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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
01a44a77 2 Version 4.3.1-pre-beta
8c532cdd 3 3 February 2014
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0171be2d 5 Release Notes
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0171be2d 7 NEW FEATURES
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80778e94 9The major "theme" for ISC DHCP 4.3.x was to update the suport for
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10DHCPv6 to include several of the features that have been available
11for DHCPv4. These include:
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13- Support the use of classes
14
15- Support for on_commit, on_expiry and on_release statements
16
4809ef5c 17- Better logging of address assignments
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19- Support for using DHCPv6 relay options in expressions
20
21This release also adds suppport for the standard DDNS as described in the
22current RFCs as well as enhancing support for dynamically adding and removing
23subclasses via OMAPI.
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25There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
26release, which will be addressed in the future:
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01a54c17 28- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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30- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages, in
31 English. A method to reconfigure or support other languages would
80778e94 32 be preferable.
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34- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
35
98bd7ca0 36- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 37 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 38 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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40For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as
41well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the
42README file.
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44ISC DHCP uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please review the
45output of "./configure --help" to see what options are available.
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47The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and may not
48work on other platforms. Please report any problems and suggested fixes to
49<dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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51ISC DHCP is open source software maintained by Internet Systems
52Consortium. This product includes cryptographic software written
53by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com).
54
57187138 55 Changes since 4.3.0
01a44a77 56
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57- Tidy up several small tickets
58 Correct parsing of DUID from config file, previously the LL type
59 was put in the wrong place in the DUID string.
60 [ISC-Bugs #20962]
61 Add code to parse "do-forward-updates" as well as "do-forward-update"
62 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
63 [ISC-Bugs #31328]
64 Remove log_priority as it isn't currently used.
65 [ISC-Bugs #33397]
66 Increase the size of the buffer used for reading interface information.
67 [ISC-Bugs #34858]
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69- Remove an extra set of the msg_controllen variable.
70 [ISC-Bugs #21035]
71
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72- Add a more understandable error message if a configuration attempts
73 to add multiple keys for a single zone. Thanks to a patch from Jiri
74 Popelka at Red Hat.
75 [ISC-Bugs #31892]
76
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77 Changes since 4.3.0rc1
78
79- None
80 Changes since 4.3.0b1
81
82- Tidy up receive packet processing.
83 Thanks to Brad Plank of GTA for reporting the issue and suggesting
84 a possible patch.
85 [ISC-Bugs #34447]
86
87 Changes since 4.3.0a1
88
89- Modify the message displayed when a process hits a fatal error.
90 The new message is much shorter and simply points to the README
91 and our website for directions on bug submissions.
92 [ISC-Bugs #24789]
93
94- Handle an absent resolv.conf file better.
95 [ISC-Bugs #35194]
96
6980ae03 97 Changes since 4.2.0 (new features)
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99- If a client renews before 'dhcp-cache-threshold' percent of its lease
100 has elapsed (default 25%), the server will reuse the allocated lease
101 (provide a lease within the currently allocated lease-time) rather
102 than extend or renew the lease. This absolves the server of needing
103 to perform an fsync() operation on the lease database before reply,
104 which improves performance. [ISC-Bugs #22228]
80778e94 105 Updated this patch to support asynchronous DDNS. If the server is
8cd88e20 106 attempting to do DDNS on a lease it should be udpated and written to
4809ef5c 107 disk even if that wouldn't be necessary due to the thresholding.
8cd88e20 108 [ISC-Bugs #26311]
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110- The 'no available billing' log line now also logs the name of the last
111 matching billing class tried before failing to provide a billing.
112 [ISC-Bugs #21759]
113
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114- A problem with missing get_hw_addr function when --enable-use-sockets
115 was used is now solved on GNU/Linux, BSD and GNU/Hurd systems. Note
116 that use-sockets feature was not tested on those systems. Client and
117 server code no longer use MAX_PATH constant that is not defined on
3cb6f9bb 118 GNU/Hurd systems. [ISC-Bugs #25979]
32e651c4 119
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120- Add a perl script in the contrib directory, dhcp-lease-list.pl, which
121 can parse v4 lease files and output the lease information in a more
122 human friendly manner. This was written by Christian Hammers with
123 some updates by vom and ISC. This is contributed code and is not
124 supported by ISC; however it may be useful to some users.
125 [ISC-Bugs #20680]
126
a7341359 127- Add support in v6 for on-commit, on-expire and on-release.
4809ef5c 128 [ISC-Bugs #27912]
a7341359 129
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130- Add support for using classes with v6.
131 [ISC-Bugs #26510]
132
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133- Update the DDNS code to current standards and allow for sharing
134 of DDNS entries between v4 and v6 clients. The new code is used
135 if the ddns-update-style is set to "standard", the older code is
136 still available if ddns-update-style is set to "interim". The
137 oldest DDNS code "ad-hoc" has been removed. Thanks to Thomas Pegeot
138 who submitted a patch for this issue. This patch is based on
139 that work with some modifications.
64fb661c 140 [ISC-Bugs #21139]
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142- Add a configuration option to the server to suppress using fsync().
143 Enabling this option will mean that fsync() is never called. This
144 may provide better performance but there is also a risk that a lease
145 will not be properly written to the disk after it has been issued
146 to a client and before the server stops. Using this option is
147 not recommended.
64fb661c 148 [ISC-Bugs #34810]
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150- Add some logging statements to indicate when the server is ready
151 to serve. One statement is emitted after the server has finished
152 reading its files and is about to enter the dispatch loop.
153 This is "Server starting service.".
154 The second is emitted when a server determines that both it and
155 its failover peer are in the normal state.
156 This is "failover peer <name>: Both servers normal."
64fb661c 157 [ISC-Bugs #33208]
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159- Add support for accessing options from v6 relays. The v6relay
160 statement allows the administrator to choose which relay to
161 use when searching for an option, see the dhcp-options man page
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162 for a description. The host-identifier option has also been
163 updated to support the use of relay options, see the dhcpd.conf
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164 man page for a description.
165 [ISC-Bugs #19598]
166
e54ff84f 167- When doing DDNS if there isn't an appropriate zone statement attempt
80778e94 168 to find a reasonable nameserver via a DNS resolver. This restores
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169 some functionality that was lost in the transition to asynchronous
170 DDNS. Due to the lack of security and increase in fragility of the
171 system when using this feature we strongly recommend the use of
172 appropriate zone statements rather than using this functionality.
173 [ISC-Bugs #30461]
174
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175- Add support for specifying the address from which to send
176 DDNS updates on the DHCP server. There are two new options
177 "ddns-local-address4" and "ddns-local-address6" that each take
178 one instance of their respective address types.
179 [ISC-Bugs #34779]
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181- Add ignore-client-uids option in the server. This option causes
182 the server to not record a client's uid in its lease. This
183 violates the specification but may also be useful when a client
184 can dual boot using different client ids but the same mac address.
6b9c9f87 185 Thank you to Brian De Wolf at Cal Poly Pomona for the patch.
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186 [ISC-Bugs #32427]
187 [ISC-Bugs #35066]
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189- Extend the DHCPINFORM processing to honor the subnet selection option
190 and take host declarations into account.
191 Thanks to Christof Chen for testing and submitting the patch.
192 [ISC-Bugs #35015]
193
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194- Extend the hardware expression to look into the lease structure
195 for a hardware address if there is no packet. This allows the
196 server to find the hardware address during on-expiry processing.
197 [ISC-Bugs #24584]
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199- Add definitions for some options that have been specified by the IETF.
200 [ISC-Bugs #29268]
ccc2a367 201 [ISC-Bugs #35198]
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01a44a77 203 Changes since 4.2.0 (bug fixes)
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205- When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
206 is no longer truncated to one octet.
8ee352ee 207
01a44a77 208- Cleaned up an unused hardware address variable in nak_lease().
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210- Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
211 reflect support for prefix delegation.
4889a646 212
01a44a77 213- Cleaned up some compiler warnings
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215- An optimization described in the failover protocol draft is now included,
216 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
217 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
218 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
219 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
220 entry for each lease.
c5bc8b1a 221
01a44a77 222- Fix the trace code which was broken by the changes to the DDNS code.
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224- Update the fsync code to work with the changes to the DDNS code. It now
225 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
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227- When constructing the DNS name structure from a text string append
228 the root to relative names. This satisfies a requirement in the DNS
229 library that names be absolute instead of relative and prevents DHCP
230 from crashing. [ISC-Bugs #21054]
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232- "The LDAP Patch" that has been circulating for some time, written by
233 Brian Masney and S.Kalyanasundraram and maintained for application to
234 the DHCP-4 sources by David Cantrell has been included. Please be
235 advised that these sources were contributed, and do not yet meet the
236 high standards we place on production sources we include by default.
237 As a result, the LDAP features are only included by using a compile-time
238 option which defaults off, and if you enable it you do so under your
239 own recognizance. We will be improving this software over time.
240 [ISC-Bugs #17741]
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242- Prohibit including lease time information in a response to a DHCP INFORM.
243 [ISC-Bugs #21092]
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245! Accept a client id of length 0 while hashing. Previously the server would
246 exit if it attempted to hash a zero length client id, providing attackers
247 with a simple denial of service attack. [ISC-Bugs #21253]
248 CERT: VU#541921 - CVE: CVE-2010-2156
08b2d347 249
01a44a77 250- A memory leak in ddns processing was closed. [ISC-Bugs #21377]
08b2d347 251
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252- Modify the exception handling for initial context creation. Previously
253 we would try and clean up before exiting. This could present problems
254 when the cleanup required part of the context that wasn't available. It
255 also didn't do much as we exited afterwards anyway. Now we simply log
256 the error and exit. [ISC-Bugs #21093]
ad4001ce 257
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258- A bug was fixed that could cause the DHCPv6 server to advertise/assign a
259 previously allocated (active) lease to a client that has changed subnets,
260 despite being on different shared networks. Dynamic prefixes specifically
261 allocated in shared networks also now are not offered if the client has
262 moved. [ISC-Bugs #21152]
3cb6f9bb 263
01a44a77 264- Add some debugging output for use with the DDNS code. [ISC-Bugs #20916]
f6dc164f 265
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266- Fix the trace code to handle timing events better and to truncate a file
267 before using instead of overwriting it. [ISC-Bugs #20969]
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269- Modify the determination of the default TTL to use for DDNS updates.
