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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
01a44a77 2 Version 4.3.1-pre-beta
8c532cdd 3 3 February 2014
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0171be2d 5 Release Notes
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0171be2d 7 NEW FEATURES
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80778e94 9The major "theme" for ISC DHCP 4.3.x was to update the suport for
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10DHCPv6 to include several of the features that have been available
11for DHCPv4. These include:
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13- Support the use of classes
14
15- Support for on_commit, on_expiry and on_release statements
16
4809ef5c 17- Better logging of address assignments
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19- Support for using DHCPv6 relay options in expressions
20
21This release also adds suppport for the standard DDNS as described in the
22current RFCs as well as enhancing support for dynamically adding and removing
23subclasses via OMAPI.
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25There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
26release, which will be addressed in the future:
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01a54c17 28- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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30- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages, in
31 English. A method to reconfigure or support other languages would
80778e94 32 be preferable.
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34- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
35
98bd7ca0 36- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 37 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 38 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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40For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as
41well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the
42README file.
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44ISC DHCP uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please review the
45output of "./configure --help" to see what options are available.
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47The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and may not
48work on other platforms. Please report any problems and suggested fixes to
49<dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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51ISC DHCP is open source software maintained by Internet Systems
52Consortium. This product includes cryptographic software written
53by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com).
54
57187138 55 Changes since 4.3.0
01a44a77 56
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57- Tidy up several small tickets
58 Correct parsing of DUID from config file, previously the LL type
59 was put in the wrong place in the DUID string.
60 [ISC-Bugs #20962]
61 Add code to parse "do-forward-updates" as well as "do-forward-update"
62 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
63 [ISC-Bugs #31328]
64 Remove log_priority as it isn't currently used.
65 [ISC-Bugs #33397]
66 Increase the size of the buffer used for reading interface information.
67 [ISC-Bugs #34858]
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69- Remove an extra set of the msg_controllen variable.
70 [ISC-Bugs #21035]
71
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72- Add a more understandable error message if a configuration attempts
73 to add multiple keys for a single zone. Thanks to a patch from Jiri
74 Popelka at Red Hat.
75 [ISC-Bugs #31892]
76
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77- Fix some minor issues in the dst code.
78 [ISC-Bugs #34172]
79
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80- Properly #ifdef functions so that the code can compile without NSUPDATE
81 [ISC-Bugs #35058]
82
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83- Update the partner's stos (start time of state, basically when we last
84 heard from this partner) field when updating the state in failover.
85 [ISC-Bugs #35549]
86
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87- Modify the overload processing to allow space for the remote agent ID
88 [ISC-Bugs #35569]
89 Handle the ordering of the SUBNET_MASK option even if it is the last
90 option in the list.
91 [ISC-Bugs #24580]
92
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93- Remove the code that allows a server to follow RFC3315 instead of
94 the subsequent errata from August 2010 when determining which IAs
95 to include if no addresses will be assigned.
2c4be1d7 96 [ISC-Bugs #28938]
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98- Remove unused RCSID tags.
99 [ISC-Bugs #35846]
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101- Correct the v6 client timing code. When doing the timing backoff
102 for MRT limit it to MRD.
103 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug and fix.
104 [ISC-Bugs #21238
105
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106 Changes since 4.3.0rc1
107
108- None
109 Changes since 4.3.0b1
110
111- Tidy up receive packet processing.
112 Thanks to Brad Plank of GTA for reporting the issue and suggesting
113 a possible patch.
114 [ISC-Bugs #34447]
115
116 Changes since 4.3.0a1
117
118- Modify the message displayed when a process hits a fatal error.
119 The new message is much shorter and simply points to the README
120 and our website for directions on bug submissions.
121 [ISC-Bugs #24789]
122
123- Handle an absent resolv.conf file better.
124 [ISC-Bugs #35194]
125
6980ae03 126 Changes since 4.2.0 (new features)
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128- If a client renews before 'dhcp-cache-threshold' percent of its lease
129 has elapsed (default 25%), the server will reuse the allocated lease
130 (provide a lease within the currently allocated lease-time) rather
131 than extend or renew the lease. This absolves the server of needing
132 to perform an fsync() operation on the lease database before reply,
133 which improves performance. [ISC-Bugs #22228]
80778e94 134 Updated this patch to support asynchronous DDNS. If the server is
8cd88e20 135 attempting to do DDNS on a lease it should be udpated and written to
4809ef5c 136 disk even if that wouldn't be necessary due to the thresholding.
8cd88e20 137 [ISC-Bugs #26311]
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139- The 'no available billing' log line now also logs the name of the last
140 matching billing class tried before failing to provide a billing.
141 [ISC-Bugs #21759]
142
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143- A problem with missing get_hw_addr function when --enable-use-sockets
144 was used is now solved on GNU/Linux, BSD and GNU/Hurd systems. Note
145 that use-sockets feature was not tested on those systems. Client and
146 server code no longer use MAX_PATH constant that is not defined on
3cb6f9bb 147 GNU/Hurd systems. [ISC-Bugs #25979]
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149- Add a perl script in the contrib directory, dhcp-lease-list.pl, which
150 can parse v4 lease files and output the lease information in a more
151 human friendly manner. This was written by Christian Hammers with
152 some updates by vom and ISC. This is contributed code and is not
153 supported by ISC; however it may be useful to some users.
154 [ISC-Bugs #20680]
155
a7341359 156- Add support in v6 for on-commit, on-expire and on-release.
4809ef5c 157 [ISC-Bugs #27912]
a7341359 158
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159- Add support for using classes with v6.
160 [ISC-Bugs #26510]
161
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162- Update the DDNS code to current standards and allow for sharing
163 of DDNS entries between v4 and v6 clients. The new code is used
164 if the ddns-update-style is set to "standard", the older code is
165 still available if ddns-update-style is set to "interim". The
166 oldest DDNS code "ad-hoc" has been removed. Thanks to Thomas Pegeot
167 who submitted a patch for this issue. This patch is based on
168 that work with some modifications.
64fb661c 169 [ISC-Bugs #21139]
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171- Add a configuration option to the server to suppress using fsync().
172 Enabling this option will mean that fsync() is never called. This
173 may provide better performance but there is also a risk that a lease
174 will not be properly written to the disk after it has been issued
175 to a client and before the server stops. Using this option is
176 not recommended.
64fb661c 177 [ISC-Bugs #34810]
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179- Add some logging statements to indicate when the server is ready
180 to serve. One statement is emitted after the server has finished
181 reading its files and is about to enter the dispatch loop.
182 This is "Server starting service.".
183 The second is emitted when a server determines that both it and
184 its failover peer are in the normal state.
185 This is "failover peer <name>: Both servers normal."
64fb661c 186 [ISC-Bugs #33208]
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188- Add support for accessing options from v6 relays. The v6relay
189 statement allows the administrator to choose which relay to
190 use when searching for an option, see the dhcp-options man page
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191 for a description. The host-identifier option has also been
192 updated to support the use of relay options, see the dhcpd.conf
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193 man page for a description.
194 [ISC-Bugs #19598]
195
e54ff84f 196- When doing DDNS if there isn't an appropriate zone statement attempt
80778e94 197 to find a reasonable nameserver via a DNS resolver. This restores
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198 some functionality that was lost in the transition to asynchronous
199 DDNS. Due to the lack of security and increase in fragility of the
200 system when using this feature we strongly recommend the use of
201 appropriate zone statements rather than using this functionality.
202 [ISC-Bugs #30461]
203
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204- Add support for specifying the address from which to send
205 DDNS updates on the DHCP server. There are two new options
206 "ddns-local-address4" and "ddns-local-address6" that each take
207 one instance of their respective address types.
208 [ISC-Bugs #34779]
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210- Add ignore-client-uids option in the server. This option causes
211 the server to not record a client's uid in its lease. This
212 violates the specification but may also be useful when a client
213 can dual boot using different client ids but the same mac address.
6b9c9f87 214 Thank you to Brian De Wolf at Cal Poly Pomona for the patch.
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215 [ISC-Bugs #32427]
216 [ISC-Bugs #35066]
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218- Extend the DHCPINFORM processing to honor the subnet selection option
219 and take host declarations into account.
220 Thanks to Christof Chen for testing and submitting the patch.
221 [ISC-Bugs #35015]
222
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223- Extend the hardware expression to look into the lease structure
224 for a hardware address if there is no packet. This allows the
225 server to find the hardware address during on-expiry processing.
226 [ISC-Bugs #24584]
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228- Add definitions for some options that have been specified by the IETF.
229 [ISC-Bugs #29268]
ccc2a367 230 [ISC-Bugs #35198]
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01a44a77 232 Changes since 4.2.0 (bug fixes)
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234- When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
235 is no longer truncated to one octet.
8ee352ee 236
01a44a77 237- Cleaned up an unused hardware address variable in nak_lease().
4889a646 238
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239- Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
240 reflect support for prefix delegation.
4889a646 241
01a44a77 242- Cleaned up some compiler warnings
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244- An optimization described in the failover protocol draft is now included,
245 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
246 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
247 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
248 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
249 entry for each lease.
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01a44a77 251- Fix the trace code which was broken by the changes to the DDNS code.
d0a10f6a 252
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253- Update the fsync code to work with the changes to the DDNS code. It now
254 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
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256- When constructing the DNS name structure from a text string append
257 the root to relative names. This satisfies a requirement in the DNS
258 library that names be absolute instead of relative and prevents DHCP
259 from crashing. [ISC-Bugs #21054]
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261- "The LDAP Patch" that has been circulating for some time, written by
262 Brian Masney and S.Kalyanasundraram and maintained for application to
263 the DHCP-4 sources by David Cantrell has been included. Please be
264 advised that these sources were contributed, and do not yet meet the
265 high standards we place on production sources we include by default.
266 As a result, the LDAP features are only included by using a compile-time
267 option which defaults off, and if you enable it you do so under your
268 own recognizance. We will be improving this software over time.
