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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
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2 Version 4.2.0
3 21 December 2012
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0171be2d 5 Release Notes
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0171be2d 7 NEW FEATURES
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9ISC DHCP 4.2.x includes features that were not included in DHCP 4.1.x.
10These include:
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12Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
13The DHCP server or client can now continue with it's processing while
14awaiting replies from the DNS server.
15
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16There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
17release, which will be addressed in the future:
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01a54c17 19- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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21- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages, in
22 English. A method to reconfigure or support other languages would
23 be preferrable.
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24
25- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
26
98bd7ca0 27- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 28 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 29 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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31For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as
32well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the
33README file.
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35ISC DHCP uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please review the
36output of "./configure --help" to see what options are available.
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38The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and may not
39work on other platforms. Please report any problems and suggested fixes to
40<dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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42 Changes since 4.2.1
43
44! In dhclient check the data for some string options for
45 reasonableness before passing it along to the script that
46 interfaces with the OS.
47 [ISC-Bugs #23722]
48 CVE: CVE-2011-0997
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49
50- DHCPv6 server now responds properly if client asks for a prefix that
51 is already assigned to a different client. [ISC-Bugs #23948]
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53- Add the option "--no-pid" to the client, relay and server code,
54 to disable writing a pid file. Add the option "-pf pidfile"
55 to the relay to allow the user to supply the pidfile name at
56 runtime. Add the "with-relay6-pid-file" option to configure
57 to allow the user to supply the pidfile name for the relay
58 in v6 mode at configure time.
59 [ISC-Bugs #23351] [ISC-Bugs #17541]
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61- 'dhclient' no longer waits a random interval after first starting up to
62 begin in the INIT state. This conforms to RFC 2131, but elects not to
63 implement a 'SHOULD' direction in section 4.1. The goal of this change
73c83820 64 is to start up faster. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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66- Added 'initial-delay' parameter that specifies maximum amount of time
67 before client goes to the INIT state. The default value is 0. In previous
68 versions of the code client could wait up to 5 seconds. The old behavior
69 may be restored by using 'initial-delay 5;' in the client config file.
73c83820 70 [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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72- ICMP ping-check should now sit closer to precisely the number of seconds
73 configured (or default 1), due to making use of the new microsecond
74 scale timer internally to dhcpd. This corrects a bug where the server
75 may immediately timeout an ICMP ping-check if it was made late in the
73c83820 76 current second. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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78- The DHCP client will schedule renewal and rebinding events in
79 microseconds if the DHCP server provided a lease-time that would result
80 in sub-1-second timers. This corrects a bug where a 2-second or lower
81 lease-time would cause the DHCP client to enter an infinite loop by
73c83820 82 scheduling renewal at zero seconds. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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84- Client lease records are recorded at most once every 15 seconds. This
85 keeps the client from filling the lease database disk quickly on very small
73c83820 86 lease times. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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88- To defend against RFC 2131 non-compliant DHCP servers which fail to
89 advertise a lease-time (either mangled, or zero in value) the DHCP
90 client now adds the server to the reject list ACL and returns to INIT
91 state to hopefully find an RFC 2131 compliant server (or retry in INIT
73c83820 92 forever). [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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94- Parameters configured to evaluate from user defined function calls can
95 now be correctly written to dhcpd.leases (as on 'on events' or dynamic
96 host records inserted via OMAPI). [ISC-Bugs #22266]
97
98- If a 'next-server' parameter is configured in a dynamic host record via
99 OMAPI as a domain name, the syntax written to disk is now correctly parsed
100 upon restart. [ISC-Bugs #22266]
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102- The DHCP server now responds to DHCPLEASEQUERY messages from agents using
103 IP addresses not covered by a subnet in configuration. Whether or not to
104 respond to such an agent is still governed by the 'allow leasequery;'
105 configuration parameter, in the case of an agent not covered by a configured
106 subnet the root configuration area is examined. Server now also returns
107 vendor-class-id option, if client sent it. [ISC-Bugs #21094]
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109- Documentation fixes
110 [ISC-Bugs #17959] add text to AIX section describing how to have it send
111 responses to the all-ones address.
112 [ISC-Bugs #19615] update the includes in dhcpctl/dhcpctl.3 to be more correct
113 [ISC-Bugs #20676] update dhcpd.conf.5 to include the RFC numbers for DDNS
114
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115- Relay no longer crashes, when DHCP packet is received over interface without
116 any IPv4 address assigned. Also extended logging message about discarding
117 packets with invalid hlen with information about relevant interface name.
118 [ISC-Bugs #22409]
119
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120- Relay now properly logs that packet was received over interface without
121 global IPv6 address [ISC-Bugs #24070]
122
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123- Linux Packet Filter interface improvement. sockaddr_pkt structure is used,
124 rather than sockaddr. Packet ethertype is now forced to ETH_P_IP.
125 [ISC-Bugs #18975]
126
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127- Minor code cleanups - but note port change for #23196
128 [ISC-Bugs #23470] - Modify when an ignore return macro is defined to
129 handle unsed error return warnings for more versions of gcc.
130 [ISC-Bugs #23196] - Modify the reply handling in the server code to
131 send to a specified port rather than to the source port for the incoming
132 message. Sending to the source port was test code that should have
133 been removed. The previous functionality may be restored by defining
134 REPLY_TO_SOURCE_PORT in the includes/site.h file. We suggest you don't
135 enable this except for testing purposes.
136 [ISC-Bugs #22695] - Close a file descriptor in an error path.
137 [ISC-Bugs #19368] - Tidy up variable types in validate_port.
138
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139- Code cleanup: remove obsolete PROTO, KandR, INLINE and ANSI_DECL macros
140 [ISC-Bugs #13151]
141
142- Compilation problem with gcc4.5 and omshell.c resolved. [ISC-Bugs #23831]
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144- If a client renews before 'dhcp-cache-threshold' percent of its lease
145 has elapsed (default 25%), the server will reuse the allocated lease
146 (provide a lease within the currently allocated lease-time) rather
147 than extend or renew the lease. This absolves the server of needing
148 to perform an fsync() operation on the lease database before reply,
149 which improves performance. [ISC-Bugs #22228]
150
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151- Client Script fixes
152 [ISC-Bugs #23045] Typos in client/scripts/openbsd
153 [ISC-Bugs #23565] In the client scripts add a zone id (interface id) if
154 the domain search address is link local.
155 [ISC-Bugs #1277] In some of the client scripts add code to handle the
156 case of the default router information being changed without the address
157 being changed.