270 The user may still configure the ttl via ddns-ttl. The default for
271 both v4 and v6 is now 1/2 the (preferred) lease time with a limit. The
272 previous defaults (1/2 lease time without a limit for v4 and a default
273 value for v6) may be used by defining USE_OLD_DDNS_TTL in site.h
274 [ISC-Bugs #21126]
47e8308d 275
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276- libisc/libdns is now brought up to version 9.7.1rc1. This corrects
277 three reported flaws in ISC DHCP;
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279 o DHCP processes (dhcpd, dhclient) fail to start if one of either the
280 IPv4 or IPv6 address families is not present. [ISC-Bugs #21122]
08e6dad9 281
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282 o Assertion failure when attempting to cancel a previously running DDNS
283 update. [ISC-Bugs #21133]
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285 o Compilation failure of libisc/libdns due to the use of a flexible
286 array member. [ISC-Bugs #21316]
9f9265b6 287
01a44a77 288- Add declaration for variable in debug code in alloc.c. [ISC-Bugs #21472]
35de6c8c 289
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290- Documentation cleanup covering multiple tickets
291 [ISC-Bugs #20265] [ISC-Bugs #20259] minor cleanup
292 [ISC-Bugs #20263] add text describing some default values
293 [ISC-Bugs #20193] single quotes at the start of a line indicate a control
294 line to nroff, escape them if we actually want a quote.
295 [ISC-Bugs #18916] sync the pointer to web pages amongst the different docs
de87ffe3 296
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297- 'get-host-names true;' now also works even if 'use-host-decl-names true;'
298 was also configured. The nature of this repair also fixes another
299 error; the host-name supplied by a client is no longer overridden by a
300 reverse lookup of the lease address. Thanks to a patch from Wilco Baan
301 Hofman supplied to us by the Debian package maintenance team.
302 [ISC-Bugs #21691] {Debian Bug#509445}
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304- The .TH tag for the dhcp-options manpage was typo repaired
305 thanks to a report from jidanni and the Debian package maintenance
306 team. [ISC-Bugs #21676] {Debian Bug#563613}
3bedb117 307
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308- More documentation changes - primarily to put the options in the dhclient
309 and dhcpd man pages into the standard form. Thanks in part to a patch
310 from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
311 [ISC-Bugs #20264] and parts of [ISC-Bugs #17744] dhclient.8 changes
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313- Add code to clear the pointer to an object in an OMAPI handle when the
314 object is freed due to a dereference. [ISC-Bugs #21306]
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316- Fixed a bug that leaks host record references onto lease structures,
317 causing the server to apply configuration intended for one host to any
318 other innocent clients that come along later. [ISC-Bugs #22018]
67b2cb45 319
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320- Minor code fixes
321 [ISC-Bugs #19566] When trying to find the zone for a name for ddns allow
322 the name to be at the apex of the zone.
323 [ISC-Bugs #19617] Restrict length of interface name read from command line
324 in dhcpd - based on a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
325 [ISC-Bugs #20039] Correct some error messages in dhcpd.c
326 [ISC-Bugs #20070] Better range check on values when creating a DHCID.
327 [ISC-Bugs #20198] Avoid writing past the end of the field when adding
328 overly long file or server names to a packet and add a log message
329 if the configuration supplied overly long names for these fields.
330 Thanks to Martin Pala.
331 [ISC-Bugs #21497] Add a little more randomness to rng seed in client
332 thanks to a patch from Jeremiah Jinno.
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01a44a77 334- Correct error handling in DLPI [ISC-Bugs #20378]
30e42327 335
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336- Remove __sun__ and __hpux__ typedefs in osdep.h as they are now being
337 checked in configure. [ISC-Bugs #20443]
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339- Modify how the cmsg header is allocated the v6 send and received routines
340 to compile on more compilers. [ISC-Bugs #20524]
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342- When parsing a domain name free the memory for the name after we are
343 done with it. [ISC-Bugs #20824]
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345- Add an elapsed time option to the release message and refactor the
346 code to move most of the common code to a single routine.
347 [ISC-Bugs #21171].
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349- Two identical log messages for commit_leases() have been disambiguated.
350 [ISC-Bugs #18915]
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352- Parse date strings more properly - the code now handles semi-colons in
353 date strings correctly. Thanks to a patch from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
354 [ISC-Bugs #21501, #20598]
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356- Fixes to lease input and output.
357 [ISC-Bugs #20418] - Some systems don't support the "%s" argument to
358 strftime, paste together the same string using mktime instead.
359 [ISC-Bugs #19596] - When parsing iaid values accept printable
360 characters.
361 [ISC-Bugs #21585] - Always print time values in omshell as hex
362 instead of ascii if the values happen to be printable characters.
87132514 363
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364- Minor changes for scripts, configure.ac and Makefiles
365 [ISC-Bugs #19147] Use domain-search instead of domain-name in manual and
366 example conf file. Thanks to a patch from David Cantrell
367 at Red Hat.
368 [ISC-Bugs #19761] Restore address when doing a rebind in DHCPv6
369 [ISC-Bugs #19945] Properly close the quote on some arguments.
370 [ISC-Bugs #20952] Add 64 bit types to configure.ac
371 [ISC-Bugs #21308] Add "PATH=" to CLIENT_PATH envrionment variable
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373- Update the code to parse dhcpv6 lease files to accept a semi-colon at
374 the end of the max-life and preferred-life clauses. In order to be
375 backwards compatible with older lease files not finding a semi-colon
376 is also accepted. [ISC-Bugs #22303].
e3c94800 377
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378! Handle a relay forward message with an unspecified address in the
379 link address field. Previously such a message would cause the
380 server to crash. Thanks to a report from John Gibbons. [ISC-Bugs #21992]
381 CERT: VU#102047 CVE: CVE-2010-3611
dd9237c3 382
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383- ./configure on longer searches for -lcrypto to explicitly link against.
384 This fixes a bug where 'dhclient' would have shared library dependencies
385 on '/usr/lib'. [ISC-Bugs #21967]
d13db163 386
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387- Handle pipe failures more gracefully. Some OSes pass a SIGPIPE
388 signal to a process and will kill the process if the signal isn't
389 caught. This patch adds code to turn off the SIGPIPE signal via
390 a setsockopt() call. The signal is already being ignored as part
391 of the ISC library. [ISC-Bugs #22269]
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393- Restore printing of values in omshell to the style pre 21585. For
394 21585 we changed the print routines to always display time values
395 as a hex list. This had a side effect of printing all data strings
396 as a hex list. We shall investigate other ways of displaying time
397 values more usefully. [ISC-Bugs #22626]
797aab67 398
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400 Previously a connection request from a source that wasn't
401 listed as a failover peer would cause the server to become
402 non-responsive. Thanks to a report from Brad Bendily, brad@bendily.com.
403 [ISC-Bugs #22679]
404 CERT: VU#159528 CVE: CVE-2010-3616
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406- Don't pass the ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to the omapi signal handlers.
407 Passing it through to the handlers caused the omshell program to fail
408 to connect to the server. [ISC-Bugs #21839]
d289ee68 409
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410- Fix the paranthesis in the code to process configuration statements
411 beginning with "auth". The previous arrangement caused
412 "auto-partner-down" to be processed incorrectly. [ISC-Bugs #21854]
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414- Limit the timeout period allowed in the dispatch code to 2^^32-1 seconds.
415 Thanks to a report from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
416 [ISC-Bugs #22033], [Red Hat Bug #628258]
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418- When processing the format flags for a given option consume the
419 flag indicating an optional value correctly. A symptom of this
420 bug was an infinite loop when trying to parse the slp-service-scope
421 option. Thanks to a patch from Marius Tomaschewski.
422 [ISC-Bugs #22055]
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424- Disable the use of kqueue in the ISC library. This avoids a problem
425 between the fork and socket code that caused the dhcpd process to
426 use all available cpu if the program daemonized itself.
427 [ISC-Bugs #21911]
d208bb04 428
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429! When processing a request in the DHCPv6 server code that specifies
430 an address that is tagged as abandoned (meaning we received a
431 decline request for it previously) don't attempt to move it from
432 the inactive to active pool as doing so can result in the server
433 crashing on an assert failure. Also retag the lease as active
434 and reset its timeout value.
435 [ISC-Bugs #21921]
436
437- Removed the restriction on using IPv6 addresses in IPv4 mode. This
438 allows IPv4 options which contain IPv6 addresses to be specified. For
439 example the 6rd option can be specified and used like this:
440 [ISC-Bugs #23039]
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442 option 6rd code 212 = { integer 8, integer 8,
443 ip6-address, array of ip-address };
444 option 6rd 16 10 2001:: 1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8;
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446- Handle some DDNS corner cases better. Maintain the DDNS transaction
447 information when updating a lease and cancel any existing transactions
448 when removing the ddns information.
449 [ISC-Bugs #23103]
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451- Some fixes for LDAP
452 [ISC-Bugs #21783] - Include lber library when building ldap
453 [ISC-Bugs #22888] - Enable the ldap code when buidling common
454 The above fixes are from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
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456- Modify the dlpi code to accept getmsg() returning a positive value.
457 [ISC-Bugs #22824]
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459! In dhclient check the data for some string options for
460 reasonableness before passing it along to the script that
461 interfaces with the OS.
