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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
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2 Version 4.2.0
3 21 December 2012
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0171be2d 7 NEW FEATURES
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9ISC DHCP 4.2.x includes features that were not included in DHCP 4.1.x.
10These include:
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12Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
13The DHCP server or client can now continue with it's processing while
14awaiting replies from the DNS server.
15
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16There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
17release, which will be addressed in the future:
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01a54c17 19- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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21- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages, in
22 English. A method to reconfigure or support other languages would
23 be preferrable.
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24
25- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
26
98bd7ca0 27- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 28 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 29 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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31For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as
32well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the
33README file.
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35ISC DHCP uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please review the
36output of "./configure --help" to see what options are available.
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38The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and may not
39work on other platforms. Please report any problems and suggested fixes to
40<dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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42 Changes since 4.2.1
43
44! In dhclient check the data for some string options for
45 reasonableness before passing it along to the script that
46 interfaces with the OS.
47 [ISC-Bugs #23722]
48 CVE: CVE-2011-0997
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49
50- DHCPv6 server now responds properly if client asks for a prefix that
51 is already assigned to a different client. [ISC-Bugs #23948]
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52
53- Add the option "--no-pid" to the client, relay and server code,
54 to disable writing a pid file. Add the option "-pf pidfile"
55 to the relay to allow the user to supply the pidfile name at
56 runtime. Add the "with-relay6-pid-file" option to configure
57 to allow the user to supply the pidfile name for the relay
58 in v6 mode at configure time.
59 [ISC-Bugs #23351] [ISC-Bugs #17541]
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60
61- 'dhclient' no longer waits a random interval after first starting up to
62 begin in the INIT state. This conforms to RFC 2131, but elects not to
63 implement a 'SHOULD' direction in section 4.1. The goal of this change
73c83820 64 is to start up faster. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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65
66- Added 'initial-delay' parameter that specifies maximum amount of time
67 before client goes to the INIT state. The default value is 0. In previous
68 versions of the code client could wait up to 5 seconds. The old behavior
69 may be restored by using 'initial-delay 5;' in the client config file.
73c83820 70 [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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71
72- ICMP ping-check should now sit closer to precisely the number of seconds
73 configured (or default 1), due to making use of the new microsecond
74 scale timer internally to dhcpd. This corrects a bug where the server
75 may immediately timeout an ICMP ping-check if it was made late in the
73c83820 76 current second. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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77
78- The DHCP client will schedule renewal and rebinding events in
79 microseconds if the DHCP server provided a lease-time that would result
80 in sub-1-second timers. This corrects a bug where a 2-second or lower
81 lease-time would cause the DHCP client to enter an infinite loop by
73c83820 82 scheduling renewal at zero seconds. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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83
84- Client lease records are recorded at most once every 15 seconds. This
85 keeps the client from filling the lease database disk quickly on very small
73c83820 86 lease times. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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87
88- To defend against RFC 2131 non-compliant DHCP servers which fail to
89 advertise a lease-time (either mangled, or zero in value) the DHCP
90 client now adds the server to the reject list ACL and returns to INIT
91 state to hopefully find an RFC 2131 compliant server (or retry in INIT
73c83820 92 forever). [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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94- Parameters configured to evaluate from user defined function calls can
95 now be correctly written to dhcpd.leases (as on 'on events' or dynamic
96 host records inserted via OMAPI). [ISC-Bugs #22266]
97
98- If a 'next-server' parameter is configured in a dynamic host record via
99 OMAPI as a domain name, the syntax written to disk is now correctly parsed
100 upon restart. [ISC-Bugs #22266]
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101
102- The DHCP server now responds to DHCPLEASEQUERY messages from agents using
103 IP addresses not covered by a subnet in configuration. Whether or not to
104 respond to such an agent is still governed by the 'allow leasequery;'
105 configuration parameter, in the case of an agent not covered by a configured
106 subnet the root configuration area is examined. Server now also returns
107 vendor-class-id option, if client sent it. [ISC-Bugs #21094]
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109- Documentation fixes
110 [ISC-Bugs #17959] add text to AIX section describing how to have it send
111 responses to the all-ones address.
112 [ISC-Bugs #19615] update the includes in dhcpctl/dhcpctl.3 to be more correct
113 [ISC-Bugs #20676] update dhcpd.conf.5 to include the RFC numbers for DDNS
114
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115- Relay no longer crashes, when DHCP packet is received over interface without
116 any IPv4 address assigned. Also extended logging message about discarding
117 packets with invalid hlen with information about relevant interface name.
118 [ISC-Bugs #22409]
119
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120- Relay now properly logs that packet was received over interface without
121 global IPv6 address [ISC-Bugs #24070]
122
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123 Changes since 4.2.0
124
125- Documentation cleanup covering multiple tickets
126 [ISC-Bugs #20265] [ISC-Bugs #20259] minor cleanup
127 [ISC-Bugs #20263] add text describing some default values
128 [ISC-Bugs #20193] single quotes at the start of a line indicate a control
129 line to nroff, escape them if we actually want a quote.
130 [ISC-Bugs #18916] sync the pointer to web pages amongst the different docs
131
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132- 'get-host-names true;' now also works even if 'use-host-decl-names true;'
133 was also configured. The nature of this repair also fixes another
134 error; the host-name supplied by a client is no longer overridden by a
135 reverse lookup of the lease address. Thanks to a patch from Wilco Baan
136 Hofman supplied to us by the Debian package maintenance team.
137 [ISC-Bugs #21691] {Debian Bug#509445}
138
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139- The .TH tag for the dhcp-options manpage was typo repaired
140 thanks to a report from jidanni and the Debian package maintenance
141 team. [ISC-Bugs #21676] {Debian Bug#563613}
142
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143- More documentation changes - primarily to put the options in the dhclient
144 and dhcpd man pages into the standard form. Thanks in part to a patch
145 from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
146 [ISC-Bugs #20264] and parts of [ISC-Bugs #17744] dhclient.8 changes
147
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148- Add code to clear the pointer to an object in an OMAPI handle when the
149 object is freed due to a dereference. [ISC-Bugs #21306]
150
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151- Fixed a bug that leaks host record references onto lease structures,
152 causing the server to apply configuration intended for one host to any
153 other innocent clients that come along later. [ISC-Bugs #22018]
154
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155- Minor code fixes
156 [ISC-Bugs #19566] When trying to find the zone for a name for ddns allow
157 the name to be at the apex of the zone.
158 [ISC-Bugs #19617] Restrict length of interface name read from command line
159 in dhcpd - based on a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
160 [ISC-Bugs #20039] Correct some error messages in dhcpd.c
161 [ISC-Bugs #20070] Better range check on values when creating a DHCID.