269 [ISC-Bugs #17741]
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271- Prohibit including lease time information in a response to a DHCP INFORM.
272 [ISC-Bugs #21092]
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274! Accept a client id of length 0 while hashing. Previously the server would
275 exit if it attempted to hash a zero length client id, providing attackers
276 with a simple denial of service attack. [ISC-Bugs #21253]
277 CERT: VU#541921 - CVE: CVE-2010-2156
08b2d347 278
01a44a77 279- A memory leak in ddns processing was closed. [ISC-Bugs #21377]
08b2d347 280
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281- Modify the exception handling for initial context creation. Previously
282 we would try and clean up before exiting. This could present problems
283 when the cleanup required part of the context that wasn't available. It
284 also didn't do much as we exited afterwards anyway. Now we simply log
285 the error and exit. [ISC-Bugs #21093]
ad4001ce 286
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287- A bug was fixed that could cause the DHCPv6 server to advertise/assign a
288 previously allocated (active) lease to a client that has changed subnets,
289 despite being on different shared networks. Dynamic prefixes specifically
290 allocated in shared networks also now are not offered if the client has
291 moved. [ISC-Bugs #21152]
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01a44a77 293- Add some debugging output for use with the DDNS code. [ISC-Bugs #20916]
f6dc164f 294
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295- Fix the trace code to handle timing events better and to truncate a file
296 before using instead of overwriting it. [ISC-Bugs #20969]
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298- Modify the determination of the default TTL to use for DDNS updates.
299 The user may still configure the ttl via ddns-ttl. The default for
300 both v4 and v6 is now 1/2 the (preferred) lease time with a limit. The
301 previous defaults (1/2 lease time without a limit for v4 and a default
302 value for v6) may be used by defining USE_OLD_DDNS_TTL in site.h
303 [ISC-Bugs #21126]
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305- libisc/libdns is now brought up to version 9.7.1rc1. This corrects
306 three reported flaws in ISC DHCP;
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308 o DHCP processes (dhcpd, dhclient) fail to start if one of either the
309 IPv4 or IPv6 address families is not present. [ISC-Bugs #21122]
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311 o Assertion failure when attempting to cancel a previously running DDNS
312 update. [ISC-Bugs #21133]
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314 o Compilation failure of libisc/libdns due to the use of a flexible
315 array member. [ISC-Bugs #21316]
9f9265b6 316
01a44a77 317- Add declaration for variable in debug code in alloc.c. [ISC-Bugs #21472]
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319- Documentation cleanup covering multiple tickets
320 [ISC-Bugs #20265] [ISC-Bugs #20259] minor cleanup
321 [ISC-Bugs #20263] add text describing some default values
322 [ISC-Bugs #20193] single quotes at the start of a line indicate a control
323 line to nroff, escape them if we actually want a quote.
324 [ISC-Bugs #18916] sync the pointer to web pages amongst the different docs
de87ffe3 325
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326- 'get-host-names true;' now also works even if 'use-host-decl-names true;'
327 was also configured. The nature of this repair also fixes another
328 error; the host-name supplied by a client is no longer overridden by a
329 reverse lookup of the lease address. Thanks to a patch from Wilco Baan
330 Hofman supplied to us by the Debian package maintenance team.
331 [ISC-Bugs #21691] {Debian Bug#509445}
e563ec2e 332
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333- The .TH tag for the dhcp-options manpage was typo repaired
334 thanks to a report from jidanni and the Debian package maintenance
335 team. [ISC-Bugs #21676] {Debian Bug#563613}
3bedb117 336
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337- More documentation changes - primarily to put the options in the dhclient
338 and dhcpd man pages into the standard form. Thanks in part to a patch
339 from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
340 [ISC-Bugs #20264] and parts of [ISC-Bugs #17744] dhclient.8 changes
18a28679 341
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342- Add code to clear the pointer to an object in an OMAPI handle when the
343 object is freed due to a dereference. [ISC-Bugs #21306]
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345- Fixed a bug that leaks host record references onto lease structures,
346 causing the server to apply configuration intended for one host to any
347 other innocent clients that come along later. [ISC-Bugs #22018]
67b2cb45 348
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349- Minor code fixes
350 [ISC-Bugs #19566] When trying to find the zone for a name for ddns allow
351 the name to be at the apex of the zone.
352 [ISC-Bugs #19617] Restrict length of interface name read from command line
353 in dhcpd - based on a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
354 [ISC-Bugs #20039] Correct some error messages in dhcpd.c
355 [ISC-Bugs #20070] Better range check on values when creating a DHCID.
356 [ISC-Bugs #20198] Avoid writing past the end of the field when adding
357 overly long file or server names to a packet and add a log message
358 if the configuration supplied overly long names for these fields.
359 Thanks to Martin Pala.
360 [ISC-Bugs #21497] Add a little more randomness to rng seed in client
361 thanks to a patch from Jeremiah Jinno.
74977c94 362
01a44a77 363- Correct error handling in DLPI [ISC-Bugs #20378]
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365- Remove __sun__ and __hpux__ typedefs in osdep.h as they are now being
366 checked in configure. [ISC-Bugs #20443]
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368- Modify how the cmsg header is allocated the v6 send and received routines
369 to compile on more compilers. [ISC-Bugs #20524]
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371- When parsing a domain name free the memory for the name after we are
372 done with it. [ISC-Bugs #20824]
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374- Add an elapsed time option to the release message and refactor the
375 code to move most of the common code to a single routine.
376 [ISC-Bugs #21171].
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378- Two identical log messages for commit_leases() have been disambiguated.
379 [ISC-Bugs #18915]
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381- Parse date strings more properly - the code now handles semi-colons in
382 date strings correctly. Thanks to a patch from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
383 [ISC-Bugs #21501, #20598]
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385- Fixes to lease input and output.
386 [ISC-Bugs #20418] - Some systems don't support the "%s" argument to
387 strftime, paste together the same string using mktime instead.
388 [ISC-Bugs #19596] - When parsing iaid values accept printable
389 characters.
390 [ISC-Bugs #21585] - Always print time values in omshell as hex
391 instead of ascii if the values happen to be printable characters.
87132514 392
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393- Minor changes for scripts, configure.ac and Makefiles
394 [ISC-Bugs #19147] Use domain-search instead of domain-name in manual and
395 example conf file. Thanks to a patch from David Cantrell
396 at Red Hat.
397 [ISC-Bugs #19761] Restore address when doing a rebind in DHCPv6
398 [ISC-Bugs #19945] Properly close the quote on some arguments.
399 [ISC-Bugs #20952] Add 64 bit types to configure.ac
400 [ISC-Bugs #21308] Add "PATH=" to CLIENT_PATH envrionment variable
b047bd38 401
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402- Update the code to parse dhcpv6 lease files to accept a semi-colon at
403 the end of the max-life and preferred-life clauses. In order to be
404 backwards compatible with older lease files not finding a semi-colon
405 is also accepted. [ISC-Bugs #22303].
e3c94800 406
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408 link address field. Previously such a message would cause the
409 server to crash. Thanks to a report from John Gibbons. [ISC-Bugs #21992]
410 CERT: VU#102047 CVE: CVE-2010-3611
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412- ./configure on longer searches for -lcrypto to explicitly link against.
413 This fixes a bug where 'dhclient' would have shared library dependencies
414 on '/usr/lib'. [ISC-Bugs #21967]
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416- Handle pipe failures more gracefully. Some OSes pass a SIGPIPE
417 signal to a process and will kill the process if the signal isn't
418 caught. This patch adds code to turn off the SIGPIPE signal via
419 a setsockopt() call. The signal is already being ignored as part
420 of the ISC library. [ISC-Bugs #22269]
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422- Restore printing of values in omshell to the style pre 21585. For
423 21585 we changed the print routines to always display time values
424 as a hex list. This had a side effect of printing all data strings
425 as a hex list. We shall investigate other ways of displaying time
426 values more usefully. [ISC-Bugs #22626]
797aab67 427
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429 Previously a connection request from a source that wasn't
430 listed as a failover peer would cause the server to become
431 non-responsive. Thanks to a report from Brad Bendily, brad@bendily.com.
432 [ISC-Bugs #22679]
433 CERT: VU#159528 CVE: CVE-2010-3616
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435- Don't pass the ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to the omapi signal handlers.
436 Passing it through to the handlers caused the omshell program to fail
437 to connect to the server. [ISC-Bugs #21839]
d289ee68 438
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439- Fix the paranthesis in the code to process configuration statements
440 beginning with "auth". The previous arrangement caused
441 "auto-partner-down" to be processed incorrectly. [ISC-Bugs #21854]
d19fa5a1 442
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443- Limit the timeout period allowed in the dispatch code to 2^^32-1 seconds.
444 Thanks to a report from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
445 [ISC-Bugs #22033], [Red Hat Bug #628258]
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447- When processing the format flags for a given option consume the
448 flag indicating an optional value correctly. A symptom of this
449 bug was an infinite loop when trying to parse the slp-service-scope
450 option. Thanks to a patch from Marius Tomaschewski.
451 [ISC-Bugs #22055]
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453- Disable the use of kqueue in the ISC library. This avoids a problem
454 between the fork and socket code that caused the dhcpd process to
455 use all available cpu if the program daemonized itself.
456 [ISC-Bugs #21911]
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458! When processing a request in the DHCPv6 server code that specifies
459 an address that is tagged as abandoned (meaning we received a
460 decline request for it previously) don't attempt to move it from
461 the inactive to active pool as doing so can result in the server
462 crashing on an assert failure. Also retag the lease as active
463 and reset its timeout value.
464 [ISC-Bugs #21921]
465
466- Removed the restriction on using IPv6 addresses in IPv4 mode. This
467 allows IPv4 options which contain IPv6 addresses to be specified. For
468 example the 6rd option can be specified and used like this:
469 [ISC-Bugs #23039]
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471 option 6rd code 212 = { integer 8, integer 8,
472 ip6-address, array of ip-address };
473 option 6rd 16 10 2001:: 1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8;
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475- Handle some DDNS corner cases better. Maintain the DDNS transaction
476 information when updating a lease and cancel any existing transactions
477 when removing the ddns information.
