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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
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2 Version 4.2.0
3 21 December 2012
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0171be2d 5 Release Notes
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0171be2d 7 NEW FEATURES
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9ISC DHCP 4.2.x includes features that were not included in DHCP 4.1.x.
10These include:
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12Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
13The DHCP server or client can now continue with it's processing while
14awaiting replies from the DNS server.
15
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16There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
17release, which will be addressed in the future:
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01a54c17 19- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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21- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages, in
22 English. A method to reconfigure or support other languages would
23 be preferrable.
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24
25- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
26
98bd7ca0 27- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 28 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 29 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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31For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as
32well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the
33README file.
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35ISC DHCP uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please review the
36output of "./configure --help" to see what options are available.
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38The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and may not
39work on other platforms. Please report any problems and suggested fixes to
40<dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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42 Changes since 4.2.0b1
43
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44- Prohibit including lease time information in a response to a DHCP INFORM.
45 [ISC-Bugs #21092]
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47! Accept a client id of length 0 while hashing. Previously the server would
48 exit if it attempted to hash a zero length client id, providing attackers
d122accf 49 with a simple denial of service attack. [ISC-Bugs #21253]
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51- A memory leak in ddns processing was closed. [ISC-Bugs #21377]
52
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53- Modify the exception handling for initial context creation. Previously
54 we would try and clean up before exiting. This could present problems
55 when the cleanup required part of the context that wasn't available. It
56 also didn't do much as we exited afterwards anyway. Now we simply log
57 the error and exit. [ISC-Bugs #21093]
58
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59 Changes since 4.2.0a2
60
61- Update the fsync code to work with the changes to the DDNS code. It now
62 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
63
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64- When constructing the DNS name structure from a text string append
65 the root to relative names. This satisfies a requirement in the DNS
66 library that names be absolute instead of relative and prevents DHCP
d122accf 67 from crashing. [ISC-Bugs #21054]
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69- "The LDAP Patch" that has been circulating for some time, written by
70 Brian Masney and S.Kalyanasundraram and maintained for application to
71 the DHCP-4 sources by David Cantrell has been included. Please be
72 advised that these sources were contributed, and do not yet meet the
73 high standards we place on production sources we include by default.
74 As a result, the LDAP features are only included by using a compile-time
75 option which defaults off, and if you enable it you do so under your
76 own recognizance. We will be improving this software over time.
77 [ISC-Bugs #17741]
78
3c941d42 79 Changes since 4.2.0a1
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80
81- When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
82 is no longer truncated to one octet.
83
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84- Cleaned up an unused hardware address variable in nak_lease().
85
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86- Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
87 reflect support for prefix delegation.
88
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89- Cleaned up some compiler warnings
90
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91- An optimization described in the failover protocol draft is now included,
92 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
93 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
94 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
95 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
96 entry for each lease.
97
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98- Fix the trace code which was broken by the changes to the DDNS code.
99
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100 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
101
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102- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
103 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 104 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
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106- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
107 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
108 Cantrell at Red Hat.
109
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110- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
111 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
112
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113- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
114
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115- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
116 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
117 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
118 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
119 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
120 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
121
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122- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
123 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
124 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
125 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
126 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
127 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
128 FQDN options by default).
129
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130- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
131 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
132 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
133 determined lease time) are omitted.
134
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135- Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
136 The DHCP server or client can now continue with it's processing while
137 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
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138
139- The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
140 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
141 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
142
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143 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
144
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145- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
146
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147- Validate the argument to the -p option.
148
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149- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
150 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
151 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
152 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
153 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
154
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155- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
156
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157- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
158 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
159 had been deleted from configuration.
160
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161- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
162 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
571c38b0 163 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
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164 were being ignored.
165
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166- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
167
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168- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
169 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
170 Nordahl.
171
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172- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
173 dhcpv6 disabled.
174
8d7dca58 175- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 176 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
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178- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
179 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
180
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181- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
182 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
183 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
184
185- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
186 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
187 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
188 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
189 fewer system calls.
190
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191- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
192 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
193 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
194 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
195 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
196 Christof Chen.
197
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198- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
199 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
200 and in normal state.
201
202- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
203 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
204
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205- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
206
207- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
208 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
209 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
210
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211- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
212 rather than restarting the listener.
213
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214- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
215 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
216
217- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
218 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
219 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
220
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221- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
222 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
223 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
224 timeouts).
225
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226- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
227 in failover state records.
228
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229! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
230 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
231 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 232 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
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234- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
235 processing a DHCPINFORM.
236
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237- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
238 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
239 last option definition is used.
240
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241- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
242 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
243 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
244
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245- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
246 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
247
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248- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
249 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
250 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
251 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
252 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
253 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
254
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255- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
256 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
257 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
258 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
259
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260! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
261 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
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263- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
264 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
265
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266- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
267 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
268 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
269 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
270 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
571c38b0 271 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
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272 configuration.