462 [ISC-Bugs #23722]
463 CVE: CVE-2011-0997
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465- DHCPv6 server now responds properly if client asks for a prefix that
466 is already assigned to a different client. [ISC-Bugs #23948]
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468- Add the option "--no-pid" to the client, relay and server code,
469 to disable writing a pid file. Add the option "-pf pidfile"
470 to the relay to allow the user to supply the pidfile name at
471 runtime. Add the "with-relay6-pid-file" option to configure
472 to allow the user to supply the pidfile name for the relay
473 in v6 mode at configure time.
474 [ISC-Bugs #23351] [ISC-Bugs #17541]
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476- 'dhclient' no longer waits a random interval after first starting up to
477 begin in the INIT state. This conforms to RFC 2131, but elects not to
478 implement a 'SHOULD' direction in section 4.1. The goal of this change
73c83820 479 is to start up faster. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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481- Added 'initial-delay' parameter that specifies maximum amount of time
482 before client goes to the INIT state. The default value is 0. In previous
483 versions of the code client could wait up to 5 seconds. The old behavior
484 may be restored by using 'initial-delay 5;' in the client config file.
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487- ICMP ping-check should now sit closer to precisely the number of seconds
488 configured (or default 1), due to making use of the new microsecond
489 scale timer internally to dhcpd. This corrects a bug where the server
490 may immediately timeout an ICMP ping-check if it was made late in the
73c83820 491 current second. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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493- The DHCP client will schedule renewal and rebinding events in
494 microseconds if the DHCP server provided a lease-time that would result
495 in sub-1-second timers. This corrects a bug where a 2-second or lower
496 lease-time would cause the DHCP client to enter an infinite loop by
73c83820 497 scheduling renewal at zero seconds. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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499- Client lease records are recorded at most once every 15 seconds. This
500 keeps the client from filling the lease database disk quickly on very small
73c83820 501 lease times. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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503- To defend against RFC 2131 non-compliant DHCP servers which fail to
504 advertise a lease-time (either mangled, or zero in value) the DHCP
505 client now adds the server to the reject list ACL and returns to INIT
506 state to hopefully find an RFC 2131 compliant server (or retry in INIT
73c83820 507 forever). [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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509- Parameters configured to evaluate from user defined function calls can
510 now be correctly written to dhcpd.leases (as on 'on events' or dynamic
511 host records inserted via OMAPI). [ISC-Bugs #22266]
512
513- If a 'next-server' parameter is configured in a dynamic host record via
514 OMAPI as a domain name, the syntax written to disk is now correctly parsed
515 upon restart. [ISC-Bugs #22266]
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517- The DHCP server now responds to DHCPLEASEQUERY messages from agents using
518 IP addresses not covered by a subnet in configuration. Whether or not to
519 respond to such an agent is still governed by the 'allow leasequery;'
520 configuration parameter, in the case of an agent not covered by a configured
521 subnet the root configuration area is examined. Server now also returns
522 vendor-class-id option, if client sent it. [ISC-Bugs #21094]
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524- Documentation fixes
525 [ISC-Bugs #17959] add text to AIX section describing how to have it send
526 responses to the all-ones address.
527 [ISC-Bugs #19615] update the includes in dhcpctl/dhcpctl.3 to be more correct
528 [ISC-Bugs #20676] update dhcpd.conf.5 to include the RFC numbers for DDNS
529
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530- Relay no longer crashes, when DHCP packet is received over interface without
531 any IPv4 address assigned. Also extended logging message about discarding
532 packets with invalid hlen with information about relevant interface name.
533 [ISC-Bugs #22409]
534
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535- Relay now properly logs that packet was received over interface without
536 global IPv6 address [ISC-Bugs #24070]
537
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538- Linux Packet Filter interface improvement. sockaddr_pkt structure is used,
539 rather than sockaddr. Packet ethertype is now forced to ETH_P_IP.
540 [ISC-Bugs #18975]
541
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542- Minor code cleanups - but note port change for #23196
543 [ISC-Bugs #23470] - Modify when an ignore return macro is defined to
544 handle unsed error return warnings for more versions of gcc.
545 [ISC-Bugs #23196] - Modify the reply handling in the server code to
546 send to a specified port rather than to the source port for the incoming
547 message. Sending to the source port was test code that should have
548 been removed. The previous functionality may be restored by defining
549 REPLY_TO_SOURCE_PORT in the includes/site.h file. We suggest you don't
550 enable this except for testing purposes.
551 [ISC-Bugs #22695] - Close a file descriptor in an error path.
552 [ISC-Bugs #19368] - Tidy up variable types in validate_port.
553
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554- Code cleanup: remove obsolete PROTO, KandR, INLINE and ANSI_DECL macros
555 [ISC-Bugs #13151]
556
557- Compilation problem with gcc4.5 and omshell.c resolved. [ISC-Bugs #23831]
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559- Client Script fixes
560 [ISC-Bugs #23045] Typos in client/scripts/openbsd
561 [ISC-Bugs #23565] In the client scripts add a zone id (interface id) if
562 the domain search address is link local.
563 [ISC-Bugs #1277] In some of the client scripts add code to handle the
564 case of the default router information being changed without the address
565 being changed.
566
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567- Documentation cleanup
568 [ISC-Bugs #23326] Updated References document, several man page updates
569
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570- Server no longer complains about NULL pointer when configured
571 server-identifier expression fails to evaluate. [ISC-Bugs #24547]
572
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573- Convert ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to ISC_R_SUCCESS when called from other
574 than the dispatch handler. This fixes an issue where omshell, when
575 run from the same platform as the server, would appear to fail to
576 connect. This is a companion to #21839. [ISC-Bugs #23592]
577
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578- Enlarge the buffer size used by the Omshell code and some of the
579 print routines to allow for greater than 60 characters or, when
580 printing as hex strings, 20 characters. [ISC-Bugs #22743]
581
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582- In Solaris 11 switch to using sockets instead of DLPI, thanks
583 to a patch form Oracle. [ISC-Bugs #24634].
584
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585- Strict checks for content of domain-name DHCPv4 option can now be
586 configured during compilation time. Even though RFC2132 does not allow
587 to store more than one domain in domain-name option, such behavior is
588 now enabled by default, but this may change some time in the future.
589 See ACCEPT_LIST_IN_DOMAIN_NAME define in includes/site.h.
590 [ISC-Bugs #24167]
591
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592- DNS Update fix. A misconfigured server could crash during DNS update
593 processing if the configuration included overlapping pools or
594 multiple fixed-address entries for a single address. This issue
595 affected both IPv4 and IPv6. The fix allows a server to detect such
596 conditions, provides the user with extra information and recommended
597 steps to fix the problem. If the user enables the appropriate option
598 in site.h then server will be terminated
599 [ISC-Bugs #23595]
600
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601! Two packets were found that cause a server to halt. The code
602 has been updated to properly process or reject the packets as
603 appropriate. Thanks to David Zych at University of Illinois
604 for reporting this issue. [ISC-Bugs #24960]
605 One CVE number for each class of packet.
606 CVE-2011-2748
607 CVE-2011-2749
608
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609- Fix the code that checks for an existing DDNS transaction to cancel
610 when removing DDNS information, so that we will continue with the
611 processing if we have a lease even if it doesn't have an outstanding
612 transaction. [ISC-Bugs #24682]
5a38e43f 613
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614- Add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to configure.ac to avoid rebuilding
615 configuration files. [ISC-Bugs #24107]
5a38e43f 616
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617- Add support for passing DDNS information to a DNS server over
618 an IPv6 address. [ISC-Bugs #22647]
524705e5 619
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620- Enhanced patch for 23595 to handle IPv4 fixed addresses more
621 cleanly. [ISC-Bugs #23595]
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623! Add a check for a null pointer before calling the regexec function.
624 Without this check we could, under some circumstances, pass
625 a null pointer to the regexec function causing it to segfault.
626 Thanks to a report from BlueCat Networks.
627 [ISC-Bugs #26704].
628 CVE: CVE-2011-4539
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630! Modify the DDNS handling code. In a previous patch we added logging
631 code to the DDNS handling. This code included a bug that caused it
632 to attempt to dereference a NULL pointer and eventually segfault.
633 While reviewing the code as we addressed this problem, we determined
634 that some of the updates to the lease structures would not work as
635 planned since the structures being updated were in the process of
636 being freed: these updates were removed. In addition we removed an
637 incorrect call to the DDNS removal function that could cause a failure
638 during the removal of DDNS information from the DNS server.
639 Thanks to Jasper Jongmans for reporting this issue.
640 [ISC-Bugs #27078]
641 CVE: CVE-2011-4868
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643- Fixed the code that checks if an address the server is planning
644 to hand out is in a reserved range. This would appear as
645 the server being out of addresses in pools with particular ranges.
646 [ISC-Bugs #26498]
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648- In the DDNS code handle error conditions more gracefully and add more
649 logging code. The major change is to handle unexpected cancel events
650 from the DNS client code.
651 [ISC-Bugs #26287]
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653- Tidy up the receive calls and eliminate the need for found_pkt.
654 [ISC-Bugs #25066]
655
656- Add support for Infiniband over sockets to the server and
657 relay code. We've tested this on Solaris and hope to expand
658 support for Infiniband in the future. This patch also corrects
659 some issues we found in the socket code.
660 [ISC-Bugs #24245]
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662- Add a compile time check for the presence of the noreturn attribute
663 and use it for log_fatal if it's available. This will help code
664 checking programs to eliminate false positives.
665 [ISC-Bugs #27539]
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667- Fixed many compilation problems ("set, but not used" warnings) for
668 gcc 4.6 that may affect Ubuntu 11.10 users. [ISC-Bugs #27588]
83d409ae 669
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670- Modify the code that determines if an outstanding DDNS request
671 should be cancelled. This patch results in cancelling the
672 outstanding request less often. It fixes the problem caused
673 by a client doing a release where the TXT and PTR records
674 weren't removed from the DNS.