478 [ISC-Bugs #23103]
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480- Some fixes for LDAP
481 [ISC-Bugs #21783] - Include lber library when building ldap
482 [ISC-Bugs #22888] - Enable the ldap code when buidling common
483 The above fixes are from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
3221151b 484
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485- Modify the dlpi code to accept getmsg() returning a positive value.
486 [ISC-Bugs #22824]
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488! In dhclient check the data for some string options for
489 reasonableness before passing it along to the script that
490 interfaces with the OS.
491 [ISC-Bugs #23722]
492 CVE: CVE-2011-0997
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494- DHCPv6 server now responds properly if client asks for a prefix that
495 is already assigned to a different client. [ISC-Bugs #23948]
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497- Add the option "--no-pid" to the client, relay and server code,
498 to disable writing a pid file. Add the option "-pf pidfile"
499 to the relay to allow the user to supply the pidfile name at
500 runtime. Add the "with-relay6-pid-file" option to configure
501 to allow the user to supply the pidfile name for the relay
502 in v6 mode at configure time.
503 [ISC-Bugs #23351] [ISC-Bugs #17541]
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505- 'dhclient' no longer waits a random interval after first starting up to
506 begin in the INIT state. This conforms to RFC 2131, but elects not to
507 implement a 'SHOULD' direction in section 4.1. The goal of this change
73c83820 508 is to start up faster. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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510- Added 'initial-delay' parameter that specifies maximum amount of time
511 before client goes to the INIT state. The default value is 0. In previous
512 versions of the code client could wait up to 5 seconds. The old behavior
513 may be restored by using 'initial-delay 5;' in the client config file.
73c83820 514 [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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516- ICMP ping-check should now sit closer to precisely the number of seconds
517 configured (or default 1), due to making use of the new microsecond
518 scale timer internally to dhcpd. This corrects a bug where the server
519 may immediately timeout an ICMP ping-check if it was made late in the
73c83820 520 current second. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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522- The DHCP client will schedule renewal and rebinding events in
523 microseconds if the DHCP server provided a lease-time that would result
524 in sub-1-second timers. This corrects a bug where a 2-second or lower
525 lease-time would cause the DHCP client to enter an infinite loop by
73c83820 526 scheduling renewal at zero seconds. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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528- Client lease records are recorded at most once every 15 seconds. This
529 keeps the client from filling the lease database disk quickly on very small
73c83820 530 lease times. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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532- To defend against RFC 2131 non-compliant DHCP servers which fail to
533 advertise a lease-time (either mangled, or zero in value) the DHCP
534 client now adds the server to the reject list ACL and returns to INIT
535 state to hopefully find an RFC 2131 compliant server (or retry in INIT
73c83820 536 forever). [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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538- Parameters configured to evaluate from user defined function calls can
539 now be correctly written to dhcpd.leases (as on 'on events' or dynamic
540 host records inserted via OMAPI). [ISC-Bugs #22266]
541
542- If a 'next-server' parameter is configured in a dynamic host record via
543 OMAPI as a domain name, the syntax written to disk is now correctly parsed
544 upon restart. [ISC-Bugs #22266]
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546- The DHCP server now responds to DHCPLEASEQUERY messages from agents using
547 IP addresses not covered by a subnet in configuration. Whether or not to
548 respond to such an agent is still governed by the 'allow leasequery;'
549 configuration parameter, in the case of an agent not covered by a configured
550 subnet the root configuration area is examined. Server now also returns
551 vendor-class-id option, if client sent it. [ISC-Bugs #21094]
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553- Documentation fixes
554 [ISC-Bugs #17959] add text to AIX section describing how to have it send
555 responses to the all-ones address.
556 [ISC-Bugs #19615] update the includes in dhcpctl/dhcpctl.3 to be more correct
557 [ISC-Bugs #20676] update dhcpd.conf.5 to include the RFC numbers for DDNS
558
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559- Relay no longer crashes, when DHCP packet is received over interface without
560 any IPv4 address assigned. Also extended logging message about discarding
561 packets with invalid hlen with information about relevant interface name.
562 [ISC-Bugs #22409]
563
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564- Relay now properly logs that packet was received over interface without
565 global IPv6 address [ISC-Bugs #24070]
566
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567- Linux Packet Filter interface improvement. sockaddr_pkt structure is used,
568 rather than sockaddr. Packet ethertype is now forced to ETH_P_IP.
569 [ISC-Bugs #18975]
570
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571- Minor code cleanups - but note port change for #23196
572 [ISC-Bugs #23470] - Modify when an ignore return macro is defined to
573 handle unsed error return warnings for more versions of gcc.
574 [ISC-Bugs #23196] - Modify the reply handling in the server code to
575 send to a specified port rather than to the source port for the incoming
576 message. Sending to the source port was test code that should have
577 been removed. The previous functionality may be restored by defining
578 REPLY_TO_SOURCE_PORT in the includes/site.h file. We suggest you don't
579 enable this except for testing purposes.
580 [ISC-Bugs #22695] - Close a file descriptor in an error path.
581 [ISC-Bugs #19368] - Tidy up variable types in validate_port.
582
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583- Code cleanup: remove obsolete PROTO, KandR, INLINE and ANSI_DECL macros
584 [ISC-Bugs #13151]
585
586- Compilation problem with gcc4.5 and omshell.c resolved. [ISC-Bugs #23831]
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588- Client Script fixes
589 [ISC-Bugs #23045] Typos in client/scripts/openbsd
590 [ISC-Bugs #23565] In the client scripts add a zone id (interface id) if
591 the domain search address is link local.
592 [ISC-Bugs #1277] In some of the client scripts add code to handle the
593 case of the default router information being changed without the address
594 being changed.
595
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596- Documentation cleanup
597 [ISC-Bugs #23326] Updated References document, several man page updates
598
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599- Server no longer complains about NULL pointer when configured
600 server-identifier expression fails to evaluate. [ISC-Bugs #24547]
601
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602- Convert ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to ISC_R_SUCCESS when called from other
603 than the dispatch handler. This fixes an issue where omshell, when
604 run from the same platform as the server, would appear to fail to
605 connect. This is a companion to #21839. [ISC-Bugs #23592]
606
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607- Enlarge the buffer size used by the Omshell code and some of the
608 print routines to allow for greater than 60 characters or, when
609 printing as hex strings, 20 characters. [ISC-Bugs #22743]
610
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611- In Solaris 11 switch to using sockets instead of DLPI, thanks
612 to a patch form Oracle. [ISC-Bugs #24634].
613
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614- Strict checks for content of domain-name DHCPv4 option can now be
615 configured during compilation time. Even though RFC2132 does not allow
616 to store more than one domain in domain-name option, such behavior is
617 now enabled by default, but this may change some time in the future.
618 See ACCEPT_LIST_IN_DOMAIN_NAME define in includes/site.h.
619 [ISC-Bugs #24167]
620
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621- DNS Update fix. A misconfigured server could crash during DNS update
622 processing if the configuration included overlapping pools or
623 multiple fixed-address entries for a single address. This issue
624 affected both IPv4 and IPv6. The fix allows a server to detect such
625 conditions, provides the user with extra information and recommended
626 steps to fix the problem. If the user enables the appropriate option
627 in site.h then server will be terminated
628 [ISC-Bugs #23595]
629
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630! Two packets were found that cause a server to halt. The code
631 has been updated to properly process or reject the packets as
632 appropriate. Thanks to David Zych at University of Illinois
633 for reporting this issue. [ISC-Bugs #24960]
634 One CVE number for each class of packet.
635 CVE-2011-2748
636 CVE-2011-2749
637
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638- Fix the code that checks for an existing DDNS transaction to cancel
639 when removing DDNS information, so that we will continue with the
640 processing if we have a lease even if it doesn't have an outstanding
641 transaction. [ISC-Bugs #24682]
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643- Add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to configure.ac to avoid rebuilding
644 configuration files. [ISC-Bugs #24107]
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646- Add support for passing DDNS information to a DNS server over
647 an IPv6 address. [ISC-Bugs #22647]
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649- Enhanced patch for 23595 to handle IPv4 fixed addresses more
650 cleanly. [ISC-Bugs #23595]
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652! Add a check for a null pointer before calling the regexec function.
653 Without this check we could, under some circumstances, pass
654 a null pointer to the regexec function causing it to segfault.
655 Thanks to a report from BlueCat Networks.
656 [ISC-Bugs #26704].
657 CVE: CVE-2011-4539
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659! Modify the DDNS handling code. In a previous patch we added logging
660 code to the DDNS handling. This code included a bug that caused it
661 to attempt to dereference a NULL pointer and eventually segfault.
662 While reviewing the code as we addressed this problem, we determined
663 that some of the updates to the lease structures would not work as
664 planned since the structures being updated were in the process of
665 being freed: these updates were removed. In addition we removed an
666 incorrect call to the DDNS removal function that could cause a failure
667 during the removal of DDNS information from the DNS server.
668 Thanks to Jasper Jongmans for reporting this issue.
669 [ISC-Bugs #27078]
670 CVE: CVE-2011-4868
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672- Fixed the code that checks if an address the server is planning
673 to hand out is in a reserved range. This would appear as
674 the server being out of addresses in pools with particular ranges.
675 [ISC-Bugs #26498]
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677- In the DDNS code handle error conditions more gracefully and add more
678 logging code. The major change is to handle unexpected cancel events
679 from the DNS client code.
680 [ISC-Bugs #26287]
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682- Tidy up the receive calls and eliminate the need for found_pkt.
683 [ISC-Bugs #25066]
684
685- Add support for Infiniband over sockets to the server and
686 relay code. We've tested this on Solaris and hope to expand
687 support for Infiniband in the future. This patch also corrects
688 some issues we found in the socket code.