162 [ISC-Bugs #20198] Avoid writing past the end of the field when adding
163 overly long file or server names to a packet and add a log message
164 if the configuration supplied overly long names for these fields.
165 Thanks to Martin Pala.
166 [ISC-Bugs #21497] Add a little more randomness to rng seed in client
167 thanks to a patch from Jeremiah Jinno.
168
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169- Correct error handling in DLPI [ISC-Bugs #20378]
170
171- Remove __sun__ and __hpux__ typedefs in osdep.h as they are now being
172 checked in configure. [ISC-Bugs #20443]
173
174- Modify how the cmsg header is allocated the v6 send and received routines
175 to compile on more compilers. [ISC-Bugs #20524]
176
177- When parsing a domain name free the memory for the name after we are
178 done with it. [ISC-Bugs #20824]
179
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180- Add an elapsed time option to the release message and refactor the
181 code to move most of the common code to a single routine.
182 [ISC-Bugs #21171].
183
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184- Two identical log messages for commit_leases() have been disambiguated.
185 [ISC-Bugs #18915]
186
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187- Parse date strings more properly - the code now handles semi-colons in
188 date strings correctly. Thanks to a patch from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
189 [ISC-Bugs #21501, #20598]
190
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191- Fixes to lease input and output.
192 [ISC-Bugs #20418] - Some systems don't support the "%s" argument to
193 strftime, paste together the same string using mktime instead.
194 [ISC-Bugs #19596] - When parsing iaid values accept printable
195 characters.
196 [ISC-Bugs #21585] - Always print time values in omshell as hex
197 instead of ascii if the values happen to be printable characters.
198
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199- Minor changes for scripts, configure.ac and Makefiles
200 [ISC-Bugs #19147] Use domain-search instead of domain-name in manual and
201 example conf file. Thanks to a patch from David Cantrell
202 at Red Hat.
203 [ISC-Bugs #19761] Restore address when doing a rebind in DHCPv6
204 [ISC-Bugs #19945] Properly close the quote on some arguments.
205 [ISC-Bugs #20952] Add 64 bit types to configure.ac
206 [ISC-Bugs #21308] Add "PATH=" to CLIENT_PATH envrionment variable
207
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208- Update the code to parse dhcpv6 lease files to accept a semi-colon at
209 the end of the max-life and preferred-life clauses. In order to be
210 backwards compatible with older lease files not finding a semi-colon
211 is also accepted. [ISC-Bugs #22303].
212
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213! Handle a relay forward message with an unspecified address in the
214 link address field. Previously such a message would cause the
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215 server to crash. Thanks to a report from John Gibbons. [ISC-Bugs #21992]
216 CERT: VU#102047 CVE: CVE-2010-3611
217
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218- ./configure on longer searches for -lcrypto to explicitly link against.
219 This fixes a bug where 'dhclient' would have shared library dependencies
220 on '/usr/lib'. [ISC-Bugs #21967]
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222- Handle pipe failures more gracefully. Some OSes pass a SIGPIPE
223 signal to a process and will kill the process if the signal isn't
224 caught. This patch adds code to turn off the SIGPIPE signal via
225 a setsockopt() call. The signal is already being ignored as part
226 of the ISC library. [ISC-Bugs #22269]
227
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228- Restore printing of values in omshell to the style pre 21585. For
229 21585 we changed the print routines to always display time values
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230 as a hex list. This had a side effect of printing all data strings
231 as a hex list. We shall investigate other ways of displaying time
232 values more usefully. [ISC-Bugs #22626]
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234! Fix the handling of connection requests on the failover port.
235 Previously a connection request from a source that wasn't
236 listed as a failover peer would cause the server to become
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237 non-responsive. Thanks to a report from Brad Bendily, brad@bendily.com.
238 [ISC-Bugs #22679]
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239 CERT: VU#159528 CVE: CVE-2010-3616
240
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241- Don't pass the ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to the omapi signal handlers.
242 Passing it through to the handlers caused the omshell program to fail
243 to connect to the server. [ISC-Bugs #21839]
244
245- Fix the paranthesis in the code to process configuration statements
246 beginning with "auth". The previous arrangement caused
247 "auto-partner-down" to be processed incorrectly. [ISC-Bugs #21854]
248
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249- Limit the timeout period allowed in the dispatch code to 2^^32-1 seconds.
250 Thanks to a report from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
251 [ISC-Bugs #22033], [Red Hat Bug #628258]
252
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253- When processing the format flags for a given option consume the
254 flag indicating an optional value correctly. A symptom of this
255 bug was an infinite loop when trying to parse the slp-service-scope
256 option. Thanks to a patch from Marius Tomaschewski.
257 [ISC-Bugs #22055]
258
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259- Disable the use of kqueue in the ISC library. This avoids a problem
260 between the fork and socket code that caused the dhcpd process to
261 use all available cpu if the program daemonized itself.
262 [ISC-Bugs #21911]
263
c8b189f1 264! When processing a request in the DHCPv6 server code that specifies
45918d36 265 an address that is tagged as abandoned (meaning we received a
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266 decline request for it previously) don't attempt to move it from
267 the inactive to active pool as doing so can result in the server
e8f330a1 268 crashing on an assert failure. Also retag the lease as active
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269 and reset it's timeout value.
270 [ISC-Bugs #21921]
271
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272- Removed the restriction on using IPv6 addresses in IPv4 mode. This
273 allows IPv4 options which contain IPv6 addresses to be specified. For
274 example the 6rd option can be specified and used like this:
275 [ISC-Bugs #23039]
276
277 option 6rd code 212 = { integer 8, integer 8,
278 ip6-address, array of ip-address };
279 option 6rd 16 10 2001:: 1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8;
280
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281- Handle some DDNS corner cases better. Maintain the DDNS transaction
282 information when updating a lease and cancel any existing transactions
283 when removing the ddns information.
284 [ISC-Bugs #23103]
285
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286- Some fixes for LDAP
287 [ISC-Bugs #21783] - Include lber library when building ldap
288 [ISC-Bugs #22888] - Enable the ldap code when buidling common
289 The above fixes are from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
290
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291- Modify the dlpi code to accept getmsg() returning a positive value.
292 [ISC-Bugs #22824]
293
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294 Changes since 4.2.0b2
295
296- Add declaration for variable in debug code in alloc.c. [ISC-Bugs #21472]
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298 Changes since 4.2.0b1
299
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300- Prohibit including lease time information in a response to a DHCP INFORM.