158
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159- Documentation cleanup
160 [ISC-Bugs #23326] Updated References document, several man page updates
161
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162- Server no longer complains about NULL pointer when configured
163 server-identifier expression fails to evaluate. [ISC-Bugs #24547]
164
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165- Convert ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to ISC_R_SUCCESS when called from other
166 than the dispatch handler. This fixes an issue where omshell, when
167 run from the same platform as the server, would appear to fail to
168 connect. This is a companion to #21839. [ISC-Bugs #23592]
169
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170- Enlarge the buffer size used by the Omshell code and some of the
171 print routines to allow for greater than 60 characters or, when
172 printing as hex strings, 20 characters. [ISC-Bugs #22743]
173
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174 Changes since 4.2.0
175
176- Documentation cleanup covering multiple tickets
177 [ISC-Bugs #20265] [ISC-Bugs #20259] minor cleanup
178 [ISC-Bugs #20263] add text describing some default values
179 [ISC-Bugs #20193] single quotes at the start of a line indicate a control
180 line to nroff, escape them if we actually want a quote.
181 [ISC-Bugs #18916] sync the pointer to web pages amongst the different docs
182
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183- 'get-host-names true;' now also works even if 'use-host-decl-names true;'
184 was also configured. The nature of this repair also fixes another
185 error; the host-name supplied by a client is no longer overridden by a
186 reverse lookup of the lease address. Thanks to a patch from Wilco Baan
187 Hofman supplied to us by the Debian package maintenance team.
188 [ISC-Bugs #21691] {Debian Bug#509445}
189
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190- The .TH tag for the dhcp-options manpage was typo repaired
191 thanks to a report from jidanni and the Debian package maintenance
192 team. [ISC-Bugs #21676] {Debian Bug#563613}
193
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194- More documentation changes - primarily to put the options in the dhclient
195 and dhcpd man pages into the standard form. Thanks in part to a patch
196 from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
197 [ISC-Bugs #20264] and parts of [ISC-Bugs #17744] dhclient.8 changes
198
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199- Add code to clear the pointer to an object in an OMAPI handle when the
200 object is freed due to a dereference. [ISC-Bugs #21306]
201
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202- Fixed a bug that leaks host record references onto lease structures,
203 causing the server to apply configuration intended for one host to any
204 other innocent clients that come along later. [ISC-Bugs #22018]
205
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206- Minor code fixes
207 [ISC-Bugs #19566] When trying to find the zone for a name for ddns allow
208 the name to be at the apex of the zone.
209 [ISC-Bugs #19617] Restrict length of interface name read from command line
210 in dhcpd - based on a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
211 [ISC-Bugs #20039] Correct some error messages in dhcpd.c
212 [ISC-Bugs #20070] Better range check on values when creating a DHCID.
213 [ISC-Bugs #20198] Avoid writing past the end of the field when adding
214 overly long file or server names to a packet and add a log message
215 if the configuration supplied overly long names for these fields.
216 Thanks to Martin Pala.
217 [ISC-Bugs #21497] Add a little more randomness to rng seed in client
218 thanks to a patch from Jeremiah Jinno.
219
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220- Correct error handling in DLPI [ISC-Bugs #20378]
221
222- Remove __sun__ and __hpux__ typedefs in osdep.h as they are now being
223 checked in configure. [ISC-Bugs #20443]
224
225- Modify how the cmsg header is allocated the v6 send and received routines
226 to compile on more compilers. [ISC-Bugs #20524]
227
228- When parsing a domain name free the memory for the name after we are
229 done with it. [ISC-Bugs #20824]
230
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231- Add an elapsed time option to the release message and refactor the
232 code to move most of the common code to a single routine.
233 [ISC-Bugs #21171].
234
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235- Two identical log messages for commit_leases() have been disambiguated.
236 [ISC-Bugs #18915]
237
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238- Parse date strings more properly - the code now handles semi-colons in
239 date strings correctly. Thanks to a patch from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
240 [ISC-Bugs #21501, #20598]
241
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242- Fixes to lease input and output.
243 [ISC-Bugs #20418] - Some systems don't support the "%s" argument to
244 strftime, paste together the same string using mktime instead.
245 [ISC-Bugs #19596] - When parsing iaid values accept printable
246 characters.
247 [ISC-Bugs #21585] - Always print time values in omshell as hex
248 instead of ascii if the values happen to be printable characters.
249
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250- Minor changes for scripts, configure.ac and Makefiles
251 [ISC-Bugs #19147] Use domain-search instead of domain-name in manual and
252 example conf file. Thanks to a patch from David Cantrell
253 at Red Hat.
254 [ISC-Bugs #19761] Restore address when doing a rebind in DHCPv6
255 [ISC-Bugs #19945] Properly close the quote on some arguments.
256 [ISC-Bugs #20952] Add 64 bit types to configure.ac
257 [ISC-Bugs #21308] Add "PATH=" to CLIENT_PATH envrionment variable
258
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259- Update the code to parse dhcpv6 lease files to accept a semi-colon at
260 the end of the max-life and preferred-life clauses. In order to be
261 backwards compatible with older lease files not finding a semi-colon
262 is also accepted. [ISC-Bugs #22303].
263
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264! Handle a relay forward message with an unspecified address in the
265 link address field. Previously such a message would cause the
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266 server to crash. Thanks to a report from John Gibbons. [ISC-Bugs #21992]
267 CERT: VU#102047 CVE: CVE-2010-3611
268
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269- ./configure on longer searches for -lcrypto to explicitly link against.
270 This fixes a bug where 'dhclient' would have shared library dependencies
271 on '/usr/lib'. [ISC-Bugs #21967]
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273- Handle pipe failures more gracefully. Some OSes pass a SIGPIPE
274 signal to a process and will kill the process if the signal isn't
275 caught. This patch adds code to turn off the SIGPIPE signal via
276 a setsockopt() call. The signal is already being ignored as part
277 of the ISC library. [ISC-Bugs #22269]
278
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279- Restore printing of values in omshell to the style pre 21585. For
280 21585 we changed the print routines to always display time values
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281 as a hex list. This had a side effect of printing all data strings
282 as a hex list. We shall investigate other ways of displaying time
283 values more usefully. [ISC-Bugs #22626]
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285! Fix the handling of connection requests on the failover port.
286 Previously a connection request from a source that wasn't
287 listed as a failover peer would cause the server to become
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288 non-responsive. Thanks to a report from Brad Bendily, brad@bendily.com.
289 [ISC-Bugs #22679]
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290 CERT: VU#159528 CVE: CVE-2010-3616
291
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292- Don't pass the ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to the omapi signal handlers.
293 Passing it through to the handlers caused the omshell program to fail
294 to connect to the server. [ISC-Bugs #21839]
295
296- Fix the paranthesis in the code to process configuration statements
297 beginning with "auth". The previous arrangement caused
298 "auto-partner-down" to be processed incorrectly. [ISC-Bugs #21854]
299
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300- Limit the timeout period allowed in the dispatch code to 2^^32-1 seconds.
301 Thanks to a report from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
302 [ISC-Bugs #22033], [Red Hat Bug #628258]
303
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304- When processing the format flags for a given option consume the
305 flag indicating an optional value correctly. A symptom of this
306 bug was an infinite loop when trying to parse the slp-service-scope
307 option. Thanks to a patch from Marius Tomaschewski.