689 [ISC-Bugs #24245]
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691- Add a compile time check for the presence of the noreturn attribute
692 and use it for log_fatal if it's available. This will help code
693 checking programs to eliminate false positives.
694 [ISC-Bugs #27539]
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696- Fixed many compilation problems ("set, but not used" warnings) for
697 gcc 4.6 that may affect Ubuntu 11.10 users. [ISC-Bugs #27588]
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699- Modify the code that determines if an outstanding DDNS request
700 should be cancelled. This patch results in cancelling the
701 outstanding request less often. It fixes the problem caused
702 by a client doing a release where the TXT and PTR records
703 weren't removed from the DNS.
704 [ISC-BUGS #27858]
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706- Use offsetof() instead of sizeof() to get the sizes for dhcpv6_relay_packet
707 and dhcpv6_packet in several more places. Thanks to a report from
708 Bruno Verstuyft and Vincent Demaertelaere of Excentis.
709 [ISC-Bugs #27941]
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711- Remove outdated note in the description of the bootp keyword about the
712 option not satisfying the requirement of failover peers for denying
713 dynamic bootp clients.
714 [ISC-bugs #28574]
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716- Multiple items to clean up IPv6 address processing.
717 When processing an IA that we've seen check to see if the
718 addresses are usable (not in use by somebody else) before
719 handing it out.
720 When reading in leases from the file discard expired addresses.
721 When picking an address for a client include the IA ID in
722 addition to the client ID to generally pick different addresses
723 for different IAs.
724 [ISC-Bugs #23138] [ISC-Bugs #27945] [ISC-Bugs #25586]
725 [ISC-Bugs #27684]
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727- Remove unnecessary checks in the lease query code and clean up
728 several compiler issues (some dereferences of NULL and treating
729 an int as a boolean).
730 [ISC-Bugs #26203]
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732- Fix the NA and PD allocation code to handle the case where a client
733 provides a preference and the server doesn't have any addresses or
734 prefixes available. Previously the server ignored the request with
735 this patch it replies with a NoAddrsAvail or NoPrefixAvail response.
736 By default the code performs according to the errata of August 2010
737 for RFC 3315 section 17.2.2; to enable the previous style see the
738 section on RFC3315_PRE_ERRATA_2010_08 in includes/site.h. This option
739 may be removed in the future.
740 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
741 [ISC-Bugs #22676]
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743- Fix up some issues found by static analysis.
744 A potential memory leak and NULL dereference in omapi.
745 The use of a boolean test instead of a bitwise test in dst.
746 [ISC-Bugs #28941]
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748- Rotate the lease file when running in v6 mode.
749 Thanks to Christoph Moench-Tegeder at Astaro for the
750 report and the first version of the patch.
751 [ISC-Bugs #24887]
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753- Correct code to calculate timing values in client to compare
754 rebind value to infinity instead of renew value.
755 Thanks to Chenda Huang from H3C Technologies Co., Limited
756 for reporting this issue.
757 [ISC-Bugs #29062]
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759- Fix some issues in the code for parsing and printing options.
760 [ISC-Bugs #22625] - properly print options that have several fields
761 followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
762 [ISC-Bugs #27289] - properly parse options in declarations that have
763 several fields followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
764 [ISC-Bugs #27296] - properly determine if we parsed a 16 or 32 bit
765 value in evaluate_numeric_expression (extract-int).
766 [ISC-Bugs #27314] - properly parse a zero length option from
767 a lease file. Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski from SUSE for the report
768 and prototype patch for this ticket as well as ticket 27289.
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770! Previously the server code was relaxed to allow packets with zero
771 length client ids to be processed. Under some situations use of
772 zero length client ids can cause the server to go into an infinite
773 loop. As such ids are not valid according to RFC 2132 section 9.14
774 the server no longer accepts them. Client ids with a length of 1
775 are also invalid but the server still accepts them in order to
776 minimize disruption. The restriction will likely be tightened in
777 the future to disallow ids with a length of 1.
778 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
779 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
780 [ISC-Bugs #29851]
781 CVE: CVE-2012-3571
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783! When attempting to convert a DUID from a client id option
784 into a hardware address handle unexpected client ids properly.
785 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
786 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
787 [ISC-Bugs #29852]
788 CVE: CVE-2012-3570
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790! A pair of memory leaks were found and fixed. Thanks to
791 Glen Eustace of Massey University, New Zealand for finding
792 this issue.
793 [ISC-Bugs #30024]
794 CVE: CVE-2012-3954
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796- Existing legacy unit-tests have been migrated to Automated Test
797 Framework (ATF). Several new tests have been developed. To enable
798 unit-tests, please use --with-atf in configure script. A Developer's
799 Guide has been added. To generate it, please use make devel in
800 the doc directory. It is currently in early stages of development,
801 but is expected to grow in the near future. [ISC-Bugs 25901]
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803! An issue with the use of lease times was found and fixed. Making
804 certain changes to the end time of an IPv6 lease could cause the
805 server to abort. Thanks to Glen Eustace of Massey University,
806 New Zealand for finding this issue.
807 [ISC-Bugs #30281]
808 CVE: CVE-2012-3955
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810- Update the memory leakage debug code to work with v6.
811 [ISC-Bugs #30297]
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813- Relax the requirements for deleting an A or AAAA record.
814 Previously the DDNS removal code required both the A or AAAA
815 record and the TXT record to exist. This requirement could
816 cause problems if something interrupted the removal leaving
817 the TXT record alone. This relaxation was codified in RFC 4703.
818 [ISC-Bugs #30734]
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820- Modify the failover code to handle incorrect peer names
821 better. Previously the structure holding the name might
822 have been freed inappropriately in some cases and not
823 freed in other cases.
824 [ISC-Bugs #30320]
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826- Add a configure option, enable-secs-byteorder, to deal with
827 clients that do the byte ordering on the secs field incorrectly.
828 This field should be in network byte order but some clients
829 get it wrong. When this option is enabled the server will examine
830 the secs field and if it looks wrong (high byte non zero and low
831 byte zero) swap the bytes. The default is disabled. This option
832 is only useful when doing load balancing within failover.
833 [ISC-Bugs #26108]
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835- Fix a set of issues that were discovered via a code inspection
836 tool. Thanks to Jiri Popelka and Tomas Hozza Red Hat for the logs
837 and patches.
838 [ISC-Bugs #23833]
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840- Parsing unquoted base64 strings improved. Parser now properly handles
841 strings that contain reserved names. [ISC-Bugs #23048]
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843- Modify the nak_lease function to make some attempts to find a
844 server-identifier option to use for the NAK.
845 [ISC-Bugs #25689]
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847- The client now passes information about the options it requested
848 from the server to the script code via environment variables.
849 These variables are of the form requested_<option_name>=1 with
850 the option name being the same as used in the new_* and old_*
851 variables.
852 [ISC-Bugs #29068]
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854- Add support for a simple check that the server id in a request message
855 to a failover peer matches the server id of the server. This support
856 is enabled by editing the file includes/site.h and uncommenting the
857 definition for SERVER_ID_CHECK. The option has several restrictions
858 and issues - please read the comment in the site.h file before
859 enabling it.
860 [ISC-Bugs #31463]
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862- Tidy up some compiler issues in the debug code.
863 [ISC-Bugs #26460]
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865- Move the dhcpd.conf exmample file to dhcpd.conf.example to avoid
866 overwriting the dhcpd.conf file when installing a new version of
867 ISC DHCP. The user will now need to manual copy and edit the
868 dhcpd.conf file as desired.
869 [ISC-Bugs #19337]
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871- Check the status value when trying to read from a connection to
872 see if it may have been closed. If it appears closed don't try
873 to read from it again. This avoids a potential busy-wait like
874 loop when the peer names are mismatched.
875 [ISC-Bugs #31231]
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877- Remove an unused variable to keep compilers happy.
878 [ISC-Bugs #31983]
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880- Modify test makefiles to be more similar to standard makefiles
881 and comment out a currently unused test.
882 [ISC-Bugs #32089]
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884- Address static analysis warnings.
885 [ISC-Bugs #33510] [ISC-Bugs #33511]
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887- Silence benign static analysis warnings.
888 [ISC-Bugs #33428]
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890- Add check for 64-bit package for atf.
891 [ISC-Bugs #32206]
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893- Use newer auto* tool packages and turn on RFC_3542 support on Mac OS.
894 [ISC-Bugs #26303]
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896- Remove a variable when it isn't being used due to #ifdefs to avoid
897 a compiler warning on Solaris using GCC.
898 [ISC-Bugs #33032]
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900- Add a check for too much whitespace in a config or lease file.
901 Thanks to Paolo Pellegrino for finding the issue and a suggestion
902 for the patch.
903 [ISC-Bugs #33351]
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905- Fix several problems with using OMAPI to manipulate class and subclass
906 objects.
907 [ISC-Bugs #27452]
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909- Added a sleep call after killing the old client to allow time
910 for the sockets to be cleaned. This should allow the -r option
911 to work more consistently.
912 [ISC-Bugs #18175]
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914- Missing files for ISC DHCP Developer's Guide are now included in
915 the release tarballs. To generate this documentation, please use
916 make devel command in doc directory. [ISC-Bugs #32767]
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918- Update client script for use with openwrt.
919 [ISC-Bugs #29843]
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921- Fix the socket handling for DHCPv6 clients to allow multiple instances
922 of a client on a single machine to work properly. Previously only
923 one client would receive the packets. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat
924 for the bug report and a potential patch.
925 [ISC-Bugs #34784]
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927- Added support for gentle shutdown after signal is received.
928 [ISC-Bugs #32692] [ISC-Bugs 34945]
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930- Enhance the DHCPv6 server logging to include the addresses that are assigned
931 to the clients.
932 [ISC-Bugs #26377]
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934- Fix an operation in the DDNS code to be a bitwise instead of logical or.