675 [ISC-BUGS #27858]
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677- Use offsetof() instead of sizeof() to get the sizes for dhcpv6_relay_packet
678 and dhcpv6_packet in several more places. Thanks to a report from
679 Bruno Verstuyft and Vincent Demaertelaere of Excentis.
680 [ISC-Bugs #27941]
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682- Remove outdated note in the description of the bootp keyword about the
683 option not satisfying the requirement of failover peers for denying
684 dynamic bootp clients.
685 [ISC-bugs #28574]
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687- Multiple items to clean up IPv6 address processing.
688 When processing an IA that we've seen check to see if the
689 addresses are usable (not in use by somebody else) before
690 handing it out.
691 When reading in leases from the file discard expired addresses.
692 When picking an address for a client include the IA ID in
693 addition to the client ID to generally pick different addresses
694 for different IAs.
695 [ISC-Bugs #23138] [ISC-Bugs #27945] [ISC-Bugs #25586]
696 [ISC-Bugs #27684]
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698- Remove unnecessary checks in the lease query code and clean up
699 several compiler issues (some dereferences of NULL and treating
700 an int as a boolean).
701 [ISC-Bugs #26203]
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703- Fix the NA and PD allocation code to handle the case where a client
704 provides a preference and the server doesn't have any addresses or
705 prefixes available. Previously the server ignored the request with
706 this patch it replies with a NoAddrsAvail or NoPrefixAvail response.
707 By default the code performs according to the errata of August 2010
708 for RFC 3315 section 17.2.2; to enable the previous style see the
709 section on RFC3315_PRE_ERRATA_2010_08 in includes/site.h. This option
710 may be removed in the future.
711 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
712 [ISC-Bugs #22676]
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714- Fix up some issues found by static analysis.
715 A potential memory leak and NULL dereference in omapi.
716 The use of a boolean test instead of a bitwise test in dst.
717 [ISC-Bugs #28941]
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719- Rotate the lease file when running in v6 mode.
720 Thanks to Christoph Moench-Tegeder at Astaro for the
721 report and the first version of the patch.
722 [ISC-Bugs #24887]
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724- Correct code to calculate timing values in client to compare
725 rebind value to infinity instead of renew value.
726 Thanks to Chenda Huang from H3C Technologies Co., Limited
727 for reporting this issue.
728 [ISC-Bugs #29062]
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730- Fix some issues in the code for parsing and printing options.
731 [ISC-Bugs #22625] - properly print options that have several fields
732 followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
733 [ISC-Bugs #27289] - properly parse options in declarations that have
734 several fields followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
735 [ISC-Bugs #27296] - properly determine if we parsed a 16 or 32 bit
736 value in evaluate_numeric_expression (extract-int).
737 [ISC-Bugs #27314] - properly parse a zero length option from
738 a lease file. Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski from SUSE for the report
739 and prototype patch for this ticket as well as ticket 27289.
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741! Previously the server code was relaxed to allow packets with zero
742 length client ids to be processed. Under some situations use of
743 zero length client ids can cause the server to go into an infinite
744 loop. As such ids are not valid according to RFC 2132 section 9.14
745 the server no longer accepts them. Client ids with a length of 1
746 are also invalid but the server still accepts them in order to
747 minimize disruption. The restriction will likely be tightened in
748 the future to disallow ids with a length of 1.
749 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
750 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
751 [ISC-Bugs #29851]
752 CVE: CVE-2012-3571
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754! When attempting to convert a DUID from a client id option
755 into a hardware address handle unexpected client ids properly.
756 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
757 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
758 [ISC-Bugs #29852]
759 CVE: CVE-2012-3570
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761! A pair of memory leaks were found and fixed. Thanks to
762 Glen Eustace of Massey University, New Zealand for finding
763 this issue.
764 [ISC-Bugs #30024]
765 CVE: CVE-2012-3954
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767- Existing legacy unit-tests have been migrated to Automated Test
768 Framework (ATF). Several new tests have been developed. To enable
769 unit-tests, please use --with-atf in configure script. A Developer's
770 Guide has been added. To generate it, please use make devel in
771 the doc directory. It is currently in early stages of development,
772 but is expected to grow in the near future. [ISC-Bugs 25901]
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774! An issue with the use of lease times was found and fixed. Making
775 certain changes to the end time of an IPv6 lease could cause the
776 server to abort. Thanks to Glen Eustace of Massey University,
777 New Zealand for finding this issue.
778 [ISC-Bugs #30281]
779 CVE: CVE-2012-3955
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781- Update the memory leakage debug code to work with v6.
782 [ISC-Bugs #30297]
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784- Relax the requirements for deleting an A or AAAA record.
785 Previously the DDNS removal code required both the A or AAAA
786 record and the TXT record to exist. This requirement could
787 cause problems if something interrupted the removal leaving
788 the TXT record alone. This relaxation was codified in RFC 4703.
789 [ISC-Bugs #30734]
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791- Modify the failover code to handle incorrect peer names
792 better. Previously the structure holding the name might
793 have been freed inappropriately in some cases and not
794 freed in other cases.
795 [ISC-Bugs #30320]
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797- Add a configure option, enable-secs-byteorder, to deal with
798 clients that do the byte ordering on the secs field incorrectly.
799 This field should be in network byte order but some clients
800 get it wrong. When this option is enabled the server will examine
801 the secs field and if it looks wrong (high byte non zero and low
802 byte zero) swap the bytes. The default is disabled. This option
803 is only useful when doing load balancing within failover.
804 [ISC-Bugs #26108]
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806- Fix a set of issues that were discovered via a code inspection
807 tool. Thanks to Jiri Popelka and Tomas Hozza Red Hat for the logs
808 and patches.
809 [ISC-Bugs #23833]
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811- Parsing unquoted base64 strings improved. Parser now properly handles
812 strings that contain reserved names. [ISC-Bugs #23048]
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814- Modify the nak_lease function to make some attempts to find a
815 server-identifier option to use for the NAK.
816 [ISC-Bugs #25689]
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818- The client now passes information about the options it requested
819 from the server to the script code via environment variables.
820 These variables are of the form requested_<option_name>=1 with
821 the option name being the same as used in the new_* and old_*
822 variables.
823 [ISC-Bugs #29068]
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825- Add support for a simple check that the server id in a request message
826 to a failover peer matches the server id of the server. This support
827 is enabled by editing the file includes/site.h and uncommenting the
828 definition for SERVER_ID_CHECK. The option has several restrictions
829 and issues - please read the comment in the site.h file before
830 enabling it.
831 [ISC-Bugs #31463]
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833- Tidy up some compiler issues in the debug code.
834 [ISC-Bugs #26460]
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836- Move the dhcpd.conf exmample file to dhcpd.conf.example to avoid
837 overwriting the dhcpd.conf file when installing a new version of
838 ISC DHCP. The user will now need to manual copy and edit the
839 dhcpd.conf file as desired.
840 [ISC-Bugs #19337]
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842- Check the status value when trying to read from a connection to
843 see if it may have been closed. If it appears closed don't try
844 to read from it again. This avoids a potential busy-wait like
845 loop when the peer names are mismatched.
846 [ISC-Bugs #31231]
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848- Remove an unused variable to keep compilers happy.
849 [ISC-Bugs #31983]
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851- Modify test makefiles to be more similar to standard makefiles
852 and comment out a currently unused test.
853 [ISC-Bugs #32089]
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855- Address static analysis warnings.
856 [ISC-Bugs #33510] [ISC-Bugs #33511]
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858- Silence benign static analysis warnings.
859 [ISC-Bugs #33428]
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861- Add check for 64-bit package for atf.
862 [ISC-Bugs #32206]
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864- Use newer auto* tool packages and turn on RFC_3542 support on Mac OS.
865 [ISC-Bugs #26303]
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867- Remove a variable when it isn't being used due to #ifdefs to avoid
868 a compiler warning on Solaris using GCC.
869 [ISC-Bugs #33032]
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871- Add a check for too much whitespace in a config or lease file.
872 Thanks to Paolo Pellegrino for finding the issue and a suggestion
873 for the patch.
874 [ISC-Bugs #33351]
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876- Fix several problems with using OMAPI to manipulate class and subclass
877 objects.
878 [ISC-Bugs #27452]
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880- Added a sleep call after killing the old client to allow time
881 for the sockets to be cleaned. This should allow the -r option
882 to work more consistently.
883 [ISC-Bugs #18175]
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885- Missing files for ISC DHCP Developer's Guide are now included in
886 the release tarballs. To generate this documentation, please use
887 make devel command in doc directory. [ISC-Bugs #32767]
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889- Update client script for use with openwrt.
890 [ISC-Bugs #29843]
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892- Fix the socket handling for DHCPv6 clients to allow multiple instances
893 of a client on a single machine to work properly. Previously only
894 one client would receive the packets. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat
895 for the bug report and a potential patch.
896 [ISC-Bugs #34784]
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898- Added support for gentle shutdown after signal is received.
899 [ISC-Bugs #32692] [ISC-Bugs 34945]
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901- Enhance the DHCPv6 server logging to include the addresses that are assigned
902 to the clients.
903 [ISC-Bugs #26377]
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905- Fix an operation in the DDNS code to be a bitwise instead of logical or.
906 [ISC-Bugs #35138]
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909 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
910
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911- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
912 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 913 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
adbef119 914
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915- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
916 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
917 Cantrell at Red Hat.
918
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919- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
920 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
921
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922- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
923
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924- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
925 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
926 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
927 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
928 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
929 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
930
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931- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
932 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
933 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
934 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
935 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
936 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
937 FQDN options by default).
938
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939- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
940 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
941 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
942 determined lease time) are omitted.