273
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274- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
275 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
276
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277- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
278 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
279 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
280 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
281
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282- Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
283 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
284 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
285 was always properly set.
286
adbef119 287 Changes since 4.1.0b1
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288
289- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
290 be recognized.
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292 Changes since 4.1.0a2
293
294- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
295 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
296 "abandoned".
297
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298- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
299
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300- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
301 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
302
303- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
304 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
305
306- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 307 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
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309- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
310
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311- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
312 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
313 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
314 in future releases.
315
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316- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
317 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
318
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319- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
320 'dhclient -6' support.
321
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322- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
323 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
324 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
325 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
326
7d6180be 327 Changes since 4.1.0a1
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329- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
330
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331- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
332
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333- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
334 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
335 only the latter. Fixed.
336
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337- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
338
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339- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
340 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
341
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342- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
343
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344- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
345
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346- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
347 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
348 --enable-early-chroot.
349
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350- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
351 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
352
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353- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
354 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
355 parameter.
356
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357- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
358 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
359
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360- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
361 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
362
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363- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
364
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365- Merged IA_XX related structures.
366
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367- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
368
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369- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
370
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371- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
372 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
373 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
374
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375- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
376 support.
377
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378- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
379 repaired.
380
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381- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
382
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383- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
384
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385- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
386 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
387
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388- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
389 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
390
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391- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
392 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
393
394- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
395 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
396 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
397 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
398 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
399 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
400 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
401 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
402 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
403 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
404 shared-network.
405
406- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
407 configured option values.
408
409- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
410 support class statements.
411
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412- Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
413 selection were repaired.
414
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415- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
416 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
417 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
418 by the OS.
419
420- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
421 address.
422
423- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
424 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
425
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426- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
427
428- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
429
430- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
431 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
432
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435- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
436
4cafb815 437- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 438 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
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440- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
441 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
442 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
443
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444- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
445 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
446
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447- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
448
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449- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
450 reserved IDs avoided).
451
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452- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
453
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454- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
455 carries a rapid-commit option.
456
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457- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
458 an empty active lease.
459
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460- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
461
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462- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
463 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
464 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
465 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
466
467- MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
468
469- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
470 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
471 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
472 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
473 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
474 Christof Chen.
475
476 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
477
478- DHCP now builds on AIX.
479
480- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
481 config file but -6 is not specified.
482
483- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
484
485- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
486 be more helpful.
487
488- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
489 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
490 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
491
492- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
493 was repaired.
494
495- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
496 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
497 been repaired.
498
499- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
500 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
501 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
502
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503- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
504 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
505
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506- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
507 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
508 IPv4 address.
509
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510- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
511 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
512 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
513 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
514 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
515
516- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
517 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
518 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
519
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520- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
521
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522- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
523
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524- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
525 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
526 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
527 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
528 unnecessary logging.
529
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530- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
531 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
532
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533- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
534 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
535 is incompatible is printed.
536
537- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
538 a previously undefined option code.
539
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540- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
541 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
542
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543- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
544 than the year 2000.
545
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546- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
547
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548- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
549
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550- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
551
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552 Changes since 4.0.0b3
553
554- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
555 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
556 configuration.
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558- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
559 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
560
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561- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
562 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
563 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
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565- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
566 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
567 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
568 a requested address.
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570- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
571 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
572 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
573 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
574
575- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
576 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
577 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
578 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
579
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580- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
581 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
582 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
583
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584- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
585 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
586
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587- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
588
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589- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
590 codes through some conditions.
591
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592- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
593 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
594
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595- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
596 seemingly random values.
597
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598- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
599
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600- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
601 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
602 one ever has.
603
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604- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
605 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
606 to a REQUEST.
607
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608- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
609 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
610 level.
611
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612 Changes since 4.0.0b2
613
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614- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
615
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616- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
617 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
618 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
619 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
620 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
621
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622- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
623 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
624 new address.
625
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626 Changes since 4.0.0b1
627
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628- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
629 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
630 simultaneously on a single interface.
631
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632- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
633 of service under unusual server configurations
634
635- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
636
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637- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
638 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
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640- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
641 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
642 on every pool rebalance run.
643
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644- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
645 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
646
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647- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
648 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
649
ab3a540f 650 Changes since 4.0.0a3
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652- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
653 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
654
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655- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
656 point out the problem.
657
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658- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
659 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
660 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
661
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662- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
663 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
664
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665- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
666 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
667 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
668
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669- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
670
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671- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
672 fixed by Marcus Goller.
673
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674- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
675 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
676 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
677 regardless of the existence of bindings.