935 [ISC-Bugs #35138]
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938 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
939
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940- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
941 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 942 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
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944- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
945 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
946 Cantrell at Red Hat.
947
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948- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
949 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
950
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951- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
952
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953- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
954 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
955 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
956 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
957 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
958 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
959
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960- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
961 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
962 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
963 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
964 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
965 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
966 FQDN options by default).
967
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968- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
969 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
970 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
971 determined lease time) are omitted.
972
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09afca0d 974 The DHCP server or client can now continue with its processing while
98bf1607 975 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
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977- The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
978 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
979 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
980
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981 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
982
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983- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
984
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985- Validate the argument to the -p option.
986
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987- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
988 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
989 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
990 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
991 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
992
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993- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
994
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995- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
996 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
997 had been deleted from configuration.
998
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999- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
1000 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
571c38b0 1001 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
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1002 were being ignored.
1003
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1004- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
1005
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1006- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
1007 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
1008 Nordahl.
1009
70ea9345
PS
1010- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
1011 dhcpv6 disabled.
1012
8d7dca58 1013- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 1014 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
819186b7 1015
f4534b17
DH
1016- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
1017 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
1018
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DH
1019- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
1020 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
1021 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
1022
1023- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
1024 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
1025 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
1026 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
1027 fewer system calls.
1028
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DH
1029- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
1030 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
1031 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
1032 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
1033 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
1034 Christof Chen.
1035
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DH
1036- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
1037 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
1038 and in normal state.
1039
1040- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
1041 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
1042
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PS
1043- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
1044
1045- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
1046 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
1047 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
1048
dedde1ba
DH
1049- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
1050 rather than restarting the listener.
1051
a57df74a
DH
1052- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
1053 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
1054
1055- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
1056 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
1057 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
1058
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DH
1059- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
1060 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
1061 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
1062 timeouts).
1063
792156a9
DH
1064- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
1065 in failover state records.
1066
8a4e543b
DH
1067! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
1068 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
1069 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 1070 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
8a4e543b 1071
a1308b64
DH
1072- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
1073 processing a DHCPINFORM.
1074
1b12d999
DH
1075- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
1076 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
1077 last option definition is used.
1078
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PS
1079- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
1080 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
1081 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
1082
3e29af1e
PS
1083- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
1084 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
1085
b8d45c67
DH
1086- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
1087 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
1088 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
1089 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
1090 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
1091 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
1092
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DH
1093- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
1094 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
1095 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
1096 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
1097
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DH
1098! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
1099 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
95f5d38c 1100
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1101- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
1102 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
1103
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1104- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
1105 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
1106 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
1107 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
1108 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
571c38b0 1109 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
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1110 configuration.
1111
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DH
1112- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
1113 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
1114
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SR
1115- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
1116 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
1117 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
1118 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
1119
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SR
1120- Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
1121 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
1122 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
1123 was always properly set.
1124
adbef119 1125 Changes since 4.1.0b1
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1126
1127- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
1128 be recognized.
61d75ea2 1129
a4ffedd1
DH
1130 Changes since 4.1.0a2
1131
1132- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
1133 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
1134 "abandoned".
1135
6ff3b26d
FD
1136- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
1137
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DH
1138- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
1139 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
1140
1141- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
1142 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
1143
1144- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 1145 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
1387545f 1146
399d3dbe
DH
1147- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
1148
fbcee149
DH
1149- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
1150 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
1151 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
1152 in future releases.
1153
f1672d89
DH
1154- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
1155 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
1156
236d3a99
DH
1157- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
1158 'dhclient -6' support.
1159
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DH
1160- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
1161 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
1162 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
1163 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
1164
7d6180be 1165 Changes since 4.1.0a1
edcb5c46
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1166
1167- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
1168
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1169- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
1170
20210a7b
EH
1171- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
1172 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
1173 only the latter. Fixed.
1174
535485df
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1175- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
1176
8fbb55ff
DH
1177- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
1178 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
1179
61220a00
EH
1180- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
1181
c40e954c
EH
1182- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
1183
63971a83
DH
1184- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
1185 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
1186 --enable-early-chroot.
1187
66cebfcb
DH
1188- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
1189 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
1190
f8cbf390
DH
1191- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
1192 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
1193 parameter.
1194
8269561d
DH
1195- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
1196 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
1197
b445a411
DH
1198- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
1199 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
1200
bd72740e
FD
1201- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
1202
9322442f
FD
1203- Merged IA_XX related structures.
1204
8dea7ba7
FD
1205- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
1206
4619c0a2
DH
1207- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
1208
9ac4206a
DH
1209- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
1210 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
1211 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
1212
420d8b3f
FD
1213- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
1214 support.
1215
40ec5f38
DH
1216- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
1217 repaired.
1218
80097764
FD
1219- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
1220
ffbaa880
FD
1221- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
1222
7de20a95
EH
1223- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
1224 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
1225
d352732e
EH
1226- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
1227 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
1228
7d6180be
DH
1229- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
1230 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
1231
1232- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
1233 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
1234 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
1235 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
1236 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
1237 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
1238 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
1239 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
1240 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
1241 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
1242 shared-network.
1243
1244- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
1245 configured option values.
1246
1247- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
1248 support class statements.
1249
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DH
1250- Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
1251 selection were repaired.
1252
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DH
1253- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
1254 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
1255 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
1256 by the OS.
1257
1258- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
1259 address.
1260
1261- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
1262 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
1263
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DH
1264- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
1265
1266- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
1267
1268- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
1269 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
1270
01a54c17 1271 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
3c12f746 1272
6d7f9584
FD
1273- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
1274
4cafb815 1275- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 1276 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
4cafb815 1277
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1278- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
1279 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
1280 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
1281
1dcc3612
SK
1282- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
1283 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
1284
aabfa4de
FD
1285- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
1286
0674055a
FD
1287- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
1288 reserved IDs avoided).
1289
b51c785f
FD
1290- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
1291
900405e9
FD
1292- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
1293 carries a rapid-commit option.
1294
96b620e5
FD
1295- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
1296 an empty active lease.
1297
be62cf06
FD
1298- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
1299
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EH
1300- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
1301 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
1302 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
1303 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
1304
1305- MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
1306
1307- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
1308 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
1309 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
1310 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
1311 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
1312 Christof Chen.
1313
1314 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
1315
1316- DHCP now builds on AIX.
1317
1318- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
1319 config file but -6 is not specified.
1320
1321- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
1322
1323- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
1324 be more helpful.
1325
1326- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
1327 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
1328 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
1329
1330- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
1331 was repaired.
1332
1333- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
1334 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
1335 been repaired.
1336
1337- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
1338 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
1339 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
1340
49f61135
DH
1341- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
1342 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
1343
41d4652f
DH
1344- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
1345 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
1346 IPv4 address.
1347
2c9bf1f4
DH
1348- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
1349 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
1350 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
1351 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
1352 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
1353
1354- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
1355 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
1356 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
1357
cff9b78f
SK
1358- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
1359
c4d29896
SK
1360- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
1361
57fcb8d9
SK
1362- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
1363 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
1364 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
1365 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
1366 unnecessary logging.
1367
219a65eb
DH
1368- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
1369 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
1370
ffdf3c8c
DH
1371- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
1372 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
1373 is incompatible is printed.
1374
1375- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
1376 a previously undefined option code.
1377
00a002fc
MA
1378- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
1379 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
1380
7e9f7a1b
FD
1381- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
1382 than the year 2000.
1383
e2cfde76
FD
1384- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
1385
cabdb9b1
FD
1386- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
1387
5d89d60f
FD
1388- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
1389
61d75ea2
DH
1390 Changes since 4.0.0b3
1391
1392- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
1393 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
1394 configuration.
76db44f9 1395
e32529a5
EH
1396- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
1397 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
1398
76db44f9
SK
1399- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
1400 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
1401 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
e4a6be15 1402
6f76de58
SK
1403- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
1404 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
1405 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
1406 a requested address.
1407
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DH
1408- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
1409 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
1410 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
1411 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
1412
1413- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
1414 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
1415 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
1416 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
1417
b024480e
DH
1418- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
1419 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
1420 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
1421
c0216cb7
DH
1422- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
1423 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
1424
1ac57173
FD
1425- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
1426
83835822
DH
1427- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
1428 codes through some conditions.
1429
c54db708
FD
1430- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
1431 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
1432
e5d83524
DH
1433- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
1434 seemingly random values.
1435
821f2dda
DH
1436- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
1437
f8b3c6f4
DH
1438- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
1439 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
1440 one ever has.
1441
b9137d42
SK
1442- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
1443 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
1444 to a REQUEST.
1445
9f1d5a2f
DH
1446- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
1447 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
1448 level.
1449
e4a6be15
DH
1450 Changes since 4.0.0b2
1451
65cf86d7
EH
1452- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
1453
b1d3778c
DH
1454- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
1455 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
1456 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
1457 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
1458 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
1459
bead14ea
DH
1460- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
1461 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
1462 new address.
1463
f765ec36
SK
1464 Changes since 4.0.0b1
1465
75135a3f
EH
1466- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
1467 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
1468 simultaneously on a single interface.
1469
5c2d55c7
EH
1470- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
1471 of service under unusual server configurations
1472
1473- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
1474
f765ec36
SK
1475- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
1476 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
fa9b593d 1477
edb1283e
DH
1478- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
1479 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
1480 on every pool rebalance run.
1481
c71c6399
DH
1482- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
1483 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
1484
5279b8f3
DH
1485- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
1486 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
1487
ab3a540f 1488 Changes since 4.0.0a3
763cba6b 1489
884a458f
SK
1490- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
1491 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
1492
fa9b593d
DH
1493- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
1494 point out the problem.
1495
1b5053b5
SK
1496- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
1497 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
1498 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
1499
c886c298
SK
1500- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
1501 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
1502
eaf7eb17
DH
1503- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
1504 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
1505 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
1506
109e00db
DH
1507- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
1508
3ad9d48f
SK
1509- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
1510 fixed by Marcus Goller.