301 [ISC-Bugs #21092]
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303! Accept a client id of length 0 while hashing. Previously the server would
304 exit if it attempted to hash a zero length client id, providing attackers
d122accf 305 with a simple denial of service attack. [ISC-Bugs #21253]
63ff896a 306 CERT: VU#541921 - CVE: CVE-2010-2156
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308- A memory leak in ddns processing was closed. [ISC-Bugs #21377]
309
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310- Modify the exception handling for initial context creation. Previously
311 we would try and clean up before exiting. This could present problems
312 when the cleanup required part of the context that wasn't available. It
313 also didn't do much as we exited afterwards anyway. Now we simply log
314 the error and exit. [ISC-Bugs #21093]
315
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316- A bug was fixed that could cause the DHCPv6 server to advertise/assign a
317 previously allocated (active) lease to a client that has changed subnets,
318 despite being on different shared networks. Dynamic prefixes specifically
319 allocated in shared networks also now are not offered if the client has
320 moved. [ISC-Bugs #21152]
321
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322- Add some debugging output for use with the DDNS code. [ISC-Bugs #20916]
323
600ee619 324- Fix the trace code to handle timing events better and to truncate a file
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325 before using instead of overwriting it. [ISC-Bugs #20969]
326
327- Modify the determination of the default TTL to use for DDNS updates.
328 The user may still configure the ttl via ddns-ttl. The default for
329 both v4 and v6 is now 1/2 the (preferred) lease time with a limit. The
330 previous defaults (1/2 lease time without a limit for v4 and a default
331 value for v6) may be used by defining USE_OLD_DDNS_TTL in site.h
332 [ISC-Bugs #21126]
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334- libisc/libdns is now brought up to version 9.7.1rc1. This corrects
335 three reported flaws in ISC DHCP;
336
337 o DHCP processes (dhcpd, dhclient) fail to start if one of either the
338 IPv4 or IPv6 address families is not present. [ISC-Bugs #21122]
339
340 o Assertion failure when attempting to cancel a previously running DDNS
341 update. [ISC-Bugs #21133]
342
343 o Compilation failure of libisc/libdns due to the use of a flexible
344 array member. [ISC-Bugs #21316]
345
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346 Changes since 4.2.0a2
347
348- Update the fsync code to work with the changes to the DDNS code. It now
349 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
350
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351- When constructing the DNS name structure from a text string append
352 the root to relative names. This satisfies a requirement in the DNS
353 library that names be absolute instead of relative and prevents DHCP
d122accf 354 from crashing. [ISC-Bugs #21054]
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356- "The LDAP Patch" that has been circulating for some time, written by
357 Brian Masney and S.Kalyanasundraram and maintained for application to
358 the DHCP-4 sources by David Cantrell has been included. Please be
359 advised that these sources were contributed, and do not yet meet the
360 high standards we place on production sources we include by default.
361 As a result, the LDAP features are only included by using a compile-time
362 option which defaults off, and if you enable it you do so under your
363 own recognizance. We will be improving this software over time.
364 [ISC-Bugs #17741]
365
3c941d42 366 Changes since 4.2.0a1
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367
368- When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
369 is no longer truncated to one octet.
370
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371- Cleaned up an unused hardware address variable in nak_lease().
372
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373- Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
374 reflect support for prefix delegation.
375
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376- Cleaned up some compiler warnings
377
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378- An optimization described in the failover protocol draft is now included,
379 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
380 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
381 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
382 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
383 entry for each lease.
384
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385- Fix the trace code which was broken by the changes to the DDNS code.
386
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387 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
388
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389- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
390 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 391 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
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393- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
394 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
395 Cantrell at Red Hat.
396
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397- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
398 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
399
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400- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
401
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402- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
403 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
404 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
405 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
406 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
407 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
408
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409- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
410 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
411 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
412 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
413 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
414 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
415 FQDN options by default).
416
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417- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
418 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
419 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
420 determined lease time) are omitted.
421
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422- Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
423 The DHCP server or client can now continue with it's processing while
424 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
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425
426- The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
427 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
428 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
429
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430 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
431
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432- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
433
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434- Validate the argument to the -p option.
435
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436- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
437 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
438 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
439 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
440 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
441
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442- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
443
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444- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
445 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
446 had been deleted from configuration.
447
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448- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
449 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
571c38b0 450 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
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451 were being ignored.
452
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453- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
454
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455- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
456 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
457 Nordahl.
458
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459- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
460 dhcpv6 disabled.
461
8d7dca58 462- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 463 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
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465- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
466 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
467
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468- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
469 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
470 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
471
472- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
473 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
474 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
475 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
476 fewer system calls.
477
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478- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
479 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
480 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
481 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
482 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
483 Christof Chen.
484
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485- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
486 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
487 and in normal state.
488
489- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
490 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
491
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492- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
493
494- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
495 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
496 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
497
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498- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
499 rather than restarting the listener.
500
a57df74a
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501- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
502 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
503
504- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
505 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
506 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
507
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508- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
509 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
510 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
511 timeouts).
512
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513- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
514 in failover state records.
515
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516! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
517 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
518 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 519 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
8a4e543b 520
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521- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
522 processing a DHCPINFORM.
523
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524- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
525 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
526 last option definition is used.
527
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528- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
529 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
530 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
531
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532- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
533 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
534
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535- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
536 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
537 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
538 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
539 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
540 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
541
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542- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
543 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
544 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
545 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
546
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547! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
548 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
95f5d38c 549
875e99dc
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550- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
551 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
552
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553- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
554 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
555 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
556 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
557 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
571c38b0 558 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
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559 configuration.
560
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561- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
562 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
563
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564- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
565 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
566 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
567 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
568
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569- Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
570 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
571 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
572 was always properly set.
573
adbef119 574 Changes since 4.1.0b1
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575
576- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
577 be recognized.
61d75ea2 578
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579 Changes since 4.1.0a2
580
581- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
582 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
583 "abandoned".
584
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585- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
586
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587- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
588 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
589
590- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
591 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
592
593- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 594 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
1387545f 595
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596- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
597
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598- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
599 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
600 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
601 in future releases.
602
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603- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
604 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
605
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606- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
607 'dhclient -6' support.
608
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609- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
610 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
611 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
612 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
613
7d6180be 614 Changes since 4.1.0a1
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615
616- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
617
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618- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
619
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620- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
621 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
622 only the latter. Fixed.
623
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624- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
625
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626- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
627 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
628
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629- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
630
c40e954c
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631- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
632
63971a83
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633- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
634 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
635 --enable-early-chroot.
636
66cebfcb
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637- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
638 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
639
f8cbf390
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640- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
641 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
642 parameter.
643
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644- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
645 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
646
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647- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
648 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
649
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650- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
651
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652- Merged IA_XX related structures.
653
8dea7ba7
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654- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
655
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656- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
657
9ac4206a
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658- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
659 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
660 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
661
420d8b3f
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662- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
663 support.
664
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665- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
666 repaired.