308 [ISC-Bugs #22055]
309
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310- Disable the use of kqueue in the ISC library. This avoids a problem
311 between the fork and socket code that caused the dhcpd process to
312 use all available cpu if the program daemonized itself.
313 [ISC-Bugs #21911]
314
c8b189f1 315! When processing a request in the DHCPv6 server code that specifies
45918d36 316 an address that is tagged as abandoned (meaning we received a
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317 decline request for it previously) don't attempt to move it from
318 the inactive to active pool as doing so can result in the server
e8f330a1 319 crashing on an assert failure. Also retag the lease as active
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320 and reset it's timeout value.
321 [ISC-Bugs #21921]
322
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323- Removed the restriction on using IPv6 addresses in IPv4 mode. This
324 allows IPv4 options which contain IPv6 addresses to be specified. For
325 example the 6rd option can be specified and used like this:
326 [ISC-Bugs #23039]
327
328 option 6rd code 212 = { integer 8, integer 8,
329 ip6-address, array of ip-address };
330 option 6rd 16 10 2001:: 1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8;
331
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332- Handle some DDNS corner cases better. Maintain the DDNS transaction
333 information when updating a lease and cancel any existing transactions
334 when removing the ddns information.
335 [ISC-Bugs #23103]
336
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337- Some fixes for LDAP
338 [ISC-Bugs #21783] - Include lber library when building ldap
339 [ISC-Bugs #22888] - Enable the ldap code when buidling common
340 The above fixes are from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
341
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342- Modify the dlpi code to accept getmsg() returning a positive value.
343 [ISC-Bugs #22824]
344
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345 Changes since 4.2.0b2
346
347- Add declaration for variable in debug code in alloc.c. [ISC-Bugs #21472]
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349 Changes since 4.2.0b1
350
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351- Prohibit including lease time information in a response to a DHCP INFORM.
352 [ISC-Bugs #21092]
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354! Accept a client id of length 0 while hashing. Previously the server would
355 exit if it attempted to hash a zero length client id, providing attackers
d122accf 356 with a simple denial of service attack. [ISC-Bugs #21253]
63ff896a 357 CERT: VU#541921 - CVE: CVE-2010-2156
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359- A memory leak in ddns processing was closed. [ISC-Bugs #21377]
360
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361- Modify the exception handling for initial context creation. Previously
362 we would try and clean up before exiting. This could present problems
363 when the cleanup required part of the context that wasn't available. It
364 also didn't do much as we exited afterwards anyway. Now we simply log
365 the error and exit. [ISC-Bugs #21093]
366
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367- A bug was fixed that could cause the DHCPv6 server to advertise/assign a
368 previously allocated (active) lease to a client that has changed subnets,
369 despite being on different shared networks. Dynamic prefixes specifically
370 allocated in shared networks also now are not offered if the client has
371 moved. [ISC-Bugs #21152]
372
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373- Add some debugging output for use with the DDNS code. [ISC-Bugs #20916]
374
600ee619 375- Fix the trace code to handle timing events better and to truncate a file
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376 before using instead of overwriting it. [ISC-Bugs #20969]
377
378- Modify the determination of the default TTL to use for DDNS updates.
379 The user may still configure the ttl via ddns-ttl. The default for
380 both v4 and v6 is now 1/2 the (preferred) lease time with a limit. The
381 previous defaults (1/2 lease time without a limit for v4 and a default
382 value for v6) may be used by defining USE_OLD_DDNS_TTL in site.h
383 [ISC-Bugs #21126]
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385- libisc/libdns is now brought up to version 9.7.1rc1. This corrects
386 three reported flaws in ISC DHCP;
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388 o DHCP processes (dhcpd, dhclient) fail to start if one of either the
389 IPv4 or IPv6 address families is not present. [ISC-Bugs #21122]
390
391 o Assertion failure when attempting to cancel a previously running DDNS
392 update. [ISC-Bugs #21133]
393
394 o Compilation failure of libisc/libdns due to the use of a flexible
395 array member. [ISC-Bugs #21316]
396
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397 Changes since 4.2.0a2
398
399- Update the fsync code to work with the changes to the DDNS code. It now
400 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
401
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402- When constructing the DNS name structure from a text string append
403 the root to relative names. This satisfies a requirement in the DNS
404 library that names be absolute instead of relative and prevents DHCP
d122accf 405 from crashing. [ISC-Bugs #21054]
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407- "The LDAP Patch" that has been circulating for some time, written by
408 Brian Masney and S.Kalyanasundraram and maintained for application to
409 the DHCP-4 sources by David Cantrell has been included. Please be
410 advised that these sources were contributed, and do not yet meet the
411 high standards we place on production sources we include by default.
412 As a result, the LDAP features are only included by using a compile-time
413 option which defaults off, and if you enable it you do so under your
414 own recognizance. We will be improving this software over time.
415 [ISC-Bugs #17741]
416
3c941d42 417 Changes since 4.2.0a1
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419- When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
420 is no longer truncated to one octet.
421
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422- Cleaned up an unused hardware address variable in nak_lease().
423
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424- Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
425 reflect support for prefix delegation.
426
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427- Cleaned up some compiler warnings
428
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429- An optimization described in the failover protocol draft is now included,
430 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
431 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
432 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
433 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
434 entry for each lease.
435
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436- Fix the trace code which was broken by the changes to the DDNS code.
437
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438 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
439
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440- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
441 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 442 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
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444- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
445 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
446 Cantrell at Red Hat.
447
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448- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
449 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
450
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451- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
452
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453- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
454 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
455 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
456 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
457 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
458 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
459
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460- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
461 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
462 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
463 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
464 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
465 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
466 FQDN options by default).
467
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468- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
469 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
470 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
471 determined lease time) are omitted.
472
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473- Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
474 The DHCP server or client can now continue with it's processing while
475 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
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477- The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
478 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
479 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
480
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481 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
482
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483- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
484
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485- Validate the argument to the -p option.
486
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487- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
488 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
489 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
490 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
491 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
492
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493- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
494
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495- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
496 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
497 had been deleted from configuration.
498
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499- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
500 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
571c38b0 501 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
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502 were being ignored.
503
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504- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
505
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506- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
507 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
508 Nordahl.
509
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510- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
511 dhcpv6 disabled.
512
8d7dca58 513- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 514 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
819186b7 515
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516- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
517 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
518
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519- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
520 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
521 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
522
523- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
524 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
525 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
526 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
527 fewer system calls.
528
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529- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
530 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
531 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
532 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
533 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
534 Christof Chen.
535
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536- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
537 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
538 and in normal state.
539
540- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
541 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
542
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543- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
544
545- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
546 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
547 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
548
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549- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
550 rather than restarting the listener.
551
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552- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
553 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
554
555- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
556 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
557 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
558
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559- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
560 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
561 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
562 timeouts).