1511
8eab95f2
DH
1512- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
1513 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
1514 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
1515 regardless of the existence of bindings.
1516
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1517- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
1518
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1519- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
1520 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
1521 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
1522 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
1523 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
1524
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1525- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
1526
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1527 Changes since 4.0.0a2
1528
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1529- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
1530 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
1531
763cba6b 1532- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
e889ded1 1533
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1534- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
1535 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
1536 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
1537
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1538- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
1539
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1540- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
1541 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
1542
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1543- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
1544 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
1545 loaded from persistent storage.
1546
45d545f0 1547- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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1548 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
1549 necessary.
1550
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1551- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
1552 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
1553 rapid-commit option.
1554
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1555- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
1556 non-128-bits in length were removed.
1557
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1558 Changes since 4.0.0a1
1559
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1560- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
1561 and fix.
1562
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1563- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
1564
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1565- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
1566
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1567- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
1568 for when loading configuration.
1569
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1570- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
1571 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
1572 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
1573
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1574- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
1575 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
1576 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
1577 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
1578
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1579- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
1580
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1581- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
1582 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 1583
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1584- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
1585
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1586- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
1587
1588- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
1589 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
1590
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1591- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
1592 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
1593
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1594- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
1595
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1596- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
1597 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
1598
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1599 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
1600
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1601- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
1602
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1603- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
1604 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
1605
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1606- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
1607
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1608- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
1609 initialized.
1610
1611- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
1612
1613- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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1614 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
1615
1616- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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1618- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
1619
1620- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
1621 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
1622
1623- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
1624
8ea19a71 1625- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 1626 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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1627
1628- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
1629 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
1630
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1631- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
1632
1633- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
1634
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1635- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
1636
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1637 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
1638
1639- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
1640 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
1641 no support currently for both.
1642
1643- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
1644 IAADDR option.
1645
1646- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
1647 options.
1648
1649- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
1650
1651- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
1652 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
1653
1654- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
1655 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
1656 specifying type 1 or type 2).
1657
1658- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
1659 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
1660
1661- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
1662 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
1663 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
1664 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
1665 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
1666 differently, they both use the same code here).
1667
1668- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
1669 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
1670 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
1671
1672- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
1673
1674- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
1675 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
1676 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
1677 it should not intercept.
1678
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1679 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
1680
1681- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
1682 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
1683 between primary and secondary.
1684
1685- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
1686 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
1687 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
1688
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1689- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
1690
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1691- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
1692 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
1693 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
1694 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
1695 or REQUEST messages.
1696
1697- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
1698 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
1699
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1700- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
1701
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1702 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
1703
1704- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
1705 failover protected subnets was removed.
1706
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1707 Changes since 3.1.0b2
1708
1709- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
1710 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
1711 odd number of leases).
1712
1713- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
1714 rebalance run, and one after.
1715
1716- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
1717 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
1718 processing these messages.
1719
fe5b0fdd 1720 Changes since 3.1.0b1
27837f95 1721
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1722- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
1723 objects.
1724
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1725- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
1726 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
1727 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
1728 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
1729 at Allianz.
1730
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1731- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
1732 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
1733
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1734- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
1735 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
1736
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1737- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
1738 caused the server to abort.
1739
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1740- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
1741 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
1742 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
1743
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1744- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
1745 by empty spaces would not get included.
1746
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1747- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
1748 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
1749
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1750- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
1751 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
1752
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1753- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
1754 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
1755
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1756- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
1757 on the parameter request list.
1758
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1759 Changes since 3.1.0a3
1760
1761- Some spelling fixes.
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1763 Changes since 3.1.0a2
1764
1765- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
1766 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
1767
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1768- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
1769 domain-search option syntax.
1770
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1771 Changes since 3.1.0a1
1772
1773- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
1774 hash table was repaired.
1775
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1776- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
1777 entering normal state.
1778
1779- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
1780 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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1781 'xid mismatch' log messages.
1782
1783- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
1784 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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1786- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
1787 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
1788 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
1789 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
1790
45d545f0 1791- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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1792 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
1793 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
1794 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
1795 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
1796 to their needs.
1797
1798- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
1799 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
1800 run will attempt balance.
1801
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1802- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
1803
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1804 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
1805
1806- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
1807 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
1808 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
1809 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
1810
98bd7ca0 1811- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 1812 was introduced.
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1813
1814- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
1815 via OMAPI.
1816
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1817- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
1818 the protocol draft.
1819
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1820- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
1821 one does not already exist on the system.
1822
b43c87ad 1823- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 1824
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1825- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
1826 matches RFC 3074.
1827
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1828- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
1829 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 1830 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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1832- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
1833 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 1834 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 1835
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1836- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
1837 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
1838 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
1839 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
1840
1841- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
1842 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
1843 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
1844 priority over the client's parameter request list.
1845
f7fdb216 1846- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 1847 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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1848 DHCPv6 support.
1849
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1850- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
1851 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
1852 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
1853
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1854- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
1855 have been incorporated.
1856
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1857- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
1858 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
1859 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
1860 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
1861 that belong to the peer in need.
1862
1863- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
1864 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
1865
1866- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
1867 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
1868 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
1869
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1870- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
1871 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
1872
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1873- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
1874 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
1875 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
1876 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
1877 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
1878
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1879- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
1880 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
1881 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
1882 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
1883
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1884- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
1885 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
1886 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
1887 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
1888 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
1889 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
1890 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
1891 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
1892 ignoring this aspect of their request.
1893
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1894- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
1895 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
1896
41e45067 1897- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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1898 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
1899 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
1900 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
1901
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1902- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
1903 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
1904 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
1905 hardware and funding the development.
6d103865 1906
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1907- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
1908 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
1909 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
1910 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
1911 via Robin Breathe.
1912
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1913- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
1914 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
1915 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
1916 from Christof Chen.
1917
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1918- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
1919 formally supported.
1920
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1921 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
1922
1923- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
1924 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
1925
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1926 Changes since 3.0.5
1927
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1928- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
1929 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
1930 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 1931 they actually received.
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1932
1933- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
1934
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1935- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
1936 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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1937 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
1938 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
c1e6c832 1939
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1940- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
1941
d69fb6a8 1942- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 1943 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
d69fb6a8 1944
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1945- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
1946 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
1947 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
1948 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
1949 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
1950 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
1951 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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1952 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
1953
1954- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
1955 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
1956 'file' field.
02428754 1957
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1958- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
1959 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
1960
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1961- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
1962 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
1963 a patch from Kevin Steves.
1964
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1965- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
1966 from Chris Wagner.
1967
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1968- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
1969 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
1970 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
1971
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1972- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
1973 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
1974 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
1975 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
1976 was set.
1977
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1978- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
1979 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
1980
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1981- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
1982 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
1983 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
1984 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
1985 active ones.
1986
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0a73b7b6 1988
901306d5 1989- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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1990 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
1991 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
1992 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
1993 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
1994
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1995- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
1996 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
1997
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1998 Changes since 3.0.4
1999
2000- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
2001 scopes are actually global has been added.
2002
2003- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
2004 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
2005 known to be damaging.
2006
2007- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
2008 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
2009 balancing).
2010
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2011- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
2012 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
2013 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
2014
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2015- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
2016 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
2017 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
2018
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2019- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
2020 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
2021 more clear now.
2022
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2023- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
2024 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
2025 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
2026 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
2027 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 2028 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
6cbc6629 2029
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2030- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
2031 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
2032
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2033- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
2034 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
2035 made possible.
2036
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2037- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
2038 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
2039 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
2040
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2041- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
2042 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
2043
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2044- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
2045 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
2046 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
2047
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2048- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
2049 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
2050 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
2051 value with the later configured value).
2052
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2053- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
2054 have been named and documented.
2055
2056- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
2057 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
2058 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
2059 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
2060 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
2061 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
2062 write new output.
2063
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2064 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
2065
2066- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
2067 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
2068
2069 Changes since 3.0.4b3
2070
2071- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
2072 mailing list.
2073
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2074 Changes since 3.0.4b2
2075
45d545f0 2076- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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2077 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
2078
2079- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
2080 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
2081
2082- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
2083 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
2084 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
2085 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
2086
2087- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
2088 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
2089 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
2090 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
2091 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
2092 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
2093 transition (properly).
2094
2095- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
2096
2097 Changes since 3.0.4b1
2098
2099- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
2100 STDIN after reading one line.
2101
2102- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
2103 descriptor it opened twice.
2104
2105- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
2106 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
2107 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
2108
2109 Changes since 3.0.3
2110
2111- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
2112 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
2113 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
2114
2115- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
2116 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
2117 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
2118
2119- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
2120 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 2121 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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2122 leases to allocate.
2123
2124- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 2125 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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2126 than the entire block of them.
2127
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2128! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
2129 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
2130 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
2131 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
2132 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
2133 to a patch from infamous42md.
2134
2135! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
2136 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
2137 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
2138 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
2139 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
2140 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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2141
2142- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
2143 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
2144 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
2145
2146- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 2147 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2148
2149- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
2150 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
2151 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
2152 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
2153 transitional states.
2154
2155- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
2156 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
2157 once it detects the old db does not exist.
2158
2159- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
2160 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
2161 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
2162
2163- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 2164 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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2165
2166- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
2167 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
2168
2169- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
2170 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
2171 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
2172
2173- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
2174 patch from 'infamous42md'.
2175
2176- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
2177 repaired.
2178
2179- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
2180 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
2181 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
2182 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
2183
2184- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
2185 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
2186 data.
2187
2188- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
2189 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
2190 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
2191 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
2192 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
2193
2194- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
2195 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
2196 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
2197 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
2198 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
2199
2200- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
2201 has been repaired.