667
80097764
FD
668- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
669
ffbaa880
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670- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
671
7de20a95
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672- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
673 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
674
d352732e
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675- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
676 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
677
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678- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
679 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
680
681- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
682 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
683 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
684 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
685 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
686 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
687 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
688 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
689 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
690 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
691 shared-network.
692
693- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
694 configured option values.
695
696- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
697 support class statements.
698
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699- Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
700 selection were repaired.
701
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702- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
703 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
704 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
705 by the OS.
706
707- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
708 address.
709
710- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
711 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
712
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713- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
714
715- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
716
717- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
718 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
719
01a54c17 720 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
3c12f746 721
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722- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
723
4cafb815 724- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 725 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
4cafb815 726
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727- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
728 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
729 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
730
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731- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
732 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
733
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734- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
735
0674055a
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736- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
737 reserved IDs avoided).
738
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739- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
740
900405e9
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741- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
742 carries a rapid-commit option.
743
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744- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
745 an empty active lease.
746
be62cf06
FD
747- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
748
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749- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
750 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
751 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
752 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
753
754- MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
755
756- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
757 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
758 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
759 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
760 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
761 Christof Chen.
762
763 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
764
765- DHCP now builds on AIX.
766
767- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
768 config file but -6 is not specified.
769
770- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
771
772- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
773 be more helpful.
774
775- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
776 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
777 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
778
779- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
780 was repaired.
781
782- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
783 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
784 been repaired.
785
786- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
787 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
788 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
789
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790- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
791 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
792
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793- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
794 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
795 IPv4 address.
796
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797- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
798 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
799 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
800 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
801 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
802
803- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
804 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
805 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
806
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807- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
808
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809- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
810
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811- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
812 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
813 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
814 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
815 unnecessary logging.
816
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817- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
818 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
819
ffdf3c8c
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820- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
821 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
822 is incompatible is printed.
823
824- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
825 a previously undefined option code.
826
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827- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
828 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
829
7e9f7a1b
FD
830- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
831 than the year 2000.
832
e2cfde76
FD
833- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
834
cabdb9b1
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835- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
836
5d89d60f
FD
837- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
838
61d75ea2
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839 Changes since 4.0.0b3
840
841- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
842 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
843 configuration.
76db44f9 844
e32529a5
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845- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
846 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
847
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848- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
849 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
850 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
e4a6be15 851
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852- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
853 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
854 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
855 a requested address.
856
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857- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
858 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
859 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
860 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
861
862- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
863 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
864 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
865 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
866
b024480e
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867- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
868 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
869 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
870
c0216cb7
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871- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
872 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
873
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874- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
875
83835822
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876- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
877 codes through some conditions.
878
c54db708
FD
879- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
880 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
881
e5d83524
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882- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
883 seemingly random values.
884
821f2dda
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885- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
886
f8b3c6f4
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887- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
888 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
889 one ever has.
890
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891- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
892 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
893 to a REQUEST.
894
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895- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
896 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
897 level.
898
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899 Changes since 4.0.0b2
900
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901- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
902
b1d3778c
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903- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
904 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
905 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
906 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
907 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
908
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909- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
910 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
911 new address.
912
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913 Changes since 4.0.0b1
914
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915- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
916 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
917 simultaneously on a single interface.
918
5c2d55c7
EH
919- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
920 of service under unusual server configurations
921
922- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
923
f765ec36
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924- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
925 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
fa9b593d 926
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927- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
928 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
929 on every pool rebalance run.
930
c71c6399
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931- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
932 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
933
5279b8f3
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934- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
935 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
936
ab3a540f 937 Changes since 4.0.0a3
763cba6b 938
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939- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
940 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
941
fa9b593d
DH
942- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
943 point out the problem.
944
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945- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
946 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
947 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
948
c886c298
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949- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
950 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
951
eaf7eb17
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952- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
953 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
954 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
955
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956- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
957
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958- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
959 fixed by Marcus Goller.
960
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961- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
962 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
963 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
964 regardless of the existence of bindings.
965
07b9a351
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966- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
967
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968- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
969 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
970 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
971 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
972 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
973
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974- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
975
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976 Changes since 4.0.0a2
977
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978- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
979 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
980
763cba6b 981- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
e889ded1 982
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983- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
984 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
985 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
986
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987- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
988
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989- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
990 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
991
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992- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
993 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
994 loaded from persistent storage.
995
45d545f0 996- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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997 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
998 necessary.
999
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1000- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
1001 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
1002 rapid-commit option.
1003
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1004- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
1005 non-128-bits in length were removed.
1006
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1007 Changes since 4.0.0a1
1008
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1009- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
1010 and fix.
1011
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1012- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
1013
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1014- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
1015
9b21e73e
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1016- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
1017 for when loading configuration.
1018
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1019- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
1020 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
1021 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
1022
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1023- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
1024 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
1025 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
1026 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
1027
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1028- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
1029
f796f70a
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1030- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
1031 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 1032
c11f349d
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1033- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
1034
af5fa176
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1035- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
1036
1037- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
1038 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
1039
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1040- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
1041 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
1042
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1043- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
1044
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1045- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
1046 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
1047
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1048 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
1049
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1050- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
1051
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1052- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
1053 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
1054
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1055- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
1056
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1057- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
1058 initialized.
1059
1060- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
1061
1062- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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1063 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
1064
1065- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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1067- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
1068
1069- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
1070 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
1071
1072- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
1073
8ea19a71 1074- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 1075 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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1076
1077- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
1078 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
1079
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1080- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
1081
1082- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
1083
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1084- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
1085
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1086 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
1087
1088- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
1089 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
1090 no support currently for both.
1091
1092- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
1093 IAADDR option.
1094
1095- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
1096 options.
1097
1098- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
1099
1100- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
1101 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
1102
1103- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
1104 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
1105 specifying type 1 or type 2).
1106
1107- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
1108 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
1109
1110- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
1111 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
1112 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
1113 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
1114 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
1115 differently, they both use the same code here).
1116
1117- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
1118 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
1119 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
1120
1121- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
1122
1123- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
1124 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
1125 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
1126 it should not intercept.
1127
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1128 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
1129
1130- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
1131 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
1132 between primary and secondary.
1133
1134- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
1135 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
1136 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
1137
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1138- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
1139
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1140- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
1141 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
1142 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
1143 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
1144 or REQUEST messages.
1145
1146- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
1147 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
1148
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1149- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
1150
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1151 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
1152
1153- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
1154 failover protected subnets was removed.
1155
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1156 Changes since 3.1.0b2
1157
1158- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
1159 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
1160 odd number of leases).
1161
1162- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
1163 rebalance run, and one after.
1164
1165- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
1166 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
1167 processing these messages.
1168
fe5b0fdd 1169 Changes since 3.1.0b1
27837f95 1170
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1171- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
1172 objects.