678
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679- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
680
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681- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
682 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
683 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
684 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
685 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
686
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687- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
688
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689 Changes since 4.0.0a2
690
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691- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
692 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
693
763cba6b 694- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
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696- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
697 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
698 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
699
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700- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
701
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702- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
703 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
704
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705- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
706 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
707 loaded from persistent storage.
708
45d545f0 709- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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710 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
711 necessary.
712
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713- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
714 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
715 rapid-commit option.
716
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717- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
718 non-128-bits in length were removed.
719
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720 Changes since 4.0.0a1
721
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722- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
723 and fix.
724
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725- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
726
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727- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
728
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729- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
730 for when loading configuration.
731
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732- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
733 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
734 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
735
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736- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
737 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
738 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
739 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
740
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741- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
742
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743- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
744 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
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746- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
747
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748- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
749
750- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
751 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
752
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753- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
754 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
755
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756- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
757
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758- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
759 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
760
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761 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
762
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763- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
764
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765- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
766 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
767
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768- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
769
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770- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
771 initialized.
772
773- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
774
775- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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776 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
777
778- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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780- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
781
782- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
783 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
784
785- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
786
8ea19a71 787- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 788 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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789
790- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
791 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
792
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793- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
794
795- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
796
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797- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
798
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799 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
800
801- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
802 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
803 no support currently for both.
804
805- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
806 IAADDR option.
807
808- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
809 options.
810
811- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
812
813- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
814 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
815
816- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
817 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
818 specifying type 1 or type 2).
819
820- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
821 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
822
823- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
824 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
825 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
826 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
827 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
828 differently, they both use the same code here).
829
830- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
831 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
832 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
833
834- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
835
836- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
837 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
838 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
839 it should not intercept.
840
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841 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
842
843- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
844 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
845 between primary and secondary.
846
847- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
848 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
849 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
850
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851- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
852
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853- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
854 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
855 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
856 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
857 or REQUEST messages.
858
859- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
860 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
861
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862- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
863
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864 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
865
866- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
867 failover protected subnets was removed.
868
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869 Changes since 3.1.0b2
870
871- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
872 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
873 odd number of leases).
874
875- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
876 rebalance run, and one after.
877
878- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
879 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
880 processing these messages.
881
fe5b0fdd 882 Changes since 3.1.0b1
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884- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
885 objects.
886
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887- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
888 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
889 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
890 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
891 at Allianz.
892
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893- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
894 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
895
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896- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
897 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
898
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899- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
900 caused the server to abort.
901
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902- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
903 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
904 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
905
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906- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
907 by empty spaces would not get included.
908
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909- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
910 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
911
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912- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
913 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
914
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915- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
916 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
917
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918- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
919 on the parameter request list.
920
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921 Changes since 3.1.0a3
922
923- Some spelling fixes.
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925 Changes since 3.1.0a2
926
927- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
928 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
929
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930- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
931 domain-search option syntax.
932
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933 Changes since 3.1.0a1
934
935- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
936 hash table was repaired.
937
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938- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
939 entering normal state.
940
941- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
942 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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943 'xid mismatch' log messages.
944
945- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
946 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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948- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
949 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
950 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
951 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
952
45d545f0 953- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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954 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
955 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
956 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
957 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
958 to their needs.
959
960- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
961 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
962 run will attempt balance.
963
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964- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
965
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966 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
967
968- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
969 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
970 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
971 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
972
98bd7ca0 973- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 974 was introduced.
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975
976- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
977 via OMAPI.
978
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979- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
980 the protocol draft.
981
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982- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
983 one does not already exist on the system.
984
b43c87ad 985- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
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987- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
988 matches RFC 3074.
989
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990- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
991 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 992 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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994- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
995 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 996 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
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998- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
999 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
1000 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
1001 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
1002
1003- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
1004 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
1005 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
1006 priority over the client's parameter request list.
1007
f7fdb216 1008- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 1009 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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1010 DHCPv6 support.
1011
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1012- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
1013 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
1014 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
1015
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1016- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
1017 have been incorporated.
1018
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1019- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
1020 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
1021 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
1022 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
1023 that belong to the peer in need.
1024
1025- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
1026 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
1027
1028- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
1029 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
1030 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
1031
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1032- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
1033 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
1034
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1035- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
1036 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
1037 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
1038 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
1039 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
1040
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1041- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
1042 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
1043 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
1044 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
1045
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1046- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
1047 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
1048 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
1049 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
1050 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
1051 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
1052 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
1053 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
1054 ignoring this aspect of their request.
1055
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1056- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
1057 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
1058
41e45067 1059- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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1060 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
1061 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
1062 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
1063
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1064- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
1065 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
1066 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
1067 hardware and funding the development.
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1069- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
1070 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
1071 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
1072 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
1073 via Robin Breathe.
1074
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1075- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
1076 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
1077 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
1078 from Christof Chen.
1079
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1080- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
1081 formally supported.