563
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564- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
565 in failover state records.
566
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567! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
568 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
569 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 570 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
8a4e543b 571
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572- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
573 processing a DHCPINFORM.
574
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575- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
576 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
577 last option definition is used.
578
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579- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
580 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
581 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
582
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583- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
584 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
585
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586- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
587 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
588 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
589 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
590 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
591 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
592
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593- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
594 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
595 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
596 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
597
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598! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
599 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
95f5d38c 600
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601- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
602 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
603
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604- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
605 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
606 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
607 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
608 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
571c38b0 609 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
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610 configuration.
611
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612- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
613 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
614
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615- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
616 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
617 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
618 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
619
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620- Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
621 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
622 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
623 was always properly set.
624
adbef119 625 Changes since 4.1.0b1
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626
627- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
628 be recognized.
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630 Changes since 4.1.0a2
631
632- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
633 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
634 "abandoned".
635
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636- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
637
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638- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
639 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
640
641- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
642 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
643
644- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 645 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
1387545f 646
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647- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
648
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649- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
650 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
651 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
652 in future releases.
653
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654- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
655 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
656
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657- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
658 'dhclient -6' support.
659
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660- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
661 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
662 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
663 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
664
7d6180be 665 Changes since 4.1.0a1
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666
667- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
668
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669- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
670
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671- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
672 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
673 only the latter. Fixed.
674
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675- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
676
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677- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
678 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
679
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680- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
681
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682- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
683
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684- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
685 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
686 --enable-early-chroot.
687
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688- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
689 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
690
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691- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
692 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
693 parameter.
694
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695- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
696 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
697
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698- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
699 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
700
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701- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
702
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703- Merged IA_XX related structures.
704
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705- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
706
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707- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
708
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709- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
710 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
711 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
712
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713- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
714 support.
715
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716- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
717 repaired.
718
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719- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
720
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721- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
722
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723- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
724 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
725
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726- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
727 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
728
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729- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
730 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
731
732- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
733 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
734 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
735 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
736 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
737 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
738 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
739 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
740 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
741 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
742 shared-network.
743
744- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
745 configured option values.
746
747- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
748 support class statements.
749
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750- Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
751 selection were repaired.
752
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753- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
754 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
755 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
756 by the OS.
757
758- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
759 address.
760
761- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
762 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
763
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764- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
765
766- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
767
768- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
769 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
770
01a54c17 771 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
3c12f746 772
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773- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
774
4cafb815 775- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 776 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
4cafb815 777
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778- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
779 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
780 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
781
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782- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
783 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
784
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785- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
786
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787- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
788 reserved IDs avoided).
789
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790- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
791
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792- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
793 carries a rapid-commit option.
794
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795- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
796 an empty active lease.
797
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798- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
799
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800- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
801 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
802 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
803 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
804
805- MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
806
807- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
808 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
809 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
810 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
811 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
812 Christof Chen.
813
814 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
815
816- DHCP now builds on AIX.
817
818- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
819 config file but -6 is not specified.
820
821- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
822
823- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
824 be more helpful.
825
826- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
827 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
828 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
829
830- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
831 was repaired.
832
833- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
834 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
835 been repaired.
836
837- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
838 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
839 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
840
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841- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
842 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
843
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844- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
845 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
846 IPv4 address.
847
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848- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
849 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
850 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
851 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
852 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
853
854- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
855 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
856 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
857
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858- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
859
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860- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
861
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862- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
863 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
864 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
865 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
866 unnecessary logging.
867
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868- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
869 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
870
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871- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
872 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
873 is incompatible is printed.
874
875- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
876 a previously undefined option code.
877
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878- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
879 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
880
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881- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
882 than the year 2000.
883
e2cfde76
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884- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
885
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886- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
887
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888- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
889
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890 Changes since 4.0.0b3
891
892- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
893 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
894 configuration.
76db44f9 895
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896- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
897 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
898
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899- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
900 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
901 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
e4a6be15 902
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903- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
904 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
905 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
906 a requested address.
907
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908- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
909 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
910 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
911 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
912
913- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
914 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
915 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
916 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
917
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918- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
919 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
920 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
921
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922- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
923 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
924
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925- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
926
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927- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
928 codes through some conditions.
929
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930- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
931 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
932
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933- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
934 seemingly random values.
935
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936- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
937
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938- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
939 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
940 one ever has.
941
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942- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
943 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
944 to a REQUEST.
945
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946- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
947 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
948 level.
949
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950 Changes since 4.0.0b2
951
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952- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
953
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954- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
955 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
956 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
957 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
958 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
959
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960- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
961 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
962 new address.
963
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964 Changes since 4.0.0b1
965
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966- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
967 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
968 simultaneously on a single interface.
969
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970- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
971 of service under unusual server configurations
972
973- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
974
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975- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
976 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
fa9b593d 977
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978- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
979 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
980 on every pool rebalance run.
981
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982- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
983 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
984
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985- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
986 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
987
ab3a540f 988 Changes since 4.0.0a3
763cba6b 989
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990- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
991 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
992
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993- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
994 point out the problem.
995
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996- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
997 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
998 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
999
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1000- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
1001 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
1002
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1003- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
1004 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
1005 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
1006
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1007- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
1008
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1009- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
1010 fixed by Marcus Goller.
1011
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1012- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
1013 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
1014 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
1015 regardless of the existence of bindings.
1016
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1017- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
1018
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1019- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
1020 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
1021 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
1022 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
1023 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
1024
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1025- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
1026
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1027 Changes since 4.0.0a2
1028
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1029- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
1030 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
1031
763cba6b 1032- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
e889ded1 1033
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1034- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
1035 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
1036 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
1037
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1038- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
1039
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1040- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
1041 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
1042
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1043- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
1044 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
1045 loaded from persistent storage.
1046
45d545f0 1047- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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1048 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
1049 necessary.
1050
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1051- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
1052 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
1053 rapid-commit option.
1054
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1055- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
1056 non-128-bits in length were removed.
1057
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1058 Changes since 4.0.0a1
1059
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1060- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
1061 and fix.
1062
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1063- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
1064
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1065- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
1066
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1067- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
1068 for when loading configuration.
1069
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1070- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
1071 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
1072 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
1073
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1074- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
1075 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
1076 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
1077 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
1078
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1079- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
1080
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1081- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
1082 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 1083
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1084- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
1085
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1086- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
1087
1088- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
1089 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
1090
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1091- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
1092 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
1093
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1094- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
1095
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1096- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
1097 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
1098
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1099 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
1100
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1101- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
1102
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1103- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
1104 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
1105
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1106- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
1107
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1108- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
1109 initialized.
1110
1111- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
1112
1113- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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1114 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
1115
1116- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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1118- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
1119
1120- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
1121 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
1122
1123- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
1124
8ea19a71 1125- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 1126 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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1127
1128- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
1129 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
1130
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1131- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
1132
1133- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
1134
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1135- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
1136
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1137 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
1138
1139- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
1140 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
1141 no support currently for both.