1173
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1174- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
1175 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
1176 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
1177 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
1178 at Allianz.
1179
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1180- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
1181 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
1182
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1183- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
1184 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
1185
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1186- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
1187 caused the server to abort.
1188
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1189- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
1190 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
1191 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
1192
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1193- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
1194 by empty spaces would not get included.
1195
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1196- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
1197 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
1198
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1199- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
1200 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
1201
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1202- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
1203 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
1204
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1205- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
1206 on the parameter request list.
1207
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1208 Changes since 3.1.0a3
1209
1210- Some spelling fixes.
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1212 Changes since 3.1.0a2
1213
1214- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
1215 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
1216
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1217- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
1218 domain-search option syntax.
1219
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1220 Changes since 3.1.0a1
1221
1222- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
1223 hash table was repaired.
1224
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1225- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
1226 entering normal state.
1227
1228- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
1229 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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1230 'xid mismatch' log messages.
1231
1232- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
1233 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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1235- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
1236 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
1237 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
1238 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
1239
45d545f0 1240- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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1241 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
1242 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
1243 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
1244 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
1245 to their needs.
1246
1247- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
1248 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
1249 run will attempt balance.
1250
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1251- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
1252
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1253 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
1254
1255- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
1256 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
1257 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
1258 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
1259
98bd7ca0 1260- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 1261 was introduced.
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1262
1263- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
1264 via OMAPI.
1265
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1266- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
1267 the protocol draft.
1268
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1269- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
1270 one does not already exist on the system.
1271
b43c87ad 1272- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 1273
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1274- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
1275 matches RFC 3074.
1276
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1277- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
1278 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 1279 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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1281- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
1282 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 1283 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 1284
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1285- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
1286 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
1287 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
1288 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
1289
1290- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
1291 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
1292 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
1293 priority over the client's parameter request list.
1294
f7fdb216 1295- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 1296 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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1297 DHCPv6 support.
1298
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1299- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
1300 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
1301 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
1302
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1303- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
1304 have been incorporated.
1305
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1306- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
1307 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
1308 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
1309 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
1310 that belong to the peer in need.
1311
1312- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
1313 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
1314
1315- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
1316 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
1317 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
1318
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1319- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
1320 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
1321
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1322- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
1323 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
1324 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
1325 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
1326 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
1327
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1328- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
1329 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
1330 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
1331 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
1332
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1333- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
1334 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
1335 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
1336 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
1337 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
1338 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
1339 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
1340 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
1341 ignoring this aspect of their request.
1342
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1343- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
1344 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
1345
41e45067 1346- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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1347 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
1348 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
1349 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
1350
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1351- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
1352 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
1353 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
1354 hardware and funding the development.
6d103865 1355
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1356- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
1357 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
1358 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
1359 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
1360 via Robin Breathe.
1361
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1362- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
1363 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
1364 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
1365 from Christof Chen.
1366
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1367- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
1368 formally supported.
1369
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1370 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
1371
1372- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
1373 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
1374
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1375 Changes since 3.0.5
1376
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1377- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
1378 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
1379 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 1380 they actually received.
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1381
1382- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
1383
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1384- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
1385 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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1386 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
1387 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
c1e6c832 1388
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1389- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
1390
d69fb6a8 1391- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 1392 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
d69fb6a8 1393
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1394- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
1395 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
1396 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
1397 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
1398 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
1399 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
1400 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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1401 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
1402
1403- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
1404 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
1405 'file' field.
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1407- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
1408 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
1409
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1410- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
1411 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
1412 a patch from Kevin Steves.
1413
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1414- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
1415 from Chris Wagner.
1416
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1417- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
1418 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
1419 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
1420
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1421- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
1422 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
1423 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
1424 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
1425 was set.
1426
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1427- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
1428 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
1429
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1430- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
1431 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
1432 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
1433 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
1434 active ones.
1435
02428754 1436 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
0a73b7b6 1437
901306d5 1438- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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1439 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
1440 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
1441 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
1442 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
1443
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1444- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
1445 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
1446
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1447 Changes since 3.0.4
1448
1449- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
1450 scopes are actually global has been added.
1451
1452- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
1453 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
1454 known to be damaging.
1455
1456- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
1457 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
1458 balancing).
1459
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1460- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
1461 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
1462 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
1463
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1464- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
1465 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
1466 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
1467
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1468- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
1469 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
1470 more clear now.
1471
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1472- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
1473 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
1474 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
1475 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
1476 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 1477 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
6cbc6629 1478
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1479- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
1480 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
1481
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1482- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
1483 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
1484 made possible.
1485
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1486- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
1487 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
1488 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
1489
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1490- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
1491 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
1492
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1493- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
1494 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
1495 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
1496
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1497- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
1498 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
1499 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
1500 value with the later configured value).
1501
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1502- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
1503 have been named and documented.
1504
1505- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
1506 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
1507 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
1508 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
1509 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
1510 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
1511 write new output.
1512
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1513 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
1514
1515- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
1516 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
1517
1518 Changes since 3.0.4b3
1519
1520- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
1521 mailing list.
1522
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1523 Changes since 3.0.4b2
1524
45d545f0 1525- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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1526 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
1527
1528- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
1529 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
1530
1531- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
1532 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
1533 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
1534 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
1535
1536- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
1537 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
1538 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
1539 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
1540 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
1541 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
1542 transition (properly).
1543
1544- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
1545
1546 Changes since 3.0.4b1
1547
1548- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
1549 STDIN after reading one line.
1550
1551- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
1552 descriptor it opened twice.
1553
1554- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
1555 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
1556 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
1557
1558 Changes since 3.0.3
1559
1560- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
1561 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
1562 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
1563
1564- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
1565 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
1566 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
1567
1568- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
1569 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 1570 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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1571 leases to allocate.
1572
1573- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 1574 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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1575 than the entire block of them.
1576
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1577! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
1578 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
1579 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
1580 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
1581 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
1582 to a patch from infamous42md.
1583
1584! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
1585 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
1586 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
1587 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
1588 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
1589 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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1590
1591- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
1592 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
1593 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
1594
1595- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 1596 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1597
1598- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
1599 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
1600 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
1601 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
1602 transitional states.
1603
1604- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
1605 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
1606 once it detects the old db does not exist.
1607
1608- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
1609 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
1610 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
1611
1612- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 1613 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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1614
1615- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
1616 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
1617
1618- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
1619 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
1620 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
1621
1622- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
1623 patch from 'infamous42md'.
1624
1625- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
1626 repaired.
1627
1628- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
1629 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
1630 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
1631 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
1632
1633- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
1634 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
1635 data.