943
98bf1607 944- Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
09afca0d 945 The DHCP server or client can now continue with its processing while
98bf1607 946 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
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947
948- The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
949 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
950 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
951
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952 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
953
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954- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
955
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956- Validate the argument to the -p option.
957
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958- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
959 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
960 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
961 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
962 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
963
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964- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
965
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966- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
967 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
968 had been deleted from configuration.
969
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970- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
971 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
571c38b0 972 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
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973 were being ignored.
974
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975- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
976
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977- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
978 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
979 Nordahl.
980
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981- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
982 dhcpv6 disabled.
983
8d7dca58 984- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 985 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
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987- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
988 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
989
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990- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
991 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
992 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
993
994- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
995 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
996 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
997 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
998 fewer system calls.
999
a3dcc0b1
DH
1000- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
1001 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
1002 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
1003 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
1004 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
1005 Christof Chen.
1006
95fd7038
DH
1007- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
1008 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
1009 and in normal state.
1010
1011- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
1012 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
1013
8a3c1e33
PS
1014- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
1015
1016- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
1017 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
1018 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
1019
dedde1ba
DH
1020- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
1021 rather than restarting the listener.
1022
a57df74a
DH
1023- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
1024 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
1025
1026- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
1027 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
1028 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
1029
350576c5
DH
1030- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
1031 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
1032 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
1033 timeouts).
1034
792156a9
DH
1035- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
1036 in failover state records.
1037
8a4e543b
DH
1038! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
1039 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
1040 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 1041 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
8a4e543b 1042
a1308b64
DH
1043- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
1044 processing a DHCPINFORM.
1045
1b12d999
DH
1046- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
1047 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
1048 last option definition is used.
1049
d453265f
PS
1050- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
1051 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
1052 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
1053
3e29af1e
PS
1054- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
1055 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
1056
b8d45c67
DH
1057- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
1058 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
1059 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
1060 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
1061 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
1062 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
1063
583c1c16
DH
1064- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
1065 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
1066 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
1067 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
1068
e4e3a2ab
DH
1069! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
1070 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
95f5d38c 1071
875e99dc
SR
1072- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
1073 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
1074
2267da84
DH
1075- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
1076 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
1077 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
1078 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
1079 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
571c38b0 1080 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
2267da84
DH
1081 configuration.
1082
cd3f0b9b
DH
1083- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
1084 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
1085
0493fdca
SR
1086- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
1087 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
1088 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
1089 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
1090
95bba8b6
SR
1091- Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
1092 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
1093 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
1094 was always properly set.
1095
adbef119 1096 Changes since 4.1.0b1
ebf076fe
EH
1097
1098- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
1099 be recognized.
61d75ea2 1100
a4ffedd1
DH
1101 Changes since 4.1.0a2
1102
1103- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
1104 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
1105 "abandoned".
1106
6ff3b26d
FD
1107- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
1108
1387545f
DH
1109- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
1110 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
1111
1112- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
1113 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
1114
1115- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 1116 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
1387545f 1117
399d3dbe
DH
1118- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
1119
fbcee149
DH
1120- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
1121 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
1122 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
1123 in future releases.
1124
f1672d89
DH
1125- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
1126 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
1127
236d3a99
DH
1128- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
1129 'dhclient -6' support.
1130
efa5e6b9
DH
1131- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
1132 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
1133 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
1134 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
1135
7d6180be 1136 Changes since 4.1.0a1
edcb5c46
EH
1137
1138- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
1139
51e7687f
EH
1140- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
1141
20210a7b
EH
1142- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
1143 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
1144 only the latter. Fixed.
1145
535485df
EH
1146- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
1147
8fbb55ff
DH
1148- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
1149 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
1150
61220a00
EH
1151- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
1152
c40e954c
EH
1153- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
1154
63971a83
DH
1155- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
1156 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
1157 --enable-early-chroot.
1158
66cebfcb
DH
1159- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
1160 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
1161
f8cbf390
DH
1162- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
1163 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
1164 parameter.
1165
8269561d
DH
1166- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
1167 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
1168
b445a411
DH
1169- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
1170 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
1171
bd72740e
FD
1172- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
1173
9322442f
FD
1174- Merged IA_XX related structures.
1175
8dea7ba7
FD
1176- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
1177
4619c0a2
DH
1178- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
1179
9ac4206a
DH
1180- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
1181 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
1182 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
1183
420d8b3f
FD
1184- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
1185 support.
1186
40ec5f38
DH
1187- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
1188 repaired.
1189
80097764
FD
1190- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
1191
ffbaa880
FD
1192- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
1193
7de20a95
EH
1194- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
1195 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
1196
d352732e
EH
1197- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
1198 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
1199
7d6180be
DH
1200- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
1201 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
1202
1203- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
1204 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
1205 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
1206 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
1207 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
1208 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
1209 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
1210 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
1211 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
1212 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
1213 shared-network.
1214
1215- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
1216 configured option values.
1217
1218- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
1219 support class statements.
1220
dd484ced
DH
1221- Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
1222 selection were repaired.
1223
ecddae64
DH
1224- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
1225 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
1226 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
1227 by the OS.
1228
1229- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
1230 address.
1231
1232- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
1233 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
1234
d104d45b
DH
1235- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
1236
1237- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
1238
1239- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
1240 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
1241
01a54c17 1242 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
3c12f746 1243
6d7f9584
FD
1244- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
1245
4cafb815 1246- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 1247 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
4cafb815 1248
022fe95e
EH
1249- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
1250 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
1251 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
1252
1dcc3612
SK
1253- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
1254 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
1255
aabfa4de
FD
1256- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
1257
0674055a
FD
1258- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
1259 reserved IDs avoided).
1260
b51c785f
FD
1261- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
1262
900405e9
FD
1263- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
1264 carries a rapid-commit option.
1265
96b620e5
FD
1266- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
1267 an empty active lease.
1268
be62cf06
FD
1269- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
1270
01a54c17
EH
1271- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
1272 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
1273 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
1274 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
1275
1276- MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
1277
1278- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
1279 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
1280 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
1281 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
1282 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
1283 Christof Chen.
1284
1285 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
1286
1287- DHCP now builds on AIX.
1288
1289- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
1290 config file but -6 is not specified.
1291
1292- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
1293
1294- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
1295 be more helpful.
1296
1297- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
1298 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
1299 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
1300
1301- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
1302 was repaired.
1303
1304- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
1305 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
1306 been repaired.
1307
1308- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
1309 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
1310 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
1311
49f61135
DH
1312- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
1313 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
1314
41d4652f
DH
1315- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
1316 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
1317 IPv4 address.
1318
2c9bf1f4
DH
1319- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
1320 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
1321 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
1322 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
1323 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
1324
1325- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
1326 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
1327 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
1328
cff9b78f
SK
1329- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
1330
c4d29896
SK
1331- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
1332
57fcb8d9
SK
1333- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
1334 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
1335 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
1336 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
1337 unnecessary logging.
1338
219a65eb
DH
1339- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
1340 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
1341
ffdf3c8c
DH
1342- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
1343 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
1344 is incompatible is printed.
1345
1346- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
1347 a previously undefined option code.
1348
00a002fc
MA
1349- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
1350 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
1351
7e9f7a1b
FD
1352- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
1353 than the year 2000.
1354
e2cfde76
FD
1355- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
1356
cabdb9b1
FD
1357- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
1358
5d89d60f
FD
1359- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
1360
61d75ea2
DH
1361 Changes since 4.0.0b3
1362
1363- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
1364 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
1365 configuration.
76db44f9 1366
e32529a5
EH
1367- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
1368 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
1369
76db44f9
SK
1370- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
1371 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
1372 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
e4a6be15 1373
6f76de58
SK
1374- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
1375 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
1376 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
1377 a requested address.
1378
703873ab
DH
1379- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
1380 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
1381 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
1382 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
1383
1384- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
1385 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
1386 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
1387 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
1388
b024480e
DH
1389- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
1390 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
1391 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
1392
c0216cb7
DH
1393- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
1394 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
1395
1ac57173
FD
1396- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
1397
83835822
DH
1398- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
1399 codes through some conditions.
1400
c54db708
FD
1401- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
1402 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
1403
e5d83524
DH
1404- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
1405 seemingly random values.
1406
821f2dda
DH
1407- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
1408
f8b3c6f4
DH
1409- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
1410 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
1411 one ever has.
1412
b9137d42
SK
1413- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
1414 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
1415 to a REQUEST.
1416
9f1d5a2f
DH
1417- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
1418 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
1419 level.
1420
e4a6be15
DH
1421 Changes since 4.0.0b2
1422
65cf86d7
EH
1423- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
1424
b1d3778c
DH
1425- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
1426 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
1427 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
1428 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
1429 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
1430
bead14ea
DH
1431- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
1432 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
1433 new address.
1434
f765ec36
SK
1435 Changes since 4.0.0b1
1436
75135a3f
EH
1437- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
1438 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
1439 simultaneously on a single interface.
1440
5c2d55c7
EH
1441- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
1442 of service under unusual server configurations
1443
1444- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
1445
f765ec36
SK
1446- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
1447 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
fa9b593d 1448
edb1283e
DH
1449- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
1450 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
1451 on every pool rebalance run.
1452
c71c6399
DH
1453- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
1454 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
1455
5279b8f3
DH
1456- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
1457 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
1458
ab3a540f 1459 Changes since 4.0.0a3
763cba6b 1460
884a458f
SK
1461- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
1462 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
1463
fa9b593d
DH
1464- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
1465 point out the problem.
1466
1b5053b5
SK
1467- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
1468 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
1469 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
1470
c886c298
SK
1471- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
1472 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
1473
eaf7eb17
DH
1474- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
1475 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
1476 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
1477
109e00db
DH
1478- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
1479
3ad9d48f
SK
1480- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
1481 fixed by Marcus Goller.