1082
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1083 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
1084
1085- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
1086 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
1087
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1088 Changes since 3.0.5
1089
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1090- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
1091 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
1092 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 1093 they actually received.
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1094
1095- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
1096
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1097- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
1098 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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1099 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
1100 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
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1102- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
1103
d69fb6a8 1104- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 1105 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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1107- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
1108 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
1109 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
1110 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
1111 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
1112 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
1113 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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1114 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
1115
1116- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
1117 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
1118 'file' field.
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1120- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
1121 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
1122
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1123- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
1124 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
1125 a patch from Kevin Steves.
1126
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1127- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
1128 from Chris Wagner.
1129
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1130- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
1131 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
1132 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
1133
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1134- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
1135 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
1136 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
1137 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
1138 was set.
1139
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1140- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
1141 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
1142
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1143- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
1144 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
1145 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
1146 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
1147 active ones.
1148
02428754 1149 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
0a73b7b6 1150
901306d5 1151- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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1152 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
1153 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
1154 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
1155 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
1156
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1157- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
1158 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
1159
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1160 Changes since 3.0.4
1161
1162- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
1163 scopes are actually global has been added.
1164
1165- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
1166 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
1167 known to be damaging.
1168
1169- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
1170 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
1171 balancing).
1172
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1173- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
1174 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
1175 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
1176
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1177- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
1178 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
1179 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
1180
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1181- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
1182 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
1183 more clear now.
1184
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1185- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
1186 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
1187 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
1188 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
1189 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 1190 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
6cbc6629 1191
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1192- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
1193 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
1194
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1195- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
1196 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
1197 made possible.
1198
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1199- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
1200 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
1201 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
1202
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1203- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
1204 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
1205
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1206- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
1207 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
1208 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
1209
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1210- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
1211 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
1212 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
1213 value with the later configured value).
1214
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1215- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
1216 have been named and documented.
1217
1218- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
1219 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
1220 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
1221 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
1222 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
1223 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
1224 write new output.
1225
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1226 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
1227
1228- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
1229 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
1230
1231 Changes since 3.0.4b3
1232
1233- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
1234 mailing list.
1235
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1236 Changes since 3.0.4b2
1237
45d545f0 1238- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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1239 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
1240
1241- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
1242 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
1243
1244- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
1245 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
1246 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
1247 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
1248
1249- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
1250 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
1251 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
1252 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
1253 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
1254 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
1255 transition (properly).
1256
1257- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
1258
1259 Changes since 3.0.4b1
1260
1261- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
1262 STDIN after reading one line.
1263
1264- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
1265 descriptor it opened twice.
1266
1267- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
1268 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
1269 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
1270
1271 Changes since 3.0.3
1272
1273- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
1274 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
1275 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
1276
1277- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
1278 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
1279 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
1280
1281- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
1282 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 1283 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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1284 leases to allocate.
1285
1286- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 1287 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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1288 than the entire block of them.
1289
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1290! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
1291 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
1292 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
1293 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
1294 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
1295 to a patch from infamous42md.
1296
1297! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
1298 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
1299 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
1300 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
1301 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
1302 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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1303
1304- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
1305 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
1306 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
1307
1308- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 1309 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1310
1311- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
1312 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
1313 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
1314 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
1315 transitional states.
1316
1317- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
1318 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
1319 once it detects the old db does not exist.
1320
1321- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
1322 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
1323 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
1324
1325- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 1326 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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1327
1328- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
1329 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
1330
1331- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
1332 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
1333 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
1334
1335- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
1336 patch from 'infamous42md'.
1337
1338- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
1339 repaired.
1340
1341- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
1342 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
1343 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
1344 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
1345
1346- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
1347 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
1348 data.
1349
1350- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
1351 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
1352 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
1353 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
1354 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
1355
1356- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
1357 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
1358 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
1359 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
1360 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
1361
1362- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
1363 has been repaired.
1364
1365- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
1366 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
1367 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
1368 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 1369 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1370
1371- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 1372 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
88cd8aca 1373
45d545f0 1374- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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1375 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
1376 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
1377 move to 3.[01].x.
1378
1379- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
1380 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
1381
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1382 Changes since 3.0.3b3
1383
1384- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
1385 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
1386
1387- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
1388 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
1389 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
1390 workaround.
1391
1392 Changes since 3.0.3b2
1393
1394- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
1395 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
1396
1397 Changes since 3.0.3b1
1398
1399- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
1400 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
1401 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
1402
1403- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
1404 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
1405 dynamic updates were also retouched.