1636
1637- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
1638 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
1639 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
1640 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
1641 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
1642
1643- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
1644 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
1645 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
1646 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
1647 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
1648
1649- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
1650 has been repaired.
1651
1652- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
1653 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
1654 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
1655 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 1656 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1657
1658- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 1659 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
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45d545f0 1661- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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1662 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
1663 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
1664 move to 3.[01].x.
1665
1666- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
1667 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
1668
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1669 Changes since 3.0.3b3
1670
1671- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
1672 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
1673
1674- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
1675 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
1676 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
1677 workaround.
1678
1679 Changes since 3.0.3b2
1680
1681- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
1682 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
1683
1684 Changes since 3.0.3b1
1685
1686- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
1687 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
1688 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
1689
1690- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
1691 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
1692 dynamic updates were also retouched.
1693
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1694 Changes since 3.0.2
1695
1696- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 1697 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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1698 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
1699
1700- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
1701 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
1702 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
1703 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
1704 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
1705
1706- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
1707 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 1708 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1709
1710- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
1711 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 1712 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1713
1714- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
1715 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
1716 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
1717 Peter Poeml.
1718
1719- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
1720 Dr. Peter Poeml.
1721
1722- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
1723 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
1724 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
1725 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
1726 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
1727 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
1728
1729- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
1730 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
1731 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
1732 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
1733
1734- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
1735 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
1736 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
1737 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
1738
1739- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
1740 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
1741
1742- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
1743 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
1744 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
1745
1746- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
1747 7 bytes, and failover.
1748
1749- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
1750 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 1751 at Red Hat.
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1752
1753- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
1754 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
1755 should work better.
1756
1757- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
1758 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
1759 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
1760
1761- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
1762 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
1763 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
1764
1765 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
1766
1767- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
1768 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
1769
1770 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
1771
45d545f0 1772- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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1773 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
1774 overloading. This was repaired.
1775
1776- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
1777 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
1778 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
1779 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
1780 three chunks to fit.
1781
1782- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
1783 were repaired.
1784
1785- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
1786 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
1787 leak).
1788
1789 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
1790
1791- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
1792 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
1793
1794 Changes since 3.0.2b1
1795
1796- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
1797
1798 Changes since 3.0.1
1799
1800- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
1801 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
1802 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
1803
1804- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
1805 name was not provided by the server.
1806
1807- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
1808 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
1809
1810- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
1811 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
1812
1813- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
1814 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
1815
1816- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
1817
1818- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
1819
1820- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
1821 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
1822 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
1823 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
1824 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
1825
1826- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
1827 the configuration be globally scoped.
1828
1829- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
1830 Farkas.
1831
1832- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
1833 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1834
1835- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
1836 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
1837
1838- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
1839 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
1840
1841- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
1842 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
1843 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
1844 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
1845
1846- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
1847 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
1848 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
1849 respond to POOLREQ messages.
1850
1851- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
1852 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
1853 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
1854
1855- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
1856
1857- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
1858 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
1859 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
1860
1861- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
1862 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
1863 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
1864 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
1865 Fjone and directconnect.no.
1866
1867- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
1868 to Andreas Gustafsson.
1869
1870- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
1871 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
1872
1873- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
1874 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
1875 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
1876 DISCOVER timeout handling.
1877
1878- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
1879 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
1880
1881- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
1882 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
1883 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
1884
1885- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
1886 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
1887 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
1888 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
1889 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
1890 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
1891
1892- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
1893 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
1894 Infoblox.
1895
1896- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
1897
1898- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
1899 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
1900 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
1901 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
1902 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
1903 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
1904 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
1905
1906- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
1907 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
1908 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
1909
1910- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
1911 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
1912 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
1913
1914- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
1915
1916 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
1917
1918- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
1919 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
1920 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
1921 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
1922 systems either.
1923
1924- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
1925
1926- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
1927 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
1928 is false.
1929
1930- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
1931 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
1932
1933- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
1934
1935 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
1936
1937! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
1938 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
1939 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
1940 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
1941 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
1942 both finding and solving the problem.
1943
1944! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
45d545f0 1945 in log_*() functions was evidenced, on some specific platforms where
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1946 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
1947 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
1948 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
1949 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
1950 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
1951 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
1952 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
1953 published version of ISC DHCP.
1954
1955- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
1956
1957- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
1958
1959 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
1960
1961- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
1962 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
1963 Richard Hirst.
1964
1965- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
1966 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
1967 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
1968
1969- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
1970
1971- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
1972 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
1973 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
1974 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
1975
1976- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 1977 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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1978
1979- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
1980 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
1981
1982- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
1983
1984 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
1985
1986- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
1987 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
1988
1989- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
1990 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
1991 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
1992
1993- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
1994 by name was fixed.
1995
45d545f0 1996- Declaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
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1997 longer result in error.
1998
1999- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
2000
2001- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
2002 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
2003 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
2004
2005- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
2006 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
2007
2008- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
2009 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
2010 Blapp.
2011
2012- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
2013 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
2014 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
2015 Martin Blapp.
2016
2017- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
2018 expiry times in failover configurations.
2019
2020- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
2021 Steve G.
2022
2023- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
2024 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
2025
2026- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
2027 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
2028 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
2029 now "unknown-144".
2030
2031- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
2032 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
2033
2034 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
2035
2036- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
2037
2038- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
2039 not be bash.
2040
2041- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
2042
2043- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
2044 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
2045 that errored before will now work properly.
2046
2047- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
2048 names was repaired.
2049
2050- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
2051 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
2052 configuration file.
2053
2054- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
2055 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2056
2057- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
2058 error rather than a null dereference.
2059
2060 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
2061
2062- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
2063
2064- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
2065
2066- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
2067 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
2068
2069- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
2070
2071- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
2072
2073- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
2074 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
2075 self-corrupting lease databases.
2076
2077- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
2078
2079- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
2080 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
2081
2082- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
2083
2084- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
2085
2086- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
2087 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
2088 Ling Gou.
2089
2090- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
2091 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2092
2093- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
2094 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
2095 Ted Lemon for the patch.
2096
2097- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
2098 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
2099
2100 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
2101
2102- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
2103 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
2104
2105- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
2106
2107- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
2108 a memory leak.
2109
2110- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
2111 script.
2112
2113- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
2114
2115- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
2116
2117- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
2118
2119- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
2120
2121- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
2122
2123- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
2124
2125- Increment the hop count when relaying.
2126
2127- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
2128
2129- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
2130
2131- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
2132
2133- Change the type of rbuf_max.
2134
2135- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
2136
2137 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
2138
2139- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
2140 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
2141 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
2142
2143 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
2144
2145- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
2146 to be renewed.
2147
2148- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
2149 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
2150
2151- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
2152 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
2153
2154- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
2155 that two permit lists matched.