1482
8eab95f2
DH
1483- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
1484 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
1485 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
1486 regardless of the existence of bindings.
1487
07b9a351
DH
1488- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
1489
7285af30
DH
1490- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
1491 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
1492 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
1493 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
1494 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
1495
2394b26b
DH
1496- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
1497
ab3a540f
SK
1498 Changes since 4.0.0a2
1499
97050349
SK
1500- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
1501 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
1502
763cba6b 1503- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
e889ded1 1504
237f8d3a
SK
1505- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
1506 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
1507 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
1508
28868515
SK
1509- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
1510
d00d373a
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1511- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
1512 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
1513
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1514- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
1515 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
1516 loaded from persistent storage.
1517
45d545f0 1518- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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1519 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
1520 necessary.
1521
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1522- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
1523 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
1524 rapid-commit option.
1525
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1526- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
1527 non-128-bits in length were removed.
1528
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1529 Changes since 4.0.0a1
1530
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1531- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
1532 and fix.
1533
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1534- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
1535
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1536- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
1537
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1538- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
1539 for when loading configuration.
1540
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1541- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
1542 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
1543 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
1544
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1545- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
1546 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
1547 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
1548 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
1549
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1550- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
1551
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1552- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
1553 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
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1555- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
1556
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1557- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
1558
1559- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
1560 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
1561
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1562- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
1563 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
1564
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1565- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
1566
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1567- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
1568 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
1569
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1570 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
1571
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1572- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
1573
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1574- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
1575 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
1576
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1577- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
1578
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1579- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
1580 initialized.
1581
1582- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
1583
1584- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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1585 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
1586
1587- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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1589- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
1590
1591- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
1592 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
1593
1594- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
1595
8ea19a71 1596- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 1597 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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1598
1599- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
1600 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
1601
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1602- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
1603
1604- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
1605
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1606- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
1607
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1608 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
1609
1610- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
1611 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
1612 no support currently for both.
1613
1614- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
1615 IAADDR option.
1616
1617- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
1618 options.
1619
1620- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
1621
1622- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
1623 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
1624
1625- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
1626 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
1627 specifying type 1 or type 2).
1628
1629- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
1630 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
1631
1632- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
1633 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
1634 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
1635 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
1636 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
1637 differently, they both use the same code here).
1638
1639- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
1640 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
1641 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
1642
1643- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
1644
1645- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
1646 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
1647 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
1648 it should not intercept.
1649
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1650 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
1651
1652- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
1653 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
1654 between primary and secondary.
1655
1656- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
1657 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
1658 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
1659
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1660- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
1661
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1662- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
1663 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
1664 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
1665 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
1666 or REQUEST messages.
1667
1668- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
1669 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
1670
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1671- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
1672
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1673 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
1674
1675- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
1676 failover protected subnets was removed.
1677
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1678 Changes since 3.1.0b2
1679
1680- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
1681 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
1682 odd number of leases).
1683
1684- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
1685 rebalance run, and one after.
1686
1687- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
1688 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
1689 processing these messages.
1690
fe5b0fdd 1691 Changes since 3.1.0b1
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1693- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
1694 objects.
1695
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1696- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
1697 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
1698 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
1699 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
1700 at Allianz.
1701
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1702- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
1703 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
1704
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1705- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
1706 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
1707
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1708- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
1709 caused the server to abort.
1710
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1711- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
1712 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
1713 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
1714
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1715- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
1716 by empty spaces would not get included.
1717
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1718- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
1719 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
1720
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1721- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
1722 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
1723
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1724- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
1725 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
1726
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1727- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
1728 on the parameter request list.
1729
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1730 Changes since 3.1.0a3
1731
1732- Some spelling fixes.
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1734 Changes since 3.1.0a2
1735
1736- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
1737 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
1738
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1739- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
1740 domain-search option syntax.
1741
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1742 Changes since 3.1.0a1
1743
1744- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
1745 hash table was repaired.
1746
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1747- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
1748 entering normal state.
1749
1750- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
1751 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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1752 'xid mismatch' log messages.
1753
1754- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
1755 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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1757- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
1758 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
1759 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
1760 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
1761
45d545f0 1762- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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1763 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
1764 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
1765 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
1766 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
1767 to their needs.
1768
1769- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
1770 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
1771 run will attempt balance.
1772
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1773- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
1774
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1775 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
1776
1777- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
1778 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
1779 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
1780 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
1781
98bd7ca0 1782- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 1783 was introduced.
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1784
1785- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
1786 via OMAPI.
1787
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1788- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
1789 the protocol draft.
1790
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1791- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
1792 one does not already exist on the system.
1793
b43c87ad 1794- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 1795
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1796- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
1797 matches RFC 3074.
1798
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1799- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
1800 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 1801 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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1803- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
1804 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 1805 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 1806
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1807- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
1808 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
1809 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
1810 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
1811
1812- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
1813 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
1814 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
1815 priority over the client's parameter request list.
1816
f7fdb216 1817- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 1818 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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1819 DHCPv6 support.
1820
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1821- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
1822 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
1823 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
1824
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1825- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
1826 have been incorporated.
1827
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1828- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
1829 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
1830 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
1831 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
1832 that belong to the peer in need.
1833
1834- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
1835 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
1836
1837- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
1838 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
1839 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
1840
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1841- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
1842 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
1843
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1844- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
1845 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
1846 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
1847 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
1848 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
1849
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1850- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
1851 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
1852 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
1853 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
1854
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1855- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
1856 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
1857 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
1858 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
1859 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
1860 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
1861 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
1862 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
1863 ignoring this aspect of their request.
1864
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1865- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
1866 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
1867
41e45067 1868- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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1869 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
1870 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
1871 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
1872
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1873- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
1874 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
1875 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
1876 hardware and funding the development.
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1878- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
1879 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
1880 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
1881 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
1882 via Robin Breathe.
1883
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1884- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
1885 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
1886 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
1887 from Christof Chen.
1888
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1889- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
1890 formally supported.
1891
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1892 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
1893
1894- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
1895 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
1896
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1897 Changes since 3.0.5
1898
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1899- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
1900 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
1901 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 1902 they actually received.
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1903
1904- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
1905
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1906- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
1907 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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1908 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
1909 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
c1e6c832 1910
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1911- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
1912
d69fb6a8 1913- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 1914 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
d69fb6a8 1915
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1916- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
1917 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
1918 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
1919 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
1920 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
1921 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
1922 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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1923 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
1924
1925- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
1926 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
1927 'file' field.
02428754 1928
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1929- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
1930 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
1931
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1932- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
1933 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
1934 a patch from Kevin Steves.
1935
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1936- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
1937 from Chris Wagner.
1938
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1939- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
1940 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
1941 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
1942
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1943- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
1944 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
1945 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
1946 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
1947 was set.
1948
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1949- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
1950 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
1951
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1952- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
1953 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
1954 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
1955 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
1956 active ones.
1957
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0a73b7b6 1959
901306d5 1960- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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1961 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
1962 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
1963 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
1964 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
1965
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1966- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
1967 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
1968
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1969 Changes since 3.0.4
1970
1971- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
1972 scopes are actually global has been added.
1973
1974- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
1975 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
1976 known to be damaging.
1977
1978- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
1979 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
1980 balancing).
1981
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1982- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
1983 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
1984 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
1985
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1986- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
1987 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
1988 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
1989
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1990- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
1991 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
1992 more clear now.
1993
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1994- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
1995 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
1996 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
1997 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
1998 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 1999 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
6cbc6629 2000
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2001- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
2002 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
2003
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2004- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
2005 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
2006 made possible.
2007
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2008- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
2009 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
2010 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
2011
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2012- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
2013 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
2014
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2015- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
2016 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
2017 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
2018
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2019- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
2020 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
2021 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
2022 value with the later configured value).
2023
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2024- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
2025 have been named and documented.
2026
2027- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
2028 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
2029 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
2030 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
2031 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
2032 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
2033 write new output.
2034
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2035 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
2036
2037- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
2038 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
2039
2040 Changes since 3.0.4b3
2041
2042- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
2043 mailing list.
2044
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2045 Changes since 3.0.4b2
2046
45d545f0 2047- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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2048 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
2049
2050- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
2051 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
2052
2053- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
2054 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
2055 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
2056 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
2057
2058- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
2059 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
2060 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
2061 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
2062 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
2063 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
2064 transition (properly).
2065
2066- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
2067
2068 Changes since 3.0.4b1
2069
2070- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
2071 STDIN after reading one line.
2072
2073- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
2074 descriptor it opened twice.
2075
2076- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
2077 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
2078 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
2079
2080 Changes since 3.0.3
2081
2082- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
2083 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
2084 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
2085
2086- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
2087 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
2088 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
2089
2090- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
2091 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 2092 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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2093 leases to allocate.
2094
2095- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 2096 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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2097 than the entire block of them.
2098
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2099! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
2100 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
2101 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
2102 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
2103 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
2104 to a patch from infamous42md.
2105
2106! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
2107 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
2108 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
2109 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
2110 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
2111 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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2112
2113- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
2114 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
2115 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
2116
2117- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 2118 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2119
2120- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
2121 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
2122 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
2123 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
2124 transitional states.
2125
2126- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
2127 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
2128 once it detects the old db does not exist.
2129
2130- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
2131 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
2132 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
2133
2134- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 2135 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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2136
2137- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
2138 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
2139
2140- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
2141 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
2142 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
2143
2144- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
2145 patch from 'infamous42md'.
2146
2147- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
2148 repaired.
2149
2150- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
2151 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
2152 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
2153 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
2154
2155- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
2156 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
2157 data.
2158
2159- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
2160 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
2161 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
2162 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
2163 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
2164
2165- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
2166 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
2167 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
2168 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
2169 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
2170
2171- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
2172 has been repaired.