1142
1143- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
1144 IAADDR option.
1145
1146- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
1147 options.
1148
1149- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
1150
1151- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
1152 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
1153
1154- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
1155 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
1156 specifying type 1 or type 2).
1157
1158- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
1159 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
1160
1161- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
1162 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
1163 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
1164 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
1165 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
1166 differently, they both use the same code here).
1167
1168- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
1169 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
1170 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
1171
1172- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
1173
1174- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
1175 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
1176 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
1177 it should not intercept.
1178
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1179 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
1180
1181- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
1182 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
1183 between primary and secondary.
1184
1185- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
1186 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
1187 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
1188
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1189- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
1190
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1191- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
1192 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
1193 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
1194 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
1195 or REQUEST messages.
1196
1197- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
1198 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
1199
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1200- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
1201
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1202 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
1203
1204- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
1205 failover protected subnets was removed.
1206
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1207 Changes since 3.1.0b2
1208
1209- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
1210 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
1211 odd number of leases).
1212
1213- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
1214 rebalance run, and one after.
1215
1216- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
1217 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
1218 processing these messages.
1219
fe5b0fdd 1220 Changes since 3.1.0b1
27837f95 1221
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1222- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
1223 objects.
1224
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1225- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
1226 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
1227 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
1228 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
1229 at Allianz.
1230
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1231- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
1232 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
1233
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1234- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
1235 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
1236
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1237- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
1238 caused the server to abort.
1239
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1240- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
1241 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
1242 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
1243
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1244- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
1245 by empty spaces would not get included.
1246
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1247- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
1248 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
1249
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1250- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
1251 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
1252
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1253- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
1254 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
1255
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1256- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
1257 on the parameter request list.
1258
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1259 Changes since 3.1.0a3
1260
1261- Some spelling fixes.
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1263 Changes since 3.1.0a2
1264
1265- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
1266 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
1267
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1268- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
1269 domain-search option syntax.
1270
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1271 Changes since 3.1.0a1
1272
1273- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
1274 hash table was repaired.
1275
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1276- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
1277 entering normal state.
1278
1279- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
1280 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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1281 'xid mismatch' log messages.
1282
1283- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
1284 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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1286- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
1287 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
1288 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
1289 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
1290
45d545f0 1291- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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1292 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
1293 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
1294 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
1295 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
1296 to their needs.
1297
1298- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
1299 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
1300 run will attempt balance.
1301
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1302- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
1303
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1304 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
1305
1306- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
1307 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
1308 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
1309 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
1310
98bd7ca0 1311- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 1312 was introduced.
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1313
1314- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
1315 via OMAPI.
1316
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1317- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
1318 the protocol draft.
1319
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1320- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
1321 one does not already exist on the system.
1322
b43c87ad 1323- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 1324
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1325- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
1326 matches RFC 3074.
1327
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1328- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
1329 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 1330 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2727c1cf 1331
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1332- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
1333 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 1334 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 1335
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1336- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
1337 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
1338 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
1339 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
1340
1341- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
1342 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
1343 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
1344 priority over the client's parameter request list.
1345
f7fdb216 1346- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 1347 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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1348 DHCPv6 support.
1349
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1350- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
1351 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
1352 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
1353
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1354- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
1355 have been incorporated.
1356
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1357- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
1358 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
1359 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
1360 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
1361 that belong to the peer in need.
1362
1363- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
1364 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
1365
1366- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
1367 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
1368 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
1369
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1370- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
1371 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
1372
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1373- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
1374 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
1375 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
1376 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
1377 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
1378
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1379- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
1380 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
1381 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
1382 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
1383
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1384- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
1385 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
1386 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
1387 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
1388 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
1389 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
1390 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
1391 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
1392 ignoring this aspect of their request.
1393
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1394- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
1395 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
1396
41e45067 1397- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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1398 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
1399 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
1400 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
1401
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1402- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
1403 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
1404 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
1405 hardware and funding the development.
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1407- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
1408 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
1409 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
1410 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
1411 via Robin Breathe.
1412
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1413- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
1414 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
1415 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
1416 from Christof Chen.
1417
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1418- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
1419 formally supported.
1420
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1421 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
1422
1423- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
1424 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
1425
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1426 Changes since 3.0.5
1427
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1428- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
1429 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
1430 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 1431 they actually received.
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1432
1433- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
1434
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1435- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
1436 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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1437 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
1438 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
c1e6c832 1439
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1440- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
1441
d69fb6a8 1442- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 1443 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
d69fb6a8 1444
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1445- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
1446 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
1447 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
1448 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
1449 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
1450 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
1451 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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1452 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
1453
1454- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
1455 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
1456 'file' field.
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1458- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
1459 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
1460
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1461- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
1462 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
1463 a patch from Kevin Steves.
1464
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1465- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
1466 from Chris Wagner.
1467
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1468- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
1469 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
1470 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
1471
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1472- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
1473 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
1474 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
1475 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
1476 was set.
1477
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1478- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
1479 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
1480
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1481- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
1482 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
1483 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
1484 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
1485 active ones.
1486
02428754 1487 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
0a73b7b6 1488
901306d5 1489- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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1490 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
1491 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
1492 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
1493 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
1494
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1495- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
1496 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
1497
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1498 Changes since 3.0.4
1499
1500- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
1501 scopes are actually global has been added.
1502
1503- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
1504 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
1505 known to be damaging.
1506
1507- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
1508 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
1509 balancing).
1510
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1511- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
1512 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
1513 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
1514
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1515- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
1516 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
1517 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
1518
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1519- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
1520 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
1521 more clear now.
1522
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1523- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
1524 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
1525 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
1526 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
1527 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 1528 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
6cbc6629 1529
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1530- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
1531 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
1532
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1533- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
1534 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
1535 made possible.
1536
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1537- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
1538 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
1539 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
1540
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1541- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
1542 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
1543
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1544- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
1545 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
1546 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
1547
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1548- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
1549 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
1550 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
1551 value with the later configured value).
1552
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1553- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
1554 have been named and documented.
1555
1556- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
1557 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
1558 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
1559 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
1560 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
1561 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
1562 write new output.
1563
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1564 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
1565
1566- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
1567 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
1568
1569 Changes since 3.0.4b3
1570
1571- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
1572 mailing list.
1573
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1574 Changes since 3.0.4b2
1575
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1577 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
1578
1579- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
1580 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
1581
1582- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
1583 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
1584 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
1585 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
1586
1587- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
1588 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
1589 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
1590 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
1591 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
1592 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
1593 transition (properly).
1594
1595- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
1596
1597 Changes since 3.0.4b1
1598
1599- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
1600 STDIN after reading one line.
1601
1602- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
1603 descriptor it opened twice.