2156
2157- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
2158 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
2159
2160- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
2161
2162- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
2163 requested it, contrary to the standard.
2164
2165- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
2166
2167- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
2168
2169- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
2170 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
2171 going to update its A record.
2172
2173- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
2174 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
2175 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
2176 DNS server.
2177
2178- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
2179
2180- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
2181
2182- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
2183 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
2184 NetBSD project).
2185
2186- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
2187 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
2188
2189- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
2190 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
2191
2192- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
2193
2194- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
2195
2196- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
2197 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
2198 failover protocol standard.
2199
2200- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
2201 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
2202 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
2203
2204- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
2205 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
2206 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
2207 do so.
2208
2209- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
2210
2211 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
2212
2213- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
2214
2215- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
2216 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
2217
2218- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
2219 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
2220
2221- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
2222 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
2223 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
2224
2225- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
2226 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
2227 network, merge the two pools.
2228
2229- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
2230 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
2231 fix this bug.
2232
2233 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
2234
2235- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
2236 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
2237
2238- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
2239 the same case.
2240
2241- Additional documentation.
2242
2243- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
2244 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
2245
2246 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
2247
2248- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
2249- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
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2252
2253- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
2254 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
2255 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
2256 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
2257 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
2258
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2260
2261- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
2262 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
2263 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
2264 wasn't the one that removed it.
2265
2266- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
2267 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
2268 were not configured.
2269
2270- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
2271
2272- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
2273 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
2274 routing information.
2275
2276- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
2277 request being sent.
2278
2279- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
2280 done.
2281
2282- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
2283 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
2284 were pending.
2285
2286- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
2287 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
2288 problems with failover.
2289
2290- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
2291 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
2292 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
2293
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2295
2296- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
2297 smash in the subclass allocation code.
2298
2299- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
2300 no object is open, it dumps core.
2301
2302- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
2303
2304- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
2305
2306- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
2307
2308- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
2309 a host object attribute with a null value.
2310
2311 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
2312
2313- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
2314
2315- Fix an obscure core dump.
2316
2317- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
2318 when crucial information is left out.
2319
2320- Log "no free leases" as an error.
2321
2322- Documentation updates.
2323
2324 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
2325
2326- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
2327
2328- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
2329 structure wasn't zeroed.
2330
2331- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
2332 incorrectly.
2333
2334- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
2335 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
2336 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
2337 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
2338 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
2339 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
2340 restarted.
2341
2342 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
2343
2344- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
2345 in failover-enabled pools.
2346
2347- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
2348 declarations).
2349
2350- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
2351 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
2352
2353- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
2354 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
2355
2356- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
2357
2358- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
2359 defined but not referenced by any pools.
2360
2361- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
2362
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2364
2365- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
2366
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2368
2369- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
2370
2371- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
2372
2373- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
2374
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2375 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 1
2376
2377- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
2378 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
2379 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
2380
2381- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
2382 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
2383 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
2384 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
2385 string.
2386
2387- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
2388
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2389 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8
2390
2391- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
2392 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
2393
2394- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
2395 malformed packets.
2396
2397- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
2398
2399- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
2400 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
2401 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
2402
2403- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
2404
2405- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
2406
2407- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
2408
2409- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
2410 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
2411
2412- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
2413 tcp connections from being played back.
2414
2415- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
2416 on exit.
2417
2418- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
2419
2420- Add some configurability to the build system.
2421
2422- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
2423
2424- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
2425 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
2426 hadn't been noticed until now.
2427
2428 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
2429
2430- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
2431 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
2432
2433- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
2434 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
2435 conformant, but also didn't work).
2436
2437- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
2438 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
2439
2440- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
2441 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
2442
2443- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
2444 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
2445
2446- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
2447 variables to leases via OMAPI.
2448
2449- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
2450 doing failover.
2451
2452- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
2453 running on alpha processors.
2454
2455- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
2456 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
2457
2458- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
2459
2460- Install omshell (including new documentation).
2461
2462- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
2463 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
2464
2465- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
2466
2467- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
2468 actually named (key names are domain names).
2469
2470- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
2471
2472- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
2473 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
2474
2475- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
2476 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
2477
2478- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
2479 statements.
2480
2481- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
2482 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
2483
2484- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
2485 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
2486 operating.
2487
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2489
2490- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
2491 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
2492 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
2493 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
2494
2495- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
2496 using omapi to manipulate leases.
2497
2498- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
2499
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2500 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
2501
2502- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
2503 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
2504
2505- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
2506 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
2507 to the chain.
2508
2509- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
2510
2511- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
2512
2513- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
2514
98311e4b 2515- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
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2516 attribute values in omshell.
2517
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2519
2520- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
2521
2522 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
2523
2524- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
2525 DHCPDECLINE.
2526
2527- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
2528
2529- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
2530 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
2531 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
2532
2533- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
2534
2535- Documentation fixes.
2536
2537- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
2538 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
2539
2540- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
2541 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
2542
2543- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
2544
2545- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
2546
2547- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
2548 case-insensitive.
2549
2550- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
2551
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2553 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
2554 consistently.
2555
2556- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
2557 systems with the probe not working correctly.
2558
2559- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
2560
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2561 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 3
2562
2563- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
2564 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
2565 result of duplicate leases.
2566
2567- Document OMAPI server objects.
2568
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2569 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Patchlevel 1
2570
2571- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
2572 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
2573
2574- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
2575 core dumps.
2576
2577- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
2578 Friedrich.
2579
2580- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
2581
2582 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
2583
2584- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
2585 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
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2587 billing class code.
2588
2589- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
2590 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
2591
2592- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
2593 trace file.
2594
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2597- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
2598 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
2599 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
2600 e.g., Digital Unix.
2601
2602- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
2603 when no error had occurred.
2604
2605- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
2606 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
2607 non-communicating state.
2608
2609- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
2610
2611- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
2612 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
2613 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
2614
2615- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
2616 when the client lease expired.
2617
2618- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
2619 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
2620 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
2621 in testing.
2622
2623- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
2624 the command line, it would fail.
2625
2626- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
2627 user impact).
2628
2629- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
2630
2631- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
2632 they're executable.
2633
2634 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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2635
2636- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
2637 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
2638 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
2639 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
2640
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2641- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
2642 Transmeta.
2643
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2644- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
2645 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
2646 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
2647 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
2648
2649- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
2650 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
2651
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2653
2654- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
2655 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
2656
2657- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
2658
2659- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
2660
2661- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
2662
2663- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
2664
2665- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
2666
2667- Update some parts of the README file.
2668
2669- Support GCC on SCO.
2670
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2672
2673- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
2674 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
2675
2676- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
2677 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
2678 unbill the old class.