2173
2174- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
2175 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
2176 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
2177 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 2178 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2179
2180- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 2181 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
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45d545f0 2183- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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2184 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
2185 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
2186 move to 3.[01].x.
2187
2188- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
2189 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
2190
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2191 Changes since 3.0.3b3
2192
2193- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
2194 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
2195
2196- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
2197 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
2198 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
2199 workaround.
2200
2201 Changes since 3.0.3b2
2202
2203- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
2204 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
2205
2206 Changes since 3.0.3b1
2207
2208- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
2209 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
2210 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
2211
2212- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
2213 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
2214 dynamic updates were also retouched.
2215
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2216 Changes since 3.0.2
2217
2218- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 2219 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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2220 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
2221
2222- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
2223 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
2224 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
2225 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
2226 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
2227
2228- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
2229 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 2230 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2231
2232- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
2233 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 2234 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2235
2236- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
2237 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
2238 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
2239 Peter Poeml.
2240
2241- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
2242 Dr. Peter Poeml.
2243
2244- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
2245 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
2246 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
2247 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
2248 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
2249 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
2250
2251- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
2252 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
2253 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
2254 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
2255
2256- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
2257 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
2258 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
2259 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
2260
2261- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
2262 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
2263
2264- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
2265 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
2266 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
2267
2268- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
2269 7 bytes, and failover.
2270
2271- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
2272 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 2273 at Red Hat.
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2274
2275- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
2276 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
2277 should work better.
2278
2279- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
2280 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
2281 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
2282
2283- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
2284 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
2285 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
2286
2287 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
2288
2289- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
2290 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
2291
2292 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
2293
45d545f0 2294- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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2295 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
2296 overloading. This was repaired.
2297
2298- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
2299 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
2300 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
2301 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
2302 three chunks to fit.
2303
2304- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
2305 were repaired.
2306
2307- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
2308 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
2309 leak).
2310
2311 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
2312
2313- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
2314 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
2315
2316 Changes since 3.0.2b1
2317
2318- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
2319
2320 Changes since 3.0.1
2321
2322- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
2323 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
2324 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
2325
2326- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
2327 name was not provided by the server.
2328
2329- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
2330 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
2331
2332- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
2333 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
2334
2335- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
2336 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
2337
2338- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
2339
2340- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
2341
2342- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
2343 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
2344 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
2345 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
2346 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
2347
2348- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
2349 the configuration be globally scoped.
2350
2351- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
2352 Farkas.
2353
2354- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
2355 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
2356
2357- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
2358 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
2359
2360- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
2361 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2362
2363- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
2364 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
2365 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
2366 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
2367
2368- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
2369 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
2370 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
2371 respond to POOLREQ messages.
2372
2373- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
2374 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
2375 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
2376
2377- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
2378
2379- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
2380 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
2381 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
2382
2383- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
2384 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
2385 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
2386 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
2387 Fjone and directconnect.no.
2388
2389- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
2390 to Andreas Gustafsson.
2391
2392- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
2393 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
2394
2395- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
2396 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
2397 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
2398 DISCOVER timeout handling.
2399
2400- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
2401 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
2402
2403- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
2404 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
2405 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
2406
2407- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
2408 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
2409 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
2410 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
2411 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
2412 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
2413
2414- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
2415 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
2416 Infoblox.
2417
2418- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
2419
2420- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
2421 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
2422 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
2423 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
2424 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
2425 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
2426 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
2427
2428- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
2429 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
2430 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
2431
2432- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
2433 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
2434 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
2435
2436- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
2437
2438 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
2439
2440- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
2441 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
2442 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
2443 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
2444 systems either.
2445
2446- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
2447
2448- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
2449 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
2450 is false.
2451
2452- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
2453 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
2454
2455- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
2456
2457 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
2458
2459! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
2460 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
2461 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
2462 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
2463 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
2464 both finding and solving the problem.
2465
2466! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
45d545f0 2467 in log_*() functions was evidenced, on some specific platforms where
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2468 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
2469 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
2470 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
2471 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
2472 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
2473 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
2474 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
2475 published version of ISC DHCP.
2476
2477- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
2478
2479- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
2480
2481 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
2482
2483- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
2484 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
2485 Richard Hirst.
2486
2487- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
2488 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
2489 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
2490
2491- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
2492
2493- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
2494 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
2495 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
2496 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
2497
2498- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 2499 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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2500
2501- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
2502 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
2503
2504- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
2505
2506 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
2507
2508- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
2509 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
2510
2511- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
2512 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
2513 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
2514
2515- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
2516 by name was fixed.
2517
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2519 longer result in error.
2520
2521- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
2522
2523- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
2524 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
2525 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
2526
2527- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
2528 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
2529
2530- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
2531 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
2532 Blapp.
2533
2534- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
2535 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
2536 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
2537 Martin Blapp.
2538
2539- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
2540 expiry times in failover configurations.
2541
2542- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
2543 Steve G.
2544
2545- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
2546 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
2547
2548- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
2549 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
2550 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
2551 now "unknown-144".
2552
2553- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
2554 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
2555
2556 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
2557
2558- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
2559
2560- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
2561 not be bash.
2562
2563- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
2564
2565- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
2566 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
2567 that errored before will now work properly.
2568
2569- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
2570 names was repaired.
2571
2572- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
2573 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
2574 configuration file.
2575
2576- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
2577 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2578
2579- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
2580 error rather than a null dereference.
2581
2582 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
2583
2584- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
2585
2586- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
2587
2588- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
2589 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
2590
2591- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
2592
2593- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
2594
2595- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
2596 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
2597 self-corrupting lease databases.
2598
2599- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
2600
2601- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
2602 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
2603
2604- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
2605
2606- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
2607
2608- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
2609 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
2610 Ling Gou.
2611
2612- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
2613 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2614
2615- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
2616 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
2617 Ted Lemon for the patch.
2618
2619- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
2620 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
2621
2622 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
2623
2624- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
2625 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
2626
2627- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
2628
2629- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
2630 a memory leak.
2631
2632- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
2633 script.
2634
2635- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
2636
2637- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
2638
2639- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
2640
2641- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
2642
2643- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
2644
2645- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
2646
2647- Increment the hop count when relaying.
2648
2649- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
2650
2651- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
2652
2653- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
2654
2655- Change the type of rbuf_max.
2656
2657- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
2658
2659 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
2660
2661- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
2662 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
2663 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
2664
2665 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
2666
2667- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
2668 to be renewed.
2669
2670- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
2671 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
2672
2673- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
2674 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
2675
2676- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
2677 that two permit lists matched.
2678
2679- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
2680 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
2681
2682- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
2683
2684- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
2685 requested it, contrary to the standard.
2686
2687- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
2688
2689- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
2690
2691- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
2692 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
2693 going to update its A record.
2694
2695- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
2696 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
2697 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
2698 DNS server.
2699
2700- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
2701
2702- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
2703
2704- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
2705 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
2706 NetBSD project).
2707
2708- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
2709 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
2710
2711- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
2712 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
2713
2714- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
2715
2716- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
2717
2718- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
2719 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
2720 failover protocol standard.
2721
2722- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
2723 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
2724 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
2725
2726- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
2727 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
2728 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
2729 do so.
2730
2731- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
2732
2733 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
2734
2735- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
2736
2737- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
2738 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
2739
2740- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
2741 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
2742
2743- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
2744 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
2745 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
2746
2747- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
2748 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
2749 network, merge the two pools.
2750
2751- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
2752 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
2753 fix this bug.
2754
2755 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
2756
2757- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
2758 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
2759
2760- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
2761 the same case.
2762
2763- Additional documentation.
2764
2765- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
2766 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
2767
2768 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
2769
2770- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
2771- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
2772
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2774
2775- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
2776 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
2777 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
2778 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
2779 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
2780
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2782
2783- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
2784 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
2785 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
2786 wasn't the one that removed it.
2787
2788- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
2789 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
2790 were not configured.
2791
2792- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
2793
2794- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
2795 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
2796 routing information.
2797
2798- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
2799 request being sent.
2800
2801- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
2802 done.
2803
2804- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
2805 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
2806 were pending.
2807
2808- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
2809 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
2810 problems with failover.
2811
2812- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
2813 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
2814 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
2815
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2817
2818- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
2819 smash in the subclass allocation code.
2820
2821- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
2822 no object is open, it dumps core.
2823
2824- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
2825
2826- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
2827
2828- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
2829
2830- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
2831 a host object attribute with a null value.
2832
2833 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
2834
2835- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
2836
2837- Fix an obscure core dump.
2838
2839- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
2840 when crucial information is left out.
2841
2842- Log "no free leases" as an error.
2843
2844- Documentation updates.
2845
2846 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
2847
2848- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
2849
2850- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
2851 structure wasn't zeroed.
2852
2853- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
2854 incorrectly.
2855
2856- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
2857 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
2858 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
2859 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
2860 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
2861 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
2862 restarted.
2863
2864 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
2865
2866- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
2867 in failover-enabled pools.
2868
2869- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
2870 declarations).
2871
2872- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
2873 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
2874
2875- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
2876 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
2877
2878- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
2879
2880- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
2881 defined but not referenced by any pools.
2882
2883- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
2884
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2886
2887- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
2888
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2889 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 2
2890
2891- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
2892
2893- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
2894
2895- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
2896
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2897 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 1
2898
2899- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
2900 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
2901 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
2902
2903- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
2904 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
2905 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
2906 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
2907 string.
2908
2909- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
2910
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2911 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8
2912
2913- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
2914 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
2915
2916- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
2917 malformed packets.
2918
2919- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
2920
2921- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
2922 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
2923 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
2924
2925- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
2926
2927- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
2928
2929- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
2930
2931- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
2932 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
2933
2934- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
2935 tcp connections from being played back.