1406
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1407 Changes since 3.0.2
1408
1409- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 1410 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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1411 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
1412
1413- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
1414 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
1415 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
1416 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
1417 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
1418
1419- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
1420 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 1421 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1422
1423- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
1424 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 1425 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1426
1427- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
1428 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
1429 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
1430 Peter Poeml.
1431
1432- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
1433 Dr. Peter Poeml.
1434
1435- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
1436 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
1437 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
1438 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
1439 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
1440 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
1441
1442- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
1443 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
1444 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
1445 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
1446
1447- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
1448 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
1449 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
1450 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
1451
1452- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
1453 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
1454
1455- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
1456 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
1457 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
1458
1459- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
1460 7 bytes, and failover.
1461
1462- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
1463 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 1464 at Red Hat.
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1465
1466- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
1467 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
1468 should work better.
1469
1470- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
1471 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
1472 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
1473
1474- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
1475 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
1476 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
1477
1478 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
1479
1480- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
1481 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
1482
1483 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
1484
45d545f0 1485- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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1486 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
1487 overloading. This was repaired.
1488
1489- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
1490 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
1491 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
1492 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
1493 three chunks to fit.
1494
1495- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
1496 were repaired.
1497
1498- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
1499 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
1500 leak).
1501
1502 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
1503
1504- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
1505 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
1506
1507 Changes since 3.0.2b1
1508
1509- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
1510
1511 Changes since 3.0.1
1512
1513- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
1514 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
1515 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
1516
1517- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
1518 name was not provided by the server.
1519
1520- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
1521 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
1522
1523- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
1524 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
1525
1526- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
1527 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
1528
1529- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
1530
1531- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
1532
1533- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
1534 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
1535 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
1536 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
1537 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
1538
1539- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
1540 the configuration be globally scoped.
1541
1542- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
1543 Farkas.
1544
1545- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
1546 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1547
1548- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
1549 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
1550
1551- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
1552 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
1553
1554- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
1555 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
1556 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
1557 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
1558
1559- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
1560 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
1561 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
1562 respond to POOLREQ messages.
1563
1564- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
1565 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
1566 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
1567
1568- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
1569
1570- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
1571 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
1572 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
1573
1574- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
1575 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
1576 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
1577 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
1578 Fjone and directconnect.no.
1579
1580- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
1581 to Andreas Gustafsson.
1582
1583- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
1584 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
1585
1586- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
1587 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
1588 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
1589 DISCOVER timeout handling.
1590
1591- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
1592 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
1593
1594- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
1595 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
1596 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
1597
1598- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
1599 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
1600 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
1601 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
1602 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
1603 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
1604
1605- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
1606 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
1607 Infoblox.
1608
1609- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
1610
1611- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
1612 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
1613 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
1614 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
1615 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
1616 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
1617 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
1618
1619- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
1620 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
1621 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
1622
1623- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
1624 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
1625 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
1626
1627- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
1628
1629 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
1630
1631- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
1632 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
1633 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
1634 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
1635 systems either.
1636
1637- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
1638
1639- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
1640 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
1641 is false.
1642
1643- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
1644 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
1645
1646- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
1647
1648 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
1649
1650! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
1651 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
1652 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
1653 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
1654 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
1655 both finding and solving the problem.
1656
1657! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
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1659 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
1660 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
1661 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
1662 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
1663 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
1664 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
1665 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
1666 published version of ISC DHCP.
1667
1668- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
1669
1670- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
1671
1672 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
1673
1674- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
1675 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
1676 Richard Hirst.
1677
1678- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
1679 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
1680 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
1681
1682- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
1683
1684- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
1685 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
1686 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
1687 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
1688
1689- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 1690 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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1691
1692- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
1693 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
1694
1695- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
1696
1697 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
1698
1699- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
1700 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
1701
1702- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
1703 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
1704 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
1705
1706- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
1707 by name was fixed.
1708
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1710 longer result in error.
1711
1712- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
1713
1714- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
1715 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
1716 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
1717
1718- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
1719 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
1720
1721- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
1722 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
1723 Blapp.
1724
1725- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
1726 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
1727 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
1728 Martin Blapp.
1729
1730- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
1731 expiry times in failover configurations.
1732
1733- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
1734 Steve G.
1735
1736- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
1737 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
1738
1739- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
1740 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
1741 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
1742 now "unknown-144".
1743
1744- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
1745 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
1746
1747 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
1748
1749- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
1750
1751- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
1752 not be bash.
1753
1754- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1755
1756- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
1757 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
1758 that errored before will now work properly.
1759
1760- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
1761 names was repaired.
1762
1763- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
1764 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
1765 configuration file.
1766
1767- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
1768 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1769
1770- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
1771 error rather than a null dereference.
1772
1773 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
1774
1775- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
1776
1777- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
1778
1779- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
1780 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
1781
1782- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
1783
1784- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
1785
1786- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
1787 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
1788 self-corrupting lease databases.