1604
1605- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
1606 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
1607 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
1608
1609 Changes since 3.0.3
1610
1611- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
1612 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
1613 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
1614
1615- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
1616 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
1617 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
1618
1619- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
1620 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 1621 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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1622 leases to allocate.
1623
1624- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 1625 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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1626 than the entire block of them.
1627
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1628! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
1629 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
1630 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
1631 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
1632 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
1633 to a patch from infamous42md.
1634
1635! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
1636 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
1637 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
1638 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
1639 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
1640 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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1641
1642- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
1643 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
1644 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
1645
1646- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 1647 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1648
1649- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
1650 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
1651 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
1652 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
1653 transitional states.
1654
1655- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
1656 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
1657 once it detects the old db does not exist.
1658
1659- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
1660 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
1661 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
1662
1663- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 1664 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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1665
1666- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
1667 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
1668
1669- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
1670 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
1671 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
1672
1673- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
1674 patch from 'infamous42md'.
1675
1676- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
1677 repaired.
1678
1679- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
1680 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
1681 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
1682 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
1683
1684- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
1685 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
1686 data.
1687
1688- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
1689 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
1690 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
1691 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
1692 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
1693
1694- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
1695 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
1696 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
1697 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
1698 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
1699
1700- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
1701 has been repaired.
1702
1703- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
1704 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
1705 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
1706 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 1707 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1708
1709- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 1710 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
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1713 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
1714 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
1715 move to 3.[01].x.
1716
1717- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
1718 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
1719
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1720 Changes since 3.0.3b3
1721
1722- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
1723 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
1724
1725- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
1726 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
1727 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
1728 workaround.
1729
1730 Changes since 3.0.3b2
1731
1732- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
1733 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
1734
1735 Changes since 3.0.3b1
1736
1737- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
1738 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
1739 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
1740
1741- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
1742 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
1743 dynamic updates were also retouched.
1744
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1745 Changes since 3.0.2
1746
1747- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 1748 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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1749 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
1750
1751- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
1752 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
1753 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
1754 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
1755 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
1756
1757- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
1758 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 1759 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1760
1761- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
1762 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 1763 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1764
1765- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
1766 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
1767 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
1768 Peter Poeml.
1769
1770- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
1771 Dr. Peter Poeml.
1772
1773- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
1774 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
1775 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
1776 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
1777 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
1778 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
1779
1780- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
1781 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
1782 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
1783 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
1784
1785- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
1786 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
1787 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
1788 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
1789
1790- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
1791 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
1792
1793- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
1794 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
1795 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
1796
1797- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
1798 7 bytes, and failover.
1799
1800- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
1801 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 1802 at Red Hat.
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1803
1804- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
1805 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
1806 should work better.
1807
1808- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
1809 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
1810 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
1811
1812- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
1813 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
1814 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
1815
1816 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
1817
1818- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
1819 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
1820
1821 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
1822
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1824 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
1825 overloading. This was repaired.
1826
1827- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
1828 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
1829 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
1830 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
1831 three chunks to fit.
1832
1833- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
1834 were repaired.
1835
1836- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
1837 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
1838 leak).
1839
1840 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
1841
1842- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
1843 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
1844
1845 Changes since 3.0.2b1
1846
1847- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
1848
1849 Changes since 3.0.1
1850
1851- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
1852 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
1853 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
1854
1855- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
1856 name was not provided by the server.
1857
1858- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
1859 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
1860
1861- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
1862 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
1863
1864- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
1865 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
1866
1867- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
1868
1869- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
1870
1871- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
1872 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
1873 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
1874 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
1875 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
1876
1877- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
1878 the configuration be globally scoped.
1879
1880- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
1881 Farkas.
1882
1883- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
1884 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1885
1886- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
1887 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
1888
1889- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
1890 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
1891
1892- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
1893 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
1894 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
1895 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
1896
1897- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
1898 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
1899 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
1900 respond to POOLREQ messages.
1901
1902- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
1903 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
1904 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
1905
1906- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
1907
1908- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
1909 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
1910 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
1911
1912- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
1913 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
1914 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
1915 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
1916 Fjone and directconnect.no.
1917
1918- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
1919 to Andreas Gustafsson.
1920
1921- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
1922 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
1923
1924- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
1925 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
1926 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
1927 DISCOVER timeout handling.
1928
1929- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
1930 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
1931
1932- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
1933 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
1934 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
1935
1936- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
1937 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
1938 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
1939 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
1940 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
1941 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
1942
1943- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
1944 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
1945 Infoblox.
1946
1947- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
1948
1949- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
1950 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
1951 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
1952 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
1953 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
1954 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
1955 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
1956
1957- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
1958 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
1959 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
1960
1961- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
1962 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
1963 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
1964
1965- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
1966
1967 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
1968
1969- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
1970 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
1971 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
1972 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
1973 systems either.
1974
1975- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
1976
1977- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
1978 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
1979 is false.
1980
1981- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
1982 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
1983
1984- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
1985
1986 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
1987
1988! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
1989 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
1990 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
1991 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
1992 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
1993 both finding and solving the problem.
1994
1995! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
45d545f0 1996 in log_*() functions was evidenced, on some specific platforms where
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1997 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
1998 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
1999 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
2000 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
2001 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
2002 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
2003 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
2004 published version of ISC DHCP.
2005
2006- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
2007
2008- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
2009
2010 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
2011
2012- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
2013 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
2014 Richard Hirst.
2015
2016- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
2017 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
2018 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
2019
2020- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
2021
2022- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
2023 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
2024 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
2025 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
2026
2027- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 2028 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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2029
2030- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
2031 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
2032
2033- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
2034
2035 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
2036
2037- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
2038 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
2039
2040- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
2041 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
2042 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
2043
2044- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
2045 by name was fixed.
2046
45d545f0 2047- Declaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
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2048 longer result in error.
2049
2050- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
2051
2052- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
2053 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
2054 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
2055
2056- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
2057 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
2058
2059- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
2060 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
2061 Blapp.
2062
2063- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
2064 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
2065 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
2066 Martin Blapp.
2067
2068- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
2069 expiry times in failover configurations.
2070
2071- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
2072 Steve G.
2073
2074- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
2075 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
2076
2077- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
2078 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
2079 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
2080 now "unknown-144".
2081
2082- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
2083 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
2084
2085 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
2086
2087- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
2088
2089- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
2090 not be bash.
2091
2092- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
2093
2094- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
2095 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
2096 that errored before will now work properly.
2097
2098- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
2099 names was repaired.
2100
2101- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
2102 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
2103 configuration file.
2104
2105- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
2106 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2107
2108- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
2109 error rather than a null dereference.
2110
2111 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
2112
2113- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
2114
2115- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
2116
2117- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
2118 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
2119
2120- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
2121
2122- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
2123
2124- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
2125 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
2126 self-corrupting lease databases.