2936
2937- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
2938 on exit.
2939
2940- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
2941
2942- Add some configurability to the build system.
2943
2944- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
2945
2946- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
2947 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
2948 hadn't been noticed until now.
2949
2950 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
2951
2952- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
2953 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
2954
2955- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
2956 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
2957 conformant, but also didn't work).
2958
2959- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
2960 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
2961
2962- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
2963 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
2964
2965- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
2966 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
2967
2968- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
2969 variables to leases via OMAPI.
2970
2971- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
2972 doing failover.
2973
2974- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
2975 running on alpha processors.
2976
2977- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
2978 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
2979
2980- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
2981
2982- Install omshell (including new documentation).
2983
2984- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
2985 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
2986
2987- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
2988
2989- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
2990 actually named (key names are domain names).
2991
2992- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
2993
2994- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
2995 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
2996
2997- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
2998 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
2999
3000- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
3001 statements.
3002
3003- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
3004 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
3005
3006- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
3007 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
3008 operating.
3009
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3010 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 6
3011
3012- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
3013 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
3014 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
3015 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
3016
3017- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
3018 using omapi to manipulate leases.
3019
3020- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
3021
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3022 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
3023
3024- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
3025 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
3026
3027- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
3028 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
3029 to the chain.
3030
3031- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
3032
3033- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
3034
3035- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
3036
98311e4b 3037- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
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3038 attribute values in omshell.
3039
98311e4b 3040- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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3041
3042- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
3043
3044 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
3045
3046- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
3047 DHCPDECLINE.
3048
3049- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
3050
3051- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
3052 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
3053 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
3054
3055- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
3056
3057- Documentation fixes.
3058
3059- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
3060 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
3061
3062- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
3063 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
3064
3065- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
3066
3067- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
3068
3069- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
3070 case-insensitive.
3071
3072- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
3073
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3075 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
3076 consistently.
3077
3078- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
3079 systems with the probe not working correctly.
3080
3081- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
3082
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3083 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 3
3084
3085- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
3086 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
3087 result of duplicate leases.
3088
3089- Document OMAPI server objects.
3090
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3091 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Patchlevel 1
3092
3093- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
3094 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
3095
3096- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
3097 core dumps.
3098
3099- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
3100 Friedrich.
3101
3102- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
3103
3104 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
3105
3106- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
3107 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 3108 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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3109 billing class code.
3110
3111- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
3112 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
3113
3114- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
3115 trace file.
3116
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3119- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
3120 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
3121 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
3122 e.g., Digital Unix.
3123
3124- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
3125 when no error had occurred.
3126
3127- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
3128 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
3129 non-communicating state.
3130
3131- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
3132
3133- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
3134 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
3135 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
3136
3137- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
3138 when the client lease expired.
3139
3140- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
3141 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
3142 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
3143 in testing.
3144
3145- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
3146 the command line, it would fail.
3147
3148- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
3149 user impact).
3150
3151- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
3152
3153- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
3154 they're executable.
3155
3156 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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3157
3158- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
3159 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
3160 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
3161 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
3162
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3163- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
3164 Transmeta.
3165
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3166- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
3167 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
3168 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
3169 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
3170
3171- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
3172 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
3173
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3174 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 24
3175
3176- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
3177 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
3178
3179- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
3180
3181- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
3182
3183- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
3184
3185- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
3186
3187- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
3188
3189- Update some parts of the README file.
3190
3191- Support GCC on SCO.
3192
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3194
3195- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
3196 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
3197
3198- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
3199 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
3200 unbill the old class.
3201
3202- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
3203 process the state transition immediately.
3204
3205- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
3206 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
3207
3208- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
3209
3210- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
3211
3212- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
3213
3214- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
3215
3216- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
3217 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
3218 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
3219
3220- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
3221 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
3222
3223- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
3224 lease file.
3225
3226- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
3227
3228- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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3231
3232- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
3233 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
3234
3235- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
3236
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3238
3239- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
3240
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3242
3243- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
3244
3245- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
3246 pl19.
3247
3248- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
3249 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
3250 past the regression test.
3251
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3253
3254- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
3255 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
3256
3257- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
3258 DHCPREQUEST.
3259
3260- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
3261
3262- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
3263
3264- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
3265
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3268- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
3269 (Damien Neil)
3270
3271- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
3272 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
3273
3274- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
3275 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
3276 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
3277
3278- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
3279 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
3280 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
3281 message.
3282
3283- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
3284 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
3285 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
3286
98311e4b 3287- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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3289 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
3290 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
3291 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
3292 this way will work.
3293
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3294- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
3295
3296- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
3297 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
3298 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
3299 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
3300
3301 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
3302
3303 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
3304
3305- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
3306 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
3307 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
3308
3309- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
3310 Hermann Lauer.
3311
3312- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
3313 messages.
3314
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3315- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
3316 it contained quoted strings.
3317
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3318 ** there was no pl17 **
3319
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3322- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
3323 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
3324 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
3325 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
3326 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
3327 tracking down memory leaks.
3328
3329- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
3330 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
3331 Solaris.
3332
3333- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
3334 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
3335 corruption and core dumps.
3336
3337- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
3338 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
3339
3340- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
3341
3342- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
3343 and implemented by Damien Neil.
3344
3345- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
3346 name and version to standard output.
3347
3348- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
3349
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3350- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
3351 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
3352
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3353- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
3354
3355- Lots of documentation updates.
3356
3357- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
3358 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
3359
3360- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
3361
3362- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
3363 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
3364
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3366
3367- Some documentation tweaks.
3368
3369- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
3370
3371- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
3372
3373- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
3374 agent options into them.
3375
3376- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
3377
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3378- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
3379 options.
3380
adbef119 3381 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 14
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3382
3383- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
3384 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
3385 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
3386 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
3387 used in class statements to control address allocation.
3388
3389- Fix up documentation.
3390
3391- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
3392 significantly in a high-demand situation.
3393
3394- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
3395
3396- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
3397
3398- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
3399 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
3400 practical use otherwise.
3401
3402- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
3403 for debugging.
3404
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3406
3407- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
3408 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
3409 dump on some systems.
3410
3411- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
3412 option.
3413
3414- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
3415 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
3416
3417- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
3418 that were not printing enough information.
3419
3420- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
3421 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
3422
3423- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
3424 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
3425 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
3426 were answering.
3427
3428- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
3429 the transition.
3430
3431
adbef119 3432 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 12
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3433
3434- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
3435
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3436 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
3437
3438- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
3439 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
3440 representation from working correctly.
3441
3442- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
3443 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
3444 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
3445 could spin.
3446
3447- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
3448 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
3449
3450- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
3451 interface name on the command line.
3452
3453- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
3454 client state.
3455
3456- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
3457 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
3458 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
3459 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
3460 added by Ted Lemon.
3461
3462- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
3463 be made to log debugging information and other information.
3464
3465- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
3466 end option.
3467
3468- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
3469 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
3470 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
3471
3472- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
3473 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
3474 face of a null hardware address on input.
3475
3476- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
3477 specified unqualified.
3478
3479- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
3480 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
3481
3482- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
3483 RFC.
3484
3485- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
3486
3487- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
3488
3489- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
3490 it works.
3491
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3492 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
3493
3494- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
3495 to CVS.
3496
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3497 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
3498
3499- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
3500
3501- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
3502 in patchlevel 9.
3503
3504- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
3505 options at renewal time.
3506
3507- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
3508 configuration language.
3509
3510- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
3511
3512- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
3513 done when no client hostname was received.
3514
3515- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
3516
3517- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
3518 the DHCP option space.
3519
3520- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
3521
3522- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
3523 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
3524
3525- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
3526 silently dropped.
3527
3528- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
3529 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
3530
3531- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
3532 will be correctly updated.
3533
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3534 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
3535
3536- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
3537 bounds-checking.
3538
3539 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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3540
3541- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
3542
3922772a 3543 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 6
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3545- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
3546 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
3547 possible to exploit it any further than that.
3548
3549- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
3550 option.
3551
3552- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
3553 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
3554 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
3555 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
3556 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
3557 meaningfully.
3558
3559- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
3560 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
3561 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
3562
3563- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
3564 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
3565 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
3566 this one down!
3567
3568- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
3569 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
3570 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
3571 down and fixing this problem.
3572
3573 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
3574
0f6045f8
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3575- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
3576 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
3577
3578- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
3579 environment.
3580
3581- Fix suffix operator.
3582
3583- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
3584
3585- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
3586 connection code.
3587
3588- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
3589
3590- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
3591
3592- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
3593 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
3594
3595- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
3596
3597- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
3598
3599- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
3600 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
3601
3602- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
3603 spawn with.
3604
3605- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
3606 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
3607
3608- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
3609 for OMAPI.
3610
3611- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
3612 can install in host declarations.
3613
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3614 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
3615
3616- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
3617 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
3618 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
3619 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
3620 comments)!
3621
3622- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
3623
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3624- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
3625 request for help on this with patches!
3626
3627- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
3628 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
3629 lost, they never reconnect.
3630
3631- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
3632 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
3633
3634- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
3635 dump.
3636
3637- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
3638 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
3639 catching this one.
3640
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3641 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
3642
3643- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 3644 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
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3645 lease renewal time.
3646
3647- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
3648 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
3649 declared without a key.
3650
3651- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
3652
3653- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
3654 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
3655
3656- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
3657 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
3658 determine the maximum size of the response.
3659
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3660 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
3661
359b023e
TL
3662- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
3663 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
3664
592d8153
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3665- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
3666 RENEWING client.
3667
3668- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
3669
3670- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
3671 using memcmp().
3672
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3673 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
3674
3675- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
3676 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
3677 pointing this out.
3678
3679- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
3680 exit.
3681
3682- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
3683
3684- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
3685 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.