1789
1790- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
1791
1792- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
1793 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
1794
1795- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
1796
1797- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
1798
1799- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
1800 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
1801 Ling Gou.
1802
1803- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
1804 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1805
1806- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
1807 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
1808 Ted Lemon for the patch.
1809
1810- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
1811 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
1812
1813 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
1814
1815- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
1816 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
1817
1818- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
1819
1820- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
1821 a memory leak.
1822
1823- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
1824 script.
1825
1826- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
1827
1828- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
1829
1830- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
1831
1832- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
1833
1834- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
1835
1836- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
1837
1838- Increment the hop count when relaying.
1839
1840- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
1841
1842- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
1843
1844- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
1845
1846- Change the type of rbuf_max.
1847
1848- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
1849
1850 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
1851
1852- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
1853 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
1854 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
1855
1856 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
1857
1858- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
1859 to be renewed.
1860
1861- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
1862 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
1863
1864- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
1865 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
1866
1867- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
1868 that two permit lists matched.
1869
1870- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
1871 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
1872
1873- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
1874
1875- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
1876 requested it, contrary to the standard.
1877
1878- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
1879
1880- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
1881
1882- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
1883 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
1884 going to update its A record.
1885
1886- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
1887 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
1888 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
1889 DNS server.
1890
1891- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
1892
1893- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
1894
1895- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
1896 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
1897 NetBSD project).
1898
1899- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
1900 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
1901
1902- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
1903 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
1904
1905- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
1906
1907- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
1908
1909- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
1910 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
1911 failover protocol standard.
1912
1913- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
1914 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
1915 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
1916
1917- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
1918 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
1919 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
1920 do so.
1921
1922- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
1923
1924 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
1925
1926- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
1927
1928- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
1929 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
1930
1931- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
1932 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
1933
1934- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
1935 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
1936 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
1937
1938- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
1939 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
1940 network, merge the two pools.
1941
1942- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
1943 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
1944 fix this bug.
1945
1946 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
1947
1948- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
1949 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
1950
1951- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
1952 the same case.
1953
1954- Additional documentation.
1955
1956- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
1957 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
1958
1959 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
1960
1961- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
1962- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
1963
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1965
1966- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
1967 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
1968 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
1969 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
1970 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
1971
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1973
1974- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
1975 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
1976 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
1977 wasn't the one that removed it.
1978
1979- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
1980 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
1981 were not configured.
1982
1983- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
1984
1985- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
1986 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
1987 routing information.
1988
1989- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
1990 request being sent.
1991
1992- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
1993 done.
1994
1995- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
1996 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
1997 were pending.
1998
1999- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
2000 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
2001 problems with failover.
2002
2003- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
2004 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
2005 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
2006
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2008
2009- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
2010 smash in the subclass allocation code.
2011
2012- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
2013 no object is open, it dumps core.
2014
2015- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
2016
2017- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
2018
2019- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
2020
2021- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
2022 a host object attribute with a null value.
2023
2024 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
2025
2026- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
2027
2028- Fix an obscure core dump.
2029
2030- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
2031 when crucial information is left out.
2032
2033- Log "no free leases" as an error.
2034
2035- Documentation updates.
2036
2037 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
2038
2039- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
2040
2041- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
2042 structure wasn't zeroed.
2043
2044- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
2045 incorrectly.
2046
2047- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
2048 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
2049 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
2050 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
2051 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
2052 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
2053 restarted.
2054
2055 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
2056
2057- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
2058 in failover-enabled pools.
2059
2060- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
2061 declarations).
2062
2063- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
2064 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
2065
2066- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
2067 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
2068
2069- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
2070
2071- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
2072 defined but not referenced by any pools.
2073
2074- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
2075
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2077
2078- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
2079
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2081
2082- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
2083
2084- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
2085
2086- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
2087
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2089
2090- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
2091 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
2092 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
2093
2094- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
2095 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
2096 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
2097 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
2098 string.
2099
2100- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
2101
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2103
2104- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
2105 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
2106
2107- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
2108 malformed packets.
2109
2110- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
2111
2112- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
2113 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
2114 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
2115
2116- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
2117
2118- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
2119
2120- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
2121
2122- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
2123 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
2124
2125- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
2126 tcp connections from being played back.
2127
2128- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
2129 on exit.
2130
2131- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
2132
2133- Add some configurability to the build system.
2134
2135- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
2136
2137- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
2138 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
2139 hadn't been noticed until now.
2140
2141 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
2142
2143- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
2144 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
2145
2146- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
2147 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
2148 conformant, but also didn't work).
2149
2150- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
2151 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
2152
2153- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
2154 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
2155
2156- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
2157 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
2158
2159- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
2160 variables to leases via OMAPI.
2161
2162- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
2163 doing failover.
2164
2165- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
2166 running on alpha processors.
2167
2168- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
2169 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
2170
2171- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
2172
2173- Install omshell (including new documentation).