2127
2128- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
2129
2130- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
2131 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
2132
2133- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
2134
2135- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
2136
2137- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
2138 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
2139 Ling Gou.
2140
2141- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
2142 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2143
2144- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
2145 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
2146 Ted Lemon for the patch.
2147
2148- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
2149 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
2150
2151 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
2152
2153- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
2154 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
2155
2156- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
2157
2158- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
2159 a memory leak.
2160
2161- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
2162 script.
2163
2164- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
2165
2166- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
2167
2168- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
2169
2170- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
2171
2172- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
2173
2174- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
2175
2176- Increment the hop count when relaying.
2177
2178- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
2179
2180- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
2181
2182- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
2183
2184- Change the type of rbuf_max.
2185
2186- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
2187
2188 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
2189
2190- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
2191 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
2192 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
2193
2194 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
2195
2196- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
2197 to be renewed.
2198
2199- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
2200 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
2201
2202- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
2203 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
2204
2205- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
2206 that two permit lists matched.
2207
2208- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
2209 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
2210
2211- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
2212
2213- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
2214 requested it, contrary to the standard.
2215
2216- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
2217
2218- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
2219
2220- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
2221 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
2222 going to update its A record.
2223
2224- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
2225 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
2226 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
2227 DNS server.
2228
2229- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
2230
2231- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
2232
2233- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
2234 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
2235 NetBSD project).
2236
2237- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
2238 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
2239
2240- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
2241 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
2242
2243- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
2244
2245- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
2246
2247- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
2248 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
2249 failover protocol standard.
2250
2251- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
2252 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
2253 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
2254
2255- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
2256 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
2257 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
2258 do so.
2259
2260- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
2261
2262 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
2263
2264- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
2265
2266- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
2267 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
2268
2269- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
2270 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
2271
2272- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
2273 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
2274 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
2275
2276- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
2277 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
2278 network, merge the two pools.
2279
2280- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
2281 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
2282 fix this bug.
2283
2284 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
2285
2286- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
2287 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
2288
2289- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
2290 the same case.
2291
2292- Additional documentation.
2293
2294- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
2295 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
2296
2297 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
2298
2299- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
2300- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
2301
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2303
2304- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
2305 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
2306 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
2307 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
2308 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
2309
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2311
2312- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
2313 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
2314 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
2315 wasn't the one that removed it.
2316
2317- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
2318 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
2319 were not configured.
2320
2321- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
2322
2323- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
2324 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
2325 routing information.
2326
2327- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
2328 request being sent.
2329
2330- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
2331 done.
2332
2333- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
2334 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
2335 were pending.
2336
2337- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
2338 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
2339 problems with failover.
2340
2341- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
2342 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
2343 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
2344
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2346
2347- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
2348 smash in the subclass allocation code.
2349
2350- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
2351 no object is open, it dumps core.
2352
2353- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
2354
2355- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
2356
2357- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
2358
2359- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
2360 a host object attribute with a null value.
2361
2362 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
2363
2364- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
2365
2366- Fix an obscure core dump.
2367
2368- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
2369 when crucial information is left out.
2370
2371- Log "no free leases" as an error.
2372
2373- Documentation updates.
2374
2375 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
2376
2377- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
2378
2379- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
2380 structure wasn't zeroed.
2381
2382- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
2383 incorrectly.
2384
2385- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
2386 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
2387 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
2388 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
2389 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
2390 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
2391 restarted.
2392
2393 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
2394
2395- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
2396 in failover-enabled pools.
2397
2398- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
2399 declarations).
2400
2401- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
2402 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
2403
2404- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
2405 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
2406
2407- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
2408
2409- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
2410 defined but not referenced by any pools.
2411
2412- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
2413
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2415
2416- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
2417
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2418 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 2
2419
2420- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
2421
2422- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
2423
2424- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
2425
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2426 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 1
2427
2428- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
2429 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
2430 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
2431
2432- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
2433 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
2434 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
2435 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
2436 string.
2437
2438- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
2439
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2440 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8
2441
2442- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
2443 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
2444
2445- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
2446 malformed packets.
2447
2448- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
2449
2450- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
2451 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
2452 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
2453
2454- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
2455
2456- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
2457
2458- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
2459
2460- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
2461 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
2462
2463- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
2464 tcp connections from being played back.
2465
2466- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
2467 on exit.
2468
2469- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
2470
2471- Add some configurability to the build system.
2472
2473- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
2474
2475- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
2476 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
2477 hadn't been noticed until now.
2478
2479 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
2480
2481- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
2482 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
2483
2484- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
2485 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
2486 conformant, but also didn't work).
2487
2488- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
2489 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
2490
2491- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
2492 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
2493
2494- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
2495 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
2496
2497- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
2498 variables to leases via OMAPI.
2499
2500- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
2501 doing failover.
2502
2503- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
2504 running on alpha processors.
2505
2506- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
2507 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
2508
2509- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
2510
2511- Install omshell (including new documentation).
2512
2513- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
2514 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
2515
2516- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
2517
2518- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
2519 actually named (key names are domain names).
2520
2521- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
2522
2523- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
2524 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
2525
2526- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
2527 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
2528
2529- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
2530 statements.
2531
2532- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
2533 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
2534
2535- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
2536 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
2537 operating.
2538
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2540
2541- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
2542 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
2543 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
2544 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
2545
2546- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
2547 using omapi to manipulate leases.
2548
2549- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
2550
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2551 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
2552
2553- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
2554 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
2555
2556- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
2557 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
2558 to the chain.
2559
2560- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
2561
2562- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
2563
2564- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
2565
98311e4b 2566- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
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2567 attribute values in omshell.
2568
98311e4b 2569- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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2570
2571- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
2572
2573 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
2574
2575- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
2576 DHCPDECLINE.
2577
2578- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
2579
2580- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
2581 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
2582 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
2583
2584- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
2585
2586- Documentation fixes.
2587
2588- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
2589 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
2590
2591- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
2592 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
2593
2594- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
2595
2596- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
2597
2598- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
2599 case-insensitive.
2600
2601- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
2602
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2604 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
2605 consistently.
2606
2607- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
2608 systems with the probe not working correctly.
2609
2610- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
2611
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2612 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 3
2613
2614- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
2615 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
2616 result of duplicate leases.
2617
2618- Document OMAPI server objects.
2619
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2620 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Patchlevel 1
2621
2622- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
2623 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
2624
2625- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
2626 core dumps.
2627
2628- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
2629 Friedrich.
2630
2631- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
2632
2633 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
2634
2635- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
2636 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
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2638 billing class code.
2639
2640- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
2641 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
2642
2643- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
2644 trace file.
2645
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2648- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
2649 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
2650 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
2651 e.g., Digital Unix.
2652
2653- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
2654 when no error had occurred.
2655
2656- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
2657 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
2658 non-communicating state.
2659
2660- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
2661
2662- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
2663 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
2664 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
2665
2666- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
2667 when the client lease expired.
2668
2669- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
2670 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
2671 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
2672 in testing.
2673
2674- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
2675 the command line, it would fail.