2202
2203- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
2204 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
2205 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
2206 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 2207 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2208
2209- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 2210 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
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45d545f0 2212- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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2213 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
2214 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
2215 move to 3.[01].x.
2216
2217- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
2218 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
2219
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2220 Changes since 3.0.3b3
2221
2222- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
2223 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
2224
2225- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
2226 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
2227 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
2228 workaround.
2229
2230 Changes since 3.0.3b2
2231
2232- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
2233 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
2234
2235 Changes since 3.0.3b1
2236
2237- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
2238 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
2239 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
2240
2241- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
2242 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
2243 dynamic updates were also retouched.
2244
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2245 Changes since 3.0.2
2246
2247- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 2248 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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2249 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
2250
2251- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
2252 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
2253 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
2254 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
2255 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
2256
2257- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
2258 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 2259 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2260
2261- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
2262 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 2263 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2264
2265- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
2266 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
2267 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
2268 Peter Poeml.
2269
2270- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
2271 Dr. Peter Poeml.
2272
2273- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
2274 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
2275 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
2276 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
2277 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
2278 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
2279
2280- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
2281 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
2282 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
2283 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
2284
2285- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
2286 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
2287 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
2288 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
2289
2290- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
2291 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
2292
2293- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
2294 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
2295 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
2296
2297- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
2298 7 bytes, and failover.
2299
2300- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
2301 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 2302 at Red Hat.
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2303
2304- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
2305 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
2306 should work better.
2307
2308- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
2309 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
2310 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
2311
2312- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
2313 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
2314 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
2315
2316 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
2317
2318- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
2319 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
2320
2321 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
2322
45d545f0 2323- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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2324 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
2325 overloading. This was repaired.
2326
2327- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
2328 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
2329 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
2330 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
2331 three chunks to fit.
2332
2333- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
2334 were repaired.
2335
2336- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
2337 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
2338 leak).
2339
2340 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
2341
2342- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
2343 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
2344
2345 Changes since 3.0.2b1
2346
2347- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
2348
2349 Changes since 3.0.1
2350
2351- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
2352 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
2353 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
2354
2355- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
2356 name was not provided by the server.
2357
2358- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
2359 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
2360
2361- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
2362 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
2363
2364- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
2365 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
2366
2367- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
2368
2369- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
2370
2371- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
2372 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
2373 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
2374 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
2375 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
2376
2377- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
2378 the configuration be globally scoped.
2379
2380- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
2381 Farkas.
2382
2383- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
2384 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
2385
2386- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
2387 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
2388
2389- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
2390 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2391
2392- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
2393 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
2394 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
2395 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
2396
2397- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
2398 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
2399 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
2400 respond to POOLREQ messages.
2401
2402- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
2403 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
2404 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
2405
2406- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
2407
2408- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
2409 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
2410 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
2411
2412- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
2413 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
2414 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
2415 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
2416 Fjone and directconnect.no.
2417
2418- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
2419 to Andreas Gustafsson.
2420
2421- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
2422 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
2423
2424- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
2425 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
2426 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
2427 DISCOVER timeout handling.
2428
2429- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
2430 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
2431
2432- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
2433 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
2434 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
2435
2436- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
2437 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
2438 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
2439 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
2440 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
2441 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
2442
2443- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
2444 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
2445 Infoblox.
2446
2447- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
2448
2449- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
2450 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
2451 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
2452 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
2453 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
2454 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
2455 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
2456
2457- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
2458 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
2459 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
2460
2461- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
2462 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
2463 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
2464
2465- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
2466
2467 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
2468
2469- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
2470 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
2471 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
2472 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
2473 systems either.
2474
2475- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
2476
2477- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
2478 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
2479 is false.
2480
2481- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
2482 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
2483
2484- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
2485
2486 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
2487
2488! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
2489 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
2490 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
2491 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
2492 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
2493 both finding and solving the problem.
2494
2495! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
45d545f0 2496 in log_*() functions was evidenced, on some specific platforms where
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2497 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
2498 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
2499 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
2500 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
2501 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
2502 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
2503 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
2504 published version of ISC DHCP.
2505
2506- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
2507
2508- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
2509
2510 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
2511
2512- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
2513 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
2514 Richard Hirst.
2515
2516- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
2517 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
2518 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
2519
2520- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
2521
2522- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
2523 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
2524 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
2525 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
2526
2527- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 2528 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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2529
2530- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
2531 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
2532
2533- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
2534
2535 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
2536
2537- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
2538 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
2539
2540- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
2541 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
2542 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
2543
2544- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
2545 by name was fixed.
2546
45d545f0 2547- Declaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
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2548 longer result in error.
2549
2550- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
2551
2552- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
2553 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
2554 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
2555
2556- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
2557 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
2558
2559- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
2560 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
2561 Blapp.
2562
2563- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
2564 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
2565 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
2566 Martin Blapp.
2567
2568- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
2569 expiry times in failover configurations.
2570
2571- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
2572 Steve G.
2573
2574- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
2575 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
2576
2577- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
2578 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
2579 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
2580 now "unknown-144".
2581
2582- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
2583 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
2584
2585 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
2586
2587- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
2588
2589- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
2590 not be bash.
2591
2592- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
2593
2594- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
2595 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
2596 that errored before will now work properly.
2597
2598- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
2599 names was repaired.
2600
2601- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
2602 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
2603 configuration file.
2604
2605- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
2606 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2607
2608- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
2609 error rather than a null dereference.
2610
2611 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
2612
2613- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
2614
2615- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
2616
2617- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
2618 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
2619
2620- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
2621
2622- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
2623
2624- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
2625 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
2626 self-corrupting lease databases.
2627
2628- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
2629
2630- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
2631 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
2632
2633- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
2634
2635- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
2636
2637- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
2638 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
2639 Ling Gou.
2640
2641- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
2642 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2643
2644- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
2645 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
2646 Ted Lemon for the patch.
2647
2648- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
2649 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
2650
2651 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
2652
2653- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
2654 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
2655
2656- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
2657
2658- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
2659 a memory leak.
2660
2661- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
2662 script.
2663
2664- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
2665
2666- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
2667
2668- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
2669
2670- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
2671
2672- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
2673
2674- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
2675
2676- Increment the hop count when relaying.
2677
2678- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
2679
2680- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
2681
2682- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
2683
2684- Change the type of rbuf_max.
2685
2686- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
2687
2688 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
2689
2690- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
2691 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
2692 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
2693
2694 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
2695
2696- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
2697 to be renewed.
2698
2699- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
2700 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
2701
2702- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
2703 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
2704
2705- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
2706 that two permit lists matched.
2707
2708- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
2709 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
2710
2711- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
2712
2713- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
2714 requested it, contrary to the standard.
2715
2716- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
2717
2718- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
2719
2720- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
2721 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
2722 going to update its A record.
2723
2724- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
2725 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
2726 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
2727 DNS server.
2728
2729- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
2730
2731- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
2732
2733- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
2734 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
2735 NetBSD project).
2736
2737- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
2738 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
2739
2740- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
2741 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
2742
2743- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
2744
2745- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
2746
2747- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
2748 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
2749 failover protocol standard.
2750
2751- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
2752 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
2753 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
2754
2755- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
2756 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
2757 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
2758 do so.
2759
2760- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
2761
2762 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
2763
2764- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
2765
2766- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
2767 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
2768
2769- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
2770 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
2771
2772- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
2773 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
2774 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
2775
2776- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
2777 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
2778 network, merge the two pools.
2779
2780- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
2781 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
2782 fix this bug.
2783
2784 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
2785
2786- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
2787 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
2788
2789- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
2790 the same case.
2791
2792- Additional documentation.
2793
2794- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
2795 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
2796
2797 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
2798
2799- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
2800- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
2801
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2803
2804- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
2805 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
2806 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
2807 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
2808 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
2809
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2811
2812- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
2813 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
2814 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
2815 wasn't the one that removed it.
2816
2817- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
2818 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
2819 were not configured.
2820
2821- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
2822
2823- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
2824 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
2825 routing information.
2826
2827- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
2828 request being sent.
2829
2830- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
2831 done.
2832
2833- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
2834 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
2835 were pending.
2836
2837- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
2838 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
2839 problems with failover.
2840
2841- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
2842 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
2843 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
2844
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2846
2847- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
2848 smash in the subclass allocation code.
2849
2850- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
2851 no object is open, it dumps core.
2852
2853- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
2854
2855- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
2856
2857- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
2858
2859- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
2860 a host object attribute with a null value.
2861
2862 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
2863
2864- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
2865
2866- Fix an obscure core dump.
2867
2868- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
2869 when crucial information is left out.
2870
2871- Log "no free leases" as an error.
2872
2873- Documentation updates.
2874
2875 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
2876
2877- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
2878
2879- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
2880 structure wasn't zeroed.
2881
2882- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
2883 incorrectly.
2884
2885- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
2886 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
2887 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
2888 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
2889 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
2890 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
2891 restarted.
2892
2893 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
2894
2895- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
2896 in failover-enabled pools.
2897
2898- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
2899 declarations).
2900
2901- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
2902 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
2903
2904- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
2905 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
2906
2907- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
2908
2909- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
2910 defined but not referenced by any pools.
2911
2912- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
2913
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2915
2916- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
2917
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2918 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 2
2919
2920- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
2921
2922- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
2923
2924- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
2925
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2926 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 1
2927
2928- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
2929 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
2930 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
2931
2932- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
2933 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
2934 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
2935 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
2936 string.
2937
2938- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
2939
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2940 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8
2941
2942- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
2943 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
2944
2945- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
2946 malformed packets.
2947
2948- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
2949
2950- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
2951 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
2952 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
2953
2954- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
2955
2956- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
2957
2958- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
2959
2960- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
2961 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
2962
2963- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
2964 tcp connections from being played back.
2965
2966- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
2967 on exit.
2968
2969- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
2970
2971- Add some configurability to the build system.
2972
2973- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
2974
2975- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
2976 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
2977 hadn't been noticed until now.
