- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
3336
adbef119 3337 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 21
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3338
3339- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
3340
adbef119 3341 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 20
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3342
3343- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
3344
3345- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
3346 pl19.
3347
3348- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
3349 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
3350 past the regression test.
3351
adbef119 3352 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 19
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3353
3354- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
3355 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
3356
3357- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
3358 DHCPREQUEST.
3359
3360- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
3361
3362- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
3363
3364- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
3365
adbef119 3366 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 18
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3368- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
3369 (Damien Neil)
3370
3371- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
3372 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
3373
3374- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
3375 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
3376 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
3377
3378- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
3379 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
3380 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
3381 message.
3382
3383- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
3384 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
3385 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
3386
98311e4b 3387- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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3388 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
3389 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
3390 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
3391 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
3392 this way will work.
3393
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3394- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
3395
3396- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
3397 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
3398 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
3399 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
3400
3401 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
3402
3403 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
3404
3405- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
3406 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
3407 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
3408
3409- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
3410 Hermann Lauer.
3411
3412- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
3413 messages.
3414
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3415- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
3416 it contained quoted strings.
3417
b3fad8ac
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3418 ** there was no pl17 **
3419
adbef119 3420 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 16
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3422- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
3423 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
3424 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
3425 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
3426 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
3427 tracking down memory leaks.
3428
3429- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
3430 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
3431 Solaris.
3432
3433- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
3434 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
3435 corruption and core dumps.
3436
3437- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
3438 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
3439
3440- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
3441
3442- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
3443 and implemented by Damien Neil.
3444
3445- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
3446 name and version to standard output.
3447
3448- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
3449
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3450- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
3451 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
3452
6da9db9d
TL
3453- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
3454
3455- Lots of documentation updates.
3456
3457- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
3458 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
3459
3460- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
3461
3462- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
3463 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
3464
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3466
3467- Some documentation tweaks.
3468
3469- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
3470
3471- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
3472
3473- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
3474 agent options into them.
3475
3476- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
3477
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3478- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
3479 options.
3480
adbef119 3481 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 14
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3482
3483- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
3484 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
3485 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
3486 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
3487 used in class statements to control address allocation.
3488
3489- Fix up documentation.
3490
3491- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
3492 significantly in a high-demand situation.
3493
3494- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
3495
3496- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
3497
3498- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
3499 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
3500 practical use otherwise.
3501
3502- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
3503 for debugging.
3504
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3506
3507- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
3508 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
3509 dump on some systems.
3510
3511- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
3512 option.
3513
3514- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
3515 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
3516
3517- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
3518 that were not printing enough information.
3519
3520- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
3521 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
3522
3523- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
3524 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
3525 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
3526 were answering.
3527
3528- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
3529 the transition.
3530
3531
adbef119 3532 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 12
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3533
3534- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
3535
a1e2e3d6
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3536 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
3537
3538- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
3539 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
3540 representation from working correctly.
3541
3542- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
3543 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
3544 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
3545 could spin.
3546
3547- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
3548 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
3549
3550- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
3551 interface name on the command line.
3552
3553- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
3554 client state.
3555
3556- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
3557 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
3558 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
3559 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
3560 added by Ted Lemon.
3561
3562- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
3563 be made to log debugging information and other information.
3564
3565- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
3566 end option.
3567
3568- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
3569 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
3570 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
3571
3572- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
3573 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
3574 face of a null hardware address on input.
3575
3576- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
3577 specified unqualified.
3578
3579- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
3580 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
3581
3582- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
3583 RFC.
3584
3585- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
3586
3587- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
3588
3589- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
3590 it works.
3591
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3592 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
3593
3594- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
3595 to CVS.
3596
9fd337e7
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3597 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
3598
3599- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
3600
3601- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
3602 in patchlevel 9.
3603
3604- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
3605 options at renewal time.
3606
3607- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
3608 configuration language.
3609
3610- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
3611
3612- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
3613 done when no client hostname was received.
3614
3615- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
3616
3617- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
3618 the DHCP option space.
3619
3620- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
3621
3622- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
3623 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
3624
3625- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
3626 silently dropped.
3627
3628- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
3629 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
3630
3631- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
3632 will be correctly updated.
3633
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3634 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
3635
3636- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
3637 bounds-checking.
3638
3639 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
848c2547
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3640
3641- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
3642
3922772a 3643 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 6
0f6045f8 3644
f8572308
TL
3645- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
3646 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
3647 possible to exploit it any further than that.
3648
3649- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
3650 option.
3651
3652- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
3653 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
3654 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
3655 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
3656 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
3657 meaningfully.
3658
3659- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
3660 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
3661 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
3662
3663- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
3664 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
3665 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
3666 this one down!
3667
3668- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
3669 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
3670 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
3671 down and fixing this problem.
3672
3673 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
3674
0f6045f8
TL
3675- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
3676 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
3677
3678- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
3679 environment.
3680
3681- Fix suffix operator.
3682
3683- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
3684
3685- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
3686 connection code.
3687
3688- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
3689
3690- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
3691
3692- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
3693 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
3694
3695- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
3696
3697- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
3698
3699- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
3700 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
3701
3702- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
3703 spawn with.
3704
3705- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
3706 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
3707
3708- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
3709 for OMAPI.
3710
3711- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
3712 can install in host declarations.
3713
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3714 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
3715
3716- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
3717 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
3718 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
3719 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
3720 comments)!
3721
3722- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
3723
6ed7a93d
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3724- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
3725 request for help on this with patches!
3726
3727- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
3728 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
3729 lost, they never reconnect.
3730
3731- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
3732 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
3733
3734- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
3735 dump.
3736
3737- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
3738 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
3739 catching this one.
3740
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3741 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
3742
3743- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 3744 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
490eb5e7
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3745 lease renewal time.
3746
3747- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
3748 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
3749 declared without a key.
3750
3751- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
3752
3753- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
3754 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
3755
3756- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
3757 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
3758 determine the maximum size of the response.
3759
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3760 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
3761
359b023e
TL
3762- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
3763 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
3764
592d8153
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3765- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
3766 RENEWING client.
3767
3768- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
3769
3770- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
3771 using memcmp().
3772
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3773 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
3774
3775- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
3776 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
3777 pointing this out.
3778
3779- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
3780 exit.
3781
3782- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
3783
3784- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
3785 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.