2676
2677- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
2678 user impact).
2679
2680- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
2681
2682- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
2683 they're executable.
2684
2685 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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2686
2687- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
2688 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
2689 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
2690 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
2691
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2692- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
2693 Transmeta.
2694
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2695- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
2696 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
2697 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
2698 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
2699
2700- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
2701 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
2702
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2704
2705- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
2706 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
2707
2708- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
2709
2710- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
2711
2712- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
2713
2714- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
2715
2716- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
2717
2718- Update some parts of the README file.
2719
2720- Support GCC on SCO.
2721
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2723
2724- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
2725 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
2726
2727- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
2728 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
2729 unbill the old class.
2730
2731- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
2732 process the state transition immediately.
2733
2734- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
2735 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
2736
2737- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
2738
2739- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
2740
2741- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
2742
2743- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
2744
2745- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
2746 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
2747 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
2748
2749- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
2750 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
2751
2752- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
2753 lease file.
2754
2755- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
2756
2757- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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2760
2761- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
2762 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
2763
2764- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
2765
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2767
2768- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
2769
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2771
2772- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
2773
2774- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
2775 pl19.
2776
2777- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
2778 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
2779 past the regression test.
2780
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2782
2783- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
2784 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
2785
2786- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
2787 DHCPREQUEST.
2788
2789- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
2790
2791- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
2792
2793- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
2794
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2797- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
2798 (Damien Neil)
2799
2800- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
2801 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
2802
2803- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
2804 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
2805 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
2806
2807- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
2808 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
2809 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
2810 message.
2811
2812- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
2813 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
2814 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
2815
98311e4b 2816- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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2817 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
2818 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
2819 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
2820 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
2821 this way will work.
2822
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2823- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
2824
2825- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
2826 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
2827 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
2828 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
2829
2830 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
2831
2832 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
2833
2834- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
2835 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
2836 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
2837
2838- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
2839 Hermann Lauer.
2840
2841- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
2842 messages.
2843
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2844- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
2845 it contained quoted strings.
2846
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2847 ** there was no pl17 **
2848
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2851- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
2852 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
2853 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
2854 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
2855 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
2856 tracking down memory leaks.
2857
2858- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
2859 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
2860 Solaris.
2861
2862- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
2863 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
2864 corruption and core dumps.
2865
2866- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
2867 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
2868
2869- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
2870
2871- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
2872 and implemented by Damien Neil.
2873
2874- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
2875 name and version to standard output.
2876
2877- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
2878
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2879- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
2880 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
2881
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2882- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
2883
2884- Lots of documentation updates.
2885
2886- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
2887 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
2888
2889- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
2890
2891- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
2892 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
2893
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2895
2896- Some documentation tweaks.
2897
2898- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
2899
2900- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
2901
2902- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
2903 agent options into them.
2904
2905- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
2906
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2907- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
2908 options.
2909
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2911
2912- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
2913 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
2914 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
2915 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
2916 used in class statements to control address allocation.
2917
2918- Fix up documentation.
2919
2920- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
2921 significantly in a high-demand situation.
2922
2923- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
2924
2925- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
2926
2927- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
2928 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
2929 practical use otherwise.
2930
2931- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
2932 for debugging.
2933
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2935
2936- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
2937 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
2938 dump on some systems.
2939
2940- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
2941 option.
2942
2943- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
2944 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
2945
2946- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
2947 that were not printing enough information.
2948
2949- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
2950 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
2951
2952- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
2953 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
2954 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
2955 were answering.
2956
2957- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
2958 the transition.
2959
2960
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2962
2963- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
2964
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2965 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
2966
2967- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
2968 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
2969 representation from working correctly.
2970
2971- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
2972 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
2973 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
2974 could spin.
2975
2976- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
2977 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
2978
2979- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
2980 interface name on the command line.
2981
2982- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
2983 client state.
2984
2985- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
2986 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
2987 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
2988 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
2989 added by Ted Lemon.
2990
2991- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
2992 be made to log debugging information and other information.
2993
2994- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
2995 end option.
2996
2997- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
2998 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
2999 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
3000
3001- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
3002 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
3003 face of a null hardware address on input.
3004
3005- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
3006 specified unqualified.
3007
3008- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
3009 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
3010
3011- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
3012 RFC.
3013
3014- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
3015
3016- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
3017
3018- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
3019 it works.
3020
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3021 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
3022
3023- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
3024 to CVS.
3025
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3026 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
3027
3028- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
3029
3030- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
3031 in patchlevel 9.
3032
3033- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
3034 options at renewal time.
3035
3036- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
3037 configuration language.
3038
3039- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
3040
3041- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
3042 done when no client hostname was received.
3043
3044- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
3045
3046- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
3047 the DHCP option space.
3048
3049- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
3050
3051- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
3052 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
3053
3054- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
3055 silently dropped.
3056
3057- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
3058 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
3059
3060- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
3061 will be correctly updated.
3062
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3063 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
3064
3065- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
3066 bounds-checking.
3067
3068 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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3069
3070- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
3071
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3074- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
3075 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
3076 possible to exploit it any further than that.
3077
3078- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
3079 option.
3080
3081- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
3082 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
3083 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
3084 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
3085 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
3086 meaningfully.
3087
3088- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
3089 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
3090 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
3091
3092- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
3093 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
3094 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
3095 this one down!
3096
3097- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
3098 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
3099 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
3100 down and fixing this problem.
3101
3102 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
3103
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3104- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
3105 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
3106
3107- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
3108 environment.
3109
3110- Fix suffix operator.
3111
3112- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
3113
3114- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
3115 connection code.
3116
3117- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
3118
3119- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
3120
3121- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
3122 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
3123
3124- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
3125
3126- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
3127
3128- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
3129 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
3130
3131- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
3132 spawn with.
3133
3134- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
3135 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
3136
3137- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
3138 for OMAPI.
3139
3140- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
3141 can install in host declarations.
3142
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3143 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
3144
3145- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
3146 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
3147 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
3148 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
3149 comments)!
3150
3151- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
3152
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3153- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
3154 request for help on this with patches!
3155
3156- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
3157 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
3158 lost, they never reconnect.
3159
3160- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
3161 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
3162
3163- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
3164 dump.
3165
3166- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
3167 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
3168 catching this one.
3169
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3170 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
3171
3172- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 3173 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
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3174 lease renewal time.
3175
3176- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
3177 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
3178 declared without a key.
3179
3180- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
3181
3182- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
3183 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
3184
3185- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
3186 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
3187 determine the maximum size of the response.
3188
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3189 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
3190
359b023e
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3191- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
3192 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
3193
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3194- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
3195 RENEWING client.
3196
3197- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
3198
3199- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
3200 using memcmp().
3201
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3202 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
3203
3204- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
3205 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
3206 pointing this out.
3207
3208- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
3209 exit.
3210
3211- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
3212
3213- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
3214 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.