2174
2175- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
2176 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
2177
2178- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
2179
2180- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
2181 actually named (key names are domain names).
2182
2183- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
2184
2185- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
2186 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
2187
2188- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
2189 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
2190
2191- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
2192 statements.
2193
2194- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
2195 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
2196
2197- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
2198 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
2199 operating.
2200
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2202
2203- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
2204 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
2205 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
2206 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
2207
2208- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
2209 using omapi to manipulate leases.
2210
2211- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
2212
2213
2214 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
2215
2216- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
2217 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
2218
2219- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
2220 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
2221 to the chain.
2222
2223- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
2224
2225- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
2226
2227- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
2228
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2231
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2234- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
2235
2236 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
2237
2238- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
2239 DHCPDECLINE.
2240
2241- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
2242
2243- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
2244 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
2245 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
2246
2247- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
2248
2249- Documentation fixes.
2250
2251- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
2252 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
2253
2254- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
2255 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
2256
2257- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
2258
2259- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
2260
2261- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
2262 case-insensitive.
2263
2264- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
2265
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2268 consistently.
2269
2270- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
2271 systems with the probe not working correctly.
2272
2273- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
2274
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2276
2277- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
2278 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
2279 result of duplicate leases.
2280
2281- Document OMAPI server objects.
2282
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2284
2285- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
2286 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
2287
2288- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
2289 core dumps.
2290
2291- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
2292 Friedrich.
2293
2294- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
2295
2296 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
2297
2298- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
2299 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
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2302
2303- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
2304 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
2305
2306- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
2307 trace file.
2308
79ea3de8 2309 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1 Patchlevel 1
87784777 2310
79ea3de8
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2311- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
2312 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
2313 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
2314 e.g., Digital Unix.
2315
2316- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
2317 when no error had occurred.
2318
2319- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
2320 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
2321 non-communicating state.
2322
2323- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
2324
2325- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
2326 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
2327 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
2328
2329- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
2330 when the client lease expired.
2331
2332- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
2333 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
2334 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
2335 in testing.
2336
2337- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
2338 the command line, it would fail.
2339
2340- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
2341 user impact).
2342
2343- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
2344
2345- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
2346 they're executable.
2347
2348 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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2349
2350- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
2351 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
2352 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
2353 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
2354
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2355- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
2356 Transmeta.
2357
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2358- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
2359 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
2360 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
2361 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
2362
2363- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
2364 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
2365
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2366 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 24
2367
2368- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
2369 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
2370
2371- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
2372
2373- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
2374
2375- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
2376
2377- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
2378
2379- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
2380
2381- Update some parts of the README file.
2382
2383- Support GCC on SCO.
2384
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2386
2387- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
2388 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
2389
2390- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
2391 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
2392 unbill the old class.
2393
2394- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
2395 process the state transition immediately.
2396
2397- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
2398 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
2399
2400- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
2401
2402- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
2403
2404- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
2405
2406- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
2407
2408- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
2409 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
2410 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
2411
2412- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
2413 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
2414
2415- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
2416 lease file.
2417
2418- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
2419
2420- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
2aa36519 2421
adbef119 2422 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 22
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2423
2424- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
2425 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
2426
2427- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
2428
adbef119 2429 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 21
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2430
2431- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
2432
adbef119 2433 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 20
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TL
2434
2435- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
2436
2437- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
2438 pl19.
2439
2440- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
2441 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
2442 past the regression test.
2443
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2445
2446- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
2447 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
2448
2449- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
2450 DHCPREQUEST.
2451
2452- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
2453
2454- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
2455
2456- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
2457
adbef119 2458 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 18
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2460- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
2461 (Damien Neil)
2462
2463- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
2464 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
2465
2466- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
2467 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
2468 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
2469
2470- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
2471 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
2472 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
2473 message.
2474
2475- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
2476 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
2477 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
2478
98311e4b 2479- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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2480 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
2481 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
2482 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
2483 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
2484 this way will work.
2485
b3fad8ac
TL
2486- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
2487
2488- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
2489 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
2490 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
2491 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
2492
2493 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
2494
2495 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
2496
2497- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
2498 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
2499 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
2500
2501- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
2502 Hermann Lauer.
2503
2504- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
2505 messages.
2506
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2507- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
2508 it contained quoted strings.
2509
b3fad8ac
TL
2510 ** there was no pl17 **
2511
adbef119 2512 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 16
e6d30fd6 2513
6da9db9d
TL
2514- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
2515 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
2516 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
2517 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
2518 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
2519 tracking down memory leaks.
2520
2521- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
2522 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
2523 Solaris.
2524
2525- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
2526 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
2527 corruption and core dumps.
2528
2529- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
2530 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
2531
2532- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
2533
2534- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
2535 and implemented by Damien Neil.
2536
2537- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
2538 name and version to standard output.