2978
2979 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
2980
2981- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
2982 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
2983
2984- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
2985 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
2986 conformant, but also didn't work).
2987
2988- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
2989 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
2990
2991- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
2992 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
2993
2994- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
2995 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
2996
2997- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
2998 variables to leases via OMAPI.
2999
3000- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
3001 doing failover.
3002
3003- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
3004 running on alpha processors.
3005
3006- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
3007 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
3008
3009- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
3010
3011- Install omshell (including new documentation).
3012
3013- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
3014 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
3015
3016- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
3017
3018- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
3019 actually named (key names are domain names).
3020
3021- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
3022
3023- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
3024 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
3025
3026- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
3027 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
3028
3029- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
3030 statements.
3031
3032- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
3033 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
3034
3035- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
3036 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
3037 operating.
3038
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3039 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 6
3040
3041- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
3042 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
3043 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
3044 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
3045
3046- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
3047 using omapi to manipulate leases.
3048
3049- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
3050
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3051 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
3052
3053- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
3054 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
3055
3056- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
3057 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
3058 to the chain.
3059
3060- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
3061
3062- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
3063
3064- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
3065
98311e4b 3066- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
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3067 attribute values in omshell.
3068
98311e4b 3069- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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3070
3071- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
3072
3073 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
3074
3075- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
3076 DHCPDECLINE.
3077
3078- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
3079
3080- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
3081 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
3082 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
3083
3084- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
3085
3086- Documentation fixes.
3087
3088- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
3089 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
3090
3091- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
3092 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
3093
3094- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
3095
3096- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
3097
3098- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
3099 case-insensitive.
3100
3101- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
3102
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3104 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
3105 consistently.
3106
3107- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
3108 systems with the probe not working correctly.
3109
3110- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
3111
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3112 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 3
3113
3114- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
3115 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
3116 result of duplicate leases.
3117
3118- Document OMAPI server objects.
3119
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3120 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Patchlevel 1
3121
3122- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
3123 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
3124
3125- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
3126 core dumps.
3127
3128- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
3129 Friedrich.
3130
3131- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
3132
3133 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
3134
3135- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
3136 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 3137 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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3138 billing class code.
3139
3140- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
3141 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
3142
3143- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
3144 trace file.
3145
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3148- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
3149 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
3150 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
3151 e.g., Digital Unix.
3152
3153- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
3154 when no error had occurred.
3155
3156- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
3157 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
3158 non-communicating state.
3159
3160- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
3161
3162- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
3163 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
3164 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
3165
3166- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
3167 when the client lease expired.
3168
3169- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
3170 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
3171 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
3172 in testing.
3173
3174- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
3175 the command line, it would fail.
3176
3177- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
3178 user impact).
3179
3180- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
3181
3182- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
3183 they're executable.
3184
3185 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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3186
3187- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
3188 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
3189 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
3190 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
3191
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3192- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
3193 Transmeta.
3194
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3195- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
3196 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
3197 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
3198 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
3199
3200- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
3201 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
3202
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3203 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 24
3204
3205- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
3206 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
3207
3208- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
3209
3210- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
3211
3212- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
3213
3214- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
3215
3216- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
3217
3218- Update some parts of the README file.
3219
3220- Support GCC on SCO.
3221
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3223
3224- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
3225 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
3226
3227- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
3228 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
3229 unbill the old class.
3230
3231- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
3232 process the state transition immediately.
3233
3234- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
3235 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
3236
3237- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
3238
3239- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
3240
3241- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
3242
3243- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
3244
3245- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
3246 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
3247 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
3248
3249- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
3250 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
3251
3252- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
3253 lease file.
3254
3255- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
3256
3257- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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3260
3261- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
3262 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
3263
3264- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
3265
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3267
3268- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
3269
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3271
3272- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
3273
3274- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
3275 pl19.
3276
3277- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
3278 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
3279 past the regression test.
3280
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3282
3283- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
3284 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
3285
3286- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
3287 DHCPREQUEST.
3288
3289- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
3290
3291- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
3292
3293- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
3294
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3297- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
3298 (Damien Neil)
3299
3300- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
3301 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
3302
3303- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
3304 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
3305 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
3306
3307- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
3308 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
3309 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
3310 message.
3311
3312- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
3313 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
3314 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
3315
98311e4b 3316- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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3317 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
3318 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
3319 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
3320 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
3321 this way will work.
3322
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3323- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
3324
3325- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
3326 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
3327 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
3328 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
3329
3330 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
3331
3332 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
3333
3334- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
3335 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
3336 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
3337
3338- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
3339 Hermann Lauer.
3340
3341- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
3342 messages.
3343
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3344- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
3345 it contained quoted strings.
3346
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3347 ** there was no pl17 **
3348
adbef119 3349 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 16
e6d30fd6 3350
6da9db9d
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3351- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
3352 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
3353 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
3354 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
3355 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
3356 tracking down memory leaks.
3357
3358- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
3359 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
3360 Solaris.
3361
3362- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
3363 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
3364 corruption and core dumps.
3365
3366- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
3367 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
3368
3369- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
3370
3371- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
3372 and implemented by Damien Neil.
3373
3374- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
3375 name and version to standard output.
3376
3377- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
3378
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3379- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
3380 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
3381
6da9db9d
TL
3382- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
3383
3384- Lots of documentation updates.
3385
3386- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
3387 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
3388
3389- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
3390
3391- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
3392 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
3393
adbef119 3394 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 15
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3395
3396- Some documentation tweaks.
3397
3398- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
3399
3400- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
3401
3402- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
3403 agent options into them.
3404
3405- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
3406
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3407- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
3408 options.
3409
adbef119 3410 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 14
754ae3e9
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3411
3412- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
3413 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
3414 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
3415 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
3416 used in class statements to control address allocation.
3417
3418- Fix up documentation.
3419
3420- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
3421 significantly in a high-demand situation.
3422
3423- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
3424
3425- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
3426
3427- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
3428 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
3429 practical use otherwise.
3430
3431- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
3432 for debugging.
3433
adbef119 3434 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 13
2f2e7960
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3435
3436- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
3437 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
3438 dump on some systems.
3439
3440- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
3441 option.
3442
3443- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
3444 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
3445
3446- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
3447 that were not printing enough information.
3448
3449- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
3450 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
3451
3452- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
3453 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
3454 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
3455 were answering.
3456
3457- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
3458 the transition.
3459
3460
adbef119 3461 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 12
66e98927
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3462
3463- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
3464
a1e2e3d6
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3465 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
3466
3467- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
3468 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
3469 representation from working correctly.
3470
3471- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
3472 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
3473 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
3474 could spin.
3475
3476- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
3477 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
3478
3479- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
3480 interface name on the command line.
3481
3482- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
3483 client state.
3484
3485- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
3486 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
3487 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
3488 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
3489 added by Ted Lemon.
3490
3491- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
3492 be made to log debugging information and other information.
3493
3494- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
3495 end option.
3496
3497- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
3498 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
3499 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
3500
3501- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
3502 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
3503 face of a null hardware address on input.
3504
3505- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
3506 specified unqualified.
3507
3508- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
3509 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
3510
3511- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
3512 RFC.
3513
3514- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
3515
3516- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
3517
3518- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
3519 it works.
3520
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3521 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
3522
3523- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
3524 to CVS.
3525
9fd337e7
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3526 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
3527
3528- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
3529
3530- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
3531 in patchlevel 9.
3532
3533- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
3534 options at renewal time.
3535
3536- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
3537 configuration language.
3538
3539- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
3540
3541- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
3542 done when no client hostname was received.
3543
3544- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
3545
3546- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
3547 the DHCP option space.
3548
3549- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
3550
3551- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
3552 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
3553
3554- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
3555 silently dropped.
3556
3557- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
3558 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
3559
3560- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
3561 will be correctly updated.
3562
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3563 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
3564
3565- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
3566 bounds-checking.
3567
3568 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
848c2547
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3569
3570- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
3571
3922772a 3572 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 6
0f6045f8 3573
f8572308
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3574- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
3575 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
3576 possible to exploit it any further than that.
3577
3578- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
3579 option.
3580
3581- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
3582 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
3583 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
3584 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
3585 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
3586 meaningfully.
3587
3588- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
3589 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
3590 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
3591
3592- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
3593 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
3594 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
3595 this one down!
3596
3597- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
3598 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
3599 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
3600 down and fixing this problem.
3601
3602 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
3603
0f6045f8
TL
3604- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
3605 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
3606
3607- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
3608 environment.
3609
3610- Fix suffix operator.
3611
3612- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
3613
3614- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
3615 connection code.
3616
3617- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
3618
3619- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
3620
3621- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
3622 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
3623
3624- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
3625
3626- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
3627
3628- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
3629 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
3630
3631- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
3632 spawn with.
3633
3634- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
3635 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
3636
3637- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
3638 for OMAPI.
3639
3640- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
3641 can install in host declarations.
3642
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3643 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
3644
3645- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
3646 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
3647 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
3648 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
3649 comments)!
3650
3651- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
3652
6ed7a93d
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3653- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
3654 request for help on this with patches!
3655
3656- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
3657 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
3658 lost, they never reconnect.
3659
3660- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
3661 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
3662
3663- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
3664 dump.
3665
3666- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
3667 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
3668 catching this one.
3669
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3670 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
3671
3672- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 3673 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
490eb5e7
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3674 lease renewal time.
3675
3676- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
3677 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
3678 declared without a key.
3679
3680- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
3681
3682- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
3683 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
3684
3685- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
3686 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
3687 determine the maximum size of the response.
3688
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3689 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
3690
359b023e
TL
3691- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
3692 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
3693
592d8153
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3694- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
3695 RENEWING client.
3696
3697- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
3698
3699- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
3700 using memcmp().
3701
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3702 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
3703
3704- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
3705 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
3706 pointing this out.
3707
3708- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
3709 exit.
3710
3711- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
3712
3713- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
3714 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.