2679
2680- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
2681 process the state transition immediately.
2682
2683- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
2684 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
2685
2686- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
2687
2688- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
2689
2690- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
2691
2692- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
2693
2694- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
2695 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
2696 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
2697
2698- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
2699 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
2700
2701- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
2702 lease file.
2703
2704- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
2705
2706- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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2709
2710- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
2711 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
2712
2713- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
2714
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2716
2717- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
2718
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2720
2721- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
2722
2723- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
2724 pl19.
2725
2726- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
2727 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
2728 past the regression test.
2729
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2731
2732- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
2733 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
2734
2735- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
2736 DHCPREQUEST.
2737
2738- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
2739
2740- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
2741
2742- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
2743
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2746- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
2747 (Damien Neil)
2748
2749- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
2750 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
2751
2752- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
2753 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
2754 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
2755
2756- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
2757 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
2758 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
2759 message.
2760
2761- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
2762 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
2763 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
2764
98311e4b 2765- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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2766 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
2767 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
2768 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
2769 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
2770 this way will work.
2771
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2772- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
2773
2774- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
2775 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
2776 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
2777 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
2778
2779 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
2780
2781 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
2782
2783- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
2784 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
2785 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
2786
2787- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
2788 Hermann Lauer.
2789
2790- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
2791 messages.
2792
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2793- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
2794 it contained quoted strings.
2795
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2796 ** there was no pl17 **
2797
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2800- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
2801 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
2802 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
2803 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
2804 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
2805 tracking down memory leaks.
2806
2807- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
2808 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
2809 Solaris.
2810
2811- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
2812 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
2813 corruption and core dumps.
2814
2815- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
2816 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
2817
2818- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
2819
2820- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
2821 and implemented by Damien Neil.
2822
2823- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
2824 name and version to standard output.
2825
2826- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
2827
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2829 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
2830
6da9db9d
TL
2831- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
2832
2833- Lots of documentation updates.
2834
2835- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
2836 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
2837
2838- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
2839
2840- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
2841 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
2842
adbef119 2843 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 15
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TL
2844
2845- Some documentation tweaks.
2846
2847- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
2848
2849- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
2850
2851- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
2852 agent options into them.
2853
2854- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
2855
c5b569f8
TL
2856- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
2857 options.
2858
adbef119 2859 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 14
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TL
2860
2861- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
2862 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
2863 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
2864 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
2865 used in class statements to control address allocation.
2866
2867- Fix up documentation.
2868
2869- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
2870 significantly in a high-demand situation.
2871
2872- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
2873
2874- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
2875
2876- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
2877 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
2878 practical use otherwise.
2879
2880- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
2881 for debugging.
2882
adbef119 2883 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 13
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2884
2885- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
2886 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
2887 dump on some systems.
2888
2889- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
2890 option.
2891
2892- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
2893 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
2894
2895- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
2896 that were not printing enough information.
2897
2898- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
2899 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
2900
2901- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
2902 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
2903 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
2904 were answering.
2905
2906- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
2907 the transition.
2908
2909
adbef119 2910 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 12
66e98927
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2911
2912- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
2913
a1e2e3d6
TL
2914 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
2915
2916- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
2917 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
2918 representation from working correctly.
2919
2920- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
2921 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
2922 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
2923 could spin.
2924
2925- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
2926 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
2927
2928- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
2929 interface name on the command line.
2930
2931- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
2932 client state.
2933
2934- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
2935 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
2936 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
2937 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
2938 added by Ted Lemon.
2939
2940- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
2941 be made to log debugging information and other information.
2942
2943- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
2944 end option.
2945
2946- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
2947 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
2948 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
2949
2950- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
2951 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
2952 face of a null hardware address on input.
2953
2954- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
2955 specified unqualified.
2956
2957- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
2958 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
2959
2960- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
2961 RFC.
2962
2963- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
2964
2965- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
2966
2967- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
2968 it works.
2969
6c68ec36
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2970 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
2971
2972- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
2973 to CVS.
2974
9fd337e7
TL
2975 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
2976
2977- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
2978
2979- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
2980 in patchlevel 9.
2981
2982- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
2983 options at renewal time.
2984
2985- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
2986 configuration language.
2987
2988- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
2989
2990- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
2991 done when no client hostname was received.
2992
2993- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
2994
2995- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
2996 the DHCP option space.
2997
2998- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
2999
3000- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
3001 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
3002
3003- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
3004 silently dropped.
3005
3006- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
3007 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
3008
3009- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
3010 will be correctly updated.
3011
3922772a
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3012 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
3013
3014- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
3015 bounds-checking.
3016
3017 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
848c2547
TL
3018
3019- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
3020
3922772a 3021 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 6
0f6045f8 3022
f8572308
TL
3023- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
3024 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
3025 possible to exploit it any further than that.
3026
3027- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
3028 option.
3029
3030- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
3031 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
3032 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
3033 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
3034 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
3035 meaningfully.
3036
3037- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
3038 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
3039 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
3040
3041- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
3042 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
3043 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
3044 this one down!
3045
3046- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
3047 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
3048 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
3049 down and fixing this problem.
3050
3051 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
3052
0f6045f8
TL
3053- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
3054 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
3055
3056- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
3057 environment.
3058
3059- Fix suffix operator.
3060
3061- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
3062
3063- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
3064 connection code.
3065
3066- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
3067
3068- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
3069
3070- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
3071 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
3072
3073- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
3074
3075- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
3076
3077- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
3078 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
3079
3080- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
3081 spawn with.
3082
3083- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
3084 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
3085
3086- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
3087 for OMAPI.
3088
3089- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
3090 can install in host declarations.
3091
801de092
TL
3092 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
3093
3094- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
3095 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
3096 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
3097 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
3098 comments)!
3099
3100- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
3101
6ed7a93d
TL
3102- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
3103 request for help on this with patches!
3104
3105- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
3106 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
3107 lost, they never reconnect.
3108
3109- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
3110 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
3111
3112- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
3113 dump.
3114
3115- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
3116 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
3117 catching this one.
3118
490eb5e7
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3119 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
3120
3121- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 3122 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
490eb5e7
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3123 lease renewal time.
3124
3125- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
3126 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
3127 declared without a key.
3128
3129- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
3130
3131- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
3132 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
3133
3134- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
3135 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
3136 determine the maximum size of the response.
3137
592d8153
TL
3138 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
3139
359b023e
TL
3140- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
3141 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
3142
592d8153
TL
3143- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
3144 RENEWING client.
3145
3146- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
3147
3148- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
3149 using memcmp().
3150
2aa36519
TL
3151 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
3152
3153- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
3154 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
3155 pointing this out.
3156
3157- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
3158 exit.
3159
3160- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
3161
3162- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
3163 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.