2539
2540- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
2541
e6d30fd6
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2542- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
2543 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
2544
6da9db9d
TL
2545- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
2546
2547- Lots of documentation updates.
2548
2549- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
2550 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
2551
2552- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
2553
2554- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
2555 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
2556
2557
adbef119 2558 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 15
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2559
2560- Some documentation tweaks.
2561
2562- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
2563
2564- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
2565
2566- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
2567 agent options into them.
2568
2569- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
2570
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2571- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
2572 options.
2573
adbef119 2574 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 14
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TL
2575
2576- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
2577 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
2578 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
2579 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
2580 used in class statements to control address allocation.
2581
2582- Fix up documentation.
2583
2584- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
2585 significantly in a high-demand situation.
2586
2587- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
2588
2589- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
2590
2591- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
2592 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
2593 practical use otherwise.
2594
2595- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
2596 for debugging.
2597
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2599
2600- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
2601 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
2602 dump on some systems.
2603
2604- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
2605 option.
2606
2607- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
2608 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
2609
2610- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
2611 that were not printing enough information.
2612
2613- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
2614 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
2615
2616- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
2617 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
2618 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
2619 were answering.
2620
2621- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
2622 the transition.
2623
2624
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2626
2627- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
2628
a1e2e3d6
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2629 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
2630
2631- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
2632 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
2633 representation from working correctly.
2634
2635- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
2636 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
2637 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
2638 could spin.
2639
2640- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
2641 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
2642
2643- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
2644 interface name on the command line.
2645
2646- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
2647 client state.
2648
2649- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
2650 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
2651 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
2652 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
2653 added by Ted Lemon.
2654
2655- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
2656 be made to log debugging information and other information.
2657
2658- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
2659 end option.
2660
2661- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
2662 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
2663 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
2664
2665- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
2666 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
2667 face of a null hardware address on input.
2668
2669- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
2670 specified unqualified.
2671
2672- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
2673 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
2674
2675- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
2676 RFC.
2677
2678- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
2679
2680- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
2681
2682- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
2683 it works.
2684
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2685 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
2686
2687- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
2688 to CVS.
2689
9fd337e7
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2690 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
2691
2692- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
2693
2694- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
2695 in patchlevel 9.
2696
2697- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
2698 options at renewal time.
2699
2700- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
2701 configuration language.
2702
2703- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
2704
2705- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
2706 done when no client hostname was received.
2707
2708- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
2709
2710- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
2711 the DHCP option space.
2712
2713- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
2714
2715- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
2716 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
2717
2718- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
2719 silently dropped.
2720
2721- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
2722 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
2723
2724- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
2725 will be correctly updated.
2726
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2727 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
2728
2729- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
2730 bounds-checking.
2731
2732 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
848c2547
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2733
2734- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
2735
3922772a 2736 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 6
0f6045f8 2737
f8572308
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2738- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
2739 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
2740 possible to exploit it any further than that.
2741
2742- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
2743 option.
2744
2745- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
2746 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
2747 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
2748 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
2749 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
2750 meaningfully.
2751
2752- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
2753 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
2754 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
2755
2756- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
2757 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
2758 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
2759 this one down!
2760
2761- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
2762 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
2763 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
2764 down and fixing this problem.
2765
2766 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
2767
0f6045f8
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2768- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
2769 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
2770
2771- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
2772 environment.
2773
2774- Fix suffix operator.
2775
2776- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
2777
2778- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
2779 connection code.
2780
2781- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
2782
2783- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
2784
2785- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
2786 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
2787
2788- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
2789
2790- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
2791
2792- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
2793 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
2794
2795- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
2796 spawn with.
2797
2798- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
2799 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
2800
2801- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
2802 for OMAPI.
2803
2804- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
2805 can install in host declarations.
2806
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2807 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
2808
2809- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
2810 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
2811 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
2812 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
2813 comments)!
2814
2815- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
2816
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2817- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
2818 request for help on this with patches!
2819
2820- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
2821 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
2822 lost, they never reconnect.
2823
2824- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
2825 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
2826
2827- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
2828 dump.
2829
2830- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
2831 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
2832 catching this one.
2833
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2834 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
2835
2836- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 2837 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
490eb5e7
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2838 lease renewal time.
2839
2840- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
2841 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
2842 declared without a key.
2843
2844- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
2845
2846- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
2847 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
2848
2849- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
2850 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
2851 determine the maximum size of the response.
2852
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2853 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
2854
359b023e
TL
2855- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
2856 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
2857
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2858- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
2859 RENEWING client.
2860
2861- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
2862
2863- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
2864 using memcmp().
2865
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2866 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
2867
2868- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
2869 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
2870 pointing this out.
2871
2872- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
2873 exit.
2874
2875- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
2876
2877- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
2878 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.